health ↔ homeostatic mechanism

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Health is defined through its reliance on homeostatic mechanisms, which establish the conditions necessary for system functioning [1], maintain vigor over time [2], and provide the integrated balance required to avoid disease [3].

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Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change | Biological Theory link.springer.com Springer 3 facts

perspectiveLemoine (2025) views health as the imperfect balance and integration of various homeostatic mechanisms across different levels of biological organization, and defines disease as the impairment of this state.

claimAyres (2020) characterizes health as 'vigor,' a property maintained over time by evolved homeostatic control mechanisms that constantly operate to control an organism's plasticity.

claimThe normative value of homeostatic mechanisms for health lies in establishing and modulating conditions necessary for the functioning of parts, so those parts can contribute to the maintenance of the whole system.