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Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change

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claimThe authors of 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' argue that physiological health requires the ability to modulate parameters according to physiological and environmental needs, rather than keeping them stable.

perspectiveThe authors of 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' define health as an adaptive process occurring in interaction with the environment, rather than a fixed state of well-being or absence of disease.

referenceThe article 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' was authored by Leonardo Bich and Luca Menatti and published in the journal Biological Theory in 2025.

claimThe concept of health within the framework discussed in 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' is not univocal, as an individual's position along the health continuum depends on specific individual, populational, environmental, and social factors.

perspectiveThe authors of 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' argue that employing the notion of homeostasis fosters a dynamic view of health, which contrasts with common views that define health as a complete state of well-being or the absence of disease.

claimThe authors of 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' declare no conflict of interest.

claimThe authors of the article 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' argue that health should be conceived not as a fixed state of well-being or absence of disease, but as an adaptive process occurring in interaction with the environment.

claimThe article 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows for sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction provided appropriate credit is given to the original authors and source.

claimThe authors of 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' question whether the teaching of homeostasis leads to overzealous medical attempts to restore 'normal values' instead of accepting observed variations as adaptive.

perspectiveThe authors of 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' question the traditional medical and cybernetic assumption that balance is inherently good while imbalance and change are not, arguing that an alternative perspective is possible.

claimThe alternative view of health presented in 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' defines health as the capability for adaptive change, specifically the ability to realize different viable physiological regimes adapted to the internal and external conditions an organism faces at a given time.

claimThe authors of 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' argue that employing a cybernetic view of homeostasis creates problems for medical diagnosis and treatment.

claimThe authors of 'Homeostasis and Health: From Balance to Change' define health as adaptive variation along a continuum, with an ideal state of health and death as the two poles.