What Is Health?

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1. ChaitanyaSaiMar 2023
   Anticipation and prediction are so important in getting a leg-up in the real world. Real-world physical processes take time. Cannot just wait for food to enter the mouth to start revving up the digestive system.

   What is Health? by Peter Sterling is a lovely book that goes into this. Peter Sterling is a neuroscientist and the "co-inventor" of the term Allostasis (from Wikipedia: "Allostasis is the efficient regulation required to prepare the body to satisfy its needs before they arise by budgeting those needed resources such as oxygen, insulin etc., as opposed to homeostasis, in which the goal is a steady state." )

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44512576-what-is-health

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2. ChaitanyaSaiDec 2022
   It's the year end and we have our usual flurry of best-books-you-read lists. How about the best sentence(s)? Some of my favorites are ones that pack in a lot, are many-layered, and yet economical with words. Here's my favorite:

   "To reliably capture 3 kilowatt-­hours’ worth of fuel requires knowledge, wit, skill, and persistence — ­plus considerable help from your friends. H. sapiens occupies every niche — ­but always with company." - from the book "What is Health?" by Peter Sterling

   What are your favorites?

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3. an_aparallelApr 2024
   i read today in Peter Sterling's - What is Health?... that the brain doesnt stop maturing until 45...i dont think social media is good for anyone - at any time.
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