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An Organic Machine: A Look into the Human Body
The human body is a wonderfully successful machine. Most of this success comes from the fact that there are 11 codependent systems running at the same time. Each system is made up of distinct organs...
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Framing the Organic Machine: The Skeletal System
The skeletal system acts as a framework: supporting the body, protecting internal organs, providing storage for minerals, and serving as a lever system for muscular action. The main components of the...
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Natural Born Killers: The Lymphatic System
With so many diseases and bacteria running amok in the world, how do we tend to stay fairly healthy? Luckily, our bodies are equipped with a defense system to wipe out threats before they become an...
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Making Moves: The Muscular System
The muscular system is essential in creating movement. There are three types of muscles in the human body: smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and skeletal muscle. Smooth muscle tissue can be found in the...
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Covering Up: The Integumentary System
Your skin acts as a protective barrier, ensuring your internal organs do not dry out and that you are safe from infection. The three layers of the skin are intricate, with various cell types and...
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Gut Feeling: The Digestive System
Everyone loves to eat yet few understand what happens with the food they ingest. How do we go from delicious food to nasty, brown poop that we flush down the toilet? Simple answer: the digestive...
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Gasping for Air: The Respiratory System
Take a deep breath in……and out. Did you feel your lungs fill with air? Whether you choose to think about it or not, your lungs are constantly working to provide oxygen to your body. Oxygen is...
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Pumping Blood: The Circulatory System
Take a second to listen to your heartbeat. If you were to count the number of beats you heard per day it would sum up to around 100,000. Not to mention that all of those beats correlate to the pumping...
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Making New Life: The Reproductive System
A major goal of all living things is to reproduce and pass genetic material on to their offspring. The reproductive system in humans allows just that with men and women having reproductive structures...
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Maintaining Balance: The Endocrine System
Your cells all communicate with one another. Similar to how we send messages to our friends and family, cells send signals to their neighbors or “distant” relatives using the endocrine and nervous...
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Sending Signals: The Nervous System
The nervous system is the major system of communication within the body. Our thoughts, emotions, and actions are all left up to the signalling done by this system. In tandem with the endocrine system,...
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Flushed Away: The Urinary System
Everyone preaches drinking more water when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle, but why is that? Well, your blood carries lots of water around the body and that blood must be filtered to remove...
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Debunking 10 Myths About Vision and Eyesight
We’ve all heard many myths regarding our eyesight and vision over the years- but what is fiction and what is fact? We did some digging and found 10 common myths about eyes that simply aren’t true...
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5 Harmful Effects of Cell Phone Use
Cell phones are the most important electronic devices in our lives. They stream shows, send and receive texts, make calls, they do basically everything. However, with a lot of the good there’s also...
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How to Avoid Injuries in Basketball
Whether you are an avid basketball player or someone trying basketball for the first time, the game is physical and injuries are rather common. While most injuries are minor, there are some that can...
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Top 5 Exercises to Strengthen Your Low Back
If you’re like most people, when you think about your core, your mind goes straight to the image of “6-pack abs.” We typically think of athletes, movie stars, models, and some rock stars when we talk...
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10 Yoga Poses to Boost the Immune System
As the days get shorter and temperatures drop, we may have noticed our calendars are reminding us that the holiday season is fast approaching. That also means that cold and flu season is back!...
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