Thursday, August 30, 2007

Article Assignment

I read the article on Homeostasis and it basically identifies the consequences and causes of osteoporosis or at least thats what I understood. Sea water use to give calcium until mammals and other ancestors needed a better way for calcium. Any body resides in their skeleton approximately 99% of bodily calcium. Scientist started to investigate new forms for obtaining calcium and they found calcium homestasis. This process observes calcium from the bones but can cause a bad effect on your body like obtaining osteoporisis. Osteoporosis is a desease were the loss of bone density provokes pain in all the skeleton. This desease is mostly common on elderly popularity.
When the process of calcium homeostasis is performed on a person it sacrificeses the skeleton and it maintains the dequate blood calcium levels. Parathyroid hormone(PTH) is the regulatory system at the heart of calcium homeostasis. When ever the (PTH) in other words whenever the calcium level drops it developes osteoclasts that destry bones by dissolving them. They also retrieve the calcium for the body.(PTH) is a hormone that tryes to boost blood calcium levels to regulate.
Vitamin D is very important for every body. Exercising is very healthy for bones. Every one should exercise in order to prevent osteoporosis. Trying to have vitamin D in your system can help you absorb food and it may also help cause osteoporosis by producing osteoclast. So vitamins or good for some people but it can harm others. Thats life this was very intersting to me. My mom says that avoiding heat on bones can also prevent osteoporosis but who knows. I really enjoyed reading this article. I learned a lot.

1 comment:

Duval said...

You did a great job of summarizing this article and explaining what you learned form it and how it affects you. This is what I was looking for!! Very well done. The only errors I found were basic spelling and grammar errors.