Normal Body Homeostasis

Maintaining a normal body temperature is crucial for optimal health and is one important aspect of homeostasis. Homeostasis is the body’s ability to balance varying internal conditions within narrow limits despite a constantly changing outside environment (Marieb & Hoehn, 2016). When a person is subjected to stimuli, which is a change in the variable, such as cold weather, temperature sensitive receptors in a person’s skin called thermoreceptors, detect this change. The receptors then respond providing input by sending this information via the afferent pathways to the control centre located in the thermo-regulatory region of the brain known as the hypothalamus.
The control centre then compares the new information with the set point of 37 degrees