RT Book, Section
A1 Maughan, Ronald J
A1 Shirreffs, Susan M
A2 Burke, Louise
A2 Deakin, Vicki
A2 Minehan, Michelle
SR Print(0)
ID 1185562821
T1 Physiology of Sports
T2 Clinical Sports Nutrition, 6e
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill Education (Australia) Pty Ltd
PP New York, NY
SN 9781743767900
LK accessphysiotherapy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1185562821
RD 2024/04/19
AB Physiology  is  the  study  of  how  the  body  functions:  how  individual  cells,  tissues  and  organs  work  in  isolation  and  how  they  interact  in  a  coherent  way  in  the  whole  living  organism.  An  understanding  of  physiology  is  of  central  importance  in  medicine  and  all  of  the  related  health  sciences,  including  nutrition.  It  is  also  important  to  recognise  that  the  modern  science  of  biochemistry—and  all  its  offshoots,  including  molecular  biology  and  the  various  omics  technologies—grew  from  physiology.  Biochemistry,  the  chemistry  of  life,  which  is  fundamental  to  nutrition  and  metabolism,  developed  as  an  offshoot  of  physiological  chemistry,  the  chemistry  of  processes  occurring  in  living  animals.  The  scope  of  physiology  ranges  from  understanding  events  at  the  molecular  level  (e.g.  how  muscles  contract  or  how  cells  sense  nutrients)  to  the  integrative  physiology  of  organs  and  systems  (e.g.  the  brain  and  the  cardiovascular  and  respiratory  systems)  and  how  they  are  regulated  and  adjust  to  stress  or  change  (e.g.  in  response  to  exercise  or  to  environmental  extremes  such  as  the  microgravity  of  space  flight).  The  emphasis  of  physiology  is  on  the  integration  of  molecular,  cellular,  system  and  whole-body  function.  Understanding  normal  function  allows  prediction  of  how  the  organism  will  respond  to  any  stimulus  or  stress  that  is  applied.