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Woman take care for health,using sphygmomanometer to measure blood pressure,pulse and heart rate by self,isolated on dark background. Healthcare and hypotension concept.
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The Designed Body: Our Irreducibly Complex Blood Pressure Control System

Episode
1110
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Raymond Bohlin
Guest(s)
Howard Glicksman
Duration
00:20:57
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Physician Howard Glicksman talks with host Ray Bohlin about the amazing control systems involved in something we’re all familiar with: blood pressure. It’s a system requiring adjustment at every point along the way, from blood volume to blood pumping velocity to pressure out in the blood vessels. And it has to be able to act fast in order to keep us alive — which leads to some hard questions for Mr. Darwin.

Howard Glicksman

Dr. Howard Glicksman has been a general practitioner for over forty-five years. He is now a consultant who mentors physicians in the management of fluid overload, especially due to heart failure. He received his MD from the University of Toronto and is the author of “The Designed Body” series for Science and Culture Today. Glicksman further develops the arguments from this series in a book co-authored with systems engineer Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body (2022).
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