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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 is a retired general practitioner who received his medical degree from the University of Toronto. He was a primary care physician in the office and hospital setting for almost 25 years. He then provided medical management in the home for terminally ill hospice patients for the rest of his career. He 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). He contributed to the YouTube video series Secrets of the Human Body and co-authored Your Amazing Body.
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