APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Terminology description

In general physiology is studied in clinical laboratory and medicine. Applied physiology provides scientific knowledge of clinical medicine in detail. It helps physician to develop the medicine of the future as it is completely dependable on chemical physiologist.  The way by which anatomy is inherited in to surgical science helps in better understanding of physiology inheritance in clinical medical science. Applied physiology concerns much more about the need and function of physiological system. Metabolic study reveals the truth of chemical process in the body. Applied physiology is practical biological study. This study helps in bringing back the healthy performance of cells. Applied physiology is bit different from clinical medicine. It paved way for better perceptive technologies of biochemistry, paleobiology and pharmacology. It improves standard of living conditions.

Aspects of metabolism

• Sustaining healthy cells of an individual by immediate replace of repaired cells and tissues
• Energy conservation by physiological system as body requires and loses some energy in breaking complex food components to simple compounds, converting physical and kinetic energy as heat energy. Energy expenditure can be either of the following
  • Internal work
  • Digestive work
  • External work or muscular work

Consideration of these two aspects of metabolism helps in analysis of chemical process that an individual undergoes. It is obvious only protein from food source is susceptible to cause some damages to body. Quantitative measurement of protein helps in easy prediction of energy conserved from tissues.

Instance of applied physiology

Physiological views and quantitative measurement helps in easy estimation of physiological needs. The protein requirement by an individual to destroy the tissues can be estimated. Similarly individual protein requirement is predicted by analyzing nitrogen is possible. Physiological views states that food with more protein is correlated with amount of nitrogen excreted. Energy expended for this can be calculated with the help of respiration calorimeter.

Questions:

• How applied physiology helps in predicting metabolic function?
• What are the applications of applied physiology?
• How applied physiology helps in quantitative measurement of metabolism?