This unit was about the organs digestive system, endocrine system, and diseases and problems that affect them two. There was a big focus on how different organs produce different hormones. The hormones if not functioning properly are severely detrimental to normal life, such as type 1and 2 diabetes. Diabetes is caused by either a lack of insulin production, type 1, or the reduced ability for the insulin to attach to the blood sugars for absorption aka insulin resistance, type 2. This unit was different from other units because there was a lot of new information thrown out about organs that I didn't know or had no idea what they did. This was pretty challenging for me, but interesting nonetheless. We only really had one lab this unit and that was the digestive system lab. http://derudesandstorm.blogspot.com/2016/01/what-goes-in-must-come-out.html
I didn't really learn anything in particular from this lab because I remember doing something similar back in elementary school, but it was pretty cool to be able to measure out pretty closely to what the actual length of my intestines are.
The endocrine system is something that I didn't know anything about. I still have a few questions about it like what would happen if there was backflow? Would the capillaries burst? How would the body react to such an incident?
So far I haven't really done much to progress my goals. I will be starting to study more today in preparation for our test tomorrow.
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