The pills have made sure that your tests turn out well, but are you really healthy?
A study shows that medications have helped people with obesity achieve healthy cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
Metaphor is an essential tool for exploring the unknown. Following the triumphs of the scientific and industrial revolutions, the metaphor of the body as a machine illuminated the mystery of living organisms and made the mechanisms that make life possible or explain disease analyzable. The isolated analysis of vital processes, as if they were circuits and parts of an artifact, has made it possible to understand how a hormone such as insulin regulates sugar in the blood or why hypertension is so dangerous to the cardiovascular system, saving many lives along the way.
And the ability to reduce the body to comprehensible elements has made possible discoveries that seemed impossible when the body was an enigmatic and overwhelming whole.
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