I have a sense from the comments I’ve read that you all are enjoying this SENSE-ble look at a healthy lifestyle. I’ve enjoyed writing these refracted blogs and learning from them. I hope you’ll be attracted to the fifteenth sense I’m sharing: magnetoreception. Although not totally understood how sensing magnetic fields work in the animal kingdom, there is much evidence…
I’ve talked about the ways my many senses are used to help along this continuing journey to a healthy lifestyle. The next one is complicated but may be one of the key reasons for either a successful journey — or failure. The sense of nociception deals with pain. Nociceptors are neuron bundles distributed in skin, joints, muscles, and organs. They…
Before I got to the halfway point on my sense-ble look at this journey to a healthy lifestyle, I wrote about the sense of touch. As I learned further about how all our senses must work together, I can now honestly say that I haven’t even scratched the surface. This brings me to the sense of itch. The itching sense…
It’s hard to believe that I’m already at the twelfth sense of my sense-ble look at a healthier lifestyle. I have a sense that I should put my old laboratory coat on because it’s time for a chemistry lesson. There are many chemoreceptors in our bodies. They are also called chemosensors. By design, they grab onto various signals and send…
I sense, by now, it’s been established that the eighteen senses being refracted upon are all linked, working together to achieve a healthy lifestyle. Today’s sense-ble look deals with pressure. Pressure is the physical force exerted on an object by something in contact with it. It may also be an influence or persuasion to make someone do something. Refracting on…
I hope you’ve enjoyed this series, and you’re probably thirsting for more. Yes, this installment of a sense-ble look at healthy living is all about the sense of thirst. I was taught that I needed to drink eight glasses of water each day. However, nobody ever said how big the glass was supposed to be. I never really gave much…
As you read this latest refracted sense-ble look at a healthy lifestyle, you may feel warm and fuzzy or possibly turn a cold shoulder. The sense of temperature is not an easy item to describe. How else can I explain why, when I feel cold, someone else feels hot? How does thermoception fit in with weight loss? The sense of…