EQUILIBRIUM

PROCESSES

• Sweating
• Hemoglobin in blood
• CO2 in pop
• Balance

SWEATING
Sweating, or perspiring, is the body’s mechanism of keeping us cool and preventing us from overheating in a warm environment or during exercise or exertion. Our body also produces sweat when we experience strong emotions or stressful situations, during hormonal changes and it helps to play a role in fighting infections. Heat exhaustion and heatstroke happen when your body gets too hot. It can be caused by physical exercise or hot weather with low intake of liquids. With no liquids in your system, your body can't produce the sweat needed to cool your body.

HEMOGLOBIN IN BLOOD
Hemoglobin is a critical component of red blood cells that is composed of protein known as “heme” which aids in the transportation of oxygen throughout the body. From the lungs, hemoglobin binds oxygen to itself and carries it to the tissue where it is released. The cycle occurs again once hemoglobin travels back to the lungs. When in high or low altitudes, and temperature changes, hemoglobin equilibrium becomes disrupted and can't transport oxygen easily and steadily.

CO2 IN POP
carbon dioxide molecules have a natural tendency to leave any liquid, popping through the surface and escaping forever as a gas. One way to do this is to refrigerate your pop as cold as possible, but you don’t want to freeze it. When soda is cold, the carbon dioxide molecules have less energy and movement to escape, and cold pop can hold more CO2. Another strategy that a pop bottler will do at the factory is to load up the air at the top of the container with extra carbon dioxide, or increase the pressure of this gas. When the CO2 is released from the pop, it is no longer fizzy.

BALANCE
Your balance system relies on input from your senses to keep you in control of your body. If you’re standing and you begin leaning to your right, your body senses the added pressure on the right foot and reports that data to the brain. The brain absorbs all of that information and creates a response, instructing your muscles to lean your body to the right, based on what your body has learned from previous experiences. Even walking on the white line on the road will help your brain learn to compensate with balance better. Not eating or drinking can throw this process out of wack. Without the proper amount of intake of liquids or sugar can make you very light headed. Without your brain learning/being able to compensate, you'll be falling over all the time with little daily tasks.