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By: Tristan Pilot
Change in Sexual Orientation Due to a Homeostatic Imbalance.

 

 

 

            In the medical world when the internal environment of a persons body changes they call it a Homeostatic imbalance.  A Homeostatic imbalance is cause by the environment around us that our bodies can't function properly in.  Our bodies have feedback systems that monitor our internal environments and makes changes if our surrounding environment changes and disrupts homeostasis. In doing this our bodies' tries to bring back homeostasis. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            There are two types of feedback systems negative feedback systems and positive feedback systems.  In a negative feedback system a controlled condition is monitored by receptors in the body.  If the controlled condition changes there is a homeostatic imbalance.  The receptors notice this change and send info to a control center. The control center then sends a command in the form of chemical or electric signals to an effecter in the body that makes a change in the body to bring the controlled condition back to homeostasis.  A positive feedback system strengthens the homeostatic imbalances. Homeostasis can only be brought back when something in the surrounding environment changes to stop the positive feedback system.  The best example of this is a woman in labor.  The positive feedback system strengthens the contractions of the cervix to give birth to a baby. The positive feedback system can only be stop and homeostasis brought back to normal when the baby is born. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            If homeostasis is not brought back to normal our body would need to adapt and deal with the change.  If our body adapts to the change it means that it has mutated in a way to deal with the change.(Harter 2) If our body cannot adapt to the change our body could be destroyed or mutate in a way that is not beneficial to us.(Harter 2-3)  Radiation could cause mutations like tumors that are not beneficial to us.  Whether it's a good mutation or a bad one or even a neutral one I believe a change in a person sexual orientation due to a mutation brought on by a homeostatic imbalance can be viewed this way.  Just as there are many things in our environment that can cause us to get cancer many things in our environment can cause our sexual orientation to change before or after birth, just like a person could be born with diabetes or get diabetes sometime after birth.

 

            What changes in our environments could affect a person's sexual orientation. A lot of changes could, but one kind could be a change in our body's chemical environment in the brain.  Testosterone helps developed male sexual behavior.  Negative feedback systems helps control the release of testosterone.  In the negative feedback system that controls testosterone a controlled condition changes because of some stimulus that causes a homeostatic imbalance.  We do not know what this stimulus is but we do know that whatever it is it causes certain cells in the "preoptic area" (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus to release the hormone GnRH. These cells in the "preoptic area" (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus are the receptors that detect the change in homeostasis.  The hormone GnRH is the info or chemical signal that gets sent to the control center. The control center that is the anterior pituitary gland than releases two types of hormones, LH which is the luteinizing hormone and FSH which is the follicle-stimulating hormone.  These two hormones are chemical signals that get sent to an effector in our body that will make the change to restore homeostasis.  The effector is cells called leydig cells witch are located in the testes. The leydig cells then secrete the hormone testosterone. Testosterone gets release into interstitial fluid and into the blood stream.  The receptors in the "preoptic area" (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus detect this change in the testosterone level in your body and decrease the release of GnRH. This new info goes to the control center. The control center which is the anterior pituitary gland decreases the release of LH the luteinizing hormone.  Less chemical signals get sent to the effector which is the leyding cells.  Leyding cells decrease the release of testosterone. This cycle repeats it self and helps to develop the male sexual behavior along with other things.  Whatever the stimulus is that causes this homeostatic imbalance we know it is important in order to start this cycle that helps in the development of male sexual behavior. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

            There is a small amount of estrogen in men. The estrogen in men gets made because of some stimulus causes the brain in men to convert testosterone into estrogen. Estrogen is in large amounts in women and helps develop there sexual behavior.  Men need estrogen in small amounts, but in large amounts would build female traits in men. In gay men the production of estrogen somehow gets stimulated. This could happen in many ways. The receptors in the "preoptic area" (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus that receives info about estrogen levels in the body may miscalculate these levels and the brain produces more estrogen even thou the levels are fine in order to return the body to homeostasis.  It could also be the other way around and the receptors in the "preoptic area" (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus miscalculate the levels of testosterone for being more than it is and produce less testosterone and male traits don't develop. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

 

            The "preoptic area" (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus is the receptor that monitors these hormones. The morphological differences in these receptors can be notice between males and females. (Martin, PhD 363) These differences are not always the same thou. That's why you can't always look at a persons brain and tell if they are gay are not. These are mutations in the brain because of some stimulus disrupted homeostasis and the body could not bring it self back to homeostasis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

 

Tortora, Gerard and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology,           

 

10th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003

 

 

Martin, PhD, John. Neuroanatomy:Text and Atlas 3rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill,

           

            2003.

 

 

Harter, Richard. "Are Mutations Harmful?". The TalkOrigins Archive.2003.11 March

 

            2008 < http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html>.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

Change in Sexual Orientation Due to a Homeostatic Imbalance.

 

 

 

            In the medical world when the internal environment of a persons body changes they call it a Homeostatic imbalance.  A Homeostatic imbalance is cause by the environment around us that our bodies can’t function properly in.  Our bodies have feedback systems that monitor our internal environments and makes changes if our surrounding environment changes and disrupts homeostasis. In doing this our bodies’ tries to bring back homeostasis. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            There are two types of feedback systems negative feedback systems and positive feedback systems.  In a negative feedback system a controlled condition is monitored by receptors in the body.  If the controlled condition changes there is a homeostatic imbalance.  The receptors notice this change and send info to a control center. The control center then sends a command in the form of chemical or electric signals to an effecter in the body that makes a change in the body to bring the controlled condition back to homeostasis.  A positive feedback system strengthens the homeostatic imbalances. Homeostasis can only be brought back when something in the surrounding environment changes to stop the positive feedback system.  The best example of this is a woman in labor.  The positive feedback system strengthens the contractions of the cervix to give birth to a baby. The positive feedback system can only be stop and homeostasis brought back to normal when the baby is born. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            If homeostasis is not brought back to normal our body would need to adapt and deal with the change.  If our body adapts to the change it means that it has mutated in a way to deal with the change.(Harter 2) If our body cannot adapt to the change our body could be destroyed or mutate in a way that is not beneficial to us.(Harter 2-3)  Radiation could cause mutations like tumors that are not beneficial to us.  Whether it’s a good mutation or a bad one or even a neutral one I believe a change in a person sexual orientation due to a mutation brought on by a homeostatic imbalance can be viewed this way.  Just as there are many things in our environment that can cause us to get cancer many things in our environment can cause our sexual orientation to change before or after birth, just like a person could be born with diabetes or get diabetes sometime after birth.

 

            What changes in our environments could affect a person’s sexual orientation. A lot of changes could, but one kind could be a change in our body’s chemical environment in the brain.  Testosterone helps developed male sexual behavior.  Negative feedback systems helps control the release of testosterone.  In the negative feedback system that controls testosterone a controlled condition changes because of some stimulus that causes a homeostatic imbalance.  We do not know what this stimulus is but we do know that whatever it is it causes certain cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus to release the hormone GnRH. These cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus are the receptors that detect the change in homeostasis.  The hormone GnRH is the info or chemical signal that gets sent to the control center. The control center that is the anterior pituitary gland than releases two types of hormones, LH which is the luteinizing hormone and FSH which is the follicle-stimulating hormone.  These two hormones are chemical signals that get sent to an effector in our body that will make the change to restore homeostasis.  The effector is cells called leydig cells witch are located in the testes. The leydig cells then secrete the hormone testosterone. Testosterone gets release into interstitial fluid and into the blood stream.  The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus detect this change in the testosterone level in your body and decrease the release of GnRH. This new info goes to the control center. The control center which is the anterior pituitary gland decreases the release of LH the luteinizing hormone.  Less chemical signals get sent to the effector which is the leyding cells.  Leyding cells decrease the release of testosterone. This cycle repeats it self and helps to develop the male sexual behavior along with other things.  Whatever the stimulus is that causes this homeostatic imbalance we know it is important in order to start this cycle that helps in the development of male sexual behavior. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

            There is a small amount of estrogen in men. The estrogen in men gets made because of some stimulus causes the brain in men to convert testosterone into estrogen. Estrogen is in large amounts in women and helps develop there sexual behavior.  Men need estrogen in small amounts, but in large amounts would build female traits in men. In gay men the production of estrogen somehow gets stimulated. This could happen in many ways. The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus that receives info about estrogen levels in the body may miscalculate these levels and the brain produces more estrogen even thou the levels are fine in order to return the body to homeostasis.  It could also be the other way around and the receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus miscalculate the levels of testosterone for being more than it is and produce less testosterone and male traits don’t develop. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

 

            The “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus is the receptor that monitors these hormones. The morphological differences in these receptors can be notice between males and females. (Martin, PhD 363) These differences are not always the same thou. That’s why you can’t always look at a persons brain and tell if they are gay are not. These are mutations in the brain because of some stimulus disrupted homeostasis and the body could not bring it self back to homeostasis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

 

Tortora, Gerard and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology,           

 

10th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003

 

 

Martin, PhD, John. Neuroanatomy:Text and Atlas 3rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill,

           

            2003.

 

 

Harter, Richard. “Are Mutations Harmful?”. The TalkOrigins Archive.2003.11 March

 

            2008 < http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html>.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in Sexual Orientation Due to a Homeostatic Imbalance.

 

 

 

            In the medical world when the internal environment of a persons body changes they call it a Homeostatic imbalance.  A Homeostatic imbalance is cause by the environment around us that our bodies can’t function properly in.  Our bodies have feedback systems that monitor our internal environments and makes changes if our surrounding environment changes and disrupts homeostasis. In doing this our bodies’ tries to bring back homeostasis. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            There are two types of feedback systems negative feedback systems and positive feedback systems.  In a negative feedback system a controlled condition is monitored by receptors in the body.  If the controlled condition changes there is a homeostatic imbalance.  The receptors notice this change and send info to a control center. The control center then sends a command in the form of chemical or electric signals to an effecter in the body that makes a change in the body to bring the controlled condition back to homeostasis.  A positive feedback system strengthens the homeostatic imbalances. Homeostasis can only be brought back when something in the surrounding environment changes to stop the positive feedback system.  The best example of this is a woman in labor.  The positive feedback system strengthens the contractions of the cervix to give birth to a baby. The positive feedback system can only be stop and homeostasis brought back to normal when the baby is born. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            If homeostasis is not brought back to normal our body would need to adapt and deal with the change.  If our body adapts to the change it means that it has mutated in a way to deal with the change.(Harter 2) If our body cannot adapt to the change our body could be destroyed or mutate in a way that is not beneficial to us.(Harter 2-3)  Radiation could cause mutations like tumors that are not beneficial to us.  Whether it’s a good mutation or a bad one or even a neutral one I believe a change in a person sexual orientation due to a mutation brought on by a homeostatic imbalance can be viewed this way.  Just as there are many things in our environment that can cause us to get cancer many things in our environment can cause our sexual orientation to change before or after birth, just like a person could be born with diabetes or get diabetes sometime after birth.

 

            What changes in our environments could affect a person’s sexual orientation. A lot of changes could, but one kind could be a change in our body’s chemical environment in the brain.  Testosterone helps developed male sexual behavior.  Negative feedback systems helps control the release of testosterone.  In the negative feedback system that controls testosterone a controlled condition changes because of some stimulus that causes a homeostatic imbalance.  We do not know what this stimulus is but we do know that whatever it is it causes certain cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus to release the hormone GnRH. These cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus are the receptors that detect the change in homeostasis.  The hormone GnRH is the info or chemical signal that gets sent to the control center. The control center that is the anterior pituitary gland than releases two types of hormones, LH which is the luteinizing hormone and FSH which is the follicle-stimulating hormone.  These two hormones are chemical signals that get sent to an effector in our body that will make the change to restore homeostasis.  The effector is cells called leydig cells witch are located in the testes. The leydig cells then secrete the hormone testosterone. Testosterone gets release into interstitial fluid and into the blood stream.  The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus detect this change in the testosterone level in your body and decrease the release of GnRH. This new info goes to the control center. The control center which is the anterior pituitary gland decreases the release of LH the luteinizing hormone.  Less chemical signals get sent to the effector which is the leyding cells.  Leyding cells decrease the release of testosterone. This cycle repeats it self and helps to develop the male sexual behavior along with other things.  Whatever the stimulus is that causes this homeostatic imbalance we know it is important in order to start this cycle that helps in the development of male sexual behavior. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

            There is a small amount of estrogen in men. The estrogen in men gets made because of some stimulus causes the brain in men to convert testosterone into estrogen. Estrogen is in large amounts in women and helps develop there sexual behavior.  Men need estrogen in small amounts, but in large amounts would build female traits in men. In gay men the production of estrogen somehow gets stimulated. This could happen in many ways. The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus that receives info about estrogen levels in the body may miscalculate these levels and the brain produces more estrogen even thou the levels are fine in order to return the body to homeostasis.  It could also be the other way around and the receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus miscalculate the levels of testosterone for being more than it is and produce less testosterone and male traits don’t develop. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

 

            The “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus is the receptor that monitors these hormones. The morphological differences in these receptors can be notice between males and females. (Martin, PhD 363) These differences are not always the same thou. That’s why you can’t always look at a persons brain and tell if they are gay are not. These are mutations in the brain because of some stimulus disrupted homeostasis and the body could not bring it self back to homeostasis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

 

Tortora, Gerard and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology,           

 

10th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003

 

 

Martin, PhD, John. Neuroanatomy:Text and Atlas 3rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill,

           

            2003.

 

 

Harter, Richard. “Are Mutations Harmful?”. The TalkOrigins Archive.2003.11 March

 

            2008 < http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html>.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

Change in Sexual Orientation Due to a Homeostatic Imbalance.

 

 

 

            In the medical world when the internal environment of a persons body changes they call it a Homeostatic imbalance.  A Homeostatic imbalance is cause by the environment around us that our bodies can’t function properly in.  Our bodies have feedback systems that monitor our internal environments and makes changes if our surrounding environment changes and disrupts homeostasis. In doing this our bodies’ tries to bring back homeostasis. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            There are two types of feedback systems negative feedback systems and positive feedback systems.  In a negative feedback system a controlled condition is monitored by receptors in the body.  If the controlled condition changes there is a homeostatic imbalance.  The receptors notice this change and send info to a control center. The control center then sends a command in the form of chemical or electric signals to an effecter in the body that makes a change in the body to bring the controlled condition back to homeostasis.  A positive feedback system strengthens the homeostatic imbalances. Homeostasis can only be brought back when something in the surrounding environment changes to stop the positive feedback system.  The best example of this is a woman in labor.  The positive feedback system strengthens the contractions of the cervix to give birth to a baby. The positive feedback system can only be stop and homeostasis brought back to normal when the baby is born. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            If homeostasis is not brought back to normal our body would need to adapt and deal with the change.  If our body adapts to the change it means that it has mutated in a way to deal with the change.(Harter 2) If our body cannot adapt to the change our body could be destroyed or mutate in a way that is not beneficial to us.(Harter 2-3)  Radiation could cause mutations like tumors that are not beneficial to us.  Whether it’s a good mutation or a bad one or even a neutral one I believe a change in a person sexual orientation due to a mutation brought on by a homeostatic imbalance can be viewed this way.  Just as there are many things in our environment that can cause us to get cancer many things in our environment can cause our sexual orientation to change before or after birth, just like a person could be born with diabetes or get diabetes sometime after birth.

 

            What changes in our environments could affect a person’s sexual orientation. A lot of changes could, but one kind could be a change in our body’s chemical environment in the brain.  Testosterone helps developed male sexual behavior.  Negative feedback systems helps control the release of testosterone.  In the negative feedback system that controls testosterone a controlled condition changes because of some stimulus that causes a homeostatic imbalance.  We do not know what this stimulus is but we do know that whatever it is it causes certain cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus to release the hormone GnRH. These cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus are the receptors that detect the change in homeostasis.  The hormone GnRH is the info or chemical signal that gets sent to the control center. The control center that is the anterior pituitary gland than releases two types of hormones, LH which is the luteinizing hormone and FSH which is the follicle-stimulating hormone.  These two hormones are chemical signals that get sent to an effector in our body that will make the change to restore homeostasis.  The effector is cells called leydig cells witch are located in the testes. The leydig cells then secrete the hormone testosterone. Testosterone gets release into interstitial fluid and into the blood stream.  The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus detect this change in the testosterone level in your body and decrease the release of GnRH. This new info goes to the control center. The control center which is the anterior pituitary gland decreases the release of LH the luteinizing hormone.  Less chemical signals get sent to the effector which is the leyding cells.  Leyding cells decrease the release of testosterone. This cycle repeats it self and helps to develop the male sexual behavior along with other things.  Whatever the stimulus is that causes this homeostatic imbalance we know it is important in order to start this cycle that helps in the development of male sexual behavior. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

            There is a small amount of estrogen in men. The estrogen in men gets made because of some stimulus causes the brain in men to convert testosterone into estrogen. Estrogen is in large amounts in women and helps develop there sexual behavior.  Men need estrogen in small amounts, but in large amounts would build female traits in men. In gay men the production of estrogen somehow gets stimulated. This could happen in many ways. The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus that receives info about estrogen levels in the body may miscalculate these levels and the brain produces more estrogen even thou the levels are fine in order to return the body to homeostasis.  It could also be the other way around and the receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus miscalculate the levels of testosterone for being more than it is and produce less testosterone and male traits don’t develop. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

 

            The “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus is the receptor that monitors these hormones. The morphological differences in these receptors can be notice between males and females. (Martin, PhD 363) These differences are not always the same thou. That’s why you can’t always look at a persons brain and tell if they are gay are not. These are mutations in the brain because of some stimulus disrupted homeostasis and the body could not bring it self back to homeostasis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

 

Tortora, Gerard and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology,           

 

10th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003

 

 

Martin, PhD, John. Neuroanatomy:Text and Atlas 3rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill,

           

            2003.

 

 

Harter, Richard. “Are Mutations Harmful?”. The TalkOrigins Archive.2003.11 March

 

            2008 < http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html>.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

Change in Sexual Orientation Due to a Homeostatic Imbalance.

 

 

 

            In the medical world when the internal environment of a persons body changes they call it a Homeostatic imbalance.  A Homeostatic imbalance is cause by the environment around us that our bodies can’t function properly in.  Our bodies have feedback systems that monitor our internal environments and makes changes if our surrounding environment changes and disrupts homeostasis. In doing this our bodies’ tries to bring back homeostasis. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            There are two types of feedback systems negative feedback systems and positive feedback systems.  In a negative feedback system a controlled condition is monitored by receptors in the body.  If the controlled condition changes there is a homeostatic imbalance.  The receptors notice this change and send info to a control center. The control center then sends a command in the form of chemical or electric signals to an effecter in the body that makes a change in the body to bring the controlled condition back to homeostasis.  A positive feedback system strengthens the homeostatic imbalances. Homeostasis can only be brought back when something in the surrounding environment changes to stop the positive feedback system.  The best example of this is a woman in labor.  The positive feedback system strengthens the contractions of the cervix to give birth to a baby. The positive feedback system can only be stop and homeostasis brought back to normal when the baby is born. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            If homeostasis is not brought back to normal our body would need to adapt and deal with the change.  If our body adapts to the change it means that it has mutated in a way to deal with the change.(Harter 2) If our body cannot adapt to the change our body could be destroyed or mutate in a way that is not beneficial to us.(Harter 2-3)  Radiation could cause mutations like tumors that are not beneficial to us.  Whether it’s a good mutation or a bad one or even a neutral one I believe a change in a person sexual orientation due to a mutation brought on by a homeostatic imbalance can be viewed this way.  Just as there are many things in our environment that can cause us to get cancer many things in our environment can cause our sexual orientation to change before or after birth, just like a person could be born with diabetes or get diabetes sometime after birth.

 

            What changes in our environments could affect a person’s sexual orientation. A lot of changes could, but one kind could be a change in our body’s chemical environment in the brain.  Testosterone helps developed male sexual behavior.  Negative feedback systems helps control the release of testosterone.  In the negative feedback system that controls testosterone a controlled condition changes because of some stimulus that causes a homeostatic imbalance.  We do not know what this stimulus is but we do know that whatever it is it causes certain cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus to release the hormone GnRH. These cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus are the receptors that detect the change in homeostasis.  The hormone GnRH is the info or chemical signal that gets sent to the control center. The control center that is the anterior pituitary gland than releases two types of hormones, LH which is the luteinizing hormone and FSH which is the follicle-stimulating hormone.  These two hormones are chemical signals that get sent to an effector in our body that will make the change to restore homeostasis.  The effector is cells called leydig cells witch are located in the testes. The leydig cells then secrete the hormone testosterone. Testosterone gets release into interstitial fluid and into the blood stream.  The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus detect this change in the testosterone level in your body and decrease the release of GnRH. This new info goes to the control center. The control center which is the anterior pituitary gland decreases the release of LH the luteinizing hormone.  Less chemical signals get sent to the effector which is the leyding cells.  Leyding cells decrease the release of testosterone. This cycle repeats it self and helps to develop the male sexual behavior along with other things.  Whatever the stimulus is that causes this homeostatic imbalance we know it is important in order to start this cycle that helps in the development of male sexual behavior. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

            There is a small amount of estrogen in men. The estrogen in men gets made because of some stimulus causes the brain in men to convert testosterone into estrogen. Estrogen is in large amounts in women and helps develop there sexual behavior.  Men need estrogen in small amounts, but in large amounts would build female traits in men. In gay men the production of estrogen somehow gets stimulated. This could happen in many ways. The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus that receives info about estrogen levels in the body may miscalculate these levels and the brain produces more estrogen even thou the levels are fine in order to return the body to homeostasis.  It could also be the other way around and the receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus miscalculate the levels of testosterone for being more than it is and produce less testosterone and male traits don’t develop. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

 

            The “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus is the receptor that monitors these hormones. The morphological differences in these receptors can be notice between males and females. (Martin, PhD 363) These differences are not always the same thou. That’s why you can’t always look at a persons brain and tell if they are gay are not. These are mutations in the brain because of some stimulus disrupted homeostasis and the body could not bring it self back to homeostasis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

 

Tortora, Gerard and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology,           

 

10th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003

 

 

Martin, PhD, John. Neuroanatomy:Text and Atlas 3rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill,

           

            2003.

 

 

Harter, Richard. “Are Mutations Harmful?”. The TalkOrigins Archive.2003.11 March

 

            2008 < http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html>.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

Change in Sexual Orientation Due to a Homeostatic Imbalance.

 

 

 

            In the medical world when the internal environment of a persons body changes they call it a Homeostatic imbalance.  A Homeostatic imbalance is cause by the environment around us that our bodies can’t function properly in.  Our bodies have feedback systems that monitor our internal environments and makes changes if our surrounding environment changes and disrupts homeostasis. In doing this our bodies’ tries to bring back homeostasis. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            There are two types of feedback systems negative feedback systems and positive feedback systems.  In a negative feedback system a controlled condition is monitored by receptors in the body.  If the controlled condition changes there is a homeostatic imbalance.  The receptors notice this change and send info to a control center. The control center then sends a command in the form of chemical or electric signals to an effecter in the body that makes a change in the body to bring the controlled condition back to homeostasis.  A positive feedback system strengthens the homeostatic imbalances. Homeostasis can only be brought back when something in the surrounding environment changes to stop the positive feedback system.  The best example of this is a woman in labor.  The positive feedback system strengthens the contractions of the cervix to give birth to a baby. The positive feedback system can only be stop and homeostasis brought back to normal when the baby is born. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            If homeostasis is not brought back to normal our body would need to adapt and deal with the change.  If our body adapts to the change it means that it has mutated in a way to deal with the change.(Harter 2) If our body cannot adapt to the change our body could be destroyed or mutate in a way that is not beneficial to us.(Harter 2-3)  Radiation could cause mutations like tumors that are not beneficial to us.  Whether it’s a good mutation or a bad one or even a neutral one I believe a change in a person sexual orientation due to a mutation brought on by a homeostatic imbalance can be viewed this way.  Just as there are many things in our environment that can cause us to get cancer many things in our environment can cause our sexual orientation to change before or after birth, just like a person could be born with diabetes or get diabetes sometime after birth.

 

            What changes in our environments could affect a person’s sexual orientation. A lot of changes could, but one kind could be a change in our body’s chemical environment in the brain.  Testosterone helps developed male sexual behavior.  Negative feedback systems helps control the release of testosterone.  In the negative feedback system that controls testosterone a controlled condition changes because of some stimulus that causes a homeostatic imbalance.  We do not know what this stimulus is but we do know that whatever it is it causes certain cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus to release the hormone GnRH. These cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus are the receptors that detect the change in homeostasis.  The hormone GnRH is the info or chemical signal that gets sent to the control center. The control center that is the anterior pituitary gland than releases two types of hormones, LH which is the luteinizing hormone and FSH which is the follicle-stimulating hormone.  These two hormones are chemical signals that get sent to an effector in our body that will make the change to restore homeostasis.  The effector is cells called leydig cells witch are located in the testes. The leydig cells then secrete the hormone testosterone. Testosterone gets release into interstitial fluid and into the blood stream.  The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus detect this change in the testosterone level in your body and decrease the release of GnRH. This new info goes to the control center. The control center which is the anterior pituitary gland decreases the release of LH the luteinizing hormone.  Less chemical signals get sent to the effector which is the leyding cells.  Leyding cells decrease the release of testosterone. This cycle repeats it self and helps to develop the male sexual behavior along with other things.  Whatever the stimulus is that causes this homeostatic imbalance we know it is important in order to start this cycle that helps in the development of male sexual behavior. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

            There is a small amount of estrogen in men. The estrogen in men gets made because of some stimulus causes the brain in men to convert testosterone into estrogen. Estrogen is in large amounts in women and helps develop there sexual behavior.  Men need estrogen in small amounts, but in large amounts would build female traits in men. In gay men the production of estrogen somehow gets stimulated. This could happen in many ways. The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus that receives info about estrogen levels in the body may miscalculate these levels and the brain produces more estrogen even thou the levels are fine in order to return the body to homeostasis.  It could also be the other way around and the receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus miscalculate the levels of testosterone for being more than it is and produce less testosterone and male traits don’t develop. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

 

            The “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus is the receptor that monitors these hormones. The morphological differences in these receptors can be notice between males and females. (Martin, PhD 363) These differences are not always the same thou. That’s why you can’t always look at a persons brain and tell if they are gay are not. These are mutations in the brain because of some stimulus disrupted homeostasis and the body could not bring it self back to homeostasis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

 

Tortora, Gerard and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology,           

 

10th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003

 

 

Martin, PhD, John. Neuroanatomy:Text and Atlas 3rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill,

           

            2003.

 

 

Harter, Richard. “Are Mutations Harmful?”. The TalkOrigins Archive.2003.11 March

 

            2008 < http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html>.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

Change in Sexual Orientation Due to a Homeostatic Imbalance.

 

 

 

            In the medical world when the internal environment of a persons body changes they call it a Homeostatic imbalance.  A Homeostatic imbalance is cause by the environment around us that our bodies can’t function properly in.  Our bodies have feedback systems that monitor our internal environments and makes changes if our surrounding environment changes and disrupts homeostasis. In doing this our bodies’ tries to bring back homeostasis. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            There are two types of feedback systems negative feedback systems and positive feedback systems.  In a negative feedback system a controlled condition is monitored by receptors in the body.  If the controlled condition changes there is a homeostatic imbalance.  The receptors notice this change and send info to a control center. The control center then sends a command in the form of chemical or electric signals to an effecter in the body that makes a change in the body to bring the controlled condition back to homeostasis.  A positive feedback system strengthens the homeostatic imbalances. Homeostasis can only be brought back when something in the surrounding environment changes to stop the positive feedback system.  The best example of this is a woman in labor.  The positive feedback system strengthens the contractions of the cervix to give birth to a baby. The positive feedback system can only be stop and homeostasis brought back to normal when the baby is born. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            If homeostasis is not brought back to normal our body would need to adapt and deal with the change.  If our body adapts to the change it means that it has mutated in a way to deal with the change.(Harter 2) If our body cannot adapt to the change our body could be destroyed or mutate in a way that is not beneficial to us.(Harter 2-3)  Radiation could cause mutations like tumors that are not beneficial to us.  Whether it’s a good mutation or a bad one or even a neutral one I believe a change in a person sexual orientation due to a mutation brought on by a homeostatic imbalance can be viewed this way.  Just as there are many things in our environment that can cause us to get cancer many things in our environment can cause our sexual orientation to change before or after birth, just like a person could be born with diabetes or get diabetes sometime after birth.

 

            What changes in our environments could affect a person’s sexual orientation. A lot of changes could, but one kind could be a change in our body’s chemical environment in the brain.  Testosterone helps developed male sexual behavior.  Negative feedback systems helps control the release of testosterone.  In the negative feedback system that controls testosterone a controlled condition changes because of some stimulus that causes a homeostatic imbalance.  We do not know what this stimulus is but we do know that whatever it is it causes certain cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus to release the hormone GnRH. These cells in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus are the receptors that detect the change in homeostasis.  The hormone GnRH is the info or chemical signal that gets sent to the control center. The control center that is the anterior pituitary gland than releases two types of hormones, LH which is the luteinizing hormone and FSH which is the follicle-stimulating hormone.  These two hormones are chemical signals that get sent to an effector in our body that will make the change to restore homeostasis.  The effector is cells called leydig cells witch are located in the testes. The leydig cells then secrete the hormone testosterone. Testosterone gets release into interstitial fluid and into the blood stream.  The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus detect this change in the testosterone level in your body and decrease the release of GnRH. This new info goes to the control center. The control center which is the anterior pituitary gland decreases the release of LH the luteinizing hormone.  Less chemical signals get sent to the effector which is the leyding cells.  Leyding cells decrease the release of testosterone. This cycle repeats it self and helps to develop the male sexual behavior along with other things.  Whatever the stimulus is that causes this homeostatic imbalance we know it is important in order to start this cycle that helps in the development of male sexual behavior. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

            There is a small amount of estrogen in men. The estrogen in men gets made because of some stimulus causes the brain in men to convert testosterone into estrogen. Estrogen is in large amounts in women and helps develop there sexual behavior.  Men need estrogen in small amounts, but in large amounts would build female traits in men. In gay men the production of estrogen somehow gets stimulated. This could happen in many ways. The receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus that receives info about estrogen levels in the body may miscalculate these levels and the brain produces more estrogen even thou the levels are fine in order to return the body to homeostasis.  It could also be the other way around and the receptors in the “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363)  of the hypothalamus miscalculate the levels of testosterone for being more than it is and produce less testosterone and male traits don’t develop. (Tortora and Grabowski 1021-1023)

 

 

            The “preoptic area” (Martin, PhD 363) of the hypothalamus is the receptor that monitors these hormones. The morphological differences in these receptors can be notice between males and females. (Martin, PhD 363) These differences are not always the same thou. That’s why you can’t always look at a persons brain and tell if they are gay are not. These are mutations in the brain because of some stimulus disrupted homeostasis and the body could not bring it self back to homeostasis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Works Cited

 

Tortora, Gerard and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology,           

 

10th Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003

 

 

Martin, PhD, John. Neuroanatomy:Text and Atlas 3rd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill,

           

            2003.

 

 

Harter, Richard. “Are Mutations Harmful?”. The TalkOrigins Archive.2003.11 March

 

            2008 < http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mutations.html>.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

Change in Sexual Orientation Due to a Homeostatic Imbalance.

 

 

 

            In the medical world when the internal environment of a persons body changes they call it a Homeostatic imbalance.  A Homeostatic imbalance is cause by the environment around us that our bodies can’t function properly in.  Our bodies have feedback systems that monitor our internal environments and makes changes if our surrounding environment changes and disrupts homeostasis. In doing this our bodies’ tries to bring back homeostasis. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            There are two types of feedback systems negative feedback systems and positive feedback systems.  In a negative feedback system a controlled condition is monitored by receptors in the body.  If the controlled condition changes there is a homeostatic imbalance.  The receptors notice this change and send info to a control center. The control center then sends a command in the form of chemical or electric signals to an effecter in the body that makes a change in the body to bring the controlled condition back to homeostasis.  A positive feedback system strengthens the homeostatic imbalances. Homeostasis can only be brought back when something in the surrounding environment changes to stop the positive feedback system.  The best example of this is a woman in labor.  The positive feedback system strengthens the contractions of the cervix to give birth to a baby. The positive feedback system can only be stop and homeostasis brought back to normal when the baby is born. (Tortora and Grabowski 7-11)

 

            If homeostasis is not brought back to normal our body would need to adapt and deal with the change.  If our body adapts to the change it means that it has mutated in a way to deal with the change.(Harter 2) If our body cannot adapt to the change our body could be destroyed or mutate in a way that is not beneficial to us.(Harter 2-3)  Radiation could cause mutations like tumors that are not beneficial to us.  Whether it’s a good mutation or a bad one or even a neutral one I believe a change in a person sexual orientation due to a mutation brought on by a homeostatic imbalance can be viewed this way.  Just as there are many things in our environment that can cause us to get cancer many things in our environment can cause our sexual orientation to change before or after birth, just like a person could be born with diabetes or get diab