Maintain an Optimal Working Environment?

Do Individual Cells and Our Body as a Whole Attempt to
Maintain an Optimal Working Environment?
Just as you clean your apartment or house and determine what kind of
stuff is found within your living area, so too will our cells clean and
regulate the contents in their intracellular fluid. This allows each cell to
maintain an optimal operating environment. Scientists often use the term
homeostasis to describe the efforts associated with the maintenance of
this optimal environment. Furthermore, just as it is the responsibility of
each cell to maintain its own ideal internal environment; at the same
time many of our organs work in concert to regulate the environment
within our body as a whole. These organs include the kidneys, lungs,
skin, and liver. Many of our most basic functions, such as breathing,
sweating, urinating, digesting, and the pumping of our heart, are actu-
ally functions dedicated to homeostasis  . Therefore, homeo-
stasis is the housekeeping efforts of all our cells working individually as
well as together to provide an environment conducive to optimal function.