SMART ORGANS AUTOREGULATE!

Your entitlement mentality may get you ischemic

Entitlement mentality: The (false) knowledge that the word/someone/people owe you great chances, either in their lives or in other aspects of your own life

Autoregulation: This is the ability of a metabolic organ to regulate its own blood flow, paradventure there’s a hike/decrease in systemic (arterial) blood supply

Ischemia: Lack of blood supply to an organ which could result in cell death

Organs involved in autoregulation include the: Brain, Kidneys, Heart, Lungs, Liver

Some organs are autoregulated, while some others believe that because of their connection to the aorta, they can never suffer lack of adequate blood flow. And they are usually wrong, for the relatively wise organs do not take the possibility of such flunctuations lightly and have a safety margin- for instance, their blood flow is constant regardless of flunctuations in arterial blood flow from 80-180mmHg.

Stop erroneously believing that the world owes you something, or that someone owes you a chance in his/her life, for if some people can be autoregulated, why can’t you?

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