Talk:Osmostat

--- Title -------- I suggest that this article be renamed "Hypothalamic Osmostat" (It is located in the hypothalamus. Wind-down (talk)

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Field and Importance ---

I suggest that this article should be part of the medical field, although it is yet little researched in the medical field. The hypothalamic osmostat is what regulates the water metabolism in the body, influences kidneys, breathing, heart, and electrolytes, and therefore has direct implications for fluids such as lymph or cerebrospinal fluid (not just blood), and in effects of effort at various degree, high(as in athletes), mere strain (as in workers) and stress (as in the experience that it is 'hard' to cope, so often correlated with irritation and inflammation). It is a most basic 'stress system' (the literature names it so, I say it is basic, fundamental); it is entrained more immediately into compensations (fast: breathing, slow: kidneys, acute: heart, systemic: electrolytes) than stress hormones, and other hormones and neuro-transmitters, which set patterns of adaptive mechanisms. It involves the oxitocin and anti-diuretic hormones, which are commonly related respectively to birthing, and to social or aggressive behaviour, but influence the way the body's physiology works. I suggest therefore that it should be given a rank of core importance, although this is not yet recognised (collectively agreed/validated) in the medical field. Wind-down (talk) 10:57, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

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Finding expert authors ---

I have some knowledge, but cannot be considered a medical expert on the subject. Some expert authors can be drawn from the list of references (quoting the best known experts) in the article that can be found at: This article is an anecdotal case report on an effect of oxytocin on ‘burning pain’ in fibromyalgia. It also provides an overview of what is known about oxytocin (2009) and other involvements of the hypothamic osmostat (e.g. in development of brain areas commonly known as the social brain and the limbic/emotional brain, and therefore behaviour as a whole). This article mentions that too little is known or researched about the simple physiology effects of oxytocin/osmostat that would be more applicable in family medicine than the extreme effects of high doses currently being researched by medical scientists. Wind-down (talk)

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An osmostat seems to be only referred to in terms of a Reset osmostat - suggest page be retitled to Reset osmostat. Osmoreceptors and osmoregulation cover the rest.--Iztwoz (talk) 09:01, 20 October 2017 (UTC)