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Functional reserve means you are completely well but the start of the disease is coming closer as the former is depleting. Another case is when disease starts
by tsoukase 1y ago
Functional reserve means you are completely well but the start of the disease is coming closer as the former is depleting.
Another case is when disease starts subtly and slowly _with_ initial symptoms that are otherwise not debilitating. Eg Alzheimer's starting decades ago by being forgetful.
I have no idea which one the post is reffering to.
- findthewords 1y agoThankfully biology has redundancy, so a single cosmic bit flip does not send humans into a BSOD.
- tsoukase 1y agoIn biomed sciences we rarely refer to the huge amount of resiliency of living organisms. They are so robust, stable and self healing that it would need a fleet of human made machines to cover the basic difficulties.