Reddit mentions: The best physiology books

It's a shame we can't be having this discussion over a beer, it might actually be productive. I agree that increasing the length of a workout is more germane to OW condition. I don't agree with your point about sighting being reminiscent of the head lift in a stop turn. An optimal sighting is more of a head turn to briefly position the eyes just above the water. The whole point of doing it like that is to not raise the head and create torque about the coronal axis and force the legs down. However, it'd be a naive to assert that every sighting is optimal and that even the pros don't pull their heads up sometimes, so I won't pick at that.

On the other hand, everything else you wrote prior to that just decries your lack of hemodynamic understanding, full of google/wiki'd factoids as it may be.

1. Baroreceptors are incredibly sensitive to even minute changes in pressure.
   
2. Even in the cleanest open turn, there is a greater vertical displacement between the head and rest of body than in a flip turn.
   
3. Venous pooling contributes to and intensifies orthostatic hypotension, but the real cause is the immediate increase of initial and final displacement between the ICA and lowest point of the body. That's why it still happens to people who are lying flat on their back with legs elevated and there's no pooling.
   
4. Your anonymous citation of some vague research is correct, but only undermines your previous statement about increased BP during exercise.
   
5. Pulse rate very slightly dips, and then goes way up after a true valsalva (but only after about 5 seconds) graph
   
6. You just need to stop talking about baroreceptors and nerves. Even if you wrote that down as a response in a 9th grade bio class, I'd give you no partial credit. It's drivel. The AP causes the sympathetic firing, not the other way around. Then the sympathetic firing causes release of norepinephrine, which stimulates increased firing in not just the SA node, but all the cardiac pacemaking cells.
   
7. This is my favorite, because you act like it's your strongest point when it's your dumbest. The ONLY momentum you carry through a turn is from impact (push off) with the wall. This is freshmen level physics, like first week of class. It doesn't matter how much you accelerate into your turn, your speed coming off the wall is determined by the duration and force of your push-off. Your acceleration into the turn only gives you a higher velocity with which to perform your flip. If you really can't understand this, then go try and do a flip turn (or whatever turn you want) without a wall, and then come tell me how it goes.
   
   In all seriousness, if you really care about understanding this stuff, I will happily email you a pdf of my human phys book from MS1. It's excellent and has more than you'll ever need to know.

>Female Orgasm. When local sexual stimulation reaches maximum intensity, and especially when the local sensations are supported by appropriate psychic conditioning signals from the cerebrum, reflexes are initiated that cause the female orgasm, also called the female climax. The female orgasm is analogous to emission and ejaculation in the male, and it may help promote fertilization of the ovum. Indeed, the human female is known to be somewhat more fertile when inseminated by normal sexual intercourse rather than by artificial methods, thus indicating an important function of the female orgasm. Possible reasons for this are as follows.
First, during the orgasm, the perineal muscles of the female contract rhythmically, which results from spinal cord reflexes similar to those that cause ejaculation in the male. It is possible that these reflexes increase uterine and fallopian tube motility during the orgasm, thus helping to transport the sperm upward through the uterus toward the ovum; information on this subject is scanty, however. Also, the orgasm seems to cause dilation of the cervical canal for up to 30 minutes, thus allowing easy transport of the sperm.
Second, in many lower animals, copulation causes the posterior pituitary gland to secrete oxytocin; this effect is probably mediated through the brain amyg- daloid nuclei and then through the hypothalamus to the pituitary. The oxytocin causes increased rhythmi- cal contractions of the uterus, which have been postu- lated to cause increased transport of the sperm. A few sperm have been shown to traverse the entire length of the fallopian tube in the cow in about 5 minutes, a rate at least 10 times as fast as that which the swim- ming motions of the sperm themselves could possibly achieve. Whether this occurs in the human female is unknown.
In addition to the possible effects of the orgasm on fertilization, the intense sexual sensations that develop during the orgasm also pass to the cerebrum and cause intense muscle tension throughout the body. But after culmination of the sexual act, this gives way during the succeeding minutes to a sense of satisfaction charac- terized by relaxed peacefulness, an effect called resolution.

Source: Guyton and Hall Physiology Review, Pages 1023-1024

I don't really know what's a freshman, but try Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy and Color Atlas of Physiology.

They are like the little (somewhat unknown) brothers of the other recommended here, but they can become extremely useful. When I need to understand something I go to the small, easy to handle, simple books, and once I've understood that, I dig in the others to get more information.

If you want something bigger, Gray's Anatomy for Students and Prometheus are simply great. In Physiology... I've never really liked Guyton, but it's a good book.

To add to this /u/violeur-chein I found a few decent looking books on UK amazon

Physiology for nurses at a Glance - £16.51 The cheapest, but no reviews so idk how good it really is.


Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology: An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students - £27.33 One review, says it's a broad but shallow book, kinda what you're looking for.

Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology: For Nursing and Healthcare Students - £25.32

The last one seems to have the best reviews, & seems to not require any prior knowledge beyond high school bio level. Reported to give a pretty comprehensive coverage of each subject.

That's just a little searching, but hopefully gives you ideas or something to compare to.

In grad school we used Vander's Renal Physiology. https://www.amazon.com/Vanders-Renal-Physiology-Eighth-Medical/dp/0071797483

Short-ish text. Good info throughout. We also coupled it with case studies about things like dilutional hyponatremia, diabetes (mellitus and insipidus), pheochromocytoma, rhabdomyolysis, and acute glomerulonephritis (to name but a few).

Topics that helped me feel like I'd mastered renal phys included being able to talk about/answer: what is the master blood pressure regulator- brain, heart, or kidneys? Explain countercurrent flow. Explain RAS. Be able to discuss metabolic and respiratory compensation for changes in acid/base chemistry.

Enjoy, renal phys was my favorite system I studied.

Since you didn't say what exactly you wanted a source for, and just told me to shut up, I'm not sure what exactly you want me to provide. There are a lot of physiology and biochemistry texts to which I can refer you if you'd like to read up on fructose, insulin, and leptin, as these are basic physiological principles. Boron and Boulpaep's Medical Physiology and Lehninger's Principles of Biochemistry are good ones. The nutrition information is also pretty basic. Here's a list of the fructose content of fruits and here's an article from the American Journal of Nutrition discussing the different forms of HFCS, its chemistry, and some of the science around it.

As for the chemistry of fructose as it relates to HFCS, here is a good article from the journal Nutrition and Metabolism, Fructose metabolism in humans – what isotopic tracer studies tell us, that gives a really nice overview of the physiology and biochemistry of fructose. It also does a review of the literature surrounding the purported role that HFCS plays in the obesity problem in the western world. However, one might be inclined to dismiss the article, as it is written by scientists employed by ADM. It's fair to raise this as a possible conflict of interest for the review part of the article. The first part, though, that discusses fructose metabolism, is "morally neutral" -- it doesn't say anything good or bad about fructose, just what happens to it and what they learned from tracer studies.

Given that one could question the review part of the previous article, here are a few other recent articles about fructose and HFCS:

A meta-analysis from 2014 that found no link between increased consumption of sugar of any kind and non-alcoholic liver disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4135494/

A double-blind study from 2015 that interestingly found that ingestion of fructose or sucrose-sweetened beverages led to increased food consumption, but that ingestion of aspartame-sweetened beverages did not lead to excess food consumption: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4658464/

The title of this randomized, double blind study from 2016 speaks for itself: Fructose Containing Sugars at Normal Levels of Consumption Do Not Effect Adversely Components of the Metabolic Syndrome and Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease

To be fair, there are a lot of articles on PubMed that say things like, "HFCS linked to arthritis/bronchitis/CVD/etc." The reason I didn't link those was not because they didn't suit my narrative -- notice I did link a study that found that people who consumed HFCS and sucrose-sweetened beverages ate more food. No, the reason I didn't link them was because I didn't think they were good studies because they couldn't establish HFCS as the causative factor. Was it the fructose, or just sugar in general? Or was it obesity? Conditions associated with obesity? There were too many confounders for which the studies didn't control, and they need to be repeated with better controls before they can be taken seriously.

Shall I give more links? Or am I to "shut up now?"

Physiology PhD. Armando Hasudungan for the basics. Once you watch all of those videos you can move on to the Vanders books. They're slim books but comprehensive. Find them on Amazon for like $20. You can finish a book in a few weeks if you're committed. Dont worry about buying the most up to date edition...our understanding of physiology doesnt change all that much year to year.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071797483/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_0q81Bb7JGEMZ6

Lippincott has a wonderful range of "made Incredibly Easy" books and the Anatomy and Physiology one is a good start.


A less watered down version of physiology is by Steven Goldberg.


Other books which are more in depth:

• Marieb's Anatomy and Physiology
  
• Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology
  
• Medical Physiology: Principles for Clinical Medicine

Biologist here (no, not that one.). Sharks DO have a urinary system! They've got kidneys and a urinary duct just like any other vertebrate. The next time you do a dogfish dissection, which I'm sure you all do every day, just look against the back wall, there's the kidneys! It's a little bit of a different shape but they're kidneys, they work perfectly well and excrete quite a lot of waste products in the urine.

Sharks do hold a lot of urea in their blood plasma, but that's an adaptive strategy to keep the concentration of solutes in their blood the same as seawater (seawater has more NaCl, shark blood plasma has more urea, but overall it's a similar concentration of solutes). This prevents them from losing water constantly through their gills. It also means they don't have to drink (unlike bony fishes, which constantly have to drink). It's a clever solution to the perpetual problem that marine animals face, of not losing all their water.


source - this book or any other comp phys or vert bio book

I <3 the SC lipids.

EDIT Just reading my book SKin Barrier and it talks about niacinamide having a role in sphingolipid production!

> Niacin has been utilized in skin care products. A recent study demonstrated a novel function for niacin: the stimulation of sphingolipid synthesis in cultured human KC (118). The increases in sphingolipid production, including all molecular species of Cer, are accounted for by an increase in the serine palmitoyl transferase gene expression (118). The cream containing niacin amide improved the barrier recovery in human subjects with xerosis compared with vehicle control (118).

( Skin Barrier (Kindle Locations 910-912). Kindle Edition. )

There is an awesome book I bought this year. The entire book is a series of hands-on activities where students work as "medical teams" to research about four "patients" and then diagnose them, develop a prognosis and a long term treatment plan.

The book is called "Diagnosis for Classroom Success"
http://www.amazon.com/Diagnosis-Classroom-Success-Teacher-Edition/dp/1936959526/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411350015&sr=8-1&keywords=science+anatomy+nsta

I work in a private school and plan to do the entire project with my life science students this school year.

I would recommend 5 minute veterinary consult, good reference for quickly looking stuff up: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813807638/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687522&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0683082574&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1HM72AGXEWSHZGTPVPMH

Also, I would recommend Plumbs veterinary drug handbook, its a must have for dosages on most drugs:
http://www.amazon.com/Plumbs-Veterinary-Handbook-Donald-Plumb/dp/111891192X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417648156&sr=1-1&keywords=plumbs+veterinary+drug+handbook

I bought this book on the recommendation of some of my old coworkers who went to anesthesia school. Take every drug you currently use in practice and just study more about it. Don't try to teach yourself anesthesia (that's what school is for) but use it to be the best ICU nurse you can be. That's what they will be interviewing you based on.

Low but robust sample sizes mean it's a developing area. Most information comes from post-flight analysis and using extensions of aerospace medicine. There are people that specialise in it, not sure if there's a general website or anything but there are some really good books e.g. 1 2 3.

Absolutely nothing in the Bible makes it half as valuable as one scientific tables reference in such a scenario. We're talking about all books being lost; plenty of people have the bible memorized. There's maybe like one autistic savant whonhas memorized a Documenta Geigy if we were extraordinarily lucky.

This may or may not be something you are looking for, but it definitely was way too in-detail for my pharmacy school's physiology course. If you have taken biochemistry, this should be a lot more understandable, but it really does dive deep into the specifics. I also really like the layout of the book as a whole and of each page. You can click on "look inside" and see for yourself the layout of the pages and see how much detail it goes into even on things like negative feedback (servocontrol? I've never even heard of that...).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3135450066/

If you have a couple of hours to spare and want more than a cook-book approach to fluid and electrolyte management , I recommend the following book. Very practical and readable , just the right length and I feel it's the appropriate level for a Intern and anyone else whose not critical care/nephrology. I used to hand out my copy to residents rotating in nephrology

Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple

https://www.amazon.com/Acid-Base-Fluids-Electrolytes-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/0940780984

> Is there any resource which gives the "Big Picture' of physio?

http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Physiology-The-Picture-LANGE/dp/0071485678

Although I would suggest really starting uworld ASAP. I started last week and it takes a loooong time to adequately cover it (I'm talking like 8-10 he's per block - 2 hrs to do it and 6-8 to read and understand and annotate)

So it would take almost 4 weeks just to do uworld and its the best resource so get started on it now. Use the explanations as your reading the time for reading textbooks besides FA is in the past.

http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Based-Physiology-Robert-Carroll-PhD/dp/1416042172
I have the microbiology version of this text, and I like it.

I used BRS Physio (read through it to get a general idea) and then the Guyton review book (http://www.amazon.com/Guyton-Hall-Physiology-Review/dp/072168307X) for questions to help me practice the little tricks.

It's a collection of books, I'll leave link of one of the books. It's basically a book which only includes questions and long explanations. I always use it when I'm done with module, and although It's question practice, it teaches me a lot. You identify little parts that you've not heard before or forgot about, and those questions are just wonderful to widen your knowledge. Here's a link of physiology book, but they have books for every subject: https://www.amazon.com/Physiology-PreTest-Self-Assessment-Review-14/dp/0071791426/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1551029078&sr=8-1&keywords=pretest+physiology

https://www.amazon.com/Acid-Base-Fluids-Electrolytes-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/0940780984/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479609280&sr=1-2&refinements=p_lbr_books_series_browse-bin%3AMade+Ridiculously+Simple

The "Made Ridiculously Simple" series saved me in neuro fyi. You should find a PDF floating around with some google searches

And the other I would buy would be Klabunde

The author of the book also made the website mentioned down below as well.

Try Neuroscience ABCs: Human Brain Basics...(Kindle, 2016) for human neurobiology and neuroscience.


https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-ABCs-Medicine-Sciences-Interested-ebook/dp/B01N9GJMHE#)

I have a 1-page cheat sheet which has a 4-step process with relevant equations and most common DDx if you want it. I made it after reading Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple.