Tag Steven S. Segal

Physical exercise is often the greatest stress that the body encounters in the course of daily life. Skeletal muscle typically accounts for 30% to 50% of the total body mass. Thus, with each bout of muscular activity, the body must…

In the preceding chapters, we considered blood flow to peripheral capillary beds as if the “periphery” were a single entity. In this chapter, we break that entity down into some of its component parts. Because each organ in the body…