Homeostasis, the body's ability to maintain a stable internal environment, is crucial for health, and its decline with age makes recovery harder.

“and homeostasis is i think a really useful way to think about aging right if you're healthy you your body is generally in homeostasis right and what happens as we get older is it becomes harder and harder for our body to maintain homeostasis when you get out of homeostasis if your your defense mechanisms are working right you can get back in right so you get covid for example your immune system works you're out of homeostasis but you come back in and then you're okay again i think as we get older it gets harder to come back into homeostasis and that's why we start to see pathology and mortality”