Dr. Howard Glicksman is a retired general practitioner who received his medical degree from the University of Toronto. He was a primary care physician in the office and hospital setting for almost 25 years. He then provided medical management in the home for terminally ill hospice patients for the rest of his career. He is the author of “The Designed Body” series for Science and Culture Today. Glicksman further develops the arguments from this series in a book co-authored with systems engineer Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body (2022). He contributed to the YouTube video series Secrets of the Human Body and co-authored Your Amazing Body.
Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you'll die. Join engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman as they take you on an incredible journey exploring some of your body's greatest marvels.
Consider your body. Every day it must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. While you’re going about your daily business, your body stores, retrieves, translates, and manages software for thousands of proteins, switches, setpoints, thresholds, feedback loops, coordinate systems, counters, and timers. It disassembles thousands of different complex molecules, converts them into their building blocks, absorbs the building blocks, then reassembles them into the legions of chemicals and proteins that keep you going. Your body also safely transports hazardous chemicals to where they’re needed, without spilling them in places where they’d do harm, and employs them as it orchestrates thousands of complex processes and movements, some nearly …
