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Allostasis refers to the ability of the body to achieve and maintain stability through change, and represents an adaptive coping mechanism in which various stress response processes are engaged during stress (McEwen, 2000a). Allostasis can be distinguished from homeostasis. In its purest sense, homeostasis refers to maintenance of processes that are essential for survival, and large divergences in these processes leads to death. , behavioral, sympathetic, and neuroendocrine factors) that can exact a cost when the adjustments have to be maintained outside of their normal range for a period of time.
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