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    "key": "allostasis",
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    "path": "/topics/allostasis/",
    "title": "Allostasis",
    "description": "Allostasis describes adjustment to meet environmental demands and maintain stable function. Our Chinese edition uses a reader-friendly term alongside the original English; this is not a claim to standardise Chinese academic terminology.",
    "rights": "© The Allostasis Project. All rights reserved. Reproduction or adaptation requires separate permission, subject to applicable legal exceptions.",
    "version": "0.1",
    "updatedAt": "2026-09-14",
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    "sections": [
      {
        "id": "introduction",
        "title": "At a glance",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Maintaining stability through change.",
          "Allostasis describes adjustment to meet environmental demands and maintain stable function. Our Chinese edition uses a reader-friendly term alongside the original English; this is not a claim to standardise Chinese academic terminology.",
          "Whether a response is appropriate depends on the environment and the body's needs at that moment."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "adjustment",
        "title": "Stability through adjustment",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Allostasis offers a way to understand changing regulation as demands change. Sterling's account emphasises anticipation and allocation of resources, rather than treating every change as a failure of regulation.[1]"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "cost",
        "title": "An adjustment and its cost are different questions",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Allostatic load concerns costs associated with repeated or prolonged adaptation. The adaptive process and its possible cumulative costs should be distinguished.[2]"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "language",
        "title": "A note on language",
        "paragraphs": [
          "The Chinese edition uses a term emphasising dynamic adaptation as an explanatory label and retains Allostasis. It is not a claim that Chinese terminology is standardised, or that allostasis and homeostasis are interchangeable."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "references": [
      {
        "id": "sterling-2012",
        "title": "Allostasis: a model of predictive regulation",
        "authors": "Peter Sterling",
        "journal": "Physiology & Behavior",
        "year": "2012",
        "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21684297/",
        "doi": "10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.06.004",
        "pmid": "21684297"
      },
      {
        "id": "mcewen-1993",
        "title": "Stress and the individual. Mechanisms leading to disease",
        "authors": "Bruce S. McEwen · Eliot Stellar",
        "journal": "Archives of Internal Medicine",
        "year": "1993",
        "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8379800/",
        "doi": "10.1001/archinte.1993.00410180039004",
        "pmid": "8379800"
      }
    ],
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