Best physiology books according to redditors

Biologist here (no, not that one.). Sharks DO have a urinary system! They've got kidneys and a urinary duct just like any other vertebrate. The next time you do a dogfish dissection, which I'm sure you all do every day, just look against the back wall, there's the kidneys! It's a little bit of a different shape but they're kidneys, they work perfectly well and excrete quite a lot of waste products in the urine.

Sharks do hold a lot of urea in their blood plasma, but that's an adaptive strategy to keep the concentration of solutes in their blood the same as seawater (seawater has more NaCl, shark blood plasma has more urea, but overall it's a similar concentration of solutes). This prevents them from losing water constantly through their gills. It also means they don't have to drink (unlike bony fishes, which constantly have to drink). It's a clever solution to the perpetual problem that marine animals face, of not losing all their water.


source - this book or any other comp phys or vert bio book

Lol at everyone suggesting Robbin's, Harrison's, Costanzo's, and even Pathoma. That would be like telling an accountant who is interested in wood working as a hobby to start in the forest and begin chopping down enough trees for a 3 bedroom house. Guys, we build a fuck of a foundation before learning anything practical, and I can't imagine this stuff being useful for anyone who isn't going to continue studying with this level of intensity in our clinical years.

If you want to jump right into the human body and learn the basics of normal function and the common disease states, you have to look for clinical resources meant for people with minimal background in basic science and physiology. That means nursing resources. Comprehensive nursing books like this one typically start with the basics of chemistry and cover the entire human body in a book that could easily be read for understanding in 1 year casually after work. It's got big text, great pictures, and is actually meant for teaching.

If you have a couple of hours to spare and want more than a cook-book approach to fluid and electrolyte management , I recommend the following book. Very practical and readable , just the right length and I feel it's the appropriate level for a Intern and anyone else whose not critical care/nephrology. I used to hand out my copy to residents rotating in nephrology

Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple

https://www.amazon.com/Acid-Base-Fluids-Electrolytes-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/0940780984

I bought this book on the recommendation of some of my old coworkers who went to anesthesia school. Take every drug you currently use in practice and just study more about it. Don't try to teach yourself anesthesia (that's what school is for) but use it to be the best ICU nurse you can be. That's what they will be interviewing you based on.

Since you didn't say what exactly you wanted a source for, and just told me to shut up, I'm not sure what exactly you want me to provide. There are a lot of physiology and biochemistry texts to which I can refer you if you'd like to read up on fructose, insulin, and leptin, as these are basic physiological principles. Boron and Boulpaep's Medical Physiology and Lehninger's Principles of Biochemistry are good ones. The nutrition information is also pretty basic. Here's a list of the fructose content of fruits and here's an article from the American Journal of Nutrition discussing the different forms of HFCS, its chemistry, and some of the science around it.

As for the chemistry of fructose as it relates to HFCS, here is a good article from the journal Nutrition and Metabolism, Fructose metabolism in humans – what isotopic tracer studies tell us, that gives a really nice overview of the physiology and biochemistry of fructose. It also does a review of the literature surrounding the purported role that HFCS plays in the obesity problem in the western world. However, one might be inclined to dismiss the article, as it is written by scientists employed by ADM. It's fair to raise this as a possible conflict of interest for the review part of the article. The first part, though, that discusses fructose metabolism, is "morally neutral" -- it doesn't say anything good or bad about fructose, just what happens to it and what they learned from tracer studies.

Given that one could question the review part of the previous article, here are a few other recent articles about fructose and HFCS:

A meta-analysis from 2014 that found no link between increased consumption of sugar of any kind and non-alcoholic liver disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4135494/

A double-blind study from 2015 that interestingly found that ingestion of fructose or sucrose-sweetened beverages led to increased food consumption, but that ingestion of aspartame-sweetened beverages did not lead to excess food consumption: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4658464/

The title of this randomized, double blind study from 2016 speaks for itself: Fructose Containing Sugars at Normal Levels of Consumption Do Not Effect Adversely Components of the Metabolic Syndrome and Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease

To be fair, there are a lot of articles on PubMed that say things like, "HFCS linked to arthritis/bronchitis/CVD/etc." The reason I didn't link those was not because they didn't suit my narrative -- notice I did link a study that found that people who consumed HFCS and sucrose-sweetened beverages ate more food. No, the reason I didn't link them was because I didn't think they were good studies because they couldn't establish HFCS as the causative factor. Was it the fructose, or just sugar in general? Or was it obesity? Conditions associated with obesity? There were too many confounders for which the studies didn't control, and they need to be repeated with better controls before they can be taken seriously.

Shall I give more links? Or am I to "shut up now?"

Anyone try the Cases and Problems? From coastanzo
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Physiology PhD. Armando Hasudungan for the basics. Once you watch all of those videos you can move on to the Vanders books. They're slim books but comprehensive. Find them on Amazon for like $20. You can finish a book in a few weeks if you're committed. Dont worry about buying the most up to date edition...our understanding of physiology doesnt change all that much year to year.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071797483/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_0q81Bb7JGEMZ6

http://www.amazon.com/Wardlaws-Perspectives-Nutrition-8TH-EDITION/dp/B004HOY0H4

Absolutely nothing in the Bible makes it half as valuable as one scientific tables reference in such a scenario. We're talking about all books being lost; plenty of people have the bible memorized. There's maybe like one autistic savant whonhas memorized a Documenta Geigy if we were extraordinarily lucky.

There is an awesome book I bought this year. The entire book is a series of hands-on activities where students work as "medical teams" to research about four "patients" and then diagnose them, develop a prognosis and a long term treatment plan.

The book is called "Diagnosis for Classroom Success"
http://www.amazon.com/Diagnosis-Classroom-Success-Teacher-Edition/dp/1936959526/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411350015&sr=8-1&keywords=science+anatomy+nsta

I work in a private school and plan to do the entire project with my life science students this school year.

And the other I would buy would be Klabunde

The author of the book also made the website mentioned down below as well.

To add to this /u/violeur-chein I found a few decent looking books on UK amazon

Physiology for nurses at a Glance - £16.51 The cheapest, but no reviews so idk how good it really is.


Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology: An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students - £27.33 One review, says it's a broad but shallow book, kinda what you're looking for.

Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology: For Nursing and Healthcare Students - £25.32

The last one seems to have the best reviews, & seems to not require any prior knowledge beyond high school bio level. Reported to give a pretty comprehensive coverage of each subject.

That's just a little searching, but hopefully gives you ideas or something to compare to.

In grad school we used Vander's Renal Physiology. https://www.amazon.com/Vanders-Renal-Physiology-Eighth-Medical/dp/0071797483

Short-ish text. Good info throughout. We also coupled it with case studies about things like dilutional hyponatremia, diabetes (mellitus and insipidus), pheochromocytoma, rhabdomyolysis, and acute glomerulonephritis (to name but a few).

Topics that helped me feel like I'd mastered renal phys included being able to talk about/answer: what is the master blood pressure regulator- brain, heart, or kidneys? Explain countercurrent flow. Explain RAS. Be able to discuss metabolic and respiratory compensation for changes in acid/base chemistry.

Enjoy, renal phys was my favorite system I studied.

http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Based-Physiology-Robert-Carroll-PhD/dp/1416042172
I have the microbiology version of this text, and I like it.

https://www.amazon.com/Acid-Base-Fluids-Electrolytes-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/0940780984/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479609280&sr=1-2&refinements=p_lbr_books_series_browse-bin%3AMade+Ridiculously+Simple

The "Made Ridiculously Simple" series saved me in neuro fyi. You should find a PDF floating around with some google searches

I have a 1-page cheat sheet which has a 4-step process with relevant equations and most common DDx if you want it. I made it after reading Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple.

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I do not, unfortunately. I have found that the most helpful and memorable books are technical, but perhaps that is just me. I was able to find a basic physiology book (physiology by peter abrahams) a while ago which doesn't get too in-depth, but still informative from a book store. I do not know any books which are similar.

As a note, that one says its russian, and the others i've found are russian too. Mine is in english, and i have no idea. Sorry.

Lippincott has a wonderful range of "made Incredibly Easy" books and the Anatomy and Physiology one is a good start.


A less watered down version of physiology is by Steven Goldberg.


Other books which are more in depth:

• Marieb's Anatomy and Physiology
  
• Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology
  
• Medical Physiology: Principles for Clinical Medicine

I don't really know what's a freshman, but try Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy and Color Atlas of Physiology.

They are like the little (somewhat unknown) brothers of the other recommended here, but they can become extremely useful. When I need to understand something I go to the small, easy to handle, simple books, and once I've understood that, I dig in the others to get more information.

If you want something bigger, Gray's Anatomy for Students and Prometheus are simply great. In Physiology... I've never really liked Guyton, but it's a good book.

This may or may not be something you are looking for, but it definitely was way too in-detail for my pharmacy school's physiology course. If you have taken biochemistry, this should be a lot more understandable, but it really does dive deep into the specifics. I also really like the layout of the book as a whole and of each page. You can click on "look inside" and see for yourself the layout of the pages and see how much detail it goes into even on things like negative feedback (servocontrol? I've never even heard of that...).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3135450066/

I used BRS Physio (read through it to get a general idea) and then the Guyton review book (http://www.amazon.com/Guyton-Hall-Physiology-Review/dp/072168307X) for questions to help me practice the little tricks.

Try Neuroscience ABCs: Human Brain Basics...(Kindle, 2016) for human neurobiology and neuroscience.


https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-ABCs-Medicine-Sciences-Interested-ebook/dp/B01N9GJMHE#)

Ur right but not just because endorphines, actually is the way the endocrine system work and the impact of excersize on it.

Theres no need to look for research because well, is like if u need to learn about the lungs, u can read research about the impact of pollutants of the lungs, but if u want to undertand the lungs u will simple learn about the respiratory system.
In fact pappers and research in the hands of most people instead of a tool to reach knowledge leads to a more severe and damaging form of broscience.

the problem here is people only thing in really simple terms about this things and if u try to explain them how the endocrine system works they cannot understand it beyond excerzise testosterone and the papers and webpages they read and missunderstood.

Ur right thoug.
This all the sources u all need:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1259589285/ref=s9_acsd_top_hd_bw_bkg3aF_c_x_3_w?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_r=DHRN87QTJB5AB5Y52959&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=dc7f6090-c807-5092-ab5d-5fb62b4ea1e4&pf_rd_i=689735011

https://www.amazon.com/Endocrinology-Physical-Activity-Sport-Contemporary/dp/1627033130/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525466601&sr=1-3&keywords=endocrine+sports

https://www.amazon.com/Endocrine-System-Sports-Exercise/dp/1405130172/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525466601&sr=1-1&keywords=endocrine+sports
This is where u glearn about endocrine system and sports instead of bathing on broscience covered in facts.

Im tired of people here only knowing about sports and testosterone spreading disinfo because they read an article writing from an scientific paper they failed to understand.