Homeostasis Homeostasis is the relatively fixed standard of the human body that can vary from person to person. Which means everyone has their own slightly unique standard. Homeostasis has set points which are the standard for that person to run at their optimal level. The body doesn’t run exactly at the desired set point. It runs in a normal range which fluctuates slightly above and below the set point. The body has two types of feedback mechanisms, negative and positive. In a negative- feedback mechanism when the body moves away from the set point it will compensate in the opposite direction in order to move back toward the set point and settle into its normal range. An example of a negative-feedback mechanism would be when something is
