Our Amazing Human Body: The Equilibrium

The Equilibrium

Have you ever felt dizzy? Why do we can’t be stand after been spinning some time? Where do all this feelings come from? 

Well, all of these sensations are caused by our sense of balance or equilibrioception, which help us to not falls every time we walk or stands, and is the result of the combination of many system of the body working together, but the principally ones are the eyes and the ears. Not many knows that in the mid ear is located the vestibular system, that is made by 3 semicircular canals with a fluid inside and is the responsible of the sensation of the movement. The movement of this fluid is transduced by the brain as mechanical movement and become an electrical signal.

So many mistakes are made by the equilibrioception, when the eyes and the airs said different things, and is because of this you feel dizzy. For example: Why do you get dizzy when you are spinning? In this case the fluid inside the canals keep moving while you are still, so your brain interprets this as you are keep moving, but your eyes  said that you are not, so you get dizzy.