Allostasis includes predictive or anticipatory adjustment to expected demand.

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Sterling presents allostasis as predictive regulation in which physiological systems adjust in anticipation of expected demand rather than only reacting after change occurs.

This does not establish that every anticipatory bodily adjustment occurs before conscious interpretation, or that all social ambiguity, urgency, or late light is processed through one mechanism.

The public claim stays with predictive regulation. The chapter’s sequence from environmental exposure to interpretation is the Human OS application.

Broad, mature principles of human biology, behavior, or regulation supported across a substantial body of research.

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