The Systems Physiology Frameworks™
The Systems Physiology Frameworks™ present key principles that influence the investigation, understanding, and application of physiology in clinical reasoning.
Together, these frameworks create a progressive approach to thinking that starts with the basics of cellular physiology, advances through physiological capacity, and culminates in the reasoning that informs each Systems Physiology Case Review™.
Whether you are examining your own health or learning how The Systems Physiology Method™ tackles complex cases, your journey begins here.
The Framework Pathway
Explore them in sequence to build your understanding from foundational physiology to clinical reasoning.
Foundational Frameworks
(Understanding how physiology is built)
Available Now
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Physiological Capacity Frameworks
(Understanding what allows physiology to function)
In Development
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Clinical Reasoning Frameworks
(Learning how physiology guides decisions)
Planned
Each collection builds upon the one before it. Begin with the Foundations, then continue through the pathway as new Frameworks become available.
The principles that everything else is built upon.
Foundational Frameworks
These Frameworks introduce the foundational principles that shape how physiology is understood throughout The Systems Physiology Method™.
The Hierarchy of Cellular Health™
Physiology builds from the cell up.
Discover how cellular functions influence tissues, organs, and body systems, leading to the symptoms we experience.
The Cell Comes Before the Gene™
Genes provide instructions. Cells execute.
Understand genes in the context of living cells; physiology often explains more than genetics alone.
ATP Before SNPs™
Capacity comes before capability.
Explore how ATP supplies energy that enables cells to fulfill their genetic instructions and sustain all systems.
Where biological potential becomes physiological reality.
Physiological Capacity Frameworks
These Frameworks explore the physiological conditions that allow cells, tissues, and body systems to function efficiently. They explain why capacity determines whether biological potential can actually be expressed.
Capacity Comes Before Capability™
Physiological capacity determines biological performance.
Discover why cellular energy, nutrients, oxygen, and physiological reserves determine whether the body can carry out its biological functions.
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Genes Provide Potential. Physiology Determines Performance.™
Genetic potential depends on physiological capacity.
Learn why genetic potential is only expressed when cells have the physiological capacity to read, regulate, and execute those instructions.
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Physiology Determines Strategy™
Strategy should follow physiology.
Discover why understanding physiology changes what comes next.
Learn how physiological patterns guide better decisions, better priorities, and more effective investigations.
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From understanding physiology to guiding strategy.
Clinical Reasoning Frameworks
These Frameworks translate physiological understanding into practical reasoning, helping explain how priorities are identified, strategies are developed, and interventions are sequenced within The Systems Physiology Method™.
Purpose Before Protocol™
Understand before you intervene.
Learn why identifying the purpose of each intervention leads to more thoughtful clinical reasoning than simply following protocols.
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Recovery Is a Sequence, Not a Collection of Isolated Interventions™
Order matters.
Explore why sustainable recovery depends on restoring physiology in the right sequence rather than addressing isolated symptoms.
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Different Questions Lead to Different Discoveries™
Better questions reveal better answers.
Discover how changing the questions we ask uncovers physiological relationships that conventional thinking often overlooks.
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Thinking Like a Systems Physiologist™
Learn to connect the whole picture.
Develop the systems-based reasoning used throughout The Systems Physiology Method™ to recognize patterns instead of chasing isolated findings.
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How to Use the Frameworks
The Frameworks are designed to be explored in sequence, but each can also stand on its own.
Begin with the Foundations to understand how physiology builds from the cell upward. Continue into Physiological Capacity to explore what allows that physiology to function. Clinical Reasoning then shows how those principles guide decisions within The Systems Physiology Method™.
As the library grows, every new Framework will remain connected to this same progression.
From Understanding to Investigation
The Frameworks explain how The Systems Physiology Method™ thinks.
The Systems Physiology Case Review™ applies that thinking to the evidence, patterns, and priorities within an individual case.