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There are two kinds of feedback in the control of the body. Negative feedback occurs when a change happens in the body that makes the body beyond it's homeostatic level. Negative feedback reverses those changes and returns the body back to it's normal stage. Positive feedback occurs to temporarily amplify or enforce the change that is occurring. This process causes a number of increases until a signal is sent to the brain to stop the process.

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