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Reasonable Accommodation Mandate

Meaning

The Reasonable Accommodation Mandate, when conceptualized within human physiology, refers to the body’s intrinsic, non-negotiable requirement for its core regulatory systems to adjust their baseline function in response to chronic, unmitigated stressors or significant biological changes like aging. This physiological mandate forces the endocrine system to find a new, albeit often sub-optimal, equilibrium to sustain life functions, representing an allostatic adaptation. Clinically, recognizing this mandate means understanding that symptoms like fatigue or metabolic changes are often the body’s necessary ‘accommodation’ to an underlying systemic burden. Our work focuses on reversing the need for this accommodation by removing the chronic stressor.