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RE: Understanding Electricity in the Human Body

in #science6 years ago

This was an excellent article as always @dysfunctional! I especially found it interesting the part about consciousness being like an electromagnetic field. Quite hard to prove, but well worth further reading nonetheless.

stated that the human body does not produce electricity

If that were the case then how do we manage to move our bodies at will? I would have asked him this question but in a private way of course.

Cheers mate.

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So coming from someone that deals with electricity, generally electricity is considered the phenomena associated the the presence and motion of electric charges. Anyways for electricity to flow and be produced there needs to be a non-0 net charge in motion, however (I may be incorrect here) when a nerve fires it moves relatively charged ions in and out of the neurons but ultimately has a net 0 motion of charge... As in there are an equal number of positive and negative charges in motion, and things are only truly charged relative to each other. The transfer of energy (at least from a high school biology class) is caused by using energy (ATP) to actively transport ions against the diffusion gradient and when the nerve "fires" it allows everything to passively diffuse to equilibrium.

Thus there is a relative voltage and charge differential but it is not electricity in some sense.

Now I can be completely wrong here (only taken high school biology) but this would be how I would attempt to formulate an argument to support a stance of "the human body doesn't produce electricity."

However, that being said there are actual non-0 charge transfers in the human body (aerobic respiration for example, aka krebs cycle) and thus uses a chemical potential to generate an electric current. But shhhh

The theory about the em of the brain being our consciousness is interesting but quite a long shot, I agree. It's worth to think about it anyway :)

Thanks for reading and supporting! I will catch up with your blog later!

Cheers!