does the human body generate electicity or contain electricity?

The body generates an electrical current by changing chemical concentrations in and around the nerves.

Basically, when a nerve signal is sent, potassium ions flood out of nerve cells and sodium ions flood in. Both of these ions have slightly different charges and so the difference in concentrations inside and outside the nerve cell of the ions means that a charge is created inside the nerve cell.

Don't be mistaken by what other people may say:

Static is not generated by the body, but simply by things passing over the skin. This knocks electrons from whatever brushes against the skin, or even from the skin. These electrons build up until there is a great enough charge for them to discharge across to something else... which we see as a spark.

Magnets do not affect the electrical currents within the body. I am unsure of exactly how magnets create a current in a wire (I know it requires rotation and is due to the magnetic field, but it has been a few years since I took A level physics!) and so won't even pretend to know.

Electricity And The Human Body

Magnetic fields interact with the structure of human body cells to cause changes to the processing of proteins, hormones and enzymes. The changes are caused by the effect the magnetic field has on the outer layer of a cell, which is a double layer of molecules with complex molecules sandwiched in this double layer. It is understood that some of these complex molecules serve as channels that help the transfer, across cell walls, of material. This is all at molecular level but each minuscule effect adds up. It seems that magnetic influence in the human body is by two different physical effects, by directly affecting the alignment of molecules and by electro-magnetic induction within cell structures. Electromagnetic induction is the process by which electricity is generated when a magnet is moved within a coil of wire a small electric current is generated within that wire. The energy from the magnetic field causing vibration of electrons within the wire and this is electricity.

Every time you think, tiny amounts of electricity are produced. The best ways for people to make electricity are to pedal a generator, have the new piezoelectric generators in the soles of your shoes or use a wind-up device (you've seen them on torches and radios). For doing it with no tools, you can rub your super clean hair in a dry environment and produce a lot of static, but static isn't easy to use.

Absolutely! You must have sometimes come across the build-up of static,like when you take off certain clothes(specially silk,or nylon & similar fabrics),& you feel a little 'crackle'?.....in front of a mirror in the dark,you could even see sparks!

Also,the nervous system,& the brain in particular,generate an

enormous amount all the time,even while you sleep,plus,the

more you use your brain,the more it generates,so get using,&

maybe one day,when we learn how,you could supply your own

& then no more bills to worry about!

Yes

Yes, the brain is using a series of electro impulses to make thoughts

Both. The brain is an electro-chemical organ.

They say that one person can light up a whole city for a week.

generates.

If you get an overload, you spark static.