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About human electrical energy?
Exactly what type of electrical energy does a human being/animal produce and use, how is this energy measured, and in what units?.
I realize a human heart/muscles can be stimulated through low voltage and low current electrical signal, but is it AC or DC pulsed, at what pulse rate or frequency does the body utilize this power. How close to our naturally generated power is the output of an artificial muscle stimulating device such as a pacemaker or muscle stimulator able to get?
Where might other non-cardiac related nerve impulses tie into all of this, and do they share the same type and source(s) of electrical energy?.
Any input will be appreciated
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
It's the same electricity as everything else makes...... I remember one of our psychology professors saying that the total electricity made by the brain would just begin to light a 40 watt bulb.
If you're interested in this, you have to find an explanation of how nerve spikes are propagated down a nerve fiber - it's astonishing. Can't point you to a book - my knowledge is too old. But any good physiology textbook would have that material. You can get good cheap used textbooks off of Amazon.