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Question on the human body compared to an electromagnetic device

Richard Hall rhall at uvi.edu
Thu Jan 21 07:04:10 EST 1999


I love these interesting tidbits and would like to know the original source
or at least how the figure of 100 amperes was calculated and the
assumptions made.  Our electron transport systems generate 100 amps current
in producing the 2-4,000 Kcal of "our daily ATP"?  Please elaborate.

rlh

At 10:06 PM -0500 1/20/99, Richard Norman wrote:

In all cells that metabolize aerobically (i.e., most all except red
blood cells)
the mitochondria have an electron transport system that constantly pump
a totality of some 100 amperes of current (totalled over all the cells
of
the body).  This tends to be "DC", and the mitochondria are arranged
in a random fashion so any fields will cancel out.  I have never heard
of
any physical phenomena associated with this type of electrical current.
Richard Hall
Comparative Animal Physiologist
Division of Sciences and Mathematics
University of the Virgin Islands
St. Thomas, USVI  00802

809-693-1386
rhall at uvi.edu



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