Life-giving electricity. Did you know this?

Signs of life

You have certainly been to an intensive care unit or at least seen in films how monitors by the bedside beep continuously, showing the signs of life. There are two main parameters to which life can be linked. One is the brain's electrical activity (visible on the EEG curve, i.e. the electroencephalogram), and the other is the heart's electrical activity (visible on the ECG curve, i.e. the electrocardiogram).

It is 100% proven that life is present as long as these electromagnetic waves are detectable and can be displayed. If the electromagnetic activity stops, life leaves with it.

The main signs of life in the human body are electrical in nature.

The brain and the functioning of the human body are based on electricity

It is also proven that your body's functions are regulated by your brain using electrical signals, in which certain chemical substances closely cooperate. In other words, the human body is an electro-chemical operating unit.

The electrical signals between nerve cells are transmitted by chemical substances. Their role can be that of a messenger or an impulse transmitter. Fundamentally, however, the operation is determined by electrical signals both in the peripheral nerve pathways and in the central nervous system.

Any chemical reaction taking place in your body is closely related to electrical activity, you could even say governed by it.

Light, colors, sounds, smells, tastes, temperature, body position, etc., create perception in your brain. What you perceive as reality is nothing other than an extremely complicated and complex "mapping" of electrical activity.

Photons entering your eye, changes in air pressure, taste molecules reaching your tongue, airborne particles entering your nose, the physical contact of any part of your body — all of these are converted into electrical signals. Electricity is the fundamental nature of your brain and body.

Why treat with drugs?

You might rightly wonder: if your body works on electrical principles, why do doctors treat with some form of electricity less often and instead use chemical substances, drugs?

Moreover, it is known that a significant portion of drugs are only symptomatic. It sometimes seems as if the aim is not full recovery. It is enough if a given parameter is modified to the value expected by the treatment protocol.

Why might this be the case? Well... I wrote my opinion about that.

Electrotherapy or drugs

Electricity is an invisible, intangible something for the majority of people. A treatment using such a "thing" is not understandable to many and therefore not acceptable to them.

A medicine in tablet or capsule form, however, is tangible, touchable, smellable, swallowable. You can even feel it as it spreads through the body. Everywhere… even though your prostate or kidney might need treatment, the drug affects your whole body, every cell. A little bit where it is needed. But since your kidney does not even make up 1% of your body mass, 99% of the drug ends up where it shouldn't.

From the above you can already guess that wherever possible I prefer the concept of electrical treatment instead of drugs.

Of course, electrotherapy is not suitable for treating a number of conditions or states (for example infection, traumatic injury), or at least not in the acute phase.

But that's how it is with everything. A spoon is for eating soup, not for carving roast turkey.

Indication is the science! That is, one must know which method is most effective for which disease. In many cases it is a drug, and in many other cases it can be electrotherapy.