Sep 17, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
Your body is generating electricity right now. Every heartbeat, every movement, and every signal traveling through your nervous system depends on electrical activity. But the electrical story of the…
Henry HawkHost
There is something happening inside of you right now you probably haven't thought about all day.
And even the individual cells that make up your skin, your organs, your bones, and your tissues maintain tiny electrical differences across their membranes.
Because when most of us learned about electricity in the human body, we probably learned about two places, the brain and the heart.
Over the last several decades, scientists have been exploring something much stranger.
They are involved in healing, development, regeneration, and even in helping enormous communities of cells coordinate something we rarely stop to think about.
What shape is a body supposed to be? And that question is much more mysterious than it sounds.
Somehow individual cells cooperate to create something much larger than themselves.
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There is something happening inside of you right now you probably haven't thought about all day.
And even the individual cells that make up your skin, your organs, your bones, and your tissues maintain tiny electrical differences across their membranes.
Because when most of us learned about electricity in the human body, we probably learned about two places, the brain and the heart.
Over the last several decades, scientists have been exploring something much stranger.
They are involved in healing, development, regeneration, and even in helping enormous communities of cells coordinate something we rarely stop to think about.
What shape is a body supposed to be? And that question is much more mysterious than it sounds.
Somehow individual cells cooperate to create something much larger than themselves.
