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We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's
Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
Description :
Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of
bioelectricity&#8212the electric currents that run through our bodies

and every living thing&#8212its misunderstood history, and why
new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance,
cleared arteries, and new ways to combat cancer. You may be
familiar with the idea of our body's biome: the bacterial fauna that
populate our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are
Electric we cross into new scientific understanding: discovering your
body's electrome. Every cell in our bodies&#8212bones, skin,
nerves, muscle&#8212has a voltage, like a tiny battery. It is the
reason our brain can send signals to the rest of our body, how we
develop in the womb, and why our body knows to heal itself from
injury. When bioelectricity goes awry, illness, deformity, and cancer
can result. But if we can control or correct this bioelectricity, the
implications for our health are remarkable: an undo switch for
cancer that could flip malignant cells back into healthy ones the
ability to regenerate cells, organs, even limbs to slow aging and so
much more. The next scientific frontier might be decrypting the
bioelectric code, much the way we did the genetic code. Yet the field
is still emerging from two centuries of skepticism and entanglement
with medical quackery, all stemming from an 18th-century scientific
war about the nature of electricity between Luigi Galvani (father of
bioelectricity, famous for shocking frogs) and Alessandro Volta
(inventor of the battery). In We Are Electric, award-winning science
writer Sally Adee takes readers through the thrilling history of
bioelectricity and into the future: from the Victorian medical
charlatans claiming to use electricity to cure everything from
paralysis to diarrhea, to the advances helped along by the giant
axons of squids, and finally to the brain implants and electric drugs
that await us&#8212and the moral implications therein. The
bioelectric revolution starts here.