The Spark of Life – The Electron
Spark of life revisited thanks to electric bacteria
IN 1786, a student of Luigi Galvani’s at the University of Bologna, Italy, was startled to find that a dead frog’s leg kicked when he touched a scalpel to its sciatic nerve. Galvani worked out that the metallic implement had been charged with static electricity, which he took to be the agent that activated muscles in living animals.
This idea – which Galvani termed “animal electricity” – went on to become highly influential. Most famously, Mary Shelley wondered if electricity could be used to reanimate the dead (though the lightning-bolt scene familiar from the Frankenstein movie didn’t actually feature in Shelley’s novel).
We’ve long known that cells use ions dissolved in water to carry out a huge range of functions, from animating our brains to powering our bodies. Now we have found bacteria in the ground that eat electrons from minerals directly, and pass them back out, without the need for the sugars or oxygen that most life forms use to mediate the process (see “ Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy “).
These bacteria seem to come in many varieties. There might even be some among the teeming bacterial hordes in your gut. And their discovery means we are on the verge of finding out just how little electricity fundamental life requires.
Two hundred and twenty-eight years later, we are still feeling the kick of that frog’s leg.
According to Dr. Robert O. Young of the pH Miracle Center, “the human body runs on electrons NOT calories, carbohydrates, proteins or fats.  The body will extract the electrons from rocks, sun, food and water to obtain the electrical energy it needs to live.  The human body is electrical and its waste products are chemical acids if not eliminated will slow us down and eventually kill us.”
To learn more read the following articles:
http://blog.phoreveryoung.com/2015/08/16/ your-body-is-e…protein-or-fat /
This article appeared in print under the headline “Spark of life revisited”
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