because we’re all goddamn electric

So true. When I was fresh out of high school, maybe a year and a half into uni for my neuropsych degree, I realized we were all basically robots/cyborgs.. between the brain, the CNS and how we run; calories are a form of energy. The neurotransmitter receptor sites responsible for making us work or triggering other responses in our body that are vital, all have sodium channels or other good conductors of electricity. We need things like iron, calcium, sodium (electrolytes) etc for this purpose.

The neurotransmitter GABA, is supposed to keep this in check (almost like a built-in circuit breaker), so we aren’t seizing all over the place. GABA receptors are literally found throughout the body, even in the gut. It regulates that electricity that keeps us going, that originates from food which is turned into energy.

It’s such a weird thing to think about and realize. All we actually are is our brain, eyes, spinal cord and the rest of the CNS, this is what we actually look like as humans and what’s responsible for making us, us; everything outside of that is a shell to not only protect & embed functions for all of that, but to move and interact with the world, to obtain more fuel and reproduce.

Edit: sry autocorrect