Magnetic Fields and the Body: What We Carry, What We Can’t See

8-27-2025

By Dr. Howard Friedman MD | Veteran | U.S. Army Medical Corps | Internal Medicine | HHOM LLC

The body as an electric field—pulsing, resonant, unseen. We live within Earth’s magnetic cocoon, where every cell hums with charge and every heartbeat writes its own current.

A pulse unseen, yet it holds me near,

The Earth’s own song, a field so clear.

My heart beats out its electric hymn,

Cells vibrate, tuned from deep within.

Invisible currents, yet always in play—

Guiding the body, night and day.

---Dr. Howard Friedman M.D.

Thesis

Humans are electric beings. Every thought, every movement, every heartbeat is a dance of ions and charges. Beyond our skin, we exist in relationship with the greater field of the Earth—a magnetic cocoon we rarely acknowledge, yet one that may influence sleep, mood, healing, and even disease. What we carry, and what we can’t see, may be central to the way health truly works.

Introduction – The Unseen Web

Modern medicine is built on chemistry: hormones, neurotransmitters, medications. But beneath chemistry lies electricity. Nerves fire because of electrical gradients. Muscles contract through ion shifts. Healing itself often begins with electrical signals guiding repair. We are not only chemical—we are vibratory, magnetic, and electric. This is the essence of Magnetic Fields and the Body. We live on a planet that is also electric and magnetic.

The healthcare system tends to define itself by disease and treatment. Yet the human body is more detailed—and more hidden—than pills and procedures can explain. If every cell in the body runs on electric charge, why do we measure only chemistry and not current? Could harnessing our own electricity become the next frontier of medicine?

Some therapies already attempt to realign vibration—tuning forks, sound resonance, electromagnetic stimulation. And beyond us lies the great magnetic field of the Earth itself. What invisible forces shape our biology? What unseen currents affect our health?

We like to believe our science is advanced, but perhaps the deeper truth is that we have only begun to ask the right questions. The answers may lie not in what medicine has already measured, but in the quiet truth of what we have always been: electric beings in a magnetic world.

Humans as Electric Beings

Every living cell carries a voltage—a fragile tension of ions straddling its membrane. This bioelectric code is not background chatter; it is the primary language of life. It directs embryonic growth, orchestrates wound healing, and sustains the unbroken rhythm that keeps us alive.

The heart itself is not just a pump but an electrical engine, producing an electromagnetic field that can be measured beyond the chest wall. The brain, too, is a symphony of currents: alpha, beta, theta, delta—waves that rise and fall with thought, memory, and emotion. Long before we spoke or reasoned, we pulsed with these invisible currents.

Yet despite this foundation, medicine treats electricity as an afterthought. Defibrillators and pacemakers are miracles, but what of subtler therapies? Could electricity be harnessed not just to restart the heart, but to restore pain circuits, reduce inflammation, or even reveal when the body’s voltage is depleted and in need of replenishment?

As a physician, I find this silence in science frustrating. We search the microbiome for answers, convinced the gut is key, yet we leave unexplored the currents that animate the gut’s very motion. We speak of health as chemical, but health may be electrical as well. We are in the dark about electric therapies—perhaps because the light they promise has not yet been switched on.

Vibration and Resonance

If electricity is the current of life, vibration is its music. Every living cell not only carries voltage but also hums with frequency, like strings in a vast biological instrument. Yet this principle is not confined to life. Physics reminds us that everything vibrates—even what seems still. The desk beneath this computer, the chair supporting my body, the walls around me—all are buzzing with atomic motion. Atoms never rest; their electrons swirl, their nuclei pulse, and their bonds tremble with energy. What appears solid is, in truth, vibration held in form.

The body, too, resonates. The heart entrains rhythm with breath, the brain fires in wave patterns, and even bones carry frequencies that can be measured. Resonance is the bridge between matter and experience. Music can slow the pulse or lift the spirit. Silence can calm the nervous system. Ultrasound, already in use as therapy, heals by vibration, not by chemistry. Chant, prayer, and song alter states of consciousness through resonance alone.

Dis-ease may be seen as discord—cells out of rhythm, organs out of harmony. Healing, then, becomes less about adding chemicals and more about retuning the instrument. To restore resonance is to restore health, just as a string drawn back into tune restores the song.

We live in a universe built on frequency. To be human is to vibrate within it—sometimes in harmony, sometimes in conflict. The medicine of the future may not be about fighting disease with louder tools, but about listening more deeply, and learning how to bring the body back into tune.

Earth’s Magnetic Field and Us

The Earth’s geomagnetic field is more than a shield against cosmic radiation—it is an invisible tide that touches all living things. Our bodies run on patterns: hormones rise and fall, cells repair at night, alertness sharpens with morning light. These circadian rhythms are not random. They are tuned, in part, to the magnetic field of the planet itself.

Life moves in cycles—daily, weekly, monthly—many of them beneath our awareness. Animals seem clued in to these invisible patterns. Birds and insects migrate with uncanny precision, guided by magnetic sensing still poorly understood. Whales and turtles cross oceans with nothing but the Earth’s field as compass. And we, though less conscious of it, are not exempt.

Studies suggest that geomagnetic storms—sudden surges of solar particles colliding with the Earth’s field—can disrupt sleep, alter mood, and even affect heart health. If the magnetic field wavers, so too do the delicate currents of our biology.

The question is: how do we reconnect with this field we no longer feel? Perhaps it begins with something simple—walking barefoot on soil, letting the body touch the ground it has been insulated from. Perhaps it is about stepping out of the constant noise and remembering that the Earth itself hums with a rhythm that can restore calm, restore sleep, restore alignment with the cycles written into our DNA.

What We Carry

Our bodies do not exist in isolation. Each of us carries a personal biofield—an electromagnetic signature born from the currents of our cells and the rhythms of our heart and brain. This field does not stop at the skin. It extends outward, overlapping with the greater field of the Earth itself.

Invisible does not mean irrelevant. Subtle forces often shape resilience or vulnerability long before symptoms appear. Stress, trauma, and illness can leave discordant vibrations imprinted in the body, bending us out of tune. Yet the same body holds the power to retune itself—through alignment with natural rhythms, stillness, connection, and care.

Medicine is only beginning to rediscover what ancient traditions already intuited: health is not chemistry alone. It is also current. It is vibration, resonance, and the quiet relationship between our inner field and the larger field we live within. To heal is not just to add, but to harmonize—bringing the seen and unseen back into balance.

Conclusion – The Bigger Picture

To see ourselves only as chemical is to miss half the truth. We are open circuits in a living web, electric bodies inside a magnetic planet. This perspective doesn’t negate science; it deepens it. Invisible forces—electricity, vibration, magnetism—may be as important to healing as any prescription. In silence, in grounding, in resonance, we reconnect to the fields that sustain us.

And yet there is one more truth. Electricity is energy, and energy is never created or destroyed—it only changes form. That means the current flowing through us today is not new. It is as old as the universe itself. The spark that fires our cells is the same spark that ignited the stars. To be human, then, is not only to be chemical, vibratory, and magnetic—it is to be eternal.

The current flows, unseen yet near,

A silent force we all revere.

Magnet and body—always here.

The current within me was born with the stars,

An ancient spark carried through time’s scars.

Energy eternal—this is who we are.

—Dr. Howard Friedman MD

Board-Certified | Internal Medicine | Veteran | U.S. Army Medical Corps

Founder of Howard’s House of Medicine (HHOM LLC)

https://www.hhomllc.com

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: If the body already runs on electricity, why don’t doctors measure it more often?

A: Medicine has focused heavily on chemistry—blood tests, hormone levels, and drug interactions—because these are easier to quantify. But electricity is just as fundamental. Every heartbeat, brain wave, and nerve signal is electrical. The tools exist—like EEGs, EKGs, and biofield imaging—but they are mostly used for diagnosis, not prevention or healing. The future may bring a shift where bioelectric health becomes a standard part of care.

Q: Can the Earth’s magnetic field really affect human health?

A: Yes, research suggests it can. Just as animals migrate using magnetic cues, our biology seems tuned to geomagnetic rhythms. Disruptions—like solar storms—have been linked to sleep changes, mood shifts, and even cardiovascular stress. While the science is still developing, it’s clear we are not separate from the Earth’s field. The challenge is learning how to stay in alignment with it rather than cut off from it.

Q: What can I do to reconnect with my own electrical and magnetic balance?

A: Start small. Grounding practices like walking barefoot on natural earth can restore electrical balance. Deep breathing and meditation calm the nervous system’s currents. Exposure to natural light helps reset circadian rhythms tied to the Earth’s cycles. Even music, prayer, or silence can retune vibration. These aren’t mystical—they are ways of harmonizing your biofield with the greater field around you.