Evidence and Necessity for Biologically Closed Electric Circuits (BCEC) in Healing, Regulation and Oncology

Complex organisms utilize different kinds of circulatory techniques in order to provide the fast reaction times required for immune response, wound healing and various regulatory processes. For instance, the cardiovascular system provides a circulating Biologically Closed Fluid Circuit to transport metabolites, nutrients and immune system cells to the regions where they are needed. However, even with the response time advantages provided by fluid circulation, the capability to transport substances to the exact location where they are needed is much too slow if large complex organisms are limited to diffusion, chemokineses and chemotaxis.

In order to provide fast transport capabilities for substances and mobile cells, and ultimately deliver them to a precise location; additional circulatory pathways are required. The additional circulatory pathways appear to be electrically driven, operating in parallel with circulating fluid transport systems (such as the cardiovascular system). The additional circulatory pathways appear to involve a number of different kinds of Biologically Closed Electric Circuits, operating under the influence of electric fields or voltage gradients, that naturally occur as a result of polarization in cell membranes, metabolic activity, potential differences between organs and physiological structures, tumor growth, inflammation and tissue injury.

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