Human body ohmic resistance & stress

Very random question but I am wondering if someone can explain whether or not stress or how we live our daily lives other than whether or not you are physically wet, wearing shoes, gloves etc. will change the human bodies ohmic resistance value?

 

Who’s getting ‘accidentally’ electrocuted?

 

I am aware that each human body has it's own frequency of sorts. Electrical signal you emit, I would fathom to guess that, yes. Stress and other emotional factors may play a part in a fluctuation of that frequency.

 

Acidic saline solution. So drink tequila, lime and a pinch of salt.

 

No one is being accidentally electrocuted. Out of my 14 years working with electricity I have never been lit up once. I have a new business idea and I am trying to hammer out the details.

 

Need an electrocutable test dummy? Totally on purpose only though since none of it the electrocution will be accidental!? @Nunya Bizness, I found you a side gig!

 

It’s been a couple years since I’ve taken physics classes but from what I remember, a higher density conductor will be a better conductor. So, if you’re stressed and tense, you may be slightly more dense if your muscles are more tense. If you’re someone with more muscle mass than say someone with a beer belly, you may be more conductive. If I were to choose a person with the most ohmic resistance, I’d want someone who is dehydrated with a lot of padding and little muscle mass... who is also relaxed and worry free.

 

It could go down to around 300 ohms.

"Skin resistance protects the body from electricity
The body has resistance to current flow. More than 99% of the body's resistance to electric current flow is at the skin. Resistance is measured in ohms. A calloused, dry hand may have more than 100,000 Ω because of a thick outer layer of dead cells in the stratum corneum. The internal body resistance is about 300 Ω, being related to the wet, relatively salty tissues beneath the skin. The skin resistance can be effectively bypassed if there is skin breakdown from high voltage, a cut, a deep abrasion, or immersion in water (Table (Table2).2). The skin acts like an electrical device such as a capacitor in that it allows more current to flow if a voltage is changing rapidly. A rapidly changing voltage will be applied to the palm and fingers of one's hand if it is holding a metal tool that suddenly touches a voltage source. This type of contact will give a much greater current amplitude in the body than would otherwise occur.2"

 

On first pass, I don't think that there is an obvious connection with stress and our "ohmic resistance". That being said, I have also never heard the subject considered.

Stress responses manifest as endocrine signals, like cortisol, which is a fancy way to say that cellular communication at the molecular level responds to stimuli from the environment, both internal and external. The actual composition of our bodies can change along with this, but only to a certain extent. A lot of parameters that are kept in very tight tolerances to maintain normal bodily functions. For example, a drop in calcium levels will result in impaired cardiac, neurological, and muscular function, because these systems rely on the concentration of charged molecules like sodium and calcium to form electrical gradients within the body.

To get a more concrete answer, I would first ask yourself, what is responsible for the ohmic resistance of the body?

Is it water content? Body fat percentage? Bone mineral density?

What extent do changes in each of these factors influence the resistance? For example, is bone density responsible for 50% of our resistance? Can you measure resistance changes in a dehydrated vs. well hydrated state?

Once you have answered these fundamental questions, you can look at the impact the stress or exercise or age has on the various factors, and correlate that to a possible change in resistance. Again, using bone density, as we age our bone density slowly declines. Exercise has a huge benefit on skeletal health.

I do not have any more specific answers for you. If I was you I'd be spending a lot of time searching PubMed articles, or see if there are any folks researching these topics who might be willing to email back and forth.

Good luck.

 

You ever humored those Scientologist goofs with their little meter trick? That's all their meter measures is the electrical resistance of your body. They ask you questions, your blood pressure changes, your grip changes, your resistance changes, the little needle ticks and they tell you you've got ghosts in your blood so give them $50 or something.

 

What type of electrical work do you do? If you tell me you’re making a new electric chair, I wanna help!! Haha.