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Everyone knows that electricity powers machines, much less is known that the same can be said about ourselves. The ability to read and understand what is written, to see and hear, to think and speak, to move arms and legs, and even to be aware of one's own "I" is due to the electrical activity of cells, which is initiated by ion channels. They regulate our life processes from the moment of conception to the last breath. This book is almost a detective story dedicated to a special kind of protein matter, the ion channel. She provides answers to many questions. What happens during a heart attack? Can you really die of fear? Why can an electric eel give you an electric shock? How do poisons affect the body? What does Botox really do? What saved James Bond when he was poisoned? Why eat fugu? Why do red and yellow tones predominate in the later paintings of Claude Monet? Is love really a chemical phenomenon?