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What is the cause of magnetic field inside a human body?

The human body magnetism comes from two sources one is magnetism from earth and other is the metabolism within the cells in the body.

In human body small electric current travel along the nerve cells due to ions, same way as electricity flows through the wire. This current produces very weak magnetic field in the human body. Heart and Brain are the two main organs in the human body where this field is significant.


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