Human Physiological Effects of Weather and Earth Environment

[Turtle]

Aint this somethin'. :shrug:

 

 

 

 

Does the Earth's magnetic field cause suicides?

Many animals can sense the Earth's magnetic field, so why not people, asks Oleg Shumilov of the Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems in Russia.

 

Shumilov looked at activity in the Earth's geomagnetic field from 1948 to 1997 and found that it grouped into three seasonal peaks every year: one from March to May, another in July and the last in October.

 

Surprisingly, he also found that the geomagnetism peaks matched up with peaks in the number of suicides in the northern Russian city of Kirovsk over the same period.

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Psychiatrists too have noticed a correlation between geomagnetic activity and suicide rates. A review of 13 years of South African data on suicides and magnetic storms in South African Psychiatry Review, vol. 6 p. 24) suggested a link.

 

Geomagnetic storms – periods of high geomagnetic activity caused by large solar flares – have also been linked to clinical depression.

Does the Earth's magnetic field cause suicides? - health - 24 April 2008 - New Scientist

[Michaelangelica]

Teacher friends say kids go nuts as a storm is building up

When the storm "breaks" and it starts to rain they calm down.

 

It would be interesting to look at homicide rates with weather as a variable.

 

When a storm is building up there are lots of positive ions in the atmosphere. When water falls it creates negative (relaxing) ions.

That is why it is so peaceful near a small waterfall or bubbling creek.

 

You can buy "negative ion generators" which are reputed to help all sorts of problems including asthma. Or just get yourself an indoor waterfall.