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To further explore the topic presented in previous video,
here are several examples of research in the science discipline of heliobiology.
Some are redundant in their verification of the findings made by others
but typically each one has set out to measure additional intricacies of the observed phenomena,
in this case an observed relationship between periods of higher geomagnetic activity
abbreviated as GMA and cardiac behavior in humans.
Along with sharing some of the physiological details,
I hope this snapshot serves to illustrate the range of heliobiology experiments
focused on even just the human heart.
In 2011 an international collaborative effort of three scientific groups
from Athens - Greece, Kosice - Slovakia and Sofia - Bulgaria,
studied influence of GMA on heart rate.
Participating were 4018 aviators of Slovakia.
Heart rate data was taken for various levels of workout intensity
on exercise bikes with different amounts of load for pedalling.
Data was collected for an eight-year period
and compared to geomagnetic activity and cosmic ray intensity.
The results were strong confirmation.
High GMA levels were associated with variations
in arterial diastolic and systolic blood pressure.
The authors describe the curve of their data
in terms of the model of general adaptation syndrome.
The data shows physiological variables reach minimum levels
the days before or during geomagnetic storms.
Then the variables display degree of above normal homeostasis.
Later the participants' bodies show signs of impairment again,
perhaps because compensating for the unusual influence
has expended some biological resources.
In an earlier study of this effect in 2009,
a small team of scientists from Bulgaria's Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory
and Azerbaijan's National Academy of Sciences
coordinated with hospitals and emergency aid stations.
They sought to further test heart attack correlations with geomagnetic storms
and to differentiate some of the finer points of the phenomena.
One set of data included 1192 patients
at a university hospital in Sophia, recorded over 9 years.
Another set included data for 4479 patients
throughout the Baku region over a time frame of only 2.5 years.
Some of the authors later did a focus study
on a small number of people published in 2013.
Participants were kept ignorant of space weather conditions and physiologically tested.
The authors noted how much earlier than geomagnetic storms
some of the repeatable responses were.
And felt that particular perturbations of Earth's ultra-low frequency pulsations
before geomagnetic storms should be scrutinized in future studies.
Just this August, three scientists at Laurentian University in Canada
examined heart rate variability in volunteers in a controlled magnetic environment
mimicking the Earth's geomagnetic pulsations under various conditions.
The results happened to validate that ultra-low frequencies in the GMF specifically,
affect human heart rate variations.
The authors theorized that the magnetic fields tested
may influence the forces that govern potassium ion movement,
affecting cellular resting potentials and action potentials in neurons.
The high-frequency component of heart rate are the small variations
while the low-frequency aspect are the larger
patterns of broader highs and lows across the data.
The Laurentian University experiment also verified an implication from earlier research
that increases in the low-frequency component of heart rate variation
are positively correlated with increased geomagnetic activity.
Some other highly specific and perhaps unexpected queries
about geomagnetic activity effects have been explored out of accident or necessity.
A study at two hospitals in Italy analyzed close to 18,000 blood samples
collected from the placenta umbilical cord from 1999 to 2011.
The blood generally referred to as umbilical cord blood or UCB,
is increasingly used to treat immunologic and hematologic diseases.
But treatment outcomes heavily depend upon its varying amounts
of 3 traits such as its amount of stem cells.
All 3 critical traits of UCB were correlated in some way
with a cyclical influence which appeared to closely match the GMA.
A correlation this study verified.
Stem cell counts in this part of human birthing
are higher during times of moderately increasing geomagnetic activity.
Meanwhile, blood volume in the samples
was inversely correlated with geomagnetic activity.
So perhaps such variation in the pulsing electromagnetic background around us
simply has a slight inhibitory effect
on the transitioning of stem cells and progenitor cells into their final forms.
Or is this a symptom of how pregnancy is affected in less direct ways
by ULF and GMA influences on a person's heart or blood pressure.
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