A few days ago, I watched this short documentary, part of it covered Heliobiology, which the documentary said is an emerging field of science that began in Russia.
The Heliobiologists claimed that magnetic storms caused by solar flares cause all kinds of health problems in humans. Literally every health problem is named, from suicides, to heart attacks, to even terrorist attacks.
After Googling this and looking at some papers, I noticed a few things.
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The papers find correlations between magnetic storms and some kind of negative health effect, and go on to heavily imply or say that negative health effect is caused by the magnetic storms.
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Magnetism is always blamed as the factor causing these negative health effects (not radiation), but the papers don’t go into detail. I saw one saying that since blood is magnetic, magnetic storms can cause heart attacks by disrupting blood flow.
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Most of the papers I read on this mention “Schumann resonances”, and sometimes “pineal gland” crystals.
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Most of the papers are brand new, within the last few years.
It’s idiocy
All these things have their little moment in the sun. This is just about example
Blood is most certainly not magnetic. An MRI would shred you if it was
I thought it had iron in it? I mean you’re right about the MRI, I never thought about it until this thread.
The iron is obviously vital, but it’s not in anywhere near the concentration that people imagine
It’s also iron the ion (it rhymes!) not elemental iron in an appreciably ferromagnetic form
Iron isn’t the only thing that’s affected by magnetism anyway
Not that it applies to biological systems, but liquid oxygen is affected by magnets. It’s pretty cool (well, extremely cold, but ya know… 🥁)