Health and planets

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Also sending you a power point presentation by me which covers this issue at leangth.

 

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Rajeev Upadhye

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The science of medical astrology explains the connection between

planetary longitudes and persons healtn. Connection between mental

health/happiness and lunar phases is quite well known. Those who do

not believe astrology may of course treat everything as humbug, but

now doctors are discovering the effects of environment on health.

Here is one such discovery.

 

solar flares could raise strokes

 

Last Updated: 2006-05-22 10:41:22 -0400 (Reuters Health)

 

By Matt Reynolds

 

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (Reuters) - Human beings may be at higher risk

of strokes in years when the explosions on the sun peak, according to

a neurologist who studied the records of 6,100 patients in Slovakia.

 

Dr. Michal Kovac said he found a spike in strokes and brain

hemorrhages in the town of Nove Zamky in southern Slovakia in years

when solar flares -- bursts of energy stronger than a million nuclear

bombs combined -- are most abundant.

 

Kovac says his work, recently published in the Bratislava Medical

Journal, builds on studies that show parts of the human body respond

to fluctuations in the earth's geomagnetic field caused by sun storms.

 

He also found patients suffered fewer strokes when the moon was

farthest from earth.

 

"We see a correlation between the human body and lunar and solar

phenomena, even if we don't know exactly what explains the

connection," he told Reuters.

 

Coronal mass ejections, which peak roughly every 11 years, send hot

gas toward earth that cause radio blackouts and satellite

malfunctions, illuminate skies around the north and south poles and

are believed to impair the navigational ability of pigeons.

 

Despite skepticism from astronomers, Kovac and colleagues in the U.S.

and Japan think fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field caused by

the ejections may disturb the electro-chemical reactions that make

human bodies work.

 

He began his research in the 1980s after observing unexplained

increases in stroke patients on certain days, weeks, months and years.

 

"I'd be getting a lot of patients, and I'd talk to heart doctors and

they'd say the same thing," he said.

 

Solar flares and coronal ejections last peaked in 2000 and 2001,

Kovac said.

 

"That means we have four more years in the cycle," he said with a

sigh. "Then we'll be busy again."