Synchronization of Human Autonomic Nervous System Rhythms with Geomagnetic Activity in Human Subjects

Rollin McCraty, Mike Atkinson, Viktor Stolc, Abdullah A. Alabdulgader, Alfonsas Vainoras and Minvydas Ragulskis
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Rollin McCraty: HeartMath Institute, Boulder Creek, CA 95006, USA
Mike Atkinson: HeartMath Institute, Boulder Creek, CA 95006, USA
Viktor Stolc: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
Abdullah A. Alabdulgader: Director of Research and Scientific Bio-Computing, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Alhasa, Hofuf 31982, Saudi Arabia
Alfonsas Vainoras: Cardiology Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas 44307, Lithuania
Minvydas Ragulskis: Department of Mathematical Modelling, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas 51368, Lithuania

IJERPH, 2017, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: A coupling between geomagnetic activity and the human nervous system’s function was identified by virtue of continuous monitoring of heart rate variability (HRV) and the time-varying geomagnetic field over a 31-day period in a group of 10 individuals who went about their normal day-to-day lives. A time series correlation analysis identified a response of the group’s autonomic nervous systems to various dynamic changes in the solar, cosmic ray, and ambient magnetic field. Correlation coefficients and p values were calculated between the HRV variables and environmental measures during three distinct time periods of environmental activity. There were significant correlations between the group’s HRV and solar wind speed, Kp, Ap, solar radio flux, cosmic ray counts, Schumann resonance power, and the total variations in the magnetic field. In addition, the time series data were time synchronized and normalized, after which all circadian rhythms were removed. It was found that the participants’ HRV rhythms synchronized across the 31-day period at a period of approximately 2.5 days, even though all participants were in separate locations. Overall, this suggests that daily autonomic nervous system activity not only responds to changes in solar and geomagnetic activity, but is synchronized with the time-varying magnetic fields associated with geomagnetic field-line resonances and Schumann resonances.

Keywords: heliobiology; geomagnetic field; HRV; Schumann resonance; heart rate variability; solar wind; ANS; autonomic nervous system; cosmic rays; solar radio flux (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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