Cycles' inheritance from the cosmos

 

Franz Halberg¹, Germaine Cornélissen¹, Vincenzo Valenzi²,

Giancarlo Pantaleoni³, Othild Schwartzkopff¹

 

¹Halberg Chronobiology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

²Centro Studi di Biometeorologia, Scuola di Specializzazione in Idrologia Medica, Università Degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

³Department of Pharmacology and Ethnomedicine, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

 

Endogenicity was clear for some ultradian rhythms, as in the case of the heart in toto and of its cells beating in vitro (1) and for that of circadians, as documented by intra-class correlation coefficients for the MESOR, amplitude and acrophase of heart rate (all P<0.01) of monozygotic human twins reared apart, many of whom met for the first time in Minnesota (2). Our inferential statistical documentation of periods (τs) longer than 28 hours, up to >30 years (3), allows a summary herein of the rules of inheritance of infradian cycles from the cosmos, in the steps of Alexander L. Chizhevsky and Sergei Chibisov in Russia, and Boris Vladimirsky and Victor Martynyuk in Ukraine. For biospheric cycles that mimic those of the cosmos, we formulated and tested by both global and time-varying analyses, the latter illustrated in Figure 1, the following findings:

Rule 1, indispensable but not sufficient, is congruence in τ, not necessarily in phase, documented by overlapping CIs (95% confidence intervals) of infradian τs, in various regions of the spectra from multiseptans up to transtridecadals (3, in Russian).

Rule 2 is a selective assortment of the biospheric-cosmic pairing, e.g., of heart rate with a transtridecadal and blood pressure with a didecadal or other environmental cycle. (By reference to these first two rules, we are influenced by Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment of what became genes.)

Rule 3, a "consistent subtractive and/or additive behavior", was examined when the opportunity arose by subtraction (up to removal) from and/or addition to the transdisciplinary spectrum of an environmental component to determine whether it entailed corresponding changes (damping or amplification or pull of phase) in the biosphere (Figure 3a in 4).

Rule 4 was the genetic coding of the biospheric cycle, revealed by damping, yet persistence, following the removal of an environmental component. This rule validates the long-term occurrence of an environmental cycle to the point that it became genetically coded. Damped persistence of the biospheric cycle is hence a transdisciplinary tool equally pertinent to physics and biology.

The importance of these cycles and their aeolian nature are illustrated in Figure 1. These cycles could gauge environmental pollution, among other local and global problems.

Figure 1. Population chronomics with focus upon cis-half-years, i.e., about 5-month (0.42-year) cycles in the incidence pattern of solar flares (2^nd and bottom rows) and of sudden human cardiac deaths on different continents (rows 5-7). The incidence of solar flares over about 40 years (top row) and of a cis-half-year component (2^nd row) and of two para-annuals (3^rd and 4^th rows) differed in patterns of intermittent significance (5). Note further the different behavior in different geographic regions of putative signatures of the cis-half-year component in sudden human cardiac death (rows 5-7 and footnotes). © Halberg.

 

References

1.Han HW et al. Cell Biophysics 1991; 18: 217-229.

2.Halberg F et al. Chronobiology of human blood pressure. Medtronic Seminar, 1988 (see pp. 26, 27, 27a).

3.Halberg F et al. Geophysical Processes and Biosphere 2009; 8 (2): 13-42. [In Russian with English summary.]

4.Halberg F et al. J Applied Biomedicine 2006; 4: 1-38. http://www.zsf.jcu.cz/vyzkum/jab/4_1/halberg.pdf

5.Cornélissen G et al. In: Halberg F, Kenner T, Fiser B, Siegelova J. (Eds.) Proceedings, Noninvasive Methods in Cardiology, Brno, Czech Republic, July 7-10, 2009. (Dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Prof. Franz Halberg.) p. 159-175. http://web.fnusa.cz/files/kfdr2009/sbornik_2009.pdf

 

 

Fig. 1. Aeolian intermittency of components in and around us. © Halberg.