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Can the moon influence human health? New research
After decades of skepticism, researchers are uncovering evidence for a subtle influence on sleep, menstruation, and certain mental illnesses.
The results are enough to cast doubt on the long-standing consensus that the moon has no influence on us, as well to investigate how lunar cycles could affect human biology, says Kristin Tessmar-Raible, a chronobiologist at the University of Vienna in Austria, who wasn’t involved in the recent studies. But what de la Iglesia didn’t anticipate was a similar reduction in sleep on those nights in many of the undergraduates in Seattle, a large city where artificial light drowns out moonlight and students often have no idea when the full moon even is. Yet there’s no evidence so far that humans—or any animal for that matter—can detect such minute changes in gravity, says Tessmar-Raible, who is also at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the University of Oldenburg in Germany.
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