> One slightly leftfield possibility is that keeping magnetic fields in symmetry about the axis of your body could affect certain bodily processes. There are tantalising bits of evidence to back this up – in humans, the time it takes to drift into REM sleep and the electrical activity in the brain differs depending on whether we’re facing a north-south direction or an east-west one.
I hadn't heard about this before but this sounds interesting. I wonder much of an effect it has on sleep.
For the ancient philosophy of vastu shastra humans should sleep with their heads at south and feet towards north for best alignment with earth magnetic forces...
Maybe related: “Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields disrupt magnetic alignment of ruminants” (https://www.pnas.org/content/106/14/5708) from PNAS in 2009.
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More than 10 years later, does science work? Or is it broken?
This is not a small thing, if it was real, which seems unlikely, perhaps there's similar in humans....
I hadn't heard about this before but this sounds interesting. I wonder much of an effect it has on sleep.
https://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2011/02/are-cows-magnetic-sen...
Also - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jo...
Science for the partial fail, partial win.
It was disproved but it still gets News'ed as fact and cited as fact.