BS: How do we rate biorhythms?

Subject: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: GUEST,Sooz(at work)
Date: 06 May 03 - 08:50 AM

I've never had much time for this sort of thing but at the moment I feel rock bottom emotionally, physically and intellectually. Will I be better by the weekend?

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 06 May 03 - 10:09 AM

Are you 85 years and 99 days old? That's when according to the theory you should have the first (and last) triple low of you life.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: mg
Date: 06 May 03 - 10:12 AM

Maybe get a referral from a doctor to have your hormone levels checked..especially adrenal..diagnostechs in Kent, Washington and Great Smokie Labs are considered good labs I believe. Are you on a low-fat diet perchance? Low-protein? Drink lots of good water....might help. mg

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 06 May 03 - 11:40 AM

Oh no...according to this chart, http://www.facade.com/biorhythm/, I'm supposed to be feeling my best (physically) today. I sure hope the rest of the month isn't worse!

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 May 03 - 11:42 AM

Couple of things, from experience--

For hormone tests of any kind, saliva tests are far more sensitive than blood tests, and can show a range of daily rhythms or longer cycles, depending on the hormone and the test panel used. MDs are just starting to catch on to this, but the tests can be ordered online and mailed back for evaluation.

For a wide range of hormonal imbalances and deficiencies, it is helpful to add pantothenic acid (B5) to other strategies. Six months of this, at daily divided doses totalling 300 - 500 mg, will make a difference and can increase the effectiveness of the other strategies. B5 cannot be eaten in these ranges-- there's just not enough of it in foods. There also is not nearly enough of it in vitamin formulas, even the "high-stress" ones. Many US drugstores do not carry it, but health food stores do, and an affordable supply of the larger caplets can be gotten. Calcium and vitamin D must be present to balance it, so if your diet is deficient in these you would add them. PM me for details on a good vitamin mix.

Lack of sunlight can also be an unspotted problem. Some people are more sensitive to this than others, and our needs also vary at different times in our lives. You can swap out your fluorescent lights at home (or work) for full-spectrum tubes with a 90-CRI rating or higher-- the number refers to how closely it matches the ranges of light in natural sunlight, with 100 being outdoor unfiltered light. You can just put them in any room you spend a fair amount of time in, on a daily basis. I have had these in my kitchen-- wonderful light to work by, and good for you too. A timer will ensure that you are not too foggy to remember to turn them on.

An additional help is water-based exercise therapy. Slow, gentle, mindful movement in warm water (84 - 88 F) at your own pace will do more than you can imagine, and quickly. There are aquatherapy organizations that can help locate pools this warm.

Last, check out the tools described HERE. You can use these without anyone messing with your head, or giving you psych meds you may not need.


Any of these should help, but they are wonderful and powerful in combination.

And do't forget-- MUSIC! :~)

~The Other Sooz

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: Sooz
Date: 06 May 03 - 01:57 PM

Wolfgang - thats how old I feel today!
The other Sooz is quite right I think - I definitely need more music.

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 May 03 - 02:04 PM

By the Time Signature?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: Peg
Date: 06 May 03 - 03:21 PM

hmmm, ALL three of mine are at or near their lowest right now! (Physical just climbing up again, Intellectual heading down a bit more, and Emotional lowest today but will rise again starting in a day or two)

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: Grab
Date: 06 May 03 - 04:27 PM

According to that site, my physical and intellectual abilities should be above-average and on the rise. This on a day when I'm full of flu, ache all over climbing a flight of stairs, and can't think my way out of a paper bag...

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: Sooz
Date: 06 May 03 - 04:49 PM

I've done my aquatherapy (very hot water and lavender bubbles). Now I'm starting on the wine. I checked the site linked by Mary and found that my emotional is still on the way down. Still, by the time it bottoms out in a couple of days the other two will be on their way up.

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 07 May 03 - 11:48 AM

Nice idea, and there might be something in it. But I can't believe everyone has exactly the same precise rhythms through their entire life ... or has the theory moved on since the 70s? I don't see how you can predict where you'll be in any cycle on any day; you'd have to plot whatever indicators there may be over several cycles to find the exact length of each, and you'd have to continue to do it so as not to lose track if any cycle changes its length in the long term.

Is there any scientific (and I mean real science!) support for biorhythms? It's a fair question, I'm not being a smart-arse.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 May 03 - 12:49 PM

Steve,

there is no support at all for this theory. People have looked at accident rates at triple critical days at sports (Olympic champions) successes in relation to physical peaks and all that. The results are devastating. All positive finding have either extremely small samples or gross statistical errors.

Biological rhythms in animals, plants and humans, that is something very different and is taken serious (with good reasons). Yearly rhythms can easily be seen in plants and animals, tide-locked rhythms are well known, human reaction time varies with on which phase of the pulse we are, female hormone level varies with menstrual cycle, the amount of brain activity lateralisation varies in a roughly 4 week rhythm (less so in man).

Biorhythm theory just gives a bad name to a promising field.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: GUEST,Les B.
Date: 07 May 03 - 06:03 PM

All I know is that if I, or my bandmates, have too much caffeine we all tend to speed the beat!

I've never partaken of the funny cigarettes that other musicians seem to like, but when they come back from a "safety" meeting in the parking lot with an illegal grin on their faces they all want to tune their instruments a half-step higher. So is that biorhythm ?? :)

Subject: RE: BS: How do we rate biorhythms?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:01 AM

Sorry - was a bit hasty, wasn't I? Yes, I know about biological rhythms: ones that follow natural cycles, annually or diurnally; or other time spans. It's just the pseudo-scientific Biorhythms-with-a-capital-B that I can't take seriously: at least, not as fixed immutable precise cycles.

I don't mind a bit of tautology though ...

Steve