Hi, Cameron. I appreciate your attention to detail (as usual ;-) in stipulating the argument. I arrived to a very similar hypothesis, but I never found any research paper that tried to test it. As i feel that mere statisticall correlations are insufficient for supporting any hypotheis, I am curious to learn from your expierndce: are you aware of any research papers that try to stress-test the impact of anthropogenic signals on human health?
Yes, there is little in the way of explicitly testing this type of hypothesis. However, I think the best example is circadian disruption. It is a perfect experiment demonstrating the ‘unyoking’ effects on systems so attuned to natural stimuli. However, in theory it would be relatively simple to demonstrate the presence of coupling effects and could be investigated in many different ways. For example, even rodent models could be used to demonstrate the influence of something like photoperiod or magnetic field differences on the outcomes of different food sources. If significant differences in outcomes occurs between different exposures, that could be viewed as evidence for coupling, a proof of concept. Becker certainly showed that exposure to ELF radiation caused system-wide shifts in metabolism evidenced by elevated triglycerides, for instance. Deuterium depleted water is an anthropogenic signal in some sense too, and it has a significant influence on human health. When you get right down to it, epidemiological research is the study of populations under the influence of anthropogenic, ‘unyoked’ signals. Generally, we see the more incongruent the signals, the worse the health outcomes.
Hi, Cameron. I appreciate your attention to detail (as usual ;-) in stipulating the argument. I arrived to a very similar hypothesis, but I never found any research paper that tried to test it. As i feel that mere statisticall correlations are insufficient for supporting any hypotheis, I am curious to learn from your expierndce: are you aware of any research papers that try to stress-test the impact of anthropogenic signals on human health?
Yes, there is little in the way of explicitly testing this type of hypothesis. However, I think the best example is circadian disruption. It is a perfect experiment demonstrating the ‘unyoking’ effects on systems so attuned to natural stimuli. However, in theory it would be relatively simple to demonstrate the presence of coupling effects and could be investigated in many different ways. For example, even rodent models could be used to demonstrate the influence of something like photoperiod or magnetic field differences on the outcomes of different food sources. If significant differences in outcomes occurs between different exposures, that could be viewed as evidence for coupling, a proof of concept. Becker certainly showed that exposure to ELF radiation caused system-wide shifts in metabolism evidenced by elevated triglycerides, for instance. Deuterium depleted water is an anthropogenic signal in some sense too, and it has a significant influence on human health. When you get right down to it, epidemiological research is the study of populations under the influence of anthropogenic, ‘unyoked’ signals. Generally, we see the more incongruent the signals, the worse the health outcomes.