K, so, for whatever reason, this decade has been popular for articles from seemingly scientific sources saying that geomagnetic storms are causing negative health effects on the body, through magnetic field fluctuations. I looked it up…and during the most extreme geomagnetic storms, Earth’s magnetic field fluctuates at a rate of about 500 nanotesla per minute. Is that rate of change enough to induce enough of a current that it acts as a cellular stressor?

edit: I was reading through a Reddit thread earlier where ER staff mentioned how during geomagnetic storms the ER is unusually busy and how their hospital is considering installing magnetic field detecting devices so they can plan accordingly…?

  • ElChinchilla@lemmy.world
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    Not going to pretend I have looked into this whatsoever, but just consider the forces you are evaluating here. Planetary magnetism and solar ionization. You are a critter on a planet that came from other critters that came from other critters that came from a crit (single cell joke) and all those things were all subjected to these forces for hundreds of millions of years. Planet itself going on 5 billion years. Aside from that pesky moon slamming into us, and that one time all the blizzards (bird lizards) got annihilated, pretty okay place in the universe to be alive on.

    Whatever sources you are diving into are probably not worth your mental effort. Maybe use a bamboo toothbrush and less plastic or something else manageable.