The idea of a human
body submitted to rhythms goes back to
ancient times.
Biologists now explain
that the different cells of the human body
are periodically replaced, each category
according to its own cycle and the whole
human body taking 7 years to totally
regenerate (apart from the nervous cells).
When they combined all
the rhythms to which we are subjected (life
and death of the cells, planetary cycles),
some researchers found, with a lot of
statistics, that they could sum up everything
with 3 periodic curves... A little
simplistic, but interesting.
That's how, at the
beginning of the twentieth century, German
and Austrian doctors highlighted:
- a physical
cycle of 23 days,
- an emotional
cycle of 28 days,
- and an intellectualcycle
of 33 days.
Since then, many
statistics seem to show that accidents occur
during critical days, that is to say (see
below), when one of the three cycles changes
phase.
In the sixties,
American people were interested in it and
hospitals, the army, firms started to use
biorhythms a lot in order to reduce the
number of accidents. Success was phenomenal
in Japan too.
In the eighties,
biorhythms were used a great deal by firms
and the sports world.
Their success was linked to the idea of
putting into an equation the individual,
defined from his/her birth by three little
periodic curves. It is not very different
from having recourse to astrology, but it
seems so much more scientific...
