Religiously causal, does the moon have any known physiological effects on the human body?

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We still have a few bones at the bottom end of our spine that represent all that is left of a tail that our ancestors haven't had for at least 20 million years. We have an appendix that is the remnant of an organ that hasn't been used by our ancestors for even longer. In the same way, whales and pythons have small bones that represent the hind legs their ancestors once had many millions of years ago; the young hoatzin bird has two claws on each wing that date back to the eons before birds developed full-fledged wings; the horse has thin bones that represent all that is left of two side hooves each leg once had but has no longer. In our own case, we (and other mammals), as embryos, even develop the beginnings of gills that quickly disappear, but that hark back to when our ancestors were sea creatures.





Such vestigial organs are well known and occur in almost all organisms (and represent extremely strong evidence in favor of biological evolution). Why should there not also be vestigial remnants of ancestral biochemical or psychological properties? In particular, why should we not retain some aspects of the old tidal rhythms?





Our complex minds might still sway rhythmically in the half-day and fourteen-day tidal cycles that affected our ancestors so many millions of years ago. This would be unusual and surprising but, nevertheless, rational and believable. To omit the tidal component of the chain of cause and effect, however, and to suppose that our behavior sways with the phases of the Moon is likely to send us on a mystical chase after nothing.|||Yes.





Your weight changes depending upon how close or how far the moon is - due to gravitational pull.





Beyond that, if you are asking about lycanthropy, it is a myth, and according to recent studies, it is apparently a myth about crime going up during full moons as well.|||Actually, yes.


The Full Moon's gravity is known to slightly distort the shape of the brain and uterus.


This is known to increase the number of Mental Health and L%26amp;D patients in ERs (and inpatient admissions) around the world. In nursing homes, the Full Moon has long--and correctly--been credited with causing increased agitation among the residents and staff alike.|||Yes, it has an effect on the menstrual cycle of women, as well as affecting the emotions of more sensitive people, especially those with mental or emotional inbalance.|||As the pull of the moon has great affect on the Earth's ocean tides AND we are made up vastly of water, it only makes sense that the phases of the moon affect us as well.|||Menstruation is tied to cycles of the moon, and there are statistics that show there tend to be more murders/crimes around a full moon.|||Lycanthropy and Menstruation.|||PMS