Fractal Stochastic Electromagnetic Background as a Factor Stabilizing Processes of Vital Activity

Abstract

The linkage between functional status of living systems and scale organization of environmental low-frequency fluctuations is studied and shown to be possible only for influences transferring biologically significant information. Fundamental relict form of such influences is background weak energy electromagnetic field. It is demonstrated experimentally that physiologically normal state is supported by scale-invariant (fractal) electromagnetic fluctuations with 1/f spectrum, which have pronounced stabilizing effect on homeostasis and can act as a powerful therapeutic agent. On the contrary, distortion of fractal structure of the background, i.e., during geomagnetic storms, is a destabilizing and pathogenic factor. Primary response of living systems to fractal electromagnetic background appears as restoration and support of self-similarity of endogenic low-frequency fluctuations. Vitally important interaction of living systems with fractal fluctuations of non-living environment is called fractal stochastic coupling.

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