Season's Appreciations 1998, NEL Vol 20, Nos. Neuroendocrinology Letters incl. Chronobiology Laboratories, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 2. Indeed, we may not deal with the sum of these ingredients, but with their product. Here, adverse effects characterizing rhythmic, and to that extent predictable, solar-terrestrial and broader interactions with human pathology as well as morphology and physiology can lead to useful results on terra firma as well.
Results also warrant strategically placed worldwide and extraterrestrial systematic monitoring.
The ECG, or at least heart rate, and blood pressure and as-yet opportunistic metabolic, neural and endocrine studies should become systematic. The biological approach will have to be coordinated with physical monitoring to pick up disease risk syndromes and to develop countermeasures for instrumented self-help for risk reduction in health care. Such pre-habilitation is deemed essential in extraterrestrial space, away from hospitals. Concurrently, a chronobiologic approach can be suggested with respect to the origins and development of life. By that criterion, we should be most productive.