A LABORATORY PROTOCOL ON THE BIOLOGY EXPERIMENT CARRIED OUT AT DAUGAVPILS SECONDARY SCHOOL NO. 3 IN LATVIA

MEASURING OUR BIORHYTHM CYCLES

Experimental procedure

1. Count the number of days you have lived!

2. Calculate a current day for each cycle. (23-day physical cycle, 28-day emotional cycle, and 33-day intellectual cycle).

3. Create your sinusoid for each cycle.

23-DAY PHYSICAL CYCLE

  • Let’s start by calculating a current day for the 23-day cycle.
  • Firstly, determine the number of days that have passed since the day of your birth using “Eternal calendar” on the Internet: 6313
  • Next, divide the number of days lived by 23: 6313:23  =  274,4 – Leave the resulting number in whole, without rounding: 274 – Thus, we get the number of complete lived cycles.
  • Secondly, from the number of days lived, we subtract the multiplication of the resulting number of full lived cycles by 23:  6313 – (274  x 23) = 11 – Thus, we get the number of today’s day from the beginning of the cycle.
  • Then, let’s move on to drawing a graph – creating a sinusoid.
  • Today’s day (November 23) is exactly in the middle of the coordinates. The beginning of my physical cycle is 11 days earlier.
  • To draw the first graph, divide 23 by 4: 23 : 4 = 5.75 (6 + 6 + 6 +5) – Each phase of this cycle lasts 6/5 days.

Thus, we get that from the first day of our cycle in about 6 days the graph will reach its maximum peak, after another 6 days it will cross the axis, after the next 6 days it will reach the smallest value, and finally, after the last 5 days of the cycle, it will cross the axis again, completing one cycle. After that, we can repeat the same cycle.

  • The amplitude of this graph at which the function deviates from the x-axis as much as possible, is also 6.
  • When you have placed all the points, you can draw a graph. Thus, we have created the first sinusoid, which shows your best and worst physical condition on different days.
  • After that, repeat the same steps for 28-day and 33-day cycles.

28-DAY EMOTIONAL CYCLE

  1. 6313 :  28  =  225,46
  2. 6313 – (225  x 28) = 13  – The beginning of this cycle is 13 days earlier than today’s day.
  3. 28 : 4 = 7 (7 + 7 + 7 +7) – Each phase of this cycle lasts 7 days.

33-DAY INTELLECTUAL CYCLE

  1. 6313 :  33  =  191,3
  2. 6313 – (191  x 33) = 10  – The beginning of this cycle is 10 days earlier than today’s day.
  3. 33 : 4 = 8 (8 + 8 + 8 +8) – Each phase of this cycle lasts 8 days.

4. Analyze the obtained results!