Biological rhythms in physical, emotional and intellectual states in humans are discussed. Both popular and scientific views of biorhythms are given and compared. The popular view is found to be inconsistent with scientifically-collected data. Data on real biological cycles and examples of individual biorhythms are given. The significance of accepting and using biorhythmic phenomena is briefly discussed.
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