Can a full moon affect the human body?

Well I do know that statistically speaking, there are more births during the full moon than at any other time of the month. Additionally, a friend of mine assures me that the people at her work always act a bit strange on the full moon. However, I doubt it has anything specifically to do with water. Everything on Earth experiences the gravity shift - it's just that water in the ocean is more free to react, being a liquid. My guess is that it's a subconscious reaction to the change in gravity - our bodies do a lot of things without our knowledge.

I cannot give you the why and how... but as a person who works in the psych ward at a hospital, I can tell you that people are definitely more wild and crazy on the night of the full moon (the new moon too). It's all psychological... but it's there. I think it literally affects the mind. Like the tides... shifting the grey matter and making people act so strange. Now, according to the "official" studies, scientists say there is no effect... but ask any nurse... and psych ward personnel, and they'll tell you there is a huge effect. Hope this helped.

I don't know how it happens, but I know it does. I worked 3rd shift in a nursing home for 3 years, and every month during the full moon, things went crazy! The dementia patients acted up a lot more than normal, even the ones who were mentally competent would have some sort of mental issue. I know it was not just coincidence, as it happened every month! It got to the point where I would try to request days off that would fall over the full moon!

Okay I can't give data on this but I work with people with behavior problems and I don't even have to look at a calendar and I can tell you by the craziness of others when a full moon is.

I have a couple friends who are cops too and they say the night shifts they work when there is a full moon is off the wall with stupid people and more fights and idiots than any other non full moon nights.

So there you have it....

There is the idea that as primitive hunter-gatherers, humans used the light of the full moon to hunt by at night, using it to surprise their prey. It's been noticed by some, I don't know how accurately, that humans tend to be more active during the time of a full moon. It may be a latent behavior passed on instintively that during the full moon we are in fact more active.

OK the moon affects tides in the ocean. Have you ever seen tides in a lake? How about a big lake, like lake Superior? No. It is much to small to be affected by the moon, and it is still millions of time bigger than a person.

Whether you see the moon or not / full moon or new moon. It's alwayz there. The only thing a full moon does is allow more light to be shed on the earth at night.

well it has been seen that arthritis patients tend to suffer more during full moon.it may be that just as the full moon affects the waterbodies influencing the tides, it affects the body fluids too, causing enhanced discomfort.

yes it is true, the gravitational pull of moon can really affect our body because 75% of our body is made up of water.

sometimes it makes my hair grow really long all over my body and i find myself howling at the moon in the middle of a corn field