• Earthing aka Grounding

    https://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...el-better.aspx

    Do you notice you feel better when you walk barefoot on the Earth? Recent research has explained why this happens.

    Your immune system functions optimally when your body has an adequate supply of electrons, which are easily and naturally obtained by barefoot contact with the Earth.

    Research indicates that electrons from the Earth have antioxidant effects that can protect your body from inflammation and its many well-documented health consequences. For most of our evolutionary history, humans have had continuous contact with the Earth.

    It is only recently that substances such as asphalt, wood, rugs, and plastics have separated us from this contact.
    It is known that the Earth maintains a negative electrical potential on its surface. When you are in direct contact with the ground (walking, sitting, or laying down on the earth's surface) the earth's electrons are conducted to your body, bringing it to the same electrical potential as the earth. Living in direct contact with the earth grounds your body, inducing favorable physiological and electrophysiological changes that promote optimum health.

    There is an emerging science documenting how conductive contact with the Earth, which has is also known as Earthing or grounding, is highly beneficial to your health and completely safe. Earthing appears to minimize the consequences of exposure to potentially disruptive fields like "electromagnetic pollution" or "dirty electricity."

    Some of the recent evidence supporting this approach involves multiple studies documenting Earthing's improvement in blood viscosity, heart rate variability, inflammation, cortisol dynamics, sleep, autonomic nervous system (ANS) balance, and reduced effects of stress.

    I used a "make a plug" and only attached a wire to the ground post and stripped enough wire to make a "ring" or "bracelet" on the other end for when I am sitting around or sleeping.

    Note: Do not touch a live wire if you are grounding with a homemade wire or you are toast. Online products you can buy have resistors in them that prevent you from being at risk.


    Lance Armstrong's Tour de France team would ground overnight to improve their physical performance and heal from road rash injuries faster. Time link to before and after photos of 5 day old injury.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icZIZ5UUoOE&t=2m17s

    Double the yield in grounded potted jalepeno plants. Done in a study by Brown University.
    https://browntia.files.wordpress.com...iam-gasner.pdf

    Evidently it thins your blood and circulation is improved.
    https://file.scirp.org/pdf/JCDSA_2014111211461709.pdf

    Good little documentary (15 minutes) with Dr. Mercola.

    Dr. Mercola has said that he grounds for 95% of the day.



    Lots of good studies: https://www.groundology.co.uk/scientific-research


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    1. JoshLowry's Avatar
      JoshLowry -
      Lots of good studies: https://www.groundology.co.uk/scientific-research

      Pretty fascinating stuff. I've been grounding for about 5 or 6 weeks. Improved mood, less inflammation, and less pain in joints.

      I recently got a deep gash on my hand. After 24 hours it had sealed up completely and there was zero pain when pressing on the site of injury.

      Z e r o.


      Lance Armstrong's Tour de France team would ground overnight to improve their physical performance and heal from road rash injuries faster. Time link to before and after photos of 5 day old injury.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icZIZ5UUoOE&t=2m17s

      Double the yield in grounded potted jalepeno plants. Done in a study by Brown University.
      https://browntia.files.wordpress.com...iam-gasner.pdf

      Evidently it thins your blood and circulation is improved.
      https://file.scirp.org/pdf/JCDSA_2014111211461709.pdf

      Good little documentary (15 minutes) with Dr. Mercola.

      Dr. Mercola has said that he grounds for 95% of the day.

    1. Working Poor's Avatar
      Working Poor -
      I hate shoes and am almost always barefooted. I have a special earthing patch of grass that I walk in and do my 5 rites almost every morning including in winter.
    1. PursuePeace's Avatar
      PursuePeace -
      Wow, I didn't realize all of the benefits of grounding. I just always did it for the calming effect it has on me.
      Very interesting stuff!
    1. JoshLowry's Avatar
      JoshLowry -
      Quote Originally Posted by Working Poor View Post
      I hate shoes and am almost always barefooted. I have a special earthing patch of grass that I walk in and do my 5 rites almost every morning including in winter.
      You can ground overnight and essentially fight inflammation for 7-8 hours of the day.

      Silver threaded sheets plug into your electrical outlet. It sounds nuts, but got my mom an earthing sheet and after 3 days her hip pain disappeared.
    1. Danke's Avatar
      Danke -
      I have better luck using 240 volt outlets over 120 volt ones.
    1. JoshLowry's Avatar
      JoshLowry -
      Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
      I have better luck using 240 volt outlets over 120 volt ones.
      Not sure if serious because Danke.

      However, I have read some people who run a grounding rod directly to ground have reported a better feeling compared to grounding in an outlet.

      I want to say when I sit outside with feet on ground it feels better than when I ground overnight. Not sure tho...
    1. Working Poor's Avatar
      Working Poor -
      Quote Originally Posted by JoshLowry View Post
      You can ground overnight and essentially fight inflammation for 7-8 hours of the day.

      Silver threaded sheets plug into your electrical outlet. It sounds nuts, but got my mom an earthing sheet and after 3 days her hip pain disappeared.
      I have been earthing most of my life. I broke my neck when I was a child and I totally believe earthing kept me from becoming disabled. As I said I am just about always barefooted. I have very few aches and pains for someone my age and for as many broken bones as I have had. I am way too cheap to buy a sheet that cost over a hundred dollars.
    1. JoshLowry's Avatar
      JoshLowry -
      Quote Originally Posted by Working Poor View Post
      I have been earthing most of my life. I broke my neck when I was a child and I totally believe earthing kept me from becoming disabled. As I said I am just about always barefooted. I have very few aches and pains for someone my age and for as many broken bones as I have had. I am way too cheap to buy a sheet that cost over a hundred dollars.
      More anecdotal evidence...


      You can get a small one for $40.
      https://www.amazon.com/Earthing-Grou...dp/B07KQ1SYXX/
    1. oyarde's Avatar
      oyarde -
      Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
      I have better luck using 240 volt outlets over 120 volt ones.
      My Tens unit just runs on cheap ass dollar store batteries but they do not last very long .
    1. TheTexan's Avatar
      TheTexan -
      I just use a box with dirt in it, dip my feet on it while watching tv.

      The health and mood effects really are quite extraordinary
    1. Danke's Avatar
      Danke -
      Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
      My Tens unit just runs on cheap ass dollar store batteries but they do not last very long .
      Most grounders (earthingers?) don't have the health beneficial luxury of sleeping on a dirt floor in a tent on a reservation as you.
    1. Swordsmyth's Avatar
      Swordsmyth -
      Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
      Most grounders (earthingers?)
      Earthers? Earthlings? (your alien friends may use that to refer to all humans though)
    1. DamianTV's Avatar
      DamianTV -
      Walking is also a great treatment for Plantar fasciitis since we are not meant to walk on nothing but perfectly flat concrete in shoes all day long. Real terrain is highly unpredictable so your muscles adjust and adaptively grow stronger. Shoes do nothing but act like a wheelchair for your feet; know anyone that ever prepared for a marathon by sitting on a couch? Yeah, didnt think so.
    1. donnay's Avatar
      donnay -
      Great info!
    1. ATruepatriot's Avatar
      ATruepatriot -
      Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
      I just use a box with dirt in it, dip my feet on it while watching tv.

      The health and mood effects really are quite extraordinary
      Not sure that is completing the circuit. lol

      Although... Maybe it could work as a capacitor if you changed out the dirt often enough.
    1. ATruepatriot's Avatar
      ATruepatriot -
      The human body is a capacitor and needs to be unloaded now and then. It's a real thing.
    1. oyarde's Avatar
      oyarde -
      Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
      Most grounders (earthingers?) don't have the health beneficial luxury of sleeping on a dirt floor in a tent on a reservation as you.
      In the old days , the Army did not even advertise sleeping in the dirt as a health benefit . Probably why I am in such great health now .
    1. JoshLowry's Avatar
      JoshLowry -
      Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
      Great info!
      Have you come across this info before? We had three semi-related posts on RPF about this topic.

      For as impactful as this appears to be, I'm stunned by how little widespread it is.
    1. donnay's Avatar
      donnay -
      Quote Originally Posted by JoshLowry View Post
      Have you come across this info before? We had three semi-related posts on RPF about this topic.

      For as impactful as this appears to be, I'm stunned by how little widespread it is.
      No I have not. I have been a city girl all my life so I never had the notion to walk barefoot except when I was at the beach and I never really made the connection. However, now, it makes perfect sense to me.

      In the winter, I am always getting shocks...especially when I do laundry. Now I know why, I wasn't grounded.
    1. JoshLowry's Avatar
      JoshLowry -
      Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
      No I have not.
      Never thought I would see this day. This makes my week.


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