Earthing Grounding

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Earthing Grounding

Said to be the Biggest

Discovery since Penicillin


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Throughout time, we humans have strolled, sat, stood, and slept on the

groundthe skin of our bodies touching the skin of the Earthoblivious to the

fact that such physical contact transfers natural electrical energy to the body.

Modern lifestyle has disconnected us from the Earths energy, making us more

vulnerable to stress and illness.Earthing is the landmark discovery that this energy upholds the electrical

stability of our bodies and serves as a foundation for vitality and health.

In an age of rampant chronic disease, reconnecting with the Earths energy

beneath our very feet provides a way back to better health.

We are bioelectrical beings living on an electrical planet.

Reconnect to the Earth!

Connect to the Earthing Institute and educate yourself.


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Get & Read the Book

Earthing

The Most Important Health

Discovery Ever?By Clinton Ober


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Earthing is about grounding your body to feel better.

Our bodies are electrical - the heart, brain, muscles, cells and allbody systems function electrically. Even our emotions are literally

energy in motion. Today we live insulated from earth and ourbodies become electrically stressed and charged with inflammation

and chronic pain, a very unnatural state.

The effect of Earthing is that it discharges electrical stress andrestores the bodys natural and stable electrical state.

To experience the profound effects that Earthing has in reducingstress and chronic pain: go outdoors and place your bare feet

directly on the earth and ground yourself for thirty minutes.The Earthing products available on our site are for use to get

grounded when indoors. They are "barefoot substitutes."


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The Discovery by Clint OberThe remarkable story of the discovery of Earthing began when a retired cable TV

executive started to think about biology. Over a period of about 23 years, Clint Ober

watched cable TV thrive by giving customers images that were superior to broadcasttelevision. What does cable TV have to do with health? The answer may surprise you.

The crisp image delivered by the cable is the result of shielding that prevents signals

from leaking out and prevents noise from leaking in. The cable consists of an inner

copper conductor surrounded by a mesh shield. The shield is electrically connected to

the earth (grounded), so that the earth can either deliver or absorb electrons andprevent the build-up of electrical charges. All of the shielding must be at the same

electrical potential as the earths surface.


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Clint took the voltmeter around his house, observing how his body voltage varied as he moved from place to place. Hisbedroom and his bed were the most electrically active regions of his home. His bed was up against a wall withelectrical wires hidden behind it. Clint wondered whether connecting to the earth during sleep might be helpful

especially since sleep is the time the body regenerates.

To test his idea, Clint placed a crude conducting system on his mattress and connected it to a wire that went out hisbedroom window to a rod pushed into the earth. Lying down on this grounded surface, his body voltage dropped to

nearly zero. He found that his connection with the conductive mattress was equivalent, electrically, to lying directly on theearth.

At that time, Clint did not sleep well. Several surgeries had left him with chronic back pain that kept him awake everynight. His first night of sleeping on the grounded mattress was extremely revealing. Lying down with his voltmeter heconfirmed that his body voltage had dropped to nearly zero. He quickly fell asleep with the voltmeter on his chest andwoke up the next morning with the voltmeter still on his chest. He had slept soundly for the first time in years, and had

not moved at all during the entire night.

Excited by this discovery, Clint decided to try the system on some of his friends. The results were equally astonishing.

Everyone reported that they slept much better on the grounded mattress. After several days, when one of Clints friends

mentioned that he was no longer stiff and sore in the morning, Clint suddenly realized that he had stopped taking painmedications in the morning. He had been waking stiff and sore for years, but that was no longer the case.

It was at this point that Clint realized he might have discovered something important. It occurred to him that there mightbe a similarity between the human body and a TV cable. The TV cable has hundreds of channels of information flowing

through it. Similarly, the body has miles of nerves, blood vessels, and other channels that conduct electrical signals.When the skin is grounded, it might prevent the entry ofnoise that can disturb physiological signaling.


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Within a month, Clint had moved to California to find researchers and engineers who could help test and furtherdevelop the Earthing system. Clint adopted the term Earthing to distinguish between the grounding of TV cables

and electrical equipment and connecting the human body to the earth.

Clints first question was whether there was any possibility that sleeping earthed could be harmful. Medical andelectronics experts both reassured him that Earthing was perfectly safe. In fact, being "earthed" has actually been the

natural state of living systems throughout evolutionary history it is the separation from earth that is unnatural. A

medical electronics expert suggested that Clint put a protective fuse in the Earthing wire, as is done with electricaldevices, so that in the extremely unlikely event the grounding wire came in contact with electricity, the fuse would

protect the individual on the pad.

After consulting with a scientist at UCLA, Clint set up his own blinded study. Sixty people with sleep problems, pain andstiffness were selected for the research. Half of them slept on an improved version of the mattress pad in their homesfor 30 days. The results showed that people went to sleep more quickly, slept throughout the night, woke feeling more

rested, had reduced muscle stiffness, reduced chronic back and joint pain, and improved general health. Severalsubjects reported significant relief from asthmatic and respiratory conditions, rheumatoid arthritis, PMS, sleep apnea,

and hypertension.

One woman in the study had crippling arthritis in the joints of her hands and arms and had difficulty walking. Ratherthan asking her to move to an Earthing pad, Clint decided to demonstrate the change in body voltage while she sat inher chair. He substituted an EEG-type electrode patch for the mattress pad. After chatting for 5-10 minutes, the woman

said the pain in her arm was much better; she asked for the patch to be moved to her other arm. Minutes later, shereported a reduction in the pain in that arm as well.

Clint immediately called some of his friends who had arthritis and other painful conditions, and gave them electrodepatches and Earthing wires. Remarkably, everyone reported a reduction in pain. The Earthing patch seemed to

produce very rapid reduction in inflammation.


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In early 2000, a corporation was formed to research Earthing, to develop a line of Earthing products,and to patent the ideas. United States Patent 6,683,779, for a personal body grounding system, was

granted on January 27, 2004.

Clint met with anesthesiologist, Maurice Ghaly M.D., who was skeptical of the results of Clints first study.

Dr. Ghaly agreed to conduct his own study and monitor cortisol levels. Since cortisol is a reliable indicator

of both stress and inflammation, shifts in cortisol levels would indicate whether or not inflammation was

really being reduced.

In collaboration with Dale Teplitz, Dr. Ghaly studied a group of 12 people reporting pain and poor sleep.

The subjects were grounded (earthed) during sleep in their own beds. Saliva was tested to determine the

daily cortisol levels before and after six weeks of sleeping earthed. Each day during the study, the subjects

were also asked to assess symptoms of sleep dysfunction, pain, and stress.

Although Dr. Ghaly had set out to prove that the Earthing concept was flawed, what he found was just

the opposite. To his surprise, he discovered that Earthing reduced nighttime levels of cortisol and shifted

the 24-hour circadian cortisol rhythms toward normal. He also found that nearly all participants reportedreduced or eliminated symptoms of a variety of pains and sleep disorders.

In 2003, news of the Earthing discovery reached Jeffrey Spencer, D.C., a specialist in athletic

performance and recovery. As the chiropractor for Lance Armstrong and the U.S. cycling team participating

in the Tour de France, Jeff was prompted to investigate Earthing because of Dr. Ghalys cortisol study.

Cyclists and other high performance athletes often show abnormalities in cortisol rhythms; most cyclists

begin to have trouble sleeping after several days of cycling in the demanding Tour.


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Dr. Spencer recognized the potential of Earthing for treating a variety of problems related to athletic

performance and chronic injury. He realized that sleeping earthed on a regular basis could provide

athletes with a tremendous competitive advantage. That year during the Tour de France, the following

outcomes were observed.

* Sleep was universally improved.

* Tendonitis was virtually eliminated.

* Wound healing and recovery from injury were vastly accelerated.

* Consistency of performance was significantly improved.* Team morale remained high throughout the entire Tour.

Dr. Spencer now uses the Earthing technology in his practice which includes a number of high-

profile athletes. Since 2003, Earthing has become standard protocol for the U.S. cycling team (now

called Team Discovery) during the Tour de France.

The story of the discovery of Earthing is far from complete. During the last two years, several studies

have shown that Earthing has nearly instantaneous effects on the brain, muscles, blood pressure,and respiratory rhythms. Clinical sleep studies are demonstrating improvements in a wide variety of

parameters that influence quality of sleep.

The more we learn, the more we are coming to understand that one of the most important things we

can do is maintain a connection with the earth. Fortunately, the Earthing technology makes that

possible during the third of our lives we spend sleeping. The methods developed by Clint Ober enable

anyone to have the benefits of being in contact with the earth, even in climates where standing outside

barefoot is impractical.


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In an age when there are so many discoveries and health-related technologies emerging every

day, why do you think the concept of Earthing is so profound?

What is most profound about Earthing is that it is so natural and simple, and that it affects every

aspect of human physiology. When you ground yourself, the entire body readjusts to a new level

of functioning, the level, in fact, it seems to have been designed for throughout evolution. Many

people who have lived Earthed for some years say that they do not want to go back to livingungrounded. They feel the difference. Living Earthed broadly elevates your quality of life to a

level that seems not otherwise possible.

James Oschman, Ph.D., an internationally-renowned expert on energy medicine and a member

of our board of advisors, describes the phenomenon thusly: Recently I attended a meeting on

the East coast. One of my colleagues came in from the West coast. She had a bad case of jet lag.

I told her to take her shoes and socks off and step outside on the grass for 15 minutes. When shecame back in, she was completely transformed. Her jet lag was gone. That is how fast Earthing

works. Anyone can try this. If you dont feel well, for whatever reason, just make barefoot

contact with the Earth for a few minutes and see what happens. Of course, if you have a medical

problem, you should see a doctor. There is nothing that comes close to Earthing for quick relief.

You can literally feel pain draining from your body the instant you touch the Earth.


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Why does the Earths electric field transfer so easily to the

body?

The body is mostly water and minerals. It is an excellentconductor of electricity (electrons). The free electrons on the

surface of the Earth are easily transferred to the human body aslong as there is direct contact. Unfortunately, synthetically-soledshoes act as insulators so that even when we are outside we do

not connect with the Earths electric field. When we are in homesand office buildings, we are also insulated and unable to receive

the Earths balancing energies.


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What is the difference between the Earths electric field and theelectric field used to conduct electricity in our homes?

The Earths electric field is mainly a continuous direct current (DC)

producing field. Throughout history, life on the planet has attunedour biology to this subtle field. By comparison, home wiring systems

in the U.S. use 60-cycle per second alternating current (AC). Unlessat very low frequency (less that 10 cycles per second) and/or low

power, alternating current is foreign to our biology. This, and otherforms of man-made environmental electromagnetic fields (EMFs) arebeing researched as factors in a variety of stress-related responses.Many people are sensitive to EMFs. Studies show an association,

but not cause and effect, between living near power lines (orexposure to EMFs on the job) and higher rates of health problems,such as childhood leukemia, brain tumors, certain cancers, birth

defects and miscarriages.


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What is the difference between the Earthingtechnology and the use of magnets?

Although the use of magnets produce sometherapeutic effects when properly applied, magnets

cannot provide free electrons, nor can they connectthe body with the naturally balancing electric

frequencies of the Earth. The patented EarthingConnection technology is the only way, without

standing directly on the Earth, to connect with theEarths electrons.


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How does Earthing affect the bodys ability to heal?

The simplest explanation is that aches and pains and other disturbances in ourbodies are often caused by inflammation. Electrons from the Earth have naturalanti-inflammatory effects and are conducted relatively fast throughout the body,

which is a good conductor. One of the most profound discoveries in modernbiomedicine is that many of the chronic and debilitating diseases of our time have

the same cause: chronic inflammation. Scientists now realize that many of ouraches and pains arise from small regions in the body where an inflammatory

response has taken place, but the inflammation has not completely stopped afterthe healing process. A low level of chronic inflammation can continue for years,damaging normal tissues and wasting energy. Many scientists believe that the

human immune system evolved over a long span of time during which we were invirtually constant barefoot contact with the Earth. We believe that the immune

system began functioning less efficiently as humans increasingly separated

themselves from the Earth. One recent example is the advent of shoes withinsulating soles about 50 years ago. Chronic disease, inflammation, and insomniahave skyrocketed ever since and the loss of connection with the Earth may be one

totally overlooked cause.


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Can Earthing protect me from cell phone frequencies?

The protective potential of Earthing has not been tested yet on cellphone exposure. There is no research indicating that Earthing will or

will not protect a person from exposure to cell phones signals,

microwave radiation, or radio frequencies. What we know is thatEarthing reduces significantly the induced body voltages generated by

simple exposure to common household 60 Hz EMFs continuouslyemitted by all plugged-in electrical cords (even if the appliance is off),internal wiring, and all ungrounded electrical devices in the home or

office. Based in the cases we have seen of people extremely sensitive

to such EMFs it is prudent to be grounded as much as possible in thehome or office.


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