Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?

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Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Jamieson asks whether the failure to appropriately ground humans is a factor contributing to the potential consequences of electropollution in office settings [ 17]. This book is about the ground beneath our feet, and the revelation of a vital electrical continuum between the Earth and the living organisms that dwell upon it. In the late 19th century, a back-to-nature movement in Germany claimed many health benefits from being barefoot outdoors, even in cold weather [ 8].

As you will read further on, our hypothesis for how this remedy works is unlike any you have ever heard.

Few people know it, but the ground provide a subtle electric signal that maintains health and governs the intricate mechanisms that make our bodies work--just like plugging a lamp into a power socket makes it light up.

You can keep insisting that inflammation is impossible for someone who is actively connected to the ground, but that won't alter the basic fact that, no, you can become inflamed while grounded. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. The study showed that when the body is grounded, its electrical potential becomes equalized with the Earth's electrical potential through a transfer of electrons from the Earth to the body.Eight healthy men ages 20–23 were put through a similar routine of toe raises while carrying on their shoulders a barbell equal to one-third of their body weight.

Throughout, Earthing offers breathless claims, insinuations and jargon-filled explanations in hopes that the reader will assume they belong together and support each other. Clint often refers to his lack of education as a scientist, but what he has accomplished shows that determined and inspired individuals can accomplish an enormous amount by teaching themselves what they need to know. For example, since the 1960s, we have increasingly worn insulating rubber or plastic soled shoes, instead of the traditional leather fashioned from hides.It is of course difficult when trying and doing so many health promoting things, to work out which treatment is doing what. One of the most dramatic demonstrations of the benefits of grounding is the effect it has on the blood (see image above).