Earthing, also known as grounding, refers to the discovery that bodily contact with the Earth's natural electric charge stabilizes the physiology at the deepest levels, reduces inflammation, pain, and stress, improves blood flow, energy, and sleep, and generates greater well-being. Such effects are profound, systemic, and foundational, and often develop rapidly. Earthing is as simple as routinely walking barefoot outdoors and/or using inexpensive grounding systems indoors while sleeping or sitting, practices that restore a lost and needed electric connection with the Earth. Some 20 studies to date have reported intriguing evidence of wide and significant physiological improvements when the body is grounded vs. non-grounded. The research, along with numerous anecdotal reports, demonstrates that Earthing clearly deserves inclusion in the clinical practice of preventive, alternative, and lifestyle medicine and has great potential to render these approaches more effective.

Core components of alternative, lifestyle, and preventive medicine include nutrition, exercise, stress management, and relationships. Missing from this formula is the practice of Earthing.

Earthing simply means reconnecting the conductive human body to the Earth's natural and subtle surface electric charge, an effortless lifestyle activity that systemically influences the basic bioelectrical function of the body. Doing so surprisingly stabilizes the physiology, reduces inflammation, pain, and stress, improves sleep, blood flow, and lymphatic/venous return to the heart, and produces greater well-being.

These are systemic, profound effects. People often report that after they start Earthing they feel and look healthier and younger. Those with pain report less pain. Even mood improves.

Earthing is easy to do and often achieves rapid results, particularly for individuals with chronic health disorders.

There are two basic ways of Earthing:

1) indoors, involving inexpensive Earthing systems (conductive mats, pads, body bands, or patches) while sitting or sleeping

2) in its most natural form, and free, by spending time barefoot outdoors in contact with natural conductive surfaces, like grass, soil, stone and sand.

Just as vitamin D in our body is produced by energy and frequencies generated from the sun, 93 million miles away, the Earth right under our feet provides unique energy and frequencies that directly influence our body.

Earthing restores a primordial electric connection to the Earth lost over time because of human lifestyle. Earthing appears to correct what we call an electron deficiency syndrome, an overlooked and likely significant cause of multiple health disorders.

OUR LOST CONNECTION TO THE EARTH

The Earth has long been recognized and utilized by the electrical industry as an essential source of stability and safety. That is where the synonymous terms Earthing and grounding originated. All modern electrical systems, from large grids and power stations to homes, buildings, and factories, and the machinery and appliances powered by electricity, are all connected to the Earth for stability and safety. One might say that electrical systems are 'healthier' precisely because of their connection to the Earth.

A body connected to the ground – a grounded body – is similarly more stable and healthier. It functions more naturally, a state lost over time because humans have become largely disconnected from the Earth. We obviously no longer sleep on the ground, rarely walk barefoot outdoors, and, for more than a half century, almost exclusively wear insulating synthetic soled shoes instead of traditional and conductive leather footwear. We live and work, and spend much or most of our time disconnected, often far above ground in high rises.

The lost contact with the Earth may contribute to electrical imbalances, a build-up of disruptive static electricity (positive charges), and an unrecognized electron deficiency in the body, and with it, vulnerability to dysfunction, disorder, and disease.

How can this possibly be, you might ask?

The surface of Planet Earth, as is well known, is affected electrically by countless lightning strikes, solar radiation, and other atmospheric dynamics. Not so well known, however, is that these phenomena endow our landmasses and bodies of water with a continuously renewed supply of subatomic particles called free electrons that give the Earth a natural negative electric charge.

Research on biological Earthing suggests that this very same electric charge, and its limitless supply of electrons and their diurnal frequencies, plays a governing and nurturing role for both the animal and plant kingdoms – a form of 'electric nutrition,' so to speak. The research findings have supported the hypothesis that Earthing facilitates a significant transfer of free electrons into the body, a transfer resulting in rapid, sometimes instant, physiological changes. Earthing restores and maintains a natural internal electrical environment. Sokal and Sokal, two Polish doctors and researchers, performed a series of experiments some years ago and concluded that Earthing the human body represents a 'universal regulating factor in Nature' strongly influencing bioelectrical, bioenergetics, and biochemical processes and appears to offer a significant modulating effect on chronic illnesses and dysfunction.

Redacted extract from a clinical paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550830719305476