The Healing Benefits of Grounding(Earthing)

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Earthing introduces the planet's powerful, amazing, and overlooked natural healing energy and how people anywhere can readily connect to it. This never-before-told story, filled with fascinating research and real-life testimonials chronicals a discovery with the potential to create of global health revolution.

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Research Articles of the Week:

“A 10% increase in the proportion of ultra-processed foods in the diet was associated with a significant increase of greater than 10% in risks of overall and breast cancer.”

Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort

“Intermittent fasting may benefit cardiometabolic health by decreasing blood pressure, insulin resistance, and oxidative stress. Other health benefits include improved appetite regulation and favorable changes in the diversity of the gut microbiome.”

Cardiometabolic Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

“consumption of diet soda at least daily was associated with significantly greater risks of select incident metabolic syndrome components and type 2 diabetes.”

Diet soda intake and risk of incident metabolic syndrome

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Grounding/Earthing to Heal

Grounding refers to direct skin contact with the surface of the Earth, such as by walking barefoot. For most of our evolutionary history, humans have had continuous contact with the earth.

But our modern-day living encourages insulating footwear, high-rise buildings, and elevated beds that separate most humans from direct skin connection with the Earth’s surface. It is only recently that substances such as asphalt, wood, rugs, and plastics have separated us from the earth.

Yet studies, measurements, and experiences have shown that sustained contact with the Earth yields powerful and importantly, easily accessible, health benefits.

Benefits of Grounding:

• improve sleep

• normalize the day

• night cortisol rhythm

• reduce pain/stress

• nervous system parasympathetic activation

• A calming effect on the nervous system.

• A normalizing effect on the stress hormone cortisol

• increase heart rate variability

• Speed up wound healing

• reduce blood viscosity

• Improved blood flow.

  

The most reasonable hypothesis to explain the beneficial effects of earthing is that a direct earth connection enables both diurnal electrical rhythms and free electrons to flow from the earth to the body.

It is proposed that the earth's diurnal electrical rhythms set the biological clocks for hormones that regulate sleep and activity. It is also suggested that free electrons from the earth neutralize the positively charged free radicals that are the hallmark of chronic inflammation.¹

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