[sb23]

Are you joking? This is about as legitimate as the copper balance bracelets that are only good for parting gullible people with their cash. Maybe placebo is making you feel more relaxed, or maybe your mattress is not firm enough and having a leather mat firms it up just enough for your back to feel better.

[abledon]

Well it’s plugged in to the grounding outlet of the wall. I can test the current in my body using a voltmeter drops to approximately zero when grounded

[adrianN]

And what does that have to do with your cortisol levels?

[abledon]

See my link to the publication in parent comment

“””The cortisol effects described by Ghaly and Teplitz5 are particularly significant in the light of recent research showing that prolonged chronic stress results in glucocorticoid receptor resistance.”””

[wallace_f]

Am not a doctor, but that sentence, standing alone, just says your body gets less sensitive to cortisol after a lot of stress.

So again, what could grounding your body possibly have to do with it? And why would you need a mat plugged into your wall outlet to do this?

[abledon]

well i dont need a mat plugged into a grounding outlet, i could be outside barefoot on grass, or swimming in a salt ocean for the same effect. but in winter in finland, those outdoor activities just aren't compatible with my bare skin so i prefer the indoor mat solution.

What does grounding have to do with it? Well my fellow human, we're still figuring this all out, in terms of embryology, we don't know how embyros fast-forward millions of years in evolution in a couple days of development, how the electric markers dictate [1] where eyes form in the foetus etc. furthermore the underlying bioelectric signals that regulate all chemical reactions in our huge soup we call a 'body' runs the best when we are connected (electric potential is close to 0) with the huge battery we call earth, the one we evolved upon connected, and only post WW2, had enough industrial power to put rubber shoes on everyone in modern world (all had leather shoes before which are conductive). yadda yadda i'm just regurgitating what i read in the book i mentioned in another comment. check it out if you think we don't know 100% about health, and western medicine hasn't figured it all out yet, esp at the bioelectric level.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndFe5CaDTlI

[Retra]

And what is it otherwise? 0.002 mA?