[MrMcCall]

Some few years ago I did a YouTube dive into earthing/grounding tech setups, but never created a grounded mat to use while sleeping or programming. We don't use wifi for our computers (chips removed from machines and cable modem's wifi turned off) and spend very little time on cellphones in our residence, so we experience very little locally-generated EMF radiation (AFAIK), but I've not measured it for a very long time (I have a ~$200 EMF and magnetic field measurement device).

I'm curious if anyone around here has tried grounding themself while working or sleeping and noticed any difference. From a naturalistic standpoint, it seems like a valid concept to test as our pre-, say, 100ya bodies' environment had very low ambient EMF radiation. Then, before the vulcanization of rubber, our transportation when on foot, at least, was spent grounded to the earth through leather (or other natural fabric) shoes (AFAIU).

Anyway, I do notice that going to a park and spending a chunk of time leaning on a living tree or just plopping down on the ground on our cotton blanket does seem to confer a pleasant bodily result. Or maybe it's just Placebo. I don't know yet.

From what I remember or understand, grounding oneself to the Earth causes our body to be flooded with electrons from the Earth's natural resevoir, but I'm no EE, so I would appreciate some folks leveling me up by sharing their expertise with those reading this.

Perhaps grounding oneself will help harmonize our internal electical waves in a way that helps improve our concentration.

I'm also curious how grounding oneself would affect the alkalization of our body. I'm sensitive to acidic foods such as tomato paste or marinara or jalapeno. I'm no chemist, so I wonder if there would be an effect in that dimension as well.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." --Unknown

Thanks in advance.

[mathgladiator]

It blows my mind that it should be very easy to test and validate benefits of grounding but I haven't done it yet. The experimental design is to sleep on a grounding pad with a control device that blinds whether the pad is grounded. For me, if you can wake and tell if you were grounded or not or have some other measure that can correlate with the historical grounding circuit then cool.

[MrMcCall]

The biochemical effects may not be consciously apparent, at least to most people.

All I know for sure is that up to, pehaps, 100ya, most people were in contact with the Earth for many or even most hours of their day. 200ya, we were almost all nearly always grounded. That's but a blip in our bodies' developmental history.

[jnwatson]

Electronics techs sometimes spend hours every day grounded with a wrist strap.

I certainly haven't noticed anything.

[spangry]

I tried this for a while using adhesive medical electrodes attached to a grounding strap, in turn attached to an earthing point in my house. I didn't notice any benefit or disbenefit, but I wasn't paying particularly close attention. I'm still open to the potential benefits of 'touching grass'.

[rramadass]

This study, Earthing the Human Body Influences Physiologic Processes seems to have some data but am not sure how valid they are (the whole field is considered pseudo-science) - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3154031/

[MrMcCall]

Thanks, but we are electrical beings whose bodies have developed over eons within the Earth's magnetic field. All cell-biologic functions are electromagnetic from the folding of proteins to how molecules are flowed into and out of cells and their organelles.

Vulcanization of rubber in the 1940s has left us mostly disconnected from the Earth ground. It is worth exploring. The unscientific call this fundamental connection with the Earth "pseudoscientific". All science is worth studying to find out what the effects are, my friend.

[rramadass]

Sure, studying with an open mind but a critical eye. The problem is that this field attracts more than its share of cranks and woo-woo theorists and so there is a lot of sifting to do. My personal interest in this subject comes from Yoga/Qigong and seeing how it might be mapped to modern studies in bio-electricity and bio-energy.

As usual, wikipedia makes a good starting point for study - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectromagnetics

Incidentally, Sergey N. Makarov at Worcester Polytechnic Institute researches "human body interaction with EM fields" and has written a book Brain and Human Body Modeling available for free here - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-21293-3 You might find some of the chapters relevant.

[MrMcCall]

> studying with an open mind but a critical eye

Well said, friend.

Thanks for the links.

As to yoga, be careful "opening" yourself up to the prevailing winds of the universe. I highly suggest finding a mantra to repeat during your practices to focus on love, positivity, or simply our Creator.

Peace be with you friend, and thanks again.

[rramadass]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538322

[MrMcCall]

Thanks for the excellent write-up.

I still suggest you find a good mantra for your yoga. "Brah-man" is what I understand to be the two-syllable Hindi name of the our Creator, but India has many langauges (13 official + 8 widely used, IIUC) so there are likely others.

Peace be with you, friend. I am at your service. Thanks for your service to the truth.

[HumanOstrich]

This is all pseudoscientific nonsense and irrelevant to this post.