Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever!

Clinton Ober recommends doing the barefooting over dirt, sand or grass and even on shallow waters, because regular grounding or earthing is extremely beneficial to the immune system.

Grounding can be beneficial in:

Reducing inflammation by defusing excess positive electrons
Reducing chronic pain
Improving Sleep
Increasing Energy
Lowering stress and promoting calmness by reducing stress hormones.
Normalizing biological rhythms including circadian rhythm
Improving blood pressure and blood flow
Relieving muscle tension and headache
Lessening menstrual and female hormone symptoms
Speeding healing- used in some places to prevent bed sores
Eliminating jet lag
Protecting the body from Electromagnetic radiation - EMFs (Very important)
Shortening recovery time from injury or athletic activity
Reducing or eliminating snoring
Helping support adrenal health

Earthing is highly recommended

This is an important book. Implementing its suggestions could vastly improve your health, perhaps be life-saving.

Earthing/grounding is a natural method by which we can prevent or relieve many, perhaps all, health challenges.

When we connect with the Earth, our body "becomes suffused with negative-charged free electrons abundantly present on the surface of the Earth." Our modern way of life has created an electron deficiency in our bodies, thus disturbing both our immune system and all other body systems.

The benefits of Earthing include:

1) defusing the cause of inflammation and improving or eliminating the symptoms of many inflammation-related disorders
2) reducing or eliminating chronic pain
3) improving sleep
4) lowering stress
5) thinning blood, thus improving blood pressure and flow
6) increasing energy
7) relieving muscle tension and headaches
8) lessening hormonal and menstrual symptoms
9) dramatically speeding healing and helping to prevent bedsores
10) reducing or eliminating jet lag
11) protecting against health-disturbing electromagnetic fields
12) accelerating recovery from intense athletic activity

All would be well if only we wore shoes that did not separate us from the "energy and feeling" of the ground, but this is sadly not the case. The only "shoe" that preserves our connection to the Earth is the original moccasin.

The book describes how Clint Ober, who worked in the cable-TV industry, discovered the benefits of Earthing, devised his own primitive Earthing products and tried them out on friends and acquaintances. Their healing effects were astounding. Sometimes dramatic improvement occurred after only 20 minutes or so.

Basic methods of Earthing presently available are:
1) first and foremost, going outdoors and placing your feet directly on the Earth for 30 minutes at a time
2) use of a ground tool or specially designed wall plug to connect to "conductive floor mats, chair pads, sheets, mattresses, and common electrode patches to earth individuals indoors while sleeping or sitting".

The book includes numerous case histories of various formerly severely plagued individuals whose symptoms and ailments improved dramatically after being earthed.

Ailments/diseases documented as having been reduced by earthing include arthritis, autism, back pain, inflammation of the blood vessels, electrosensitivity, fibromyalgia, jet lag, mixed connective tissue disease, MS, sciatica, sleep apnea, stress, varicose veins and bad circulation, arrhythmia, high blood pressure, menopausal problems.

There are chapters devoted to the feminine connection, the sports connection, earthing and indoor pets (pets too can of course derive considerable benefits from earthing), while appendices address technical notes on grounding and earthing methods and the physics of earthing.

In conclusion, this is an extremely well-written, exciting, absolutely readable, ground-breaking (no pun intended), scientific, health-improving, potentially life-saving book.

One of the co-authors, Steve Sinatra, is a cardiologist, so the chapters penned by him present a medical approach.

I personally have been grounded for a couple of months or so, and my sleep instantly became much deeper, and I feel more rested when awakening.

I would strongly recommend that everyone read this book. Earthing will (perhaps greatly) improve your quality of life, unless you are one of the few who constantly walk barefoot, and it is about time that we all become informed of its gifts.

I had the opportunity to read this book and interview one of the authors Martin Zucker on my "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show" podcast. While it all sounds intriguing attempting to connect to the energy of the Earth through walking barefoot and engaging in the act of "earthing" with various products, I gotta admit I'm just not fully convinced of it all personally. What evidence is there that it's the "earthing" that is leading to health improvements as opposed to something else? It's pretty darn sketchy at best which is why I give this book three stars. Perhaps it's just a psychological connection that some people need to have with "mother Earth" when they lack God in their life. I dunno. Is it hocus pocus or cutting edge science? That's up to you to decide.

Earthing, a concept so simple yet so profound. In our rush to be technologically savvy and clever, we are unfortunately also slowly but sure killing ourselves with many of these same technologies. In the book 'Earthing', the authors provide a simple way to help minimize the negative aspects to our modern lifestyle. Highly recommended!

Very informative on how earthing works. I am recommending it to family and friends. I have already started with an eco friendly cleaning supplies and personal products through Melaleuca and plan on using earthing to help. I have RA and anything that can help with the pain and inflammation is a big plus.

I really liked learning from this book. It was a bit longer and more repetitive than it needs to be (even though it's not a long book), but the ideas in it are powerful and novel. Even though the author has a special interest as he sells related products through his company Earthing, he comes off as genuine, honestly interested in making a significant contribution to people's lives, and balanced in his portrayal of what the research says and conclusion we can and can't draw. He does share a lot of interesting research which suggests lots of benefits to earthing, which is really interesting and am glad to be aware of, but he also says that the research is nascent and the full ramifications of earthing are not completely understood. I enjoyed learning about the current state of science on earthing/grounding, and now I'm earthing myself regularly (it's so easy - I do it with the The Earthing straight cord (http://www.earthing.com/product_p/sc.htm) and the Transforming Technologies WB6037 Premium Metal Wrist Strap (http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B008B7IHDG/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1).)

This book gives a good history of the "discovery" of Earthing. It also has great information and documentation of the research that has been done. The process is simple and information to purchase supporting products is provided. While the products are not necessary, they are helpful if it is difficult to simply get outside barefoot.

Phenomenal. Why have I had to wait so long to discover this? Maybe it has been there all along and I have just not noticed it. Now all I need is another such transformative book to help overcome my own inbuilt inertia to practice. But perhaps that should come from me, not from a book. Oh well ...

Information was helpful and enlightening.

Very interesting and educational, a walk back into our roots and how things should be for us