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Grounding

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Gifter

William Gallas
I spent friday evening making a silk grounding sheet for our bed, early results are very promising.

[video=youtube;zBxOQuXLENA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBxOQuXLENA&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;MLOx1kWCWoc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLOx1kWCWoc&feature=related[/video]

Quite easy, just a silk undersheet, gator clip connecting an earth wire to a plug (no live/neutral) and plug the sucker in.

Gonna make (or buy) one for my feet at work as well, can't wait to see my colleagues faces when I hook it up!
 
Promising as in much more restful sleep, hence feeling better in the morning.

Not me I promise! David Wolfe (bottom one) is a raw foods 'Guru' but I don't pimp that way of life, it's good but I prefer to focus on alkaline minerals, a lot of Raw food folks still lack nutritionally IMO (less than most, it's very good as a base nutritional ideology though).
 
Seems like this would be the easiest thing in the world to do a double blind study on.

But the people making money from this aren't coming up with any studies...

To me that's a massive red flag.
 
ArcspacE said:
This
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Tough crowd...

http://www.groundology.com/scientific-research

blood_viscosity_samples.jpg


"One of the most dramatic demonstrations of the benefits of grounding is the effect it has on the blood.

On the right are darkfield microscope images of blood taken from three individuals just before and after forty minutes of grounding.

The before images are on the left, the after on the right. The pictures clearly show a dramatic thinning and decoupling of the blood cells.

The blood samples were taken during research into grounding by Dr Stephen Sinatra MD."

Ouch!

The trouble with things like this though is that the effect's, such as RSI for example (my feelings are that there is more than a passing link), may take years of culmulative use to both develop and to become curative (let's not get into agruments over semantics), plus there are so many uncontrollable variables.

Further reading on Dr Stephen Sinatra MD;

http://www.heartmdinstitute.com/

To each their own...
 
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I'm just trying to make my way through what is, to me, the guineapig generation.

There is nobody who knows for sure IMO what the long terms effects of the average modern diet and technology will have on us. Hopefully people will look into things and try to arm themselves with knowledge which may protect themselves, and their near and dear, should they need it.
 
More stuff (I'm going to watch some of these after work, so it's as much for me as anyone else!);

[video=youtube_share;Ja6yYPZT36A]http://youtu.be/Ja6yYPZT36A[/video]

[video=youtube_share;8KxsaZxXEZ0]http://youtu.be/8KxsaZxXEZ0[/video]

[video=youtube_share;clQYYgt6gmE]http://youtu.be/clQYYgt6gmE[/video]
 
One more for the cycling enthusiasts;

[video=youtube_share;icZIZ5UUoOE]http://youtu.be/icZIZ5UUoOE[/video]
 
Watched this with the wife after work, very informative;

[video=youtube;p7gWnRG8gfk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7gWnRG8gfk[/video]

Clint Ober =D>
 
Richard Feynman comes up in the video, I'm going to have a peek deeping into his world. Plus some other studies and research. Will update if I can be arsed.
 
braineclipse said:
Seems like this would be the easiest thing in the world to do a double blind study on.

But the people making money from this aren't coming up with any studies...

To me that's a massive red flag.
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Clint Ober has paid for 12 studies himself at a cost of around $1M each (if I recall correctly), I think you pay the man a great dis-service, he made his money in TV networks, so is not researching this for the money that I can tell.

Seeing how you jumped in before looking in any depth, perhaps you may like to have a read into it, and then give a more informed opinion, rather than a muscle memory response?

Or, you know, just go quiet...
 
Some studies;

http://www.equilibrauk.com/summaryofearthingbenefits.pdf

By

William C. Amalu, DC, DABCT, DIACT, FIACT is a Board Certified Clinical
Thermologist and is President of the International Academy of Clinical Thermology.

Roger Applewhite, PE is Director of Engineering and co-owner of SPI Westek, formerly
known as Static Prevention Inc., of Anaheim, California. He is a member of the IEEE and
was trained in electrical engineering at MIT.

Gaétan Chevalier, Ph.D. formerly, Director of Research at the California Institue for
Human Science, and now a Visiting Scientist at the University of California, Irvine. He is
a biophysicist with a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of Montréal.

Maurice Ghaly, MD is a physician and medical researcher with a specialty in
anesthesiology.

Jonathan Head, PhD.

William Hobbins, MD, FABS, FACS, FABCT of Thermal Image Analysis, Inc in
Madison, Wisconsin, is a renowned specialist in thermal imaging.

David Kolinsky, MD.

David L. Minkoff, MD is Board Certified in Pediatrics in Clearwater, Florida, and is a
leading authority in biological medicine.

Kazuhito Mori, Ph.D. was a Ph.D. student of Dr. Chevalier and conducted research on
the physiological changes taking place during earthing. Currently he is teaching medical
physiology and psychiatry in Japan.

A. Clinton Ober was CEO of several major corporations involved in cable television,
and is the inventor of the Earthing technologies described here.

James L. Oschman, Ph.D. is a biophysicist and cell biologist (University of Pittsburgh)
and award-winning author of Energy Medicine: the scientific basis and Energy Medicine
in Therapeutics and Human Performance.

Jim Philips, MS Electrical Engineering

Jeff Spencer, MA, DC, CCSP is a leading expert on athletic recovery and acute injury
treatment for elite athletes. He has been the principal therapist for Lance Armstrong and
the United States Professional Cycling Team in their 7 Tour de France victories. In 2004
he was named International Sports Chiropractor of the Year by the International
Chiropractic Association.

Bob Sternowski, MS is an electrical engineer at the Department of Physics and
Astronomy at the University of Iowa.

Dale Teplitz, MA assisted Maurice Ghaly in the Cortisol study.

Roger Titone, BS is a mechanical engineer and is founder and president of Titronics
Research and Development a producer of paraspinal infrared thermographic scanners.

John T. Zimmerman, Ph.D. is Laboratory Director of Mountain Medical Sleep
Disorders Center, Carson City, Nevada, and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the
University of Nevada, Reno. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine.

Bunch of money grabbing shills :ross:
 
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Gifter said:
I'm just trying to make my way through what is, to me, the guineapig generation.

There is nobody who knows for sure IMO what the long terms effects of the average modern diet and technology will have on us. Hopefully people will look into things and try to arm themselves with knowledge which may protect themselves, and their near and dear, should they need it.
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We are the guineapig generation? Are you serious? How much do you know about what has been going on in the last 200 years? From watching nuclear tests as a day out and radiated toothpaste to massively risky work environments and lobotomies. The list of brick that has been going on that we aren't even close to seems almost endless.

I agree that knowledge is a good place to start. Again it's about how you gain that knowledge. Why no double blinded tests if this is so great?

How big do you feel the effect to be? If you had a random on/off switch connected to your grounding thingy that left it either on or off for each night how often do you think you would be able to correctly decide if it had been on or not during the night?
 
braineclipse said:
We are the guineapig generation? Are you serious? How much do you know about what has been going on in the last 200 years? From watching nuclear tests as a day out and radiated toothpaste to massively risky work environments and lobotomies. The list of brick that has been going on that we aren't even close to seems almost endless.

I agree that knowledge is a good place to start. Again it's about how you gain that knowledge. Why no double blinded tests if this is so great?

How big do you feel the effect to be? If you had a random on/off switch connected to your grounding thingy that left it either on or off for each night how often do you think you would be able to correctly decide if it had been on or not during the night?
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Look at the studies.

Guineapig generation in the context of interactive electrical proliferation, plastic proliferation (ie - shielding, which started around the 60's when as it happens only 5% of doctor visits were for inflammatory problems, now 50years later it is around 95%), obliteration of natural fats/foods etc etc. It wasn't claiming that it hasn't been better or worse historically, it was contextual. Do you really think I haven't looked into history?!

I'm not being drawn into your paradigm of 'if it's not double blind I don't buy it', sorry, but it's not required for me. This is a new area of research anyway and the studies will follow. I'm giving you a peak into something new, yet as old as time...
 
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Here you go BrainEclipse;

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20064020

Changes in pulse rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygenation, perfusion index, skin conductance, and their variability induced during and after grounding human subjects for 40 minutes.

Chevalier G.
Source

Developmental and Cell Biology Department, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. dlbogc@sbcglobal.net
Abstract

OBJECTIVES:
Previous studies have shown that grounding produces quantifiable physiologic changes. This study was set up to reproduce and expand earlier electrophysiologic and physiologic parameters measured immediately after grounding with improved methodology and state-of-the-art equipment.

DESIGN AND SUBJECTS:
A multiparameter double-blind experiment was conducted with 14 men and 14 women (age range: 18-80) in relatively good health. Subjects were screened for health problems using a commonly used health questionnaire. They were seated in a comfortable recliner and measured during 2-hour grounding sessions, leaving time for signals to stabilize before, during, and after grounding (40 minutes for each period). Sham 2-hour grounding sessions were also recorded with the same subjects as controls.

OUTCOME MEASURES:
This report presents results for 5 of the 18 parameters measured. The parameters reported here are: skin conductance (SC), blood oxygenation (BO), respiratory rate (RR), pulse rate (PR), and perfusion index (PI).

SETTINGS/LOCATION:
This study was performed in a rented facility in Encinitas, California. The facility was chosen in a quiet area for its very low electromagnetic noise.

RESULTS:
For each session, statistical analyses were performed on four 10-minute segments: before and after grounding (sham grounding for control session) and before and after ungrounding (sham ungrounding). There was an immediate decrease in SC at grounding and an immediate increase at ungrounding on all subjects. RR increased during grounding, and the effect lasted after ungrounding. RR variance increased immediately after grounding then decreased. BO variance decreased during grounding, followed by a dramatic increase after ungrounding. PR and PI variances increased toward the end of the grounding period, and this change persisted after ungrounding.

CONCLUSIONS:
These results warrant further research to determine how grounding affects the body. Grounding could become important for relaxation, health maintenance and disease prevention.
 
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The biologic effects of grounding the human body during sleep as measured by cortisol levels and subjective reporting of sleep, pain, and stress.
Ghaly M, Teplitz D.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:
Diurnal cortisol secretion levels were measured and circadian cortisol profiles were evaluated in a pilot study conducted to test the hypothesis that grounding the human body to earth during sleep will result in quantifiable changes in cortisol. It was also hypothesized that grounding the human body would result in changes in sleep, pain, and stress (anxiety, depression, irritability), as measured by subjective reporting.

SUBJECTS AND INTERVENTIONS:
Twelve (12) subjects with complaints of sleep dysfunction, pain, and stress were grounded to earth during sleep for 8 weeks in their own beds using a conductive mattress pad. Saliva tests were administered to establish pregrounding baseline cortisol levels. Levels were obtained at 4-hour intervals for a 24-hour period to determine the circadian cortisol profile. Cortisol testing was repeated at week 6. Subjective symptoms of sleep dysfunction, pain, and stress were reported daily throughout the 8-week test period.

RESULTS:
Measurable improvements in diurnal cortisol profiles were observed, with cortisol levels significantly reduced during night-time sleep. Subjects' 24-hour circadian cortisol profiles showed a trend toward normalization. Subjectively reported symptoms, including sleep dysfunction, pain, and stress, were reduced or eliminated in nearly all subjects.

CONCLUSIONS:
Results indicate that grounding the human body to earth ("earthing") during sleep reduces night-time levels of cortisol and resynchronizes cortisol hormone secretion more in alignment with the natural 24-hour circadian rhythm profile. Changes were most apparent in females. Furthermore, subjective reporting indicates that grounding the human body to earth during sleep improves sleep and reduces pain and stress.

CortisolBeforeAfters.jpg
 
This is all covered and much more in the videos. Sorry to clutter the thread with it but it's harder for BrainEclipse to deny when the images and data are in front of his nose, but I say it is a poor show to essentially claim that it is nonsense without even looking into it.

Argue the point, not the poster...
 
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