Barefoot earthing
What if there was a technique or gadget that could help decrease your muscle inflammation, prevent free-radical damage, heal your injuries faster, reduce muscle stiffness and tension, help you sleep better and improve your health and energy levels? It almost sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? If you were healthier, had more energy and your injuries healed faster, you would be a lot closer to achieving your genetic lifespan potential or at the very least have a better quality of life.
The amazing new health revolution that can achieve this is actually not so new at all. It is going barefoot or taking part in “barefoot earthing”. Extraordinary claims have been made about barefoot earthing (also known as “grounding”) and there appears to be a plethora of research to substantiate these claims. Barefoot earthing simply consists of walking or standing barefoot on the surface of Mother Earth, so how is it that such a simple activity could make such a difference to your health?
The theory
The theory behind barefoot earthing has to do with electrons on the earth’s surface and how your body interacts with them. The surface of the earth is electrically conductive and possesses a continuously renewed supply of free electrons due to what is referred to as a “global or atmospheric electrical circuit”. That’s geophysics talk for activities such as thunder and lightning storms (of which there are 1000–2000 continually active around the globe). These storms create a constant current of thousands of amperes that is distributed across the surface of our planet.
The positive charge from electrical storms is transferred to the upper atmosphere while the negative charge is conducted along the surface of the earth in the form of free electrons. This natural and invisible flow of electrons, and the electric field generated by it, exists on the surface of all conductive objects, including people, plants and animals — anything that’s in direct physical contact with the earth.
So Mother Earth is charged with uncountable numbers of free electrons that are in a state of diurnal flux. When humans stand on the earth (in bare feet or in footwear that conducts electrical charges) we become electrically grounded to it and this physical contact with the earth maintains our bodies at the same neutral electrical voltage of the earth. This has been proven by electrophysiologists and researchers using a voltmeter.
Your body has its own electric field in the form of electrons, which is transferred to the earth when you are grounded and thus you lose electrons to the earth. Which is all well and good as long as you are grounded. The problem is that, today, we wear synthetic-soled shoes with several layers (outsole, midsole, footbed, sockliner) that cut off the flow of electrons from the earth to our bodies and we live in an environment that insulates us from the earth’s subtle electron charge, such as high-rise buildings. As a result of this insulation, our bodies no longer maintain the natural free electron charge of the earth and so we are not protected by the earth’s electric field and natural supply of free electrons.
So the problem is a lack of grounding, which leads to a loss of electrical stability in the body. Electrophysiologists now believe the earth’s surface energy neutralises the (positively charged) free radicals by massively donating (negatively charged) free electrons to them.
There just may be something to this theory. We humans have been exchanging our free electrons with the earth’s surface for millennia. Throughout all of history, we have walked barefoot and slept on the earth. Not any more, at least in modern society. Many of us, however, notice how we feel better when we walk barefoot on the earth. You may, for example, have felt more relaxed and invigorated after spending a day walking barefoot on the beach.
Earthing and your body
Inflammation
How, then, could this barefoot earthing phenomenon be of any use to us? Let’s look first at the research claims that it reduces muscle soreness and inflammation. We know that inflammation can be caused by free radicals and that free radicals are neutralised with electrons from any source.
Free-radical damage
We know that free radicals act as electrophiles that attract free or mobile electrons and we theorise that this can also be achieved from contact with the earth through grounding. It is thought that this flow of free electrons into the body is what reduces inflammation, by blocking free-radical production, and therefore helps the injury-repair process. Here we must ask the question, “Where is the evidence that grounding combats inflammation and soreness in the human body?”
Pain and inflammation
A series of medical case studies by Dr William Amalu, president of the International Academy of Clinical Thermography, reviewed earthing treatment on 20 patients with a variety of inflammatory complaints, including chronic myofascial pain, muscle strains, ligament strains, carpal tunnel syndrome and inflammatory joint syndrome. The patients were grounded in his office or slept on grounded bed pads at home two to three times each week for 30 minutes.
Amalu took thermal imaging photos of the patients before and after treatment and the results were nothing short of dramatic. Many patients in Amalu’s study had less pain after one treatment, and 80 per cent experienced pain relief from their various ailments within two to four weeks. Interestingly, most of these patients had been having standard physical therapy and other medical treatments, with poor results. With continued grounding over months, the patients continued to get relief and in some cases their symptoms vanished altogether.
Ober (2000) looked at 60 test subjects (22 men, 38 women) with sleep problems and a variety of joint and muscle pain. Half of the group slept on grounded pads, while the control group slept on ungrounded pads. The experiment lasted 30 days and the results were, again, extraordinary. Of the grounded volunteers, 85 per cent went to sleep more quickly, 93 per cent slept better during the night, 82 per cent had a significant reduction in muscle stiffness, 74 per cent experienced reduction or elimination of chronic back and joint pain, 100 per cent reported feeling more rested upon waking and 78 per cent felt that their general health had improved.
Fonte: Roy Stevenson on 07 February 2012. Posted by WellBeing Natural Health & Living News
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