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
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