Earthing

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Welcome to the new frontier of Earthing.

Gaetan Chevalier, Ph.D., Director, Earthing Institute 

As director of the Earthing Institute I look forward to the many exciting discoveries ahead related to the simple proposition that good things happen inside our bodies when we connect to the Earth beneath our feet.

As a researcher involved primarily with the body’s electrophysiology (how the body produces and utilizes electrical energy), I find it rather amazing that at this point in the human timeline we are just starting to scientifically explore the benefits to health that come from direct contact with the planet we live on. It is obvious that past cultures, and even indigenous people today, put great emphasis on connectedness to the Earth. Finally, we are investigating the precise dynamics and benefits of this connectedness.

The studies I have been involved with have yielded an intriguing glimpse at what appears to be a new, more vital and robust human physiology. The body’s inner workings are different when we connect to the Earth either by being barefoot outside or sleeping on the Earth as was the case throughout most of evolution until only very recently, or through the utilization of practical Earthing products indoors that allow us to sleep, relax, and work grounded. The impact on our body, these initial studies strongly suggest, is a powerful and positive shift in the physiology that may one day give rise to a new definition of what is normal.

Earthing restores a lost electrical signal to the body that seems to stabilize the complicated circuitry of our essentially electrical body. My research shows that this has head to toe repercussions and many benefits for the hardware and software of our built-in self-regulating and self-healing mechanisms. For many people the shift is practically equivalent to charging a failing battery or restoring power after constant brownouts.

Those of us involved in Earthing research hypothesize that Earthing transfers negatively charged electrons into the body that are abundantly present on the surface of the Earth. Electrons are the “object of affection,” so to speak, of positively charged free radicals, the biochemical agents causing oxidation in the body. Electrons are the source of the power of antioxidants. The influx of electrons from Earthing neutralizes or otherwise satisfies and quenches free radicals, stopping them from stealing electrons from healthy tissue that results in tissue damage and chronic inflammation at the heart of so many common and serious diseases.  Here, seemingly, is a natural, profound, and simple remedy for chronic inflammation: connect to the Earth.

Modern living has increasingly separated humans from Mother Earth and its great natural commodity of unlimited, subtle health-nurturing energy. This energy has now been discovered scientifically and with that discovery the magnificent prospect of doing great good for the entire population of our planet.

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