Integrative and lifestyle medicine strategies should include Earthing (grounding): Review of research evidence and clinical observations

• Published in: Explore (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2020-05, Vol.16 (3), p.152-160
• Main Authors: Menigoz, Wendy, Latz, Tracy T., Ely, Robin A., Kamei, Cimone, Melvin, Gregory, Sinatra, Drew
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Earthing; Electron deficiency; Grounding
• ISSN: 1550-8307; 1878-7541
• DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2019.10.005

•Earthing (grounding) connects people to the Earth's natural healing energy.•Reduces inflammation, pain, and stress; improves blood flow, sleep, and vitality.•Earthing is a simple, profound lifestyle addition, requiring no effort or dieting.•Earthing is a GROSSLY overlooked factor in health and healing.•Earthing should be recommended by health professionals to patients. Earthing (also known as grounding) refers to the discovery that bodily contact with the Earth's natural electric charge stabilizes the physiology at the deepest levels, reduces inflammation, pain, and stress, improves blood flow, energy, and sleep, and generates greater well-being. Such effects are profound, systemic, and foundational, and often develop rapidly. Earthing is as simple as routinely walking barefoot outdoors and/or using inexpensive grounding systems indoors while sleeping or sitting, practices that restore a lost and needed electric connection with the Earth. Some 20 studies to date have reported intriguing evidence of wide and significant physiological improvements when the body is grounded vs. non-grounded. The research, along with numerous anecdotal reports, demonstrates that Earthing clearly deserves inclusion in the clinical practice of preventive, alternative, and lifestyle medicine and has great potential to render these approaches more effective.