Earthing: the charge from our mother Earth

[...] Praised be You my Lord, through our sister earth, who sustains and governs us, and produces different fruits with colorful flowers and herbs. [...] (Francis of Assisi, Laudes Creaturarum ).

Let us soon forget that the earth is sacred. Few people say that it is energetically charged. Let us remember that his energy completes, harmonizes and balances us. Clinton Ober, Stephen T. Sinatra, Martin Zucker, three authors of a recently published book entitled "Earthing, The earth that heals" .

Who are the authors of Earthing

Let's talk about those who created this text, before going into it, in the warm core of a basic theory that ancient peoples knew even without measurements, experiments and advanced scientific techniques.

The trend of many texts born of American feathers often runs on the edge of bewilderment because of theories perhaps as ancient as civilization or even more than it. Then the salesman tone that permeates the pages takes over, that feeling that the authors don't want to say something but sell something. This component in Earthing is there. But, compared to other texts concerning the natural well-being, we must say that it is fairly moderate and does not lead to annoyance. Moderate and yet conveyed by personal experience. A triplet of personal experiences, to tell the truth.

That of Clinton Ober, director of a cable television that falls seriously ill with a disease that weighs on the functioning of the liver and then on all the internal organs. He begins a personal journey through states and publications, scientific and medical studies, people who mock him and doctors who taunt him, self-taught experiments.

On the way he meets Stephen T. Sinatra, a cardiologist of rare sensitivity (reads in the book "I am a sort of holistic cardiologist and I have always used both conventional and alternative medicine to help my heart patients" ). In short, the cardiologist is an attentive, mentally elastic and curious man; avercene, one could comment. And this man of rare ability realizes, at a certain point, that his patients' ailments - especially arrhythmia and angina - increase in the days of the full moon or on days when solar eruptions occur . Enter the branch that is called electro-medicine and is in San Diego, in 2010, at an electro-medical conference, which meets Ober.

To crown the overall vision comes a popularizer of traditional medicine and not of great fame, Martin Zucker . And the book takes the form it has in our hands today. Let's take a look at the underlying message.

Earthing: us, inflammation, the Earth

We are conductors. We need this premise. We are made of water, minerals : both excellent electronic conductors. On Earth, free electrons continuously pulsate and are fed by natural phenomena (solar radiation, thousands of electrical discharges, the energy generated by the inner core of the planet).

When there is direct contact between us and the earth, these electrons move and penetrate us. So with the Earth we share an important aspect: we are both electric, or electrically charged.

To understand why connecting to the earth simply by walking barefoot should benefit us, we need to come to the core concept of inflammation, filter and reading lens of the main disorders of our age. Diabetes, autoimmune diseases, heart diseases, psychosomatic disorders are all triggered by internal inflammations that pass through food, air pollution. With regards to the link between food and internal inflammation, a whole specific literature is becoming more and more popular, ranging from the China Study case to other texts that have ridden the fashion of the moment, a little based on the alarmism a bit on the novelty at all costs. We recommend the literature produced by the biologist and nutritionist Hervé Grosgogeat, who has been in the field of silent inflammation for a long time and has done an acid-base study that continues over time, without revealing miracles or claiming to make the change, but re-adopting nutritional principles that have to do with our nutritional and therefore evolutionary history.

Returning to inflammation, it must be emphasized, very briefly, that these are due to free radicals . This is confirmed by sites, publications, scholars and disseminators. What the authors of this book add is related to this idea. The dramatic increase in the incidence of inflammatory diseases is linked to the loss of connection with the Earth . The lack of connection with the planet's natural flow of surface electric energy and the lack of electrons in our body deriving from this uprooting aggravate the individual's state of health.

And as if the inflammation was also linked to the "thirst for negative charges" that the Earth gives us, simplifying a lot.

Earthing: what is it? What benefits?

But, in summary, what do the authors of Earthing propose ? The most natural thing in the world: walking barefoot on the earth.

Among the benefits deriving from this practical semolice, the authors focused on some key aspects. In fact, through scientific evidence the authors have shown that Earthing :

Improve or eliminate symptoms related to inflammation disorders;
Reduces chronic pain ;
Improves sleep ;
Increases the overall energy of the individual ;
Relieves muscle tension and headache ;
Accelerates the recovery of intense sporting activity ;
Accelerates healing ;
Reduces jet lag ;
Improves blood flow pressure ;
It protects the body from environmental electromagnetic fields (EMF) potentially harmful to health.