Earthing or Grounding Health Benefits

This article could be also called Why Does a Millionaire Always Walk Around Barefoot. David Wolfe is the son of 2 medical doctors. He has become an expert on healthy foods. He eats an all raw diet and is a millionaire from teaching about healthy foods.

He has spent 2 year toughening up the bottom of his feet so he can walk everywhere barefoot. He does this since he feels a significant difference doing it. This theory on health was studied by a medical doctor and he wrote a book about it.

The simplest theory behind this is since people do not live the way that they used to, their body gets over-charged with electricity. That is why you will get an electric shock when touching something since the excess charge in your body jumps out of you into something that is grounded. Just like all animals in the wild eat all of their food raw, they also never wear shoes.

So when they walk, the excess electrical charge in their bodies goes into the ground. Some electrical appliances will have a third prong in the plug for the ground. This prong is to drain off excess electrical current from the device so you do not get electrocuted. Also the wild animals will sometimes roll around in the dirt. That also helps their body get rid of excess electrical charge.

Humans will wear shoes while walking outside and inside they are walking on carpets or wood that do not help the body get rid of excess electrical charge. David Wolfe is not the only one that feels a difference from earthing or grounding (that is what it is called). David's own website says "David is a gourmet chocolatier, organic farmer, beekeeper, and a vanilla grower."

People not only feel physical differences in their health, but also mental differences from grounding or earthing. Like it can reduce stress and help people to sleep feel better. There is a patent on grounding or earthing in using it to treat inflammation and autoimmune disease. By reducing stress, it lowers the level of cortisol in the body. It can also reduce chronic pain, improve blood pressure or flow, relieve muscle tension and headache, speed healing, eliminate jet lag, reduce or eliminate snoring and support adrenal health.

There are devices to put on your bed so you can be grounded while sleeping, devices so you can be grounded while sitting in your house and even shoes that you can use that will electrically ground you while you are walking so you do not need to be barefoot.

Man has spent thousands of years trying to make themselves more comfortable but most of these changes have been very bad for health. For example people eat so much unhealthy food that obesity rates in the United States and even in the world keep increasing. Also for comfort, people get a lot less exercise than they used to. Just by walking to a place instead of driving there can make a big difference in health.

They say that sitting is the new smoking since sitting is so bad for health. In many societies people squat instead of sit since that way their buttocks do not need to be on the ground in the dirt or mud. Also over one billion Chinese people go to the bathroom the way that we used to go to the bathroom. That is by squatting instead of sitting. This position, squatting, is much healthier especially when trying to eliminate solid waste. Sitting while going to the bathroom promotes constipation.

So earthing or grounding is one of these ways where people have gotten less healthier by trying to be more comfortable. Maybe the biggest example of this is from people getting less sunlight than they used to. This has caused a vitamin D deficiency pandemic!

This has caused many more people to get cancer, heart attacks and strokes. PubMed says that vitamin D is actually a neurosteroid hormone. They have found that by pregnant mothers and babies not getting enough vitamin D, it causes them to get type 1 diabetes or autism. Vitamin D helps the body to get rid of toxins which is one of the things that is blamed for autism and even cancer.

In the late 1800s over 80% of the children in North America and Europe had rickets. This is a terrible bone disease causing deformities. In 1922 they discovered vitamin D while searching for a cure for rickets. So enough vitamin D cured rickets. But people need higher amounts of vitamin D to avoid the other diseases mentioned above.

They have even found that people could be much healthier by eating most of their food raw instead of cooked, just like all the other animals do. Of course it is much healthier to eat unprocessed foods instead of processed foods that have all sorts of unhealthy things added to it like sugar and salt. The goal of food manufacturers is to make the most money by making their foods very addictive so you cannot stop eating them.