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Anyway, this is one of those things I would have completely ignored as a concept. The idea that "grounding" or connecting to the planet electrically would have any measurable health effect. But apparently it does, and it appears to be pretty big.
I first came across this journal while researching vagal tone: grounding pre-term babies
(Side note: That article may even help explain several bits of research like this one related to babies: touch improves babies vagal tone
(Side side note: Parents! Ground your kids! They'll thank you later!)
Vagal tone is an important indicator of cardivascular health, stress response, and some other things, so it makes sense to try to understand it better.
Anyway, from that article I started finding others about grounding. It's funny, because I was already aware of the very powerful effects of tDCS and TMS on the brain, and electrical stimulation on wound healing and nerve growth, for example. There are quite a few biomedical technologies that exploit the body's conductivity and electric potentials, electric field effects, etc, for recovery or optimization. I guess I just wouldn't have thought about the misplaced electrical and chemical potentials in the body being mitigated by something as simple as grounding... of course, it makes sense in retrospect, but it sounds too simple. But it's not. It's just reality. LOL.
Some more journals (just as examples - I'm not endorsing these):
Earthing - JEPH
Grounding, sleep, cortisol - JACM
tldr: Grounding your body may in some cases actually relieve stress, alleviate oxidative stress, speed up recovery, reduce pain in some circumstances, and/or improve things that are indicators of health, resilience and longevity. And that's coming from researchers, not just yogis (no offense, yogis are ok with me) or alternative health advertisements.
EDIT: I actually was not trying to take this in a new age direction. It's fine if someone wants to, but please understand I'm not advocating pseudoscience or attempting to refer to the non-science parts of this seriously. The article that grabbed my attention was about premature babies in hospitals. Connecting them to ground helps them in an objectively measurable way - it increases vagal tone, which is a measure of the effects of the vagus nerve. "Poor" vagal tone results in increased resting heart rate and increased risk of "bad things." It is measured non-invasively by measuring "respiratory sinus arrhythmia," which is the tendency of the heart rate to speed up or slow down during the breathing cycle. This is a rather long way of explaining that, despite the corny title of this thread, I'm talking about the the objectively measurable science here.
Anyway, this is one of those things I would have completely ignored as a concept. The idea that "grounding" or connecting to the planet electrically would have any measurable health effect. But apparently it does, and it appears to be pretty big.
I first came across this journal while researching vagal tone: grounding pre-term babies
(Side note: That article may even help explain several bits of research like this one related to babies: touch improves babies vagal tone
(Side side note: Parents! Ground your kids! They'll thank you later!)
Vagal tone is an important indicator of cardivascular health, stress response, and some other things, so it makes sense to try to understand it better.
Anyway, from that article I started finding others about grounding. It's funny, because I was already aware of the very powerful effects of tDCS and TMS on the brain, and electrical stimulation on wound healing and nerve growth, for example. There are quite a few biomedical technologies that exploit the body's conductivity and electric potentials, electric field effects, etc, for recovery or optimization. I guess I just wouldn't have thought about the misplaced electrical and chemical potentials in the body being mitigated by something as simple as grounding... of course, it makes sense in retrospect, but it sounds too simple. But it's not. It's just reality. LOL.
Some more journals (just as examples - I'm not endorsing these):
Earthing - JEPH
Grounding, sleep, cortisol - JACM
tldr: Grounding your body may in some cases actually relieve stress, alleviate oxidative stress, speed up recovery, reduce pain in some circumstances, and/or improve things that are indicators of health, resilience and longevity. And that's coming from researchers, not just yogis (no offense, yogis are ok with me) or alternative health advertisements.
EDIT: I actually was not trying to take this in a new age direction. It's fine if someone wants to, but please understand I'm not advocating pseudoscience or attempting to refer to the non-science parts of this seriously. The article that grabbed my attention was about premature babies in hospitals. Connecting them to ground helps them in an objectively measurable way - it increases vagal tone, which is a measure of the effects of the vagus nerve. "Poor" vagal tone results in increased resting heart rate and increased risk of "bad things." It is measured non-invasively by measuring "respiratory sinus arrhythmia," which is the tendency of the heart rate to speed up or slow down during the breathing cycle. This is a rather long way of explaining that, despite the corny title of this thread, I'm talking about the the objectively measurable science here.
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