hi everyone welcome back to my channel if you're
new here my name is Stefan and today we're going to talk about one of the easiest and simplest
things you can do to radically improve your health today and that's known as grounding also known as
earthing now i feel i'm in a unique position to talk about the benefits of earthing and grounding
because i'm a geophysicist and i've also been writing and researching and experimenting in the
health and wellness sphere for more than 10 years now so those two help me to overlap and see how
the geophysics of the earth and how the actual electrical processes that happen here on our
planet influence our bioelectrical system and therefore influence our health from the
foundation up now this video will talk about like what is earthing in the first place the
bioelectrical effects of earthing we'll talk about uh the health benefits of earthy in which there's
a ton the geophysics of earthing and then also how you can incorporate earthing into your
lifestyle and a few different ways you can do that so to get started what is earthing
well it's really simple i'm out here on location for this video because i felt that
was important i wanted to be grounded while doing this video and i'll be using the words
grounding and earthing interchangeably okay because they're one of the same thing this right
here that's earthing me putting my bare foot on the ground is earthing now the reason that is is
that the earth is electrically conductive there are free electrons that travel through the earth
and the human body is also electrically conductive we have 1300 nerve endings per square inch on the
sole of our feet and our hands are also incredibly dense in nerve endings in a couple other
parts of our body so when you put an electrically conductive thing into contact with
something else that's electrically conductive you get a flow of electrons between them so
right now the earth because it has free electrons it's now moving up through my foot through my
leg and then of course through my entire body and you can also do earthing just like
sitting here and lotus for example but earthing at a very very very simple level is
basically just putting yourself into electrical contact with the ground with the earth so you
can equalize your electric charge because your heart generates an electromagnetic field
your brain has an electromagnetic field your nervous system is all basically charges
that move up and down through your body as you eat and as you move around and as you do
various things you build up electric charge in your body you can measure this with the voltmeter
and the bioelectrical system of the body works best when you're neutral and stable to the
ground surface when you have odd and imbalanced electrical charges in your body that influences
a whole bunch of things which we'll get into so earthing at its just base level is basically
getting in contact with the electrical potential of the earth and then equalizing your charge to it
now that leads into what is bioelectricity and how earthing kind of interacts with bioelectricity let
me go into that a little bit more the human body is bioelectrical so what we're realizing more and
more now is that bioelectricity sits at the base of all human biology and physiology and psychology
and everything and it's our bioelectrical system that determines a lot of things in regards to
our health and wellness the term determines our cardiac health it determines how much inflammation
there is in the body it determines gene expression how your dna actually expresses what genes turn
on and what genes turn off which of course affects like like i was going to say a million more
like a billion things in the body or more and it also affects just it can affect your mood
your mental health your bioelectricity is really everything so let me give you a really
good example of this there's a study of electrobiology known as morphogenetics and
morphogenetics is basically talking about your morphogenetic field how your body expresses
itself in space-time and they did this really interesting study where they took a tadpole embryo
and the tadpole of course is growing and they see the little brain there and so they took two
probes and they measured the electrical voltage of that tadpole across the brain and they got a
certain value let's call it seven right so they measured electrical voltage gradient of like seven
across that brain tissue then they took that same gradient and applied it to a different
part of the tadpole so instead of just recording it this time they applied it
to the tadpole's tail and this is while the tadpole's still growing so it has a whole
bunch of undifferentiated stem cells and things of that nature and basically what they found
was that as they applied that voltage gradient to the tadpole's tail it started to grow brain
tissue there the the tail the cells of the tail changed their expression fundamentally in a
very large way to go from just being muscle and connective tissue and sinew maybe a little
bit of bone and they became heart brain tissue and then what they did is before they applied
that voltage gradient they measured the voltage gradient of the tail then they applied the
voltage gradient at the tail again and that brain tissue which was forming in the tail became
a tail again so this this this experiment they did was with a tadpole fairly not as a complex
of a life form as us but what it shows is that these voltage gradients that run through our body
and these uh currents these electrical currents and the magnetic fields that our heart and our
brain produce are super super super fundamental to biology into our physiology so when you
are grounding you are fundamentally changing when you are grounding you are fundamentally
changing your uh human bioelectricity and you're doing it in a way that is actually how we evolved
we evolved in contact with the earth for millions and millions and millions of years it's it's very
abnormal now actually that we have been wearing shoes insulating rubber on the bottom right
i mean this is a leather leather top but you don't have any electrical flow almost no
electrical flow from the earth to the uh to me my foot inside the shoe with this rubber in between
so this recent invention has actually completely changed our bioelectrical system and how it
expresses itself and then you have things like we're living in high-rise buildings which are more
disconnected from the earth and then often they're made of things like wood or there's vinyl flooring
there's a lot of plastic our modern life now has more of an insulating layer in between us and the
earth and that changes human electrophysiology at a fundamental level and researchers who have
looked into the health effects of earthing have actually shown and have the general opinion
that the human body is fundamentally different when it's earthed than when it's not earth
when it's grounded and when it's not grounded so let's talk about that now we'll talk about the
health benefits of earthing and they're very very numerous and kind of at the base layer we'll start
they they interlink a lot so i i'm going to start kind of the base and then work my way out at
the base layer what you're doing is you're neutralizing electric charges in your body to the
stable relatively stable electric field potential of the earth and then in addition to
that since you're now more stable with the earth you also assist the flow of energy
through your body because electrical charges have this um polarity effect so if you are
relatively neutral to the earth energy can flow through your body easier and you can think
about this in terms of like the chakra system and the meridian system or you can just think of
it in terms of just how your nervous system works right do you uh are able to stick your hand out
when you want or is it shaky the whole time right so grounding stabilizes your nervous system it
reduces unwanted electrical charges in your body it brings in a flow of free electrons that
neutralize free radicals and by doing this it reduces inflammation in the body so overall
this has this really kind of stabilizing influence on the nervous system and the the main way
that expresses itself is that it increases parasympathetic activity you have your autonomic
nervous system which is your largely unconscious nervous system that regulates your heart rate
and your breathing and things like respiration and your autonomic nervous system has a
sympathetic state and a parasympathetic state your sympathetic state is the one that activates when
your stress it's your fight or flight response so you see something that's stressful
and adrenaline kicks up cortisol kicks up most people live in a sympathetic dominant
lifestyle you could say then there's your parasympathetic state and your parasympathetic
state is your rest and digest or your feed and breed state so you're more relaxed cortisol is
going down muscle activity is a little bit more like your autonomic nervous system muscle activity
is more just uh harmonious and coherent the waves and muscle activity of your gut are very much
just rhythmic things of that nature so grounding by connecting to the earth you're increasing
your parasympathetic nervous system activity something most people are heavily deficient
in nowadays so those are the nervous system benefits when you go from the nervous system
benefits we'll now look at the cardiac benefits because the nervous system influences the heart
greatly and vice versa so one of the things that earthing does is it reduces your uh chance of
having arrhythmias which is like uh skipped heartbeats and just weak heartbeats and just out
of order uh heartbeats things that aren't rhythmic they're not in time so it reduces your chance
of that because you have less random electrical voltages in your body everything's more stable
it also improves your heart rate variability now heart rate variability is really interesting it's
one of the best measures of sudden mortality and also on the best measures of stress it's really
simple when you breathe and just throughout your day-to-day your heart rate changes it goes from
let's say 60 beats per minute to like 80 back to 60 and this is a very normal cycle it's mostly
governed by your breathing when you breathe in heart rate increases when you breathe out
it slows down a bit so your heart rate variability will go like this if it's very
healthy it'll go up and down up and down up and down and very continuous sinusoidal manner
okay now if you don't have a healthy cardiac system your heart rate variability condenses it
reduces you don't have as great of a variability so what they've shown with grounding is that it
actually improves your heart rate variability it takes you from let's say just having a slightly
variable heartbeat to one that's greater one that can have these bigger waves and that's related
to a whole bunch of things but to keep it simple grounding improves heart rate variability which
is very very important for your cardiac health grounding also improves something
this is one of the biggest things grounding improves something known as
your zeta potential now blood cells have a surface negative charge on them to stop themselves
from clumping together and sticking together because you have these small capillaries in
the body small veins and you don't want blood cells to be clumped together or not able to push
through those very very small blood vessels so they have what's known as a zeta potential they
have this negative charge and when you're in contact with the earth this is sensor electrons
right electrons have a negative charge you're exposing yourself to a more negative charge than
what your body has of that moment so grounding improves the zeta potential of red blood cells and
that stops red blood cells from clumping together and you can take uh blood tissue or blood samples
and put them on under a microscope and look at how they clump from before and after grounding they've
done that it's really clear so that improves zeta potential which it takes a lot of stress off of
your heart it helps blood to circulate better it reduces blood viscosity which is one of those
things that most people with heart disease have really poor blood viscosity because they're super
ungrounded so improves data potential grounding also like improves your cholesterol parameters
and lowers triglycerides and lower ldl cholesterol and the reason why it lowers ldl cholesterol
is because it reduces inflammation in the body which we'll get to in a little bit that's actually
like one of the biggest things that grounding does but overall grounding has a very beneficial effect
on the cardiac system and for stabilizing the beneficial rhythms of your heart to how they
like to basically flow in addition to that grounding also benefits your gut health and
one of the main reasons why is you have what's known as gut motility this is the transit of food
through your stomach and your intestines and you digest food better and you have less gut health
issues when your gut motility is normal and gut motility is determined by the smooth muscle
activity of your gut so the smooth muscles surround the intestines and they're part of the
autonomic nervous system so they're not regulated consciously and they contract and pulse through
peristaltic waves and that moves food through your digestive system so when you're grounded
and you have a stable electrical potential your smooth muscle activity normalizes and
becomes more regular it's not all blocked up for two hours and then pushing all your food
through really quickly it's giving food even amounts of time through every single part of the
stomach and small intestine and large intestine because each part of the gut absorbs different
nutrients and performs different functions so they're all very important and food needs to
transit through them smoothly for your gut to be healthy so grounding benefits gut health it
can reduce constipation it can reduce diarrhea it can improve things like ibs which is a
gut health condition a lot of people have that's irritable bowel syndrome and it can also
improve gut health because it reduces inflammation and that helps with things like leaky gut that
helps with things like food intolerances and the list goes on inflammation is like the root cause
of like 80 plus diseases chronic and otherwise so the fact that it reduces inflammation is super
huge we'll get to that now grounding is one of the best things you can do to reduce inflammation
in your body now inflammation is caused by a variety of factors one of the main ones being
free radicals and free radicals are basically positive ions that can react with
things and then that can break molecular structures or break things apart and
free uh free radicals aren't necessarily bad but when they're left unchecked and they just kind
of go out of control than they are because you can use the body uses free radicals to trigger
healing when something needs to be broken down and healed that's in the inflammation
process isn't a bad thing when it's done to the right degree but if it's left unchecked
then everything goes haywire and now you have a chronic inflammation in the body and now you're
starting to disrupt and destroy healthy tissues and put undue stress on the body so by stabilizing
your body to the electrical potential of the earth this relatively stable electrical potential
of the earth you greatly reduce inflammation and that greatly reduces pain when you are
earthing off in you have a lot less pain if you have a let's say chronic pain in your
back or you have arthritis rheumatoid or other otherwise or stomach pain or there's a whole
bunch of different types of pains we all know them grounding reduces that pain because it reduces
free radicals and reduces inflammation now grounding can also reduce pain that's induced
like delayed onset muscle soreness or from a hard workout so if you are exercising a lot
or you did a really big workout things of that nature grounding will reduce that pain because it
reduces muscle protein breakdown there's just less nitrogen waste that's created less muscle and
less proteins broken down when you do something grounded versus when you don't do it grounded
and that all again relates to that foundational bioelectrical system and how it functions it
also improves things like your flexibility so by improving your electrical charges in your
body that helps your muscles to relax better and it does a whole bunch of things it improves your
glaucoma if you have glaucoma improves renal function grounding is one of those things that
touches your bioelectrical physiology at its very very base it's like a master master switch for
your health and wellness so if you have any sort of health problem and you're not grounding then
you should be grounding every single day because that's super important that will undoubtedly help
you with whatever issue you have and it's not like you can prescribe grounding like okay i have this
specific problem i'm going to go out and i know grounding will fix it but grounding will fix and
help you heal whatever health issues you have so you can't necessarily direct it it will just do
what it needs to do and we evolve to be in contact with the earth so your body knows what it needs
and knows how to equalize its charges just trust the whole process and just spend sufficient time
out here so i'll quickly go into uh kind of like how these free electrons are created this is
the geophysics of grounding the earth is a giant battery it's fed by constant solar radiation
and also by radioactive decay in the core and also the mantle and the crust this just
puts energy into the earth and the earth overall has a electric charge when the earth's surface
has an electric charge if you compare it to other parts of the earth like the ionosphere if you go
up into the atmosphere 40 kilometers 50 kilometers 100 kilometers you have an atmospheric layer known
as the ionosphere and the ionosphere is basically where solar radiation uv radiation has taken gas
molecules and split their bonds and now you have these positive ions floating around you have
some electrons too but overall the ionosphere has a charge of like 250 000 to 500 000 volts so
you have this positive charge up here and then you have this negative charge down here because
every positive requires a negative to be balanced and as you go up the atmosphere you have a
voltage gradient that occurs so if you're standing at the top of your head you have about 350 to
400 volts but because air is a poor conductor you don't get zapped and that's called the
umbrella effect now when you have a storm system when uh when water vapor moves through the air and
there's a little bit of friction you can start to develop charges in the atmosphere and that can
develop a storm system and with a storm system positive charge will develop underneath the storm
and at the bottom of the rain cloud you'll have or storm cloud you'll have a negative charge at the
top you'll have a positive charge and then you have the ionosphere again positive up there and
when that storm cloud discharges via lightning that shoots a whole bunch of free electrons into
the earth so the electrical potential of the earth that happens to go into the atmosphere is fed
back into the earth via lightning strikes of which there's 50 to like 150 every single second
so they're constantly popping off and these create magneto to alert currents that travel through the
earth and overall there's a whole soup and sea of free electrons that aren't bound to any single
molecule they're able to move and flow to where where they're attracted to so being electrically
conductive when you put yourself into contact with the ground those free electrons flow through
your body and that's in general the geophysics of earthing now here's how you can actually practice
everything here's here's what you can do to incorporate everything into your life to enjoy all
those health and wellness benefits of which i've covered some of there's much more in my earthing
article you can check out the video description to read that but the way you can earth the simplest
way you can resist to simply walk around barefoot just go to the park and put your foot on the
ground go barefoot for 20 minutes at the park run around or do some yoga or just stand there and
meditate for a little bit or just you can also sit down like as i am right now i'm grounded right now
because i've been sitting on the ground now for 15 20 minutes electrons flow through your feet
really easily in your hands because there's a lot of nerve endings here but they'll also work
up through your base of your spine and start to go like this and go through your entire body and
if you're grounding in this manner if you're out at a park or you're at the beach for example or
maybe it's not a grass field but you're in contact with the earth then you can expect it to take 15
20 30 minutes to get fully grounded in that manner another way you can get grounded that's really
really really good is to go for a swim especially in conductive bodies of water that would be like
the ocean where there's a lot of dissolved salts because the more ions in solution the more
electrons can flow between them and the more conductive the water is so water like seawater is
really really conductive and what's great about swimming is that you'll be in the water typically
for a while and your entire body is immersed so you have free electrons from every single part
going in and neutralizing your bioelectricity simultaneously whereas if you're grounding like
this it kind of moves up through your nervous system like that and it takes some time swimming
is really rapid taking a shower will also help ground you though fresh water like tap water is
not going to be super super conductive as compared to sea water but it still definitely grounds
you it helps to sweep some of this electrical charge out of your body so if you're feeling super
ungrounded and i think we all kind of understand what that means individually if you're feeling
super ungrounded you can go outside go for a walk barefoot you can go to the beach lay down go for
a swim you can take a shower if you're at home you can even just touch a conductive object again this
is just a connection between conductive objects we're just facilitating a transfer of charge so if
you have a good understanding of this and you see a conductive object let's say some metal railing
outside of the grocery store you can just put your hand on that and some of your charge will flow
through you and depending on how long you hold on to that metal railing and how well grounded
and uncharged it is the faster it'll occur so there's a whole bunch of ways to get grounded
you can also get grounded while you sleep with something like an earthy mat or a blanket
they also have like pillowcases or patches for localized grounding relief if you use any of
those products like an earthing blanket or a mat i recommend that you don't plug it into the
ground system of your house because the ground system of your house is surrounded by all the
power wires and also it's right there with your wi-fi everything so it's picking up a lot of this
electromagnetic junk that's ready in your house i recommend you take a grounding rod and actually
put it outside in your lawn far away from any power lines or underground lines really make sure
it's in some nice isolated virgin ground drive it in connect the shielded wire to your blanket to
that rod and just check it every once in a while to make sure it doesn't get nibbled or something
but that's the best way you can get grounded for sleeping and grounded while sleeping is one of
the best things you can do that's your natural like time of the day that your body regenerates
so to put yourself into a grounded state for like five six eight hours or more perhaps every
single day is super transformative for your health if you have any sort of long-term chronic
problems and even if you're already healthy you'll definitely notice good benefits from it so
one tip for how you can improve your grounding is you can use something like peppermint oil
i've noticed that peppermint oil activates bioelectricity so if you want to improve the
whole effect you can simply just put some on the bottom of your foot like that and then as
you're walking around the park or doing whatever you'll notice that the whole grounding effect
is much faster you can also put this along your spine so the the bioelectricity moves up easier
and you can put it let's say on your limbs but typically if i'm using peppermint oil to help
facilitate the flow of bioelectrical energy i'm putting it on my spine and i'm also putting
some here and putting a little bit there and a little bit on the back of my head so that's
grounding i hope you enjoyed this video i have a whole article on this where i go more in depth
so you can check that out in the video description and you can also check out a complete
earthing starter kit from amazon in the video description that has a blanket and a mat
and a pillow case and patches and that's really good if you're more limited in your ability
to go outside often i highly recommend that because you shouldn't let lifestyle limitations
stop you from grounding it's what we evolved to do it fundamentally changes your physiology and your
gene expression and your bioelectricity it's one of the best things you can do for your health
so if you don't have the ability to run around and do yoga at the park every day kind of like
i do then the earthing starting pack is really really key because you'll be grounding while you
sleep perhaps you'll use the mat and you'll be grounded while you're at the computer you can use
the the blanket while you're watching tv you can be grounded really really often if you're more of
a home buddy and that's really really important for your health especially if you have chronic
diseases grounding itself is free you can it's one of the best health and wellness things you
can do is totally free because it's just basically utilizing understanding of our physiology so i
hope you found this video on grounding useful and there's a whole bunch of resources in
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