Sometimes you just gotta laugh. We have come to the point where
studies are needed, papers are written, websites are created and
workshops are given to promote something that is so fundamental,
so natural, so intrinsic to our human experience that it borders
on the surreal. I am talking about "Earthing" aka. "Grounding."
Earthing is the radically simple and profound idea that we, have
lost electrical contact with the ground due to insulating
material such as shoes, cars, and buildings and that this loss
of electrical contact has profound health consequences. The fix,
according to Earthing theory, is simply touching the Earth with
our skin or touching an electrically grounded conductive object.
For all of human evolution, until the widespread use of shoes,
people were barefoot, or wore conductive natural material on
their feet, that enabled the conduction of electrons to pass
between the ground and the feet. According to the theory, by
simply allowing our skin to touch the Earth we become
electrically grounded