Ground connection

Grounding, called earthing in English, is a medical technique

discussed) that consists of sleeping, or performing activities (or convalescence) reconnecting
electrically to the patient to ground, which modifies several physiological parameters
accelerating wound healing, alleviating pain, improving sleep ... This practice
is based on the science of electricity and the physics of electrical conductivity to explain
how the electric charges of the earth can have positive effects on the body.
In other contexts, a broader and vaguer notion of disconnection from the earth (with the
nature) is aalternative medicine.

Summary

Defining elements
2History
Recent scientific studies
o 3.1 Effects on the immune system
o 3.2 Effects on inflammation
o 3.3 Effects on muscle healing
o 3.4 Effects on the cardiovascular system
o 3.5 Effects on pain, mood
o 3.6 Effects on sleep, stress, and recovery
4 devices
5 aspects of alternative medicine
6 Grounding methods
o 6.1 Walking barefoot
o 6.2 Lie down on the floor
o 6.3 Dive into water
o 6.4 Use of grounding equipment
7 Interest in coronavirus infections?
8 Critics, detractors
Related Articles
10 external links
11Bibliography
12 Notes and references

Elements of definition
In the decade of the 2000s, with respect to the medical context, Karol and Paweł Sokal (being the
first member of the Neurosurgery Department of the Powstancow Military Hospital
in Warsaw), they defined theground connection (or establish the ground) like all contact
directly with the earth secured during the dream and / or during daily activities; this
contact can be assured by bare feet in contact with a damp ground, or
through a metal conductive element connected on one side to the human body and by
another side to a plot of land)
The electric potential of the body is then equal to the local electric potential of the ground.
potential that can vary depending on location, climate, atmospheric conditions,
soil moisture content.

History
The feeling of well-being caused by walking barefoot on the ground or on sand.
humid, as well as the positive effects on health, have been mentioned for a long time
time in literature and cultural practices around the world.
In the Enlightenment, after the discovery of the first great physical principles that
they explain electricity, its capture (Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod...), its measurement, its
storage (Volta battery), its production, its transport and some of its effects;
hundreds of experiments carried out by curious individuals, physicists, doctors, botanists, and others
scientists, academies, and scientific societies have referred to the effects of the
natural electricity ("telluric" (soil) or "atmospheric" or artificial in the animal body
(including humans) and in plants (electroculture, etc.) In the Earth-atmosphere system,
the surface of the globe is a constant source of mobile or free electrons.
Many electrotherapy procedures are derived from these early experiments.
empirical or scientific, experiments, in particular, and the first one is summarized in three
works of the physicist and the abbot Pierre Bertholon de Saint-Lazare (1741-1800), translated to
various languages quickly and that have experienced rapid time
impact on academic circles:

Electricity of the human body in health and disease, a work in which

we take care of the electricity of the atmosphere, its influence and its effects on the
animal economy. & vs. & c,1780;
Electricity from vegetables, 1783;
Electricity of the human body in health and disease, 2
volumes, 1786.
At the end of the 19th century, a romantic movement and 'return to nature' in Germany
and the United States promoted the idea that being barefoot outside, even in cold weather,
it was beneficial for health.
Justin Christofleau, French follower of electroculture, who published in the years
1920-1930 various inventions inspired by the writings and experiments of Bertholon,
including a patented 'naturally electrically conductive shoe' it estimates that 'the
men stripped of clothing and barefoot, lying on the ground, in constant
contact with the forces of nature develops normally and acquires great
strength with an insignificant food; while the people covering the clothes and
enclosing their feet in shoes that isolate them from the ground, they need, to maintain their
vitality, a food much more abundant and rich to compensate for the forces of the
nature of those who are isolated by their clothing and especially by their shoes. How
potted plant, they are private telluric electricity, that of the ambient air, which cannot
circular through his body.
To prevent the shoe in which the foot is enclosed from isolating the human body from the
earth, it is necessary to pass the shoe over one or more small metals of range, good
electricity conductivity, supporting one end on the ground and the other end on
contact with the foot trapped in the shoe” (invention that will be cited in a patent
presented by Davol Rubber Co in 1956, and in a patent of 1987 submitted by
André Cambois 1987-03-13 ( "to the land of the human body indirectly by
interposition of metal parts in the soles of the footwear.
In the 1920s, an English doctor (Georges Starr White) in London was
interested in the effects of the sleeping body's orientation (or animals like
birds in the henhouse or cows in the barn) in relation to the cardinal weights, and
sleeping on a bed connected to the ground by a copper wire (after listening to
patients say they do not sleep properly "unless they are on the floor or
tied to the ground in one way or another." another "(through a copper wire connected to
water pipes, gas or radiators grounded, for example). Based on several
findings, concluded that these methods greatly improved sleep, even in a
patient who previously needed an opioid medication to sleep, but their ideas
they were never accepted by the general public.
At the end of theXX 20th century, experiments independently, two groups of
investigation, on one hand the United States (with particular emphasis) and also
In Poland (by K. and P. Sokal Sokal), sometimes based on fabrics, carpets, the plates
of the electrodes of the EKG and TENS type and the elements that connect the subject to the ground,
they have concluded in the physiological and health benefits. They believe that grounding of the
the human body represents a 'universal regulatory factor in nature' that influences
strongly in bioelectric, bioenergetic, and biochemical processes and seems to offer
an important modulatory effect on chronic diseases that are found in
diary in his clinical practice.

Recent scientific studies

Two difficulties in measuring the health effects of the body's electrical connection
human to the earth are thenaturepartiallysubjectiveof pain, the symptoms and
inflammatory syndromes, and the fact that, generally, there is no available group of
control compatible. However, the 'grounding' has been tested in
clinical and experimental environments, and the effects seem positive in general. Since
There is infrared imaging applied to medicine that can highlight inflammatory phenomena.
that were once difficult to locate; it also allows for evaluating the potential benefit of
a ground connection.
In the years 2000-2020, from the U.S., in particular, a dozen researchers.
specialized in the study of the physiological effects of the earth, with more than a dozen
of studies published in reading journals, but often based on a small
number of patients. Some of them have founded an institute called Earthing Institute
what it aims to "spread knowledge about grounding and its benefits, and coordinate
the research on grounding". According to this Institute, about twenty studies have already
They had focused on this topic before 2020, but the research continues.
In 2007, it was suggested that the Earth's diurnal electric rhythms contribute to the readjustment.
of biological clocks that, in themselves, regulate the hormones that determine the cycle
of daily activity / sleep (melatonin in particular, which also has virtues
antioxidants).
According to Paweł Sokal (2011), one of the researchers in this group, the rebalancing in
The density of negative charge could be a 'neuromodulatory factor, probably
primary, which allows the nervous system to better adapt to the demands of the organism and to
surrounding environment. Sokal points out that 'grounding generates changes
"immediate" in three phenomena linked to the nervous system (central and peripheral):

1. electroencephalography (EEG);
2. the surface of electromyography (SEMG), called 'surface' because
the signal pickup electrodes are placed directly on the skin
relationship with the muscle to study
3. 'Somatosensory evoked potential' (SEP or SSEP orevoked potential
somatosensoryfor English speakers). The EM refers to the electrical activity of
brain resulting from the stimulation of "touch", measured in a non-invasive manner
(from a brief mechanical impact on the fingertip, a jet of air on the skin or
of a bipolar transcutaneous electrical stimulation applied to the skin along the
path of a peripheral nerve (in the arm or leg) whose effect is recorded afterwards.
on the scalp. The CEPs are used to evaluate the functioning of the
"somatosensory system" (a neurological anomaly in the CEP indicates or
 confirms and helps locate a silent injury, or changes that are useful for
monitor in certain surgical procedures).
As a reminder, electric charge density is the amount of electric charge per
unit of space. The "charge densities" can be theoretically understood in 3
situations: in a space with 1, 2, or 3 dimensions; they are called
respectively linear, surface, or volumetric charge density. Inside the
human body we will rather talk about volume density, but in the hair the
Charge density takes on a linear appearance, and on dry skin, it is also superficial.
In 2012, two Polish researchers (Karol and Pawel Sokal) published measurements
of the electric potential carried out in slopes and crowds, but also in the language and in
the blood of people placed in a Faraday cage and grounded or
No. They also took the same measurements in subjects in the process of changing to a
standing position and a lying down position (still in the Faraday cage). In the cage of
Faraday, in lying subjects not connected to the ground, the electrical potential measured in
the points described above were approximately 0 mV, while the setup
to the land of these subjects (by means of a copper wire fixed to a surface
humidity of the body) caused an immediate change in the electrostatic potential (in the
body and in venous blood): increased to a value of approximately -200 mV, for
all measurement points.
By interrupting the grounding, the potential returned to its initial values in all
proven points. Measurements taken in venous blood and in the mucous membrane
of the language reflect a priori changes in the electric potential of the aqueous electric environment
of the body.
The authors observed that getting up or lying down induced transient changes in the
potential in the human electric environment in subjects not grounded ... while
this potential remained constant in human bodies connected to the ground and performing
the same movements. This brings to mind bio-electrical processes
bioenergetic disturbances in electrically isolated individuals from the Earth as a
source of an 'electromagnetohydrodynamic potential'.
In 2013, a team of Polish researchers conducted a double-blind study on the effects
physiological aspects of an electrical grounding connection during physical exercise
a stationary bike) and during the recovery phase. Blood samples were taken
before each session, then after 15 and 30 minutes of exercise, then after 40
recovery minutes. The blood analysis showed that lauremia (urea rate in the
blood, urea is a toxic metabolic waste, excreted by the kidney through the
urine) significantly lower in subjects grounded when the 'exercise and
during the relaxation phase.
The creatinine rate decreased due to contrasts, indicating that the catabolism of the
protein inhibits the liver. The authors concluded that "an effort underground can
result in a positive protein balance.
In 2014, Kent Chamberlin and 4 of his colleagues from the University of New Hampshire,
thanks to a detector sensitive to low levels of low frequencies, they show that the
currents flowing between the human body (of a person lying on a fabric
what covers an electrical conductor material connected to the ground) and the earth are very weak
(they are measured in nanoamperes, and therefore well below the thresholds of perception
human, which is about 500 microA) but with a huge interindividual variation (from
two orders of size) and by age and sex. The authors also confirm that the
the intensity of this current is correlated with the movement of the subject, and
they specify: "there doesn't seem to be any information contained in this exchange, except for
information about the movement of the subject (a witness during the experiments was a
life-sized mannequin, covered with conductive aluminum foil.
In 2015, the members of this group believe that, together, their work opens
promising perspectives regarding the fight against certain pathologies
inflammatory and in public health prevention. They invite the community to
Researchers working on inflammation to 'verify, refute, or clarify the
interpretations of their results”. According to Oschman et al. (2015) “The research
multidisciplinary has revealed that the electrically conductive contact of the body
Human contact with the Earth's surface (grounding) produces 'intriguing' effects on
physiology and health, particularly in inflammation (prevention and treatment)
inflammatory diseases), immune response: (wound healing)
chronic autoimmune diseases, as well as pain and sleep disturbances.
Its synthesis study aims to draw researchers' attention to
colon:

The grounding of the human body or the laboratory animal has effects.
physiological; seems to have complex (and for some immediate) consequences
about the bioelectric environment of the human body, but certain variations in
Electrolyte levels regulate the proper functioning of the nervous system.
The grounding "greatly influences the electrical activity of the brain". Thus, for
for example, it can "influence the results of studies on inflammation,
wound healing and tumorigenesis. Not taking into account the duration of the
grounding, and its degree (in other words, the degree of conductivity /
electrical resistance of the cage floor, enclosures, etc.; during the
experiments) in studies (this is generally the case) could, by
thus, being a source of scientific bias;
2. The grounding of animal organisms (human patients if
corresponds) offers a new perspective for the study and perhaps the cure of the
inflammation and other diseases that are still not well understood. In fact, "the
Rooting of an organism induces measurable differences in the levels
white blood cells, cytokines, and other molecules involved in the response
inflammatory. For example, an experimental muscle injury (calledpain
late-onset muscular) induces an immune reaction that varies with or without
ground connection of the injured organism; the pain is reduced through the connection
the land that also changes the amount of circulating neutrophils and lymphocytes, so
like several circulating chemical factors related to inflammation.
Several explanations are proposed for these observed effects. They are based on the
research and what is known about cell electrophysiology and
tissue, cell biology, biophysics and biochemistry.
The different organs of the animal organism are more or less conductive. Some
(fur, hair in humans, dry skin) can sometimes accumulate
significantly static electricity. The grounding of the body seems to be able to
balance these surface charges, but also act more deeply in the
body, through all the tissues that connect the cells. One of the researchers
involved in the issue of the effects of grounding (James L Oschman)
he proposed in 2009 the notion of the living matrix which he defined as 'the continuum of molecular tissue'
of the organism, composed of fasciae, other connective tissues, matrices
extracellular, integrins, cytoskeletons, nuclear matrices and DNA. The body
it always has a deposit of electric charges dispersed in various biopolymers
extracellular, cellular, and nuclear basic substances. The body distributes and uses these
charges to maintain its electrical homeostasis, but also for the 'preparation
"inflammatory," adds Oschman, according to whom research has demonstrated the importance
of charge transfer "in relation to the capture or neutralization of radicals
free radicals released at the sites of the lesion during and after the oxidative explosion.
The best proof of this bond is, according to him, that experimentally the electrons
they mitigate the consequences of inflammation when the organism is connected
electrically to the ground. Still, according to Oschman, this helps to better understand why
what and how body work and movement therapy can facilitate resolution of
acute or chronic injuries, especially if the patient is electrically connected to the
ground (bare feet on the ground, for example): these therapies stimulate migration of
electric charges to sites of acute or chronic inflammation.
In 2015, Oschman and his colleagues believe that a better connection of the body to the earth
allows available electrons on the surface of the earth to extend to and
toward the body, where they can create an antioxidant microenvironment, conducive to the
wound healing; These electrons could inhibit or stop collateral damage to the tissue
it is said that it is induced by the "inflammatory barrier" of reactive species of
oxygen (ROS).
Another hypothesis, compatible with the previous one, is that the electrons coming from the ground
terrestrial could prevent or resolve "silent" or "latent" inflammations and limit the
risks of chronic inflammation (free or mobile electrons present everywhere in the
surface of the body). According to James L. Oschman, the Earth could play a role
of 'natural antioxidants'). According to these authors, if these concepts are validated, then
could broaden the therapeutic field to new strategies for managing the response
inflammatory and immunological, as well as for facilitating wound healing.
Oschman proposes two explanatory and complementary hypotheses:

Around an injury, the electrical charges of the body deposit prevent 'damage.
"collateral" to the surrounding healthy tissue;
2. ground the body by making electrons available throughout the
body, allows for the replenishment of electron deposits.
Effects on the immune system
In 2012, another experiment evaluated the effect of grounding on the response.
immune from immunization. It accelerated the immune response, as demonstrated by the increase
of the concentration of gammaglobulins. This result confirms an association between the
connection to the earth and the immune response.
According to Clinton Ober, grounding is therapeutic for people with
Lyme disease (especially because it facilitates deep sleep), but patients
they must proceed with caution. As with antibiotic therapy, in some cases, the
Connection to the earth can trigger a Herxheimer reaction, which can temporarily
causing fatigue, nausea, and fever (which are an inflammatory and immune response to the
presence of dead bacteria, of the genus Borrelia in this case.
Effects on inflammation
After an injury, the grounding of an organism reduces or even prevents the
main signs of inflammation: redness, heat, swelling, pain, and loss of
function.
Approximately twenty case studies based on infrared medical images have
demonstrated a faster resolution of chronic painful inflammation.
Effects on muscle healing
In 2015, Brown, Chevalier, and Hill published a study on the effect of connectivity.
land of muscle soreness after exercise.
The researchers used grounding patches and mats and measured the levels.
of creatine kinase, the white blood cell count and the pain level before and after
of the ground connection.
Blood tests show that grounding reduced muscle damage and pain.
in the participants. Therefore, it seems to influence the healing abilities.
Effects on the cardiovascular system
Gaétan Chevalier and his team conducted a small test on the effect in 2013.
of grounding in cardiovascular health.
Ten healthy participants connected to the earth for 2 hours using patches.
placed in the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. They were comfortably
sitting in a recliner, in a soundproof experimental room, with the lights
attenuated or extinguished.
 The viscosity measurements of the blood were taken before and after the
ground connection to determine red blood cell silos that play a role in the
heart health was affected. The results (filmed) showed a
significant decrease in erythrocyte aggregation after grounding
in all subjects, suggesting a benefit for cardiovascular health.
the zeta potential (ζ potential) (measured before and after two hours of connection to
Earth) increased by an average of 2.70 in all blood samples. The connection
the land increased the surface load carried by the red blood cells, which
it decreases both the viscosity and the agglutination of the blood.
According to the same authors, other effects (described below) have a
positive influence on the cardiovascular system, even reducing the level
decortisol (cortisol that interferes with circadian rhythms and activates the system
sympathetic nervous system in promoting hypertension, obesity, and certain diseases
cardiovascular), including stroke.
It has also been found (2012) that grounding the body increases the
heart rate variability, although it is known that a decrease in HRV
indicates autonomic dysfunction and is a predictor of the severity of progression
insufficiency.
In 2013, according to Chevalier and his colleagues, grounding 'seems to be one of the
simpler yet deeper interventions to help reduce risk
cardiovascular and cardiovascular events.
Effects on pain, mood
A study analyzed the effects of grounding on pain and mood.
Sixteen massage therapists alternated between periods of connection with the earth and periods of non-connection.
connection with the earth. Before this therapy, stress and physical and emotional pain were
common side effects of their physically demanding jobs. After the
grounding therapy, pain, stress, depression, and fatigue were reduced in the
participants. However, these factors are all subjective.
Effects on sleep, stress, and recovery.
The "grounding" of the human body also seems to be able to help
normalize the secretion of cortisol in the adrenal gland and change the nervous system
autonomous of the sympathetic activation to the parasympathetic activation and, therefore, reduce
stress (cortisol is known as the 'stress hormone').
Since the work of H. Selye (1950s) we know that the level of cortisol is
related to inflammation, and in the recent Anthropocene, chronic inflammation appears
to be a cause or an effect of almost all modern chronic diseases.
After intense and prolonged exercises that cause muscle pain and fatigue...
volunteers and a control group, those who were sleeping (unbeknownst to them) on a mattress with
ground connection showed a faster recovery and/or fewer markers
pronounced muscle damage and inflammation.

Devices
Various devices (simple metal wire, sheets, fabrics, wristbands or ankle bands,
adhesive patches on conductive materials for connecting to a ground connection) allow
connect the body (sleeping at work, in front of a computer, a machine).
etc.) to the ground.
They can be used in a house, a workshop, or an office, or outdoors (shoes with soles)
conductor or traversed by a metal conductor type rivet.
The choice of the connection point or points on the body is usually empirical,
but you can choose near inflamed or healing areas. The shoe models
are designed not to electrically isolate the feet from the ground, for example, with a
part of the sole made of a conductive material (possibly placed underneath the
metatarsals, at the acupuncture/acupressure point of the "Kidney Meridian 1".) , for
electrically connect the body to the ground. Some trades involve spending a lot of time
in a vehicle isolated from the ground by rubber tires. They exist on the market.
devices to connect the metal body and the vehicle seat to the floor.
Note: walking barefoot or with shoes with conductive soles on an indoor floor or
exterior insulating and dry (PVC, vinyl, dry wood, tiles, glass, bitumen, slab of
isolated cement, for phonetic reasons for example) and dry and dry surfaces (varnishing
or painted in particular), dry sand, dry gravel, etc. does not allow for grounding. In the
the surface of the earth, the soil resistivity can vary greatly depending on the
nature of this soil and depending on the thermohygrometric conditions and
soil moisture or if the skin is dry or wet. However, it is estimated that when the
the soil has 2 m of depth, it is efficient. Except in certain particularly soils
compacts that do not conduct much electricity, like little cracked granite; this
Resistivity can be measured with a tellurimeter. The following table offers some
examples, presented in decreasing order of electrical conductivity. The connection most
efficient to the earth will be when walking barefoot on peat or wet soil. The water of
Mart also conducts very well, unlike dry sand.

Type of soil Average resistivity (Ω.m)

wet peat soil 25 (5-100)

Limo 50 (20-100)

slimy 150 (40-200)

Schists 200 (50-300)

clay arena 250 (50-500)

Softstone 400 (50-800)

Granite sandstone eroded 800 (100-1,500)

Arenosilica 1,500 (200-3,000)

Bare stony ground 2.000 (1.500-3.000)

Compact limestones 2500 (800-5000)

 Slightly cracked granite and sandstone 5,000 (1,500-12,000)

Aspects of alternative medicine

Clinton Ober is the executive director of EarthFX, a research and development company.
located in Palm Springs, California. According to him, the immune system uses blood cells
white blood cells (called neutrophils) to release reactive oxygen molecules (commonly
free radical calls) to oxidize and destroy pathogens and damaged cells. The
Free radicals have an electronic imbalance that makes them electrically charged.
In their quest to find a free electron and neutralize it, they can adhere to
a cell or stealing an electron, damaging it in the process. The damaged cell must
then it is removed and the immune system sends another neutrophil to process it,
starting the cycle again. This is how chronic inflammation is initialized (which causes
chronic pain and promotes many health problems.
The earth has an infinite supply of free electrons, so when a person
is connected to the earth, these electrons flow naturally between the earth and the body,
reducing free radicals and eliminating any static electrical charge. The reason
the reason why grounding is so powerful is that it prevents inflammation
in the body, which in turn prevents health-related disorders associated with the
inflammation.

Grounding methods
Walking barefoot
This is one of the easiest and most frequently cited forms. On grass, sand or even
mud, it is believed that allowing the skin to touch the natural ground provides disconnection energy
to the ground.

From a practical point of view, doctors may recommend 'foot sessions'

barefoot" outdoors for the patients, if the weather and conditions allow. Clinton
Ober and his colleagues have observed that walking barefoot for just 30 or 40 minutes a day
it can significantly reduce pain and stress.
Lie down on the floor
Increasing skin-earth contact, on the grass, on the wet sand of the beach ...
Diving into the water
According to advocates of grounding, water can be used in the same way.
that the physical ground is used for grounding. They only suggest walking or swimming in the
water.
Use of grounding equipment
When it is not possible to go out to connect to ground, there are alternatives. One method consists of
in connecting a metal rod to the ground outdoors and then connecting the rod to the body
with a cable.
If you do not feel comfortable using a metal rod, there are other equipment available.
This material is an effective way to integrate grounding therapy into life.
daily and includes:

ground connection mats.

connect sheets or blankets.
Grounding socks.
 Power strips and ground connection patches.

Interest in coronavirus infections?

A research document published by James L Oschman, president of the organization itself
Nature Research Association (USA) On August 3, 2020, advocates for the
grounding as part of the prevention or treatment of infections
related to the COVID-19 pandemic. He says that the research and the
comments from those who use this approach show that grounding can
reduce the severity of respiratory difficulty, including those caused by
sore throat, allergies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, influenza. According to
the authors, dozens of studies have shown that an electrical connection to the ground
provokes physiological and biochemical changes that can facilitate healing. The least
the viscosity of blood is one of those effects, which is important because practically
all cardiovascular disorders have been associated with high viscosity of the
blood. Endocrinologists will be interested in the fact that the electrical connection to
Earth normalizes the rhythm of cortisol day-night, thus reducing stress (it's hard to sleep if
the level of nighttime cortisol is abnormally high). Several studies have also shown
improvements in the vagal tone.

Critics, detractors
Some critics, skeptics, including a former surgeon, Dr. Harriet Hall, believe that the
arguments in favor of grounding are false, exaggerated or sufficiently
vague enough to be scientifically untestable. For Dr. Steven
Novella (doctor involved in the critical/skeptical analysis of claims)
alternative medicine), studies on the subject are "typical of the kind of useless studies
designed to generate false positives, the type of 'internal' studies that companies at
Sometimes they use to affirm their products are 'clinically proven'. When reading the
individual studies, you can see that all are small pilot or preliminary studies
with an unbearable methodology. They are little more than the documentation of the effects
placebo, subjective results and the search for anomalies
She and other critics of the excesses or commercial uses of this concept, or links of
interest (not hidden by 3 researchers: Chevalier, Sinatra, and Oschman who have indicated
In their conflict of interest declaration, they are also independent contractors of Earth.
L. Inc., a company that sponsors land research, in which they own a
small percentage of shares; Disclosure chapter Other critiques focus
therapeutic affirmations and promises made by alternative medicines based on
notions, typeNew Age, misalignments, like the energies of primordial nature that
emanate from the Earth with anti-aging effects, by authors who present the
the surface of the Earth as alive with subtly pulsing frequencies, even capable of
communicate with our bodily frequencies, invoking notions of Qi and prana or
of links with quantum fields arising from theories classified in pseudosciences by
the majority of the scientific community. So many concepts that are not present in the
scientific articles on the subject, but some authors introduce in their books, and in
particularly in a video The Living Matrix presented as a documentary in 2009, directed by
Greg Becker, where James Oschman often makes remarks, contradicting the
content of their own scientific articles, particularly that in which they defined in 2009
the notion of Living Matrix.
They blame authors like Clint Ober (an American cable television executive)
retired person who believes he has found a similarity between the human body, which he says is a
bioelectric organism that transmits signals, and the cable (used to transmit signals
from cable television) metaphors or inconsistent examples (e.g.: human policemen
behaving like an antenna, reference to the mythological Titan-King Antaeus, invincible
whenever his feet touched the ground, but defeated by Hercules who lifted him up from
soil. presenting electrons as if they were nutrients, the statement that animals
savages are less sick than we are (while being subject to predation;
According to Ober, when the cables are connected to the ground, interference is eliminated.
virtually from the signal and all electrical systems stabilize by connecting them to the
earth.

Related articles
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external links
Directory of research articles and medical comments related to
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Bibliography
Clinton Ober (Autor), Stephen T. Sinatra (Autor), Martin Zucker (Autor), André
Dommergues (Translator), Connect to Earth: Perhaps the most significant health discovery
important!(February 5, 2013), editor: VEGA, 2013.

Notes and references

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j.mehy.2011.07.046, read online, visited 1stDecember 2020
2.↑Ober, C., Sinatra, ST and Zucker, M. (2010). Ground connection: Is health discovery
most important of all time? Basic health publications, Inc ...
3. ↑ a byc James L. Oschman, 'Can electrons act as antioxidants? A
review and comment , Journal of Alternative Medicine and
Complementaria, vol. 13, no. 9, November
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2007, pp. 955–967(ISSN1075-5535y1557-
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4.↑Just A (1903), Return to Nature: The True Natural Method of Healing and Living and The
True Salvation of the Soul, B. Lust, New York, NY, USA.
5. ↑ unyab of Patents (expired) shoe conductor of natural electricity(consulted
December 7, 2020
Apparatus for grounding footwear to be attached to the footwear,
DE1047066B
Device to be attached to footwear for grounding
Footwear(consulted on December 7, 2020)
7.↑(in) Device to indirectly ground the human body by interposing
metal parts in the soles of shoes (consulted on December 7, 2020)
8.↑Georges Starr White (1929) The best forces of nature in diagnosis and therapy,
Phillips Printing Company, Los Angeles, California, USA.
9. Unayb
Gaétan Chevalier, Stephen T. Sinatra, James L. Oschman, and Karol Sokal, 'Setting to'
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