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00:00:00Our names are Rebecca and Josh Tickell.
00:00:22We're filmmakers, and our specialty is making films about the environment.
00:00:26In 2010, we made a movie called The Big Fix, about an oil spill that happened in Louisiana.
00:00:37While filming that movie, I was exposed to a toxic chemical dispersant.
00:00:45My health suffered considerably, and I had skin rashes and other problems.
00:00:50Doctors said that I may even have problems conceiving or bearing children.
00:01:02In spite of the warnings, we decided to try to have kids anyway.
00:01:06Even knowing the risks didn't make it any less devastating when I had a miscarriage.
00:01:13My love, a little person that fits you as dad is very lucky.
00:01:28Really?
00:01:30Now she's looking at you.
00:01:31Oh, she lifted her hand!
00:01:33Oh, my God!
00:01:34That's so...
00:01:36When we got pregnant with our daughter, the doctor said there was a birth defect,
00:01:40and there was a chance she wouldn't make it.
00:01:48I love you, Athena!
00:01:55Miraculously, she was born healthy and happy.
00:01:59Camera!
00:02:03Option!
00:02:05But for two years, she had chronic sicknesses.
00:02:11And we were in and out of hospitals almost constantly.
00:02:16So we decided to look at all of our options.
00:02:19And nothing was off the table.
00:02:21Call your doctor if your depression worsens, or if you have unusual changes in behavior or thoughts of suicide.
00:02:29Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include itching, rash, or difficulty breathing.
00:02:34Tell your doctor if you get...
00:02:36You're a worsening cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, diarrhea, severe stomach pain, or tenderness.
00:02:41The dichotomy between alternative and traditional medicine is a false one.
00:02:46So first off, what we have to talk about is what exactly is CBD?
00:02:48There are some natural doctors out there who literally claim they know everything.
00:02:54So they're telling you about vaccinations, they're telling you about everything that you should do.
00:03:00I think you need to be very cautious as a consumer of healthcare.
00:03:04There are medical doctors out there who offer some of this hocus, I'll call it hocus pocus.
00:03:08Virtual Dolphin Therapy.
00:03:10It's the most relaxing experience you can ever have.
00:03:13Snake massage therapy.
00:03:16Urine therapy.
00:03:18And the only thing I can do is to drink my own pee.
00:03:22Finally, a friend gave us a copy of the book called Earthing.
00:03:27The premise?
00:03:28By planting your bare feet on the ground, your body will begin to heal itself.
00:03:37Could such a simple thing help our daughter get better?
00:03:42It sounded too easy.
00:03:57We were skeptical.
00:03:59And as it turns out, we weren't the only ones.
00:04:01Please welcome Gwyneth Paltrow.
00:04:04There are a couple of things, and I've written them down here.
00:04:08For instance, tell us about Earthing. What is Earthing?
00:04:13Oh, okay. It's kind of, they say that we've lost touch with sort of being barefoot in the earth,
00:04:19and that there's some type of electromagnetic thing that we're missing.
00:04:22That is true.
00:04:23And so it's good to take your shoes off and walk in the grass.
00:04:26Okay.
00:04:27I don't know what the are we talking about.
00:04:30So we decided to consult the experts.
00:04:36In simple terms, grounding is literally putting your bare feet on the ground.
00:04:43When you do that, you're in contact with the earth, and Mother Earth is endowed with electrons.
00:04:49And these electrons are literally absorbed through your feet.
00:04:52It's like taking handfuls of antioxidants, but you're getting it through the feet.
00:04:57Grounding means connecting to the earth to support the specific function of the organs of your body.
00:05:04It supports the body as a whole, but it specifically supports organ systems down to the tissues and the cellular function of the entire body.
00:05:12Grounding provides a steady, we call it a ground plane.
00:05:18It's like lying naked on the earth, but where I come from in the winter, you can't do that.
00:05:27All the systems in the body, all of them that we've measured, and we've measured just about everything you can think of, everything goes to balance to normal when you're grounded.
00:05:40The man who started the grounding, aka earthing movement, is Clint Ober.
00:05:47Well, Clint, I mean, first of all, we're super honored to have you here.
00:05:53You know, your book has been everywhere, and everyone has been telling us about it.
00:05:56It's kind of a phenomenon, and it's also kind of hard to believe.
00:06:00I have to confess, when I first heard about earthing, I was super skeptical.
00:06:04So, you know, is that a common reaction that you get from people?
00:06:10Yes. And I was myself. It took me 20 years to dig this out of the dirt and get it to the world.
00:06:16And I questioned it all the way, because it just didn't make sense.
00:06:20And what is the main reaction you get from people when they get this information?
00:06:24The response has been pretty much a lot of skepticism, because it sounds absurd.
00:06:29How can I just take my shoes off, put my feet on the ground, and reduce inflammation?
00:06:34Because the world has been about everything from oatmeal to blueberries to you name it.
00:06:40It's one of those things you can talk until you're blue in the face, but until you experience it, you're not going to believe it.
00:06:45But once you experience it, then the biggest trouble you have is trying to explain it to somebody else.
00:06:51So, a lot of the naysayers, I mean, like most of the guys say, well, if this were true, I would have known about this.
00:06:55I would have heard about this. Somebody would have told us this.
00:06:57This can't be something brand new that we don't know about.
00:07:00And I just say, I'm sorry, it is something new.
00:07:04I mean, something we accidentally disconnected from the Earth.
00:07:09For everybody to be able to wear shoes, inexpensive shoes, that was a real advancement.
00:07:15But on the other hand, nobody knew the consequence or the side effects of losing our ground,
00:07:22losing our electrical ground with the planet.
00:07:27I grew up around Native American people, primarily the Cheyenne and the Crow.
00:07:34My dad died when I was quite young, but I remember even before he died, we didn't have a lot of money or a lot of material things.
00:07:53But in the Native American culture, it was very interesting that nobody owns anything.
00:08:01You can't own land.
00:08:02You can't own trees.
00:08:03How can you own this?
00:08:08And then there was an event where one of my friend's sister, a little Indian girl, had, I believe it was scarlet fever.
00:08:25She'd been to the doctors and all that kind of stuff and she wasn't getting well.
00:08:32And they brought her home and there was nothing they could do for her, but everybody was real traumatized by it.
00:08:39I remember one of the elders, they dug a pit and put a little bit of straw in it, whatever.
00:08:58And they put her in the ground on the earth, built a fire there and just sat with her for like days.
00:09:21And then next thing we knew, she was up running around, she was okay.
00:09:28It was just awesome.
00:09:29It was totally awesome.
00:09:37There are many things that kind of stuck in my memory as I got older and one of them was,
00:09:44I remember coming home one day and we were going to go into one of the kids' teepees with his parents.
00:09:51And the mother said, take those shoes off, they'll make you sick.
00:09:56Why she would say they would make you sick, I wouldn't have had a clue at that time.
00:10:05It turns out that today we Americans don't spend a whole lot of time grounding.
00:10:10That may have something to do with our love of shoes.
00:10:16Tell me about your relationship with your feet and shoes.
00:10:23I wear them.
00:10:25My shoes, I love shoes.
00:10:28Oh my God.
00:10:29It's more of an addiction.
00:10:31Yeah.
00:10:32Pretty much need them for everything, unless you want to stub your toe everywhere.
00:10:35It's like your shoes kind of represent you, what I feel anyway.
00:10:38Yeah, you gotta, you gotta get the shoes first and then that matches the outfit that's gonna go with it.
00:10:42You can never just, it's not clothes first and shoes later.
00:10:45Shoes first and clothes.
00:10:46Yeah.
00:10:48That's like my biggest thing.
00:10:49I stub my toe every day.
00:10:51How many pairs do you think you have?
00:10:54I think of Doc Martens alone, I have 10.
00:10:57Oh God, no.
00:10:58Um, maybe 10, but only a few pairs that I like.
00:11:01I'd say 50 or 60 pairs of shoes.
00:11:04Have you guys ever heard of grounding?
00:11:06No.
00:11:07No.
00:11:08No.
00:11:09What is that?
00:11:10Do I know much about grounding?
00:11:11Yeah, I have two kids.
00:11:14Yeah, I ground them all the time.
00:11:16Grounded?
00:11:17Oh, it's like, um, spiritually, like, connected.
00:11:21Becoming, like, more grounded and connected to the earth.
00:11:24There are some people who think that walking barefoot could bring some health benefits.
00:11:28What do you think of that?
00:11:30Uh, I agree but disagree.
00:11:34I don't know.
00:11:35That's a load of baloney.
00:11:36I don't know.
00:11:37When you go barefoot and you, like, touch, like, the warm sand or you go, like, to the ocean,
00:11:40it just, like, feels, like, better.
00:11:42Like, your body, like, feels more calm or something.
00:11:44I think the benefit, if we could, would give me, like, me personally, more of, like, a connection to my life, to all the life around me.
00:11:52You know what I mean?
00:11:53Now that you think of it, I mean, when I go barefoot, maybe, at my house or something, it feels nice.
00:11:58Maybe that's the stint that we have.
00:12:00It's just things that we don't even recognize like shoes in the first place.
00:12:05Do you feel like more people could benefit from being grounded?
00:12:09Oh, for sure.
00:12:10Absolutely.
00:12:11It's healthy.
00:12:12It's healthy, it's natural.
00:12:13I actually got yelled at a lot by my parents because I would try to go barefoot everywhere, even in the snow.
00:12:19Uh, barefoot's, like, for me, I just don't feel comfortable, I guess you can say.
00:12:23But, like, I don't know, it's just not really my, my trend.
00:12:27Oh, I went through a mall barefoot.
00:12:30Oh, she, yeah.
00:12:31She loves to try to sleep with the shoes on.
00:12:33Like, shoes off the bed.
00:12:35Mm-hmm.
00:12:36What helps you get grounded?
00:12:38Um, good shoes.
00:12:41Good shoes.
00:12:42But shoes haven't always been such a big part of our culture.
00:12:51Okay.
00:12:52What's the deal with these?
00:12:57What's the deal with these?
00:12:58Well...
00:12:59America makes synthetic rubber.
00:13:00This kind, one of two principal types, is called Buna-S.
00:13:13Mix the kettle corn platter lead, and...
00:13:14In 1960, we invented synthetic materials.
00:13:25The first thing we did was we put rubber soles, synthetic soles, on the shoes.
00:13:30Come on, boys and girls, and follow me.
00:13:34I'm Swifty Flyer.
00:13:35I just can't be beating my P.F. Flyers, the shoes that winners choose.
00:13:41A big event happened.
00:13:42You know, I call it the Nike generation, the Adidas generation, the tennis shoes generation.
00:13:47We started wearing sneakers.
00:13:57Ninety-five percent of people walk insulated on the earth.
00:14:04So this most common sense thing, that we are organisms that live and grow and depend entirely on the earth while we're alive.
00:14:13And yet, we have completely isolated ourselves from it.
00:14:17We're so disconnected that it becomes this weird thing if we actually slip our shoes off.
00:14:22You've heard it before, celebrities are just like us, or are they?
00:14:26Elle Fanning did something the other day that probably a lot of you may not do.
00:14:30The 18-year-old actress landed at LAX airport late one night.
00:14:34Looked pretty comfortable, but it was what she wasn't wearing that was getting people's attention.
00:14:39She walked barefoot throughout the airport.
00:14:43This was the single thing that happened that probably caused the proliferation of inflammation-related health disorders.
00:14:51Far and above anything else.
00:14:57This is the most destructive invention that man ever made.
00:15:03The synthetic sole shoe.
00:15:08This is so incredible.
00:15:10This is Nobel Prize material.
00:15:14Basically what we're trying to demonstrate, what we're going to demonstrate here is
00:15:17to show that when you stand barefoot on the earth and you touch the earth, that your body is conducted.
00:15:23And what this is, is basically a continuity meter.
00:15:26So what I'm going to do is plug it into the earth, like so.
00:15:30And I'm going to put my hand on it.
00:15:33And you can see here, my finger on the back of it, you can see that the light turns green and that means that I'm grounded.
00:15:39To illustrate this, Sam here is wearing a pair of tennis shoes, and when he puts it on, turns it on, you can see that he's not grounded.
00:15:51But because I am grounded, I am barefoot on the earth, when I touch Sam, he turns, he is naturally grounded.
00:15:58It's grounded.
00:15:59It's grounded.
00:16:00It's grounded.
00:16:01It's grounded.
00:16:02It's grounded.
00:16:03It's grounded.
00:16:04It's grounded.
00:16:06Like many great discoveries, Clint Ober stumbled onto grounding as a result of an unusual sequence of events.
00:16:15I got involved in the cable industry in the early sixties.
00:16:18I first learned the need to ground cable signals as we were developing the industry.
00:16:28When you run a wire into the house, before you can go into the house, you have to ground the cable.
00:16:36Grounding is to maintain the entire system in a stable electrical environment.
00:16:43I mean, you have miles of wire hanging up there in the air.
00:16:46If there's lightning in the air, it's going to hit the cable.
00:16:49And so what you want to do is create a path to ground for the lightning so that it doesn't enter the house or blow up the TV or create a fire.
00:16:58So any electrical event is maintained at earth potential, automatically equalized with the earth and eliminated, neutralized.
00:17:06Clint had a background in the cable TV industry and he knew that cables that come to your home with TV programs have to be grounded.
00:17:19If they're not, two things can happen.
00:17:21You get snow on the screen.
00:17:23The picture is terrible.
00:17:25And the other is you get a knock on the door from the Federal Communications Commission because the signal is disturbing aircraft communication.
00:17:36It leaks into the environment.
00:17:40Just as ungrounded signals wreak havoc on radio communications, there's growing concern that because we are not grounded,
00:17:46we absorb tremendous amounts of electromagnetic radiation from our modern devices.
00:17:51EMF stands for electromagnetic field.
00:17:56We are all immersed in electromagnetic fields from Wi-Fi, from the wiring in our homes, and it disturbs our electrical balance.
00:18:05We get charged inside of our bodies.
00:18:09We get electrically charged.
00:18:11Some people have as much as 20 volts on their bodies, and that's not good for you.
00:18:23But in our natural state, the earth has a built-in system to ground our bodies.
00:18:30Unbeconned to us, we live inside a battery.
00:18:33The surface of the earth is charged negatively,
00:18:39and the ionosphere, which is a layer of the atmosphere about 60 miles up, which is ionized by the sun,
00:18:48meaning that the rays of the sun are so strong that they split the molecules into a positive charge and a negative charge.
00:18:56The sun spews out electrons.
00:18:59They come to the earth.
00:19:00They hit the ionosphere.
00:19:02They charge the ionosphere, and periodically the ionosphere releases lots of electrons.
00:19:09It's called lightning.
00:19:11The negative charge are transferred to the surface of the earth through lightning mainly,
00:19:17and the positive charge stays 60 miles up.
00:19:21The surface of the earth is electrically conductive.
00:19:25And wherever you are standing barefoot on the earth or connected to the earth,
00:19:30you are collecting electrons that came from the sun.
00:19:36The problem arises when we don't have negative charge.
00:19:41We need grounding just as we need air and we need sunshine.
00:19:45So, the TV industry, Clint, he had to make sure all the cables were very well grounded,
00:19:55and then he started to wonder if people need to be grounded.
00:20:04And what I saw with cable TV was it was bigger than Billingsmontown.
00:20:07The world was bigger than where I lay out.
00:20:10I ended up in Denver, Colorado, working for Telecommunications Inc.
00:20:16One day I was home with my children, and I had bought them computers.
00:20:21We could do checkbooks and play games.
00:20:23That was all we could do with them back then.
00:20:27It just dawned on me that was, I said,
00:20:29that's a TV set without a signal.
00:20:32So, I had this brainstorm and I thought,
00:20:34well, let's go get all these wire services together
00:20:38and put them into a unified data stream,
00:20:41feed them over the satellite and down the cable system,
00:20:44feed them into a computer.
00:20:47And the main thing that happened at that time
00:20:49that was probably very significant for the cable industry
00:20:52was we created the first cable modem.
00:20:59It changed the world in a day, in a moment.
00:21:01I was living in a 5,000-square-foot A-frame log cabin
00:21:11on top of a mountain in Evergreen, Colorado.
00:21:14I was 49 years old playing king of the mountain, and I won.
00:21:18I had everything you could imagine, cars, home in Breckenridge, skiing.
00:21:27Most of all, I had a lot of art.
00:21:29I probably had, I hate to say it, but a quarter million dollars worth of art hanging in my bathroom over the commode.
00:21:35I mean, because there was no place else to hang things.
00:21:41About 1994, 95, I was attending a lot of Christmas parties, and I got sick.
00:21:48One Sunday, I couldn't get out of bed, and I was turning yellow.
00:21:55I looked, my eyes were yellow, everything was yellow.
00:21:58And so they took me to an emergency room.
00:22:01They couldn't figure out what was wrong, but I was losing everything.
00:22:04My liver was shutting down.
00:22:10I was only 49 at the time, and they said,
00:22:13you need to think about getting your house in order,
00:22:17because you're young enough to get a new liver, but you may not have time.
00:22:22I was on every IV, every type of antibiotic you can probably inject into a person.
00:22:32And they said that they had a surgeon that wanted to experiment
00:22:36and see if there was a way they could go in and cut out all the liver that had been damaged,
00:22:41which was the majority of it.
00:22:43I agreed to that because I really had no option.
00:22:47I remember I was in surgery, thought that was the last time I would see you.
00:23:04And I woke up a few days later in ICU.
00:23:08And I remember my secretary was right here in my face.
00:23:12My first thought was, I didn't know that you had died.
00:23:17The pain started coming on, and then I realized that I was still here.
00:23:22It took about a year for my energy to recover.
00:23:26One morning I woke up, and I looked out the window,
00:23:29and I noticed that everything was more energetic.
00:23:32The sky was vibrant. Everything was vibrant.
00:23:38I thought I was left over for drugs. I didn't know.
00:23:41But I looked around the room that I was laying in, and I said to myself that this is all crazy.
00:23:47This house, everything is crazy, because I almost died.
00:23:52All I had ever done was collect these things, and I spent my life taking care of them.
00:23:58I didn't own any of this stuff, because when I die, you know, I go away.
00:24:02They really owned me. They owned my soul.
00:24:08I went through this feeling that I just had to get rid of everything, push everything away from me.
00:24:13Anything that was material, even though I loved it, and I spent my life collecting it and taking care of it.
00:24:18I had to push it away, so I called my children, and I said,
00:24:22I want you to come and take whatever there is in this house that you want.
00:24:27One of them called the dog and said, there's something wrong with my dad.
00:24:30He needs to see a psychologist, and I remember seeing the psychologist.
00:24:34I said, there's nothing wrong with me. This is what I'm, I have to do this.
00:24:41After disposing and giving and getting rid of everything,
00:24:46I decided I wanted to change my life, and I bought an RV, and I went on a road trip.
00:24:57And I ended up in Sedona, Arizona.
00:25:02One day I was sitting at a computer, and the computer kept crashing.
00:25:06I knew it was static electricity, so I put a piece of tape across my desk and grounded it.
00:25:10And I realized in that process that the outlet wasn't grounded.
00:25:13So I fixed it so that I could get rid of the static electricity.
00:25:18I didn't think too much about it.
00:25:20I walked outdoors, and I sat on a bench, and this tour bus pulled up.
00:25:24And it looked like they had just been to one of these outlet malls, and white Nike shoes were on sale.
00:25:33It just dawned on me.
00:25:35You know, I asked the question.
00:25:36I said, I wonder if it's possible that humans are, you know, we're no longer naturally grounded.
00:25:42I wonder if these shoes could be interfering with us.
00:25:45So that night I went to the hardware store and I bought a roll of metal duct tape.
00:26:01And I just taped it across the bed.
00:26:04I threw a wire out the window, and it had a ground rod outside.
00:26:07I connected to the ground rod on one side and connected to the metal duct tape that I had laid on the bed.
00:26:13So when I laid down on the duct tape, I was, like, grounded because it was connected to the earth.
00:26:19And I woke up the next morning, and I thought, holy cow, there's something going on here.
00:26:28Because normally, for me to go to sleep, I had to take Advil.
00:26:32So I tried to find out what I could.
00:26:34The internet was hardly anything. This was back in 99.
00:26:37I went down to the University of Arizona and to one of their medical libraries, and there was nothing.
00:26:42And in fact, I even tried to find the cause of chronic pain.
00:26:45The cause of MS was unknown. The cause of arthritis, unknown.
00:26:49They didn't know. Nobody knew.
00:26:53So I thought, well, I'll go out to L.A.
00:26:55I'll go to UCLA and ask them.
00:27:00They pretty much laughed me off campus.
00:27:03They said, you expect us to believe that somebody's going to put a nail in the ground,
00:27:07tie a wire around somebody's toe, and it's going to make them sleep better?
00:27:10They said, get out of here. Go away. You're nuts.
00:27:15So I ended up having to put together my own study.
00:27:21I found an anesthesiologist in San Diego, and he says, I don't think there's anything to what you're doing.
00:27:28There's got to be an anomaly here, but I'll entertain you.
00:27:31He says, I will prove that you're wrong.
00:27:33And we grounded 60 people, and the reports that came in were unbelievable.
00:27:39TMJ disappeared. PMS disappeared. Inflammation reduced pain. Everybody slept better.
00:27:47It's the first study that I did that was a legitimate study where we had quantifiable data.
00:27:58When they saw the study, everybody said, well, this is really pretty interesting.
00:28:03And we ended up attracting scientists and physicists.
00:28:07Like any important discovery, nobody was interested. They thought he was crazy.
00:28:13Now there are a lot of scientists who are interested. Researchers, MDs, MD PhDs, PhDs like me.
00:28:24I'm very interested in biological questions.
00:28:27Earthing brings up some really profound biological questions.
00:28:32While these grounding studies were positive, what was grounding actually doing inside the human body?
00:28:44The answer may surprise you.
00:28:48Stephen Sinatra, who was a cardiologist from back east, was attending a convention.
00:28:53And we sat down with Stephen and told him the story of what I was doing.
00:28:57And he said, well, if you're affecting pain, he says, you need to be researching inflammation.
00:29:04You don't have arthritis. You don't have cancer. You don't have all these health disorders.
00:29:09What you have is chronic inflammation.
00:29:13To me at the time, inflammation was your sprain and ankle.
00:29:16And it balloons up and gets red and sore and it's inflamed.
00:29:21And he says, no. He says, inflammation is different than that.
00:29:24We have so much inflammation in the body and it comes out in illnesses.
00:29:29We go to a doctor with all these complaints.
00:29:32But a lot of it is silent inflammation, including my specialty, heart disease.
00:29:37Heart disease is an inflammatory process.
00:29:40So how do we reduce inflammation?
00:29:43The most abundant protein in the body is collagen.
00:29:48It's the building block of our tissues.
00:29:51And we have gazillions of collagen molecules in our bodies.
00:29:55They are all embedded in a gel.
00:29:58This gel has a huge surface area and it absorbs electrons and releases them when you have an injury.
00:30:08Inflammation is produced by neutrophils, which is a white blood cell.
00:30:14You have an injury.
00:30:15You have a damaged cell.
00:30:16And so these white blood cells come over and they encapsulate the damaged cell.
00:30:20And they release reactive oxygen species, which rip electrons from the damaged cell.
00:30:27And that destroys the damaged cell.
00:30:30White blood cells release free radicals at the injury site.
00:30:34They chew up any pathogens, bacteria, or dead cells.
00:30:39They clear the area.
00:30:41It's called the repair field.
00:30:42It's the place that needs to be repaired.
00:30:45Without earthing, some of the free radicals that are released into the repair field leak into the surrounding tissue.
00:30:54If there's not enough free electrons there to reduce the remaining radicals, they're going to steal an electron from a healthy cell.
00:31:02And in the process, damage it.
00:31:04Then the message goes out to the immune system and another neutrophilic does the same thing, eliminates that cell.
00:31:10And then you end up with a chain reaction.
00:31:13And this can create chronic inflammation, silent inflammation.
00:31:17You may not even know it's there.
00:31:19And it continues for years.
00:31:22If inflammation is the cause of all these health disorders, then I know that not enough rounding is the cause of inflammation.
00:31:30Because if the body is grounded, you can't have inflammation.
00:31:36The initial grounding studies showed promise.
00:31:44But there was still a big question.
00:31:46Was grounding really achieving these results in the human body?
00:31:50Or was it something else?
00:31:52A placebo effect of some kind?
00:31:55I am senior research medical scientist at North American Science Associates.
00:32:03I spent about 10 years working in the environmental area, five of those at the Environmental Protection Agency.
00:32:11And in 1980, I started working at the Food and Drug Administration, where I led a team of biostatisticians.
00:32:21And we reviewed clinical trials for new medical devices.
00:32:27I would guess that approximately 10% of the medical devices that FDA sees from inception would end up getting approval at the end of the day.
00:32:39So I would review them very critically.
00:32:43A couple of years ago, my 92-year-old mother was suffering from peripheral artery disease.
00:32:49And that would require them to do an intervention.
00:32:52They would go in and have to clean out her femoral artery, put in a balloon or stent.
00:32:58They usually have to go in every six or nine months to clean out the artery.
00:33:03And I felt at that age, they couldn't keep doing this.
00:33:06I tried most everything.
00:33:08And I was looking around and I saw this thing unearthing that earthing might be helpful for peripheral artery disease.
00:33:15And I said, well, it's not going to hurt her.
00:33:19I don't think it will really help her.
00:33:21So I purchased her an earthing sheet and had her sleep on it for one night.
00:33:26She was also having trouble hitting a forehand.
00:33:29And this is a lady who played tennis for 70 years and she just couldn't remember how to hit it.
00:33:34Next day, she had no trouble.
00:33:36So I said, there's definitely something here.
00:33:39In all my years in the medical device field, I had never seen any responses like this for any device or any drug.
00:33:49She's now 94.
00:33:52We play tennis five or six times a week.
00:33:55She leads a fully active life, cleans her house, does pretty much everything for herself.
00:34:02And we attribute this to the earthing.
00:34:07It's done a great deal.
00:34:10Still, I was having problems, well, with my legs.
00:34:15It was hard for me to walk and I was quite certain I would never be able to play tennis and do other things that I wanted to do.
00:34:23And it improved greatly and I went back to playing tennis.
00:34:28Not as good as before, but pretty good anyway.
00:34:33It just changed my life.
00:34:35I didn't have the worries that I had before that something bad might happen if I kept trying to do things.
00:34:41I should just go ahead and try everything.
00:34:44This is the biggest development I've seen in the medical field in my five decades in public health and my three decades in the clinical trial field in medical devices.
00:34:56I just have a hard time believing this is a placebo effect.
00:35:09You need electrons for energy.
00:35:11It's called the electron transport chain in mitochondria.
00:35:16It generates adenosine triphosphate or ATP.
00:35:20It's the energy molecule in the body.
00:35:24I tell athletes that before an event, stand 15 minutes in your bare feet on the grass and you will charge up your electron stores.
00:35:34And should you fall down and athletes fall down, you will not have inflammation at all.
00:35:43If you could think about the last time you were barefoot, like in nature, it probably wasn't very recently, you know.
00:35:50Can you walk us through it? What is the, let's earth.
00:35:53Yeah, let's take the shoes off, take the shoes off.
00:35:59I first learned about grounding maybe 12, 13 years ago through one of the trainers for the Tour de France team from the U.S.
00:36:08And he was using it with many other athletes and with surprising results.
00:36:11And I think the surprising best summarizes my response to it because it didn't seem to make sense.
00:36:18I think I became a believer once I started to explore the science.
00:36:22ATP is short for adenosine triphosphate.
00:36:25It's the energy currency of the cell.
00:36:27We're a bioelectrical being.
00:36:28That's the currency of our bodies.
00:36:30That's how it works.
00:36:31That's how we run our biological systems is by generating this electrical energy that's transferred.
00:36:37And when we connect to the earth through a conductive surface in some way, there's a transfer of electrons that slowly go into our body.
00:36:46We tried to figure out how much charge the body takes in when you touch the earth.
00:36:51What happens is the body saturates with electrons practically instantaneously.
00:36:59It's so fast that you can't measure it.
00:37:02Electrons from the earth enter the body right away and they coat the red blood cells so that the cells repel each other.
00:37:17And then they can't clump.
00:37:19And the blood viscosity goes down.
00:37:21It's easier for the heart to pump the blood.
00:37:24The blood pressure goes down.
00:37:26All kinds of cardiovascular issues, they go away.
00:37:30In situations where we are insulating ourselves from this a surplus of electrons into our body, we're going to get the absolute opposite.
00:37:45So instead of having low levels of inflammation in a thin blood, we'll have thick blood that's more likely to clot.
00:37:51And our levels of inflammation tend to increase.
00:37:54And I'm just thinking on the way here, I was thinking about how maybe the thinning of the blood is the reason that all the physiological systems go into balance.
00:38:09Of all the grounding studies, the one that really got our attention is called electric grounding improves vagal tone in preterm infants.
00:38:27In the study, 26 premature babies in an NICU were connected to grounding wires.
00:38:35The heart rates of the grounded infants stabilized.
00:38:38And their vagal tone, a critical measure of infant health, increased by 67% with grounding.
00:38:57So there are two things.
00:38:59There are the electrons from the earth, and there's the electrical rhythms of the earth.
00:39:04And that's very important for setting our biological clocks.
00:39:13For thousands of years, spiritual masters have taught the benefits of meditation and sitting on the earth.
00:39:19That's why some people believe that earthing and meditation go hand in hand.
00:39:25The world is constantly, every situation, every event, every relationship is really a reflection of yourself.
00:39:34Okay.
00:39:35I would like, if you agree to it earlier, but could you do a guided meditation with us?
00:39:41Two minutes?
00:39:42Sure.
00:39:43So would you all put your feet firmly on the ground, keep your hands in your lap?
00:39:52Everything that we call the environment is actually our body.
00:39:56If everything wasn't as is in the solar system, the earth wouldn't spin on its own axis, and it wouldn't go around the sun, there would be no seasons.
00:40:09So your biological rhythms, circadian rhythms are the earth spinning on its own axis.
00:40:16Your seasonal rhythms is the earth going around the sun, and they're programmed into your body.
00:40:22If you disconnect from your cosmic body, because that's what the earth is part of our cosmic body, you, in a sense, create the separation that results in disruption of your biological rhythms.
00:40:41Everything linked from dis-ease, discomfort, to inflammation, starts with this disconnect, everything.
00:40:57Now we know that if somebody walks barefoot on grass or the earth or on the beach, at a very fundamental level, basically,
00:41:06the free radicals that are built up in your body as a result of stress and inflammation, they are neutralized.
00:41:13But what is really happening at a fundamental level is you're restoring your biological rhythms and bringing them in alignment,
00:41:23or you might say synchrony, with the earth, which is connected to the entire cosmos.
00:41:29And slowly open your eyes.
00:41:33That was so cool.
00:41:36Come on.
00:41:37I was trying to do it.
00:41:38Thank you so much.
00:41:40I am so grateful for you.
00:41:46The analogy would be a good orchestra.
00:41:49If they're all playing by themselves, what you hear is noise.
00:41:54But if there's a conductor, there's a kind of a coherence, entanglement of these frequencies, you hear music.
00:42:07So there's a cosmic symphony that is playing itself out in your body right this moment.
00:42:14Maybe you can't hear the tune, but you're dancing to it anyway.
00:42:17If you take a microscope and you look at a piece of wood and you go down, down, down, all of a sudden, there's nothing there.
00:42:28There's molecules.
00:42:29But they're not even connected.
00:42:31What's holding them together?
00:42:32What's the force that's holding everything together?
00:42:37Electromagnetism.
00:42:40Our body is electrical.
00:42:41This is all electronic equipment.
00:42:43The heart, the lungs, the brain.
00:42:45I mean, this is electrical equipment.
00:42:48It's all electrical.
00:42:50Everything is electrical.
00:42:51Everything is electrical.
00:42:58Can we measure the effects reproducibly?
00:43:02The answer to that is yes.
00:43:03We now have 20 studies.
00:43:06There's like, yeah, 20, 21 published studies in the medical literature on earthing and grounding.
00:43:12And this is peer review stuff.
00:43:14In simple terms, what earthing does is literally it squenches the fires of inflammation.
00:43:21And if inflammation is the source of all root illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease, cancer, heart disease, diabetes.
00:43:28I mean, the list goes on and on.
00:43:30If you can impact inflammation and, you know, squelch it, kill it, stop it, we're going to be healthier beings.
00:43:38I didn't know anything about grounding.
00:43:43I had never heard of it at all.
00:43:44But I became a new mom.
00:43:46And I had my first child and she had colic.
00:43:48And she cried and cried and cried.
00:43:55First thing I did, being a physician myself, was take her to the pediatrician.
00:43:58And remember distinctly leaving that pediatrician's office with a knot in my stomach.
00:44:02Because the first thing they told me is, it's a baby, let him cry.
00:44:05Literally the only time I noticed that she wasn't in pain and the only time I could soothe her was when I was outside and I was barefoot and I had her in my arms.
00:44:14And every time we were outside, she relaxed.
00:44:17I noticed if I did use a stroller or if she was in a car, she was still in pain and uncomfortable.
00:44:23This is not placebo effect.
00:44:24Like, she had no idea if I was wearing shoes or not.
00:44:27She doesn't know that.
00:44:28I'm holding her either way.
00:44:29And I just slowly started realizing this child can only take a nap and feel comfort as if she was on my skin, held skin to skin, and I was barefoot.
00:44:41She'd be dead asleep.
00:44:42And if I stepped in the house and took both my feet off the ground, she would wake back up and the pain response would come back.
00:44:50And I didn't know what it was called.
00:44:51And I didn't at that time feel comfortable thinking about using it in my conventional medical practice.
00:44:56But I just knew that this is what I'm going to do to help my child.
00:44:59I was working with a mentor of mine and she recommended that I ground my energy.
00:45:07And I didn't know what she meant by ground yourself.
00:45:09So the first thing I did was go home and look it up on the internet.
00:45:12And through doing a search about grounding, I found Clint Ober's work and the book about earthing.
00:45:19And I realized that it's a real thing and a real healing modality with tons of medical literature behind it.
00:45:26The light switch went on and I thought, we're doing things completely backwards here.
00:45:34A typical day for a child is completely ungrounded.
00:45:38Most children wake up sleeping on a bed that was not grounded in a house or a building or on a floor that was insulated from the earth.
00:45:45And then they go immediately into a classroom that's insulated.
00:45:48And even on recess, in the recess period, they go outside and are literally fenced in and are paved within the classroom.
00:45:56Asphalt and then they have after school activities, which are either indoors or if they're outdoors, they are literally required to wear protective gear.
00:46:04And even if they're exercising for two hours after school, a hundred percent disconnected from the earth.
00:46:09And then they go home and they go inside and they eat dinner and they do homework all hours of the night.
00:46:14And then they pass out in an ungrounded bed.
00:46:16So that's a 24 hour period of time completely ungrounded.
00:46:20And that goes on day after day after day.
00:46:26I was at a retreat weekend for a group of women.
00:46:32It's called Inspire through our national association.
00:46:35It's for teachers who don't take care of themselves.
00:46:38Teaching us how to.
00:46:40To.
00:46:41The first day I got there and our leader said, you need to go ground.
00:46:46And I'm like, okay.
00:46:49They grounded us.
00:46:52And within that half hour, there was no need for medication.
00:46:55And I had been taking two Motrin every four hours for almost three weeks.
00:47:00The district that I am in already actually has, with Clinton, a school that has a grounding classroom.
00:47:11One of the reasons that the other teacher pushed so hard to get this room,
00:47:16she had a group of students that had significant behavior issues.
00:47:20And they would rip their shoes off and go running out of the room.
00:47:23And they would all over campus looking for them.
00:47:25They would always find them in the planters by the trees.
00:47:28But I had one teacher tell me in a special ed class that they had runners.
00:47:36And what a runner is, is a kid who just runs out of the classroom.
00:47:40And they take off and everybody has to go find where the student is.
00:47:49I realized that these kids who are the runners,
00:47:52they're running out to the far back corner of the school campus.
00:47:56And it's the only place that has grass.
00:47:59And they're sitting down on the grass.
00:48:01And so I went back and I talked to my special education director.
00:48:06And I said, can we try this?
00:48:08Can we try this with some of our students with autism?
00:48:10I brought it into my room.
00:48:12And I have a student with autism, very severe autism.
00:48:15He's completely nonverbal.
00:48:16And, you know, it's a good day when I can get this child to sit for 10 seconds.
00:48:24I pulled my mat out.
00:48:26I cleaned it off.
00:48:27And I took his socks and shoes off, put his little feet on it.
00:48:30That boy sat for seven minutes straight and played with me.
00:48:32He sat for seven minutes straight.
00:48:34So I took that back to my boss.
00:48:37And that is something that our school district is looking into is getting more schools with classrooms that have grounding in them.
00:48:44I have heard stories from teachers in classes where their students are grounded that they have half the level of referrals for discipline.
00:48:55Some students who were in tears because they were experiencing success when before they were experiencing failure with their behavior and discipline.
00:49:04I've heard stories from teachers with autistic children who have been grounded where they have less of what they call the meltdowns.
00:49:11And the meltdowns are less frequent and shorter.
00:49:14And they come back into the classroom and they're learning more than they had learned prior to the grounding.
00:49:20How much of it is that they're just so out of control in their mind and there's so many things that they, and these kids, our campus is concrete.
00:49:32There's no place.
00:49:33Even when they're in PE, they've got tennis shoes on.
00:49:36There's no place for them to be grounded.
00:49:43It's amazing what happens, not just with the teacher at the front of the class, but what can happen with the student sitting in the class.
00:49:49And just think if every single student and every single teacher in every single classroom in every single school across this whole world was grounded.
00:50:02It turns out there's a reason kids love to put their feet on the ground.
00:50:06And these guys claim to know why.
00:50:09Hey, my name is Finian.
00:50:10I'm Lauren.
00:50:11And my name is Ryland.
00:50:12And we're Kiss the Grounds.
00:50:13And our mission is to inspire participation in global regeneration, starting with soil.
00:50:21We evolved very connected to the soil with our feet in the soil, our hands in the soil.
00:50:27And what this means when you're connecting with it is just starting to be discovered.
00:50:33You know, there are papers and things in science that are just very recent coming out telling us that actually touching soil is helping to make your immune system stronger.
00:50:44You can feel it when you're working in that regenerative relationship with nature.
00:50:49It feels different.
00:50:50It changes lives.
00:50:51And one of the biggest sources of suffering in life is the experience of being disconnected.
00:50:57And disconnected from what?
00:50:59Nature.
00:51:00And the basis of nature is our soil.
00:51:03Nature.
00:51:04Nature.
00:51:05The coolest thing about connecting to soil and the planet is it really makes you happy.
00:51:09It feels good.
00:51:10And now we have science that shows that it's a cure for depression.
00:51:22So who, which one of you was the first one to discover earthing?
00:51:27I'm gonna say it was Marielle she was born before me.
00:51:30Oh wow.
00:51:31Oh, wow.
00:51:32Yeah.
00:51:33She's got 18 months of bare feet on the ground
00:51:35before I even hit the ground.
00:51:36That might be an insult.
00:51:39Yeah, we actually went to the track when we first got together.
00:51:42We went over to Pepperdine University.
00:51:44She hadn't run since when?
00:51:46A long time.
00:51:47Yeah.
00:51:48And she's, I do yoga.
00:51:49And I was like, well, we need to go to the track.
00:51:51We went to the track, and we ran barefoot in the grass
00:51:53for a couple of hours.
00:51:54She loved it.
00:51:55That was for fun.
00:51:56That was for fun?
00:51:57Yeah, we didn't even talk about grounding.
00:51:58It's just something that you do.
00:52:01So we get up.
00:52:04We watch sunrises, and then we usually go out for a hike.
00:52:08I remember the first time he was like, he stopped,
00:52:11and he took his shoes.
00:52:11He didn't say anything.
00:52:12He took his shoes off.
00:52:13Like, what are you doing?
00:52:15And he just started walking and didn't do anything.
00:52:18He also closed his eyes.
00:52:19That was a whole other terror.
00:52:23I came from a very dysfunctional home.
00:52:27You know, I loved my family tremendously,
00:52:29but there was a lot of mental illness.
00:52:32My grandfather, being one of the greatest writers
00:52:34of the 20th century, he suffered tremendous mental health issues.
00:52:42And he also took his life in 1961,
00:52:45three months before I was born.
00:52:47I lost a great-grandfather, two great-grandfathers,
00:52:51another great-uncle, an uncle, a cousin,
00:52:54and my own sister took her life.
00:52:58This house was filled with people
00:53:00that were tremendously tortured.
00:53:04A lot of yelling.
00:53:05There was a lot of drinking.
00:53:06There was a lot of self-medication.
00:53:08There was a lot of craziness that was happening.
00:53:11To sort of survive was, for me, getting out in nature.
00:53:15Just any time I could be outside.
00:53:17And I'd find myself lying on the grass
00:53:21or lying in a field or lying in a meadow.
00:53:24That would make me feel better.
00:53:27And then it wasn't until I met Bobby
00:53:30that I realized that what I was instinctually doing
00:53:34actually was a very real way
00:53:37to address all kinds of inflammation.
00:53:42Inflammation isn't just physical.
00:53:43There is neuroinflammation.
00:53:45That's brain inflammation.
00:53:47Brain inflammation causes depression,
00:53:49causes all kinds of serious problems.
00:53:53This is a much bigger thing
00:53:55than just walking barefoot on the ground.
00:53:58This is helping, well, especially me,
00:54:01helping me have a way more balanced life.
00:54:08My grandfather, you think of great artists,
00:54:11some of the greatest writing that they do
00:54:13comes from when they were
00:54:14at some beautiful and specific place
00:54:17and their description of it.
00:54:19That comes from an understanding,
00:54:21from a connection to it.
00:54:24To know that there are solutions
00:54:27and there are solutions in nature.
00:54:30And one of the biggest solutions
00:54:32is that connection to nature.
00:54:34And people forget that first.
00:54:37It's sad because it is so accessible
00:54:40and it is so real to know
00:54:42that a grounded me, Mariel,
00:54:45or a grounded you or anybody else
00:54:48is different than the one who's not connected.
00:54:52And that's what grounding does.
00:54:53It pulls you in to you,
00:54:56to who you are.
00:54:59You know, I think it's always the same thing.
00:55:02It's the thing that your mom said
00:55:03when you were a kid.
00:55:04Go outside and play.
00:55:05Go outside and get some fresh air.
00:55:07By the way,
00:55:09a lot of grounding from this guy.
00:55:1119 years old.
00:55:13Look at the feet.
00:55:16Yes.
00:55:17That's one grounded dog right there.
00:55:18I first heard about grounding,
00:55:29I want to say about seven years ago.
00:55:32It immediately changed my mindset
00:55:34to appreciating the ground.
00:55:38And then the history that we used to all
00:55:41be on the ground and sleep on the ground
00:55:44and wear shoes that were connected to the ground,
00:55:47not plasticized and disconnecting.
00:55:51And I thought,
00:55:52okay, this makes actually so much sense.
00:55:54How have I not been able
00:55:55to put that together before?
00:55:59I mean, I've always loved nature.
00:56:00I grew up in nature.
00:56:02But the idea of actually putting my feet
00:56:04on the ground without shoes,
00:56:07it felt always good.
00:56:08But I didn't really connect
00:56:10that it actually could be good for my body.
00:56:12Because I know we're all electrical beings.
00:56:16So we're constantly being bombarded
00:56:18with everything sort of artificial
00:56:21and overstimulating.
00:56:23And I feel really sensitive to that.
00:56:26If I'm working, you know, long hours
00:56:29and have this electrical mic strapped on,
00:56:32acting and just being around
00:56:34everything so electrical,
00:56:36it starts to just exhaust me.
00:56:39And I think we all get so overstimulated
00:56:42by all the electrification around us.
00:56:45And I don't think it's doing us any good.
00:56:50Big girl.
00:56:52Our bodies are constantly being bombarded
00:56:55by everything electrical in our lives.
00:56:58And for me, I've learned
00:56:59that in order to recalibrate my body,
00:57:03I just need to put my feet on the ground barefoot.
00:57:05And it just sort of equalizes.
00:57:10And I also think it's like
00:57:12when you get intentional
00:57:13with putting your feet on the ground,
00:57:15you immediately still yourself.
00:57:18And you're able to just, again,
00:57:20reconnect back to nature,
00:57:22to the simplicity of Mother Earth,
00:57:24of this great huge planet.
00:57:27Because you're appreciating
00:57:28what's under your feet.
00:57:30It's a whole, like, symbiotic relationship
00:57:33that we've disconnected from
00:57:35in such big ways.
00:57:36I mean, that just the simple act
00:57:40of putting your feet on the ground
00:57:41can give you so much
00:57:43and so much balance in your body
00:57:45and so much healing.
00:57:49It's like we're sucking the life energy
00:57:51through our feet up our bodies
00:57:54into, from our mama.
00:57:58It's so bad.
00:57:59I can't.
00:58:00That's really embarrassing.
00:58:06It's hard because it's so easy
00:58:09and it's so simple.
00:58:10People are like,
00:58:11really, you're making a big deal of that?
00:58:17Intuitively, it 100% resonates.
00:58:20And I'm raising my daughter this way
00:58:23where I want her to be barefoot outside
00:58:25as much as she can.
00:58:26My husband likes being barefoot.
00:58:28That's great.
00:58:29I don't have to convince him
00:58:30to, like, take his shoes off.
00:58:32Animals always barefoot.
00:58:34And I know just bringing them outside
00:58:35makes them happy.
00:58:37So I'm just going to keep doing that,
00:58:39whether people want to make fun of me or not.
00:58:43Whatever you believe in,
00:58:45when you're out in nature,
00:58:47it feels bigger than you
00:58:48and it feels like you have reverence
00:58:50reverence for what we have here.
00:59:05I've always been climbing mountains,
00:59:09running rivers,
00:59:10always had a garden wherever I lived.
00:59:12lived in Hawaii and Alaska
00:59:16where I did naked gardening.
00:59:19It was wonderful.
00:59:24But once you're in a wheelchair,
00:59:25all of that kind of goes away.
00:59:27I'm 58.
00:59:31I was a singer-dancer-actress
00:59:34for most of my career.
00:59:37But then at age 36,
00:59:39I woke up paralyzed one day
00:59:41from this rare disease
00:59:42called transverse myelitis.
00:59:44It affects maybe one
00:59:49in about two million people.
00:59:51And when it first happened to me,
00:59:54they didn't know what it was.
00:59:56And eventually they've come to realize
00:59:59it has to do with inflammation
01:00:01and it's an immune dysfunction.
01:00:04You know, your body attacking itself.
01:00:12At the same time,
01:00:13the doctors say,
01:00:14well, we don't understand it
01:00:16and we don't really know
01:00:18how to treat it.
01:00:20So we'll just treat the symptoms.
01:00:23And for 21 years,
01:00:25that's been my story.
01:00:31My niece actually sent me
01:00:35a grounding kit about three years ago.
01:00:38She knew that I couldn't
01:00:40physically in touch
01:00:41with the earth anymore.
01:00:42And she heard about this
01:00:44and she thought it'd be
01:00:45the perfect thing for me.
01:00:49So I received it
01:00:51and my first impression was,
01:00:53okay, this makes no sense to me at all.
01:00:57But I don't want to hurt
01:00:58my niece's feelings.
01:00:59And so I put it on the end of the bed
01:01:02and plugged it into the socket
01:01:05as per my instructions.
01:01:07And the first night,
01:01:10I couldn't feel anything.
01:01:12It didn't seem to make any difference.
01:01:14But when I woke up in the morning,
01:01:16my feet, which are always swollen,
01:01:18first time I tried it,
01:01:20there was no swelling in my feet.
01:01:23I could see the bones in my feet.
01:01:25And that hadn't happened
01:01:26probably in six months.
01:01:30I just made it a part of my life.
01:01:35After a couple years,
01:01:36it suddenly occurred to me,
01:01:37gee, everybody I know
01:01:39who's in a wheelchair
01:01:40has inflammation
01:01:43and swelling issues
01:01:45along with pain.
01:01:47So I called Marty
01:01:50and said,
01:01:51let me tell you
01:01:52about the Abilities Expo.
01:01:54Would you guys consider
01:01:55expanding your audience?
01:01:59Dr. Clint thought
01:02:00it was a great idea
01:02:01and now they're here.
01:02:06A natural phenomena,
01:02:08a remarkable natural phenomena
01:02:11that exists right beneath our feet,
01:02:15birthing or grounding,
01:02:17is about connecting
01:02:19to this natural resource.
01:02:22And regardless of your condition,
01:02:24it can make you feel better.
01:02:27Here's the background.
01:02:29Throughout time,
01:02:30throughout history,
01:02:31humans were connected to the earth.
01:02:34We walked barefoot.
01:02:35We slept on natural animal hides.
01:02:38We were connected to the earth.
01:02:40But today,
01:02:41it's a different story.
01:02:43We sleep in elevated beds.
01:02:46We wear synthetic-soled shoes.
01:02:50And even our wheelchairs
01:02:52are insulating us.
01:02:55When we make direct contact
01:02:57with the surface of the earth,
01:02:59our bodies receive it.
01:03:01Ten years ago,
01:03:02I was working with
01:03:03a holistic cardiologist
01:03:05and we wanted to do
01:03:06an article on grounding.
01:03:08And so he said to me,
01:03:10the cardiologist said,
01:03:10you've got to call Clint over.
01:03:13And so I went
01:03:13and I called Clint over.
01:03:15I spoke to him
01:03:15for five minutes
01:03:16and I realized
01:03:17this is not an article.
01:03:18This is a book.
01:03:19This is a huge discovery.
01:03:22Well, when I first heard about it,
01:03:24it was took it
01:03:25with a pinch of salt.
01:03:26It sounded a little,
01:03:27a little too good to be true.
01:03:29Having now experienced
01:03:31several friends
01:03:31and people on our team
01:03:32who have used grounding,
01:03:35the skepticism
01:03:35is pretty much gone.
01:03:37Right behind us right now
01:03:38is one of my friends.
01:03:39Her mom is in a companion chair.
01:03:42Fifteen minutes ago,
01:03:43she was swollen legs.
01:03:45Feet were cold.
01:03:46Hands were cold.
01:03:47And now they're not.
01:03:48And this is her first experience
01:03:49of grounding.
01:03:50That's 15 minutes
01:03:51of real-life demonstration.
01:03:53So I'm pretty much a convert.
01:03:54I am 39 years old.
01:04:00Trying to take pride in that.
01:04:03I was diagnosed
01:04:04with MS 14 years ago.
01:04:09The first time
01:04:10I heard about grounding,
01:04:11I thought,
01:04:12get real.
01:04:13This seems crazy.
01:04:16My friend patched me up
01:04:18and I sat there
01:04:19and we all just talked
01:04:21for about 45 minutes.
01:04:22I found myself smiling
01:04:25and that wasn't something
01:04:26that I did.
01:04:28You know,
01:04:28I just didn't.
01:04:35I physically have
01:04:37more energy.
01:04:38I don't have the fatigue.
01:04:40I feel like
01:04:42I really can accomplish things.
01:04:45I can brush my teeth now
01:04:49without holding
01:04:50under the counter.
01:04:51My balance is better.
01:04:53I just feel...
01:04:55It sounds silly,
01:04:57but I feel more grounded.
01:04:58I feel like my feet
01:05:00are really, like,
01:05:01hanging onto the ground
01:05:02and I'm there.
01:05:03And...
01:05:03I do it every night.
01:05:07I sleep on a pad
01:05:08and I patch up my hands
01:05:11and sleep with a grounding blanket
01:05:13and I just really am obsessive
01:05:15because I'm noticing.
01:05:18I just finally look forward
01:05:19to tomorrow.
01:05:24For the most part,
01:05:25it's been sleep.
01:05:27You know,
01:05:27she's been able
01:05:27to get through the night
01:05:28without having to get up,
01:05:29like, you know,
01:05:30six times to go to the bathroom
01:05:32or anything like that.
01:05:34Her spasticity's gotten
01:05:35a ton better.
01:05:36She used to have, like,
01:05:37restless legs all night
01:05:38and that doesn't really
01:05:39happen anymore.
01:05:41It's been huge.
01:05:42It's been a big difference
01:05:42for her.
01:05:43I want everybody
01:05:48to try this.
01:05:49I don't want anybody
01:05:50to not experience this.
01:05:52Anybody who has pain,
01:05:54anybody who can't sleep
01:05:55that well,
01:05:56anybody who gets depressed,
01:05:59you know,
01:05:59I mean,
01:05:59these are all things
01:06:00that have been completely
01:06:01lifted out of my life.
01:06:05I used to feel
01:06:07like a burden,
01:06:08a real burden
01:06:09to my husband,
01:06:10to my family,
01:06:11and I don't feel
01:06:13like a burden anymore.
01:06:15I feel,
01:06:16I feel good
01:06:18and I feel like
01:06:19things are going
01:06:20to get better.
01:06:24It's my miracle.
01:06:25as Athena began
01:06:37to ground more and more,
01:06:38we noticed a dramatic
01:06:40shift in her health.
01:06:42Athena,
01:06:43do you know
01:06:44what grounding is?
01:06:45it's when you put
01:06:52your feet
01:06:53or her body
01:06:54on Mama Earth
01:06:56and she heals you.
01:06:57That's right.
01:06:58How does she heal you?
01:07:00With her healing magic.
01:07:03With her healing magic.
01:07:04and have you been grounding?
01:07:06Yes.
01:07:06Yeah?
01:07:07And what happened
01:07:07as a result of that?
01:07:09I did have to
01:07:10go to the hospital
01:07:11for a year.
01:07:13You haven't been
01:07:13to the hospital
01:07:14in a whole year.
01:07:16Amazing.
01:07:16We're so happy
01:07:17about that,
01:07:17aren't we?
01:07:18You don't like
01:07:19the hospital
01:07:19very much,
01:07:20do you?
01:07:23When we began
01:07:24grounding Athena,
01:07:25a very progressive doctor
01:07:27had suggested
01:07:28I also try it.
01:07:31He told me
01:07:32to lie naked
01:07:33on the ground.
01:07:36It sounded
01:07:37ridiculous.
01:07:40But I did it anyway.
01:07:43And then
01:07:44everything changed.
01:07:49I began to sleep
01:07:50through the night,
01:07:51my energy level shifted,
01:07:53and I got my libido back.
01:07:59Over the next six months,
01:08:01I kept practicing
01:08:01grounding and
01:08:03I lost 50 pounds.
01:08:08I wasn't expecting
01:08:09any of this.
01:08:11Hi, Clint!
01:08:13I was just trying
01:08:13to heal my daughter.
01:08:15Hi, Rebecca.
01:08:16How are you?
01:08:17Thank you for coming
01:08:18to visit us.
01:08:19No problem.
01:08:19I enjoyed it.
01:08:20It was a beautiful
01:08:21drive today.
01:08:21Yes.
01:08:22Wow, look at you.
01:08:23This is insane.
01:08:25How did you do this?
01:08:27There is this incredible
01:08:28thing I need to tell you
01:08:29about.
01:08:29I don't know
01:08:29if you've heard about it,
01:08:30but it's called
01:08:31grounding.
01:08:32Come on in.
01:08:33All right.
01:08:34Yeah, it's great
01:08:34to have you here.
01:08:36Good to be here.
01:08:38I'm going to get
01:08:38those shoes off.
01:08:39So the first thing
01:08:41I'm extremely excited
01:08:42to share with you
01:08:43is that our daughter
01:08:44has not been
01:08:45to the emergency room
01:08:46in many months now.
01:08:48You know,
01:08:48I can't tell you
01:08:49how many nights
01:08:50at 2 a.m.
01:08:50we wound up
01:08:51in the emergency room
01:08:52because she couldn't breathe.
01:08:53And now she's like
01:08:55any other kid.
01:08:56You know,
01:08:56she gets a cold.
01:08:57She has a normal cold.
01:08:58She sleeps through the night.
01:09:00You know,
01:09:00what can you attribute
01:09:01that to?
01:09:02Well,
01:09:03when children are sick
01:09:04and they get run down,
01:09:07they don't get good sleep,
01:09:08and they have inflammation
01:09:09in their body,
01:09:10she started grounding
01:09:11and she started sleeping better.
01:09:14The grounding
01:09:14is reducing the inflammation.
01:09:16She's working with
01:09:17a significantly improved
01:09:19immune system.
01:09:20It's called immunotherapy.
01:09:21Get grounded
01:09:22and improve
01:09:23your immune system.
01:09:25So the surprise
01:09:26side effect
01:09:27of grounding our daughter
01:09:28was I got grounded.
01:09:30Right.
01:09:31And as you can see,
01:09:33I've had a complete
01:09:33transformation.
01:09:35Can you explain
01:09:36what happened to me?
01:09:37Yes.
01:09:38As soon as
01:09:39you get grounded,
01:09:41the first thing
01:09:42that happens,
01:09:43you quiet
01:09:45the sympathetic
01:09:45nervous system,
01:09:47and then eventually
01:09:48the adrenals
01:09:49will start to recover.
01:09:51But when your adrenals
01:09:52become exhausted
01:09:53because of
01:09:54too much stimulation here,
01:09:56then the sympathetic
01:09:57overdrives,
01:09:58and then you end up
01:09:59with adrenal fatigue,
01:10:01and that is the precursor
01:10:02to most all of these things,
01:10:03including weight gain.
01:10:06I never would have believed
01:10:07that you and I
01:10:07would be sitting here
01:10:08having this conversation.
01:10:09Not in a million years.
01:10:11Have other women
01:10:12reported weight loss
01:10:14as a result of grounding?
01:10:15Yes.
01:10:17Not to the point
01:10:17that I could come out
01:10:18and say,
01:10:18well, get grounded,
01:10:19and you're going
01:10:19to lose weight.
01:10:21It starts up here
01:10:22and starts, I mean,
01:10:23getting the pain
01:10:23out of your body,
01:10:24getting the stress,
01:10:25the anxiety,
01:10:26the irritability,
01:10:27the depression
01:10:28out of the body,
01:10:30and then all of a sudden
01:10:31the right hormones
01:10:32start to surface.
01:10:34Your energy comes up,
01:10:35metabolism comes up.
01:10:36It's, you know,
01:10:37health is not something
01:10:38we really have to work on.
01:10:39We have to let it be.
01:10:40We have to take the things
01:10:41that are interfering
01:10:42with our health,
01:10:42that are compromising
01:10:44our immune system,
01:10:44and remove them
01:10:45from our life,
01:10:46and then the body
01:10:47will go back to normal.
01:10:52So, like,
01:10:54um,
01:10:55why hasn't it
01:10:56caught on
01:10:57in mainstream?
01:10:58I can only say
01:10:59it will.
01:11:01There's a
01:11:02well-established,
01:11:03traditional,
01:11:04conventional system
01:11:05that relies
01:11:06on expensive intervention,
01:11:08so they'd like
01:11:09to perpetuate that,
01:11:10and they're not
01:11:11too interested
01:11:12in having
01:11:13some competition
01:11:13coming in
01:11:14for a lot less expensive
01:11:15to sort of sabotage
01:11:16their profit levels
01:11:17because their goal
01:11:19isn't to help humanity.
01:11:20Their goal is really
01:11:21as corporations
01:11:21is increase their profits.
01:11:23The question becomes,
01:11:25you know,
01:11:25how much of an influence
01:11:27has lack of grounding
01:11:28been in the epidemic
01:11:29of disease that we have?
01:11:31Is this grounding
01:11:31a factor?
01:11:34We have a pain epidemic
01:11:36which has led
01:11:38to an opiate epidemic,
01:11:41a national crisis,
01:11:42so given
01:11:44the worldwide
01:11:45discomfort,
01:11:47unhealth,
01:11:49diseases,
01:11:50all of them
01:11:51are benefited
01:11:51by earthing.
01:11:55There's a resistance
01:11:56to integrating
01:11:58novel thoughts,
01:12:00and many times
01:12:01new ideas
01:12:03aren't implemented
01:12:03until the people
01:12:04who hold
01:12:04the counter-opinion
01:12:05die.
01:12:08There are lots
01:12:09of people
01:12:09who don't want
01:12:10this to happen.
01:12:11I don't know why
01:12:12people critique it
01:12:13to death.
01:12:14I don't know
01:12:14why they do that.
01:12:17What the skeptics
01:12:18need to do
01:12:19is try it out.
01:12:22The good thing
01:12:23about grounding
01:12:23is that you don't
01:12:24need a doctor
01:12:25to tell you
01:12:25to do it.
01:12:26You do not need
01:12:27a physician
01:12:28to recommend it
01:12:29to you.
01:12:29You can try this
01:12:30any time.
01:12:31It is your birthright
01:12:33because you live
01:12:34on the earth.
01:12:36I ground
01:12:37every day.
01:12:38Hey, I want
01:12:39to be connected
01:12:39to the earth
01:12:40as much as I can.
01:12:41I would say
01:12:43about 95%
01:12:45of the day
01:12:45I'm grounded
01:12:46because I believe
01:12:47it's just
01:12:48a no-brainer.
01:12:51Go outdoors,
01:12:52take your shoes off,
01:12:54stand barefoot
01:12:54on the earth
01:12:55or sit on the earth,
01:12:56put your feet
01:12:56and your hands
01:12:57on the earth
01:12:57and you will
01:12:59instantly notice
01:13:00the pain
01:13:01and inflammation
01:13:02begin to drain
01:13:03from your body.
01:13:04I got my life
01:13:06back is probably
01:13:07the most common
01:13:08refrain that I hear.
01:13:10Thank you,
01:13:11I got my life
01:13:11back.
01:13:13I got my life
01:13:15back.
01:13:21Even if the science
01:13:22isn't yet considered
01:13:23mainstream,
01:13:25there is an
01:13:26undeniable
01:13:26and growing number
01:13:27of people
01:13:28who are experiencing
01:13:29the benefits
01:13:30of grounding.
01:13:34As for us
01:13:34and our family,
01:13:35we're spending
01:13:36more time outside
01:13:37and spending
01:13:38more time together.
01:13:41And yes,
01:13:42we're keeping
01:13:42our feet firmly
01:13:43planted on the ground.
01:13:46Does our daughter
01:13:47still get sick?
01:13:49Yeah,
01:13:50but not nearly
01:13:50as much.
01:13:53Maybe she's
01:13:53growing out of it
01:13:54or maybe
01:13:56she's just
01:13:57growing up
01:13:58grounded.
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