176 Earthing
Oh, you didn’t know that grounding yourself to the earth with copper wires while you sleep has health benefits? Thanks to Dr. Mercola, now you do.
Grounding or Earthing has been shown to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, improve sleep & provide many more benefits http://t.co/EnLauE1eqU
— Dr. Mercola (@mercola) January 9, 2015
A helpful twitter user offered balancedbyearth.com as a scholarly reference, which features a youtube video of none other than Mercola and Oz, together. How does earthing help? Well, buy a foam mattress for $2400 from their store and find out! “The Earth is the ultimate source of healing energy. You were born to be connected to it. The Earthing Bed does just that…connects you to that powerful and endless supply of free electrons while you sleep.”
Hopefully you’ve already seen Dr Oz getting slapped around by the Senate in perhaps the only interesting broadcast in CSPAN history. As you might suspect, Mercola got slapped around too – by the FDA in 2005, 2006, and again in 2011.
Why spend all that money on quacks? Look up “earthing” on youtube and you’ll find how to DIY with nothing more than a copper wire!
It's a sleepover, so you can't laugh at my retainer.
WYLONA
Okay, but you don't laugh at my grounding socks.
KATE
Grounding? as in copper wire?
WYLONA
Connecting with the earth has health benefits! Read a book.
KATE
Do you have a book? or did you mean to say the internet?
WYLONA
Maybe.
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On the plus side, no one’s laughing at her because of the socks … they’re just shaking their heads in scorn.
wait….this is a thing?
Maybe they should upgrade this to a full-on Faraday chain mail suit. That way it may somehow actually save lives when someone got strike by a lighting while wearing it.
Actually, I’m nearing completion on a chainmail vest I’ve been working on. I’ll probably start on pants next. I’ve had to build it myself because I’ve doubled up the links. I’ll try wearing it and have someone try to get me with static electricity.
Dracula slept on dirt and it gave him magic vampire powers that only get sexier with every passing film adaptation.
No, grounding is totally legit. Prevents electricity from arcing from your finger to doorknobs. So, technically, in a way, it prevents pain. The claims about reducing inflammation and improving sleep remain highly questionable. This is new pseudoscience to me, though.
I’ve got grounding capacitive socks which have a built in dielectric. I am the human equivalent of a Leyden jar. I collect personal energy from the solar wind because the sun is bigger than the earth so therefore generates far more healing energy. People are often shocked when they find out the source of my physical health and mental well-being. Indeed, they are often stunned into a speechless silence.
If being connected to the earth while sleeping is so helpful, shouldn’t you sleep on the ground, naked in the dirt, not on a foam mattress separating you from it?
Maybe you need to be insulated from the earth everywhere except the correct reflexology points on your feet?
Yeah! I’ve always thought – if reflexology was a thing, wouldn’t there be prescription shoes?
http://www.okabashi.com/info/Reflexology_Shoes
sigh
Although, those socks might be a good thing if you work on static sensitive electronics.
As for your DIY solution, be aware that grounding straps worn by electronics technicians have a 1 mega-ohm resistor in the circuit between the human and the ground. It prevents too rapid a discharge. You may want to consider this in your implementation.
ProTip: if you have to caution a friend not to laugh about something, that is usually a pretty good indicator it’s absurd to begin with and you know it, just don’t want to admit it. 😀
So because something is found online, it means that we can disregard it? I guess we should disregard the numerous government accredited diplomas and bachelor degrees which can now be obtained online, online medical journals, online news services, and probably, this stupid comic strip – since it is online.
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Hey, I wear grounding straps all the time, and I find them to be highly beneficial. They keep the electronic components I handle at work from being damaged by electrostatic discharges. 🙂
Of course, I don’t think those socks would be very effective in that regard, as the shoes would still insulate them from the ground.
That’s why they make static dissipative shoes. Yes, that’s a real thing. They’re intended for those who work in electronics and other static sensitive industries. Mine are Red Wings, although I’m sure other work shoe manufacturers make them too.