Grounding

[Serpo]

A good idea to make this thread as having tried it and read a book that has a lot of varied people saying they get beneficial effects of being earthed while asleep at night.

Started of as another subject to learn more about in an obscure field , and it turns out that earthing people has a very positive effect on a lot of people health wise.
These are varied but include nearly any problem you care to think about.

Most people get a better sleep and need less sleep , pain lessens or goes away.
This is the book and I recommend it for everyone to read it is important to understand about earthing our selves , it is very simple and good value considering all you have to do is buy a sheet with silver in it to feed electrons from the earth into our bodies that we desperately need for good health.
http://www.earthinginstitute.net/index.php/book

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The surface of the Earth resonates with natural, subtle energies. Ongoing scientific research is discovering the details as to why people feel significantly better when they connect with these omnipresent energy fields. Earthing refers to the process of connecting by walking barefoot outside, as humans have done throughout history, or sitting, working, or sleeping grounded indoors. For more than a decade, thousands of people around the world—men, women, children, and athletes—have incorporated Earthing into their daily routines and report that they sleep better, have less pain and stress, and faster recovery from trauma. Earthing immediately equalizes your body to the same energy level, or potential, as the Earth. This results in synchronizing your internal biological clocks, hormonal cycles, and physiological rhythms, and suffusing your body with healing, negatively charged free electrons abundantly present on the surface of the Earth.
Earthing is among the most natural and safest things you can do.


http://www.earthinginstitute.net/index.php/overview

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http://www.earthinginstitute.net/images/mugshots/clint.jpg
The remarkable story of the discovery of Earthing began in the late 1990s when a retired cable TV executive started to think about the human body in terms of electrical grounding.
For 25 years, Clint Ober had participated in the spectacular rise of the cable industry and his own business–the leading cable installation company in the U.S.–by giving customers images that were superior to broadcast television.
What does cable TV have to do with health? The answer may surprise you. The crisp image delivered by the cable is the result of shielding that prevents signals from leaking out and prevents outside disturbances from leaking in. The cable consists of an inner copper conductor surrounded by a mesh shield. The shield is electrically connected to the Earth (grounded), so that the Earth can either deliver or absorb electrons and prevent the build-up of electrical charges in the system. The potential of the shield equalizes with that of the Earth’s surface, thus protecting and stabilizing the signals flowing through the conductor.
After his retirement, Mr. Ober began to consider how his experience with cable TV might apply to the human body. He realized that most people wear synthetic-soled shoes that insulate their bodies from the Earth's energy field that stabilizes not only cable TV but all electrical equipment– industrial or residential– throughout the world. This seemingly simple realization inspired a scientific adventure that has resulted in what is perhaps the greatest health discovery of our time.



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http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/human-body-make-electricity-1.jpg Heart Pictures
(http://health.howstuffworks.com/heart-pictures.htm) The electricity produced by our bodies is what allows synapses, signals and even heartbeats to occur. See more heart pictures (http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/circulatory/heart-pictures.htm).
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Without electricity (http://science.howstuffworks.com/electricity.htm), you wouldn't be reading this article right now. And it's not because your computer (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm) wouldn't work. It's because your brain (http://health.howstuffworks.com/brain.htm) wouldn't work.
Everything we do is controlled and enabled by electrical signals running through our bodies. As we learned in intro physics, everything is made up of atoms (http://science.howstuffworks.com/atom.htm), and atoms are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. Protons have a positive charge, neutrons have a neutral charge, and electrons have a negative charge. When these charges are out of balance, an atom becomes either positively or negatively charged. The switch between one type of charge and the other allows electrons to flow from one atom to another. This flow of electrons, or a negative charge, is what we call electricity. Since our bodies are huge masses of atoms, we can generate electricity
When we talk about the nervous system sending "signals" to the brain, or synapses "firing," or the brain telling our hands to contract around a door handle, what we're talking about is electricity carrying messages between point A and point B. It's sort of like the digital cable (http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cable-tv.htm) signal carrying 1s and 0s that deliver "Law & Order." Except in our bodies, electrons aren't flowing along a wire; instead, an electrical charge is jumping from one cell (http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/cellular-microscopic/cell.htm) to the next until it reaches its destination.
Electricity is a key to survival. Electrical signals are fast. They allow for a nearly instantaneous response to control messages. If our bodies relied entirely on, say, the movement of chemicals to tell our hearts (http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/heart.htm) to speed up when something is chasing us, we probably would've died out a long time ago.
Those crucial signals that tell our hearts to speed up when we're in danger come from a mass of cells in our heart called the sinoatrial node, or SA node. It's located in the right atrium, and it controls the rhythm of our heartbeat and the movement of blood (http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/blood.htm) from the heart to every other part of our body. It's our body's natural pacemaker, and it uses electrical signals to set the pace (see What determines the rhythm of your heart? (http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/circulatory/heart-rhythm.htm)). But our pulse isn't the only thing that relies on electrical impulses generated by our cells. Almost all of our cells are capable of generating electricity.
In this article, we'll look at the role of electricity in the body and find out how we generate it in the first place.
The starting point is simple: Right now, any cells in your body that aren't actively sending messages are slightly negatively charged. It gets interesting from there.http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/cells-tissues/human-body-make-electricity.htm

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http://www.naturalworldhealing.com/images/electrical-grounding-research%5B1%5D.pdf

[palani]

I read an account once from the 1870s. A young fellow had consumption and was advised to dig a hole and sleep in it overnight covered with dirt. A single night was enough to cure him of the disease.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9OhYOsvJleAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9OhYOsvJleA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OclGGH0EKhchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OclGGH0EKhc

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK2Dg3jlbBs&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HCtbM7wx0ug#!http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HCtbM7wx0ug#!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK2Dg3jlbBs&feature=relmfu

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http://gold-silver.us/forum/images/smilies/300%20%2835%29.gifThanks for all the thanks OHL ,have you read the book,its worth reading if you havnt ..

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Earthing for Lyme Patients: Go Slow! http://www.earthinginstitute.net/images/uploads/Alix_woodcut_thumb.png
By Alix
(Alix is the online name used by the co-founder of http://www.spirochicks.com, a collaborative Lyme lifestyle blog, with hundreds of subscribers and followers)
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Lyme Disease Facts
● Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by the bite of an infected tick.
● The condition was first reported in the U.S. in 1975 and has now been documented in Canada, Europe, the U.K., Russia, Africa, and Latin America. The Centers for Disease Control reports about 30,000 new cases per year in the U.S., an incidence the agency says is grossly under-reported. The reason, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, is likely because of poor recognition of symptoms by doctors, and because screening tests miss 35% of culture-proven Lyme disease.
● Lyme disease is usually treatable soon after an infectious bite with at least a month of antibiotics. However, it can become chronic when it is undertreated or when it is left untreated.
● Early symptoms can include: a bull’s eye rash (not all cases), flu-like symptoms, and joint pain
● Late symptoms can become disabling and can include neurological manifestations like facial palsy, loss of cognitive abilities, sleep disturbances, and heart abnormalities.
● Controversy exists over the cause of long-term Lyme symptoms despite use of antibiotics.
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In 2003, I bought the wood-cut print pictured above and hung it up on a wall in my house. I had no idea why I was attracted to this piece of art. At the time, I was very ill but had no diagnosis. A few years later I was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease. It’s now obvious why I was attracted subconsciously to the image of a barefoot woman holding a plant. Those were the two keys to my healing from a decades-long case of Lyme disease: Earthing and herbal medicine.
Earthing is profoundly healing for people with Lyme, as I and many in the SpiroChicks group have discovered. Aside from going gluten-free in 1999, nothing else has boosted my health so dramatically and rapidly as Earthing. Like me, anyone can enjoy the many benefits of Earthing, such as:
● The ability to fall asleep faster and sleep more deeply
● Reduced pain and inflammation
● Feeling of calm
My personal journey to optimal healing with Earthing was a bumpy one. I learned, and others have learned as well, that Lyme patients have to proceed slowly and cautiously because it is possible to Earth too much too soon if you suffer with Lyme. As an example, I offer a chronicle of my own experience.
I first Earthed in fall 2010 after hearing about Earthing at a health conference. I felt a sense of calm immediately after I placed an Earthing band around the ball of my foot, centering the contact point on my sole (over the acupuncture point called Kidney 1). I slept Earthed for the first time in my conference hotel room, and felt as though I fell asleep faster and slept a bit better than normal for someone with normally raging insomnia. My permanent headache – a problem I’d had for 16 years − abated significantly while at the conference.
When I returned home, I continued Earthing all night with the band around my foot, on the K1 point. My sleep improved to the point where, after a few weeks, I felt brave enough to stop cold turkey my prescription sleep medication. I was gratified to experience no trouble sleeping through the night. I didn’t miss the medication or the awful “hangovers” it gave me. (Note: I’m not recommending this to anyone on an addictive sleep med!). I also dumped my other sleep supplements except melatonin. I kept that because my body makes a lower than normal amount of its own melatonin.
Without prescription sleep meds and most of my sleep supplements, I kept sleeping well. That meant having deliciously long nights where I slept like a baby, sometimes for more than 12 hours. You can’t imagine how welcome this was after many nights of all-nighter insomnia for about eight years.
At some point, I decided to change my connection from a grounded wall outlet to a dedicated Earthing ground rod. I don’t recall what happened, but some Lyme patients in our SpiroChicks forum have said this change was noticeable to them.
Then, I got an Earthing recovery bag, thinking that “more is better.” It turned out to be too much exposure for me. A familiar and horrifying feeling returned – I went to bed as normal, feeling very sleepy, yet could not nod off for the entire night. I remained completely aware of my surroundings all night. The next day I had my trademark post-insomnia symptoms that render me non-functional – dizziness, a feeling of being “drunk,” and terrible pain in my head and body. I guessed that Earthing had caused a setback of insomnia, likely due to amplified Herxheimer and/or detoxification reactions. Let me explain those phenomena as they relate to Lyme patients:
● Individuals undergoing Lyme treatment sometimes experience Herxheimer reactions, an odd phenomenon where one feels worse because bacterial die-off produces an inflammatory event. Some people associate fatigue, nausea, and fever with “herxing.” Herxheimer reactions can also cause previously experienced Lyme symptoms to temporarily reappear.
● Earthing may also increase the body’s ability to detoxify − the actual cleaning out through our organs, of dead bacterial debris, such as Lyme spirochetes, and their resultant endotoxins. We can have detoxification reactions when the liver, kidneys, lymphatics, colon or skin become overloaded and are unable to manage the demands placed on them. Detoxification is notoriously impaired in long-term Lyme patients’ bodies. Based on patient reports, it’s possible that Earthing increases the capacity of one or more of these systems to eliminate toxins, but that the body retains bottlenecks in other organs that then get overloaded. The list of detox symptoms is long but can include fatigue, joint or muscle pain, skin rashes, sleep disturbances, irritability, and headaches.
I was still strongly convinced that Earthing was good for me, so I decided to go back to placing the band around my foot, which had caused wonderful initial benefits and no discomfort at all. I took the recovery bag off my bed for a while. The strategy worked. I did pretty well with sleep and was gradually able to build back up to Earthing my entire body on an Earthing sheet, without an uptick in insomnia.
There is no doubt that my reaction was a Lyme-specific reaction: too much Earthing too quickly. This experience is actually quite common among Lyme patients. It doesn’t mean that Earthing’s benefits − like pain reduction and better sleep − will not occur. It just means that Lyme patients need to go slowly when they start Earthing. It’s important to gradually build up the duration and amount of the body that is Earthed, so you don’t get slammed with a Herxheimer or detox reaction.
Lee Cowden, M.D., a well-known integrative physician and natural Lyme practitioner, directs Lyme patients to Earth for 15–30 minutes a day, building up to 3 hours while awake. Once a patient can Earth for 3 hours in the day, he says the patient can then try sleeping Earthed overnight.
Due to oftentimes quick provocation of reactions, some of my friends with Lyme have gone very, very slowly, at first only touching the metallic contact on a grounded Earthing band for 5 or 10 minutes per day. Some got a reaction, sometimes described as nausea, sometimes described as “detoxing too quickly,” even at this very minimal level. Some, like me, reacted quite positively at first. Many reported that once they weathered the temporary rough spots they experienced pain and headache reduction, better sleep, clearer thinking, a more alkaline body, and even improved excretion of heavy metals. Others never endure a negative reaction, and just enjoy the benefits. Still others report no apparent symptom benefits. We don’t know yet how many Lyme patients fall in each group.
To me, the fact that Earthing causes Herxheimer and detox reactions in Lyme patients suggests it must be inherently healing, as it’s hard to imagine that touching Mother Earth could ever cause ill health. What fascinates me, and demands study, is the reasons why the Earth may help Lyme patients heal. Although we only have hypotheses as to why Earthing can cause people with Lyme to Herx and detox, it’s good to begin somewhere. From my investigations there are a few factors that could contribute:
● Blood thinning: Earthing’s ability to thin the blood may allow the antibiotics used to treat Lyme to penetrate more deeply into tissue and access spirochetes. Thinner blood may also allow detox pathways to function better, by physically making it easier for blood to pass through smaller spaces.
● Blood oxygenation: Increased blood oxygenation from Earthing would also be detrimental to circulating spirochetes, causing more die-off than normal. More oxygenation could also contribute to improved detoxification.
● Prevention of Cysts: Steven Phillips, M.D., said at a 2004 Lyme conference that prescription blood thinners “appear to disrupt the formation of spheroblasts (cysts) in the bloodstream.” Lyme-literate MDs theorize that Borrelia Burgdorferi (Bb), the Lyme pathogen, form cysts as a defense mechanism when under threat from antibiotic treatment. Maybe, like prescription blood thinners, Earthing’s blood thinning effects somehow disrupt cyst formation, too? If so, does this mean Earthing could help a Lyme patient’s body slow the formation of cysts in the first place?
● Cyst Breakage: Earthing book co-author Steven Sinatra, MD suggests that the Earth’s natural frequencies might cause entrenched Bb cysts to open and deliver spirochetes to the bloodstream where they are more susceptible to antibiotics.
At this point, without Lyme-specific research, we can only speculate about the responses to Earthing but we can begin to create an Earthing strategy. My personal Earthing strategy is to sleep Earthed and work at my desk Earthed. I also seek out other Earthing opportunities such as walking barefoot on the beach and wearing Earthing flip flops as I walk outside.
I’m happy that after three years of herbal Lyme treatment and after experiencing a sharp and unmistakable diminishing of symptoms starting with daily Earthing in fall 2010, I was able to stop treating the Lyme in Spring 2012! Severe headaches and brain fog are largely a thing of the past thanks to Earthing. My joint pain is much reduced. I feel calmer and ready to sleep as soon as I connect to the Earth for the night. Sleep is still a demon I fight each night, but it is more good than bad, and my baseline is much improved due to Earthing.
The more I learn about Earthing and Lyme, the more my thoughts return to that painting of the woman with bare feet. I’m convinced my subconscious knew more about my plan for healing than I did. I can also accept that the Earth knows more about healing our bodies than we’ll ever be able to prove.
* * *
If you are interested in a lively discussion about the Earthing experiences of Lyme patients, please click here: http://www.spirochicks.com/2011/02/earthing-lyme-hypotheses.html
Thanks to Scott Forsgren, who hosts another informational Lyme disease website http://www.betterhealthguy.com for contributing to this article.
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Earthing for Lyme Patients: Go Slow! http://www.earthinginstitute.net/images/uploads/Alix_woodcut_thumb.png
By Alix
(Alix is the online name used by the co-founder of http://www.spirochicks.com, a collaborative Lyme lifestyle blog, with hundreds of subscribers and followers)
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Lyme Disease Facts
● Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by the bite of an infected tick.
● The condition was first reported in the U.S. in 1975 and has now been documented in Canada, Europe, the U.K., Russia, Africa, and Latin America. The Centers for Disease Control reports about 30,000 new cases per year in the U.S., an incidence the agency says is grossly under-reported. The reason, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, is likely because of poor recognition of symptoms by doctors, and because screening tests miss 35% of culture-proven Lyme disease.
● Lyme disease is usually treatable soon after an infectious bite with at least a month of antibiotics. However, it can become chronic when it is undertreated or when it is left untreated.
● Early symptoms can include: a bull’s eye rash (not all cases), flu-like symptoms, and joint pain
● Late symptoms can become disabling and can include neurological manifestations like facial palsy, loss of cognitive abilities, sleep disturbances, and heart abnormalities.
● Controversy exists over the cause of long-term Lyme symptoms despite use of antibiotics.
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In 2003, I bought the wood-cut print pictured above and hung it up on a wall in my house. I had no idea why I was attracted to this piece of art. At the time, I was very ill but had no diagnosis. A few years later I was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease. It’s now obvious why I was attracted subconsciously to the image of a barefoot woman holding a plant. Those were the two keys to my healing from a decades-long case of Lyme disease: Earthing and herbal medicine.
Earthing is profoundly healing for people with Lyme, as I and many in the SpiroChicks group have discovered. Aside from going gluten-free in 1999, nothing else has boosted my health so dramatically and rapidly as Earthing. Like me, anyone can enjoy the many benefits of Earthing, such as:
● The ability to fall asleep faster and sleep more deeply
● Reduced pain and inflammation
● Feeling of calm
My personal journey to optimal healing with Earthing was a bumpy one. I learned, and others have learned as well, that Lyme patients have to proceed slowly and cautiously because it is possible to Earth too much too soon if you suffer with Lyme. As an example, I offer a chronicle of my own experience.
I first Earthed in fall 2010 after hearing about Earthing at a health conference. I felt a sense of calm immediately after I placed an Earthing band around the ball of my foot, centering the contact point on my sole (over the acupuncture point called Kidney 1). I slept Earthed for the first time in my conference hotel room, and felt as though I fell asleep faster and slept a bit better than normal for someone with normally raging insomnia. My permanent headache – a problem I’d had for 16 years − abated significantly while at the conference.
When I returned home, I continued Earthing all night with the band around my foot, on the K1 point. My sleep improved to the point where, after a few weeks, I felt brave enough to stop cold turkey my prescription sleep medication. I was gratified to experience no trouble sleeping through the night. I didn’t miss the medication or the awful “hangovers” it gave me. (Note: I’m not recommending this to anyone on an addictive sleep med!). I also dumped my other sleep supplements except melatonin. I kept that because my body makes a lower than normal amount of its own melatonin.
Without prescription sleep meds and most of my sleep supplements, I kept sleeping well. That meant having deliciously long nights where I slept like a baby, sometimes for more than 12 hours. You can’t imagine how welcome this was after many nights of all-nighter insomnia for about eight years.
At some point, I decided to change my connection from a grounded wall outlet to a dedicated Earthing ground rod. I don’t recall what happened, but some Lyme patients in our SpiroChicks forum have said this change was noticeable to them.
Then, I got an Earthing recovery bag, thinking that “more is better.” It turned out to be too much exposure for me. A familiar and horrifying feeling returned – I went to bed as normal, feeling very sleepy, yet could not nod off for the entire night. I remained completely aware of my surroundings all night. The next day I had my trademark post-insomnia symptoms that render me non-functional – dizziness, a feeling of being “drunk,” and terrible pain in my head and body. I guessed that Earthing had caused a setback of insomnia, likely due to amplified Herxheimer and/or detoxification reactions. Let me explain those phenomena as they relate to Lyme patients:
● Individuals undergoing Lyme treatment sometimes experience Herxheimer reactions, an odd phenomenon where one feels worse because bacterial die-off produces an inflammatory event. Some people associate fatigue, nausea, and fever with “herxing.” Herxheimer reactions can also cause previously experienced Lyme symptoms to temporarily reappear.
● Earthing may also increase the body’s ability to detoxify − the actual cleaning out through our organs, of dead bacterial debris, such as Lyme spirochetes, and their resultant endotoxins. We can have detoxification reactions when the liver, kidneys, lymphatics, colon or skin become overloaded and are unable to manage the demands placed on them. Detoxification is notoriously impaired in long-term Lyme patients’ bodies. Based on patient reports, it’s possible that Earthing increases the capacity of one or more of these systems to eliminate toxins, but that the body retains bottlenecks in other organs that then get overloaded. The list of detox symptoms is long but can include fatigue, joint or muscle pain, skin rashes, sleep disturbances, irritability, and headaches.
I was still strongly convinced that Earthing was good for me, so I decided to go back to placing the band around my foot, which had caused wonderful initial benefits and no discomfort at all. I took the recovery bag off my bed for a while. The strategy worked. I did pretty well with sleep and was gradually able to build back up to Earthing my entire body on an Earthing sheet, without an uptick in insomnia.
There is no doubt that my reaction was a Lyme-specific reaction: too much Earthing too quickly. This experience is actually quite common among Lyme patients. It doesn’t mean that Earthing’s benefits − like pain reduction and better sleep − will not occur. It just means that Lyme patients need to go slowly when they start Earthing. It’s important to gradually build up the duration and amount of the body that is Earthed, so you don’t get slammed with a Herxheimer or detox reaction.
Lee Cowden, M.D., a well-known integrative physician and natural Lyme practitioner, directs Lyme patients to Earth for 15–30 minutes a day, building up to 3 hours while awake. Once a patient can Earth for 3 hours in the day, he says the patient can then try sleeping Earthed overnight.
Due to oftentimes quick provocation of reactions, some of my friends with Lyme have gone very, very slowly, at first only touching the metallic contact on a grounded Earthing band for 5 or 10 minutes per day. Some got a reaction, sometimes described as nausea, sometimes described as “detoxing too quickly,” even at this very minimal level. Some, like me, reacted quite positively at first. Many reported that once they weathered the temporary rough spots they experienced pain and headache reduction, better sleep, clearer thinking, a more alkaline body, and even improved excretion of heavy metals. Others never endure a negative reaction, and just enjoy the benefits. Still others report no apparent symptom benefits. We don’t know yet how many Lyme patients fall in each group.
To me, the fact that Earthing causes Herxheimer and detox reactions in Lyme patients suggests it must be inherently healing, as it’s hard to imagine that touching Mother Earth could ever cause ill health. What fascinates me, and demands study, is the reasons why the Earth may help Lyme patients heal. Although we only have hypotheses as to why Earthing can cause people with Lyme to Herx and detox, it’s good to begin somewhere. From my investigations there are a few factors that could contribute:
● Blood thinning: Earthing’s ability to thin the blood may allow the antibiotics used to treat Lyme to penetrate more deeply into tissue and access spirochetes. Thinner blood may also allow detox pathways to function better, by physically making it easier for blood to pass through smaller spaces.
● Blood oxygenation: Increased blood oxygenation from Earthing would also be detrimental to circulating spirochetes, causing more die-off than normal. More oxygenation could also contribute to improved detoxification.
● Prevention of Cysts: Steven Phillips, M.D., said at a 2004 Lyme conference that prescription blood thinners “appear to disrupt the formation of spheroblasts (cysts) in the bloodstream.” Lyme-literate MDs theorize that Borrelia Burgdorferi (Bb), the Lyme pathogen, form cysts as a defense mechanism when under threat from antibiotic treatment. Maybe, like prescription blood thinners, Earthing’s blood thinning effects somehow disrupt cyst formation, too? If so, does this mean Earthing could help a Lyme patient’s body slow the formation of cysts in the first place?
● Cyst Breakage: Earthing book co-author Steven Sinatra, MD suggests that the Earth’s natural frequencies might cause entrenched Bb cysts to open and deliver spirochetes to the bloodstream where they are more susceptible to antibiotics.
At this point, without Lyme-specific research, we can only speculate about the responses to Earthing but we can begin to create an Earthing strategy. My personal Earthing strategy is to sleep Earthed and work at my desk Earthed. I also seek out other Earthing opportunities such as walking barefoot on the beach and wearing Earthing flip flops as I walk outside.
I’m happy that after three years of herbal Lyme treatment and after experiencing a sharp and unmistakable diminishing of symptoms starting with daily Earthing in fall 2010, I was able to stop treating the Lyme in Spring 2012! Severe headaches and brain fog are largely a thing of the past thanks to Earthing. My joint pain is much reduced. I feel calmer and ready to sleep as soon as I connect to the Earth for the night. Sleep is still a demon I fight each night, but it is more good than bad, and my baseline is much improved due to Earthing.
The more I learn about Earthing and Lyme, the more my thoughts return to that painting of the woman with bare feet. I’m convinced my subconscious knew more about my plan for healing than I did. I can also accept that the Earth knows more about healing our bodies than we’ll ever be able to prove.
* * *
If you are interested in a lively discussion about the Earthing experiences of Lyme patients, please click here: http://www.spirochicks.com/2011/02/earthing-lyme-hypotheses.html
Thanks to Scott Forsgren, who hosts another informational Lyme disease website http://www.betterhealthguy.com for contributing to this article.
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