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Grounding is an environmental problem that leads to health problems. Just like living in an environment that is too cold leads to health problems like hypothermia and chronic shivering. Or, how living in an environment where the air is too thin leads to health problems like difficulty breathing and low energy. Living in an ungrounded environment leads to health problems like chronic inflammation and pain.
Physicians know how to treat hypothermia and low oxygen levels, and they have enough life experience and common sense to see that these health problems are caused by the environment. It is easy to identify the root cause of disease in these cases and while the short term solution might be to treat the body to help it heal from the damage, the long term solution is to fix the environment (i.e. install a heater or raise the oxygen levels).
Most doctors are not trained in electrical theory so when they see the inflammation caused by being ungrounded, they can only treat the damage and try to manage the inflammation but they don't recognize the root environmental cause to be able to advise people to get grounded.
In the same way that installing a heater would not be a 'cure' for chronic shivering, installing a ground connection is not a 'cure' for inflammation. In both situations however, fixing the environmental problem will lead to almost immediate health benefits and remove the root cause of the disease - at which point we are left with dealing with the damage that was caused before the environment was 'fixed'.
It is easy to measure if your thermal environment is off, just use a thermometer to check the temperature, we know what the temperature range is for supporting life. Same goes for oxygen levels. We have instruments that will measure the air and we know the correct range for oxygen concentration that human life requires. We're constantly monitoring these levels and have engineered solutions to keep us in the safe zone.
Our electromagnetic environment is easy to test as well. Using a common voltmeter, we can measure the voltage on our skin and we know what the range needs to be to prevent inflammation. We now know that that this healthy range is maintained when we are grounded, and we quickly move to the unhealthy range when ungrounded.
Somehow however, we overlooked our electromagnetic environment when attempting to understand the root cause of certain diseases. While some people knew that our electromagnetic environment is different when we disconnect physically from the Earth, no one knew the physiological effects this would have until Clint Ober started his research into Earthing,
Clint was trying to find out why he slept better and his pain vanished when he was consistently grounded. He discovered the mechanism of action, what happens in the body that leads to chronic inflammation when disconnected from the Earth, and he has shown how this does not happen if we stay connected.
Grounding products and solutions are analogous to a heater or oxygen concentrator in that they remediate our environment back to natural conditions. Once the environmental root cause of the malfunctioning of the body is understood and corrected, the body heals on its own.
Always sleep grounded!
John
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Knowing that Grounding works has changed my decision making about personal healthcare. Understanding that being ungrounded is the root cause of rogue inflammation and that burning, extreme pain, has made getting grounded the first treatment option for my health issues.
But exactly how does Grounding work? What is the mechanism of action that prevents inflammation?
Our bodies are smart. Our immune system can deploy defenses when we detect foreign invaders or damaged parts in our bodies. Those defenses are called neutrophils, a type of white blood cell. They have the power to encapsulate and destroy. They kill their trapped target by releasing reactive oxygen species (ROS) which work by stealing electrons from their close neighbours.
If your internal electrical environment is ungrounded, there is a deficiency of surplus electrons needed to contain the destructive effect of ROS to the target site; and collateral damage of nearby healthy tissue results. This starts a chain reaction as the immune system repeats the process to clean up the newly created damage, which leads to chronic inflammation, pain and degeneration.¹
I've tested it, it's easy to do. The next time you scald your hand with boiling water, or get a scrape or bruise, try applying ground to the site of injury. Stinging pain, redness, swelling, heat and stiffness are the signs of rogue inflammation. You will see that these are minimized if the electrons from grounding are available, and the immune system is allowed to work as designed.
Always sleep grounded,
John
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Everyday, more people across Canada are sleeping grounded. They sleep touching a conductive pad, connected to a cable, that plugs into the ground port of their electrical outlet. Why would they do this? Won't they get electrocuted? Sounds crazy right?
The ground port of your electrical outlet is completely separate from any electricity. It is included in every outlet for safety reasons, and it connects to a a ground rod that is sunk deep into the Earth below your home.
Grounding equipment extends this Earth connection to your body. For extra safety, all of our Kits include an outlet checker to ensure that your ground outlet is wired properly. Also, all of our cables have a built in resistor as a redundant level of safety.
Touching our Earthing products is the same as touching the Earth.
Sleeping grounded places your body at Earth electrical potential. This is our most natural state and how we lived in nature until our modern lifestyles unwittingly disconnected us.
"Sounder sleep. More restful sleep. Deeper sleep. Less trips to the bathroom. Less snoring. More vivid dreams. Less stiffness and pain in the morning. Easier to fall asleep and easier to fall back asleep. Waking up refreshed and energized."
These are the experiences and reports that we consistently hear, and what drives us on our mission to ground the beds in Canada.
Clint Ober from the United States unintentionally discovered that he slept better when he was grounded in 1998. Mr. Ober invented the first grounded sleep system that same night, and he has spent his time since then telling the World. Together with a world class team, Clint has driven the development of better systems for sleeping grounded, and for staying grounded. We’re proud to offer the latest generation of conductive sleep solutions as a permanent fix for grounding your bed.
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I was 45 years old at the time, my birthday 3 days prior, and I was, like most people, dealing with pain, managing anxiety and longing for better sleep. Suffering in these areas had become normal, I was in my 40's now, and it was expected. Everyone was suffering all around me and the only solutions that had been offered were to take a new medicine or have surgery. Either way it made no difference to complain since everyone else was in the same situation.
Conversations with friends and family around that time were mostly about this old pain or that new pain, or the latest remedy that would always work for a little while. But what I was hearing from Clint was that a new root cause of all of the suffering had been found - stumbled upon by chance or fate - and with this knowledge the root cause can be removed, and balance restored!
I listened as Clint explained that Inflammation was the real culprit. But not by some insidious intent, but because of our unwitting electrical insulation from the surface of the Earth. I learned that the surface of the Earth is conductive, and that it has a voltage of about -20 millivolts.
I knew that our skin was conductive but I did not know that the cells of our body have a -20 millivolt surface voltage too. When we touch the Earth, we equalize with this potential. When we disconnect, our cells have to try to maintain this voltage - now fighting the electrical properties of the Earth instead of working with them.
It all made sense and I remembered the story of Occam's Razor - where, when two explanations both describe a phenomenon, the simpler of the two will be the correct one. Grounding was so simple and explained things better. Clint was right!
That night I hacked up an old extension cord, plugged it into the ground port of my electrical outlet and tied the other bare copper end around my ankle. I slept better than I had in years.
From there it just kept getting better and better. The more I stayed grounded, the better I would feel. Eventually my inflammation subsided and old pains diminished. Removing the root cause allowed my body to find balance - and of course I had to tell everyone.
I was surprised by the backlash I received from sharing the good news, but I took it in stride. Eventually, one by one, I was able to convince people to try it - to take their shoes off and spend a half-hour with their bare feet on the grass. Then to put a mat on their bed and sleep grounded. Every time the feedback was the same: less pain, better sleep, more calm.
Soon, people were asking me where to get quality grounding equipment. There were so many fakes, and cheap knock-offs out there that people were reluctant to take the plunge. Eventually I realized that we needed our own inventory here to enable those that understand and want to include indoor grounding in their lifestyle.
And so, with Clint's blessing, Sleep Grounded Canada Inc. was founded in 2020 as an Authorized Distributor of Earthing® products. Our goal is to see 30% of Canada's population enjoying grounded sleep by the year 2030 and we are committed to seeing that day. Thank you for sleeping grounded and contributing to this change in understanding of the Body-Earth connection.
Ground and Peace,
John
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]]>In the world of Electrical Engineering, the practice of grounding is common and pervasive. Proper grounding of industrial equipment is required for safety and proper function.
Engineers are also familiar with grounding the human body when working with sensitive electrical equipment. Ungrounded, our bodies build up charge and high voltages can accumulate on the skin which can arc and damage electronics. In this environment, the use of grounding wristbands, shoe straps and work mats is common.
The idea that an ungrounded body might malfunction was first postulated by Clint Ober in 1998. Since then, many peer-reviewed published studies have demonstrated the physiological changes that occur when the body is ungrounded. Some of these changes appear to be negative which leads to the conclusion that being ungrounded is a public safety issue.
As a Professional Engineer, I took an oath to be vigilant for potential safety threats in the environment and to report them as a matter of duty. I find myself in this situation with the knowledge and understanding of the science being archived at the Earthing Institute in California, USA, on grounding the human body.
The electrical environment, in which we live, is more than just the electronics and power equipment that we have developed over the last 120 years. The Earth itself is electrical. Electrical engineers learn early on Maxwell's equations which establish the link between electricity and magnetism. The fact that the Earth has a North and South magnetic pole is proof of the electrical nature of the Earth. The polar aurora, lightning and sprites are further evidence of our electrical environment and the Earth's electromagnetic field.
Our bodies also have an electromagnetic field that can be measured. Our cardiovascular and neurological systems are electrical.
Electrical Engineers also learn how electromagnetic fields interact with each other, and how that interaction depends on physical contact or distance between fields. Two touching magnets behave dramatically differently than two disconnected magnets no matter how close they are to each other.
This is the crucial part of grounding to understand. When we break the electrical connection between our bodies and the Earth, our electrical environment is dramatically altered and our electromagnetic fields are now in conflict with the Earth's field, instead of enveloped by it. This is a hazardous environment to live in which can be remediated by making direct skin contact with the surface of the Earth or via a conductive tether.
Always sleep grounded,
John
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How do you keep your electrical connection with the Earth? Either by removing the insulating layers between your skin and the surface of the Earth, or by using a conductive tether between the two.
Here is a summary table of the cost, comfort and lifespan for some of the different ways to sleep grounded.
Outdoors |
Bare skin contact with the surface of the Earth or through clothes made of natural fibers.
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Existing Cable |
Remove the power blades from the male end of an existing 3-prong power cable. Cut off the female end and strip the insulating cover to expose 12-18 inches of bare cable. Attach the bare end around your ankle and plug the single ground prong into the ground port of a properly wired outlet.
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Metallic Tape |
Adhere a strip of metallic tape across your mattress and connect it to a ground outlet using alligator clips and an extension cable.
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Stick an Earthing patch somewhere on your body and snap an Earthing cable on and connect it to ground.
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Place a Universal Earthing mat on your bed. It can go above or below your sheet. It can also be inserted into your pillow cover.
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Silver threaded sheets |
Discontinued. Cotton sheets with 5% silver thread.
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2nd generation carbon based pillow cover with built in snap connection.
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Ober developed carbon based mattress covers. Soft, 100% conductive durable surface. Provides a grounded surface for your whole body.
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Same as above but provides a wider surface to include your whole body's electric field.
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Always sleep grounded.
John
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