Earthing and Antioxidants

Despite that the vast majority of complex life on Earth requires oxygen to burn food to fuel their energy needs, oxygen is a highly reactive molecule that damages and burns cells. An antioxidant is a molecule that, like a firefighter, inhibits the oxidation spreading to other molecules. Oxidation removes electrons from molecules and produces free-radicals which start chain reactions like seen in fires that damage or kill cells.

Antioxidants, nature's preservatives, terminate these chain reactions by providing electrons to replace those that were removed. Plants and animals maintain complex systems of multiple types of antioxidants, in various enzymes and in vitamins such as A, C, and E found in fresh fruits and vegetables and plant oils, all grown on the electron rich earth. Insufficient levels of antioxidants cause oxidative stress causing chronic excessive inflammation that plays a significant role in many human dis- eases, including cancers and that are considered to be both the cause and the consequence of many diseases.

For most of our evolutionary history, humans have had continuous con- tact with the earth. The human body evolved in contact with the Earth and needs to maintain this natural contact in order to function properly. In these modern times, we have lost contact with the earth thanks to shoes with rubber and plastic soles, asphalt pavements, and wooden and carpeted floors. We have become disconnected from the earth and have become charged up and inflamed like an overfilled balloon ready to burst.

Inflammation is a condition that can be reduced or prevented by grounding our body to the earth, the way our ancestors have done for thousands of generations. Positive charged molecules in the form of free radicals build up in our bodies and direct contact with the ground and its free electrons balances this out. Electrons have antioxidant effects that protect us from inflammation and its many well-documented health consequences. Our immune system functions optimally when it has an adequate supply of electrons that are easily and naturally obtained by contact with the earth.

We have evolved a means to kill bacteria using reactive oxygen species (ROSs) that are delivered to a site of injury by white blood cells. Although very effective at this task, ROSs are also very reactive bio- chemically and can damage healthy tissues. ROSs are positively charged molecules that need to be neutralized before they diffuse into healthy tissues. That is one of the major reasons we need an abundant supply of negative charges that free electrons provide.

Food based antioxidants are helpful but a regular supply of electrons from the earth can supply them as well. Nature has solved this problem by providing conductive systems within our bodies that deliver electrons from our feet to all parts of our body. This has been the natural arrangement throughout most of human history. Negative charges have always been available, thanks to the Earth, to prevent the inflammatory process from damaging healthy tissues.

All of this changed when we began to wear shoes with rubber and plastic soles, and no longer slept in direct contact with the earth. With a constant source of free electrons, through diet or grounding, inflammation, widely acknowledged as one of the primary factors contributing to premature aging and chronic disease are greatly reduced.

You can easily and cheaply ground your bodies day and night by using a grounding pad made of a non-coated metal mosquito net connected to the 3rd grounding plug of an electrical outlet. This grounding pad can be placed on the floor as a foot pad in your office or on your mat- tress under the sheet that you sleep on.

So when your cells catch on fire, you can easily put the fire out by smothering it using the earth you stand on and spraying it with the electrons it contains.