The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding (full documentary)

our names are Rebecca and Josh tekele were filmmakers and our specialty is making films about the environment in 2010 we made a movie called the big fix about an oil spill that happened in Louisiana while filming that movie I was exposed to a toxic chemical dispersant my health suffered considerably and I had skin rashes and other problems doctor said and I may even have problems conceiving or bearing children in spite of the warnings we decided to try to have kids anyway [Music] even knowing the risks didn't make it any less devastating when I had a

miscarriage I love little person that could see those divers freely really she's looking at you when we got pregnant with our daughter the doctor said there was a birth defect and there was a chance she wouldn't make it [Music] miraculously she was born healthy and happy [Music] but for two years she had chronic sicknesses and we were in and out of hospitals almost constantly so he decided to look at all of our options and nothing was off the table doctor if your depression worsens so if you have unusual changes in behavior or thoughts of suicide

symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include itching rash or difficulty breathing tell your doctor if you get scenaries yellow worsening cough chest pain shortness of breath diarrhea severe stomach pain or tenderness the dichotomy between alternative and traditional medicine is a false one so first off what we have to talk about is what exactly is CBT there are some natural doctors out there who literally claim they know everything so they're telling you about vaccinations they're telling you about everything that you should do I think you need to be very cautious as a consumer of health

care there are medical doctors out there who offer some of this hocus yes I'll call it hocus pocus virtually dolphintherapy it's the most relaxing experience you can ever have snake massage therapy urine therapy and the only thing I can do is to drink my own pee finally a friend gave us a copy of the book called earthing the premise by planting your bare feet on the ground your body will begin to heal itself could such a simple thing help our daughter get better [Music] it sounded too easy we were skeptical and as it turns out

we weren't the only ones please welcome quited Paltrow [Applause] couple of things I bring them down here for instance tell us about earthing what is earthing oh okay it's kind of they say that we've lost touch with sort of being barefoot in the earth and that there's some type of electromagnetic thing that we're missing it's true it's good to take your shoes off and walk in the grass so we decided to consult the experts as simple terms crowning is literally putting your bare feet on the ground when you do that you're in contact with the

earth and Mother Earth's is endowed with electrons and these electrons are literally absorb through your feet it's like taking handfuls of antioxidants but you're getting into the feet grounding means connecting to the earth to support the specific function of the organs of your body it supports the body as a whole but it specifically supports organ systems down to the tissues and the cellular function of the entire body grounding provides a steady we call it a ground plane it's like lying naked on the earth but where I come from in the winter you can't do that

all 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 balanced normal when you're grounded the man who started the grounding aka earthing movement is Clint Ober well Clint I mean it were first of all we're super honored to have you here you know your book has been everywhere and everyone who's been telling us about it it's kind of a phenomenon and it's also kind of hard to believe I have to confess when I first heard about our thing I was super

skeptical so you know is that a common reaction that you get from people yes and I was myself it took me 20 years to dig this out of the dirt and get it to the world and I questioned it all the way because it just didn't make sense and what is the main reaction you get from people when they get this information response has been pretty much a lot of skepticism which because it sounds absurd how can I just take my shoes off but my feet on the ground and reduce inflammation because the world has

been about everything from oatmeal to blueberries to you name it it's one of those things you can talk until you're blue in the face but until you experience it you're not gonna believe it but once you experience it then the biggest trouble you have is trying to explain it to somebody else so a lot of the naysayers I mean they like most of the guys say well if this are true out or known about this I want to heard about this somebody would have told this this this can't be something brand-new that we don't know

about and I just say I'm sorry it is something something new it means something we accidentally we accidentally disconnected from the earth you have many air for everybody they have to be able to wear shoes inexpensive shoes that was a real advancement but on the other hand nobody knew the consequence for the side effects of of losing our ground losing our electrical ground with the planet I grew up around Native American people primarily but Cheyenne and the crow [Music] my 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 [Music] but in the Native American culture it was very interesting that nobody homes anything you can't own land you can't own trees how can you own this [Music] and then there was an event where one of my friends sister uh-huh no Indian girl had I believe it was scarlet fever she'd been to the doctor it's not all that kind of stuff when she wasn't getting well and they brought her home and there was nothing they could do for him whatever it was real traumatized by

it I remember one of the elders they dug a pit [Music] and put a little bit of straw in it whatever and they put her in the in the ground on the earth builds fire there and just sat with her for like days [Music] and then next thing we knew she was up running around she was okay it was just awesome just totally awesome [Music] there are many things that that kind of stuck in my memory as I got older and one of them was I remember coming home one day and we were gonna go

into one of the kids TPS with his parents and the mother said take those shoes off they'll make you sick why she would say they were to make you sick of I wouldn't have had a clue at that time it turns out that today we Americans don't spend a whole lot of time grounding that may have something to do with our love of shoes tell me about your relationship with your feet and shoes [Applause] shoes I love shoes oh my god it's more of an addiction yeah pretty much you need them for everything you want

to stub your toe everywhere he's like your shoes can't represent you I have to do anyway you gotta get the shoes first and then that matches the outfit that's gonna go with it you can never just it's not clothes purses shoes like shoes first includes yeah that's like my biggest thing I stub my toe every day how many pairs do you think you have I think of Doc Martens alone I have ten oh god no maybe ten only you Pearson I like I'd say 50 or 60 pairs of shoes have you guys ever heard of

grounding no no no what is that do I know much about grounding you have two kids yeah ground the whole time oh it's like spiritually like can that becoming can it like more grounded and connected to your third there are some people who think that walking barefoot could bring some health benefits what do you think of that I agree but disagree when you go barefoot you like touch like the warm sand or you go like to the ocean it just like feels like better like your body like more commerce I think the benefit if we

could would give me maybe personally more of like a connection to my life to all the life around me and I mean now that you think of it mean when I go barefoot maybe I'm a house or something that feels nice maybe that's the spin there we have these things that we don't even recognize like shoes in the first place we feel like more people could benefit from being grounded oh for sure absolutely tell peak it's healthy it's natural I actually got yelled at a lot by my parents because I was trying to go barefoot

everywhere even in the snow it's like for me I just don't feel comfortable or I guess you can say like oh no it's just not really my my train oh I went girl mow barefoot oh yeah you go just trying to sleep with the shoes on like shoes off the bed mm-hmm what helps you get grounded good shoots but shoes haven't always been such a big part of our culture [Music] okay what's the deal with ease well America makes synthetic rubber this kind one of two principal types is called Puna mix the chemical Valley [Music]

in 1960 we invented synthetic materials the first thing we did was we put rubber sole synthetic soles on the shoes I'm swifty flier I just can't bleep eat in my PF Flyers that who's that Twitter Q a big event happened you know I call it the Nike generation the Adidas generation the tennis shoes generation we started word sneakers [Music] 95% of people walk insulated on the earth so this most common-sense thing that we are organisms that live and grow and depend entirely on the earth while we're alive and yet we have completely isolated ourselves from

it we're so disconnected that it becomes this weird thing if we actually slip our shoes off you've heard it before celebrities are just like us or are they Elle Fanning did something the other day that probably a lot of you may not do the 18 year old actress landed at LAX Airport late one night looked pretty comfortable but it was what she wasn't wearing that was getting people's attention and she walked barefoot throughout the airport this was the single thing that happened that probably caused the proliferation of inflammation related health disorders far and above anything

else this is the most destructive invention that man ever made the synthetic salt shoe this is so incredible this is Nobel Prize material basically what we're trying to demonstrate what we're going to demonstrate here is just show that when you stand barefoot on the earth and you touch the earth that your body is conductive and what this is is basically akin continuity meter but so what I'm gonna do is plug it into the earth like so and I'm going to put my hand on it and you can see here my finger on the back but

you received that the light turns green and that means that I'm grounded to illustrate this Sam here is wearing a pair of tennis shoes and when he puts it on it turns it on you can see that he's not grounded but because I am grounded I am barefoot on the earth when I touch Sam he turns he is naturally brown December 7th link like many great discoveries Clint Ober stumbled undergrounding as a result of an unusual sequence of events I got involved in the cable industry in the early 60s [Music] I first learned the need

to ground cable signals as we were developing the industry when you run a wire into the house before you can go into the house you have to ground the cable grounding is to maintain the entire system in a stable electrical environment I mean you have miles of wire hanging up there in the air if there's lightning in the air it's gonna hit the cable and 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 a TV or create a fire so

any electrical event is maintained at Earth potential automatically equalized with the earth and eliminated neutralized Clint 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 if they're not two things can happen you get snow on the screen the picture is terrible and the other is you get a knock on the door from the Federal Communications Commission because the signal is disturbing aircraft communication it leaks into the environment just as ungrounded signals wreak havoc on radio communications there's growing concern that

because we are not grounded we absorb tremendous amounts of electromagnetic radiation from our modern devices EMF stands for electromagnetic field we are all immersed in electromagnetic fields from Wi-Fi from the wiring in our homes and it disturbs our electrical balance we get charged inside of our bodies we get electrically charged some people have as much as 20 volts on their bodies and that's not good for you but in our natural state the earth has a built-in system to ground our bodies unbeknownst to us we live inside a battery the surface of the earth is charged

negatively and the ionosphere which is a layer of the atmosphere about 60 miles up which is ionized by the Sun meaning that the Rays of the Sun are so strong that they split the molecules into a positive charge in a negative charge the Sun spews out electrons they come to the earth they hit the ionosphere they charge the ionosphere and periodically the ionosphere releases lots of electrons it's called lightning the negative charge are transferred to the surface of the earth through lightning mainly and a positive charge state 60 miles up the surface of the earth

is electrically conductive and wherever you are standing barefoot on the earth or connected to the earth you are collecting electrons that came from the Sun the problem arise when we don't have negative charge we need grounding just as we need air and we need a sunshine so the TV industry Clint he had to make sure all the cables were very well grounded and then he started to wonder if people need to be grounded and what I saw with cable TV was it was bigger than Billings punchan the world was bigger than where I lay out

I ended up in Denver Colorado i working for telecommunications inc one day I was home with my children and I had bought them computers we could do checkbooks and playing games that was all we could do with them back then it just dawned on me that was I said that's a TV set without a signal so I had this brainstorm and I thought well let's go get all these wire services together and put them into a unified data stream Veta more the satellite and down the cable system feed him into a computer and the main

thing that happened at that time that was probably very significant for the cable industry was we created the first cable modem [Music] that had changed the world in a day moment I was living in 5,000 square-foot a-frame log cabin on top of a mountain in Evergreen Colorado I was 49 years old playing king of the mountain and I won I had everything you could imagine cars home and breakfast skiing most of all I had a lot of heart I probably had I hate to say it but a quarter million dollars worth of art hanging in

my bathroom over the commode I mean because there was no place else to hang things about 1994-95 I was spending a lot of Christmas parties and I got sick one Sunday I I couldn't get out of bed and I was turning yellow I really looked my eyes for yellow everything was yellow and so they took me to an emergency room they couldn't figure out what was wrong what I was losing everything my liver was shutting down I was only 49 at the time and they said you need to think about getting your house in order

because you're young enough to get a new liver but you may not have time I was on every IV every type of antibiotic you can probably inject into a person and they said that they had a surgeon that wanted to experiment and see if there was the way they could go ahead and cut out all the lever that had been damaged which was the majority of it I agreed to that because I really had no option I remember I was in surgery thought that was the last time I would see and I woke up a

few days later and I see you and I remember my secretary of was right here in my face my first thought was I didn't know you had died [Music] the pain started coming on then I realized that I was still here oh it took about a year for my energy to recover one morning I woke up and I looked out the window and I noticed that everything was more energetic the sky was vibrant everything was a vibrant I thought I was leftover the drugs I didn't know but I looked around the room that I was

laying and then I said to myself that this is all crazy this house everything is crazy because I I almost died all I had ever done was collect these things and I spent my life taking care of them I didn't own any of this stuff because when I died you know I'd go away they really owned me they owned myself I went through this feeling that I just had to get rid of everything push everything away from me anything that was material even though I loved it and I spent my life collecting it and taking

care of it I had to push it away so I called my children and I said I want you to come and take whatever there is in this house that you want one of them called the doc and said there's something wrong with my dad which he needs to see a psychologist that I remember seeing the psychologist and this there's nothing wrong with me this this is what I have to do this after disposing and giving and getting rid of everything I decided I wanted to change my life and I bought an RV and I

went on a road trip and I ended up in Sedona Arizona one day I was sitting at a computer and the computer kept crashing I knew a static electricity so I put a piece of tape across my desk and grounded it then I realized in that process that the outlet wasn't grounded so I fixed it so that I could get rid of the static electricity I didn't think too much about I walked outdoors and I sat on the bench this tour bus pulled up and it looked like they had just been to one of these

outlet malls and white Nike shoes were on sale it just dawned on me you know I asked the question I said I wonder if it's possible that humans are you know we're no longer naturally grounded I wonder if these shoes could be interfering with us [Music] so I'd that night I went to the hardware store and I bought a roll of metal duct tape and I just taped to the cross to the bed I drew a wire out the window and had a ground rod outside I connected to the ground rod on one side connected

to the metal duct tape that I had laid on the bed so when I laid down on the duct tape I was like grounded because he was connected to the earth [Music] and I woke up the next morning and I thought holy cow there's something going on here because normally for me to go to sleep I had to take Advil so I tried to find out what I could the internet was hardly anything this is back in 99 we went down to the University of Arizona and one of their medical libraries and there was nothing

and in fact I even tried to find the cause of chronic pain because that BMS was unknown the cause of arthritis unknown they didn't know nobody knew so I thought well I'll go out to LA I'll go to UCLA and ask them they pretty much laughed me off campus they said you expect us to believe then somebody's gonna put a nail in the ground tie a wire on somebody's toe and it's gonna make him sleep better they said get out of here go Hawaii you're nuts so I ended up having to put together my own

study I found a anesthesiologist in San Diego he says I don't think there's anything to what you're doing there's got to be an anomaly here but I'll entertain you he says I won't prove that you're wrong and we grounded 60 people and the reports that came in were unbelievable TMJ disappeared PMS disappeared inflammation reduced pain everybody slept better it's the first study that I did there was a legitimate study where we had quantifiable data when they saw the study everybody said well this is really pretty interesting and we ended up attracting scientists physicists like any

important discovery nobody was interested they thought he was crazy now there are a lot of scientists who are interested researchers MDS MD PhDs ph d--'s like me I'm very interested in biological questions earthing brings up some really profound biological questions while these grounding studies were positive what was grounding actually doing inside the human body the answer may surprise you Stephen Sinatra who was a cardiologist from back east was attending a convention and we sat down with Stephen and told him the story what I was doing I said well if you're effecting pain he says you

need to be researching inflammation you don't have arthritis you don't have cancer you don't have all these health disorders what you have is chronic inflammation to me at the time inflammation was your sprain an ankle and it balloons up and gets red and sore and and it's inflamed and he says no he says inflammation is different than that we have so much inflammation in the body and it comes out and illnesses we go to a doctor with all these complaints but a lot of it is silent inflammation including my specialty heart disease heart disease is

an inflammatory process so how do we reduce inflammation the most abundant protein in the body is College it's the building block of our tissues and we have gazillions of collagen molecules in our bodies they are all embedded in a gel this gel has a huge surface area and it absorbs electrons and releases them when you have an injury inflammation is produced by neutrophils which is a white blood cell you have an injury you have a damaged cell and so these white blood cells come over and they encapsulate the damaged cell and they release reactive oxygen

species which rip electrons from the damaged cell and that destroys the damaged solid white blood cells release free radicals at the injury site they chew up any pathogens bacteria or dead cells they clear the area it's called the repair field it's the place that needs to be repaired without earthing some of the free radicals that are released into the repair field leak into the surrounding tissue if there's not enough free electrons there to reduce the remaining radicals they're gonna steal an electron from a healthy cell and in the process damaged yet then the message goes

out to the immune system and another neutrophil does the same thing eliminates that so and then you end up with a chain reaction and this can create chronic inflammation silent inflammation you may not even know it's there and it continues for years if inflammation is the cause of all these health disorders then I know that not enough rounding is the cause of inflammation because if the body is grounded you can't have inflammation the initial grounding studies showed promise but there was still a big question whose grounding really achieving these results in the human body or

was it something else a placebo effect of some kind I am senior research medical scientist at North American science associates I spent about 10 years working in the environmental area five of those at the Environmental Protection Agency and in 1980 I started working at the Food and Drug Administration where I led a team of biostatisticians and we reviewed clinical trials for new medical devices I would guess that approximately 10% of the medical devices that FDA seized from an inception would end up getting approval at the end of the day so I would review them very

critically a couple years ago my 92 year old mother was suffering from peripheral artery disease and that require them to do an intervention they would go in and have to clean out her femoral artery put in a loon or stent they usually have to go in every six or nine months to clean out the artery and I felt at that age they couldn't keep doing this I tried most everything and I was looking around and I saw this thing on earthing that earthing might be helpful for perfer artery disease and I said well it's not

gonna hurt her I don't think it will really help her so I purchased her an earthing sheet and had her sleep on it for one night she was also having trouble hitting a forehand and this is a lady who'd played tennis for 70 years and she just couldn't remember how to hit it next day she had no trouble so I said there's definitely something here in all my years in the medical device field I had never seen any responses like this for any device or any drug she's now 94 we play tennis five or six

times a week she reads a fully active life Queens her house does a pretty much everything for herself and we attribute this to the earthing it's done a great deal I was having problems well with my legs it was hard to 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 and it improved greatly and I went back to playing tennis not as good as before but that's pretty good anyway it just changed my life I didn't have the worries that

I had before that something bad might happen if I kept trying to do things I should just go ahead and try everything this is the biggest development I've seen in the medical field my five decades in public health and my three decades in the clinical trial field medical devices I just have a hard time believing this is a placebo effect [Music] you need electrons for energy it's called the electron transport chain in mitochondria it generates adenosine triphosphate or ATP it's the energy molecule in the body I tell a sleet's that before an event stand 15

minutes and your bare feet on the grass and you will charge up your electron stores and should you fall down and athletes fall down you will not have inflammation at all if you think about the last time you were barefoot like in nature it probably wasn't very recently you know can you walk us through it what is the let's earth yeah take the shoes off take the shoes off I first learned about grounding maybe 12 13 years ago through one of the trainers for the Tour de France team from the US and he was using

it with many of their athletes and with surprising results and I think the surprising breath summarizes my response to it because it didn't seem to make sense I think it became a believer once I started to explore the science ATP is short for adenosine triphosphate it's the energy currency of the cell brew bioelectrical beans that's the currency of provides how it works that's how we ruin our biological systems is by generating this electrical energy that's transferred and 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 we tried to figure out how much charge the body takes in when you touch the earth what happens is the body saturates with electrons practically instantaneously it's so fast that you can't measure it [Music] it's electrons from the earth enter the body right away and they coat the red blood cells so that the cells repel each other and then they can't clump and the blood viscosity goes down it's easier for the heart to pump the blood the blood pressure goes down all kinds of cardiovascular issues they go away [Music] in

situations where we are insulating ourselves from this a surplus of electrons into a body we're going to get the absolute opposite so instead of having low levels of inflammation and a thin blood we'll have thick blood that's more likely to clot and our levels of inflammation tend to increase and I'm 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 of all the grounding studies the one that really got our attention is called electric grounding improves vagal

tone in preterm infants in the study 26 premature babies in an NICU were connected to grounding wires the heart rates of the grounded infants stabilized and their vagal tone a critical measure of infant health increased by 67% with grounding so there are two things there are the electrons from the earth and there's the electrical rhythms of the earth and that's very important for setting our biological clocks for thousands of years spiritual masters have taught the benefits of meditation and sitting on the earth that's why some people believe that earthing and meditation go hand-in-hand the world

is constantly every situation every event every relationship is really a reflection of yourself okay I would like if you agree to it earlier but we could you do a guided meditation which has two minutes sure so would you all put your feet firmly on the ground keep your hands in your lap everything that we call the environment is actually our body if everything wasn't as is in the solar system the earth won't spin on its own axis and it wouldn't go around the Sun there would be no seasons so your biological rhythms circadian rhythms are

the earth spinning on its own axis your seasonal rhythms is the earth going around the Sun and they're programmed into your body if 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 be everything linked from dis-ease discomfort to inflammation starts with this disconnect everything now we know and that if somebody walks barefoot on grass or the earth or on the beach at a very fundamental level basically the free radicals that are built up

in your body as a result of stress and inflammation they are neutralized but what is really happening at a fundamental level is your restoring your biological rhythms and bringing them in alignment or you might say synchrony with the earth which is connected to the entire cosmos and slowly open your eyes thank you so much I'm so grateful for you the analogy would be a good orchestra if they're all playing by themselves what do you hear is noise but if there's a conductor there's a kind of a coherence entanglement of these frequencies you hear music so

there's a cosmic Symphony that is playing itself out in your body right this moment maybe you can't share the tune but you're dancing to it anyway if 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 there's molecules but they're not even connected what's holding them together what's the force that's holding everything together electromagnetism our body is electrical this is all electronic equipment the heart the lungs the brain I mean this is electrical equipment it's all electrical everything is electrical can

we measure the effects reproducibly the answer to that is yes we now have 20 studies there's like yeah 2021 published studies and the medical literature on earthing and grounding and this is peer-review stuff in simple terms what earthing does is literally it quenches the fires of inflammation and if inflammation is the source of all root illnesses including Alzheimer's disease cancer heart disease diabetes I mean the list goes on and on if you can impact inflammation and you know squelch it kill it stop it we're gonna be healthier babies I didn't know anything about grounding I

had never heard of it at all but I became a new mom and I had my first child and she had colic and she cried and cried and cried first thing I did being a physician myself was take her to the pediatrician and remember distinctly leaving that pediatricians office with a knot in my stomach because the first thing they told me is it's a baby let him cry literally 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 and every time we were outside she relaxed I noticed if I did use a stroller or if she was in a car she was still in pain and uncomfortable this is not placebo effect like she had no idea if I was wearing shoes or not she doesn't know that I'm holding her either way and 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 she'd be dead asleep and 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 and I didn't know what it was called and I didn't at that time feel comfortable thinking about using it in my conventional medical practice but I just knew that this is what I'm gonna do to help my child I was working with a mentor of mine and she recommended that I ground my energy did I didn't know what she meant by ground yourself so the first thing I did was go home and look it

up on the internet and through doing a search about grounding I found clinto burs work and the book about earthing and I realized that it's a real thing and a real healing modality with tons of medical literature behind it the light switch went on and I thought we're doing things completely backwards here a typical day for a child is completely ungrounded most 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 and then they go immediately into a classroom

that's insulated than even on recess in the recess period they go outside and are literally fenced in and they're paved with asphalt and then they have after-school activities which are either indoors or if they're outdoors they are literally required to wear protective gear and even if they're exercising for two hours after school a hundred percent disconnected from the earth and then they go home and they go inside and they eat dinner and they do homework all hours of the night and then they pass out in an ungrounded bed so that's a 24 hour period of

time completely ungrounded and that goes on day after day after day I was at a retreat weekend for a group of women it's called inspire through our National Association it's for teachers who don't take care of themselves trick teaching us how to the first day I got there and our leader said you need to go ground I'm like okay they grounded us and within that half hour there was no need for medication and I had been taking two motrin every four hours for almost three weeks the district that I am in already actually has with

Clinton a school that has a grounding classroom one of the reasons that the other teacher pushed so hard to get this room she had a group of students that had significant behavior issues and they would rip their shoes off and go running out of the room and they would all over campus looking for them they would always find them in the planters by the trees but I had one teacher tell me in a special ed class that they had runners and what a runner is is a kid who just runs out of the classroom and

they take off and everybody has to go find where this student is I realized that these kids who are the runners they're running out to the far back corner of the school campus and it's the only place that has grass and they're sitting down on the grass and so I went back and I talked to my special education director and I said can we try this can we try this with some of our students with autism I brought it into my room and I have a student with autism very severe autism he's completely nonverbal and

you know it's it's a good day when I can get this child to sit for ten seconds I pulled my mat out I cleaned it off and I took his socks and shoes off put his little feet on it that boy stopped for seven minutes straight and played with me he sat for seven minutes straight so I took that back to my boss and that is something that our school district is looking into is getting more schools with classrooms that have grounding in them I have heard stories from teachers in classes where their students are

grounded that they have half the level of referrals for discipline some students who can learn tears because they were experienced success when before they were experiencing failure with their behavior and discipline I've heard stories from teachers with autistic children who have been grounded or they have less of what they called the meltdowns and the meltdowns are less frequent and shorter and they come back into the classroom and they're learning more than they had learned prior to the grounding how much of it is that they're just so out of control in their mind and there's so

many things that they and and these kids our campus is concrete there's no place I even when they're in PE they've got tennis shoes on there's no place for them to be grounded [Music] it'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 and just think if every single student and every single teacher in every single classroom in every single school across this whole world was grounded it turns out there's a reason kids love to put their feet on the

ground and these guys claim to know why hey my name is Finn Ian I'm Laurin my name is Ryland and we're kids the grounds and our mission is to inspire participation in global regeneration starting with soil we evolved very connected to the soil with our feet in the soil our hands in the soil and what this means when you're connecting with it is just starting to be discovered you 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 you can feel it when you're working in that regenerative relationship in nature it feels different it changes lives and one of the biggest sources of suffering in life is the experience of being disconnected and disconnected from what nature and the basis of nature is our soil the coolest thing about connecting to soil and the planet is it really makes you happy it feels good and now we have science that shows that it's a cure for depression [Music] so who which one of you was the first ones to discover earthing I'm gonna say was Mariela

she was born before me Wow yeah she's got 18 months of bare feet on the ground before I even hit that right be an insult yeah we actually went to the the track we first got together we went over to Pepperdine University shed and run since well a long time yeah it's just I do yoga and I was like well we need to go to the track we went to the track and we ran barefoot in the grass for a couple of hours she loved it that was for fun that was for fun yeah we

didn't talk about grounding it's just something that you do so we get up we watch sunrises and then we usually go out for a hike I remember the first time it was like he stopped he took a [ __ ] he didn't say anything he took his shoes off like what do you think and he just started walking and didn't do anything he also closed his eyes that was a whole other terror I came from a very dysfunctional home you know I loved my family tremendously but there was a lot of mental illness my grandfather

would be one of the greatest writers of the 20th century he suffered tremendous mental health issues he also took his life in 1961 three months before I was born I'd lost a great grandfather to great grandfather's another great uncle an uncle a cousin and my own sister took took her life this house was filled with people that were tremendously tortured a lot of killing there was a lot of drinking there was a lot of self-medication there was a lot of craziness that was happening to sort of survive was for me getting out in nature just

any time I could be outside and I'd find myself lying on the grass or lying in a field or lying in a meadow that would make me feel better and then it wasn't until I met Bobby that I realized that what I was instinctually doing actually was a very real way to address all kinds of inflammation inflammation isn't just physical there is neuro inflammation that's a brain inflammation brain inflammation causes depression causes all kinds of serious problems this is a much bigger thing than just walking barefoot on the ground this this this is helping well

especially me helping me have a way more balanced life my grandfather you think of great artists some of the greatest writing that they do comes from when they were at some beautiful and specific place and their description of it that comes from an understanding from a connection to it [Music] to know that there are solutions and their solutions in nature and one of the biggest solutions is that connection to nature and people forget that first it's sad because it is so accessible and it is so real to know that a grounded me Marielle or a

grounded you or anybody else is different than the one who's not connected and that's what grounding does it pulls you into you to who you are you know I think it's always the same thing it's the thing that your mom said when you're a kid go outside and play go outside and get some fresh air by the way a lot of grounding from this guy 19 years old look at the feet [Laughter] I first heard about grounding I want to say about seven years ago it immediately changed my mindset to appreciating the ground and then

the history that we used to all be on the ground and sleep on the ground and wear shoes that were connected to the ground not plasticized and disconnecting and I thought okay this makes actually so much sense how have I not been able to put that together before I mean I've always loved nature I grew up in nature but the idea of actually putting my feet on the ground without shoes it felt always good but I didn't really connect that it actually could be good for my body because I know we're all electrical beings so

we're constantly being bombarded with everything sort of artificial and overstimulating and I feel really sensitive to that if I'm working you know long hours and have this electrical mic strapped on acting and and just being around everything so electrical it starts to just exhaust me and I think we all get so overstimulated by all the electrification around us and I don't think it's doing us any good our bodies are constantly being bombarded by everything electrical in our lives and for me I've learned that in order to re-calibrate my body I just need to put my

feet on the ground barefoot and it just sort of equalizes and I also think like when you get intentional with putting your feet on the ground you immediately steel yourself and you're able to just again reconnect back to nature to the simplicity of a mother earth of this great huge planet because you're appreciating what's under your feet it's a whole like symbiotic relationship that we've disconnected from in such big ways I mean that just the simple act of putting your feet on the ground can give you so much and so much balance in your body

and so much healing it's like we're sucking the life energy through our through our feet up our bodies into - from our mama so bad I can't what that's really embarrassing [Music] it's hard because it's so easy and it's so simple people are like really you're making a big deal of that [Music] intuitively it a hundred percent resonates and I'm raising my daughter this way where I'm I want her to be barefoot outside as much as she can my husband likes being barefoot that's great I don't have to convince them they like take your shoes

off animals always barefoot and I know for springing them outside makes them happy so I'm just gonna keep doing that whether people want to make fun of me or not [Music] whatever you believe in when you're out in nature it feels bigger than you and it feels like you have reverence for what we have here [Music] I've always been climbing mountains running rivers always had a garden wherever I live lived in Hawaii in Alaska where I did naked gardening it was wonderful but once you're in a wheelchair all of that kind of goes away I'm

58 I was a singer dancer actress for most of my career but then at age 36 I woke up paralyzed one day from this rare disease called transverse myelitis it affects maybe one in about two million people and when it first happened to me they didn't know what it was and eventually they've come to realize it has to do with inflammation and it's an immune dysfunction you know your body attacking itself at the same time the doctors say well we don't understand it and we don't really know how to treat it so we'll just treat

the symptoms and for 21 years that's been my story [Music] my niece actually sent me a grounding kit about three years ago she knew that I couldn't physically in touch with the earth anymore and she heard about this and she thought it'd be the perfect thing for me so I received it and my first impression was okay this makes no sense to me at all but I don't want to hurt my niece's feelings so I put it on the end of the bed and plugged it into the socket as per my instructions and the first

night I couldn't feel anything it didn't seem to make any difference but when I woke up in the morning my feet which are always swollen first time I tried it there was no swelling in my feet I could see the bones in my feet and that hadn't happened probably in six months I just made it a part of my life after a couple years it suddenly occurred to me chi everybody I know who's in a wheelchair has inflammation and swelling issues along with pain so I called Marty and said let me tell you about the

abilities Expo would you guys consider expanding your audience hey dr. Clint thought it was a great idea and now they're here natural phenomena a remarkable natural phenomena that exists right beneath our feet earthy or grounding is about connecting to this natural resource and regardless of your condition it can make you feel better here's the background throughout time throughout history humans were connected to the earth we walked barefoot he slept on natural animal hides we were connected to the earth but today it's a different story we sleep in elevated beds we wear synthetic soldiers and even

our wheelchairs are insulating us when we make direct contact with the surface of the earth our bodies receive it 10 years ago I was working with a holistic cardiologist and we wanted to do an article on grounding and so he said to be that the cardioid you got a call Clint over and so I went when I call Clint over I spoke to him for five minutes and I realized this is not an article this is a book this is the huge discovery what would I first heard about it it was took it with a

pinch of salt it sounded a little a little too good to be true having now experienced several friends and people in our team who have used grounding the skepticism is pretty much gone right behind us right now is with my friends her mom is in a companion chair 15 minutes ago she was swollen legs feet were cold hands were cold and now there none and this is her first experience the grounding that's 15 minutes of real-life demonstrations so I'm pretty much a convert I am 39 years old trying to take pride in that I was

diagnosed with MS 14 years ago the first time I heard about grounding I thought get real this seems crazy my friend patched me up and I'd sat there and we all just talked for about 45 minutes I found myself smiling and that wasn't something that I did you know I just didn't I physically have more energy if I don't have the fatigue I feel like I really can accomplish things I can brush my teeth now without holding under the counter my balance is better I just feel it sounds silly but I feel more grounded I

feel like my feet are really like hanging on to the ground and I'm there and I do it every night I sleep on a pad and I patch up my hands and sleep with a grounding blanket and I just really am obsessive because I'm noticing I just finally look forward till 2:00 tomorrow [Music] for the most part it's been sleep you know she's been able to get through the night without having to get up like you know six times to go to the bathroom or anything like that her spasticity has gotten a ton better she

used to have like restless legs all night and that doesn't really happen anymore it's been huge it's been a big difference for her I want everybody to try this I don't want anybody to not experience this anybody who has pain anybody who can't sleep that well anybody who gets depressed you know I mean these are all things that have been completely lifted out of my life I used to feel like a burden a real burden my husband's my family and and I'm feel like a burden anymore I feel I feel good and I feel like

things are gonna get better it's my miracle as Athena began to ground more and more we noticed a dramatic shift in her health Athena do you know a grounding is yes yeah what's that it's when you put your feet point whole body on mom or anything she hears that's right how does she heal you banging that chicken have you been grounding yeah and what happened as a result of that I get access to the hospital yeah you haven't been to the hospital in a whole year amazing we're so happy about that aren't we you don't

like the hospital very much do you when we began grounding Athena a very progressive doctor had suggested I also try it he told me to lie naked on the ground it sounded ridiculous but I did it anyway and then everything changed I began to sleep through the night my energy level shifted and I got my libido back over the next six months I kept practicing grounding and I lost 50 pounds I wasn't expecting any of this I I was just trying to heal my daughter Wow look at you this is this is insane how did

you do this there is this incredible thing I need to tell you about I don't know if you've heard about it but it's called rounding corner yeah it's great to have you here so the first thing I'm extremely excited to share with you is that our daughter has not been to the emergency room in many months now you know I can't tell you how many nights at 2:00 a.m. we wound up in the emergency room because she couldn't breathe and now she's like any other kid you know she has a cold she has a normal

cold she sleeps through the night you know what what can you attribute that to well when children are sick and they get run down they don't get good sleep and they have inflammation in their body she started grounding and she started sleeping better the ground is reducing the inflammation she's working with a significantly improved immune system it's you called immunotherapy get grounded and repr improve your immune system so the surprise side-effect of grounding our daughter was I got grounded and as you can see I've had a complete transformation can you explain what happened to me

yes as soon as you get grounded the first thing that happens you quiet the sympathetic nervous system and then eventually the adrenals will start to recover but when your adrenals becoming exhausted because of too much stimulation here then the sympathetic OverDrive's and then you end up with adrenal fatigue and that is the precursor to most all of these things including weight gain I never would have believed that you and I would be sitting here having this conversation not in a million years have other women reported weight loss as a result of grooming yes not to

the point that I could come out and say well get grounded you're going to lose weight it starts up here and starts I mean getting the pain out of your body getting the stress the anxiety the irritability the depression out of the body and then all of a sudden the right hormones start to service your energy comes up metabolism comes up it's you know health is not something we really have to work out we have to let it be we have to take the things that are interfering with our health that are compromising our immune

system and remove them from our life and then the body won't back to normal so like um why hasn't it caught on in mainstream I can only say it will there's a well-established traditional conventional system that relies on expensive intervention so they'd like to perpetuate that and they're not too interested in having some competition coming in for a lot less expensive to sort of sabotage their profit levels because their goal isn't to help humanity their goal is really as corporations as increase your profits the question becomes you know how much of an influence is lack

of grounding bend and the epidemic of disease that we have this crowning a factor we have a pain epidemic which has led to an opiate epidemic the national crisis so given the worldwide discomfort unhealth diseases all of them are benefited by earthing there's resistance to integrating novel thoughts and many times new ideas aren't implemented until the people who hold the counter opinion die there are lots of people who don't want this to happen I don't know why people critique it to death I don't know why they do that what the skeptics need to do is

try it out the good thing about browning is that you don't need a doctor to tell you to do it you do not need a physician to recommend it to you you can try this anytime it is your birthright because you live on the earth i ground every day hey I want to be connected to the earth as much as I can I would say about 95% the day I am grounded because I believe it's it's just a no-brainer coatt doors take your shoes off stand barefoot on the earth or sit on the earth put

your feet your hands on the earth and you will instantly notice the pain and inflammation begin to drain from your body I got my life back is probably the most common refrain that I hear thank you I got my life back I got my life back [Music] even if the science isn't yet considered mainstream there is an undeniable and growing number of people who are experiencing the benefits of grounding as for us and our family we're spending more time outside and spending more time together and yes we're keeping our feet firmly planted on the ground

because our daughter still gets sick yeah but not nearly as much maybe she's growing out of it or maybe she's just growing up grounded [Music] you