Why Sleep Grounded?

by Dr James Claus-Jurgen Bowman ND DiHOM ILADS MD MA | Jun 5, 2023 | Achieving Your Good Health

When you take off your shoes and walk barefoot on the earth outside, the earth’s electrons flow into you.

That’s the concept of “grounding,” and in an age when most people’s feet literally never (or almost never) touch the ground outside, grounding is finding its way into the mainstream as a natural means of restoring and maintaining good health.

Returning to the Earth

The term “grounding” is also often called “earthing”.

Our bodies run on electricity. This electricity is created in our cells and in our brains, and is circulated throughout every cell, tissue, and organ in our bodies.

In my clinic here at the Naturopathic & European Medicine Centre in Stevens Point, Wisconsin we have an electro-magnetic therapy that was developed at my university alma mater in Berlin.

It’s called BEMER, and was invented by several of the top German electro-magnetic researchers who were contracted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to provide needed biological and electro-magnetic support to our astronauts, whose bodies quickly become stressed and out of normal balance during extended periods in space, such as at the International Space Station.

From Out of This World

From these experiences with off-world travel into space, we have found that our bodies become more and more compromised and begin to break down at an accelerated rate the longer we are separated from the earth.

To counter this, scientists at the Berlin University developed the BEMER to re-connect, re-balance and heal every nerve, cell, tissue, and organ from the inside.

This has not only provided incredible positive healing effects for our astronauts, but it has also produced a greatly calming and healing effect upon the minds and emotions of those who have tried it.

Connecting your body to the continuous stream of electrons from the earth’s surface supports your body’s natural healing and regenerative processes, promoting optimal health and wellness especially during sleep – leaving you feeling more energized and rejuvenated!

Amazing Benefits

The free electrons from the earth help to re-balance your body, stabilize it’s bio-electrical system, and fight free radicals.

The stream of electrons work as an anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, and anti-aging antioxidant, mitigating the damage caused by an increasing environmental load of harmful man-made EMF’s (microwaves, wifi and cell signals, and general electrical “noise”)

If you’d like to try a session or two with the BEMER in our office please let us know, we’d be glad to help you with that. I personally use the Earthing Mattress Pad at home and I find that it makes all the difference in the world.

A BEMER session is about 10 minutes, and is completely safe for children, and pregnant or nursing women. If the quality of your life really matters to you and you want to rebuild and restore an optimal physical / biological as well as emotional / psychological health I strongly recommend supplementing the treatments by purchasing the mattress pad for nightly home use.

The Research

The published research on Earthing (Grounding) indicates a broad array of favorable health-related benefits including:

Better sleep
Elimination or reduction of inflammation
Elimination or reduction of pain
Improved blood flow
Normalized levels of stress hormone cortisol
Calming effects on the nervous system
Reduction in blood viscosity
Improved glucose (blood sugar) regulation
Prevention of calcium and bone density loss, reduced indicators of osteoporosis
Increased metabolic rate
Improved thyroid gland function
Reduced muscle damage, accelerated recovery from strenuous exercise
Faster wound healing
Improved immune system response to trauma and injury
Normalized muscle tension
Reduction in nighttime urination
Reduction of PMS symptoms / hot flashes
Anti-aging effects.

The modern pursuit of scientific evidence that grounding impacts human physiology and health began in the 1990’s with Drs. Karol and Pawel Sokal in Poland, and Clint Ober in the United States.

The research that has followed has produced fascinating evidence of a powerful and positive shift in the electrical state of the body and the electrodynamics of blood, and a boost to self-healing and self-regulating mechanisms.

Researchers believe that Earthing allows a transfer of electrons from the ground into the body. We know that inflammation is caused by free radicals and that free radicals are neutralized by electrons from any source. Electrons are the source of the neutralizing power of antioxidants.

In the Earthing studies, as well as global feedback from thousands of individuals who have grounded themselves, we have consistent evidence of people whose pain has been reduced.

Such reduction of pain is evidence (but not proof) that inflammation is reduced. However, the studies point clearly in that direction.

For More

Earthing studies

Earthing review articles

Earthing commentaries

Misinformation about Earthing

Dr James Claus-Jurgen Bowman ND DiHOM ILADS MD MA

Dr. Bowman is a Board Certified Doctor of Naturopathy (ND) with training and additional professional certifications in Homeopathy (DiHOM), Alternative Medicine (MD-MA), and as a certified advanced practitioner in LYME Disease (ILADS). Medically trained at one of Germany’s most prestigious universities, Dr. Bowman focuses his practice around the German naturopathic model of health. From his Navajo roots Dr. Bowman learned to appreciate the wisdom of natural healing and a spiritual, holistic approach to healthful living. Dr. Bowman also works closely with medical doctors and other healthcare practitioners to restore and optimize patients’ good health. For an appointment call (715) 341-4949 Monday-Thursday, 9AM to 5PM.