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Abstract
Objective: Research continues to show that being connected to the earth can increase the potential of the body to scavenge free radicals. This study examined the effect of just one hour of grounding on blood viscosity while subjects participated in gentle yoga exercises designed to initiate minor inflammation. Design: In this double blind model, twenty-eight (28) subjects met at the Bowerman Sports Medicine Clinic on the campus of the University of Oregon and were grounded to the earth via contact with a grounded yoga mat or were sham-grounded. Ten yoga exercises were repeated five times over a one-hour period. Blood was taken pre and post exercise and analyzed for blood viscosity using a scanning capillary viscometer. Results: Subjects connected to the earth significantly reduced their post exercise systolic blood viscosity (p = 0.03) and diastolic blood viscosity (p = 0.03). Conclusion: Grounding has the ability to affect exercise induced inflammation, thereby reducing blood viscosity.
Highlights
Fourteen (14) grounded subjects and fourteen (14) sham-grounded subjects participated in the one-hour study on yoga mats during which time they completed 5 twelve (12) minute sessions of ten (10) different yoga exercises
Post Dia 123.1 116.5 130.9 103.7 130.2 103.6 114.3 127.6 112.3 120.3 115.7 111.8 112.0 116.9 117.1 8.6 0.21 0.48 decrease and had a slight but insignificant rise in blood viscosities. This indicates that being grounded during the yoga mat exercises has the effect of decreasing blood viscosity
This study examined the impact of one hour of grounding on blood viscosity while participants completed a set of simple yoga exercises
Summary
Examples: walking barefoot outdoors and bathing in lakes and oceans, or working, relaxing or sleeping indoors in direct skin contact with conductive materials Such materials include bed sheets, pillows, body bands, mats and patches that are connected to the ground through a wire attached to a rod planted in the soil outside or using the grounding system (that is, the ground port of a grounded wall outlet) of a house or building. Most people today rarely come in contact with the surface of the Earth because they wear shoes with synthetic soles made from insulating materials (rubber and plastics) They walk on carpets made of insulating materials and/or on wooden floors (wood is an insulating material) and they sleep on mattresses that insulate them from the ground
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