Medical Effect of Grounding on Immune System/Healing Chronic Illness (AMAZING REVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE RESEAR

Note: this is an abstract and full report from PUB MED website (classic evidence-based western science). The whole report is very readable and reveals more enlightened western scientists figuring out mechanisms HOW the earth’s “infinite pool of mobile electrons” is the best healer for nearly all categories of chronic illness.

Qigong adepts will instantly grasp this is just a modern way to describe and quantify the major function of qigong to absorb and circulate Qi from the earth inside the human body.

AS AMAZING AS THIS STUDY IS, IT IS LIMITED TO PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH THE EARTH as the way of increasing grounding. Qigong is light years beyond this in conducting Qi directly into the body without needing physical contact with the earth. I myself conducted experiments standing atop the (old) World Trade Center 113 stories up and connecting my energy body through the building down into the earth. The electrical grid of the building interfered with my rooting process but did NOT prevent it.

This is why I heavily promote Deep Earth Pulsing Qigong (on Sexual Vitality Qigong DVD) and Primordial Tai Chi — because of their strong grounding effects. Standing in Stillness postures (Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 3 & 4) are also valuable methods. But I note in that training that standing practices may be stressful for people over 40 years, who are better off doing movement qigong to pulse the earth Qi into the body because they have less jing (=spring) in their joints.

Because many folks will be intimated to read a scientific report, I will quote from sections of it.

The full report with illustrations is at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378297/

lIQUID CRYSTAL NETWORK IN OUR BODY IS CONDUIT FOR EARTH ELECTRONS

…Research in cell biology and biophysics reveals the human body is equipped with a system-wide collagenous, liquid–crystalline semiconductor network known as the living matrix,31 or in other terms, a ground regulation system32,33 or tissue tensegrity matrix system (Figure 11).34 This body-wide network can deliver mobile electrons to any part of the body and thereby routinely protect all cells, tissues, and organs from oxidative stress or in the event of injury.23,31

The living matrix includes the extracellular and connective tissue matrices as well as the cytoskeletons of all cells.31 Integrins at cell surfaces are thought to allow for semi-conduction of electrons to the cell interior, and links across the nuclear envelope enable the nuclear matrix and genetic material to be part of the circuitry.23 Our hypothesis is that this body-wide electronic circuit represents a primary antioxidant defense system. This hypothesis is the central point of this report.

THIS SECTION CONTINUES WITH INFO ABOUT HUMAN WATER AND PROTEINS SERVING AS SEMI-CONDUCTORS, AND HOW THE SEMI-CONDUCTION INDUSTRY (i.e. silicon chips in computers) is moving towards organic semi-conductors as being more efficient and will be the future of all high level computing). In short, machine science is evolving back towards human biology as the most advanced system on the planet.
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THE INFLAMMATORY MECHANISM AS CURRENTLY UNDERSTOOD BY SCIENCE

Voluminous Current research correlates inflammation with a wide range of chronic diseases. A search for “inflammation” in the National Library of Medicine database (PubMed) reveals over 400,000 studies, with more than 34,000 published in 2013 alone. The most common cause of death and disability in the United States is chronic disease. Seventy-five percent of the nation’s health care spending, which surpassed US$2.3 trillion in 2008, is for treating chronic disease. Heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes are the most common and costly chronic diseases.61 Others include asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, bowel disorders, cirrhosis of the liver, cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, lupus, meningitis, and psoriasis.

Ten percent of all health care dollars are spent treating diabetes. Osteoporosis affects about 28 million aging Americans.61,62 However, there are few theories on the mechanisms connecting chronic inflammation with chronic disease. The research on grounding or earthing summarized here provides a logical and testable theory based on a variety of evidence.

The textbook description of the immune response describes how large or small injuries cause neutrophils and other white blood cells to deliver highly ROS and RNS to break down pathogens and damaged cells and tissues. Classical textbook descriptions also refer to an “inflammatory barricade” that isolates injured tissues to hinder the movement of pathogens and debris from the damaged region into adjacent, healthy tissues.

Selye described how the debris coagulates to form the inflammatory barricade (Figure 10). This barrier also hinders the movements of antioxidants and regenerative cells into the blocked-off area. Repair can be incomplete, and this incomplete repair can set up a vicious inflammatory cycle that can persist for a long period of time, leading to so-called silent or smoldering inflammation that in turn, over time, can promote the development of chronic disease.

Remarkable as it may seem, our findings suggest that this classical picture of the inflammatory barricade may be a consequence of lack of grounding, and of a resultant “electron deficiency”. Wounds heal very differently when the body is grounded (Figures 1 and ​and2).2). Healing is much faster, and the cardinal signs of inflammation are reduced or eliminated. The profiles of various inflammatory markers over time are very different in grounded individuals.

(THIS SECTION CONTINUES AND REVEALS THAT RATS USED IN SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS MAY GIVE VERY DIFFERENT RESULT DEPENDING ON WHETHER THEIR CAGES ARE GROUNDED VS. UNGROUNDED.
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HOW MODERN LIFESTYLE / INSULATION FROM EARTH IS CAUSE OF RASH OF CHRONIC ILLNESS

Voluminous current research correlates inflammation with a wide range of chronic diseases. A search for “inflammation” in the National Library of Medicine database (PubMed) reveals over 400,000 studies, with more than 34,000 published in 2013 alone. The most common cause of death and disability in the United States is chronic disease. Seventy-five percent of the nation’s health care spending, which surpassed US$2.3 trillion in 2008, is for treating chronic disease.

Heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes are the most common and costly chronic diseases.61 Others include asthma, Alzheimer’s disease, bowel disorders, cirrhosis of the liver, cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, lupus, meningitis, and psoriasis. Ten percent of all health care dollars are spent treating diabetes. Osteoporosis affects about 28 million aging Americans.61,62 However, there are few theories on the mechanisms connecting chronic inflammation with chronic disease. The research on grounding or earthing summarized here provides a logical and testable theory based on a variety of evidence.

Dominant lifestyle factors such as insulating footwear, high-rise buildings, and elevated beds separate most humans from direct skin connection with the Earth’s surface. An earth connection was an everyday reality in past cultures that used animal skins for footwear and to sleep on. We suggest that the process of killing pathogens and clearing debris from injury sites with ROS and RNS evolved to take advantage of the body’s constant access to the virtually limitless source of mobile electrons the Earth provides when we are in contact with it. Antioxidants are electron donors, and the best electron donor, we strongly believe, is right under our feet: the surface of the Earth, with its virtually unlimited storehouse of accessible electrons.

Electrons from the Earth may in fact be the best antioxidants, with zero negative secondary effects, because our body evolved to use them over eons of physical contact with the ground. Our immune systems work beautifully as long as electrons are available to balance the ROS and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) used when dealing with infection and tissue injury. Our modern lifestyle has taken the body and the immune system by surprise by suddenly depriving it of its primordial electron source. This planetary separation began accelerating in the early 1950s with the advent of shoes made with insulating soles instead of the traditional leather. Lifestyle challenges to our immune systems proceeded faster than evolution could accommodate.

The disconnection from the Earth may be an important, insidious, and overlooked contribution to physiological dysfunction and to the alarming global rise in non-communicable, inflammatory-related chronic diseases. A lack of electrons can also de-saturate the electron transport chains in mitochondria, leading to chronic fatigue and slowing the cellular migrations and other essential activities of the cells of the immune system.64 At this point, even a minor injury can lead to a long-term health issue. When mobile electrons are not available, the inflammatory process takes an abnormal course. Areas that are electron deficient are vulnerable to further injury – they become positively charged and will have difficulty warding off infections.

The result is an immune system constantly activated and eventually exhausted. Cells of the immune system may fail to distinguish between the body’s diverse chemical structures (called “self”) and the molecules of parasites, bacteria, fungi, and cancer cells (called “non-self”). This loss of immunologic memory can lead to attacks by some immune cells on the body’s own tissues and organs.

An example is the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the diabetic patient. Another example is the immune system attacking cartilage in joints, producing rheumatoid arthritis. Lupus erythematosus is an extreme example of an auto-immune condition caused by the body’s immune system attacking host tissues and organs. Lupus, for example, can affect many different body systems, including skin, kidneys, blood cells, joints, heart, and lungs.

With time, the immune system becomes weaker and the individual more vulnerable to inflammation or infections that may not heal, as often seen with the wounds of diabetic patients. Specifically, which part or parts of the body the weakened immune system will attack first depends on many factors such as genetics, habits (sleep, food, drinks, exercise, etc), and toxins in the body and in the environment.65,66 A repeated observation is that grounding, or earthing, reduces the pain in patients with lupus and other autoimmune disorders.1

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