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A Dozen Ways To Keep Grounding Outside As It Gets Colder This Fall And Winter

    As we move towards the cooler months of fall and winter, my inbox always gets overflowed with folks asking me how to keep grounding comfortably outside as the weather turns cold… and even bitterly cold. It’s so important to get outside, even in the darkness of winter, to keep you sleeping deeply at night and — as I wrote about here — thinking more clearly during the day. Thankfully, there are tons of fabulous options to stay warm while still grounding outside.  And I’ve thoroughly tested them all for you — personally confirming that these grounding options work […]

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Send This To Your Friends Who Doubt The Benefits Of Grounding

Today I want to share with you my most recent publication.   Just published in Trends In General Medicine on July 28, 2024, this is a fabulous overview on why grounding might be one of the healthiest lifelong habits you can get into. If you have any friends who are doubtful about the long term benefit of grounding, forward this article to them.  You can print it out here or just read it below!  Enjoy! xoxo, Laura Koniver MD   PS — if someone forwarded this newsletter post to you and you’d like to have an uplifting, positive, empowering holistic

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Grounding Lowers High Blood Pressure By A Significant Amount

    I’ve dedicated a significant portion of my professional career to sharing the latest medical research with you on grounding, and today I want to highlight a study I have not yet blogged about.  Today’s the day to share this good news. I’m excited about this research, because high blood pressure is affects almost half of the adults in the United States (47%) which is roughly 116 million people in the United States alone. If you get my weekly newsletter (and if you don’t, you can sign up for it here!) then you already know that grounding is extremely

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Using The Earth Outside To Clear Your Head And Help You Think

    Do you like spending time in nature? Do you feel like you think more clearly after you have spent a little time outside? It’s not just a coincidence, your brain is actually being put into a healing state and helping you think more clearly, and we have several great medical studies to explain why. We already know that grounding to the earth outside immediately impacts our brains.  This fantastic medical study, published in 2018, documents the brain wave shifts that happen near instantaneously, within milliseconds, recorded via an EEG (electroencephalogram) when the human body is grounded.  Alpha wave patterns

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The Immense Anti-Aging Benefits Of Simply Touching The Earth

    I recently attended a cutting edge medical conference on geriatric medicine and aging, full of updates on the latest medical research on what contributes to aging and what reduces our decline in function as we age. And again and again, every single factor that contributes to aging that was discussed at the meeting  had me sitting back in my chair thinking… “grounding would help with that.” One presenter talked about how the main component of aging is increased inflammatory cytokines and yep… we have studies that show grounding significantly reduces the levels of inflammatory cytokine levels in the

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Exactly What A Grounding Detox Really Is, And Exactly What To Do About It

    I get questions all the time from readers who are told that the negative symptoms they feel while grounding are a “grounding detox.”  They are told that the tingling electrical sensations they feel, or the resultant restlessness, anxiety, insomnia & headache, are all part of the grounding process and that if they continue, it should go away. But then it doesn’t, and they email me asking for advice. So today, I want to share with you what I tell these folks — there is no such thing as a grounding detox. What you are feeling is a measurable,

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5 Unique Ways To Include Grounding Into Your Earth Day Plans (Including 3 Free Movies You Can Watch Tonight!)

      The earth provides such a beautiful platform for us to have a human experience on. Every connection we made, every friend or lover we’ve ever met, every second we’ve ever spent in pursuit of our life’s purpose, every breath we’ve ever taken and every heartbeat we’ve ever had has happened here, on this planet, with it silently beneath our feet supporting life. The earth makes the atmosphere for those beautiful deep breaths of fresh air you can take each day. The earth flows the water that can deeply hydrate your body each day. The earth grows the

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