Recovering from Covid and Everyday Health -Grounding

Jul 3

My goal is to share some ideas and tips from what we are seeing regarding recovery and improved health during and after Covid. These are simply observations for you to research and possibly add to your tools of health and healing.

Grounding or Earthing is one one of the tools we have found beneficial in supporting the bodies immune system. You will see in other blogs that we suggest drinking tea with honey while having your feet on the grounding mat is an easy way to remove any static in the body prior to starting your day or going to bed. In addition, below is a copy of the “Why use grounding” portion of an article from Helthline.

Why use grounding?

There’s not much research on the benefits of grounding. However, people have reported improvement for conditions such as:

Chronic fatigue. In the studyTrusted Source on massage therapists, many reported a decrease in their fatigue levels after four weeks of treatment with grounding mats.
Chronic pain. The studyTrusted Source on grounding for exercise recovery found that those who used grounding patches reported lower pain levels.
Anxiety and depression. In one small studyTrusted Source, it was shown that even 1 hour of grounding therapy can significantly improve mood.
Sleep disorders. The massage therapists also experienced an improvement in sleep length and reducing sleep disturbances with grounding therapy.
Cardiovascular disease. Results of one treatment studyTrusted Source found that long-term self-administered grounding therapy helped to reduce blood pressure levels in participants with hypertension.

As mentioned above, many of these studies are small and require further research. Still, some health professionals believe that the benefits of grounding therapy may come simply from feeling like you’re reconnected to nature. Regardless, there is little harm.

“What Is Grounding and Can It Help Improve Your Health?” Healthline, 30 Aug. 2019, www.healthline.com/health/grounding#benefits.

Medically reviewed by Debra Rose Wilson, Ph.D., MSN, R.N., IBCLC, AHN-BC, CHT — Written by Eleesha Lockett, MS on August 30, 2019