The Science of Grounding: Do Earthing Products Actually Work? | Clint Ober x Dave Asprey

I've experimented with grounding shoes over the years and, and I know that if I had leather soles in my shoes that weren't finished with plastic and I wore cotton or wool socks.

Yeah.

And I didn't have an insole made out of cork, which is an insulator or made out of any kind of plastic. And I was walking outdoors on a surface that was probably moist, I'd probably get some electrons, but not very many. So there's a couple companies that make shoes and I've advertised them before. I always ran into problems with comfort though, because there's usually a big piece of metal that it doesn't flex like the rest of the shoe. So I, I mean, I really got into this and I said, all right, I know the worst time is when I'm on airplanes. So I took a 9 volt battery.

I'm.

I can't believe no one like called the police or something because I'm sitting in an airplane pushing a battery in my shoe, not thinking about this. I guess in first class you get a, you get a pass. But I had a conductive patch, one of the patches you talked about connected to the negative terminal of 9 volt battery on the inside of my ankle. Figure that's going to soak up all my extra current. I felt like garbage for a week. And then acupuncturist had to come in and do some stuff to fix me. What did I do wrong?

You used a 9 volt battery.

I tried a 12 volt but it was too heavy. What should I have done? What was wrong with my approach?

The only thing you can do on an airplane is take your shoe off and put your foot up against that metal strut that's holding the seat in place.

The whole airframe isn't grounded though. And it's building up a charge itself, isn't it?

Yeah, it's kind of positive and. But it's streaming off the plane. It's not okay. So it's not internally okay.

There's no bare metal there you can reach anymore anyway. For a lot of these there may be.

I don't know. Yeah, they probably paint everything now. But anyhow, so there's not a lot you can do, you know, in. Because you're in free space.

You know, is there a portable source of electrons I could carry with me and plug into my butt or something? Like, like give me the secret. Think outside the box. Like I want to have a box of electrons I can use so I could be just.

That's what I've Been working on for 20 years ago.

Okay.

20 years ago I said to myself, I said, you know what I mean is because blueberries are the most popular thing.

Oh yeah.

And everybody, you know, the reason you have all these health disorders is because you're not eating enough blueberries.

Yeah, that might not be the reason.

No, but that's what they were. That was the mantra. And so anyhow, I remember one day I said to myself, I said, you know what I need is I need a blueberry. I need a portable earthing device. I need something that, you know, it's charged up. And so when you're not grounded, you just put it up against your body. And then your body absorbs the electrons and keeps you negative.

Why is that so hard?

Well, I've been working on it for 20 years. I have.

No way. You have a device. I didn't even know you had one. For real. You have one?

Oh my gosh, I was having jokes ready. And it shouldn't be going out there yet, but, but anyhow, so.

But we are getting super life changing.

Well, that's what, you know, I've been, I have Jeff War researchers working on it up in San Diego. And yeah, so what, this is what the world is missing. They need a portable earthing. And, and, and I'll demonstrate this. But just, you know, all you got to do is put two different fingers on the.

Okay.

Like that. Yeah, this is the coolest thing you can do that for now. But anyhow, so, so what we had to do is first of all, you have to know what. You can't just go inject a current into the body.

It doesn't work very Well. I mean, Jerry, 10 will tell you which currents you probably could put where. But it's complex and it's not Earth day.

Very, very complex. Yeah. And we learned about seven, eight years ago how much electrons the body is absorbing.

You know the numbers. So you have the right dose.

Yeah. So we know that when you touch the earth this happens. And it's a secret. We don't tell anybody because it took me years and years to figure this out. And I don't know what to do with it yet. Because you can't just buy a battery and put something on it because it goes like this at the speed of light. And all it does is you close couple with Earth's electric field. Earth has a big DC electric charge. So when you step into that and touch it and become grounded, then you couple with it. Your whole body couple up couples. So you are the same now as the earth. And now the electrons can move in and out and move around because you've taken the charge off. Otherwise the charge, like when you're ungrounded, then static electricity and all this stuff in your environment is holding a charge on your body and it's reducing the ability of electrons to work. So trying to figure out how many electrons are involved. Then you have to understand the environment. So it's like you know, a key fob where you go punch the key fob for your car door. I mean your body is coupling with the key fob and sending a signal out there.

Right.

So your body is part of the transmit antenna.

People don't know this. You hold it up against your chin. You can turn your car on from three times as far away because probably better couples with your body.

Yeah, yeah. So there's a, there's all these things involved. And so what I'm trying to do or what I had to do was okay, now we know that it's not measurable in a. Because it's. You're measuring something that happens at the speed of light. It is measurable. But setting up the document, too expensive. Yeah, yeah. It's too, too complicated. So anyhow, so then, now we have produced 30 peer reviewed published studies over the last 25 years. The next one coming out is going to be on mitochondria and increase production of ATP just by putting your little toe on the earth because you can't have inflammation when you're grounded. And if you have inflammation, then it's going to affect the membrane of the, of the mitochondria which is going to reduce the production of ATP. So this is all inflammation related. Grounding doesn't increase ATP, it gets rid of the charge so the body can record re produce normal ATP.

Okay. Just lets the body go back to normalcy.

Yeah.

When are these going to be available?

I don't know. I'm working on it.

All right, well, work faster, man.

Well, what the heck, you know, how much trouble can I get into here? Here, here's your shoes. I, I gave away like 65,000 pair last year.

Wow. Oh, you make shoes? I haven't tried your. You know what, I haven't tried yours. I got size 16ft. You don't make me my size.

All we're doing is trying to figure out if there's a market because there's a hundred people out there playing with it, but they don't ground you. And they got run a nail through it or something or rivet. But anyhow, so these are have a 100% conductive platform, and then inside they have 100% and they get through the phone, or then they have 100% layer of conductive rubber. Okay. I mean, they're married together. Body perspiration, especially on your feet, is the most conductive solution on planet Earth.

Yep. Super salt water.

So you don't need copper and you don't need all these things. What you need is you need to put your shoe in or put your foot in the shoe, and automatically, within seconds, it's going to create enough perspiration that's going to saturate, hydrate the sock, hydrate the insole, and connect with that huge ground plane that we've created.