Expanded Study Shows Grounding Produces Physiologic Changes

Dr. Gaetan Chevalier published the results of a study in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine that expanded an earlier study and used better methodology and equipment. Chevalier’s multiparameter, double-blind experiment used 28 healthy participants, 14 women and 14 men, all between the ages of 18 and 80.

The participants were made comfortable and measured during two-hour grounding sessions, with 40 minutes before, during, and after left as stabilization time. False grounding sessions were recorded with the same participants used as controls.

The article published in the Journal presents the results for five of the 18 parameters measured, including skn conductance (SC), respiratory rate (RR), perfusion index (PI), pulse rate (PR), and blood oxygenation (BO).

The results of the experiment showed that participants had an immediate decrease in skin conductance at grounding, and an immediate increase when ungrounded. There was an increase in respiration rate during grounding, and this continued in all subjects after ungrounding. Respiration rate variance
increased immediately after grounding then decreased, and blood oxygenation variance decreased during grounding and dramatically increased when ungrounded. Pulse rate and perfusion index variances increased during the grounding period and stayed after ungrounding.

Dr. Chevalier concluded that the results of the experiment warrant further research into how grounding influences the body and its effects on health and disease prevention.