Grounding (earthing)
Direct skin contact with the ground, or with mats and sheets sold for the purpose, claimed to transfer electrical charge from the body.
At a glance
- What we know: Grounding is included because readers encounter it, not because this catalogue endorses it.
- What’s uncertain: No outcome assessment is published here; inclusion records a practice readers encounter, without establishing benefit.
- First step: Time outdoors is a reasonable habit on its own terms, with or without a grounding claim attached.
- Before you try it: Follow the manufacturer's instructions when connecting any grounding device and do not modify its wiring; this catalogue found no safety testing of these products. All precautions
Takeaway
Grounding is included because readers encounter it, not because this catalogue endorses it. No outcome assessment is published for it here.
Scientific evidence
What the research shows
Outcome assessments based on research, including its uncertainties and limitations.
No outcome assessment published
This entry is an overview. Its background references do not establish whether the practice works.
What people say
Who discusses this?
Public statements, with positions specific to each source and topic. These views do not determine the scientific evidence assessment.
What the research shows ↑No sourced public statements added for this habit yet. This does not mean no one discusses it.
Practical steps and precautions
How to try it
- Time outdoors is a reasonable habit on its own terms, with or without a grounding claim attached.
- If you buy equipment, do so knowing this catalogue found no assessed evidence to justify the purchase.
- Judge any change against how you feel over weeks rather than after a single session.
Precautions
- Follow the manufacturer's instructions when connecting any grounding device and do not modify its wiring; this catalogue found no safety testing of these products.
- Do not postpone treatment for a medical condition in favour of grounding practices.
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Editorial history and review method
Revision 4 · Approved for publication · Codex (publication approval explicitly authorized by site owner; category migration)
Prepared and checked with AI. Publication approval does not imply independent expert review. Request a correction.
Applied the group-1 audit's one recommended change: precaution 1 no longer asserts a shock hazard from consumer grounding devices that no retrieved source documents. It now reads as a product-safety instruction (follow the manufacturer's instructions, do not modify the wiring) plus a disclosure that no safety testing of these products was found. The optional extra sentence characterising the small, mostly unblinded, single-group literature was NOT added, because Basic coverage cannot carry a citation and the catalogue's convention for these caution entries is uncited prose. Second reviewer must decide (a) whether the catalogue wants Basic-coverage entries to characterise the low-quality literature they decline to assess, and (b) whether the shock-risk sentence came from a product-safety source outside the biomedical literature. Publication release 2026-10-04: site owner authorized a bounded AI audit and release of this exact revision. See docs/release-audit-2026-10-04.md for source-check findings and limits. No independent health-professional or peer review is claimed. Category migration 2026-10-04: removed the separate goals field; categories: Energy → Energy, Stress & wellbeing. Research assessments, sources, guidance, precautions, and evidence review dates are unchanged. This revision awaits publication approval; no new evidence review is claimed. Publication approval 2026-10-04: site owner explicitly accepted all current category-migration revisions for deployment and requested that remaining limitations be retained in docs/content-review-backlog.md. Approval applies to this exact content revision. No new evidence review, independent expert review, or clinical validation is claimed; existing precautions and disclosures remain in effect.