Reddit reviews Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever!

So what makes you so sure that receiving the electrical balancing over a longer period of time doesn't have any effect on the human body?

I'd choose outside over home even if home were quiet, or outside was relatively noisy. I deliberately try to "ground" myself each day for health reasons, and might as well meditate at the same time even if the two combined aren't more than the combination of the parts :-)

As for forest v mountains, I don't know. If there was water nearby I'd head towards that. Why not alternate?

("Lucky" you to have such a choice)

Edit: http://www.amazon.com/Earthing-Most-Important-Health-Discovery/dp/1591202833

I looked it up... Earthing sounds like total BS. "healing energies of the earth"? What are these energies and can they be measured?

"Few people know it, but the ground provides a subtle electric signal that maintains health"

Mmh I think I'd pass on this Sinatra guy. Listened a few minutes on his talk about Cholesterol as well, and he mentions that cholesterol is necessary for making sex hormones like testosterone (and that get people's attention!)...but does not mention that vegans have the highest testosterone levels despite eating no dietary cholesterol. Seems like a doctor that just tries to sell as much of his stuff as possible, no offense (maybe even getting sponsorships as the industry involving cholesterol is humongous).

And with life expectancy, how many children would have to die young to bring the number up? According to Paleo sources, average caveman live expectancy was 25 years, so if 2/3 births ended in deaths, that would mean you get to 75 years old, almost today's standard. But that means 2/3 newborns died! We could use that logic in today's society as well. Take Swaziland, for example, lowest life expectancy in the world at around 50 years. If every other birth would end up in a death, that would mean most people lived 100 years, but that is not the case at all (1/10 at most). I'd say that if you think that 25 years life expectancy is fine, then consider if you'd like to be born in Swaziland, live their life with their life expectancy. If someone chooses that, sure for them, but simply saying "theoretically this can be misleading" is not proof enough to say it is the complete reverse. It hurts to quote this paleo source but you can ask yourself if the graph is likely, that every other child dies in infancy (the page itself is even quoting it's reference to caveman infant mortality as "sketchy"). Also not linking the mentioned studies so they can be reviewed, and knowing most patterns of life, there would not be 0 deaths between 10-40 years and again 50-60 years, as one does not get resistant to diseases just because one is older than 10.