Earthing Recovery Bag Kit

I am in my 40s and I have arthritis/bursitis in my neck, shoulder, lower back and hands due to my occupation (healthcare professional). I repeatedly injure the same area due to my job. I go for massages, chiropractor sessions and physical therapy on a regular basis. Pain will be temporarily relieved but will return shortly.I would wake up in the middle of the night in pain and not able to fall back to sleep. I read about the testimonials and decided to give a try. I splurged on the recovery bag because of my whole body pain. The product was received on a thunderstorm type of weather. I zipped up the bag around me. I was able to sleep through the night without waking up and I woke up with very little soreness (1 out of 10). Normally this type of weather will intensify my lower back pain. The next day I raked the leaves of my back yard for a good 2-3 hours, wrapped myself again with the bag and woke up with no pain. I know it's not in my head. What I have noticed is that when I receive any type of therapy, massage, PT, etc, my pain is lessened but the inflammation of the tissue/muscle is still there. Let me say that when I woke up in the morning, pain free, I also did not feel any inflammation of the tissue or muscle. If this sheet can last me a year, I am happy. It's a lot less than what I spend between doctor's visit and massages. The earthing effect also make me calm. Mind you everyone reacts differently to earthing. I do feel that it works for me.

After dropping my 15-year HBP in less than a month of sleeping grounded, I bought this for my husband, who is away from home 5 nights a week and has a hip pain. Before we could set it up on his island bed, our son came down with tremendous back and leg pain, which impeded his daily physical work and severely disrupted his sleep, waking him up every two hours and keeping him awake for significant amounts of time. He got the sheet! By the fourth night of using this, he was sleeping soundly through the night (and was so grateful!) and the pain is receding.I am sold!!!! Don't waste a second! Invest in yourself and change your life! NOW!!!!!

Did not do a thing for me. I tried grounding it outside which did nothing, felt no difference. Then I tried grounding it to the electrical socket...still nothing. A huge waste of my money and time. Please do not fall for this gimmick. I used to for 3 months before giving up on this $300 sheet.

I was told by my doctor to buy this recovery bag because I was about to have shouldersurgery and my health had not been good in the last year. I could tell when I first sleptin the bag that my blood was circulating more energetically and that it relaxed me sothat i got a better night's sleep. My rehab. therapist says that I am way ahead of theexpected healing for my shoulder and I stopped taking the pain pills the 3rd day afterthe surgery. i've been doing other nutritional things to aid in my healing as well but Ican really feel the difference when I sleep in the bag. I would recommend it to anyonewho wants to promote their health and healing.

Saw a documentary concerning this and decided it couldn't hurt to try yet another thing to help my chronic pain. Love it! I haven't been able to sleep in certain positions for 20 yrs but I can now. There's still discomfort but not the sharp pains! Amazing!

That doesn't tell you whether I have gotten the right result that I am hoping for. It may take some time before I know. I will update later.

Awesome for recovery!

I found the book "Earthing" at the heart of this and the other "earthing" products so compelling that I could hardly put it down until I had finished it. I have provided much the same information in my review of it as below. The DVD documentary "The Grounded" that has recently appeared, and that I have also reviewed, is also very compelling in its own more visual way, helped by the obvious endorsements from scientific and environmental pioneers such as Dr. David Suzuki. The lack of some technical or scientific detail in the documentary, and even the book, complained about by some reviewers is very well compensated for by the much more detailed information continually accumulating on the website of the "Earthing Institute". The story of the originator, Clint Ober, is itself very compelling, and he is to be congratulated for his continued unflagging efforts to bring this major health discovery to the world.I learned about "earthing" initially from a woman with multiple sclerosis who had posted a link to the talk on it by co-author Dr. Stephen Sinatra, MD at David Wolfe's "Longevity Now Conference". Because of my background in electromagnetics, radio physics, and climatology, initially through a PhD in electrical engineering, and my more recent background doing full-time epidemiological research, the segment of Dr. Sinatra's talk about live blood before and after "earthing" made a particular impression. I read the book "Earthing" and couldn't wait to start trying the "earthing" sheet and other products, which I ordered immediately. (Note that the book is made available automatically with orders of some of the products.) Furthermore, I decided to try a small experiment on myself even before receiving the products. I hooked myself up to the ground on the electrical system by attaching a lamp cord to the grounded center screw on the faceplate of an electrical outlet, with the other bare ends in my sock. I noticed within five minutes that my body was relaxing, and that this did not "turn off" as to some extent meditation or Reiki do after completion. Of course the latter can't be continued indefinitely as can "earthing".I used the lamp-cord approach in bed the first night, and had the best sleep that I had probably had in 20 years. Besides feeling very rested on fully awakening, I noticed that I could dose, something that I had not been able to do except perhaps two or three times in that 20 years. I have found this technique so powerful for my own sleep that I typically fall asleep within a few minutes after hitting the "earthing" sheet or crawling in the recovery bag. I always notice the sense of my body relaxing immediately, and the sense of "tingling" in the feet and hands that I feel is stronger the more I have felt stressed beforehand or not grounded myself for a few hours. On the few occasions when my body is so "worked up" from stress of some kind or another that "earthing" is slow to work, I find that Reiki helps further, and therefore at such times also use it before sleep. Note that the earthing products have a 100 kilohm resistor in series for safety, unlike my lamp cord.What followed had even more powerful benefits for my health:(i) I have lost the apparent chronic adrenal fatigue that I had for 18 years, the worst of my symptoms since the 1990's. Of the 40+ symptoms I had in the late 1990's and had gradually been getting rid of since then through attention to nutrition and hydration, apparent detoxification (e.g., replacement of mercury-amalgam dental fillings, use of a near-infrared far-visible "electric-light" sauna, application of some apparent liver-detoxification techniques, and the use of "dry-skin brushing", the latter reputed to cleanse the lymphatic system), and sunlight sufficiency, this was one of the few holdout problems besides sleep, all difficult to bear, that didn't respond well to any of the other techniques that I tried. It disappeared within days of starting "earthing".(ii) I also lost my "cold extremities" (feet and hands) within days of starting "earthing". This was especially noticeable because I started "earthing" on 11 Nov 2010, and it was already getting quite cold at my home in Eastern Ontario by then. Pretty clearly, this seems because the circulation to my feet and hands improved. Apparently the extra electrons (beyond those from food) charge up the red blood cells more negatively so that they repel each other and flow more freely. This "freely flowing" action can be observed on the video of Dr. Stephen Sinatra noted above. My guess is that improvement in thyroid function may also have been a factor in losing the cold extremities. One other way in which I noticed the improvement in circulation was through my cross country skiing. I used to be able to easily ski to work at -27°C or so in the morning and keep my feet warm in the ski boots that I had. At a certain point, I couldn't do this beyond -10°C. I know that I can now do it again at least to -18°C, and haven't yet tried it at lower temperatures.(iii) Before "earthing", I had got to the point where I usually had some morning muscle stiffness on arising from sleep. This also disappeared within days.(iv) Over the three years time that I have been "earthing", I have generally become more relaxed overall. I was feeling so stressed by some aspects of my research by 2010 that I had the very real sense of my stress being a little out of control. I quickly lost this sense soon after I began "earthing", and the overall effect has gradually improved further with time. I had been diagnosed with a "sympathetic dominant" nervous system in 2005, and "earthing" has apparently rebalanced my autonomic nervous system as the research references copied onto the website of the "Earthing Institute" suggest. Note that the dozen or so research studies done on "earthing" and the associated increasingly-supported hypotheses for its basis that are included in these references should be fairly understandable by those without a scientific background because they are mostly based on experimental results.Since "earthing" had such a quick and significant benefit for me, I decided that I would not take the risk, given my past health issues, and only use the "earthing" sheet at night, even though this is the time when most bodily regeneration seems to be done. I have therefore also been using the "earthing" footpad while seated, and much of the time the torso band while working in the kitchen or elsewhere, the telescopic cord being hardly noticeable. (Unfortunately, except during my half-hour sun break in bare feet and bathing suit on most warm sunny days, I don't find much barefoot contact with the earth suitable for my lifestyle now, and am looking forward to the day when a range of well-designed shoes will have electrical grounding suitably built into "minimalist" soles and heels. 4 Aug 2015: Note my review of the new "earthing" shoes by Pluggz, specifically the "grounding drivers".) After some experimentation, I quickly had the sense that the "earthing" half-sheet worked best for me when used full length and rapped around my pillow. My sister found the same thing when trying this some months later after initially using the sheet across the bottom of her bed. I have now been using the "earthing recovery bag" for about two weeks, and the beneficial effect on my sleep, and the ability to dose after awakening in the morning, seems even more powerful than from using the half sheet at full length. I have some small concern that using the sheet full length, or the "earthing recovery bag", too soon might be problematic for those with environmental chemical poisoning issues if "earthing" increases levels of the energy coenzyme ATP as suggested by Dr. Sinatra and his colleagues and if the number and location of the grounding points while sleeping matters, too rapid an increase in cellular energy possibly allowing for greater detoxification too quickly. I think the increase in ATP levels may be evidenced by my rapid recovery from apparent chronic adrenal fatigue and the observations of others of increased energy.There are observations in the scientific literature that both sufficient electrons and sufficient energy in the red to near-infrared range (see the ANNEX and the papers of Dr. T.I. Karu) may be necessary in generating adequate levels of ATP. In order to supply the extra electrons to help generate ATP, act as antioxidants within the body, and accomplish other "inflammation-reducing" tasks as suggested in the references copied onto the "Earthing Institute" website, it seems to me that a tiny flow of electrons through the body must be established. My guess is that the flow of electrons potentially needed throughout the body is accomplished by circuits established through a combination of (a) the electrical grounding of the person, and (b) the "plating" of air ions on the surface of the skin, both as suggested by John F. Wetling as part of his explanation for how acupuncture best works in his 2006 article, "About 'Acupuncture Qi', and what's it all about?", available on the internet. Do the location and number of grounding points on the surface of the skin make a difference to the directions of flow of such currents through the body? Is the apparently helpful use of "earthing" patches placed in different locations on the body noted in the book "Earthing" evidence for this?Obviously not everyone benefits as much, as the authors of the book "Earthing" make clear. It seems to depend on the degree of "electron deficiency" that the person has, and perhaps the extent of their fundamental health problems since it seems that the persons with the largest health problems sometimes benefit most. My mother didn't think she observed any effect from "earthing" initially, but I have noticed that she no longer takes any painkiller for her knee, which is something that she occasionally did before. My aunt didn't notice anything either, but I have observed that her doctor reduced her thyroid medication downwards after about a year.Since I indicate the lamp-cord approach in my observations above, I emphasize the cautionary admonitions on the "Earthing Institute" website that: (a) if the person being earthed/grounded is taking thyroid medication, it is important to have their doctor check if it needs to be reduced at some point, (b) if the person is on the drug Coumadin/warfarin or another "blood thinner", likewise more quickly, since "earthing" also apparently thins the blood as demonstrated in Dr. Stephen Sinatra's video.ANNEX: After reading Dr. Gerald Pollack's books, "Cells, Gells, and the Engines of Life" (2001), "The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor" (2013; see my separate reviews of both books), and seeing his illuminating interviews and lectures on the internet, I think that application of "earthing" must help provide adequate hydration of the cells with "structured water", help generate the associated exclusion of many chemical solutes from such structured-water zones, help move unwanted solutes out through the lymphatic system, and help with other forms of specialized work such as activating the muscles (itself also helping to produce lymphatic flow). etc. My guess is that electrons from the earth work together with those from the metabolic breakdown of food to generate the negatively-charged ATP in the cell mitochondria, which appear to attach to already negatively-charged protein surfaces in the cell (perhaps already the sites of electrons from the earth as suggested by Pollack in an interview, the whole process referred to as "charge-induced protein extension"), allowing larger negatively-charged zones of structured water and perhaps therefore more discrimination against unwanted solutes than might otherwise be the case. According to Pollack (2001), there is apparently a translocation of ATP from the mitochondria to the cell protein surfaces during a period of partially de-structured water, then a structuring of the water in the vicinity because of the concentration of negative charge on the cell surfaces, then a hydrolization of ATP to ADP and Pi, a partial de-structuring of the water during recycling of ADP and Pi back to the mitochondria and new ATP in the opposite direction, and return to the next cycle. It seems plausible that the "earthing" source of electrons is an older evolutionary source than that of food, one that is available continuously.As described In the more recent book, Pollack and his colleagues have demonstrated experimentally that electromagnetic wave energy, mainly in the near infrared and visible-red range of the spectrum in that order of importance, helps generate and maintain such negatively-charged zones and adjacent positively-charged zones of hydronium ions (H3O)+ in bulk liquid water in non-cellular containers, a seemingly general result that should apply to cellular and extracellular regions of the body with hydrophilic/"water-loving" surfaces also. (The highest energy outputs of an "electric light" sauna occur in the same order, just as in natural sunlight. Is it significant that I couldn't get rid of my major symptoms without "earthing", despite the fact that I was frequently exposed to isunlight from 2005, and usually in the "electric-light" sauna twice a day for 40 minutes for over two years from 2005? Those techniques helped but they didn't eliminate my major symptoms, which I take as evidence for the high importance of "earthing".) This seems most likely to be the oldest evolutionary source of energy. A continuous supply of electrons from the earth, and from metabolism, could work together with the continuous supply of largely near-infrared light energy to maintain the apparently structured-water molecules of H3O2 within and possibly exterior to the cells, along with adjacent zones of positively-charged bulk water and hydronium ions, such zone pairs essentially constituting a series of "batteries" as noted by Pollack.Pollack and his colleagues have also demonstrated that the creation of such structured-water zones in narrow tubes can cause the water to flow continuously in one direction through such tubes with exposure to infrared light. This three-energy-source process, or an even more general four-energy source process (including a pulsed magnetic energy source noted below), including that from "earthing", and the resulting phase transitions in water may also at least partially help explain the process of blood movement through the smallest capillaries and the connected parallel lymph flow partially upwards in the body against gravity, both important for good circulation. It has been noted by Pollack, for example, that there is some blood flow for up to an hour after the heart stops beating. Moreover, I have noticed that my dry-skin brushing is always followed by a need to urinate, and Pollack notes that the volume of water held by diapers is many more times that of urine, a demonstration of the larger molecules contained in urine. I know that practitioners of "lymphatic drainage massage" also find that urination follows from this, and the scientific literature apparently confirms the elimination of some unwanted waste products from such application. It is known that lymphatic pumping is increased by ATP among other things, and that it is decreased by unwanted reactive oxygen metabolites.I have so far only alluded to possible constant direct currents (DC) flowing through the body to meet positive air ions of mostly nitrogen on the surface of the skin. There is some evidence that the zones of structured water facilitate electrical conduction in the body. The "earthing" documentary, "The Grounded", alludes to a potential role for Schumann resonance fields in "earthing", which are solar- and lightning-generated ELF waves in the atmospheric "waveguide" between the earth and the ionosphere. Because of the known similarity in the frequencies of brain waves to those of Schumann resonance, it does not seem unlikely that electromagnetic induction from these waves, or simply a modulation of the positive ion charge and associated electric field on the skin at a point distant from the grounding point, or both, could provide the equivalent of a "pulsed" DC signal on top of an average DC component. Besides potentially helping to explain why "earthing" might reduce "jetlag" by at least helping to control a kind of "body clock" based on the known different day-night character of the phenomenon, and that of brain waves (suggested by some as associated with the variations of melatonin), this may constitute a natural form of pulsed EMF corresponding to the artificial PEMF accepted by the US FDA as suitable treatment for certain heath conditions. Indeed, both electric field and magnetic field variations of Schumann resonance waves have been measured, and there is other evidence that Schumann resonance fields may affect health. Since the body is known to contain some magnetite, energy medicine techniques such as Reiki may be another natural application of PEMF, and indeed, magnetometer measurements during Reiki seem to have confirmed this.The documentary, "The Grounded", appeared to attach some scientific significance to ancient humans dancing around such sites as Stonehenge on Salisbury plane in southern England, and our ancestors may have felt wonder for at least one reason. Just as "earthing" appears to enhance ATP production in animals and plants, both enhanced magnetic fields at the earth's surface that are associated with natural magnetic anomalies, telluric currents near some such sites, or flowing water near the same or other sites, and enhanced electric fields associated with the same sites or others (e.g., at the top of stone pyramids or earthen mounds), could also help to increase total negative charge, and therefore ATP levels, in seeds deposited there. The building of such structures because of their effect on seeds deposited there is the fundamental hypothesis of Burke and Halberg in their book "Seed of Knowledge Stone of Plenty" (see my separate review), although they seem to associate the effect with a kind of "stress hardening" on the seeds, rather than to the effect noted above. "Stress hardening", or its sub-technique of "cold hardening", could be separate effects allowing increased net energy generation through overall reduction of free radicals, possible examples being that of exercise noted by the authors, and the effect of an alternating hot and cold shower on the feeling of increased energy and well being in human subjects. In any case, it does not seem far fetched to imagine a similar effect on the plants subsequently grown from such seeds (demonstrated by Burke and Halberg) and possibly also on their human planters dancing there.Increased ATP production in seeds could be explained through the application of either or both enhanced electric and magnetic fields. With the latter, it could arise through a speeding up of the orbital velocity of valence electrons around their nuclei, a principle discussed by Dr. Dean Bonlie in application to magnetic mattress pads used to enhance the earth's magnetic field below humans lying there. As evidenced through the work of Bonlie and others, the presence of the earth's magnetic field may itself be an essential requirement, along with "earthing", for the generation of sufficient ATP in seeds, plants, and animals. This could occur through an increase in total negative charge applied to the phase-transition processes in cellular water discussed by Dr. Pollack. Indeed, there is other evidence for such an additional magnetic mechanism referred to as "magneto-protonics", explained as the "cyclotron resonance application of proton transport in water under the action of the earth's magnetic field". Is this effect associated with a potential role for magnetic field variations from Schumann resonance also?Because of the apparent importance of water structuring in the body and "earthing" as a partial driver of this, I think that there should be an altitude factor associated with "earthing", the benefit increasing with increasing altitude. As noted, I believe that "earthing" functions in part because of a difference of electric potential across essentially two points on the body. One is the point(s) at ground potential touching the earth. The other is the point, or more strictly the points, where the positive air ions are "plating" on the skin elsewhere. Since the number of positive air ions plating on the skin should increase with increasing altitude, following the normal increase of positive air ion density with increasing altitude, the magnitude of the electric field across the body should also increase. Through a simple application of Ohm's law, this should increase the magnitude of the tiny current flowing through the body, and therefore the amount of negative charge available for the structuring of water in the cellular and extracellular body matrix. I think this may be one reason for the apparent increase of life expectancy at higher altitudes. I discuss this issue in a little more depth in my review of "Seed of Knowledge Stone of Plenty", since this should also affect seeds and plants. Moreover, I think that evidence for this effect may already be provided through the known tendency of the builders of some of the ancient mounds and pyramids to erect as high structures as within their means.It seems clear to me now that since the resistance of human skin is known to be high, at least at those points other than the acupuncture points, only those points on the skin touching the earth (or the "earthing" product) are at ground potential. Other points are at the potential associated with the positive air ions plating on the skin. I believe this is the reason why "earthing" patches placed near pain points, or "zones of inflammation", have been found to be effective. This would help direct current flow through such zones, increasing the number of electrons available for the structuring of water in them, and for the consequent elimination of unwanted solutes. I think that this may be also the reason why the larger the area of skin contact with the "earthing" sheet, or in this case, the "earthing recovery bag", apparently the better. (It is apparent that lying on my back in the recovery bag causes much of my back and front to have contact with the electrically-grounded fabric, along with the bottom of the feet if I am well down in the bag. Only the sides of my body and face are fully free for plating of the positive air ions, but this seems to be enough to have an even larger effect than from lying only on the sheet at full length. Are the many apparent short lateral current paths from the front and back to the sides more beneficial then than the electrical current paths from the back to the front and sides of the body? A similar enhanced effect seems to occur in the "earthing recovery bag" in comparison to the half sheet at full length if I am lying on one side or the other.) Acupuncture should also function in much the same way, but with the needle directing the current through the "zone of inflammation", rather than the "earthing" patch doing this. The difference is that since the needle increases the positive air ion density on it and in its vicinity, the effect should be amplified. My guess is that if the body is not grounded during acupuncture, its operation may depend on both negative and positive air ions plating on the skin in different locations, the location of the negative ions functioning as a very inefficient ground point in effect.The possible geophysical sources of energy input to the body discussed here, including that of Schumann resonance, were addressed (along with magnetic pulse energy from Reiki and other energy medicine techniques) by one of the current "earthing" pioneers, Dr. James Oschmann, in his books, "Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis" (2000) and/or "Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance" (2003). He recognized even in the earlier book the potentially important role of water in the cellular and extracellular matrix, and discussed in his second book the initial important work of Pollack (2001) and his predecessors on phase-transition processes. In view of the apparent importance of "earthing" as a simple and inexpensive fundamental preventative and curative health modality, and the apparent fundamental role of cellular and extracellular water therein, I find the historical article of physiologist Dr. Ray Peat, "Pathological Science and General Electric: Threatening the Paradigm", rather telling. What a fitting finale to the beautiful and important "earthing" documentary "The Grounded" to have the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra performing the score to it grounded!