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hour or two while watching TV in the house while in contact with some kind of an indoor Earthing device. Patients’ blood should be monitored more frequently than normal to determine whether at some point, because of the Earthing, the medication dosage can be safely reduced. Earthing sessions can be increased slowly, and if safe, individuals should consider sleeping grounded. I urge any patient taking Coumadin to exercise caution in this manner.
More Fascinating Evidence The informal experiment in my home inspired a study in 2009 to investigate further whether Earthing can indeed influence red blood cell clumping as we saw in the darkfield images. I was particularly intrigued to find out if the results were reproducible. With this goal in mind, I set up a study with Gaetan Chevalier, Ph.D., the California electrophysiologist who has been involved in other Earthing research. We designed an experiment to measure not only blood clumping but also something called the zeta potential. You’ve likely never heard of zeta potential. Most people haven’t. It relates to the degree of negative charge on the surface of a red blood cell. We selected ten healthy individuals—none of whom took any medication—to participate in the study. They came individually to a health clinic in Southern California and sat comfortably in a reclining chair while they were grounded for two hours. Grounded electrode patches were placed on their feet and hands, just as had been done in previous studies. Blood samples were taken before and after two hours of continual grounding. When the blood was analyzed, we were quite surprised. We had been expecting a small improvement in the zeta potential, perhaps by 30 percent. Instead, we found an improvement of 270 percent on average! Just what does this mean to you? The results strongly suggest the discovery of a natural solution for blood thinning, an option of great interest not just for cardiologists like me, but also for any physician concerned about the relationship of blood viscosity and inflammation. According to the scientific literature on the subject, the healthy range for the zeta potential is between –9.3 millivolts (mV) and –15 mV, with an average of –12.5 mV. In our experiment, two hours of grounding improved the average zeta potential of the ten participates from a rather