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set her up with a grounded bed pad. Her feedback was positive. She was sleeping better. She enthusiastically approached some of her clients to participate in the study. I found others by leaving fliers in ten beauty shops in Ventura, California, where I was living at the time. One of the people who stepped forward was a nurse. She was a great help, smoothing the way so I could enter the homes of strangers, explain the bed pads, actually place them in people’s beds, and connect them to simple ground rods I stuck in the Earth outside their bedroom windows. What I was doing was not exactly your ordinary house call. In the end, I was able to enroll sixty people—thirty-eight women and twenty-two men—with sleep problems and a variety of joint and muscle pain. Based on the advice I had received from the sleep clinic students, I divided the volunteers into two groups. Half slept on pads that were actually grounded. For comparison, the other half slept on bed pads that looked like they were connected to the ground rods, but I inserted a spacer on the wire to block conduction. The volunteers did not know if they were actually connected or not. I was the only one who knew. The nurse interacted with the people during the thirty days’ experiment. Then she collected the data. We then wrote up the experiment as an anecdotal study and published it in 2000 on ESD, an online journal that provides articles, technical papers, news items, and book reviews on the subject of electrostatics. The results were extraordinary. Here is what we found afterward when we compared the grounded group with the ungrounded one: • 85 percent went to sleep more quickly. • 93 percent reported sleeping better throughout the night. • 82 percent experienced a significant reduction in muscle stiffness. • 74 percent experienced elimination or reduction of chronic back and joint pain. • 100 percent reported feeling more rested when they woke up. • 78 percent reported improved general health. Several participants reported unexpected but significant relief from asth-