Gail Le Pine, South Hadley, Massachusetts, dental hygienist:“I fell of my horse many years ago and injured my coccyx. Working as a hygienist.whether I was sitting or standing, was causing a good deal of lower back pain. Just picture the position a hygienist is in for eight plus hours a day and you can well imagine the toll it […]
Jim Bagnola, Austin,Texas, leadership consultant and author of Becom- ing a Professional Human Being. “In my work, I travel all over the world, so jet lag is always an issue. In my experience, going barefoot and sleep- ing grounded are the fastest ways to realign to a far-flung time zone.I also sleep more soundly,
Minja Karvinen, Orimattila, Finland, counselor for the disabled:“I suf- fer from Modic type 1*changes, which started in 2002, and led to degen- eration in six intervertebral discs, and a state of constant inflammation. Extra liquid built up in my lower back, pressing on nerves so badly that my legs didn’t function. I spent six years
Mary Mason, Haines City, Florida, retired oncologynurse:I suffered withbad back pain for twenty- five years.It was: something I had to live withbecause you can’t take narcotic painkillers and work with patients.Youhaveto be very clear-headed. So Tylenol was my drug of choice. That was it. As a nurse, I was skeptical about this Earthing idea when
One California mother said her five-year-oldson wasdiagnosed withautism two years before. She described her situation thusly: He used towake up bright-eyed around 5:30 AM. Then he would burnout’ from notenough sleep in the late afternoon or early evening. It was like hitting thewall. Crying. Meltdowns. Moodiness. We have had him sleeping grounded and he now
Moreover, her blood pressure numbers had dropped and were normalizing. I advised her to monitor her blood pressure carefully each day. She had been taking two blood pressure medications that another doctor had prescribed. Her blood pressure came down so fast that she was now able to take a much weaker prescription, and still maintain a normal blood pressure.
“I provided a grounding unite to a ninety-six-year-old friend who had severe. Osteoarthritis for probably twenty-five years. I didn’t explain a word to her. I just explained it to her son. After a few days, I called to see how she was doing. He said his mother, a well-known folk medicine healer in San Diego
Improving the Life of a Doctor and His Patients David Gersten, M.D., Encinitas, California, practitioner of nutritional medicine and integrative psychiatry: “A few years ago, I developed what I called a cause and effect’ health map that plots out why people get sick with chronic illness and stay sick. I narrowed it down to a
In my work as a health educator and speaker, I focus on what’s natural, good for healing, and good for people in general. I’m also very much attuned to what is the least amount of work that somebody can do and get the most benefits. That’s a number one consideration for me because in the health world people want