What is Barefoot Earthing and Why Its Amazing for Your Entire Health

Barefoot running and walking have endless clinical benefits, such as enhancing the energy-saving elastic properties of the foot’s arch as well as better ankle stability and stronger foot muscles, tendons, bones and circulation.

Earthing is another well-known, study-proven (references below article) benefit to going barefoot outdoors because its key for clearing free-radicals from the body, which directly improves the body’s ability to defend against a variety of health problems that range from disturbed sleep to chronic inflammation and from improving depression to making your brain more ready to learn.

What is Barefoot Earthing and Why Its Amazing for Your Entire Health


A study by Oschman in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies revealed that when we walk, run or hike barefoot on natural grounds, a massive charge transfer between you and the earth occurs, where the earth can be thought of as an electron donor, and inflammation (or free-radicals) in the body can be thought of as an electron acceptor.

There are naturally occurring electric fields in our cells that regulate bone and tendon remodeling (Bassett, 1968, 1995) that become dismantled by free-radicals. Research now shows that its physiologically vital to spend more time barefoot outdoors since the mobile free-electrons supplied by the earth creates a gradient that effectively neutralizes damaging free-radicals in the body (Langevin, 2006). This is especially important if you are injured because there is a high density of free-radicals at the site of injury.

Luckily, the body has specialized protein compartments that build pathways between the skin’s surface, so that charges, like free-radicals can easily flush out of the body.

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Moreover, in a healthy living body, there is harmonious charge transfer between cells, but when injury occurs the harmonious exchange of electrons is off-set (Oschman, 2009). Good news is, walking barefoot outdoors restores the balance of electron transfer by instantaneously creating a charge density gradient that facilitates charge diffusion. Its also noteworthy to suggest that footwear, namely with excessive underfoot cushioning, would exaggerate free-radical production and therefore inflammation by causing the feet to be physically and sensorially disconnected from the earth, thus preventing the earth’s fresh free-electrons from both improving degenerating cells and flushing out free-radicals that alter tissue functions.

The Take Home Message

The mounting confirming facts on the endless health benefits of barefoot earthing is making the picture clearer: connecting via barefoot to the earth creates a thriving current that produces remarkable restorative effects on the body. 

Last but not least, it’s more immediately apparent that running barefoot verifiably makes you run with better form and efficiency in running shoes! Read more here on that!

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References:

Bassett, C.A.L., 1968. Biologic significance of piezoelectricity. Calcified Tissue Research 1, 252–272.

Bassett, C.A.L., 1995. Bioelectromagnetics in the service of medicine. In: Blank, M. (Ed.), Electromagnetic Fields: Biological Interactions and Mechanisms. Advances in Chemistry Series, vol. 250. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, pp. 261–275.

Chevalier, G., Mori, K., 2008. The effect of earthing on human physiology. Part 2: electrodermal measurements. Submitted for publication.

Chevalier, G., Mori, K., Oschman, J.L., 2006. The effect of earthing (grounding) on human physiology. European Biology and Bioelectromagnetics (January 31), 600–621.

Langevin, H.M., 2006. Connective tissue: a body-wide signaling network. Medical Hypotheses 66, 1074–1077.

Oschman, JL. Charge transfer in the living matrix. J Bodywork Mov Ther, 2009, 13, 215-228.

Oschman, J.L., 2007. Can electrons act as antioxidants? A review and commentary. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 13 (9), 955–967.

Oschman, J.L., 2008a. Perspective: assume a spherical cow: the role of free or mobile electrons in bodywork, energetic and movement therapies. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies 12, 40–57.
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