If you go to the disclosures statement at the bottom of the article, you'll learn that one of the authors on this paper—Gaetan Chevalier (a cell biology prof at

If you go to the disclosures statement at the bottom of the article, you'll learn that one of the authors on this paper—Gaetan Chevalier (a cell biology prof at UC Irvine)—has a financial interest in promoting grounding. His contributions make up a notable percentage of the published literature on grounding, maybe 10-20%? There are not many publications on the topic, since I assume there is a relatively weak level of financial incentive, and it reeks of pseudoscience. After some digging I have found papers of higher scientific veracity pointing to grounding being useful in reducing inflammation and potentially improving sleep quality. I remember seeing a meta-review come out in 2018-2020 which concluded that there is a warm-level of evidence pointing to a health-promoting effect of grounding on the human body. Some of the papers that met the inclusion criteria I think were assessed to have low quality of evidence, though. I don't have a strong enough background in science to know who's right here, but I do have sleep problems so I try to do everything I can to improve it. So I do ground my bed and the space near my keyboard so that I spend a decent amount of the day grounded; and I also consider it to be a completely effortless proposition with possibly a positive contribution to my health. Or, in the worst-case scenario, there's no benefit and I wasted maybe $10 on the copper wiring that I used to DIY it together. If I were a betting man my guess is that I will eventually throw this setup away when the science ends up being properly debunked; but I'm open to potentially investing more when the evidence becomes stronger.