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Ok sure.. but. Let's say you eat tuna every day for two months. You're likely to build up a significant amount of mercury in your body to the point where it's c

Ok sure.. but. Let's say you eat tuna every day for two months. You're likely to build up a significant amount of mercury in your body to the point where it's causing oxidative stress and antagonizing most major organ systems in your body. Are you going to notice that? Maybe your body will over the period of two months start to require maybe 15 more minutes of sleep to help cope with the new level of cellular burden it's experiencing. Are you realistically likely to be able to point to this subjectively? All of these actions we take as part of our lifestyle have a profound effect on our physiology on the macro level; but we're not likely to notice any single factor's contribution in isolation.

vorpalhex 4y ago
Do you ever shower or bathe? Do you touch the faucet handle when doing so? Congrats - you just grounded yourself. Reset right back to neutral. If you want to test this go shuffle across carpet in your socks for a hot minute and then touch the faucet.
- nikkwong 4y ago
  No argument from me; but I think the debate around this research is focused on what the biological effects are when one undergoes a prolonged period of grounding; i.e. for 8 hours during sleep, or several hours during the day, rather than for momentary periods.
  - airbreather 4y ago
    But the whole point is grounding is relative, and this context just refers to a body with larger volume than you that can absorb your charge (if there is a difference) with relatively little change. It is assumed that body has a balance of negative and positive charges, but not necessarily, because the purpose of "grounding" in any practical sense is to equalise the charge between two objects so there is no potential difference so the will be no current flow. All sorts of BS arguments then start emerging, "but what about if the outside of your body is +ve and inside is -ve ?", Well where does the energy for that come from? Or do you have a little charge daemon in there splitting out charges and pushing them to the exterior? I've heard them all and they are all BS from people that understand little to nothing about charge and electricity. Would love to be proven wrong by someone that did, because that would mean I would learn something, maybe something very interesting, but still waiting.
mistrial9 4y ago
mercury is a bad example since it is lifetime-accumulative .. my reaction to this discussion is that not enough regard is held for odd or extreme living conditions, but that the subject is actually as most critics say.. contact with water, water bodies and cool earth in some way are trivially common for a vast majority of people.. Now, working with computers specifically adds a source .. but doesnt change the above..
- nikkwong 4y ago
  Mercury does accumulate in the body but I was more pointing out that serum mercury levels can fluctuate greatly in a relatively short period. My mom eats a ton of that tuna from costco and had blood levels far above the reference range; which dropped into the reference range 4 months after consumption cessation. She saunas and exercises; so that may have something to do with it. I agree mercury is a bad example for the reason because the actual levels of mercury burden an individual carries can be nuanced (serum + housed into organs etc). I'm not sure I follow your final sentence.
  - manmal 4y ago
    Mercury just settles down inside cells (the parts that are not eliminated), where it’s hard to detect without using a chelator. Serum levels are not a good indicator in the long term.

vorpalhex 4y ago

Do you ever shower or bathe? Do you touch the faucet handle when doing so? Congrats - you just grounded yourself. Reset right back to neutral. If you want to test this go shuffle across carpet in your socks for a hot minute and then touch the faucet.

nikkwong 4y ago
No argument from me; but I think the debate around this research is focused on what the biological effects are when one undergoes a prolonged period of grounding; i.e. for 8 hours during sleep, or several hours during the day, rather than for momentary periods.
- airbreather 4y ago
  But the whole point is grounding is relative, and this context just refers to a body with larger volume than you that can absorb your charge (if there is a difference) with relatively little change. It is assumed that body has a balance of negative and positive charges, but not necessarily, because the purpose of "grounding" in any practical sense is to equalise the charge between two objects so there is no potential difference so the will be no current flow. All sorts of BS arguments then start emerging, "but what about if the outside of your body is +ve and inside is -ve ?", Well where does the energy for that come from? Or do you have a little charge daemon in there splitting out charges and pushing them to the exterior? I've heard them all and they are all BS from people that understand little to nothing about charge and electricity. Would love to be proven wrong by someone that did, because that would mean I would learn something, maybe something very interesting, but still waiting.

mistrial9 4y ago

mercury is a bad example since it is lifetime-accumulative .. my reaction to this discussion is that not enough regard is held for odd or extreme living conditions, but that the subject is actually as most critics say.. contact with water, water bodies and cool earth in some way are trivially common for a vast majority of people.. Now, working with computers specifically adds a source .. but doesnt change the above..

nikkwong 4y ago
Mercury does accumulate in the body but I was more pointing out that serum mercury levels can fluctuate greatly in a relatively short period. My mom eats a ton of that tuna from costco and had blood levels far above the reference range; which dropped into the reference range 4 months after consumption cessation. She saunas and exercises; so that may have something to do with it. I agree mercury is a bad example for the reason because the actual levels of mercury burden an individual carries can be nuanced (serum + housed into organs etc). I'm not sure I follow your final sentence.
- manmal 4y ago
  Mercury just settles down inside cells (the parts that are not eliminated), where it’s hard to detect without using a chelator. Serum levels are not a good indicator in the long term.