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This company says electrical grounding will improve your sleep and health
- noonespecial 17y agoI know this is just spam but what a marvelously bad idea! Its just as useless as magnets and crystals but with the added benefit of helping that faulty wire in your alarm clock to kill you! Don't get me started on the people who will combine this with their electric blanket on that cold winter morning. Up next, sticking nails in your nose while you jog helps to prevent iron deficiencies...
- arnoooooo 17y agoActually this is not spam, I have nothing to do with the company and genuinely wanted the opinion of people on HN about it. I'll agree that it really sounds like snake oil, but I thought the idea was interesting nonetheless. Regarding safety concerns, the products are not directly connected to the ground. EDIT: spelling
- noonespecial 17y agoRegarding safety concerns, the products are not directly connected to the ground. Ahh. Then I find the claims that this product makes completely ungrounded.
- arnoooooo 17y agoThey have links (as always) to a few supposedly scientific studies on the matter, one of them suggesting an effect against oxidation. I don't really understand how grounding would help against that, I would even think that it would make things worse if anything. It does make some sense though that we might have adapted through evolution to being grounded, with our ancestors walking barefoot and everything... EDIT : one of the studies : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15650465 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15650465