Health from the Ground Up




PALEO JAY Smoothie Cafe show

Summary: <p class="p1">I hope you have heard of grounding.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is quite crucial to health, and yet almost unknown to most people, even those of the paleo persuasion.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It may sound ‘out there’ to you if you’ve never heard of it, but trust me, it is quite real, and can make a huge difference in your health, both physical and mental!</p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p1">We are electrical creatures- our various bodily functions happen with electrical connections and stimulus.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Our hearts are functional only through electrical stimulus, as our all of our other circuitry in the body- especially, the brain is complicated memory circuit, and when off-kilter, it can go into dementia, Parkinson’s, and other mood and regulatory problems.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is as if your brain is ‘shorting out’.</p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p1">The main wake up call of most of the paleo/ancestral lifestyle is to <strong>bring us back to basics!<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></strong>When we started making plastic and rubber soles to our footwear, we cut ourselves off from the <em>grounding </em>of contacting mother earth.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>This, along with the fact that most of us started living unnatural, cut-off from nature kinds of jobs, sitting at climate controlled desks, barely moving throughout our days- well, we are just asking for trouble, evolutionarily speaking.</p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p1">Just as we need to get vitamin D by getting out in the sun, and exercising daily, along with walking in Nature to keep our sanity and health- we need to be in regular contact with the earth, with the planet, by actually <em>grounding ourselves to the actual soil itself.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></em>Barefoot walking and running, on the earth, grass, or sand accomplishes this very well in Spring, Summer and Fall- but what about here in the north country, when snow and ice cover the ground?</p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p1">It’s actually easy to fix this problem, even in Winter.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If you wear leather soled shoes, boots, or moccasins, you are grounded every time you are outside.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>But such footwear is actually very uncommon nowadays, although you can find it if you look online for <em>grounding </em>or <em>earthing shoes.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></em>It tends to be pricey, though, and you definitely won’t find it at Wal-Mart! </p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p1">Here is an easy work around: today, for instance, I hiked around my woods with ski poles on the snow.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Although my shoes were not earthing shoes, every time a planted my ski poles, I was grounded- again and again and again!<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>And you can also ground yourself easily from time to time, simply by grasping a tree trunk.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Or a pole in the ground, whatever.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Or, if you have a concrete floored basement, walking barefoot on that can accomplish the same thing.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It’s not that hard, but it is super important, whatever anyone else tells you.</p><br> <p class="p2"> </p><br> <p class="p1">Most of humanity today, at least in western countries, are completely cut off from contact with the earth!<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They wear plastic-soled shoes constantly, live in totally artificial man-made environments, and also eat grains and sugars almost exclusively, along with grain fed/sick animal products.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Even the nutrients to feed their food are from unnatural </p>