Using an earthing or grounding mat? Did you know it can actually make your exposure to alternating current electric fields worse? I'll demonstrate how this works, and how you can avoid it.
Can´t you just turn off the electricity of the plug you´re going to use to ground the mat? When I do it, the EMF and EF of the plug go down so I suppose it would solve the issue?
Gauss is a unit of magnetic field, not electric field. However it appears that you are measuring electric field so calling this device a gauss meter is inconsistent. Furthermore, the fact that the EF is increasing near the mat when the mat is grounded does not mean that the mat is not at earth potential. It could also be caused by a nearby conductor or appliance that is at a higher potential. An electric field is established when a potential difference exists between two conductors. So the only conclusion is that there is a potential difference.
Hey George, in my experience, these meters are colloquially referred to as gauss meters as they usually measure both components of a low freq wave, electric and magnetic. These mats do represent an earth potential, and so are an appealing path to ground for the radiated emf from electrical flow in circuits and appliances nearby. If your body is on one, then you are likely increasing your body voltage with pulsed electric fields. biologically harmful, and not as safe as being barefoot on the earth.
@@optimaldwellingspaces3947 I understand about the meter colloquial name - point taken. However, grounding the mat to the house electrical ground (or for that matter to any good isolated ground installed outside the house) could increase the electric field at the location you are measuring it. This is because the electric field between two conducting bodies increases proportionally with the potential difference between the two conducting bodies. For example, if there are energized power wires in the wall behind the sofa, (typically reaching a peak voltage of 170 Volts), a fraction of that voltage will be induced on an ungrounded conductive mat placed on the sofa. Now if you connect the mat to any good ground, its voltage becomes zero, resulting in a higher potential difference between the mat and the power wires, and consequently, a larger electric field between the mat and the power wires. So my point is that the fact that your observe that the eclectic field increases when you connect the mat to the house ground, does not mean that the house ground is somehow bad or dangerous. It simply does its job of zeroing out the mat potential. So if you are concerned about exposure to electric fields, you should avoid sitting on a grounded mat, whether it is grounded to the house power ground or to any other ground. An effective way to minimize electric field exposure is to enclose yourself in a conductive cage, and have no energized wires penetrating into the cage (this is known as a Faraday cage).
I think this absolutely makes sense. When I first tried my earthing mat, I literally felt energy draining from my body, and then felt uncomfortable vibrations, pins and needles in hands and feet, etc. Turns out this is especially a problem in older homes, where sometimes the home isn't even grounded at all. Now my mat is grounded outside. Feeling a big difference.
Appreciate the feedback. That's a good point about ungrounded sockets...you may think the mat wouldn't work at all in that type of plug, for better or worse, on account of no ground wire. BUT, the mat is conductive and will still attract the radiated AC electric fields from the wall wiring
I live in a seconed story apartment. I made a home made canopy around my bed and I want to ground it outside my window DIY. Can you tell me exaclty step by step a list of what materials to get at home depot and how to install the ground and the safest way to go about doing it and where to put it? I'm new to this so it would really mean a lot. Thank you 🙏
I think you may have missed the point here. It is true that the outlet ground when plugged into produces EMF, which would otherwise travel through your body to create a greater potential difference, but only IF you don't sit on/touch the grounding mat. Once touched, the grounding mat acts as a sink for all that residual and generated EMF. Our body's potential difference is always insane given the EMF fields in our homes. Hence the need for these mats. And hence why measuring body voltage before and after using the mat it's so important. The only difference between plugging it in the ground in your outlet and using a rod in soil is the new EMF produced. But much of the body voltage difference produced by that EMF is drained through the mat. How is that dangerousm Let me know if you have a counter argument. Thanks.
I slept on the grounding bedsheets on Thursday went out of town for an event stay in the hotel for annual event in Wisconsin Friday Saturday came back Sunday. Slept on the bed I was awake multiple times again same thing as Thursday feeling kind of a weirdness of energy first time I slept on my stomach, which I never knew because I just could not feel comfortable and I was wondering what your opinion is on this? We did use a tester in the plug-in outlet and when we plugged it into the outlet seem to be functioning good my husband says he’s not having any issues but I’m usually the grounded one so we both try to walk outside with bare feet when we can sometimes even in the winter, I will do it, I’m a Capricorn sign which is ground sign kundalini which I did last Wednesday anyways I’m telling you all this because I just don’t know what to do. I felt terrible. I think I woke up maybe 11 times last night. So maybe my body will get used.
I can only slightly understand what you've argued haha but so, your opinion is that it's fine, right? I want to buy a grounding sheet but I live in an apartment building. I am wondering if I should be more or less worried 😅
Well, I do not understand your argument. The claim that the EM-field would suddenly vanish if you were to sit at the place where it's located is just not making sense at all. EM-fields are not even responsible for our potential difference to earth. You're totally confusing EM-fields with electrostatic fields.
Does grounding in a high EMF environment mean a lot of EMF passes through you when connected to ground? I heard 2 opposite theories. If true, wouldn't that mean being barefoot outside is dangerous as well? I assume it's false, since an antenna connected to ground is not an antenna.
I don't understand your measurement. You said the meter is a gauss meter. A gauss meter measures magnetic flux density in such units as gauss or tesla or webers per square meter. But then when you read the meter, you gave the units as volts per meter. Those are not the units of magnetic flux, but rather the units of electric field strength. Furthermore, what is wrong with an electric field strength of 73 V/m. On a fair weather day at ground level outside, electric field strength is typically 130 V/m and under a thunder cloud, the direction of the electric field is reversed and it can be more than 10,000 V/m. Does anyone ever notice it? No, people have been living with those phenomena for millennia.
many gauss meters also measure AC electric fields, as this one does in this video. This is an indoor environment tracking the electric fields from the manmade electric power grid.
I think your right about this. My friend was a "line Man' and I can remember him talking about "dirty Ground" but I didnt understand it till I watched the video and read the comments. I now have a copper pipe in the dirt connected by an alligator clip to my plug in prong wire from the Matt. Clean ground and moist. thanks for the video.
be careful. neither electrical ground or soil ground are clean. We return 80% of current through the soil in this country. So you've got voltage pressure, current flows and microsurge electrical pollution in the soil. It's less when you are further out of cities and suburbia, but still there in some amount.
Hi and thanks for the video. is it possible to use a cable that only has DC current. So you are ONLY grounded? I have googled something known as a " PureGround" cord that claims to have only beneficial benefits from grounding (no AC current can travel through it apparently. I have no idea though i'm not an electrician.) And i feel i don't fully understand grounding. I thought when you are grounded, you are connected to the earth. And are fully protected from all AC/EMFs. But from what i've read in the comments, you now become an antenna for EMF's to discharge there electrons into? Which is the opposite of what grounding is meant to do? (please correct me if i'm understanding this wrong). Thanks so much for the video and i appreciate any response!
This is how grounding is done. With a cable that will not conduct the AC current of the power plug. Otherwise you'd be dead. What appears to be the case here is that the nearby electromagnetic field of the power plug induces the free charges in the cable to oscillate, creating a weak AC current which in turn creates the EM field at the location of the mat. Grounding does NOT shield you from EM fields. Grounding takes the electrostatic potential of your body to earth potential. Avoiding EM fields is an additional issue which should be taken into account.
It can certainly happen. But a direct earth connection will ‘drain’ the fields away without mingling with the home electrical dirt. Ultimately the Best way to ground is to go outside w bare feet avoiding a mat altogether. You’ll get natural light and fresh air too.
@@optimaldwellingspaces3947 Unless you have potential snow six months out of the year. I am in Michigan. It’s just now getting to be 40s outside. Our snow has been gone for about a week. I went out in my bare feet yesterday I could barely stay in there a minute. It was so cold. It felt like my feet were on ice cubes.
I did the exact same test at my house and my radiation meter didn't read anything from my wall socket ground. My house was build in 2000. Perhaps your home is wired differently? Am I good to go? or am I missing something? I used an EMF metter and also a Gauss (Radiation) meter. Them EMF was pretty much zeor. And the Radiation meter (same as yours) was only 0.2, barely even registering a sound.
I’m measuring AC electric fields in volts per meter in this video, what were you measuring? Magnetic or electric? You would also need to measure current with a clamp meter that can go down to micro amps to really know if it was low enough. But i can almost guarantee it wouldn’t be.
Gauss is measured by taking the surface integral over an electric field of a surface. A large metal mat will capture a larger more emf than a small one or a cable.
Isn't electricity drawn to ground? So if you are grounding yourself in a strong electrical field all the electricity around you will be drawn to you like a magnet. Couldn't that explain why the reading is higher when the mat is plugged in. It's not electricity coming off the mat, it's the electricity in the air being drawn to and concentrated toward the mat. Please tell me if I'm wrong about this. I'm of the belief that one should only ground yourself in a very low electrical field setting. Like a room with all the power turned off, or outside away from power lines. A good test would be if you turned off the circuit breaker to that room, so there's no electricity in that room, then plug into the ground and see if there's an electrical field on or around the mat.
Yes, that’s exactly what is happening. So if your body is connected to the mat, you become a part of the energy ‘highway’ going to the earth (zero voltage) and your body exposure goes up to AC energy.
@@jaysimpson6857 yea. Absolutely.. but definitely worth understanding. My point of view is that our bioelectromagnetic field helps us to shield from muons coming from outer space, by grounding we enhance body’s charges movement - ie magnetic field. That should deviate harmful muons and protect DNA . But that’s only an idea.. I’m not a physicist, the reality is much more complex and muons get slowed too and this create some other scattering phenomenae and I haven’t found any literature or performed and experiment about it.. yea.. it’s getting confusing
22 year union electrician here, and you are absolutely correct. It's inductance from the hot and neutral, which are in the same cable sheath as the safety/equipmentground. Isolated ground to a dedicated ground rod is the only remedy, unless one fancies lymphoma for example.
@Optimal Dwelling Spaces yeah idk exactly what to do about that though. To help, I have a metal bedframe that also has a separate isolated ground wire (to the same rod though). That has less resistance than my silver bedsheet, and it's isolated from the frame (no continuity between frame and sheet). Hoping ambient emf's drain through the frame instead of through me by doing this. Do you think this will help? I don't have a gauss meter, and you might know more than me.
I would definitely test the ac electric fields on your bed with that setup. Metal can passively reradiate RF from cell towers and wifi. Best to get a wood frame with as little metal as possible
Interesting info but the video does not show you testing the outlet itself to see if it is properly configured. Grounding mat companies I use recommend first testing the outlets to confirm they are wired correctly. I've checked all my outlets and they checked out fine; however, a surge protector/power strip I have did not so I'm making sure to never use it.
Thanks for asking. Most homes I see have something on the ground conductors. That’s why it’s best to avoid this as your connection for a ground mat, using the earth instead
Wow! So glad I found your evidence based results of radiation using an AC ground! I was sleeping with an earthing mat plugged into a properly grounded AC outlet. I woke up in the middle of the night with my heart slightly fluttering. This alarmed me so much that I stopped using the grounding mat. I live in a higher floor apartment so it is not possible for me to use a true outside grounded wire. So if I ever use a grounding mat again, I will surely use a separate physical grounding rod and wire and not the AC ground. Now I know why my heart was slightly fluttering. Scary!!!😳
I haven’t read all the comments to see if this has been asked and answered. Have you tested your outlets to make sure they are actually grounded. Just because the ground plug is there doesn’t mean it’s connected to anything. More likely in older homes. I personally prefer direct contact and walk barefoot as much as possible. I notice a big difference health wise, strength wise. I have not tried earthing mats yet. Also…I watched another video that mentions some connectors having insulators in them, completely defeating the purpose and being unhealthy/counterproductive. Could this be in yours?
I was wondering if pluging into a wall socket , was problematic in any way . But i did not have a emf meter , so thanks mate , very good advice for folks to know :) .
I live in a seconed story apartment. I made a home made canopy around my bed and I want to ground it outside my window DIY. Can you tell me exaclty step by step a list of what materials to get at home depot and how to install the ground and the safest way to go about doing it and where to put it? I'm new to this so it would really mean a lot. Thank you 🙏
it's really surprising that you would see 7 volts (actually volts, not millivolts!!) when you unplugged... how? did your grounding mat accumulated a bunch of electricity?
You can solve the problem from your own electric meter by isolating the sockets so that it does not pass electric runs. This is what I do with my Grounding sheet.
Nice job pointing out the problem with using a power socket, I think using the earth in a socket is a very bad idea. It's true that the earth connection in the socket is wired back to the earthing stake of the house electrical system, however in the fuseboard the earth is also connected to the Neutral line. The neutral comes from the local transformer in your street (along with the Live wire). So by connecting to the earth in the power socket you are also connected to the local transformer and the 30 or so other houses that the transformer supplies. So whatever your neighbours are up to is coming into your mat, it's not very organic! Your own separate Earth connection in or on the ground is preferable. If you are showing voltage in the socket earth terminal then you may have a faulty appliance or light fitting in the house and a poor earth connection in the house system.
I live in a 1974 hi-rise, of a 28 story building on 10th fl, so can't do my own earth ground cable out the window. Someone said to put a bolt into the concrete, but I thought about this, & the metal conduit runs thru the concrete floor/ceiling slabs back to the panal. I wonder about the copper water pipe but I bet its not fully insulated from touching the slab & runs thru metal studs that are attached to the ceiling/floor slabs....is there a test I can do?????? Grounding/Earthing seemed to be a good idea in my situation of never getting grounded outside due too bad health & confinement to my apt, now I'm learning about all the EMF/EMR & tons of WiFi of my healthy neighbors, probably attributing to my cascade of health problems in a viscous cycle. Looks like there is not a good solution.....other than shielding the crap out of this place from everyone's signals or wearing the shielded clothing & hope for a Christmas Miracle!
@@chrispompano Hi. The concrete structure of your building will be grounded as it is embedded into the Earth at the base. Touching the bare concrete in your apartment is the same as touching a concrete slab on the ground, which provides grounding. Is their an area of exposed concrete floor that you can put your feet on ?.
So I got out my DVOM, set to mV A/C D/C. Connected to outlet ground terminal, holding the pos. probe & feet on a carpet mat sitting in a chair = 373mV A/C. Touching ceramic tile floor was 80mV, but then doing it again it went OVERVOLTAGE when touch the floor! Do I have faulty wireing, or cold this be intermittent EMF, WIFI or neighbors since every 3 floors are on the same transformer - 24 apts. Now, I have a bare spot of paint on a metal door frame screwed into or touching the concrete slab.... Neg probe on door frame & holding pos probe: touching standing on tile floor is 22mV, standing are carpet mat is 56mV. I'm also within 3' of my electrical panal in my kitchen. What do you think???? I have to really relearn about electricity & how this all applies to EMF & To Ground or Not To Ground Myself!
@@optimaldwellingspaces3947Hi, I’m confused between pemf, amethyst & all the different types of mats. If it’s potentially dangerous to plug these knto the wall, what would you recommend for people living in a condo or apartment complex where it’s not feasible to ground outdoors (connect outside to a rod(?) If you could kindly recommend something simple (I’m adhd & not great @ understanding this type of thing lol Anyway thank you for your time & I appreciate coming across your channel, new subbie❤
Nah this is how Gauss works. Its just the surface integral over an electric field and the area of the mat. A matt will capture emf in the area which in populated areas is always high.
How long of a grounding rod do you need? 1 foot, 8 feet? I seen on Amazon a 1 foot rod with a cord attached to the rod. You push it in the ground outside your window. Bring the cord in through the window and on the other end was the snap to connect the mat.
the longer the better, after awhile the rod builds up additional resistance to the soil. you can pour salt on the rod to increase conductivity or when you're working outside just pee on the rod, no joke.
I'm sure you've checked, but are your sockets earthed? Not all mine are. Also you can use it without turning the socket on. Does that affect the readings I wonder?
Arent heaters grounded as well? I have a heater in my room, whick is connected to a copper pipe which is not painter. This copper pipe should be connected to the whole heating system in the house, which should be grounded.
The levels you're mentioning do exceed typical exposure guidelines for residential settings. Let's break this down: 1. **Guideline Levels**: - The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) provides guidelines for exposure to electric fields. For the general public, the ICNIRP guideline suggests an exposure limit of 5,000 volts per meter (V/m) for low-frequency fields (50-60 Hz). - However, certain more conservative guidelines, like those from the Building Biology Institute, recommend much lower levels for a healthy living environment. The Building Biology guideline suggests that an electric field exposure of less than 1.5 V/m is ideal for sleeping areas. 2. **Measurements in Your Home**: - **25 V/m (when connected)**: This is significantly higher than the 1.5 V/m recommended by more conservative guidelines but still much lower than the ICNIRP's general public limit. It indicates the grounding mat is picking up and possibly amplifying the electric fields from household wiring. - **8 V/m (when disconnected)**: This is still above the 1.5 V/m level but much lower than when the mat is connected. It shows a substantial reduction in exposure when the mat is not plugged in. 3. **Interpretation**: - **25 V/m**: While this is higher than the conservative guidelines for sleeping areas, it is still considered safe by broader international standards (like ICNIRP). However, for those particularly sensitive to EMFs or aiming for the lowest possible exposure, this might be considered high. - **8 V/m**: This is a moderate level of exposure, higher than the ideal but lower than what the mat generates when connected. It's still within a range that many would consider reasonably safe, though not optimal by conservative standards. In summary, the 25 V/m level when the mat is connected is higher than the conservative guidelines but not considered dangerously high by broader international standards. The 8 V/m level is more moderate. If you're aiming for minimal exposure, you might consider using the mat unplugged or finding alternative ways to ground it directly to the earth outside, bypassing the electrical system in your home.
any leakage to earth would trip my house RCB so I am not sure this shows anything apart from a magnetic field induced in the mat from electrical wiring/equipment
I don't have this issue with my grounding bed sheet. Doesn't have the slightest influence on the EMF when plugged into the ground connection of the power plug. However I have weirdly high RF fields in my sleeping room despite the lack of any obvious sources. It seems like standing waves peaking at certain location on the wall and in mid air. However in my nearby living room levels are fine. The WLAN basically doesn't do anything unless I'm close to it or a device. Ideas what it could be?
I have a proper earthed socket with an Emf detector. Of course you don't switch it on when the grounding mat is plugged in. But Why don't I get high readings then? But also to counter, I have two whole nights experience of using the grounding mat and having extreme uncomfortable body sensations the next morning. I am still figuring this out.
the electrical ground in your home is not clean from voltage pressure and current. Having grounded wiring in your walls will help with radiated AC electric fields, compared to ungrounded wiring, but neither would be healthy to plug a ground mat into.
What are the negative side using grounding rod? Do we have to not use it when rain in case of lightning strike? Or other problem perhaps? How can we overcome this problem?
Don't bother. This guy's entire channel is just to trick people into buying fake products that will "protect" them from some sort of woowoo magic in the air, because electricity grr bad
Why has plugging my earthing mat into my wall worked so well for me then? Measurable improvements in my health since I've started using the product. Not placebo. Please explain?
you may underestimate the placebo effect. placebo effect doesn't mean the results aren't real. the placebo effect means it was just your perception of the supposed healing mechanism and your mental and emotional wellbeing from that perception that caused the healing, not the mechanism itself which may or may not even be real.
Hello :) I just bought a grounding well mat and I am reading all these comments and I am just so confused and now kind of worried. From all these comment, now I don't understand how to properly use it and I live on a 4th floor in an apartment building. So, how do I use it safely and what do I need to do, how to set it up? Please explain!! It would be so greatly appreciated.🙏
Hey Shane! So, I used a TriField Meter to measure the Electricity coming from my grounding mat when plugged in. When unplugged it was at zero, plugged in at 2. Is 2 a dangerous amount of electricity? I do feel a buzzing in my body when lying on it. I’m assuming that’s electricity and not grounding.
I was going to get a grounding mat on Black Friday but am I understanding correctly? And so you're saying not to get one because plugging it in could be more harmful? You may be saving me a bit of money. Thank You.
Two weeks ago I got a grounding mat, an outlet tester and an EMF meter. I tested the outlet and the mat with the meter, the EMF reds were between 1 and 2 on both of them. The outlet is property grounded, per the outlet tester. I've been using the mat daily, I feel great. So, I don't get this video.
Was the plug on? In the UK we are able to turn the plug off and still have the earthing effect. The earth is part of the plug that goes into the plug socket.
@@optimaldwellingspaces3947 Hi I asked and Earthing Person and they said. First of all, he claims that the increase in EMFs he measured is due to the fact that the mat is plugged into a wall socket and that is bad. In fact it has nothing to do with the wall socket. The result would have been the same if the mat was plugged directly to a stainless steel rod planted in the ground outside. The effect he showed is simply that when the grounding mat is plugged in, it gets the electrons from the earth to help the mat become more reflecting of EMFs than when it is not plugged in. It acts more like a mirror reflecting light. Because the EMFs are reflected by the mat of course the result is an increase in EMFs close to the mat. That is perfectly expected and normal for all grounding mats no matter if they are connected directly to the ground using a ground rod or using a normally functioning power outlet. Best Regards, Gaétan Chevalier, Ph.D., Director, Earthing Institute
for me it is not possible to ground the mat into the earth - i live in 3rd floor and no garden ground near by.. is it possible to clip the mat to the heating element? in germany those run with hot water and should all be grounded - or is there an issue about it as well?
This has confirmed what I felt intuitively about plugging into the AC outlet. In Clint Ober’s original experiments he was running a wire from his bed outside to a metal rod (as you suggested)
I live in a seconed story apartment. I made a home made canopy around my bed and I want to ground it outside my window DIY. Can you tell me exaclty step by step a list of what materials to get at home depot and how to install the ground and the safest way to go about doing it and where to put it? I'm new to this so it would really mean a lot. Thank you 🙏
@@alexzemaitis I'm curious about your use of the word "canopy" because it sounds as though it doesn't make contact with your body. While that might reduce the amount of EMR/EMF in your bedroom it won't get you the benefits of grounding unless you are able to touch the grounding wire. As far as the rod for outside, Home Depot has 8 foot copper grounding rods for about $20.
@@daniellmiller I made a faraday canopy to go around my bed and connects to an aluminum Matt underneath so fully enclosed but I need to ground it so it's not building a charge. I'm new to this so first I want to know if I should make a diy outlet plug to ground it to or should I ground it to a gorunding rod outside my apartment window. Second can you please tell me in steps what materials, clamps, wires etc that I'll need and how to assemble? Most importantly how should I go about doing this safley so I don't get shocked? Any advice means a lot 🙏
@@alexzemaitis I don't want to hijack somebody else's channel but you can find all the info you're looking for on RU-vid by doing a pointed search. There are multiple videos out there that answer your questions. I can tell you that Home Depot sells either stranded or solid copper wire that can be used as grounding wire.
Thank you for the info. Would you please be able to create a video or respond to this comment with a potential workaround for the grounding mat/sheets if we are unable to ground outdoors during the winter season.
getting outside, even in winter, has a number of benefits beyond grounding. You don't need to put bare feet on the ground if it is too cold. Put your bare hand on a tree.
Under these conditions and for the intended purpose, I do not submit to being in contact with a ground point that is shared with other ground points, under any pretext. This requires a fully dedicated ground connection and I don't think anyone would think that this represents overkill in terms of security.
Thank you. This was very informative. Ideally, walking barefoot outside is best, but often not feasible. I would definitely prefer a grounding rod outside, but again, for me, not possible, so the ground outlet indoors is all I can do, especially since we have multiple mats. I frequently test the mats with a continuity tester and test myself/ourselves with a multimeter, finding a very significant drop, close to zero, in the voltage reading. I held the end of a cell phone charger and the meter read close to 50! I stepped on the grounding mat, and it dropped to around 4.5, so a significant drop, but still high. This has been quite a learning experience for me. In general, the mats do work, and I have heard many testimonies of healing and overall improvement in health, so it is very encouraging. Thank you again for this info, it is most appreciated.
Please elaborate on this. Why when the voltage drops it is not a good indicator you are grounded? Are you saying you can be grounded but still be exposed to emfs? What if my socket tester tells me that my socket is grounded? It does not make a difference? Thank you
This item does the exact opposite of what the seller advise it to do. After my first usage I felt very different (in a bad way) only to find out that when plugged to the ground socket, as instructed by product description, the whole body start to act like an antenna, picking up all of the electromagnetic field radiation. This is very bad for your health. It's sold as a health product, but in reality what it does is destroy your health. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z-fGC-KsRGg.htmlsi=2LKH4SGzTU29OK0t
WOW! Thank you for this information, as I was just about to place an order for some grounding mats for me and my mom. Question, if I chose to use a copper rod placed in the ground outside and a terrible lightning storm came, what are the chances of it striking a copper rod? These storms are getting more intense these days so is lightning striking a copper rod placed in the ground something to worry about? Thanks in advance for any responses!
I always wonder about this as well. I understand that grounding potential always causes current to seek the quickest path to ground which would mean you would always see that current moving away but there are other phenomena involved that I find less clear to understand. High-end earthing products have safety diodes that are supposed to prevent this possibility and will provide a tester to verify the diode is operational.
Regardless, the grounding mat still seems to be beneficial since it lowers your body’s voltage (proven when tested via multimeter). Isn’t that what matters?
To me, what matters most is that people understand the differences between grounding via the electrical grid, and via their skin to the soil. They're not the same. And if the AC voltage increases with a mat, as shown in the video, then one's body voltage will increase as well. This is not a smart move for health, in my opinion.
@@optimaldwellingspaces3947 I recently tested a grounding mat connected to a wall outlet. When my skin was touching the mat, my body’s voltage went to .00V after being around .2/.3V without touching the mat. At the end of the day, I’m sure having the mat grounded from the outside is more ideal, however I’ve noticed benefits with a grounding mat plugged into a wall. If your body’s voltage is .00V, then it seems as though you’re all set according to my observation.
@@Marko.4.222 thank you fir letting us know your reading. I live in Michigan. So I am unable to go outside to ground myself on the bare ground close to six months out of the year. End it would be difficult to put a grounding rod in the ground digging through inches of snow at times.
I was using the outlet with my sheet at home, and could feel a light tingly sensation. I lived in a apartment complex. I bought a rod because I was going camping. I didn't feel that tingly sensation anymore, so I got curious about the differences between the two and came across this topic of dirty electricity! Glad I found it and will use my rod from now on at home.
@@susanrupp9357 the rod stakes into the ground and attaches to a thin wire that you have to run into your house through a window or hole and plug it into the mat
Thanks for the just on time ground report, I'm set to replace my old mat with a couple new ones. I myself was Leary of the grounding in my home and I wasn't about to spend bucks on a gauss meter. I already have a copper 6' grounding rod I use now, so I assume I could hook 2 mats on the one rod. Problem with that is the mats won't be portable as I'll have to solder them to the button hookup.
@@optimaldwellingspaces3947 I'm using a small alligator clip right now but it comes off sometimes, but I just realized I could just cut off the button end of the outlet cords that come with mats. In other words just cut off the ground end and use those for the cords. Thanks for responding.
Where are your grounding rods? Upstairs or what, I hear people travelling a wire up the house through window, gotta be easier way. Sorry not well versed in electronics
@@curt6525 one 6' grounding rod in ground outdoors good size bare copper wire running through the wall to my bed. Now after getting a big-time T-storm the other night..... I'm thinkin what if a lightning bolt hits my inground rod... I'm toast!
I live in a seconed story apartment. I made a home made canopy around my bed and I want to ground it outside my window DIY. Can you tell me exaclty step by step a list of what materials to get at home depot and how to install the ground and the safest way to go about doing it and where to put it? I'm new to this so it would really mean a lot. Thank you 🙏
you are right about the gauss reading. but if you touch the mat with any part of your body, the reading goes to zero which means very little to zero voltage on your body. you said it's the current that matters not the voltage. would .6 MICRO Amps (reading on the mat with my body connected) be bad for your body?
You're talking about a different meter, a multimeter, which people commonly use to 'test' a grounding mat. If the voltage reading on it goes to zero it simply means the two probes are at the same electric potential. If your mat is plugged into the wall (electric power grid), then you've put yourself at 120V. Humans have no business being at a 120V AC electrical potential. People misunderstand this all the time. Now if you are reading current, not voltage, I wouldn't trust any amount of AC current, even 0.6 microamps.
Thanks for posting this, very informative! Went out and bought an EMF reader to see myself after I had this tingling sensation in my legs (and after sleeping horribly) while using my grounding mat. Do you know how this relates to body voltage? I see a lot of these companies preform this "test" with a multimeter that shows how your body voltage decreases when using the product. I did this test as well, and was able to see mine drop to zero... but at the same time my mat is reading like 70 v/m with my EMF meter? Is it possible to have both of these things happen at the same time?
Yes, body voltage is useful in looking at voltage potential differences and looking at AC electric fields will show you the other side of the coin, radiated EMF from charged circuits nearby. You could have felt that tingling sensation from electric fields or micro amps of current on the ground. Glad you are doing some testing
I just bought an expensive full mattress cover to ground. I live in a very cold country and I'm on the 28th floor of a brand new fancy building... do you think whatever they used to build this building last year will be better than what materials/setup was used in your home? How can I best test my outlets for safety for grounding? Get one of those readers you have from somewhere and just use it once? Do I need more than just one device to check or just the one you used?
If you use a grounded outlet kill switch to turn “off” the outlet when using a grounding mat, does it reduce this problem? I know nothing about electricity but my whole family uses grounding mats! I guess I was too trusting. 😞
What about outlets electrical outlets that won't work just by plugging say, a lamp, into the but the lamp won't come on simply but switching it on at its switch, but you have to also flip a switch on the wall? Can anybody answer that? I have this set-up.
Hi Shane, thanks for posting this video. I see you are using a carbon rubber mat/sheet. I am curious if this type of material is immune to picking up high frequency EMFs from wifi and other sources, as is the case with the silver and other metallic materials? Did you do any testing on this? Thanks.
Anything conductive can become an antenna for RF…even a grounding mat or shielding canopy. The closer the thing is to your body the more of a concern this effect is.
@@optimaldwellingspaces3947 Thanks for the reply! It would be worthwhile if high frequency influences could be tested with different earthing materials. One thing is direct electrical conductivity, another is interference with background radiation. How would you go about testing this? Are you aware of anyone who did this kind of testing of Earthing materials? Thanks.
@optimaldwellingspaces3947 Thank you for answering this. I was wondering why my husband and I still felt weird while using our mat even though we have it running through a seperate rod outside in the the ground, not through our outlet. I wasn't sure if the nearby underground powerlines could be the problem. This makes more sense.
For some reason when i do the oitside rod, i get headaches almost instantly and dont feel good, but with it connected to wall socket i get the benefit. Could it be that the side of the house that my room is in has the breaker box , and ac unit right next to it.
Inductance from the hot and neutral, which are in the same cable sheath as the safety/equipmentground. Isolated ground to a dedicated ground rod is the only remedy.
Yes they make for a good earth connection but unfortunately that’s why the electrical can bond to them too. They’re generally not any safer than a wall plug. Test the pipe with a clamp meter under various load conditions in your house- washer/dryer, oven, furnace, AC running and see if you have current.
@@DTMFJeff yes current will take any and all available paths, but at issue here is the radiated AC electric component from the nearby electrically charged circuits and appliances/tech. that type of EMF will seek a lower voltage ground point than the 120V it operates on, so the mat (and you if you are on it) become an appealing place to do that.
Grounding is said to remove the free radicals from the body by taking in the electrons from the earth upon contact, thus balancing the charge in the body, and helping with inflammation etc. This is definitely true, when standing on the ground with bare feet. It is healing generally. The grounding devices are supposed to mimic this by making body contact with the device, eg. Bedsheet with silver threads, and then plugging the device to the grounding hole in the 3 prong electrical wall outlet. The grounding hole is connected to th eearth via the water copper pipe or something that goes into the ground. This is technically very sound and will work. However, the problem occurs if there is a current jump from the live wires to the grounding wires. If there is a short, then you could get electrocuted. This is unlikely, since the electrical system in the house would detect such short circuit and blow the fuse. However, the undetectable problem is that there is some induced current from the live wires to the grounding wire, and this “live” current gets into your body very subtly. This is not theoretical, because this happened to me and took 2 years to figure it out. I had above described bedsheet plugged into the grounding wall outlet 10 years ago. After a few months I noticed “pin pricks” under the skin coming from the inside. It started in the arms, and spread through the body. Sometimes it was just annoying and at times painful. It would happen few time a day or dozen times per hour. My doctor did all kind of tests, but no clue. He figured it was some kind of nerve related disease and put me on various medication. I never made connection to the bedsheet. Two year later, one night I woke up with severe pinpricks in my right thigh, and instinctively I pulled out the plug, and instantly the pin pricks stopped. I stopped using the bedsheet and within a few weeks, these pin pricks were completely gone. There’s no doubt these were related to the bedsheet, and I talked to an electrical engineer at work, and he said this can happen, they call it dirty electricity, and that is induced or jumps from the live wires (through air) to the nearby ground wires of the devices. If one does want to use the conductive bedsheet, the grounding wire should be taken and connected directly into the earth via a cable. No house electrical system should be involved. In any event, there is not much substantial solid medical evidence of the efficacy of the grounding for any particular ailments or the mechanics of how this healing is effected.
With this video, are you saying that grounding mats (that plug into the wall) are actively harmful for your health, or just not as good as grounding barefoot on the earth? Asking for myself.
@@optimaldwellingspaces3947 I have grounding sheets with a continuity tester. Do I need a different device to measure if this is working/harmful? I just got the sheets and hate the idea I may be doing the opposite of what I’m aiming for.
I cannot sleep. I keep waking up in the middle of the night more than I usually do only slept on the grounding sheets two nights went and stayed in the hotel after the first night and slept better. Not sure what to do. I used the tool to check to see if the outlet was OK for the bedsheets, but the grounding sheets seem to be causing me issues. I’m not sure if it’s just because it’s trying to ground me, but I do ground exercises my whole life. I am a Capricorn and I walk on the earth with bare feet actually just did this morning at 7 AM, so I also do work Reiki and MoaKi Shiatsu ; any suggestions should I keep trying it for awhile?
Its a hard ground, probably 14AWG or 12AWG copper. There should not be any electrical inductance going on like I said its a hard ground. Now if it was floating, that may be different, but even if it floats its alongside a circuit and perhaps only 500ma near it. Inductance ? I say no. But if you said digital noise, then maybe. If its close to a dimmer or an RF, VHF, UHF or GHz then maybe.
