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Introducing some of the leading voices in nutrition and lifestyle medicine, from practitioners to professors and everyone in between. This podcast will share with you their stories, expertise and advice. The aim is to provide you with simple tips and tricks to help improve your health.
#72 Dr Gaétan Chevalier - Grounding: The Science-Backed Benefits Of Connecting Yourself To The Earth
The Functional Health Podcast
1 hour 4 minutes 36 seconds
1 year ago
#72 Dr Gaétan Chevalier - Grounding: The Science-Backed Benefits Of Connecting Yourself To The Earth
Dr. Gaetan Chevalier is an engineering physicist, professor, author, and research scientist in the fields of fusion and plasma physics, biophotons, biofield, and electrophysiology. He received his PhD in Engineering Physics from the University of Montreal Polytechnic School with specializations in atomic physics and laser spectroscopy. He then spent four years researching plasma physics and nuclear fusion at UCLA and then served as a professor at the California Institute for Human Science (CIHS).
Dr. Chevalier is currently on the research faculty at CIHS, a visiting scholar in the Department of Family Medicine & Public Health in the School of Medicine at UC San Diego, Director of the Earthing Institute, and Research Director at Psy-Tek.
It was incredible to speak to him and learn about the science backed benefits of grounding yourself to the earth. Something I once thought complete bunkum!
In this fascinating episode we discuss:
What is grounding or earthing
How does grounding work
Why does grounding benefit health
What conditions can grounding help with
Practical ways to get the benefits of grounding in your every day life
https://earthinginstitute.net/research/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shinrin-Yoku-Art-Science-Forest-Bathing/dp/0241346959
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earthing-Most-Important-Health-Discovery/dp/1591203740
https://groundingofficial.com/
The Functional Health Podcast
Introducing some of the leading voices in nutrition and lifestyle medicine, from practitioners to professors and everyone in between. This podcast will share with you their stories, expertise and advice. The aim is to provide you with simple tips and tricks to help improve your health.