Grounding

The claim is that direct skin contact with the earth changes inflammation, sleep or pain. The published literature is small, frequently unblinded, runs to a few dozen participants at most, and a striking share of it comes from a connected group of authors with commercial ties. No large independent randomised trial exists. Read what follows as the state of a thin field, not as a verdict.

Reviewed 2026-09-20

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How this list was built

We searched Europe PMC for English-language papers published since 2005 whose title contains “earthing”, kept meta-analyses, systematic reviews and trials, including non-randomised ones, because strong evidence on this topic is scarce, then ranked them by study design first, then recency and citations. Retracted papers are removed.

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