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152 // Can grounding help your Hashimoto's? [Hashimoto's Health Lab] · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast. Our summer series is the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  This series is going to be 10-minute episodes.
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  Every week, we'll talk about a specific tool or practice. We're going to cover
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  everything from environmental detox to stress reduction, energy boosters,
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  biohacks, and all of it is going to be designed to give you tools for better
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  health with Hashimoto's.
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  I'm your host, Esther Yunkin. I'm a registered nurse helping women uncover their
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  root causes and regain energy.
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  So these episodes are going to be short. If you are ready for a deeper transformation,
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  check out the Holistic Hashimoto's course. It will help you identify your unique
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  triggers and root causes so that you can focus your own energy on what really
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  matters for your health.
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  Are you ready to explore a new strategy for thriving with Hashimoto's?
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  Let's dive in. This is the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  When you were a kid, or maybe even as an adult, You blew up a balloon,
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  rubbed it on your head, made your hair stand on end, and then you touched somebody
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  to release all of that electrical energy and shock them, right?
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  You know exactly what I'm talking about. I think we have all done that.
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  We've been on the giving and receiving end.
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  Well, today's tool that we're going to talk about relates to that.
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  And I admit that the first time I heard about it, I was like, what is this weirdness?
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  But there is really good research behind it. And there's more and more stuff coming out,
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  like real science, but also tons and tons of stories of people using this tool
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  for better health. This tool has a couple names.
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  Number one is earthing and the other is grounding. They both mean the same thing.
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  It's basically go touch grass. It is getting physically connected together.
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  With the Earth's surface to restore electrical balance.
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  And there's a lot of things in our modern world that kind of insulate us from
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  the Earth's electricity.
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  Think of it like when you walk outside barefoot, like you're constantly kind
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  of getting a shock of the balloon,
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  constantly making sure that your electrons or whatever are not built up too much,
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  like you're equalizing with the earth but when
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  we're walking on shoes that have insulating material
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  like rubber when we live in an urban environment
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  like concrete asphalt all these surfaces are
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  not as conductive and then you live in up above like you know high-rise buildings
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  way up in an apartment anytime that you're indoors you're insulated there are
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  so many things that insulate us from the earth's natural electrical charge.
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  And this is just normal to us. And that is why the first time I learned about
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  this, I was like, this is weird.
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  Why do we need to go touch grass? Why do we need to be in contact with the earth's surface?
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  But let me tell you some benefits from grounding or earthing.
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  And all this is, is direct skin contact or contact through natural fibers.
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  Like you know, linen or cotton, I'm not talking polyester, I'm not talking about
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  plastics, natural fibers, or skin on ground.
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  These are some of the benefits that happen. And this could be anywhere from
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  five minutes to 30 minutes of earthing or grounding.
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  It can also be cumulative. So like you go out every day for some grounding,
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  and you're going to notice these benefits.
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  And they range from improved sleep quality.
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  And I don't know why, I don't have the hows and whys for each of these.
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  There is research and there's anecdotes for all of these.
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  But improved sleep quality, this has something to do with your cortisol levels.
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  And of course, cortisol is your stress hormone.
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  A lot of people who practice grounding and their research around it notices reduced inflammation.
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  This is huge when you have an autoimmune condition.
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  We want to regulate our inflammation. We want to get inflammation down because
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  inflammation in your body drives your immune system to go crazy, to be overreactive,
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  to attack what it doesn't need to attack.
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  We want to lower inflammation and grounding is a completely free way to do that.
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  Also, people who practice grounding or earthing experience decreased stress and anxiety.
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  Again, going back to that cortisol, there's other ways too that grounding works.
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  It somehow balances the autonomic nervous system. It reduces cortisol.
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  A lot of people notice improved mood, improved emotional well-being.
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  This could be related to serotonin levels.
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  Again, grounding is just like crazy. We don't see or feel electrons, usually.
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  Obviously, if somebody rubs a balloon on their head and shocks you,
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  you're going to feel it. But usually, we don't feel it.
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  Back in chemistry or biology, science, whatever science class that was back in high school.
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  Did you have one of those big electric balls?
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  I don't know what they're called. And the whole class makes a chain and the
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  first person touches the ball and then there's this whole chain of people.
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  Nobody feels anything because you touch the ball and then the teacher turns
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  on this electron producing ball.
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  Nobody feels anything, but all of a sudden everybody's hair starts to rise.
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  And then the one person in the class who wasn't connected to the big chain of
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  people comes to the end of this chain of people, and that last person reaches
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  out a finger and shocks them.
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  Every single person in the line feels that shock.
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  I don't know about the health of that, but I mean, I experienced it. I don't know about you.
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  A lot of science classes do it. You don't feel the electricity build up.
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  The same thing when you are going out and walking barefoot on the sand.
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  You're walking in the beach. You're swimming in a lake.
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  You are in contact with with the natural earth you don't feel the transfer of
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  electricity to get everything normalized again.
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  But it's happening. All right, so we talked about improved sleep quality, reduced inflammation.
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  Decreased stress and anxiety, enhanced mood, also pain reduction,
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  especially for people who have chronic pain going outside and sitting on the
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  grass for five to 10 minutes every single morning,
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  especially first thing in the morning, where you can also get the early morning sunlight.
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  They find they have reduced pain.
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  People have better blood flow, and this is also related to your blood viscosity.
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  So if you have problems clotting, this could be something that you incorporate
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  into your tools in addition to your blood clotting medications.
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  People find that they recover faster, they have increased energy,
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  and this grounding could modulate or help your immune system function better. It's a lot of things.
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  And grounding is completely free. But what if you, like me, live in a climate
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  where you can't go outside for half of the year.
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  I'm not going to go outside barefoot when it is below freezing or for sure below zero.
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  Just it's not going to happen. In the summer, yes, I try to go outside every day.
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  I have been sitting outside in the mornings with one of our outdoor cats.
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  He comes and climbs up on my lap and then I get the benefits and the feel-good
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  hormones of an animal like happy and purring on my lap too.
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  You know, multiple benefits. so in the summer yes
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  I can go outside grounding maybe you live in a place where
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  it's too hot in the summer so then what do you do well they have
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  grounding sheets and this mimics the same things because you plug it into just
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  the grounding port of your outlet so you have three little prongs on the outlet
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  one of them is just grounding it just is to connect to the earth's surface or
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  the Earth's electricity.
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  And that's what grounding sheets do all night long. You are...
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  Equalizing with the electricity of the earth. And again, I know that this all sounds so crazy.
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  I understand that. It also has some research behind it and lots and lots of anecdotes.
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  The results of people who use grounding sheets, it mimics the same things I just went over.
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  Enhanced sleep quality, reduced inflammation, lowered stress,
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  pain relief, improved mood,
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  better blood circulation, faster post-exercise recovery, improve energy levels,
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  better immune system, and convenience for the weather or if you live in the city.
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  Now, I will say the grounding sheets are not free.
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  Going outside on the ground, absolutely free. The grounding sheets are usually
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  around $200 and some people swear by them.
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  They feel like they've noticed a significant difference in energy and recovery.
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  One person said that they realized for a week they were feeling groggy and sore
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  every morning, and they found that their grounding sheets were not plugged in.
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  Once they reconnected it, they felt better again.
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  One of my friends had a bad experience with grounding sheets, and she felt jittery.
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  She felt like things were not right.
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  You are bio-individual. There is nobody else on earth exactly like you.
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  And that is why in everything, in all of my programs, in all of my courses,
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  I teach you to take control of your own health.
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  Because I'm going to give you a lot of tools over the summer,
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  where we talk about 13 different tools, and only you get to figure out,
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  is this going to work for me? Part of that is knowing your root causes.
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  If you have not gone through the Holistic Hashimoto's course,
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  or at minimum, the Hashimoto's Decoded Root Causes revealed,
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  do that today because that will help you figure out which of these tools are
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  most applicable for you and that will be most helpful.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any changes with your trusted healthcare provider.
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  To take your next step, join our school community and explore the courses available there.
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  You do not have to figure your health out alone.
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  So that is school, S-K-O-O-L.com, and it is the Health with Hashimoto's community.
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  I'll see you next time on the Health.