A New Health and Healing Frontier
The Earthing Institute is a nonprofit research and education organization focused on understanding how direct physical connection with the Earth influences inflammation, nervous system regulation, and human health. Chronic inflammation underlies many of today’s most costly and debilitating conditions. Over more than two decades, peer-reviewed research has explored grounding as a low-cost, non-invasive intervention with measurable physiological effects. The Institute exists to advance rigorous research, curate credible scientific findings, and responsibly educate the public and health professionals worldwide.
A Message from our President
As a researcher involved primarily with the physics of electricity and the body’s electrophysiology (how the body produces and utilizes electrical energy), I find it amazing that at this point in the human timeline we are just starting to explore the Earth as a remarkable resource for health and healing.
Past cultures put great emphasis on connectedness with the Earth, a relationship still honored by many indigenous people today. To what extent this connection was recognized as a healing factor among past cultures is not a subject that has been studied. Now, finally, science is exploring the dynamics and benefits of this connection.
The studies I have been involved with have yielded an intriguing picture of what happens when we connect to the Earth. In short, it’s as if the body noticed that familiar and usually missing connection, and, in response, starts using the energy and information from the Earth to localize itself in time and space and to use that energy to repair itself and function more efficiently.
The studies conducted to date – more than 40 as of 2026 – strongly suggest a distinct, positive, and rapid shift in the physiology that may one day give rise to whole new definitions of what is normal. The research continues. We have so much more to learn. We welcome your questions and feedback. Feel free to contact us.
Gaétan Chevalier, Ph.D. President, Earthing Institute
