Grounding: Hype or Healing?
The practice is purported to beat inflammation, pain, stress and more.
By Anna Medaris Miller, Staff Writer |Nov. 3, 2017, at 10:36 a.m.
Grounding: Hype or Healing?
A few years ago, Eileen Day McKusick and her husband began sleeping as far apart from each other as possible on their king-sized bed. Their marriage wasn't the problem; McKusick's hot flashes were. Since her husband had always had a warmer body, the added heat became too much, remembers McKusick, 49, a researcher and author in Burlington, Vermont, who had also developed hot, itchy rashes on the bottoms of her feet.
She tried smearing her feet with topical creams and changing her diet, but nothing helped. "My feet got so bad they actually started getting welts," McKusick says. She began wearing leather moccasins since none of her other shoes fit or were comfortable anymore. "The moccasin look is not the look I want," she says. "It was a bit of a hurdle to get over that fashion statement."
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