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Re: Research: Comprehensive guideline on using biomarkers for monitoring Crohn's disease

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On Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 11:27:58 AM UTC-5, Mel wrote:
> On Friday, November 17, 2023 at 4:19:50 PM UTC-8, Luke Luke wrote: 

> Thanks-- 
> sort of off topic. My son has crohns and isn't doing well. My wife has RA and I have psoriasis. In desperation, we tried something mentioned on a psoriasis site--a grounding mat. Basically, it's a rubber mat plugged into only the ground hole of an electric outlet. It seems to work--not a cure, but definitely lessens the problems. When I told this to my dermatologist, he rolled his eyes--as you are probably also doing. It might be worth trying for others.

Hi Mel,

Nah, its a weird world. So I did a little searching and found very little evidence for it, but there are some people checking it out.

Its still an outlier but this article is presenting some hypothesis to describe what is going on.
 Journal of Inflammation Research - 2015
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378297/
Journal (open access): https://www.dovepress.com/the-effects-of-grounding-earthing-on-inflammation-the-immune-response--peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JIR
The effects of grounding (earthing) on inflammation, the immune response, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases
(Some of the photos shows wounds)

But the next article I found, in Explore, had this gem: "Earthing (grounding) connects people to the Earth's natural healing energy." And I stopped reading.

So it looks like some people are studying it and others are making absurd claims.

But, if it works for you, it works. I'm glad you found something that helps.

Take care,

--
Luke

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Research: Comprehensive guideline on using biomarkers for monitoring Crohn's disease Luke Luke <zumone2002@protonmail.com> - 2023-11-17 16:19 -0800
  Re: Research: Comprehensive guideline on using biomarkers for monitoring Crohn's disease Mel <melvynnc@gmail.com> - 2023-11-18 08:27 -0800
    Re: Research: Comprehensive guideline on using biomarkers for monitoring Crohn's disease Luke Luke <zumone2002@protonmail.com> - 2023-11-19 09:21 -0800
      Re: Research: Comprehensive guideline on using biomarkers for monitoring Crohn's disease Mel <melvynnc@gmail.com> - 2023-11-20 07:39 -0800
        Re: Research: Comprehensive guideline on using biomarkers for monitoring Crohn's disease Luke Luke <zumone2002@protonmail.com> - 2024-01-03 09:40 -0800

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