Grounding Sheets

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Grounding Sheets - do they really work?

It's perhaps the most-requested product in Sliced Bread history but is there any real science behind grounding (or 'earthing') sheets? The claims made for them are wide and varied - from reducing inflammation and pain, to helping with sleep. How do they do this? Proponents say grounding sheets connect you to the Earth's own electrical field and dissipate electrical charges in your body, built up though everyday activities like wearing rubber-soled trainers. Prices of grounding sheets vary from ?30 to ?150.

Listener Alison is thinking of buying one and wants to know if it could ease pain and help her sleep better. She joins Greg in the studio along with two experts for a deep-dive into the science to find out whether grounding sheets are the best thing since sliced bread - or marketing BS.

We are looking for more of YOUR suggestions of products to investigate. If you?ve seen an ad, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, email us at [email protected] OR send a voice note to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807

PRESENTER: GREG FOOT

PRODUCERS: SIMON HOBAN AND PHIL SANSOM

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0:47.5	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates the wonder products promising to make you happier, healthier or greener.
0:54.8	Each episode, I run one of your suggested wonder products through the evidence mill to find out if is indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS. And today I'm joined in the studio by Alison Denton from Cambridgeshire. Hello, Alison.
1:04.5	Hi, Greg. Thank you so much for coming in. Tell us the wonder product that you would like us to
1:09.1	investigate today then. I've been reading about grounding mats and grounding bed sheets.
1:14.4	These are plug-in pads which claim to connect you to the Earth's energy
1:18.6	and thereby improve blood flow, reduce inflammation, improve sleep and reduce stress.
1:24.4	When you scroll down the reviews, they are endlessly positive. So please,
1:29.1	would you look into them for me? Absolutely. This may be one of our most requested topics of all
1:34.9	time. We get emails, I'd say pretty much daily, sent into sliced.dbread at BBC.co.com
1:40.0	at UK asking us to investigate the variety of grounding products you've just introduced, bed sheets, mats, things you clip onto your shoes. Have you seen those?
1:48.5	No. I will come on to those. So here's one of those emails from Jennifer Bradley, who says, I have tried to look and I found a couple of papers online with what looked like convincing results on wound healing, inflammation and
2:03.3	cortisol levels. But as this was only two publications, it is hard to get a true handle on
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