Earth & Immune Series, Part II - Thermography
Thermography gives us a clean way to observe inflammation. It works by detecting infrared radiation from the skin’s surface and converting that into a visual map of temperature. Warmer areas often signal increased metabolic activity, usually a marker of inflammation. When you see hot spots in a thermogram, you're looking at a localized immune response in real time. Inflammation is, by design, hot. That’s what happens when blood flow increases and cellular metabolism ramps up in response to stress or injury.
We’ve touched on this topic in detail across Earth & Heart and Earth & Mind, so if you’re interested in that I’d recommend checking out those posts or in E&W.
Dr. William Amalu used medical thermography to track the effects of grounding on inflammation. Participants either slept on grounding sheets with conductive fibers or received clinical grounding using adhesive electrode patches. Both systems connected to the Earth via a ground rod. Thermograms were taken before and after a period of consistent grounding.
What the thermograms showed was consistent: hot, inflamed regions cooled down. The bright reds and yellows faded. The thermal noise (essentially, the chaotic signature of an inflamed system) settled. What emerged was a visual marker of reduced stress on the body.
This is a measurable change. Thermography makes the invisible visible. It shows how grounding attenuates the immune system's overreaction by modulating inflammation at the surface and, by implication, deeper within the tissue.
This doc’s results confirm what’s happening electrically. Grounding stabilizes charge. It discharges built-up voltages in the body that may be contributing to runaway immune activity. The result is less inflammation, less heat, more order.
As always, if you’re interested in learning more about grounding, check out Earth & Water.
Reference:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e9938c6832e5e77f479da57/t/5fdb704ec70d2641e56048b4/1608216657065/thermographycasehistories2004.pdf
