About Clint Ober

Earthing product Inventor & Grounding Pioneer

For more than 20 years, Clint Ober has dedicated his life to improving the health of everyone on earth.

In 1998, after a successful career grounding systems in the cable television industry, Earthing pioneer Clint Ober began investigating the potential to improve human health with grounding.

Today, he is the founder of Earth FX Inc., a grounding research and development company based in California through which he helped to develop, and patent, the first indoor Earthing products.

Earthing® and Ground Therapy® are sold by Clint’s companies on this website, www.Earthing.com, and also on Amazon.com and via other select authorized retailers. His products are used by millions of people every day around the globe to improve their quality of life.

It began in nature…

Clint grew up on a farm in Montana where daily life existed in balance with Mother Nature. His childhood days were spent chasing cows, baling hay, and walking the long rows of beets and beans pulling weeds while barefoot.

Of this time, Clint notes, “Everything was about the Earth.” Many of Clint’s friends were from the Native American reservation. He noticed that most things they did were different from what he was told was “normal.”

One time, his friend’s mother told him to remove his shoes when they got home from school. “They will make you sick,” she said.

Clint vividly remembers when the sister of his friend became very ill with a bad case of scarlet fever. Her grandfather dug a pit in the ground and placed her in it. He built a fire near the pit and sat nearby. The girl stayed there for a few days and then arose, much better.

It was only later in life that Clint realized that everything his friends’ parents did was based on a much greater knowledge of Nature than he was ever taught.

The future was in the ground

In the early 1960s , Clint moved to the “big city” and was hired for a position in the fledgling cable television industry. He quickly realized that cable was the future of television and enthusiastically dove into learning all aspects of the business. He organized marketing campaigns, climbed poles, drilled holes, sunk ground rods, and ran the wire to install cable systems in many homes throughout Montana.

After a few years, Clint was hired as the National Director of Marketing for a Denver company that quickly grew to become the largest cable television company in the U.S. (It was eventually acquired by AT&T.)

In 1972, Clint started his own business that specialized in developing cable television systems, as well as broadcast television and microwave communication properties. It soon became the largest provider of cable television marketing and installation services in the country, installing cable in millions of homes. In an age before the internet,

Clint helped pioneer the first-ever cable modem and distribution through personal computers of news reports from news agencies around the world. He was closely involved in the early development of programming and marketing for the cable and telecommunications industries, working with the top visionaries who created Cable News Network (CNN), Home Box Office (HBO), and other major cable networks.

Clint was successful in every way possible, until 1993 when his health crumbled.

Searching for his purpose

Clint developed a serious abscess that compromised 80% of his liver. As the infection spread throughout most of his body, all of the doctors suggested he put his affairs in order, except one.

A young surgeon mentioned there could be a tiny chance of survival if Clint tried an experimental surgery to remove most of his damaged liver. With nothing to lose, Clint agreed and amazingly, 28 days after surgery he walked out of the hospital to go home.

When he left the hospital, Clint sold his house. He sold his business to his employees and gave all of his artwork to his children. Then, he bought an RV, filled it with a few necessities, and hit the road. He spent the next few years traveling and trying to figure out what his new purpose was in life. He had a sense there was something he was waiting for that just hadn’t revealed itself yet.

The answer began with shoes

One day in 1998, Clint was sitting on a park bench in Sedona watching a passing parade of tourists go by. Clint looked at their shoes and he realized that people from all over the world were wearing running shoes with thick rubber or plastic soles. He mused that all these people were insulated from the ground (himself included) and the electrical surface charge beneath their feet. He started thinking about static electricity and wondered if being insulated like that could have some effect on health. This was the moment that changed everything.

Clint thought back to his years in television and cable. Before there was cable, there was a lot of “flecks” or “white noise” or “snow lines” that interfered with the television picture. It’s the same as the radio interference crackle and pop that happens when you’re driving in or near a power line. To stop this interference, the cable companies ground and shield the entire cable system in every home to prevent extraneous electromagnetic signals and fields from interfering with the transmission carried through the cable. This not only provides the viewer with a perfect picture, it prevents the signals from within the cable system from disturbing police radio or TV station transmissions.

The ‘Friend Tests’

One of his friends reported back, “You know, something is going on here. My arthritis pain is way down.”

Clint realized his chronic pain had improved too. He had completely stopped taking pain pills to make it through the day and to sleep through the night.

After grounding half a dozen people, with all of them reporting better sleep and pain reduction, Clint was starting to get excited. He didn’t understand the exact biology behind what it meant yet, but he knew that when the body wasn’t in contact with the earth it was being bombarded with electromagnetic fields and static electricity, and when it was grounded to the earth, it wasn’t.

He was starting to wonder if just like cable wires, when the human body wasn’t grounded, if its internal circuitry was being disturbed.

In search of information

Clint started searching for information about grounding and health and didn’t find much. There were a few anecdotal stories about Native Americans that were folklorish in nature and some information about barefoot enthusiast societies. He found considerable information about electrostatic discharge and how people working on computer components and electronic chips had to be grounded in order not to damage any of the components electrically, but it didn’t link anything to the health of the person doing the work. He consulted with a few electronics experts to ensure that sleeping “Earthed” as he was starting to call it was safe, and was reassured that it was.

After coming to the conclusion that no one - in modern day - had researched the grounding/health connection, Clint started reaching out to the scientific community. No one took him seriously and his enthusiasm was always met by blank stares of indifference, laughter, or a negative response. Clint drove out to California in search of a University to back a grounded study.

After repeated rejections, Clint decided to fund his own study to get the ball rolling. After a successful anecdotal study of 60 subjects was published in 2000, a retired anesthesiologist in Southern California who was interested in electric field research, stepped up and said he’d like to prove Clint wrong. The first pilot study was conducted and instead of Clint being proved wrong, he was validated.

The science of Earthing

Since that time, 22 peer-reviewed research studies have been conducted showing the positive effects grounding has on the human body.

Recognizing that most people are unable to go back to living like their ancestors did (walking barefoot, sleeping on the ground, and being outside most of the day and night) Clint developed indoor grounding products to connect everyone back to the earth’s electrons.

Clint has made it his mission to spread the message of grounding to everyone on earth. To date, he has grounded more than one million people.

The ungrounded state is neither normal nor natural, nor the way that humans lived throughout most of history

Clint Ober

Clint’s Message To You

After years of observing the effect of Earthing on people, I know with absolute certainty that most everything going on in the body is different when you’re not grounded, when you are disconnected from the Earth, like most people today.

The way to live is to be connected to the Earth - grounded as much as possible − because being connected is like pulling a switch that enables your body to function more naturally and efficiently. Your body works electrically. You are a bioelectric being and you need connection with your natural electric source — the Earth’s electric energy. It establishes the most natural state of your electric body. It nourishes every cell.

Earthing can be life-changing. It is one of the most simple and important things you can do for your health, and probably the easiest lifestyle change you can make in your lifetime.
My message is very simple: get grounded, and stay grounded for a lifetime.

Clint Ober

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