Negative ions attach to pollutants and allergens with a positive charge; they even remove bacteria and viruses from the air.

In nature, the best sources of negative ions are areas where water molecules crash and gain their negative charge by losing electrons; this includes waterfalls, rivers, and areas where water evaporates, like forests and beaches, and also during thunderstorms and rain. If you have ever noticed that feeling of freshness in the air after the storm, it is because of negative ions.

But spending hours in nature, traveling to visit the biggest waterfalls, dancing in the rain, or surrounding ourselves with dozens of green plants for each room is not an option for everyone, even though it sounds like an ideal scenario. Spencer Feldman has a solution for everyone!

Podcast 386: Grounding, Negative Ions, and Electrons – Part 1:

Martin: Hi everybody! This is Martin Pytela for the Life Enthusiast online network, on TV and radio! With me today is Spencer Feldman, the founder and chief technologist at Remedy Link. But today we are not talking so much about chemical, medical, plant-based tools, instead, let’s get into the world of electrons. I don’t dare to call it electromedicine, which you probably shouldn’t be… Hey, Spencer, what do you want to say about this?

Spencer: Hi Martin! So have you ever heard of grounding or earthing?

Martin: I certainly have and I practice it. And of course, grounding is the universal source of electrons for us human beings. Electrons are the source of the electric charge, the lack of which causes acidity and the abundance of which causes alkalinity, or at least balance. You want to say something about that, right?

Spencer: So, electrons come from the sun through the solar wind, they hit our atmosphere, lightning takes them down to the Earth, and then they are in the ground. And we are designed to absorb electricity from the Earth, from our food, and from the air. The recent renaissance in grounding or earthing, which for viewers who don’t know what that is, it is basically running a metal wire or cable from the ground to wherever you’re working or sleeping so that you are getting the equivalent as if you were barefoot on the ground. Well, I started doing this type of grounding a couple of years ago and it was very interesting, you know, it provides a sense of calm. I can’t say I noticed anything physically, but it was nice. And then I came across a bit of information. It said that the voltage drops a hundred volts for every foot you are above the ground.

Now, I was raised in New York City on the 8th floor, each floor was 10 feet high, so 8 floors means 80 feet above the ground. 80 feet x 100 volts, which meant I was living at 8,000 volts positive. Electrons were being pulled out of me with 8,000 volts of force. I also know that if you walk across a carpet, it can create a spark when you touch a doorknob that’s at least 7,000 volts positive, which I could do where I was living. So I was raised at around 15,000 volts positive. That meant all the time I was up in that apartment walking on the carpet, electrons were being pulled out of my body with a force of 15,000 volts, minimum.

Martin: Yeah, it was discharging, stealing the power. I just want to make that point really clear. Chemically speaking, an electron taken away is oxidation, and an electron donated is reduction or antioxidation. And it also has to do with pH. Acidity is an electron taken away. Alkalinity is an electron given. So what you’re talking about there is that you are constantly donating electrons to the space around you,