Ben Greenfield

best equipped to operate with a slightly negative charge on the inside of the cell and a slightly positive charge on the outside of the cell.

standing on an earthy and grounding mat in my office like an hour ago, and now I'm walking around outside.

You know, I will have lunch later on today, and my salad will have some wild mint and nettle on it from the forest, but with my smoothie this morning, I had a handful of antioxidant capsules that are the same thing in a modern day format.

And because of that, you're basically one giant battery.

And there are great books about this like

The Body Electric by Robert Becker or Healing is Voltage by Jerry Tennant.

And those are books, and I get into this in my book Boundless as well, that describe how nearly every element of human metabolism relies upon the proper charging of that battery, the proper negative charge on the inside of the cell and positive charge on the outside of the cell.

So that's kind of an example of what I mean by the marriage of ancestor wisdom and modern science, or having a little bit of both in your life.

Well, if that battery becomes drained, then you start to suffer from poor sleep, impaired metabolism and fat loss, poor recovery, brain fog and impaired mental function, and even an increased risk of developing chronic diseases, such as heart disease, for example.

I'm so glad you brought this up because it really ties into some of the examples I was giving you about sunlight and earthing and grounding and fresh water and supplements and things like that when we were talking about ancestral wisdom versus modern science.

Anybody who's studied the heart in high school biology knows we have these things called pacemaker cells.

That's another good example of biology being a battery.

So here's the concept.

Your cells are...

What is it that would cause the negative interior of the cell to become more positive?

best equipped to operate with a slightly negative charge on the inside of the cell, and a slightly positive charge on the outside of the cell.

Well, a few examples would be poor hydration, even down to consuming foods that don't have a lot of water in them, like ultra-processed packaged foods out of crinkly containers.

And because of that, you're basically one giant battery.

And there are great books about this, like,

The Body Electric by Robert Becker or Healing is Voltage by Jerry Tennant.