I do not use or recommend anyone use a grounding mat in their infrared sauna in most people’s environments.
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Alright, so I wanted to make a video.
A lot of people have asked this question and I said I would answer it but it’s been a long, long time.
And I wanted to have some test data to really substantiate what I’m about to say.
People ask all the time, “Matt, can I just put a grounding mat in the sauna and then I don’t have to worry about the EMFs?”
Because everyone knows that if you ground yourself out in nature or in the grass or whatever, RF radiation and electric fields and things like that, they’re not as impactful to the body when you can maintain a grounded position like that.
The problem with grounding yourself in a sauna, let’s just say right off the bat, I’m just going to come out and say it.
Most of the infrared saunas that you guys are using that have never been modified or they’re never shielded from electric fields or anything like that, you never ever, ever, ever want to use a grounding mat or a grounding strap.
I had one just a second ago, it’s what reminded me to make the video.
You never ever, ever want to use a grounding strap or a grounding mat or any type of grounding device in a typical infrared sauna.
And here’s why.
When you ground yourself in an environment like that, that has EMF, that has electric fields, you are becoming the conductor when you do that.
So if you’re in close, let’s just say you’re in an infrared sauna and here’s the wall.
Your body is in close proximity with that.
We can take an electric field meter and go up next to it and measure exactly how much is present.
Your body is subjected to that and if you are grounding yourself, you will become the conductor for whatever is present.
Whatever point of body contact is, that is now going to flow through you and you’ll become the conductor.
Now some people get away with this if they’re in a sauna that is already low EMF.
And I hate it when people say this because low EMF means a lot of things to a lot of different people.
Or I’m saying it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
Usually in the infrared sauna world, when people say a sauna is low EMF or that they have a low EMF sauna, they just mean that they have a sauna that doesn’t have any magnetic fields in it or low magnetic fields.
And different standards are all over the place.
Ideally, you want this to be below 1-2 mGauss in my opinion.
I don’t really like anything over 1.5.
Some diehards out there are like really into anything under 0.75 mGauss or whatever.
Whatever your tolerance is for that.
But the point is, not everyone is checking for RF radiation.
No one is checking for electric fields.
Hardly anyone is checking body voltage.
Everyone just checks magnetic fields.
Well it could be one of the four.
So if you really want a true low EMF sauna, you need to be checking and thinking about these other things.
In relation to grounding, I would say the number one thing that’s most important for that is electric fields because you don’t want to become the conduit that is of the least resistance and that’s what you’re doing.
So from my testing, when I get in my sauna and I ground myself, obviously body voltage drops to zero if I’m grounding myself improperly and there’s electric fields present before that happens.
When you can create an environment that is truly low EMF, then there’s a benefit to introduce ground.
However, I would venture to say, like this place that I’m in right now, I would not ground myself to a wall outlet here because this building has multiple smart meters on it, way on the other side.
But that dirty electricity may or may not be mitigated enough through my green wave filters and all this other stuff that I’ve got going on in the place.
At the same time, the idea of having a healing sanctuary or being in a sauna to have quiet time or rejuvenation time or detox time should be just that.
And you don’t want to do anything that will be disruptive to that or to cause your body more of a spike than you think.
And so for me, from what I’ve seen, for most people that live in a modern urban environment, unless you live out in the sticks and there just doesn’t have, there isn’t anything present on the line meter or different things like that, or if you are in a single family house and you can have a ground stake and have your own grounding rod and you’re not in an urban environment where there’s all these transient fields under the ground, different types of buried power lines right under the sidewalk and all this other stuff, I mean, you’d have to check for this stuff.
So for somebody to make a blanket statement and say, “Yeah, you can do this, this, and this,” I wouldn’t do it.
So for me, my rule of thumb, unless you happen to be one of these exceptions to the rule, is never, ever, ever ground yourself in an infrared sauna, period.
And like I said, if something new comes out next year, maybe this will change, maybe my stance on this will change.
If you’re in an ultra low EMF sauna, can you get away with it with no ill effects?
Sure.
But you would want to make sure, and I mean damn sure, that the lack of presence of all of that stuff is clearly, it’s clearly devoid of all of those things before you go grounding yourself and creating yourself or turning yourself into part of the circuit.
So that’s what I have to say about it. if that makes sense.
If not, let me know in the comments and I’ll see you in the next video.