No matter how hard we try, there is no escaping the thralls of aging. Some of us handle the inevitable course of nature with grace and style, transforming ourselves into a more handsome or lovelier version of our younger selves while others (seemingly more and more of us) end up looking and feeling older, more tired and perpetually rundown.

When Clint Ober began considering the potential connection between human health and electrical grounding, one of his primary observations was that humans have a near total disconnect with the natural energy of Earth thanks to the synthetic soled shoes we’ve been chronically sporting, especially since the second half of the twentieth century.