
Grounded Sleep Mats and Pain Relief
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What happens to your sleep when you connect your body to the earth overnight? Grounding uses a conductive mat to link you to the earth's surface.
You ask 20 participants with sleep problems and body pain to rate their symptoms. They score each symptom from 1 to 10. Then each person sleeps on a grounded mat for 10 nights.
Afterward they rate their symptoms again. You compare the before and after scores to see whether grounding made a difference.
Hypothesis
The hypothesis is that participants will exhibit lower levels of stress, and pain in their bodies, and sleep better when sleeping on a grounded mat.
Method & Materials
You will need 10 male and 10 female participants with known sleep disorders, body aches and stress, and 20 grounded mats. Participants will rate their ailments on a scale from 1 to 10, and then sleep on the grounded mats for 10 days. After the 10 days, they will rate their conditions again.
You will need 10 male and 10 female participants with known sleep disorders, body aches and stress, and 20 grounded mats.
Results
The results showed that after sleeping on the grounded mats, both male and female participants were able to sleep better, experience less body aches and stress. This proves that grounding our bodies while we sleep can help reduce pain, infections, sleeping disorders, and stress.
Why do this project?
This science project is interesting and unique because it explores how connecting our bodies to the ground while we sleep can help restore our natural electric balance.
Also Consider
Consider repeating the science fair project, this time, testing for cortisol levels in the participant’s saliva. Also, try repeating the science experiment by comparing the health of participants from different age groups.
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