About Clint Ober

For more than 20 years, Clint Ober has dedicated his life to improving the health of everyone on earth.

In 1998, after a successful career grounding systems in the cable television industry, Earthing pioneer Clint Ober began investigating the potential to improve human health with grounding.

Today, he is the founder of Earth FX Inc., a grounding research and development company based in California through which he helped to develop, and patent, the first indoor Earthing products.

Earthing® and Ground Therapy® are sold by Clint’s companies on this website, www.Earthing.com, and also on Amazon.com and via other select authorized retailers. His products are used by millions of people every day around the globe to improve their quality of life.

Clint grew up on a farm in Montana where daily life existed in balance with Mother Nature. His childhood days were spent chasing cows, baling hay, and walking the long rows of beets and beans pulling weeds while barefoot.

Of this time, Clint notes, “Everything was about the Earth.” Many of Clint’s friends were from the Native American reservation. He noticed that most things they did were different from what he was told was “normal.”

One time, his friend’s mother told him to remove his shoes when they got home from school. “They will make you sick,” she said.

Clint vividly remembers when the sister of his friend became very ill with a bad case of scarlet fever. Her grandfather dug a pit in the ground and placed her in it. He built a fire near the pit and sat nearby. The girl stayed there for a few days and then arose, much better.

It was only later in life that Clint realized that everything his friends’ parents did was based on a much greater knowledge of Nature than he was ever taught.

In the early 1960s , Clint moved to the “big city” and was hired for a position in the fledgling cable television industry. He quickly realized that cable was the future of television and enthusiastically dove into learning all aspects of the business. He organized marketing campaigns, climbed poles, drilled holes, sunk ground rods, and ran the wire to install cable systems in many homes throughout Montana.

After a few years, Clint was hired as the National Director of Marketing for a Denver company that quickly grew to become the largest cable television company in the U.S. (It was eventually acquired by AT&T.)

In 1972, Clint started his own business that specialized in developing cable television systems, as well as broadcast television and microwave communication properties. It soon became the largest provider of cable television marketing and installation services in the country, installing cable in millions of homes. In an age before the internet,

Clint helped pioneer the first-ever cable modem and distribution through personal computers of news reports from news agencies around the world. He was closely involved in the early development of programming and marketing for the cable and telecommunications industries, working with the top visionaries who created Cable News Network (CNN), Home Box Office (HBO), and other major cable networks.

Clint developed a serious abscess that compromised 80% of his liver. As the infection spread throughout most of his body, all of the doctors suggested he put his affairs in order, except one.

A young surgeon mentioned there could be a tiny chance of survival if Clint tried an experimental surgery to remove most of his damaged liver. With nothing to lose, Clint agreed and amazingly, 28 days after surgery he walked out of the hospital to go home.

During his long recovery process, Clint had a lot of time to reflect on his life. He realized that he had spent so much time collecting and accumulating “things” to prove that he was successful that he was now burdened with them.

When he left the hospital, Clint sold his house. He sold his business to his employees and gave all of his artwork to his children. Then, he bought an RV, filled it with a few necessities, and hit the road. He spent the next few years traveling and trying to figure out what his new purpose was in life. He had a sense there was something he was waiting for that just hadn’t revealed itself yet.