What you Wear – What You Absorb
Fast fashion, plastic fabrics, and the unseen energetic cost of what we put on our skin.
What You Wear Is Either Feeding You — Or Draining You
Fast fashion has trained us to value cheap, quick, trending.
But rarely do we stop to ask a deeper question:
What are our clothes actually doing to our bodies… and our energy?
Most modern clothing is made from plastic — polyester, nylon, acrylic, spandex — all derived from petrochemicals. We wear them daily, often for hours, directly against our skin. And our skin isn’t just a barrier.
It’s our largest organ.
The Science (What We Know So Far)
Bioenergetic research has explored the idea that materials carry measurable energetic properties.
In 2003, Dr. Heidi Yellen researched using an Ag-Environ bioenergetic testing device and measured the energetic resonance of fabrics. The findings suggested a striking contrast:
- Natural fibres (linen, wool) showed high energetic readings
- Synthetic fibres (polyester, chemically processed bamboo) showed very low readings
That work has never been published in a peer-reviewed journal, and in the twenty years since, nobody has independently repeated it. There is also no globally recognised scientific unit for “frequency” in cloth — nothing equivalent to GSM for fabric weight — so there is no standard for a reading to be measured against in the first place.
We are keeping this section rather than deleting it, because the underlying question is a fair one and because we would rather show you where the evidence runs out than quietly step around it.
👉 What we can defend: how far a fibre has travelled from the plant or animal it came from.
👉 What we cannot: a measured energetic value for cloth.
Common sense, right?
When energy grows, energy flows, and the body functions better.
When you feel blocked, fatigued, and brain fogged, an imbalance appears.
The Numbers We Took Down
This is where we have changed our position, and we would rather say so plainly than quietly edit the page.
You will have seen the figures. Linen and wool at 5,000, cotton at 100, polyester at 15, almost always written as Hertz. They are everywhere. We published them here too.
We have taken them down, for one reason that turned out to be decisive. The original readings were reportedly taken in angstroms — a unit of length — and have been passed from article to article ever since as Hertz, a unit of cycles per second. Those are not two ways of saying the same thing. You cannot convert between them, because they do not measure the same kind of quantity. Somewhere in the retelling, a measurement of one thing became a measurement of something else entirely, and almost nobody checked.
So we are not going to give you a Hertz number.
Here is what we can say without one, and all of it is readable off a care label:
- Linen and wool reach you having been spun, woven and finished — and not much else.
- Organic cotton takes a few more steps, and its certification tells you which ones.
- Polyester begins as petroleum, is chemically polymerised, extruded as filament, and sheds microfibres into the water every time it is washed.
That is a real difference, in a direction anyone can verify, and it needs no device to detect. It is now the basis on which Shake scores fabric — we call it fibre integrity, and it asks one question: how far did this travel from the thing it came from?
Whether natural fibres also simply feel better against your skin is your own experience, and we would not dream of arguing with you about it. We only decline to put a number on it that we cannot stand behind.
In homeopathic medicine, there’s a foundation principle, developed by Samuel Hahnemann in the late 18th century, this principle suggests that “Substances producing symptoms in the healthy can treat similar symptoms in the sick”:
“Like cures like.”
So maybe it’s not so far-fetched to ask:
Is the body more at ease when it’s wrapped in something that resonates with it — rather than against it?
Fast Fashion, Fast Consequences
In a world driven by instant gratification and image, it’s uncomfortable to question the cost.
I question myself too.
What example am I setting for my teenage daughter?
What hormonal and endocrine stresses are we regarding as normal — especially for young bodies still developing?
With rising chronic illness, hormonal disruption and environmental toxicity, should we not also be asking:
What are “forever chemicals” and plastic fabrics doing — not just to our planet, but to our bodies?
Frequency by Design — Not Hype
High-frequency clothing isn’t a trend.
It’s a return.
A return to fibres that:
- come from plants or animals
- breathe with the body
- regulate moisture and temperature
- ground the nervous system
- allow energy to move, not stagnate
Natural fibres don’t trap static electricity.
They ground.
Linen has historically been used in:
- hospitals
- wound care
- bandages (bacteria struggles to survive on it)
- ancient ceremonial rituals and Egyptian mumification
Across cultures and even sacred texts, mixing fibres was discouraged — not as superstition, but as energetic wisdom.
Fibres That Hold Coherence
High-frequency fibres:
- 100% Organic Cotton (GOTS-certified)
- 100% Linen (flax-based, enzyme-retted)
- 100% Wool (non-mulesed, low-chemical processing)
- Hemp, nettle, ramie
What to avoid:
- ❌ Blends
- ❌ Polyester, nylon, acrylic, spandex
- ❌ Recycled plastic masquerading as “eco”
If your clothes come from plants or animals, they carry life force.
If they come from highly processed oil… they don’t.
Clothing as Your Second Skin
Clothing is our second skin.
And just like food:
- What you put in nourishes you
- What you put on can either nourish or drain you
Synthetic fabrics shed micro-and nano-plastics, which are now found crossing the blood-brain barrier and acting as hormone disruptors.
We already deal with enough interference.
Why add more?
The Frequency Felt
You don’t need a machine to feel this.
You already know.
Have you ever:
- owned an outfit that looks beautiful but feels “off”?
- felt instantly calmer in linen or wool?
- felt tired, foggy or irritated in certain clothes?
Try this:
Go to your cupboard.
Close your eyes.
Touch a few garments.
Feel the difference.
If it feels alive — it is alive.
You are not meant to be an energy blocker.
You are a receiver.
A Conscious Choice
High-frequency clothing isn’t about perfection.
It’s about awareness.
Choosing:
- fewer pieces
- better materials
- ethical, human-centred production
- garments that honour body, planet, animals and energy
Fast, cheap and trending
vs
Clean, conscious and coherent
🧡Final Thought
Nature knows how to care for you.
Cover your body in what comes from the earth —
like wrapping yourself in a blanket of love.
If linen is our super fabric,
maybe it’s time to switch our superpowers back on.
Choose consciously.
Your body — and your soul — already know.
