Michael W.: Can small clusters of water be absorbed better by the cells than water with large clusters?
No. This is often used by advocates of alkaline active water such as Dr. Robert O. Young's claim is naive (“Small things slip through better”) and does not correspond to biological processes at all. Aquaporins are the channels in the cell membrane that bring water into the cell. All living things with cell membranes, from single-celled bacteria to humans, have these channels. –>Water clusters are electromagnetically ordered clumps of dipole water molecules (hydrogen bonds) that are torn apart by the stronger electromagnetic and chemical forces of aquaporins, allowing only individual water molecules to enter the cell in a clearly aligned column.
The separation and arrangement of water molecules from clusters is vital for the cell, because otherwise the proton gradient inside the cell would be shifted via the Grotthuss mechanism (H+ hopping via hydrogen bonds), thus stopping the cell's energy production.
It is often claimed that alkaline activated water is small-clustered water. Due to the low stability of hydrogen bonds, snapshots from nuclear magnetic resonance imaging that are intended to represent such clusters are not relevant to evidence.
A certain influence of the measurement method cannot be ruled out here. Nevertheless, many manufacturers spend a lot of money on these scientifically questionable measurements in order to produce bogus arguments for the marketing department. It's a scientific joke, but almost everyone follows the herd.
There are serious theories about water memory, i.e. temporarily stable clusters in water. However, these require the presence and action of forces that prevent the constant rearrangement of the dipoles of the water molecule, such as magnetic fields, low temperatures or pressure factors.
The longest theoretically discussed water memory stabilization method is 300 days and 10 degrees Celsius. But under physiological temperatures of 36,6O C only at 24 minutes. (Vysotskii, V. et al., Applied Bipophysics of activated Water, Singapore, 2009, p. 21).
However, when cells pass through aquaporins, any “water memory” is reliably destroyed. In this respect, it is pointless to argue that drinking water has a “water memory”.
There is, at least theoretically, a certain kind of water memory even at body temperatures. But this has long been built into all physiological processes: Radiation in the infrared range, which also comes from our body, which is well warmed at 37 degrees, influences water in its edge zones to create a hydrophilic (“water-loving”) environment and produces very narrow hexagonal clusters, (EZ zones) which excrete all dissolved substances, so that a kind of distilled water is created in a thin interface zone.
But does this process exist in our bodies, as some claim, citing the exclusion zones discovered by Gerald Pollack? Hardly, because The membranes of our body cells consist of lipid (fat) layers that are hydrophobic, i.e. water-repellent. Therefore, no EZ zones are formed on the cell membrane and the cells are not in danger of bursting due to the absorption of too much hexagonal ultrapure water.
The cell membrane consists of aquaporins, which allow the precisely required amount of pure water to pass through, and separate ion channels that are specialized for absorbing the minerals dissolved in aqueous solutions in the required dose.
This should complete your question: single-cluster, not small-cluster water is always routinely created by the aquaporins of the cell membrane.
No matter what you drink: whether you drink a stupid energy drink, breast milk or alkaline water, only the water portion enters the cell via the aquaporins.
That's why you won't get dehydrated as easily if you drink a bottle of vodka that only contains 60% water. The problem only comes from the 40% leftover that your liver has to deal with…. The ion channels use the drink and food you consume in completely different ways. Ion channels suck the required minerals into the cell in completely different ways.
What's the background to all this cluster nonsense? No scientific basis whatsoever. You should drink alkaline active water for completely different reasons.
What are the real reasons for this? There is a lot of talk about the “environment” of the interstitial fluid in the space between the blood, lymph, intestines and target cells. A bit of abstraction is good: food (hydrocarbons + oxygen + the cell power plant mitochondria produces chemical energy (hydrogen), water + exhaust gas (CO2).
The environment is disturbed primarily by too much carbon dioxide (CO2), which cannot be disposed of quickly enough through breathing.
The core question of any healthy metabolism is simply: what to do with the waste CO2? (Do you remember that our entire planet also has this problem and that's why politicians meet at climate conferences? Yes. Our planet is an organism too!
Did not know? No problem – it currently only affects the next generation…). Garbage is a health problem everywhere, but we cannot postpone it to the next generation for ourselves! If we can't solve the dominant metabolic problem in our body, CO2, which we can so easily exhale through our main waste disposal organ, the lungs, then what happens, for example, to the acetic acid that results from the breakdown of the alcohol in vodka? Where is it accumulating? Or with the even worse, inorganic phosphoric acid, which requires its expulsion from the metabolic system along with the sugar or pseudo-sugar from cola drinks? Great: We even have two kidneys!
Do you really think your kidneys are built for this? How long can they tolerate you not drinking water?
Part of the kidneys produces the stress hormone adrenaline. This puts a lot of demands on us in our current way of life. So strong that many of us, myself included, cannot reproduce it sufficiently.
Every serious allergy sufferer – like me – carries an adrenaline injection with them these days.
Does it ring your bell? How do you relieve pressure on your kidneys? Of course, by avoiding stress. Great if you can do that - I haven't been able to do it yet.
But I put less work on my kidneys when I drink alkaline activated water. This means I avoid acids from food and drinks. Because alkaline active water is based on a formulation by Dr. med. Walter Irlacher “the perpetual motion machine of deacidification”.
It's always important that you drink enough water - in whatever form, it can also be an orange or beef broth. The aquaporins in our cells are like filters: they don't let anything foreign in. But Our body, with its border organs tongue, nose, lungs and skin, is a kind of “Schengen” space: we let a lot of things in before we have an allergic reaction or puke.
Would you have preferred to solve the problem psychologically because that appeals to you more intellectually? Well, it's really also a question of attitude. If you think that it doesn't matter what you drink, no doctor can really help you, only a psychotherapist can help you.
But be careful: Psychotherapist is not a strictly protected job title... Psychological problems arise afterward
In my opinion, it's usually because you hear so many voices within yourself that you can't derive any action from them that will help you move forward. It's as if as a journalist you only do research but never turn it into an article. I’m “just” a journalist. My experience: Indecision after getting all the facts doesn't lead to a good life. Life requires decisions.
You decided to ask me about “small cluster water” from a water ionizer.
I told you what I think is important: it's pseudoscientific nonsense. Because all water is much faster than any cluster measurement technology. This is proven science! Water clusters are not stable because they are environmentally dependent quantities. Anyone who wants to have measured stable water clusters - and I researched this for a long time - does not specify the environmental variables.
The measurements are pure millimoment recordings with no relevance to someone who wants to drink water. Within fractions of a second after the measurement at the outlet, alkaline activated water changes because it immediately changes —> Relaxation time begins. The duration depends on how quickly you drink it in its original state after electrolysis.
By drinking you create a completely different reaction environment for the water than if you pour it into an open carafe. Would you rather drink the water if it has already worked off in the air in your apartment?
Will this negative judgment about the manufacturers' small cluster claims stop you from drinking alkaline activated water? With all the other benefits it has been proven to have? Then either stop reading this book or continue reading. I still have many arguments that you have never heard before.
Excerpt from the book by Karl Heinz Asenbaum: “Electro-activated water – An invention with extraordinary potential. Water ionizers from A – Z”
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