My Observations
and Opinions on Clustered Water and Structured
Water Additive Products
Introduction
This article addresses my opinions and thoughts
on water additives which supposedly increase structuring or clustering
of
water to make it more bio-available and more healthful for humans to
drink. Further, I am frequently asked if I recommend specific
brands of products which seem to increase the beneficial structuring
and clustering of water. What Do These Products Do?
There
are several products in this category,
all of which involve adding a small amount (a few drops to an ounce) of
an
additive liquid to a gallon of water to make it supposedly more
bio-available
by changing its structure slightly. Most of these products
claim: - to
increase the structuring of water, yielding "structured water"
- to increase the clustering as well as reduce the
size
of the water clusters (sometimes called "microclusters")
- concomitantly, to reduce the surface tension
("wetness"
or "wettability") of the water
- most
claim that this reduced surface tension and smaller cluster size
increase the bio-availability of the water, making it more like
the water which our ancestors might have drank, and more like the
"water"
found in plants.
- most
claim that due to the above effects, the product
in question has a positive effect upon human health
These additive products are often known as
"structured water" additives or "clustered water" additives.
Some of the vendors of these
products appear accurate in their claims (as listed above) of increased
structure, smaller clustering, and reduced surface tension, while it is
my opinion that
more than a few are indulging -- perhaps unawares -- in science-babel
and
pseudo-scientific jargon, or in mystical-sounding but meaningless
jargon.
At least a few, according to most observers with scientific
credentials,
are apparently outright liars (or, at least, achieve the effects of the
additive
via highly questionable means). Luckily the more fraudulent
ones are
not widely available nor widely advertised, and in any case, the claims
made
for the more questionable ones are so extravagant or silly that most
folks
would stop in their tracks before making a purchase anyway.
Some of
the strange claims have been along the lines of:
- "Developed by mystical holy men from an exotic
foreign
country in the Far East!"
- "A few
drops of this liquid can heal and repair an
entire polluted lake or bay in minutes!"
-
"Heals
cancer overnite"
- "A few
drops in your washer will clean your laundry
without detergents"
- "Recommended
by a powerful spiritual teacher who is
a walk-in of an advanced spirit/soul being from a million years ago and
a
distant far-away star system!"
and
ad nauseam... . . . .
There are several well-known websites, each written by PhD scientists
(often
older and retired), which purport to "debunk" the field of structured
water
and clustered water (and related things), but the few I have looked --
in
my estimation -- all go way too far, and throw out the baby with the
bathwater
in simply condemning any and all claims about clustered/structured
water
(or energized water, or homeopathic patterns or imprints or information
in
water) as simply un-scientific and fraudulent. In a way, it
makes
perfect sense; these authors often represent an older, very
conservative,
kinda "rear-guard" of the older paradigms in the physical sciences, and
thus,
to them, with their particular educational backgrounds and experience,
this
stuff must all seem like hogwash. Hence, they do not just single out
the more grievous offenders, hoaxster, hucksters and purveyors of
pseudo-science,
but, rather, they condemn the entire field as nonsense. Such a position
may
have been an arguable defense within the sciences as the paradigms
stood
in 1979; but it is simply not workable anymore.
Further Thoughts and a Recommendation
I have done some research on water structure,
among other things, and my testing shows that both Willard Water and
Crystal
Energy Concentrate (an early product developed by Patrick Flanagan, the
inventor of MegaH™
(aka MegaH-™)
[which came
along later]), among others I have tested, really do achieve the
changes
which they claim to effect in the water. Personally, when I
do
wish to use such an additive, I choose Flanagan's product (Crystal
Energy
Concentrate, aka CEC), and I have not used Willard Water for human
consumption
in a number of years. It is probably fine for such use; I am
simply
following my own intuition as to what is best for me. Someone
else
might have different preferences or a different intuitive
sense.
Perhaps
one thing, too, which has always bothered me about Willard Water is
that
the photos of Willard (senior) always have shown him looking really
dehydrated
and wrinkled (in my opinion), and I have sometimes wondered if that had
anything
to do with his avid consumption of his water. The dehydrated
appearance
may indeed not have anything to do with his product, and likely the
cause
may simply have been his diet (likely a Standard American Diet or SAD),
or
to genetics, or both, but that has been a bit of a show stopper for
me. Since I have a better gut feeling about
Flanagan's CEC,
and since I like
the ingredients (listed on the ingredients list) in CEC better than
those
listed for Willard Water, I choose to use CEC. However, I
want to
stress
that I have heard good things about Willard Water from users, just as I
have
about CEC. However,
I nowadays use such additives only
rarely, because I eat an all-raw diet and also ingest both electrolyzed
reduced
water (ERW) and MegaH™
(aka MegaH-™) for
their antioxidant effects (both products also exhibit the structural,
clustering and surface tension properties listed above), and only when
consuming
water at times when I am not also mixing some MegaH™
(aka MegaH-™) or
some electrolyzed reduced water (ERW, or "alkaline" water) with
it. Since MegaH™
(aka MegaH-™) and
ERW achieve the same effect (plus offering the H- ion as an
even more important bonus), frequent use of such products makes the use
of
such clustered water additives largely unnecessary.
If you are
interested in the mentions in the above article
on the simple primeval antioxidants, the H-minus ion, alkaline ionized
water
and MegaH™
(aka MegaH-™), then you may
wish to check
out my Negative
Hydrogen Ion website (off-site), which contains such articles
and information in greater
detail. MegaH™ (aka MegaH-™)
is a registered trademark owned by Flantech Group.
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