What Moves Water Inside the Body? (1)
Untangling the Mysteries of Life, Aging and Spike Protein Injuries
One of the fascinating aspects about science is that while it is an excellent tool for discerning the nature of reality, it will simultaneously refuse to look at data with implications that challenge the existing scientific orthodoxy. As such, an unfortunate situation is created where science advances knowledge to a point but then reverses polarities and paradoxically becomes a barrier to that advancement.
An excellent illustration of this dynamic can be seen with water, and as a result, many of its properties are relatively unknown. One of the most important properties is that provided ambient infrared energy is present in the environment and a polar surface exists, water (H2O) can assume a semi-solid state as H3O2 (H1.5O) where it eliminates a proton (hydrogen ion) and behaves like a liquid crystal. Since a significant portion of the water within the body is in the liquid crystalline state, the biological consequences of this water, in my eyes, represent a key forgotten side of medicine.
Previously, in this article, I discussed the long lineage of scientists who have studied this semi-solid form of water, followed by listing some of the key properties of this gel-like 4th phase of water and what causes it to form. Since it has been studied by so many, it has many names (e.g., interfacial water or EZ water). Henceforth it will be referred to as liquid crystalline water (which I believe is the most accurate description for it).
Likewise, in this article, I illustrated how water’s ability to become a partial solid through its liquid crystalline phase explains many of the structural mysteries of the body. The body and its tissues have a significant strength and durability one would expect to find in a solid, but at the same time, it has a high degree of flexibility and capacity for rapid movement one would expect in a liquid—two contradictory properties made possible by water’s unique characteristics.
Because liquid crystalline water is effectively both a solid and liquid, it can accommodate these conflicting demands. An amazing degree of natural engineering, in turn, exists within the body to utilize its properties to accomplish both. In addition to creating structure (including, for example, the barriers that protect your blood vessels from damage—which also are a vital target of the spike protein’s toxicity), the body also frequently makes use of phase transitions between water’s liquid crystalline state and its regular liquid state.
The transitions are important because they provide the mechanisms that underlie a variety of physiologic processes our existing models fail to explain effectively. For example, there are a variety of significant inconsistencies within the current model to explain how muscles contract, but they have not been seriously critiqued because no better model exists for muscle function.
The phase transition model instead argues that muscles are designed to form liquid crystalline water. The formation of that water inside the muscle tissue naturally expands and stretches the muscle tissue. Then, when the liquid crystalline water is transitioned back to its regular liquid state (which can occur instantly once a zeta potential disrupting ion contacts it—such as calcium entering a cell), the muscle rapidly contracts since an expansive pressure is no longer present to resist the tension in its stretched proteins. Likewise, another application of this expansive force is that it allows plants and seedlings to break apart rock solid objects as they grow.
Note: water is one of the only known substances that expands when it freezes (this property is very unusual). The other seven undergo a smaller expansion (and are already solid at room temperature).
Similarly, the formation of liquid crystalline water (which holds a negative charge) with an immediately adjacent layer of positively charged protons (the displaced hydrogen ions) creates an electrical charge gradient. Rather than dissipating, this gradient persists (essentially functioning as a battery), and this charge can be measured directly.
Thus, one of the most interesting characteristics of liquid crystalline water is that it effectively functions as an energy source living systems can utilize. Its ability to spontaneously move into a more structured form (which the muscles, for example, utilize as a store of potential energy for a contraction) is one such example. Some of the other critically important utilizations of water’s ability to convert ambient infrared energy into a usable form of energy include:
- Photosynthesis. Frequencies of light that increase liquid crystalline water have been reported to increase plant growth, and a particulate material that was designed to increase the formation of liquid crystalline water was shown to create at least a 2-3-fold increase in root length and/or formation of shoots.
- Nerve signal conduction (agents that block the formation of liquid crystalline water block nerve function, and nerve signal conduction depends upon a phase transition within the neuron).
Note: I believe one reason neural therapy (injecting an anesthetic like lidocaine into an overactive nerve or scar to reset the inappropriate autonomic response) is able to create profound resolutions of autonomic dysfunction, pain and trauma is because it breaks apart aggregations of liquid crystalline water and allow microcirculatory pathways to become unblocked and restore the body. - Cellular transport and division (these also appear to depend upon the phase transitions of water).
- Fluid circulation.
Fluid Circulation and Life
If the flow of a stream is obstructed, the water there will quickly change from clear pristine water to a murky pool with numerous elements growing in it and is no longer drinkable. Chinese Medicine, in turn, frequently uses this process as a metaphor for what occurs within the body when stagnation takes place within the body’s own fluids.
Note: in addition to this stagnation causing pain and infections, this stagnation is also a common cause of inflammation.
Sadly, beyond the dangers of blood clots or strokes, few appreciate just how vital healthy fluid circulation is for the body or how many different types of fluids move through the body. Conversely, I believe many of the benefits attributed to a variety of therapies arise from their increasing fluid circulation within the body.
For example, walking in nature is well-known for improving anxiety and depression (to the point the benefits of walking exceed the benefits of the highly dangerous medications we typically give for anxiety and depression). Similarly, the same benefit is often reported following lovemaking. In both cases, various explanations have been proposed, such as “the activity produces endorphins,” but it should also be acknowledged fluid movement within the body simultaneously occurs.
I personally believe in the stagnation hypothesis for a few key reasons:
- Everything in our modern lives encourages fluid stagnation (e.g., sitting at a computer all day).
- I typically observe those with the greatest degree of fluid stagnation carry the greatest psychological burdens (e.g., they are more depressed).
- I frequently observe immediate improvement in people with a variety of chronic health issues I associate with fluid stagnation following them doing something which increases the fluid circulation within their bodies (e.g., infrared saunas or restoring the physiologic zeta potential).
My perspectives on fluid circulation are not unique, and a variety of healers employ various approaches to improve fluid circulation in the body (e.g., massage therapists trained in lymphatic drainage). Similarly, I have long theorized that some of the healthiest exercises that exist exert much of their benefit by increasing the body’s fluid circulation.
For example, the patient I know who has aged the best (they are almost 90 but look and functions like they are in their 50s) has followed three very simple rules. Get lots of sunlight (which increases fluid circulation), frequently fast, and use a large trampoline (not a rebounder). The large trampoline is utilized since the transient zero gravity point the large trampoline creates at the top of a jump appears to effectively mobilize the fluid within the body, which I suspect is due to many of them being low pressure systems (as they lack a heart to create a pumping pressure within them) and hence are much more sensitive to external influences.
Similarly, one of the most common traits I observe in the elderly who have maintained the functionality of their bodies decades after their peers is that they’ve made a point to take a walk daily. I believe the benefit of their regimen is that walking moves the fluids throughout the body and does so without straining or damaging the body (which you see with many other activities over time, like running on concrete or intensive weight lifting). Additionally, I have also seen similar effects in longtime practitioners of traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic exercises designed to support fluid movement within the body. Lastly, certain slow abdominal breathing exercises correlated with promoting longevity also improve the fluid circulation of the body.
Unfortunately, while many healers try to work with fluid circulation through the method they are familiar with, their results are very inconsistent. As a result, there is an immense degree of variability observed in response to the innumerable treatments for fluid congestion (although those who excel in this area often become widely renowned for the results they get).
When I’ve looked at why there is such a deficit in ways to address fluid stagnation inside the body, I’ve concluded the primary issue is a widespread lack of knowledge in the anatomy and physiology of fluid circulation of the body.
The Anatomy and Physiology of Fluid Circulation
One less appreciated aspect of evolution is that various functional constraints limit how big different organisms can get. For example, in many ways, insects are much more efficient organisms than animals, but with a few exceptions (e.g., a few insects within the Amazon jungle), they come nowhere close to reaching the size of an animal.
One reason for this is that insects breathe through their exoskeletons, and as they get larger, the ratio between how much air can be exchanged over their entire surface area and the needs of the increasing volume of their body becomes incompatible with life (as something expands, the surface area to volume ratio rapidly decreases). Animals, in contrast, have lungs that, due to their innumerable foldings, contain the enormous are exchange surface area necessary to support life.
A similar problem also exists for cells and particularly groups of cells. They require a specific environment to surround them their internal contents can exchange with. Once a basic level of complexity is achieved, that environment can only exist if the host organism creates it. As a result, virtually all living organisms that pass that basic level of complexity separate their internal fluids into different compartments and have various systems in place to ensure the necessary circulation in and out of those compartments occurs.
At the smallest level, within many cells, regions of liquid crystalline water (where water thus cannot flow) predominate the cells, while channels of bulk state water can also be found throughout the cells. These channels both facilitate the movement of fluid throughout the cell and directs its flow, so each part of the cell can get what it needs rather than the cell depending on random diffusion to bring the right things where they are needed while simultaneously effectively eliminating waste products (which is important because complex cells would likely be unable to function under the limited functional capacities random diffusion provides).
Each cell, in turn, is surrounded by interstitial fluid, which has to move to and from the cell. A variety of different conditions result when this circulation shuts down. One of the most common ones medical dissidents have identified throughout the ages is cancer, an observation which exists in parallel with the observation cancer cells lose the ability to metabolize oxygen. This has led many to theorize that cells becoming cancerous represent a primitive survival mechanism where the cells revert to a more primitive evolutionary state that focuses on the cancerous cell’s own survival rather than working in harmony with the complex host it belongs to that provides an environment that can support the cell’s increasing evolutionary sophistication.
Note: There are a variety of different conditions that correlate with interstitial fluid stagnation most clinicians in practice have seen. One of the most interesting ones my colleagues have observed is that when the interstitial stagnation becomes extreme, individuals can lose their will to live, something also commonly observed in cancer patients.
Because many of these circulations occur within structures other than the classic vessels (arteries, veins, lymphatic vessels) anatomy revolves around, many critical circulatory pathways have only recently been discovered or rediscovered. For example, the Primo-Vascular system, a long-debated network of vessels (as a North Korean researcher had claimed it mirrored the acupuncture channels but no one had been able to confirm his work due to not being able to identify what dye he used to stain it), was only at last confirmed to exist about a decade ago.
In the case of the interstitial fluid, a circulatory network for it that exists throughout the entire body was only discovered a few years ago.
Note: Given its scope and function, the discovers have argued that this connected interstitial fluid network constituted a “new” organ, the interstitium. I found this designation quite interesting as one of the mysteries of Chinese Medicine has been what the “Triple Burner” (its twelfth organ) is. The Triple Burner was first described in the classic text of Chinese Medicine over two thousand years ago and has all the functions and acupuncture channel characteristics of an actual organ, but is stated to lack a discrete physical form. Many thus speculated the Triple Burner is the fascia. When I read the paper on the interstitium, it was immediately apparent it matches all the characteristics of the elusive Triple Burner organ.
The fundamental reason the interstitium had never been found before was that the collagen structures that create the vessels for interstitial fluid to travel throughout the body collapse when taken out of the body and placed on slides. The millions of people who saw the interstitium’s collagen fibers on slides over the centuries all then assumed the collagen fibers they saw were simply inconsequential cellular debris.
Note: this problem is identical to the one that has prevented the entire microbiology field from recognizing the clear signs of pleomorphic bacteria frequently seen under the microscope, as they too, are simply assumed to be irrelevant debris.
The discovers of the interstitium were able to bypass this issue because while using advanced instrumentation to monitor the flow of fluid in the body, they realized that a large web-like flow of interstitial fluid was occurring, that, in many cases, appeared to be happening within tiny previously unknown vessels. This thus made them look at those same slides to ask where these vessels could possibly be, and they eventually identified the collagen vessels.
Note: I believe that idea (while not encouraged by the current educational system) is critical for solving many of the pressing challenges we face (along with helping many complex patients).
What immediately caught my attention about this medical discovery was that the interstitium was found throughout the dermis.
In turn, I formed the hypothesis that many skin diseases resulted from stagnation within its interstitium. In this article, I will try to provide some context as to why its flow could easily get disrupted.
Lymphatic Circulation
Interstitial fluid contains nutrients from the bloodstream and waste material from cells (or invading organisms). The lymphatic system is the drainage system that removes those waste materials from the interstitial fluid. When it fails to effectively circulate what it is responsible for removing, various health issues emerge (including some that require hospitalization).
Much of our knowledge of the lymphatic system comes from anatomists having dissected the entire body and identified where every lymphatic vessel is. This led to the longstanding assumption that no lymphatic drainage existed from the brain (which, if you think about the functions of the lymphatic system, does not make sense), as no vessels could be found.
Eventually, ten years ago, like what occurred with the interstitium, an advanced method was used to trace fluid movement throughout the body. Once this was done, it was observed that lymphatic drainage was occurring within the brain and dramatically increased during certain sleep phases. Those researchers eventually figured out that the astrocytes were responsible. Astrocytes for context support cells present throughout the brain that form the final layer of the blood-brain barrier by fully covering each blood vessel with their “feet,” thereby requiring anything that enters the brain from the blood vessel to first pass through their feet.
When people slept, the astrocytes, in unison (while maintaining the connection between the feet), would slightly pull back their feet, creating a space between their feet and the blood vessels. This perivascular space functions as the key conduit for the glymphatics. The pulse of the blood vessel lying underneath this space is then theorized to serve as the pumping mechanism for this movement through these “vessels.”
The glymphatic system is extraordinarily important, and more and more, as time moves forward, its dysfunction has been linked to a variety of chronic degenerative neurological conditions. It has also been identified as a key reason for why a second traumatic brain injury is often so devastating, as the first one disrupts the delicate architecture of the glymphatic system, so when the second one occurs, the capacity to drain the edema and cellular debris that result from it is radically diminished. Many colleagues also believe the glymphatics explain a few consistent observations they make in patients with chronic debilitating illnesses (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome) such as impaired sleep being intrinsically linked to the pathology of the condition (and conversely, when treated often results in significant improvement of the illness).
Note: the importance of the glymphatic system is further discussed in this article on the causes of Alzheimer’s disease.
Zeta Potential and Fluid Circulation
Zeta potential, a crucial component of health, quantifies the electrical charge difference between colloidal particles in the liquid they are suspended with (which applies to most fluids systems in nature). When sufficient zeta potential is present, those particles stay separated (dispersed), while when insufficient zeta potential is present, they will clump together, with the clumps becoming larger and larger as the zeta potential is reduced.
In the body, if this occurs, red blood cells will clump together, eventually forming microclots (which, while possible to observe with microscopic examination of blood vessels, in most cases are too small to be seen with MRIs). These agglomerations can cause either acute illness, or more commonly chronically debilitating illnesses (e.g., we believe the loss of zeta potential that occurs due to declining kidney function is a primary cause of aging). In turn, many dangerous agents (e.g., aluminum, the spike protein, and dangerous microbes such as malaria) disrupt zeta potential, and much of the harm they cause can be counteracted with a zeta potential restoring agent. As a result we often see dramatic improvements in health (as have readers here) from simple protocols aimed at restoring the physiologic zeta potential, particularly since an impaired zeta potential is such a common root cause of illness.
Note: clotting immediately after a blood vessel is cut open is necessary to prevent bleeding to death. As such, the body’s zeta potential is set to be slightly above the agglomeration threshold, so that the small loss of zeta potential which occurs when blood leaves the vessels will initiate the clotting process. Unfortunately, in the modern era, many elements in our environment adversely affect the physiologic zeta potential, and as a result, the baseline zeta potential the body evolved to have does not counteract those environmental influences, which frequently leads to detrimental microclotting.
Likewise, this process also has recognized by multiple medical systems (e.g., Chinese medicine has the diagnosis blood stasis, which is almost identical to blood sludging, a concept many Western researchers previously demonstrated was a root cause of disease), and with appropriate examination can easily be detected (e.g., there are many neurological deficits frequently triggered by microstrokes which can be detected with the appropriate examination).
Finally, since zeta potential applies to every colloidal fluid system in the body, many of these same issues also occur outside the blood stream (e.g., in the interstitial fluid, in the ureters when kidney stones form and in the lymph).
Note: after publishing the DMSO and dermatology article, many readers reported they had had rapid and almost unbelievable results for using it to treat burns (along with a variety of other conditions). In that article, I posited that many of the benefits of DMSO resulted from it improving the microcirculation within the skin (both within the blood vessels and within the interstitium). This was in part because the scientists who researched blood sludging found that blood sludging would consistently follow burns (and account for a variety of the issues associated with burns) and because treatments which improved the physiologic zeta potential within the skin (e.g., negative ion therapy or DMSO) and dispersed that sludging were often excellent helpful for burns (which otherwise, when severe, are very challenging to treat).
Author: A Midwestern Doctor
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December 14, 2024