The musings of a bored autistic brain
If we're more than 90% water, why don't we leak when we're cut?
I have a long commute to work. Sometimes, I put on a podcast. Sometimes, I put on some liquid drum and base and just let my mind wander. Lately, I’ve been giving my subconscious complex questions to ponder. This week, I’ve been wondering, if humans are more than 90% water, why don't we leak when we're cut?
It’s an interesting question. I remember thinking … BS … when the topic was first presented in elementary school. We drink fluids. We pee. The intakes seem to match the outputs. So, where is all of this water?
Plus, if you are a carnivore, does a steak leak? Blood and plasma have a water component, but certainly not enough to add up to the more than 90% number. Spinal fluid, gastric juices, the fluid in the joints … it’s not enough. So, where is all of this water?
Begin brain dump
In researching the answer, I found a massive scientific argument … but I also found the water. The water exists in a crystalline form that forms around all of the surfaces within our body. This crystalline water is known in the literature as “exclusion zone water” or EZ water for short.
As a crystal, EZ water is a different phase of water than liquid H2O. Next to biological surfaces inside of our bodies, H2O spontaneously becomes EZ which, instead of H2O, becomes H3O2. This is because to form the EZ, the -OH from the water links together to form a honeycomb lattice. This lattice is called a liquid crystal because the molecules are ordered like you would see in a crystal but still retain some fluidity of a liquid.
Still with me? It’s called an exclusion zone because it literally blocks anything bigger than an electron from entering. Research has shown that EZ water can "grow" bigger when exposed to infrared (IR) light/heat, though there is some controversy about this mechanism and its classification.
Here’s where it gets fun
In our modern lives, we are completely surrounded and penetrated by all sorts electromagnetic waves. These waves are just energy that is generated by various things such as the sun, our heartbeat, our thoughts, and more. So what does this have to do with EZ water? Well, one of these invisible waves of energy called Infrared (IR).
Upon exposure to IR, the EZ water expands and can remain that way for quite some time. Interestingly, our mitochondria make both water and IR heat (source) as part of their natural energy production pathway. Thus, we have everything we need in each cell to make EZ water: lots of biological surfaces, water, and IR.
Because EZ is made up of the -OH part of the water molecule this makes it have a negative charge (hang on to that data point, it will be come really important later). Remember, water is H2O (H-O-H), so did that other H just disappear? It turns out that the H's accumulate strongly just on the edge of the EZ. And this H is actually H+, AKA it's just a proton. Protons have a positive charge.
So this means next to a biological surface, there is a band of negatively-charged EZ next to a positively-charged proton zone. This is called “charge separation” and when you have charge separation, you have the ability to create electricity/energy, AKA a battery.
“The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need.” - Morpheus
Circulatory implications
I know it’s an obscure question, but as someone with erythromelagia, I do have a ton of questions around how the body actually works and thus, to you, have you ever wondered why the lymphatic system doesn't have a pump?
The circulatory system has one right? The heart. But, is the heart really a pump? Studies have shown that blood continues to flow through the circulation for upwards of 10 minutes even after the heart has stopped beating. Consider also early embryonic blood flow rate surpasses the contractile capabilities of the heart at that stage.
Things that make you go hmmmm …
But whilst you ponder that, did you know that red blood cells are much larger than the capillaries they need to fit through? Calculations have shown that in order to push RBCs through the small capillaries using the heart alone would make blood pressure orders of magnitude higher than it is.
Is there another mechanism in the body that promotes flow? Yes. Here's the explanation and it involves EZ water.
These vessels are lined with negatively-charged EZ water. The things that are traveling in these vessels such as blood cells, proteins, etc, are also surrounded by a shell of negatively-charged EZ water.
So what does this EZ water have to do with driving flow?
Like charges repel each other. So EZ water creates negatively-charged surfaces that repel. And in the act of repelling they drive flow, AKA the movement of things through the vessels.
So even without a heartbeat, or without a pump in the lymphatic system, flow still occurs.
Some things that help
Infrared light enhances this flow. Infrared increases EZ. This means increased repelling/flow. Additionally, sulfate is an ion that found in the extracellular matrix of things like the endothelial lining and on the surface of RBCs and forms massive exclusion zones (EZs) which significantly enhances this flow.
Bonus: sunlight sulfates things like cholesterol on the RBCs to help this whole process.
… and we haven't even touched on the vasodilating effects of UVA light. Or the proton wire that further drives flow.
Summary
I found the water inside of us. It’s called exclusion zone water (EZ water). We all have this amazing crystalline phase of water inside of us. It is different from liquid, solid or gas. It is called a liquid crystal because the atoms are arranged in a very ordered and structured way (like you would see in a crystal), but still can move around (more like a liquid/gel hybrid).
Unlike liquid water, which is neutral, EZ is structured in a way that gives the water a negative charge. Directly adjacent to this negative charge resides a line of protons (positively-charged). This means the water network of our body is a massive battery full of usable potential energy.
Yet, we have been lead to believe that the only way we can get energy is from food. This is not entirely true. We can absolutely harness the energy in our internal “water battery” using two different wavelengths of light: infrared and ultraviolet.
Infrared (IR) is always present whenever there is light from dawn til dusk.
Ultraviolet (UV) is only there for a select time of day depending on our location and time of year.
IR “builds a bigger battery” by expanding the size of the EZ liquid crystal. A bigger exclusion zone (EZ) creates more negative/positive charge which equals more potential energy.
UV light “energizes” EZ water. When UV light strikes it, millions of free electrons are created in something called the coherent domain of the EZ water. Thus, maximizing the energy potential of our EZ water can have a massive impact on health. For example, low EZ has been associated with cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic inflammation (this is where I came in, looking for ways to mitigate my erythromelagia).
Bonus discussion
I think that low EZ will be implicated in all diseases / dysfunctions of mitochondrial dysfunction. For example, research is now showing what we call “Long Covid” is actually a fragmenting / injury to the mitochondria. That chronic fatigue is caused by dysfunctioning mitochondria, not lung damage. The semi-functional mitochondria aren’t producing adequate water and heat, thus …