What is Interfacial water?

Chapter 15–3 of 4 serializing Befriending Your Biology; Physical Health from the Inside Out. Available on Kindle now.

Matrix of EZ or interfacial water molecules

The following is revised and re-organized from “The Waters of Heterodoxy: A Review of Gerald Pollack’s “The Fourth Phase of Water” by Charles Eisenstein” (2014) — http://charleseisenstein.net/the-waters-of-heterodoxy-g-pollacks-the-fourth-phase-of-water/

Between 1850–2050, the major evidence-based science breakthru, leading to improved mainstream understanding of hydration inside our body, came thru Gerald Pollack and his topic of interfacial water, formerly called Exclusion zone water or EZ water.

Gerald Pollack was not first to research and publish about “structured water.” He was more successful than earlier researchers in bringing the significance of this neglected form of water to the attention of researchers and to Cultural Creative audiences.

This is a book on chemistry, albeit one easily accessible to lay people. Pollack is a highly decorated professor at the University of Washington, author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, recipient of the 2012 Prigogine Medal, and editor of the academic journal, Water.

Pollack devotes an early chapter to two earlier episodes where interfacial water was dismissed: the polywater debacle of the 1960s, and the water memory controversy twenty years later. These illuminate some of the politics of science-as-institution and how dissident views were suppressed.

One would think after two hundred or more years of modern chemistry, something as fundamental and seemingly simple as water would be thoroughly understood by now.

Before reading this book, I took for granted the explanations my high school and college textbooks offered for evaporation, capillary action, freezing, bubble formation, Brownian motion, and surface tension. Everyone else assumes the same thing. Modern chemistry believes only this: water is a generic fluid, any two samples are fundamentally identical, differing only in temperature and the presence of impurities (and hydrogen isotope ratios for you sticklers out there).

And yet a fourth phase of water was present all the time.

Imagine an experiment: a beaker of water. Add hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic microspheres. They are suspended equally thruout the water in the beaker. Standard chemistry expects these will be distributed evenly throughout the entire volume of water. Indeed, they are throughout most of the water. However, near the sides of the beaker (and near any hydrophilic surface submerged in the water), the water remains clear, free of any and all spheres.

Why? Standard chemistry predicts an exclusion zone a few molecules thick might exist next to the glass, where polar water molecules stick to the distributed charges. The exclusion zone Pollack observed was at least a quarter millimeter — several-hundred-thousand molecules thick.

Pollack and his colleagues proceeded with caution, testing and ultimately eliminating various conventional explanations for the phenomenon (e.g. convectional flows, polymer brushing, electrostatic repulsion, and leaking materials). They began investigating properties of the exclusion zone, with intriguing results:

Interfacial water excludes almost everything, not only suspended particles but solutes as well.

It exhibits an electromagnetic absorption peak at 270nm. It emits less infrared radiation than bulk water. It has higher viscosity; and, a higher index of refraction than bulk water.

Most surprisingly, they discovered the exclusion zone had a net negative charge. Water outside the zones had a low pH, indicating protons had somehow been ejected from the EZ water.

With this information, Pollack and his collaborators hypothesized the exclusion zone is composed of a liquid crystalline form of water, consisting of stacked hexagonal layers with oxygen and hydrogen in a 2:3 ratio.

More reference images and video: http://doublehelixwatereurope.com/understanding-water-contents/exclusion-zone-form/

Ice also consists of stacked hexagonal sheets. In the case of ice, the sheets are held together by the extra protons. Pollack proposes EZ sheets are “out of register” — aligned so oxygens of each layer are frequently next to hydrogens of adjacent layers. The alignment is not perfect, yet it creates more attractions than repulsions, enough to create cohesion as well as a molecular matrix tight enough to exclude even the tiniest of solutes.

Where does the energy come from to create this charge separation? It comes from incident sunlight and electromagnetic radiation. When a water sample is shielded from incoming light, radiation and heat flux, no EZ forms.

He questions the conventional explanation of surface tension which invokes the hydrogen bonding pressure on the water surface. Could the extraordinary surface tension of water really be explained by the energy in a layer less than one nanometer thick?

He asks, why don’t gels, which can be over 99.9% water, leak water?

Why do charged aerosol droplets of water coalesce into clouds instead of repelling each other and dispersing evenly throughout the sky?

Why does hot water sometimes freeze more quickly than cool water (the Mpemba Effect)?

Why does steam rising from a cup of hot coffee come in discrete puffs?

Why do boats leave a wake of relatively still water behind them sometimes 15 or 30 minutes after passing?

This book offers extraordinarily economical answers to these questions and more.

Nor does he question fundamental physical laws (of thermodynamics, relativity, quantum theory, etc.).

Reference

“The Waters of Heterodoxy: A Review of Gerald Pollack’s “The Fourth Phase of Water by Charles Eisenstein” (2014) — http://charleseisenstein.net/the-waters-of-heterodoxy-g-pollacks-the-fourth-phase-of-water/

An additional coherent, condensed summary of Pollack’s interfacial water is here: “Why Don’t We See Atherosclerosis in Veins?” (2019) — by Dr. Stephen Hussey, MD — https://www.resourceyourhealth.com/post/why-don-t-we-see-atherosclerosis-in-veins

Additional interfacial water topics of interest

Beyond our scope here is how interfacial water explains some probably large fraction of how blood moves around the human body. See Dr. Thomas Cowan’s books; especially the one on cancer.

Stephanie Seneff’s insights into the role sulfur and sulfur deficiency plaque cholesterol: “A novel hypothesis for atherosclerosis as a cholesterol sulfate deficiency syndrome” (2015) by Stephanie Seneff et al — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456713/ — Also a handful of Youtube interviews if you search for: “Dr. Stephanie Seneff” sulfur cholesterol minerals

To conclude, interfacial water has become a big topic in USBA ala Reams. Why? Pollack believes the amount of interfacial water achieved and sustained in vivo, is a major measure of the health of our interstitial-lymph-fluid, our internal Living Waters. A dependable way to measure this exists, phase angle measurement, as described by Zach Bush, below.

In recent decades, in USBA, the topics of state-changed water and distilled water have been subsumed into interfacial water. Distilled water is now viewed as a huge support for creating and sustaining our internal interfacial water. Explaining the benefits of distilled water became much easier within the context of achieving, maintaining and expanding our internal interfacial water. PubMed has 1250 papers on interfacial water, conclusions reached from varied researchers.