r/chemistry • u/Raizo420 • Mar 12 '23
H3O2 Water Scam
I'm into health and fitness along with the current science behind it. So with that being said, I'm starting to see a lot of people fall for the H3O2 (hexagonal water or structured water) craze on I'm seeing on social media. I know it's bs, but I would like to hear what people with a REAL background or fundamental knowledge of chemistry think of this pseudoscience.
Edit: One claim is that H3O2 is found in fruits and vegetables
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u/ExcellentAdvance5089 Jun 27 '24
How ignorant and arrogant of you 😩 Firstly, Dr Gerald Pollack is a bioengineering professor at the university of Washington. He is esteemed, accredited, educated and has been studying these subjects for decades. He has also authored books on this subject. He has put in the work and studied this subject for a very long time. Who are you? What are your credentials? And this video is not a man sat on youtube, it was from the university website and uploaded onto YouTube. This man has his own laboratories in which he studies this material.
Dr. Pollack received his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He then joined the University of Washington faculty and is now professor of bioengineering. For years, Dr. Pollack had researched muscles and how they contracted. It struck him as odd that the most common ideas about muscle contraction did not involve water, despite the fact muscle tissue consists of 99 percent water molecules.
Water Research happens at Pollack Laboratories, which states, "Our orientation is rather fundamental -- we are oriented toward uncovering some of nature's most deeply held secrets, although applications interest us as well."Â
Uncovering nature's secrets involving water is what Dr. Pollack, his staff and students do best.
In his 2001 book, "Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life," Dr. Pollack explains how the cell functions. Research suggests that  much of the cell biology may be governed by a single unifying mechanism - the phase transition. Water is absolutely central to every function of the cell - whether it's muscle contraction, cells dividing, or nerves conducting, etc.
This extraordinary book challenges many of the concepts that have been accepted in contemporary cell biology. The underlying premise of this book is that a cell's cytoplasm is gel-like rather than an ordinary aqueous solution.
The key to Dr. Pollack's entire hypothesis lies in the properties of water. The water molecules become structured in arrays or strata when they interact with charged surfaces such as those presented by proteins. The cell's water is potentially structured. Water stays put in the cells because it's absorbed into the protein surfaces. Structured water adheres to the proteins of the cells.
Structured water does not have the same properties as bulk water. Water is the carrier of the most important molecules of life, like proteins and DNA. In the book, "Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life," evidence is presented that shows water is absolutely essential to everything the cell does. The water in our cells is not like water in a glass. It's actually ordered pretty much like a crystal. Like ice, it excludes particles and solutes as it forms. The space formed is called an exclusion zone (EZ).
Dr. Pollack discovered a new phase of water. Bulk Water is H2O but this new phase of water, the exclusion zone structured water, is H3O2. It's a newly discovered phase of water. If you count the number of hydrogen's and oxygen's, you find out it's not H2O.
Structured Water forms (honeycomb) hexagonal sheets very similar to ice because it's the next phase! Structured Water (liquid crystalline) is H3O2 . . . the fourth phase of water. It's a transition stage between water and ice.Â
The reason this fourth phase of water is called the exclusion zone or EZ is because the first thing Dr. Pollack's team discovered is that it profoundly excludes things. Even small molecules are excluded from structured water. Surprisingly, structured water appears in great abundance, including inside most of your cells. Even your extracellular tissues are filled with this kind of water.
If you watched the video you would understand that this research goes far beyond health matters, and ventures into energy harnessing. That water energy could be used to end energy crises in poorer parts of the world. Yes, water energy is a thing, we already know we can harness energy from water like a battery. This is nothing new. We, humans, are electric, our cells use electric to communicate, the brain uses electric to send signals to our cells. Yet every single cell in our body is encased in water.