It was with great interest that I accepted an invitation to speak at a conference at the Royal Society of Medicine in London last July controversially titled New Horizons in Water Science: Evidence for Homeopathy. Organized by the British Homeopathic Association, the one-day conference brought together some of the brightest minds in the field to discuss the current state of scientific knowledge on possible mechanisms underpinning homeopathy’s claimed or proven effects.
I was humbled to be speaking alongside Nobel laureates Luc Montagnier and Brian Josephson, Dr Jerry Pollack, and two Russian professors, Vladimir Voeikov and Alexander Konovalov – all authorities on various aspects of the science of water. As a specialist in sustainability, I outlined a vision for transforming health and health management by applying sustainability principles.
The presentations of these five professors set the scene, not using old science or long-held views with inadequate support, but by establishing that the principles we have used to explain life on Earth are fundamentally flawed.
It’s akin to building a house on a shaky foundation – the building itself will remain vulnerable to stress until the foundation is repaired. Water is so fundamental to life that we cannot understand life without having a deep understanding of water.
Water is scientifically anomalous. It does many things we shouldn’t expect of it, given oxygen’s position on the periodic table. Take its unusually high melting and boiling points – they’re not just a little bit higher, but around 100,000 to 150,000 times higher than expected based on neighboring elements. It also exists in multiple different solid forms, in various crystal structures or amorphous ice, all of which change with pressure. And unlike other chemical compounds, it’s less dense in solid than in liquid form, which is why ice floats.
The above anomalies and more are well known to modern science, but they’ve never really been explained. Those who have tried to advance our understanding (or lack thereof) one step further, as French immunologist Dr Jacques Benveniste did in attempting to demonstrate that water can retain a memory of biologically active substances even when they are no longer present, have ended up in deep water (excuse the pun).
The scientific orthodoxy came crashing down on Dr Benveniste, who had his lab closed down and his discoveries kicked to the fringes.
In some ways, the London conference was something of a celebration of what has happened in the wake of Benveniste’s discoveries since his death in 2004. Among the more extraordinary recent findings is the discovery of Dr Gerald Pollack at the University of Washington in Seattle that water doesn’t only exist in three phases (solid, liquid and vapor) but also in a fourth phase that takes the form of a matrix built from three hydrogen and two oxygen atoms, or H3O2. You can read more about it in his book, The Fourth Phase of Water (Ebner & Sons, 2013).
Pollack calls the phase ‘EZ water,’ EZ being an acronym for the ‘exclusion zone’ that this type of pure water creates, which allows it to keep out other substances. Our cells are full of the stuff – it even provides us with an additional energy source beyond the calories derived from food, fat or ketones.
EZ water is present in layers at the interface of all hydrophilic (water-soluble) surfaces, where it acts like a battery that draws electromagnetic energy from sunlight and can then undertake numerous tasks that drive internal metabolism, akin to a form of human photosynthesis.
In fact, it’s the only explanation we have for how red blood cells are pushed through the narrow space offered by surface capillaries. It seems we’d need 1,000 times more pressure than the heart provides to do that job alone – and that would be off-the-charts hypertension!
Many more discoveries were also discussed. Professor Voeikov described how biologically active substances could leave ‘signatures’ in water in the form of high-energy oxygen radicals.
Professor Konovalov reported that nano-sized assemblies of water molecules (referred to as ‘nanoassociates’) could retain a ‘memory’ of bioactive molecules long after their removal. As Benveniste proposed, low-frequency electromagnetic fields appear to maintain these nanoassociates.
Five out of six published meta-analyses and systematic reviews, considered the pinnacle of evidence to prove causal effects in mainstream medicine, found that the effects of homeopathy go beyond placebo.So, despite what opponents of homeopathy argue, the clinical effect is clear.
Could this new evidence from the science of water reveal a likely mechanism? And could an understanding of this mechanism provide the missing piece of the puzzle required to shift the medical establishment’s perceptions about the usefulness of homeopathy for human health? This kind of sea change is urgently needed if we are to avert the continued marginalization of homeopathy, caused by a lack of appetite among some for the truth about the science of water.
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