Water, Water and ZETA!?
by Virato

We can smell, taste, and even see water that is questionable. Water visually oily, or with a smell, or an oily aftertaste may suffer from industrial pollution. If it smells like rotten eggs it may be actually be mixed with sewage water, and not just sulfur! A metallic taste may indicate high lead or manganese levels. If it is cloudy, it may suggest too much copper.

Too much chlorine may pit or discolor stainless steel black, and recent research has even hinted at fluoridation as causing rather than preventing tooth decay. At lower levels of contamination, with low concentrations of highly toxic chemicals like dioxin or radioactive materials, the water may be odorless and tasteless. Uranium, radon, and radium are common, naturally occurring radioactive contaminants. In addition, radiation spills from plants designed to radiate medical supplies, and now food, are also adding to the water contamination problem.

Asheville area water comes from two sources: underground water, such as springs and wells, and surface water, such as rivers and lakes reservoirs Both of these sources are becoming more and more polluted because of poor governmental regulations and enforcement, breakdown of our water systems, unsafe disposal of toxic waste, acid rain, inadequate safety procedures in the disposal of radioactive wastes, improper purification of raw sewage, agricultural herbicide and pesticide runoff, and the general pollution of our environment.

An herbalist friend of mine said, "pay attention to your elimination, or it will eliminate you." Unfortunately, agencies created by our government to protect us and our environment are in many cases adding to the problem.

We need to protect ourselves from the polluted and toxic water in which we are slowly drowning. Drinking water out of the faucet in most towns and cities, whether in the Asheville area or anywhere, is marginal at best. To me, out of the question.

Sources of safe drinking water are: most bottled spring and mineral water which has been filtered through carbon or other types of filters, distilled water in glass containers, and water that has been filtered through reverse osmosis or other purifiers, including ozone. Each of these has particular advantages and disadvantages, depending on the type of water and its source. Reverse osmosis or distilled water that has gone through a pre and post-carbon block filter are the safest two sources.

The Structure of Water...

However, neither reverse osmosis, nor distilled water, are the healthiest water that one can obtain. Although both are pure from a chemical point of view, neither is biologically active. Findings by scientist Dr. Paul Kouchakoff, a leading researcher in the field, have shown that distilled water, because it has been boiled at high temperatures, has lost its crystalline structure, and actually acts like a foreign body inside us, stimulating a pathological increase in white blood cell count!

The healthiest water is biologically active, or structured water. Structured water either already contains, or has the capacity to hold, more energy than distilled water or water that has gone through reverse osmosis. Researchers have found that the bond angle of the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in structured water is different than that of processed water 

The amount of structured water inside our cells has been linked to our overall health. 

Live (uncooked) foods contain structured water. About 85% of most fruits and vegetables are also water, so eating raw fresh fruits and vegetables is a delightful way to obtain a daily requirement of biologically active water.

The more structured the water is in our biological system, the better the enzyme systems can carry out their work, and the easier it is for vitamins and minerals to get into our cells. When the water is structured, the individual water molecules become grouped into high energy, liquid crystalline units. 

Put simply, the more structured the water, the more life energy it holds, the better the individual cells function, and the higher the quality of health.

The good news is that it is possible to structure distilled or reverse osmosis water so it can be transformed from simply a safe and clean water, to a high energy, healthy water. This can be done with sunlight, magnets, crystals, or even the energy from our hands. The famous water of Hunza, in the Himalayas, associated with longevity, has been found to be highly structured water.

Numerous scientists and researchers have investigated Hunza water, and found that the key element in maintaining the structured nature of this water was its colloid content. They discovered that the more colloidal structure in water, the more free energy is available for enhancing the health of our systems. This free energy in water is called 'zeta potential.'

Liquids with the most biologically healthy colloidal systems are the most structured, and have the highest zeta potential. When the zeta potential is decreased in a biological system, the integrity of its fluids is disrupted and the system's function decreases. For example, when the colloidal system of carrot juice begins to collapse after a few days, we see the appearance of a gooey jell. 

When the zeta potential of blood decreases, the red cells begin to stick together loosing their discreteness, thickening the blood. This "sludging" effect has been associated with general poor health, lack of oxygen in the tissues, and lower energetic cellular functioning. This in turn results  in an increasing incidence of degenerative and immune system disease.

Just as clean, pure, freely flowing rivers, lakes and oceans bring life to planet earth, so does high energy, freely flowing fluids in our body, such as blood, fluid between the cells, and the fluid in our cells, bring health to our bodies.

Researchers have discovered that fluid colloid systems in our bodies are disrupted by: cooking, microwaving, or irradiating food; aluminum in drinking water, beer and soft drinks; and extremely low frequencies (ELF's) from hair dryers, TV sets, computers, and even washing machines!

The best approach to maintaining a high colloid zeta potential in your body fluids is to take in water that increases the zeta potential. The best diet for this is organic vegetables and fruits with high liquid content.

By maintaining a high zeta potential in your blood and intracellular fluids, you are likely to have the colloidal structure of your biological systems disrupted or destroyed by the myriad of potential zeta potential destroyers in your environment. With this awareness of zeta potential, we can choose water and high structured water content foods and liquids which are true elixirs of health. 

I owe my knowledge of water to my friend, Gabriel Cousens, MD, who taught me to care for my body with love.  I also owe much to some Russian scientists and Essene friends.

Next week we go from what to drink ...to…what to eat. Until then, check out your reality today. You might be surprised!

Virato’s Bio:
Virato, born in Brooklyn, NY, come to us via Asheville, NC where he was editor  of The Resource, and Philadelphia, where, for the past 18 years he was editor of New Frontier Magazine, an international journal of new thought consciousness. He is currently talk show of the popular VIRATO LIVE!

Virato brings with him a wealth of knowledge from spending time with, and  interviewing, Hollywood and TV stars like Academy Award nominee, Ellen Burstyn, Touch By An Angel’s Roma Downey and Academy Award recipient for Best Actor, Alan Arkin …to world renown healers, scholars and spiritual leaders like Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, Kitaro, Timothy Leary and the Dali Lama. 
You may send him e-mail at virato@mindspring.com