Water and the Human Body: The Liquid Architecture of Consciousness
The most radical truth about your body is also the most obvious one: you are mostly water. Approximately 60-70% of your body weight is water.
Water and the Human Body: The Liquid Architecture of Consciousness
You Are Not Solid. You Are Water.
The most radical truth about your body is also the most obvious one: you are mostly water. Approximately 60-70% of your body weight is water. But the percentage by weight understates the reality. By molecular count, roughly 99% of the molecules in your body are water molecules. For every protein, every lipid, every mineral, every strand of DNA — there are hundreds of water molecules surrounding it, interacting with it, and participating in every function it performs.
You are not a solid body that happens to contain water. You are an organized water system that maintains a body. And the implications of this fact — when understood through the lens of Gerald Pollack’s fourth phase, Emilio Del Giudice’s coherence domains, and the ancient wisdom traditions — are nothing short of revolutionary.
The Distribution: Where Your Water Lives
The 42 liters of water in an average adult human body are not uniformly distributed. They exist in compartments with different properties and functions:
Intracellular Water (66% of total body water)
Approximately 28 liters of your water lives inside your cells. This is not ordinary bulk water. Intracellular water exists in intimate contact with proteins, DNA, mitochondrial membranes, and the cytoskeletal network. According to Pollack’s research, much of this water exists in the fourth phase — structured, ordered, electrically charged EZ water that forms along every hydrophilic surface inside the cell.
The interior of a cell is packed with membranes, proteins, and organelles — all of which have hydrophilic surfaces. This means that a very large proportion of intracellular water may be in the EZ or structured state, not the bulk liquid state. The cell interior may be more like a gel than a fluid.
Extracellular Water (34% of total body water)
The remaining 14 liters exist outside cells in several subcompartments:
- Interstitial fluid (fluid between cells) — approximately 10 liters
- Blood plasma — approximately 3 liters
- Transcellular fluid (cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, aqueous humor, etc.) — approximately 1 liter
Water Distribution by Organ
The percentage of water varies dramatically by tissue:
- Brain and heart: 73% water
- Lungs: 83% water
- Muscles and kidneys: 79% water
- Skin: 64% water
- Bones: 31% water
The brain — the organ we most associate with consciousness — is nearly three-quarters water. Every thought you think, every memory you form, every emotion you feel occurs within a water-saturated medium. If water is indeed capable of storing and transmitting information, as the research of Montagnier, Del Giudice, and others suggests, then the brain is not merely an electrical organ. It is a liquid crystal information processor.
The Fascia: The Body’s Water Highway
One of the most important recent developments in anatomy and physiology is the rediscovery of fascia — the continuous web of connective tissue that wraps every muscle, bone, organ, nerve, and blood vessel in the body. For decades, anatomists dismissed fascia as mere packing material. Now it is recognized as the largest sensory organ in the body and a critical component of the body’s communication network.
Fascia is composed primarily of collagen fibers embedded in a ground substance that is rich in water — specifically, structured water. The collagen fibers are hydrophilic, meaning they create EZ water along their surfaces. The fascial network, therefore, is a body-wide system of structured water channels.
Fascia as Information Highway
Dr. James Oschman and others have proposed that fascia, with its structured water matrix, may function as a body-wide information network that operates alongside (and possibly faster than) the nervous system. The mechanism:
- Collagen fibers are piezoelectric — they generate electrical signals when compressed or stretched
- The structured water along collagen surfaces carries charge and can transmit electromagnetic signals
- The fascial network is continuous — it connects every part of the body to every other part
- Mechanical signals (movement, pressure, vibration) are instantly transmitted through the fascial water matrix
This may explain phenomena that conventional neuroscience struggles to account for:
- How acupuncture points and meridians work (many correspond to fascial planes and intersections)
- How bodywork modalities like deep tissue massage, Rolfing, and myofascial release produce systemic effects far from the treatment site
- How emotional trauma is “stored in the body” (in the structured water of fascial tissue)
- How practices like yoga and tai chi produce effects that seem out of proportion to their physical demands (they are restructuring the body’s water through the fascial network)
The MELT Method and Structured Water
Sue Hitzmann, creator of the MELT Method and author of “The New Rules of Hydration,” has explicitly connected fascial health to structured water. She argues that true hydration is not about drinking more water but about maintaining the structural integrity of the body’s fascial water matrix. Dehydration, in this view, is not primarily a problem of insufficient fluid but of insufficient structure — the breakdown of the body’s EZ water system.
Mitochondria: The Water-Powered Battery
Mitochondria — the organelles responsible for producing 90% of the body’s energy in the form of ATP — have a direct and intimate relationship with structured water.
The Charge Separation Mechanism
The inner mitochondrial membrane is a hydrophilic surface. According to Pollack’s research, EZ water forms along this membrane, creating a layer of negatively charged, structured water on the membrane surface with positively charged bulk water adjacent to it.
This charge separation is exactly what mitochondria need to produce ATP. The proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane — the driving force for ATP synthase — may be maintained not only by the electron transport chain but also by the natural charge separation of EZ water.
In other words, your mitochondria are not just chemical engines. They are water-powered electrical generators, using the fourth phase of water as a battery to maintain the voltage differential that drives ATP production.
Metabolic Water
A fact rarely discussed in popular health literature: mitochondria actually produce water. When oxygen is the final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain, it combines with hydrogen to form H2O. An average adult produces approximately 250-350 milliliters of metabolic water per day through cellular respiration.
This metabolic water is created inside mitochondria — in direct contact with hydrophilic mitochondrial membranes. It is likely born as structured, EZ water. This may be why some researchers suggest that metabolic water is the most bioavailable form of hydration — water created by the body’s own energy-producing processes, structured from the moment of its creation.
Implications for Energy and Fatigue
If mitochondrial function depends on structured water:
- Chronic fatigue may be partly a problem of insufficient EZ water in mitochondria
- Infrared light exposure (sunlight, sauna) may boost energy by building EZ water on mitochondrial membranes
- Cold exposure may enhance mitochondrial function by promoting water structuring (water becomes more ordered at lower temperatures)
- Grounding/earthing may supply electrons that support the negative charge of EZ water
These are not proven causal claims. They are hypotheses that emerge naturally from the intersection of Pollack’s EZ water research and mitochondrial biology. They also happen to align with what many people report experientially: that sunlight, cold exposure, earthing, and movement increase their energy and vitality.
DNA: The Aqueous Helix
DNA does not exist in isolation. It exists in water. And the water that surrounds DNA is not random bulk water — it is highly structured.
The Hydration Shell
DNA has a hydration shell of approximately 20-30 water molecules per nucleotide. These water molecules are not loosely associated. They form specific, reproducible hydrogen bond networks with the DNA base pairs and the sugar-phosphate backbone. The structure of this hydration shell is critical for:
- Maintaining DNA’s helical shape
- Facilitating the binding of proteins and enzymes to DNA
- Enabling the unwinding of DNA for transcription and replication
- Protecting DNA from damage
Mu Shik Jhon’s research showed that healthy DNA is surrounded by more hexagonally structured water than damaged DNA. This suggests that the quality of the water environment around DNA directly affects DNA integrity and function.
The Water-DNA Interface and Epigenetics
If the water surrounding DNA influences its function, and if water structure is influenced by the environment (electromagnetic fields, sound, temperature, and possibly intention), then there is a mechanism by which environmental signals could be transmitted to DNA through its hydration shell.
This is not the mechanism of classical genetics (DNA sequence determines traits). It is closer to epigenetics (environmental factors influence gene expression without changing the DNA sequence). The water hydration shell may be one of the mediators through which epigenetic signals reach the DNA.
This is speculative but grounded in known physics: water structure changes in response to environmental conditions, DNA function depends on its water environment, and therefore changes in water structure can change DNA function. The full implications of this chain of causation are only beginning to be explored.
The Brain: A Liquid Crystal Computer
The brain is 73% water by weight. Its primary function — generating and processing electrical signals — occurs in an aqueous medium. The implications of water science for neuroscience are potentially transformative.
Cerebrospinal Fluid
The brain and spinal cord float in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) — approximately 150 milliliters of clear, colorless fluid that cushions the central nervous system. CSF is produced by the choroid plexus and circulates through the ventricles of the brain and the subarachnoid space.
CSF is not merely a cushion. It is the environment in which the brain operates. If CSF water has structured properties (EZ water formation along the brain’s hydrophilic surfaces), then the brain is literally bathed in liquid crystal. The implications for signal processing, information storage, and consciousness are significant.
Microtubules and Quantum Consciousness
The Penrose-Hameroff theory of consciousness (Orchestrated Objective Reduction, or Orch-OR) proposes that consciousness arises from quantum computations in microtubules — tiny tubular structures within neurons. The interior of microtubules is filled with water.
Jibu and Yasue extended this work with a quantum field theory of consciousness that specifically posits quantum coherence in the brain’s water molecules, particularly within microtubules, as the physical substrate of conscious experience. If Del Giudice’s coherence domains exist in brain water, they could provide the quantum coherent environment that the Orch-OR theory requires.
In this model, consciousness does not arise from the electrical firing of neurons alone. It arises from the quantum coherent properties of water within and around neurons. The brain is not a silicon-like computer running on electricity. It is a liquid crystal quantum computer running on coherent water.
This is a theoretical framework, not proven science. But it represents a convergence of quantum physics (Del Giudice), neuroscience (Penrose-Hameroff), and water science (Pollack) that may eventually revolutionize our understanding of consciousness.
The Heart’s Water Field
The heart is 73% water — the same percentage as the brain. It generates the strongest electromagnetic field in the body, measurable by magnetometers several feet from the body. Research at the HeartMath Institute has demonstrated that the heart’s electromagnetic field changes measurably with emotional states:
- Coherent emotional states (gratitude, love, appreciation) produce smooth, ordered electromagnetic patterns
- Incoherent emotional states (frustration, anxiety, anger) produce jagged, disordered patterns
If the heart’s electromagnetic field influences the structure of the water in and around the heart (as Del Giudice’s QED framework suggests it should), then emotional coherence is not merely a psychological state. It is a physical state of water organization in the body’s largest electromagnetic field generator.
The heart-based resonant field framework proposes that coherence domains in water, lipid membranes, and protein ensembles form phase-aligned oscillatory structures that are stabilized and hierarchically integrated by the heart’s rhythmic electromagnetic field. In plain language: the heart’s rhythm organizes the body’s water into coherent patterns.
This provides a mechanism for understanding why heart-centered practices — gratitude, loving-kindness meditation, prayer, compassion practices — have measurable effects on physical health. They are not “just psychological.” They are restructuring the body’s water through electromagnetic coherence.
Tears, Sweat, and Saliva: Water as Emotional Expression
Human tears contain more than just water. They contain proteins, lipids, metabolites, and electrolytes, with composition varying depending on the type of tear (basal, reflex, or emotional). Rose-Lynn Fisher’s photographic project “The Topography of Tears” showed that tears of grief look markedly different under a microscope from tears of joy, tears from onion cutting, or tears from laughing.
If water stores information in its structure, then tears are not just the overflow of emotional processing. They are the body releasing structured water that carries the informational imprint of the emotion. Crying literally releases the information pattern of grief, joy, or overwhelm from the body’s water system.
This may be why crying is therapeutic — not just because it releases stress hormones (which it does), but because it releases water that has been structured by the emotional state. The body is flushing information.
Similarly, sweat produced during exercise carries different compounds than stress sweat. The water released by the body is not generic. It is specific to the metabolic and emotional state that produced it.
Practical Wisdom: Caring for Your Body’s Water
Understanding that your body is primarily a water system reframes health practices in a fundamental way:
Hydration as Structure, Not Volume
True hydration is not about drinking eight glasses of water a day. It is about building and maintaining structured water in your tissues. This requires:
- Clean water with natural mineral content (minerals support water structuring)
- Adequate infrared light exposure (sunlight, especially morning and evening)
- Movement (which generates EZ water through fascial compression and decompression)
- Adequate sleep (the glymphatic system clears the brain’s water during sleep)
Emotional Hygiene as Physical Hygiene
If your emotional state structures your body’s water, then emotional hygiene is not separate from physical hygiene. Chronic anger, fear, or grief may not just damage you psychologically — they may be degrading the structural integrity of your body’s water system at the cellular level.
Conversely, practices that generate emotional coherence (meditation, prayer, gratitude, time in nature, meaningful relationships) may be among the most powerful health interventions available — not because they are “relaxing” but because they are structuring your body’s water into coherent, life-supporting patterns.
Food as Water
Raw fruits and vegetables contain structured water — water that has been organized by the living systems of the plant. When you eat raw, water-rich food, you are consuming water that is already in a structured, biologically compatible state. This may be one reason why raw food diets and fruit-heavy diets are associated with increased vitality (beyond their vitamin and mineral content).
Cooking destroys water structure. This does not mean cooked food is bad, but it means that the water component of cooked food has lost its biological organization and must be restructured by your body.
Blessing as Biology
The practice of blessing food and water before consuming it — found in virtually every spiritual tradition on Earth — may be one of the most practical health habits available. If intention structures water (as Emoto’s and Radin’s research suggests), then taking a moment of gratitude before eating or drinking is programming the water you are about to take into your body.
This is not superstition. This is applied water science, practiced intuitively by humanity for thousands of years before anyone had a microscope.
The Body as Antenna
Taking all of this together — the structured water in fascia, the EZ water in mitochondria, the coherence domains in brain water, the heart’s electromagnetic field organizing water patterns, the quantum coherent properties of intracellular water — a picture emerges of the human body as a water-based antenna.
An antenna receives and transmits electromagnetic signals. The human body, with its 42 liters of structured, coherent, electrically active water, does the same thing. It receives signals from the environment (electromagnetic fields, sound vibrations, intentional fields) and transmits signals outward (the heart’s electromagnetic field, biophoton emission, the electromagnetic signature of emotional states).
Consciousness, in this model, is not produced by the brain alone. It is received, processed, and transmitted by the entire body’s water system. The brain is the central processor, but the water matrix is the medium. The fascia is the antenna array. The heart is the coherence generator. And the mitochondria are the power supply.
This is what the mystics have always said, in different language: you are not just a physical body. You are a field of awareness. You are a receiving and transmitting station. You are a node in a web of consciousness that connects all living things.
The medium of that connection is water.
Key References
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- USGS. “The Water in You: Water and the Human Body.”
- National Institutes of Health. “Physiology, Body Fluids.” StatPearls.
- Hitzmann, S. “MELT Method: Structured Water and Fascia.”
- Oschman, J.L. “Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis.”
- McCraty, R. and Childre, D. “The Grateful Heart: The Psychophysiology of Appreciation.” HeartMath Institute.
- Penrose, R. and Hameroff, S. “Consciousness in the Universe: A Review of the Orch-OR Theory.”
- Jibu, M. and Yasue, K. “Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness.”
- Del Giudice, E. et al. “Coherent Quantum Electrodynamics in Living Matter.”
- Jhon, M.S. (2004). “The Water Puzzle and the Hexagonal Key.”
- Fisher, R.L. “The Topography of Tears.”