the additional post was to address a couple of concerns that have come up repeatedly..."why CRITICAL measure?" "and why baking soda?" People can mess with the recipe however they want, but this is chemistry. Chemistry is an exact science(I think:). People are making z water and excluding the baking soda. I looked up WHY baking soda so that people can see that there is a biochemical REASON for pH adjustment. It makes the Z water EFFECTIVE. No, it does not affect the electrolytes, it affects the albumin:
http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/riddick/chap22.htm
6.) The blood electrolytes (considered simply as say sodium and potassium chloride and bicarbonate; and potassium, calcium and magnesium sulphate and phosphate) adsorb on, and control the stability of the albumin.
7.) The albumin (in turn) adsorbs on, and controls the stability of all the formed elements. It also adsorbs on, and renders significantly electronegative, the walls of the vascular system.
8.) Albumin serves as a tremendous bulwark of resistance against inadvertent and sudden coagulation by 3:1, 2:1 and 1:1 electrolytes, as was evident in Fig. 167, p. 245. The ingestion of a relatively high dosage of aluminum hydroxide does not immediately produce fatal intravascular coagulation, as will be later noted in the review of a report on aluminum by the Kettering Laboratory. But excessive 1:1 and/or 2:1, and/or 3:1 electrolytes can surely change the ZP of colloid systems, including those protected by albumin, or albumin — like proteins.
9.) Stability is "locked in place" to a high degree by pH, to which the albumin (but not the electrolytes) is quite sensitive. (See Figs. 110, 118 and 121, pp. 150, 159 and 163.)
Sooo, pH is IMPORTANT. Baking soda is IMPORTANT.
V explained it to me once like this. Freeway...traffic flowing smoothly or traffic jam? Increased zeta potential is like breaking up that traffic jam, everything can get to where it needs to go. THAT, I understood. I am a very visual person.. Zeta potential increases the carrying capacity of your blood...all the better to detoxify, remove cellular waste...My understanding is unclear as well as I am also not a scientist, but through repeated reading it is becoming clearer. What V meant by this last post, I have no clue...yet. Follow some of the links posted, do some reading, and your understanding will grow. On a practical level, make the z water and drink, you'll see. Gives good, clean energy.
a few more snippets:
http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/info/colloid.htm
Colloids are held in suspension via, a very slight Electro-negative charge on the surface of each particle. This charge is called Zeta Potential.
Zeta Potential = Very slight Electro-negative charge on the "surface" ( Outer Orbital Regions or "Virtual Shell" ) of "particles". Like charges repel each other, so "Particle Domains" with negative outer regions will move away from each other - Nature's anti-collision system.
The ability of a liquid to carry material in suspension is a function of these minute electrical charges. As the Electro-negative charge increases, more material can be carried in suspension. As the charge decreases, the particles move closer to each other and the liquid is able to carry less material. There is a point where the ability to carry material in suspension is exceeded, and particles begin to clump together with the heavier particles materials dropping out of the liquid and coagulating....
...Colloids in suspension determine the ability of all liquids particularly water-based liquids to carry material. This also applies to semi-solids and solids but liquid is the focus of this paper.
http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/mcdaniel.htm
Zeta Potential is a measure of the electrical force that exists between
atoms, molecules, particles, suspensoids, cells, etc., in a fluid.
Zeta Potential's strength determines the amount of material that a fluid can carry. Increasing the electrical force in the solution, allows the fluid to dissolve and hold more material. In this way, deposits can be removed from many things.