What is the cluster structure of intracellular (inside the cell) water?
The water inside our living cells is not made up of single loose water molecules. It is a grouping of water molecules, often in the general shape of a hexagon made of 6 water molecules, not too different from the pattern seen in snow flakes. These are often called “living water clusters”, in part because one can do MRI studies of the water inside a living cell to discover that when the cell is killed, say, by a poison, the MRI signature of these living water clusters disappears and is replaced by the signature of much larger water clusters, containing up to 25 water molecules. It turns out that by some synchronistic magical divine coincidence that when “dead” water (water made up of big clusters) flows inside rocks that contain quartz (silica) crystals, the contact with and motion around the quartz will break up these large clusters and help restore the hexagonal structure of the water. Thus sweet water from mountain springs that flows in many vortices in creeks and rivers ends up havi
