1. Water is the bulk material that fills empty spaces in the body.
2. Water is the vehicle of transport for the circulation of blood cells.
3. Water is a solvent for the materials that dissolve it, including oxygen.
4. Water is the adhesive that binds solid parts of the cell together. Just as ice has a sticky effect, so water seems to become sticky at the cell membrane. It is responsible for holding things together and forming a membrane or protective barrier around the cell.
5. The neurotransmission systems of the brain and nerves depend on rapid movement of sodium and potassium in and out of the membrane along the full length of the nerves. Water that is loose and not bonded with something else is free to move across the cell membrane and turn the element-moving pumps.
6. Some of the element-moving pumps are voltage-generating pumps. Thus, efficiency of neurotransmission systems depends on the availability of free and unengaged water in the nerve tissues. In its osmotic urge to get into the cell, water generates energy by turning the pump units that force potassium into the cell and push sodium outside the cell - just as water turns the turbines at a hydroelectric dam to make electricity. Up to now, however, it has been assumed that all energy storage in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) - the substance that "burns" and gives out "heat" to "cook" any of the chemical reactions required for the cell to function - is from food intake. This is why water has not received much attention as a source of energy in the energy generating systems in the body.
7. Water is the central regulator of energy and osmotic balance in the body. Sodium and potassium stick to the protein pump and act as the "magnet of the dynamo" when water rotates the pump proteins. The rapid turn of these cation (pronounced cat-i-on) pump generates energy that is stored at many different locations in three different pool types. ATP is one type of energy pool. Another energy storage pool is guanosine triphosphate (GTP). A third system is in the endoplasmic reticulum that captures and traps calcium. For every two units of calcium that are trapped, the energy equivalent of one unit of ATP is stored in the connection of the two calcium atoms. For every two units of calcium that are separated from one another and released, one unit of energy - to make a new unit of ATP - is also released. This mechanism of calcium entrapment as a means of energy storage makes the bone structure of the body not only its scaffolding but also its Fort Knox - like investment of your cash in gold reserve. Hence, when there is severe dehydration - and consequently a decreased supply of hydroelectric energy - the body taps into the bones for their stored energy. Thus I believe that the primary cause of osteoporosis is persistent dehydration.
8. The goods we eat are the products of energy conversion from the initial electrical-energy-generating property of water. All living and growing species, humans included, survive as a result of energy generation of water. One major problem in the scientific evaluation of the body is the lack of understanding of the magnitude of our body's dependence on energy from hydroelectricity.
9. The electricity produced at the cell membrane also forces the nearby proteins to align themselves and get ready for their chemical reactions.

 

Blood is normally about 94 percent water when the body is fully hydrated (red cells are actually "water bags" that contain the colored hemoglobin). Inside the cells of the body, there should ideally be about 75 percent water. Because of this difference in water levels outside and inside the cells, an osmotic flow of water into the cells normally occurs. There are hundreds of thousands of voltage-generating pump units at the cell membranes, much like the turbines used in hydroelectric dams. The water that flows through them rotates these pumps. This rush of water creates hydroelectric energy. At the same time, and as part of the same process, elements such as sodium and potassium are exchanged.

Only water that is free and can move about - the water you drink - generates hydroelectric energy at the cell membrane. The previously supplied water that is now busy with other functions cannot leave its binding position to rush elsewhere. This is why water by itself should be considered the most suitable pick-me-up beverage and should be consumed at regular intervals during the day. The good thing about water as a source of energy is the fact that any excess water is passed out of the body. It manufactures the needed energy to top up the reserved in the cells and then leaves the body (carrying with it the tocix waste of the cells). It is not stored.

Where there is dehydration because a person is not drinking enough water, the cells become depleted of their ready energy. They then have to depend more on energy generation from food that is consumed instead of water. In this situation, the body is pushed into storing fat and using its protein and starch reserves, because it is easier to break these elements down than the stored fat. This is the reason why 37 percent of people in America are grossly overweight. Their bodies are engaged in perpetual crisis management of dehydration.

The word hydrolysis (loosening, dissolving, breaking, or splitting by the participating action of water) is used when water becomes involved in the metabolism of other materials. Activities that depend on hydrolysis include the breakdown of a protein into the different amino acids that have been used to make that particular protein, and the breakdown of large fatty particles into smaller fatty acid units. Without water, hydrolysis cannot take place. It follows, then, that the hydrolytic function of water also constitutes the metabolism of water itself. What this means is that water itself needs to be broken down first - hydrolyzed - before the body can use the various components in food. This is why we need to supply the body with water before we eat solid foods.