Introduction:  Most people think that water is the same everywhere with minor differences.  This could not be farther from the truth.  Water takes on multiple forms in its liquid state,  while in the solid state, no two snow flakes are the same.  Water as it circulates in our bodies is biological water and quite different from the bulk unstructured water which most of us drink. Even the water inside our cells (intracellular water) is different from extracellular water in the spaces between cells.  As we become older, we are less able to absorb and assimilate not only bulk water but also nutrients, minerals and vitamins.  As a consequence our bodies become dehydrated no matter how much bulk water we drink.  This is why we often feel thirsty with a sense of something missing even after large amounts of water.

Dr Patrick Flanagan:  Patrick has been well known for many decades, having been recognised as a boy genius. At age 6, he built an electrical stimulator to stimulate the brain (sleep machine); later at age 14, he invented the Neurophone; at 18 named as one of the most promising young scientists by "Life Magazine" and by "Leaders in American Science"; at 19 he contributed to the Gemini Space Program; at 23 he translated human speech into dolphin language.  His book  "Pyramid Power" revealed his consuming interest in planetary energies and the bioenergy systems of the human body.  His all round excellence has extended to winning ever 30 gold medals as a gymnast.  Like Mozart, he has a playful, youthful personality and a photographic visual memory and like Tesla, he is able to design and assemble devices 3-dimensionally in his mind.  His inventions now number over 300, however he has no hesitation in revealing that his invention of Microhydrin surpasses them all as his greatest and most significant contribution to humanity.  For this invention he was awarded a Doctorate degree by the Open International University for Complementary Medicines of Sri Lanka (same university as one of Dr Stewart's doctorates) and has been nominated to the Nobel Committee for the Nobel Prize.

Hunza Water^®: The story of nanocolloids began when Patrick worked with Dr Henri Coanda, a respected fluid scientist who died in 1972.  Dr Coanda passed on to Patrick the secrets of his work on longevity and water science, in which he had discovered the 5 places on Earth where the people live and reproduce to over 100 years of age.  Dr Coanda realised that the secret lay in the unique water of these mountainous glacial  regions and in the 1930's he visited some of these including Hunzaland in northern Pakistan.  What he and later Patrick discovered was that the whitish Hunza water (milk of the mountains) contained minerals in elemental pulverised form called a colloidal suspension with high concentrations of Silica  Silver and Gold.  The minerals were not in the ionised salt form, presumably because the salt form would have been dissolved away long before.  The powder particles were electrically charged and of submicron size, some as small as 1-5 nanometres.

Colloidal Chemistry:  When submicron-sized particles are electrically charged and suspended in water, the water is more able to exert its range of unusual properties (see Water Science), some of which seem to border on the mystical.  The particles all take on their surface a positive electrical charge derived either from vortex movement (as in the Tangential Vortex Magnetic Amplifier), or succussion (as in Homeopathy), or from electrical energy introduced in the manufacturing process (as in Colloidal Silver and Gold).  This electrical charge,  a measure of which is Zeta Potential, makes the water more ingestible and wet by living creatures and more able to donate electrons as a reducing agent (as opposed to an oxidising agent which steals electrons from our body organs and skin).

Water Science:  Water has at least 36 different forms each with different properties.  Atoms connect with other atoms to form long polymeric sheets, liquid crystal lattice and spherical structures  (clathrates) even at temperatures above 100 degrees C.  More importantly, water seems able to store information for healing in its vibratory structure especially in variations of the angle which its hydrogen atoms make with the single oxygen atom.  All of this order results in bulk unstructurerd water having a high Surface Tension of 73 dynes and difficulty to penetrate cell and mitochondrial membranes and to enter deep inside cells where water and the nutrients it carries are needed most.

Flanagan Microclusters:  Under the name of Crystal Energy, these are produced by Dr Flanagan's manufacturing company by a proprietary 33 step process.  The electrically charged particles are made of silica hydride and act as energy seeds forming the nuclei of stable nanometre-sized water crystals.  This ensures that the water has the lowest possible Surface Tension of 38 dynes, making the water wetter and more absorbable.  A more important factor is the negative electrical charge of electrons carried on hydrogen atoms all over the surface of each of the microclusters.

Silica: Silica is the combination of Silicon, Oxygen and Hydrogen.  The element Silicon behaves similarly to Carbon in its ability to form a variety of crystals including a large spherical crystal like the "Buckyball" or geodesic dome described by Buckminster Fuller.  It is this form which Dr Flanagan uses to carry the essential electrons around the body and deep into the mitochondria and is the main secret of Hunza Water.

Hydrogen:  This is the simplest of atoms and consists of one proton and up to two electrons.  One of the electrons is tightly bound while the other hydride electron is loose and free to bond with other radicals.  Many such hydride radicals stick out from all over the surface of the 5 nanometre sized silica spherical crystals of Microhydrin and Hunza Water^® making them extremely efficient electron donors or anti-oxidants.

Free radicals:  When life forms on Earth changed from using anaerobic sources of energy to using Oxygen, we paid a big price in terms of toxic byproducts called Free Radicals.  All of these can cause severe cellular and DNA damage, especially the Hydroxyl (OH) radical.  The result is premature aging, damage to collagen in the skin, inflammations, ischaemia, hypoxia, cataracts, retinopathy, arthritis, allergies, Auto-immune diseases, Parkinson's disease, cancer and damage to Telomeres.  The other free radicals are Superoxide, Hydrogen Peroxide, oxygen molecule, Nitric Oxide, and 6 others.  The production of Free Radicals is hastened by excessive exercise, radiation, ultraviolet light, bacterial & viral toxins, smoking, alcohol,

Anti-oxidants:  Of all the natural mechanisms for anti-oxidation, Melatonin is the most powerful, followed by Glutathione, uric acid, catalase and superoxide dismutase(SOD).  For the most part our anti-oxidation has to be supported by external, exogenous antioxidant molecules such as Vitamins A, C & E, Lipoic acid, Vit Q-10, Pycnogenol, Selenium, beta-carotene, Copper, Iron, Zinc, Manganese, Chromium, DMSO, and possibly Silver and Gold.

Calorie restriction:  From rat studies published in "Maximum Lifespan" and "The 120-year Diet" by Dr Roy Walford reporting on the work of Dr Clive McCay in 1935 at Cornell University, we learned that rats fed on a normal diet lived for an average of 483 days, while the restricted rats lived for an average of 820 days, with one sixth living longer than 1200 days.

Somatids:  Another factor also seems to be important.  According to the research of Dr Patrick Flanagan and his wife Gael, vegetable and fruit juices as well as blood and tissue fluids contain small active particles called somatids floating in the fluids.  These act as colloidal seeds as well as having unique subtle energetic properties.  They likely prevent water from going bulk by maintaining nanometre sized liquid crystals which then undergo the phenomenon of Brownian Movement.

Stress & Cortisol: According to Dr Khalsa,wnen we are excessively stressed mentally or physically, the Adrenal gland releases the hormone Cortisol which then robs the brain of its only source of fuel, Glucose and Oxygen.  Metabolism then proceeds by  inefficient, incomplete, indirect paths resulting in more free radicals being produced.  A similar process happens in muscles when Lactic Acid accumulates.

Microhydrin:  Starting with Crystal Energy Microclusters which is a water based colloid, Dr Flanagan and his wife were able to develop a stable, dry hydrogen-based source of free electrons when mixed with water with far stronger anti-oxidant properties than Crystal Energy or any other known anti-oxidant. All antioxidants of biological usefulness release only one electron per molecule, while Microhydrin releases many (perhaps 60).  Microhydrin's main power is in recharging these metabolisable antioxidant molecules especially Melatonin and Vitamin C & E, so that they can be used over and over again without having to be destroyed, excreted and lost.

References:
1. "The Antioxidants" by Richard Passwater, Ph.D., pages 86-133, Keats publishing, 1997
2. "Towards a New Alchemy" by Dr Nick Begich. Page 90 on Hunza Water.
3. "The Aging Clock; The Pineal Gland", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 719, May 1994.
4. "Melatonin; Your Body's Natural Wonder Drug", by R. J. Reiter, Ph.D., and J Robinson, Bantam books, 1995.
5. "Reversing Human Aging" by M. Fossel, Ph.D., M.D., Morrow & Co., 1996
6. "Brain Longevity" by D. S. Khalsa, M.D.,Warner Books, 1997.

Oxidation creates free radicals which lead to a variety of problems including loss of energy, accelerated aging, and decreased immune function.   Microhydrin effectively neutralizes these free radicals through a simple biochemical process.  This silica hydride powder has more antioxidant power than anything available today!  See more information on Microhydrin above.

• Microhydrin Effectively Lowered Blood Lactic Acid Levels During Strenuous Exercise
• Microhydrin in Intra and Extra Cellular Hydration
• Microhydrin Protection Against Oxidative Stress
• Evaluation of Microhydrin in the Production of NADH in Vitro
• Microhydrin Increases Mitochondrial NADH Production and Enhances Mitochondrial Membrane Potential in Intact Liver Cells
• Evaluation of Microhydrin as a Scavenger of Free Radicals, Reports 1 & 2
• Physician Using Microhydrin Climbs Mount Everest Without Oxygen
• Aging Marathon Runner On Microhydrin Improves Time
• Tests On The Functions of Microhydrin;  Conductivity, Oxidation/Reduction Potential, pH, Surface Tension studies
• Safety Studies With Microhydrin: Acute Oral Toxicity Study; Pre-Clinical Trial With Human Subjects Taking Microhydrin

Flanagan Microcluster? Technology is the  "NUTRITIONAL BREAKTHROUGH OF THE CENTURY" and is the basis of Microhydrin and Crystal Energy.

With a high negative charge on the outside of these tiny little Microclusters? all nutrients, both water loving (hydrophilic) and oil loving (lipophilic), are attracted to, and enclosed within, the silica geodesic sphere. What is now known is that nutritional particles actually become suspended within the cage-like structures of the Microclusters?.

The Microclusters? are in turn attracted to the negative charge on the outside of the cell wall and because of their nano size easily pass through the cell wall carrying with them nutrients which they release to nourish and hydrate the cell. They attract and gather up waste materials and again pass through the cell walls on their way out, cleansing the cell as they leave.

FLANAGAN MICROCLUSTERS? FEATURE UNUSUAL ENERGY QUALITIES:

A VERY HIGH ZETA POTENTIAL, which is the ability of a molecule to hold an electrical charge.   Zeta-potential is a basic law of nature and the smaller the size of the colloid the longer the colloid can hold its Zeta Potential. Zeta-potential is the force that maintains the discreteness of all the cells in our body. Normal water, as with all liquids, has a tendency for their molecules to clump together and as such become slow, sluggish and weakly charged. Flanagan Microclusters? are able to transfer their high Zeta-potential to  most solutions they come in contact with, allowing for the discreteness or separateness of the molecules to be  restored and maintained. Dr. Patrick Flanagan knew that the higher the Zeta-potential the better the solution would be able to pass through the cells carrying nutrients in and removing toxins out.

SURFACE TENSION is another unusual energy quality of Flanagan Microclusters?  They have a profoundly beneficial effect on  Surface tension which can be described as the force which allows molecules of a substance to stick to themselves  forming spheres. Spheres are formed because this shape requires the least amount of energy to maintain   itself. Water soluble nutrients have a higher Critical Surface Tension (CST), the property used to describe the level above which a substance can not be wetted, than oil soluble substances.  The interaction resulting from the use of Microclusters? with nutrients or solutions is that they become wetter  to the point where they can be absorbed readily into the body and utilized immediately. The key is to be  sure that enough of the Microclusters? are present to ensure complete wetting so that nutrient can be  absorbed by the body.

Dr. Alex Carrel won the Nobel Prize in medicine for demonstrating that living cells can be kept alive indefinitely. Dr.Carrel stated, "The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life may go on forever."

Hunza Water^{®  is available for purchase from Biophysica in containers of 9 ounce (270 ml), 1 litre and 10 litres.}