Double Helix Water

Tia, I wish this was a cure.

However, this double helix water is a scam.  Here is an article about it. 

http://skeptvet.com/Blog/2010/07/double-helix-water-more-magic-water-quackery/

From what I understand they claim to have found another "phase" of water, water that exists as a crystal in liquid water.

Anybody ever read Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut?  Sounds just like it.  An isotope of water that is solid and room temperature.  It was a book of fiction and was one of my favorites when in college..

There are a couple of technical sounding articles when this subject is googled, but none of them are from reputable sources and get swallowed up in the goobley-gook.  I read somewhere it is $100 a bottle.  Just give me some fancy plain bottled water.

Hi Tia,

I also felt that this might be to be to good to be true until I started to use it myself and continued to do my research.  I can tell you that I will continue to use this. I have never felt better  I found that the technology was published in a major International Physics Journal and that's no small feat.   I saw the publication on the double helix water website and was very impressed.  I know for a fact that it's very hard to get accepted into these peer reviewed journals.  They don't take scams.  And you are right, CAL TECH is a very prestigious university.....

Thanks, DJ 

Even if it does exist in some elusive moment of time, does it have any therapeutic properties?

Dimmyjoy, this is an anecdote.  I am glad you feel better, but this does not make it scientifically valid.

I will tell you a story.  During the Middle Ages when people had hepatitis they called a doctor.  Heapatitis causes your urine to turn organge/brown because of excess bilirubin.  The doctors believed that the discolored urine had to be washed out with normal colored urine.  The people were instructed to drink the urine from the public urinals.  Low and behold the "cure" worked. The urine returnted to normal color.  What the people did not realize is that hepatitis A is a self limiting disease and most people recover with their own immune system.

Thank goodness medical practice has improved! 

A signle anecdote does not make a treatment valid.

I think this is a non-existent substance (double helix water) providing a non-existent therapeutic effect.

I don't want a debate either.  Glad it helped you.

However, I do not want my breast cancer sisters falling for quackery and false science.  I tend to correct science errors as that is my background.  This is quackery.

Can you tell me any of the medical studies that are NOT from the double helix water web site?  That is proper scientific studies regarding the existence of the double helix water molecule and its evidence of its benefit for the body?

You can purchase double helix water for much less than $100 a bottle. Go to Amazon.com you can find it for much less. The gentlemen that discovered this state of water don't claim they know how it works. It is up to the individual to try something new or homeopathic in order to improve their health or state of mind. This is basically another state of water it won't kill you. Medicine won't necessarily cure your cancer and may help weaken your immune system and eventually take your breasts if not your life. Modern health care is also very expensive. If you have cancer what do you have to lose? A little money? I remember radiation treatments for ca. patients in the hospital I worked in years ago, most of the patients died. You could smell them the instant you walked into the patient waiting room. Don't be such a skeptic.