Structured Water and Gem Elixirs - oh my!

I asked about this question on my Instagram stories - about do you want to get weird and dive into the SCIENCE behind gem elixirs aka structured water. So get your science hats on because we are getting WEIRD today!

For anyone suffering from really any condition, but specifically here - you, my autoimmune audience - we know that water is an ultimate pillar of health - right? In fact, it is part of my 5 elements that must be in balance in order to heal your immune system - whether its healing from autoimmunity or just keeping it in good working order in general.

Drinking enough water is critical and today we are talking about structured water - and not the kind you get from a fancy machine that costs a few hundred (or more dollars) although much of this will apply - but the kind you get from incorporating crystals into your water.

Drinking enough water is essential to combat fatigue, keep the body from storing toxins, healthy skin, those pads in between your joints (like your knees and between the vertebrae in your back).

I was visiting with a client just a couple of weeks ago that was suddenly experiencing a lot of lower back pain. He said that it felt like his discs were collapsing and he wasn’t able to ride horses and compete this week because of it. He consulted me because he knew that taking over the counter pain medication was very detrimental to health. Originally he was looking for natural pain relief - but during the consultation can you guess what we discovered? He wasn’t keeping up his water intake - started drinking water again - added some important minerals and within 48 hours - PAIN-FREE. That, my friends, is the power of water.

Drinking enough water also prevents seasonal allergies, keeps your blood flowing quite literally, and helps keep you able to workout longer (running or lifting).

Today we are talking about structured water - and not the kind you get from a fancy machine that costs a few hundred (or more dollars) - but the kind you get from incorporating crystals into your water.

How much water?

Often people come to me and say, “but Audrey I drink lots of water, I drink about 60 oz or 70 oz a day.” While that's not terrible, and in fact, it meets the standards that are sort of set for you by the government eight 8 oz glasses or 64 oz of water a day, it is just enough to keep you alive. It is not enough for you to reap any of the benefits that I've mentioned previously.

For most people, you need to drink a minimum of a gallon of water or 128 ounces per day to get the real benefits of water. If you weigh less than 120 lbs, then you can drink your body weight in ounces as a starting point. Crazy right?

I’d love for you to let me know how much water you are drinking?

What is “structured water”?

The interwebs are really up in a battle over what constitutes structured water and what doesn’t and if it is even possible. In my opinion, there are multiple methods to “structure” water and I do believe that current science, a Nobel prize-winning study, and a few physics principles pretty well explain it. And while this theory and practice is a long way from being able to discuss its benefits with your local family doc - in the functional and energy medicine world - this is a respected practice.

Many of you probably remember from middle school science that a water molecule is 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom - making up the common abbreviation H2O - right?

The claim for many of the structured water machines is that passing water through a vortex “structures” it and that structure changes the atoms in the molecule to H3O - this, in my opinion, is not possible. H3O is possible but it is not water. So I don’t feel science supports this.

It reminds of when I was at the airport traveling to FL in October - security stopped me because I had my Gemstone Well bottle and they inspected it and determined it wasn’t dangerous BUT he wanted to know why in the heck I was drinking water like this - so I explained the science and he looked at me and said “but if you rearrange the molecular structure of water - you don’t have water anymore?” and I said “ah great question - YOU DO! As long as you don’t rearrange the ATOMIC structure” He sat there and thought until I finally said - “I’m sorry am I free to go?”

So that leads me to the description of structured water that I feel is supported by science. The descriptions of structured water include that the molecules rearrange themselves into a hexagonal structure but not changing their atomic structure - this I have found over tons of research and training is deeply rooted in science.

In fact, if you have heard of Dr. Masru Emoto - her first discovered that water is “impressionable” meaning that water molecules change with the energy of words. If you speak kindness to water it creates beautiful hexagonal structures in its molecule. Unfortunately - many of Emoto's studies were widely criticized especially after his book went mainstream in the healing world in 2004.

In 2006, he was fully redeemed - when molecular biologist Gilbert Ling won the Nobel prize for proving what Emoto had already theorized that water can change and hold the change in its molecular structure. He even took it further and proved that not only does water change and hold its molecular shape BUT that the water in our human cells has a specific molecular pattern - hexagonal.

I know this can seem like a LOT to wrap your head around. So I will use the example of more tangible and visible objects that when molecules are rearranged become something different.

Let’s look at carbon for example structured one way it is a lump of coal structured another way it is a diamond.

OR Silicon Dioxide SiO2 - structured one way it is a quartz crystal - structured another it is just glass. Pretty cool right?

Same thing we are doing with water here!

Now once these studies came to light, manufacturers jumped at the opportunity to create these fancy machines - full of plastic and using magnets and high-pressure vortexing systems and costing lots of money to create structured water. But I am excited to explain to you today that there IS a better way and a way that honors your connection to the earth and nature.

Benefits of Structured Water

First, let's talk about the benefits of just plain ol’ structured water. They mirror the benefits of hydration we mentioned before, but as you may already know, layering the beneficial energies enhances those benefits even more.

Structured water increases energy, supports concentration and focus, promotes optimal weight or your set weight point, improves sleep, supports your immune system to function normally (hello autoimmune sufferers), helps to detoxify the body, and promotes optimal digestion.

Sounds great right?

How to make structured water (aka Gem Elixir)

What most Google searches and holistic health experts would have you do - is purchase a very expensive water structure machine that is full of plastic and using magnets and a high-pressure vortexing system and costing lots of money to create structured water.

But as I promised we are going to make it supported in science and a deep connection to nature and mama earth because I feel that science in both physics and metaphysics supports this even more and I am all about simple and sustainable.

So how? By placing crystals in our water.

I know I know - sounds simple right? Maybe a little woo-woo. And for sure - I get it. But this is also that deep connection to mama earth who forms these crystals and the science of the structured water.

You see this works because of a few principles - and yes we are going to get into the science here again - but not too terribly deep.

Everything is matter - you, me, the chair you sit in, the sound of my voice. At the very micro level - atom level - we are just a bunch of atoms vibrating together. This is the same for crystals too. But if you zoom out a level to the molecular level (a molecule consists of 2 or more bonded atoms) our human suits are messy and subject to something called entropy. Entropy is a physics principle that rules our propensity to chaos.

Ima be honest here - everything feels a little chaotic and a little peaceful all at the same time right now - huh?

So crystals have a perfect molecular structure that is resistant to entropy. We know that energy influences things around it - with the higher energy winning. (Think of the tuning for demonstration - you can set 2 tuning forks across the room from one another and strike one...and the other one rings without being touched… energy influencing something else.)

So one way you can harness that benefit is by taking a crystal, with a very high resistance to entropy (molecular chaos), and introducing it to something with a very low resistance to entropy, like water (or humans in crystal energy sessions).

Placing a (water safe) crystal into your water influences the molecular structure of the water and creates “structured” water.

Are gem elixirs dangerous?

In short no - they have the benefit of water PLUS the benefits of structured water AND the benefits of the stone that is being used.

There are some caveats - you do have to use a stone that is safe - there is a really good list of toxic stones - so ones that you should never put directly into your water on Hibiscus Moon's site. That doesn’t mean they aren’t useful - it just means that you have to use an indirect method.

Any stones that are quartz-based are generally safe - so things like clear quartz, amethyst, rose quartz, aventurine, carnelian, citrine, etc. however often these stones are polished with substances that are toxic and water-soluble. So for daily consumption, I recommend using the indirect method regardless of your stone - this also opens you up to using the properties that some of the other stones contain.

Here’s a quick list of some of my favorite indirect recipes for autoimmune health:

Psoriasis: aragonite and aquamarine
Fatigue/Brain Fog: Clear quartz
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Malachite and lepidolite
GI issues: citrine or yellow/golden apatite
General inflammation: blue chalcedony or larimar

There are lots and lots of advanced techniques for this - so if you are after something different than I offer here - feel free to hit me up on Instagram or in my private FB group and ask about your condition specifically.

The way to make this indirectly is simple - you can either use something like Gemstone Wells Elixir 2Go bottle - where the crystals don’t actually touch the water - but the water structure is influenced by the crystals that are next to it. I have a couple of those and I love them! (Full transparency - I teach classes for them but was a customer BEFORE that.)

The way to do it right now if you don’t have an Elixir2Go bottle is with a simple mason jar and crystals - and using thermal energy or prana from the sun to create staying power - some studies show as long as 30 days!

I’ll be demonstrating how to live on Instagram next Week on my Wellness Wednesday live. But I will give you the steps here - its so easy.

Simply gather your supplies - crystals you want to use, water, a pitcher or other glass vessel to put it in, something to cover it. Place the water in the jar, with a lid, and head out to your fav sunny spot. Take the stones you selected and place it around the glass jar, leave it out there for a few hours and voila! Structured Water or Gem Elixir using your natural connection to nature and earth medicine. Cool right?

Alternatively, you can use a smaller glass that fits inside of a larger glass too! You can drink this water daily or use small “doses” of it to influence the structure of larger water too. Most information indicates this structure can last 30-45 days.

To wrap this up -

Water is critical for every function in your body.  You, we, all of us are molecules and the molecular structure of water MATTERS, just like that of carbon. Using water that more closely matches the molecular structure of water in our cells has so many benefits.

Remember you need 1 gallon of water a day minimum (unless you are less than 120 lbs) and you can simply amp up the healing power of that water and your connection to mama earth and the cycles of nature but incorporating gem elixirs into your hydration.  

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Be well.