| Back in the late 1960's Thomas Riddick who was an engineer and chemist, wrote the book "Control of Colloid Stability Through Zeta Potential". It was a masterful work which expressed all the nuances of zeta potential within colloidal systems and included insights into working with cardiovascular disease which we'll talk more about later.
Riddick spent thousands of hours researching how zeta potential is influenced by the mix of pH factors and electrolyte concentration in liquid suspensions. Zeta potential fluctuates up and down dependent on the pH, the concentration of the electrolytes in the liquid, and the specific conductance of the liquid which relates right back to the electrolyte concentration. We use specific conductance as a measure of the ability of a liquid medium to conduct electricity. We measure specific conductance on a scale called mho (also called siemen).
One thing fascinating with Riddick's work was how zeta potential plays a role in all of life. In "How You Rot & Rust" it is mentioned how the colloids can have an urge to merge, how they merge and what they form into is all a function of the terrain to which they are exposed. (And they can also have an urge to disperse if charged properly.) Well guess what? In the blood the terrain is a mix or ratio of anions and cations and other non-ionic substances. Two of these non-ionic substances in the body would be alcohol and sugar. Too much here and you create a steric hindrance - steric pertains to the spatial relationships of the atoms in molecules - which means interference with ionic mobility and lessened zeta potential. So as dietary habits affect the levels of anions, cations and other substances in the bloodstream, the interplay of all these things leads to an overall measure of zeta potential. If zeta potential goes down - that is the charge between colloids decreases - the colloids come together. If zeta potential goes up the colloids disperse. (Technically zeta potential is measured by the millivolt reading between colloids. This millivolt reading is expressed as a negative (-) number. The more (-) the reading, the greater the zeta potential. In blood the onset of agglomeration occurs at approximately -15mv and maximum dispersion is obtained at -100mv. ) Here is how Riddick illustrated the linking together of various polymers - the coming together of many different molecules - that might occur when zeta potential falls within various suspensions. As I first viewed these images I thought gee, these are the types of forms that are often seen in blood. And sure enough it is so because the blood is a colloidal suspension directly under the influence of anions, cations, and non-ionic substances which all influence the charge of zeta potential and it is this charge which is the final factor which influences the merging together of the blood colloids. Mysteries Yet to Unfold As we discussed earlier, the variety of developmental forms of microbes under different terrain conditions is what Lida Mattman observed. The driving factor is the ionic and non-ionic mix or concentration of the medium, and the ultimate measurable control is zeta potential. I do not doubt that multiple microbial looking forms may arise within equal measures of zeta potential, the determining factor being the ionic/non-ionic mix of the medium or terrain in which the microbe exists. When Guenther Enderlein made his observations of the endobiont, he was doing so from the framework of a biologist. He observed the pleomorphic nature of different fungal species in culture by varying their terrain, and observed the exact same type of forms in the blood by varying its terrain. This was all observation - and quite brilliant. DNA testing did not exist to correlate the theories. Today some preliminary work is being done on the observed forms in the blood and some of these things do not seem to correlate with Enderlein's thought process. Then again there are flaws in our knowledge of DNA. There may be fungal links in the blood which will be uncovered, as well as links to "stealth pathogens". Many mysteries are yet to unfold. What we know for sure is that the terrain is everything. When we are dead, microbes in our body turn us back to dust. When we are alive and view living blood under the microscope, the worse it looks, the worse off we are. The faster it degenerates on a microscope slide, the faster we are degenerating internally. Underlying all of this is the basic interplay of the electron - anions and cations. The measurement of their influence is zeta potential. Increase zeta potential and the blood looks and acts healthier, decrease zeta potential and it's just the opposite. |