Ep 217: Spring Aqua and Hydration Foundation with Erin Sojourner & Gina Bria
The Way Forward with Alec Zeck
Alec Zeck
4.8 • 968 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 116 minutes
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If you think you know everything about water and how hydration works, think again.
Contrary to popular belief, hydration isn’t about how much you drink… It’s about how water functions inside the body. Most people focus on intake while missing the form water needs to support energy, clarity, and resilience at the cellular level. That’s why many feel foggy or depleted despite constantly drinking. Liquid water alone doesn’t create hydration. Ancestral cultures understood this long before measuring ounces. Desert peoples stayed hydrated well before modern plumbing existed.
In this episode, I talk with Erin Sojourner, Chief Strategic Officer at Spring Aqua with decades of experience in regenerative agriculture, and Gina Bria, an anthropologist and founder of the Hydration Foundation who studies hydration across cultures and ecosystems. Their work bridges structured water science, living systems, and real-world applications—from soil and food to human energy.
Together, we dismantle hydration myths, discuss fourth phase water, and challenge the assumption that more drinking is always better.
This conversation replaces hydration confusion with a functional model of how water creates energy.
You’ll Learn:
[00:00] Introduction
[08:14] What does true hydration really look like?
[16:53] The three ways water functions beyond being a simple material substance
[21:22] The reason we are walking around still feeling so dehydrated, regardless of how much water we drink
[26:27] The limitations of reverse osmosis and distilled water, and what chia seeds can help with
[42:43] Why trace minerals in water are essential even with nutrient-dense food
[57:05] The biomimicry technology behind Spring Aqua's system
[01:15:56] Erin’s path from first customer to joining the company
[01:27:40] The upcoming agricultural device
[01:31:23] How water operates at subatomic wave levels
[01:37:43] Why humans are 99% water molecularly and how hydration expands perception
[01:47:41] Gina's vision for a water-based economy
Resources Mentioned:
Quench by Gina Bria | Book or Audiobook
How to Grow Water — It’s Not Only Blue, It’s Green by Gina Bria | TEDx Talk
The Gnosis and the Law by Tellis S. Papastavro Book
Electrons, The Building Blocks of the Universe and the Elemental Kingdom by Werner and Annette Schroeder | Book
Discover more from:
Spring Aqua | Website
Hydration Foundation | Website
Hydration Foundation | Instagram
Erin Sojourner | Substack
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The Way Forward | Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're understanding that water is on a spectrum, and there isn't just four phases. |
| 0:06.0 | We are at the beginning of frontier science, which is going to change how we heal ourselves, how we heal our planet, how we heal all other living creatures. |
| 0:16.0 | How have we been misled on what hydration is and what does true hydration look like? |
| 0:21.6 | Drinking is not the only way to get hydrated and probably not even the best way to get hydrated. |
| 0:26.6 | Most people are like, let's clean the water, the cleaner it is, the better it is, but they don't |
| 0:30.6 | realize is that they're stripping out all of the goodness that's also and there's how I feel |
| 0:35.6 | when I drink hydrogen water is awesome. |
| 0:38.1 | We live in a culture which is constantly pulling hydration out of us. |
| 0:42.2 | First thing that happens when you touch a screen, dehydration. |
| 0:45.0 | It is literally sucking water out of your system. |
| 0:48.2 | That's why we aren't hearing the whole other song of creation. |
| 0:53.0 | Gina Brea and Aaron Sojourner. |
| 0:55.3 | I say that right? |
| 0:56.0 | Yes. |
| 0:56.3 | Okay. |
| 0:57.4 | Thank you so much for joining me. |
| 0:59.3 | I think it goes without saying if you've been listening to or watching this podcast for a long time, water is one of my favorite things to talk about. |
| 1:07.9 | And if you've listened to this podcast, you know why. |
| 1:10.5 | It's there's more to water |
| 1:14.0 | than meets the eye or more than we've been taught about H2O and things like this. It's a very, |
| 1:19.7 | very, very important topic. And we're really just scratching the surface on what we think we know |
| 1:24.9 | with water. So anytime I get a chance to talk about it, I feel very blessed. |
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