Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here and today we're going to be talking about water.

With me on the call is someone who has a PhD in bioengineering and who is currently on faculty

at the University of Washington in the Department of Bioengineering.

His name is Dr. Gerald Pollock and his research themes are primarily into the area of systems

and quantitative biology and much of the research that he does is on aqua solutions, on water,

on storage potentials of water, on purification systems and all sorts of things related to water.

And since water is something that we're drinking every day and showering in and bathing

in and filtering and trying to use to enhance our health or enhance our performance, I thought

that we should get Dr. Pollock on the call to talk about some of his expertise and ask

him some of the important questions when it comes to water.

So Dr. Pollock, thank you for coming on the call today.

Hi Ben, happy to be with you and happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Well let's start here, you know, in terms of you and your background in the field of water.

What got you into this particular specialty in the first place?

I was studying muscle mainly, which I guess is relevant to many of the people listening.

And so let me give you a background, the muscle contraction, the ideas about how muscle contracts

are, ideas that date, oh maybe half a century back and we're talking about the molecular

mechanisms involving proteins, the proteins, the actin and myos and such.

And there's been a theory that's been around.

And if you look at any book or any textbook, you can see some very nice artistic drawings

of those proteins that mechanistically do certain things.

And the odd thing about that is that they leave out the water.

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