The fourth phase of water (exclusion zone water) is a fascinating subject, yet it’s not necessarily relevant to the subject of The Heart Is Not a Pump. High-tech sciencey-sounding concepts like EZ water need not apply. “When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras.” We don’t have to look much further than the self-acting…

Here’s the second part of “Does the Heart Circulate the Blood?” (divided into two blog entries). M.J. Rodermund, M.D. (“Does the Heart Circulate the Blood? A Startling View as to the Power that Circulates the Blood Throughout the Body,” 1909) wrote … “The very size of the heart itself refutes the idea that it could…

Thumbing through a volume of Bernarr Macfadden’s Encyclopedia of Physical Culture in 2000 or so, I chanced upon an article by the Wisconsin doctor Matthew Joseph Rodermund — “Does the Heart Circulate the Blood?” Here’s the first part of the complete article (divided into two blog entries) … M.J. Rodermund, M.D. (“Does the Heart Circulate…

The experiments of botanists such as Eduard Strasburger (1844-1912) supposedly invalidated the theory of protoplasmic activity (the physiological activity of living plant cells). Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose (1858-1937) defended the autonomous activity of plant cells (“‘Inner stimuli’ are simply external stimuli absorbed previously and held latent.”). The figure listed below (figures 165) can be viewed…

Contrary to the prevailing scientific paradigm, sap is capable of rising to the top of a tree without the benefit of osmosis, and even in opposition to it. This doesn’t mean that osmosis, capillary action, water tension, transpiration, etc., don’t play a role in sap circulation (compared by some scientists to an electrical circuit). It…