LaoDan wrote:I could not get past Chuckrow’s speculations about muscle physiology, so I could not watch the remainder of the interview. When he “theorizes” about physiology, he totally loses me (e.g. ~8’+ into the video). My impression is that he approaches his theories based on his knowledge of physics only, without researching how muscle cells actually work.
LaoDan wrote:Physics may indicate that an expanded thick gel can have great outward strength, and that this strength would not need to rely on force from muscle contractions, but he does not appear to look into whether the water in the cells could become an expanded thick gel (or how it could return to a liquid phase), how the nerve impulses could possibly do this, what the consequences to the cells would be, etc. Therefore, he ends up with theories/hypotheses that are based on fantasy/magic.
I just want people to reasonably question the information from “experts” (including any information that I present), regardless of how long their source has practiced TJQ, how many books they have written, and even if they are a scientist (in whatever field of specialization).
Robert Chuckrow on April 1, 2021 wrote:A Promising Mechanism for Expansive Strength
Dr. Gerald Pollack has been directing research on hitherto disregarded properties of water and cellular phenomena at Washington State University for decades and has discovered an important feature based on the restructuring of water under certain conditions. Watch his video on some unusual aspects of water.8
Under the action of electricity, water can form a gel with properties of strength and extension. Because these properties are not similarly displayed by the commonly recognized phases of water, namely, liquid, solid, and gas, Pollack has called this state “the fourth phase of water.” He has been able to shed light on a number of phenomena displayed by water that are otherwise unexplained.
Our cells and intracellular fluids are primarily water, and bioelectricity abounds in our bodies. Pollack’s research suggests that our bioelectricity can restructure water in cells and tissues, resulting in their expansion.9,10
I have been pondering Dr. Pollack’s research for the past several years. The concept that water in the cells can be made to expand and change in structure is quite satisfying because it closely matches what I experience with expansive strength; namely, I feel that I am sending electricity to my tissues, and it feels as though the water within is expanding as a consequence. In fact, before learning of Dr. Pollack’s research, I experienced those effects for quite some time and described them as “hydraulic pressure.”11 Moreover, the writings of the Taiji Classics also utilize water analogies.
If the expansion of intra- and intercellular water can result from the application of bioelectricity, it nicely explains why expansive strength can be sustained without fatigue longer than for muscular contraction: aside from the chemical energy required for its neural activation, muscular contraction requires additional amounts of chemical energy from stores of glycogen. Then, muscular contraction results in the production of the irritating waste products and restricts the circulation of blood, which transports oxygen and nutrients into muscles and nerves and waste products out. Chemicals required for contraction soon become depleted, and irritating waste products build up. These factors limit the time that contraction can be sustained.
On the other hand, if expansion is based on an intrinsic property of water, it may only require bioelectricity for its activation—no chemical energy other than that for activation is needed, and no irritating waste products would be expected to result. In fact, a wonderful byproduct of expansion is that circulation of blood is not restricted but actually increased, and there is good reason to expect the accompanying bioelectricity to be therapeutic.
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-T7tCMUDXU.
9. Gerald H. Pollack, Cells, Gels, and the Engines of Life (Seattle, WA: Ebner and Sons
Publishing, 2001).
10. Gerald H. Pollack, The Fourth Phase of Water (Seattle, WA: Ebner and Sons Publishing,
2013).
11. Robert Chuckrow, Tai Chi Dynamics, 8, 9, 19, 47
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-T7tCMUDXU
origami_itto wrote:Adam Mizner has described his jins as hydraulic power
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