Can magnetism, electrical energy, light energy, or special types of catalysts be used to create a specially clustered form of water that has health benefits?

Any uncertainty that the chemistry community may have about the nature and existence of water clusters is not apparently shared by the various "inventors" who have not only "discovered" these elusive creatures, but who claim findings that science has never even dreamed of! These promoters have spun their half-baked crackpot chemistry into various watery nostrums that they say are essential to your health and able to cure whatever-ails-you. These benificences are hawked to the more gullible of the general public, usually in the form of a "concentrate" that you can add to your drinking water- all for a $20-$50 charge on your credit card.

It is well known that water is composed of individual water molecules that associate with others through hydrogen bonding.

Some of these hucksters claim to make the water into clusters" that are larger, smaller, or hexagonal-shaped, allowing them to more readily promote "cellular hydration" and remove "toxins" from your body. The fact is that none of these views has any significant support in the scientific communities of chemistry, biochemistry, or physiology, nor are they even considered worthy of debate. The only places you are likely to see these views advocated are in literature (and on Web sites) intended to promote the sale of these products to consumers in the notoriously credulous "alternative" health and "dietary supplement" market.

In defense of a supposedly "quacky" idea, there is actually a U.S. patent for the process of making clustered water. The invention relates generally to microclustered water. More specifically, the invention relates to the synthesis and treatment of microclustered water to produce water having useful properties in a variety of environments.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It is well known that water is composed of individual water molecules that associate with others through hydrogen bonding. From statistical and mechanical analyses of water, it was found that liquid water may be regarded as a mixture of hydrogen bonded clusters and unbonded molecules. Thereafter it was shown that water can be characterized by five species: unbonded molecules, tetrahydrogen bonded molecules in the interior of a cluster; and surface molecules connected to the cluster by 1, 2 or 3 hydrogen bonds.

Under normal conditions, natural clustering of water molecules is short lived and the cluster size is unpredictable. Water which has been treated to have a more ordered and stable clustering of water molecules, shall be referred to herein as "microclustered" water. "The presence of dissolved solutes causes the structure and properties of liquid water to change." For example, when sodium chloride is dissolved in water, water molecules surround the sodium and chloride ions to produce ion hydrates.

The resulting geometry of the water molecules differs from that of the prior clusters of hydrogen-bonded water molecules. The water molecules become more highly ordered and regular in structure. The addition of sodium chloride to microclustered water effects the same result. Thus, the sodium chloride may be said to function as a "template" for the change. As used herein, "template" refers to any material which is used with microclustered water to create a molecular structure therein for the achievement of specific results.

Ultimately such promotional gimmicks about special-structured water clusters, primarily on the Internet, are nothing but health quackery scams associated with a product common to everyone, drinking water. Much of this started with promotions on the healing benefits of treating water with magnetism and soon spread to other methods of treatment. When considering them for your health concerns, it's best to do some research and perhaps talk to your doctor for a more reliable method of treatment.