QELBY (Quantum Energy Living Bodies) is a somatid ceramic fired from South Korean clay and stone: ocher, elvan stone, jade, tourmaline, zeolite, kaolin, bentonite and quartz, fired at 1,000 degrees Celsius. QELBY was formerly sold as Somatide. This 100 gram pack is the entry size, made for a drinking bottle or a small carafe.
How to use it
Rinse the balls with water before the first use, to wash off any dust from the firing. Place them in your drinking bottle, carafe, jug or filter. QELBY balls start working in your water the moment you put them in, and reach their fullest effect within 20 minutes. Taste it next to a glass of your tap water and decide for yourself.
- A cup of water, tea or coffee: 3 to 4 balls
- A 1 litre bottle: 25 to 50 grams
- A large water jug of around 8 litres: at least 400 grams
- More is better: the more balls in the water, the faster it takes on their character
- Never empty the bottle completely. Leave a little water in and refill on top, so the charged water passes its character on to the fresh water
- They last for years. It is not a filter: many people put the balls in the water that comes out of their filter
What people report
"I was on vacation in Croatia, the water there smelled and tasted chlorine. I put the qelby in the water for one night, the next day the water just tasted soft, without the chlorine."
Karin
"With the QELBY balls, the simplest thing to say is: they work. The science behind them is surprisingly complex, actually hard to wrap your head around. What is not hard to understand is that you can leave water sitting in a container for weeks or months, and when you drink it, it still tastes living and fresh. They are unassuming but very powerful. I have them in all of my water containers and we are really happy with them."
Gary Kealy, co-founder, Live5D Health, Ireland
EZ water, H3O2 and Pollack's research
Water next to a water-loving surface forms a thin layer that pushes out tiny particles, an effect called the exclusion zone, reproduced by several independent research groups. Gerald Pollack, professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, calls this exclusion-zone water "the fourth phase of water": in his own words, "water has four phases, not three phases." Counting the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in this layer, Pollack proposes the structure H3O2, rather than H2O, and describes it as negatively charged, with the water beyond it carrying the opposite charge, "something that's like a battery."
In 2017, Pollack's laboratory published a study of QELBY powder in Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, funded in part by a gift from Quantum Energy Co., the maker, and a grant from the SAGST Foundation. The study measured exclusion zones averaging 107 micrometres next to hydrated QELBY pellets, against 74 micrometres next to a silica control, growing at about 1 micrometre per second, comparable to the laboratory reference material Nafion. Sprouted chickpea seeds grown for a week in QELBY-treated water developed roots 58 percent longer than seeds grown in silica-treated water.
A second study, co-authored by Pollack and funded by a Quantum Energy Co. grant, published in PLOS ONE in 2018, mixed the ceramic powder into water and measured what changed. In plain terms: the water's redox potential, a measure of how readily it gives up electrons, fell from 312 to 262 millivolts within four hours of contact with the ceramic. Frozen samples viewed under a cryogenic electron microscope showed a honeycomb-like structure that the authors read as exclusion-zone water. The same study measured the powder's own surface charge in water, its zeta potential, at minus 37.7 millivolts, and measured its far-infrared emissivity at 0.927 between 5 and 20 micrometres. The manufacturer describes QELBY as generating negative electrons and microcurrents in water.
Pollack advises anyone curious about structured-water products to ask the company what evidence it has. This is ours: read the full studies, with their funders and figures, in the free QELBY guide.
Specifications
- Fired ceramic clay balls, 100 grams
- Made in South Korea, patented by Lee Jong-doo
- Minerals: ocher, elvan stone, jade, tourmaline, zeolite, kaolin, bentonite, quartz
- Far-infrared emitting: emissivity measured at 0.927 between 5 and 20 micrometres (PLOS ONE, 2018)
- For drinking water, coffee, tea and travel
Read more in the free QELBY guide: dragonflywatersolutions.com/pages/guides.
