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Jan 1Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

"Silicic acid is a product of the dissolution of rocks." "Plants and diatoms catalyse the conversion of silicic acid to amorphous biogenic silica." Wow... I love the chart showing the silicon cycle -- explains it so simply. Wish I had taken chemistry in high school, but I'm 75 now, it's not too late, but so much to do and learn I haven't enough time to fit it all in. I bought a lot of Fiji Water, but I have a well and must spend $$$ every year to keep it clean and operating, and the plastic bottles are depressing, but I'm still working on it. Bought your book, viewed several of your video appearances, you have my respect, sir!!!

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Most groundwater contains silicic acid from dissolution of rocks, but beware contaminants such as fluoride, arsenic, nitrate, and atrazine.

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Jan 1Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Thankyou for the explanation. I am still drinking my Acilis water but can’t afford the glass bottles sadly. When I’m asked why I drink it I recommend your book.

It is depressing to think how many brilliant scientists and doctors we have lost over the last few years whose only ‘crime’ was to report their honest findings.

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Jan 1Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

I wonder how many times a pill for this or that has been made that really doesn't work like a natural product in the body. I even cast a suspicious eye on my magnesium supplement from time to time.

The ONLY reason I would be for the invention of a silica acid pill is to stop buying these dastardly plastic bottles. I do distill my tap water to get rid of contaminants, including fluoride, but that doesn't solve the aluminum problem in my body. Dr. Exley, if you do get a donor for this research, let us know so that those of us who can contribute to the funding can do so.

I wish for you and your family many blessings for the new year beginning. My heart is a bit low, as this purports to be a rough year, especially in the US. But, like Scarlett O'Hara, I just won't think about that today lol

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Distillation also removes silicic acid.

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Thank you, good to know. I do not distill the Fiji water I drink for aluminum detox.

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Jan 1Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Well, I despise taking pills, and all I take in the form of a "pill", are vitamins. Oh, and my Juice Plus. Otherwise I prefer drinking the mineral water so I'm happy. Case closed for me !!!

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Jan 1Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Thanks for this, Dr. Exley. But "pills" (shorthand, figure of speech?) were not what I had in mind.

I was wondering why silicic acid solute can't be saluted oh so salutarily in some anti-Frankenstein chemistry lab somewhere … because there can’t be gangbangers in a world devoid of dopplegangbangers.

Is *that* chemistry impossible for some reason?

Walter despised the unprincipled “elites” ~ friends of his, he thought, no less ~ who betrayed & sold him short/out - until he got in full contact touch with his own inner demon child. Have all the Heisenberg Walter Whites sold themselves for meth-money? Is that all it is?

A hymn, for the Hymenoptera order givers & takers (“Many of the species are parasitic. Females typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts or places that are otherwise inaccessible. This ovipositor is often modified into a stinger. The young develop through holometabolism (complete metamorphosis)—that is, they have a wormlike larval stage and an inactive pupal stage before they mature.”) See the references to rocks, various solutions, flowing …:

"Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy wounded side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure.

Not the labor of my hands
Can fulfill Thy law’s demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow,
All for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and Thou alone.

Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling;
Naked, come to Thee for dress;
Helpless, look to Thee for grace;
Foul, I to the fountain fly;
Wash me, Savior, or I die.

While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyes shall close in death,
When I rise to worlds unknown,
And behold Thee on Thy throne,
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee."

If I win the The Lottery that pours fake federal reserve currency, “rather than” Shirley Jackson stones, I will build it, & they will come, but you’ll already be there, I trust, & there will be plenty fiat to exchange with enough stony men to keep those other stony men out. (Is that meth stuff rock, mineral or crystal … baby blue persuasion? Was that a great tune selection to weave/nd the reign of Heisenberg, or what?)

Water into wine. Rocks into silicic solute.

Amen.

Ps I saw a doctorate of chiropractic (Dr. Berg … ice is a crystal, too, right?) explain (I take my adjustments where I find them) why he is abandoning his once hydroponic ways (spoiler: too much liquidity is just bad … central banks, man: it rained for 40 days & 40 nights). He read a book, Soil, Grass, & Cancer (out of print, expensive to acquire, but https://archive.org/details/soilgrasscancer0000andr/page/n9/mode/2up ) by biochemist farmer Andre Voisin, who described

“Microbes in soil mobilize rocks. Minerals in rocks. Breaking those minerals up with certain acids. So that other microbes can consume them, & exchange them with plants. Plant roots eat microbes. For the nutrition. The microbe goes into the root, but the plant doesn’t kill the microbe (so “eats” slangs some metaphor) - it just extracts the mineral. & in quid pro quo the plant gives the microbe some carbohydrate & protein, & then spits the microbe back out. Microbe goes back out into the soil, rejuvenates, grabs more minerals, brings it back into the plant again/again/again. These are the days of those soil sex lives. But wait, there’s more! (The old Ronco Ginsu knives commercials in the wee TV hours.) See the former spinal adjuster’s Vid (free sign in, his site - because he says the UbeenTubed censors too much of his content)”:

https://ott.drberg.com/private-content/video/why-im-getting-rid-of-my-hydroponic-equipment?utm_source=klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EXCA%20%7C%2011.29.23%20%7C%20I%27m%20Getting%20Rid%20of%20My%20Hydroponic%20Equipment.&_kx=dn_-NjJIfgvKhmoIaX2NqCTKkpDeEHOkGjaytO45Qfg%3D.PzHwHa

So plants do it (birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it), but the “owners” of Plant & Equipment saith Thou Shalt Not Do It?

Seems like. How unseemly. The sexchange rates & processes have been perverted.

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Andy: Many thanks for the Dr. Berg clip. I have Soil, Grass & Cancer. A brilliant book by a brilliant man... representing that rare and beautiful combination of scientific rigor and creative intuition born from the stillness of quiet observation. And a love for his subject. Just like Christopher Exley!

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Hi Pamela. You’re welcome for the clip.

And I’m jealenvious that you have a copy of SG&C! Bet you didn’t pay $250 for it, either. I found a copy with an asking price of $400. Much as I prefer books in hand (even before those became antidotes & detoxes for all the screen time), that’s beyond budget for me. So I’ll try the Internet Archive version/copy I linked.

Same “scientific rigor & creative intuition…” ~ & integrity ~ vein are a minority of individuals that have delved, are delving, into the biology & health-promoting aspects of (“deadly, planet-killing”) CO2. There is a YouTube video of Ray Peat that landed here just lately ( in it he recounts scientist Ling telling him that he obviously doesn't know what "science" is about: money & power/control):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tgKX-DkEm4

I got onto it, to start, by reading James Nestor’s book about free divers, which got him onto his next book about breathing (Deep, & Breath are the titles). Among others.

Could say meet the “new” facet (same as the old facet) re “carbon capture.” Or that atomic #6 carbon can be just as serviceable for purposes of dehumanizing as any of the other Ox-Bow Incidents, or Oppenheimer Hinduisms (“Now I have become death…”) have been.

Nice symmetry tho Cillian Murphy playing (so well) Peaky Blinder top sight-remover Thomas Shelby & then moving on up to Hiroshima/Nagasaki Oppenheimer. “The science,” as has become so vernacularly popular.

John Godfrey Saxe:

It was six men of Indostan (HinduStan … Laurel & Oliver Hardy), to learning much inclined,

who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were blind),

that each by observation, might satisfy his mind.

The first approached the elephant, and, happening to fall,

against his broad and sturdy side, at once began to bawl:

"God bless me! but the elephant, is nothing but a wall!"

The second feeling of the tusk, cried: "Ho! what have we here,

so very round and smooth and sharp? To me tis mighty clear,

this wonder of an elephant, is very like a spear!"

The third approached the animal, and, happening to take,

the squirming trunk within his hands, "I see," quoth he,

the elephant is very like a snake!"

The fourth reached out his eager hand, and felt about the knee:

"What most this wondrous beast is like, is mighty plain," quoth he;

"Tis clear enough the elephant is very like a tree."

The fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said; "E'en the blindest man

can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can,

This marvel of an elephant, is very like a fan!"

The sixth no sooner had begun, about the beast to grope,

than, seizing on the swinging tail, that fell within his scope,

"I see," quothe he, "the elephant is very like a rope!"

And so these men of Indostan, disputed loud and long,

each in his own opinion, exceeding stiff and strong,

Though each was partly in the right, and all were in the wrong!

So, oft in theologic wars, the disputants, I ween,

tread on in utter ignorance, of what each other mean,

and prate about the elephant, not one of them has seen!

Elephants never forget & elephantiers never remember.

And no irony on the periodic table - just razor sharp knives, sweaty teeth, & insatiable appetites.

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Jan 2Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Wonderful explanation. After our interview I found the majority of people contacting me with questions were about “isn’t there a pill instead?”. I refer to your book, lectures and to this substack of course. I love this post and will include it on our interview page for sure! Happy New Year Dr Exley! -Jen

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Jan 1Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Happy New Year to you & yours & thank you for continuing the mini-lessons for us.

I wish you had crossed paths with the english fringe inventor Harry Oldfield while he was with us & formed a friendship with him. His attitude to any scientific problem was an enthusiastic one of "Let's see about that".

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Another fine article, Chris. Fascinating. Fiji Water is my choice. Happy New Year! Rod

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Jan 1Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Hi Chris, I wish you and yours a good new year.

I hope this plea will find its way to a benefactor or group of benefactors, who, for the right reasons, would be willing to fund this important research, which I assume you would lead.

So all readers, please share this post to get the word out!

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Apr 9Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Here's an idea for you! I've been meaning to post this recently. Instead of a pill for silicic acid (since we already have silicon-rich mineral waters), a super cheap urine test for Al. That's a missing element in all this. I just discovered there's lots of cheap urine tests out there on Amazon - on the order of $20 for 100 test strips, that test for 10-14 different things in urine depending on the brand. I see a Brit company that makes a urine test for Al, but it includes other metals and cost 30 Pounds and single-use. Not useful (and terrible Amazon reviews too!). You know the chemistry for this most likely, right! Imagine a 100 test strip pack that will do Al only perhaps, for around $20-40 would be a great companion product to all this. We could start doing home experiments with flushing Al now. Crowd-source it, I'll donate! Find a company to make it. Lend your name to it! You could get places like wellness companies and natural supplement companies to carry it.

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I actually did something similar many years ago for a course on aluminium I ran in Portugal. I produced what was ostensibly a 'litmus-style' test where a strip changed colour to indicate the presence of aluminium. The problem is to try and make such a test quantitative. This probably needs to go down the same line as other tests out there such as that by Hach. Otherwise I can tell you all how to make a one-off indicator on a future substack.

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The urine strip tests out there have color bands for amounts present of each thing they're testing for. It seems like you could set up brackets of Al content assigned to each color band? It'd be up to one of those companies to do the leg work. We could crowd-source them to develop it, and you lend your name to! But what occurred to me just now is a CHD article today about the looming societal cost of the aging autism generation (and new ones to come). I've noticed more articles like this recently. It occurred to me, this could be a great time for a tool like this.

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Feb 22Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Thanks for this important information.

Based on your research would you say this chart is accurate?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210926121820/https://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/2021/08/26/bottled-silica-waters-from-around-the-world/

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I am really not sure since I do not understand what the author refers to as 'silica' and OSA. In our peer-reviewed and published research we define a silicon-rich mineral water as any water where the content of 'silica' as stated by the manufacturer is 30mg/L or more. This equates to approximately 14mg/L silicic acid.

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Jan 21Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

My little dog has had 2 adverse reactions to the Rabies vaccine. The first included ischemic dermatopathy, lymphocytic nodular dermatitis and panniculitis on her hip at the injection site. Took a dermatology vet and pathology to biopsy and diagnose. He said it was a reaction to the adjuvants in the vaccine (Al and Mercury). Fast forward 3 years to her second 3 year Rabies Vaccine. New vet gives non-Mercury (but still has Aluminum adjuvant) shot I.M. in shoulder. 2 mos. later she has a tumor there requiring surgery. Now the vet writes her an exemption letter and says no more vaccines of any kind. Isn't there something else that pharmaceutical companies can use as an adjuvant besides Aluminum?!?

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Probably not, better to stop all vaccines that require an aluminium adjuvant until there is a safe (clinically proven) alternative.

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Thank you. She hasn't received any vaccines for 5 years. She is a small dog (maltese/yorkie mix). She gets plenty of exercise in the house (likes to play fetch) and runs around inside the outdoor pool cage. I have her paper trained and walk her in a stroller, lol, so that she won't encounter canine pathogens. Hoping the industry discovers a better adjuvant that isn't toxic! Do you know if anyone is even exploring this? What is it about Aluminum that makes it the go-to choice?

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Jan 8Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Bless you for your patience with me and for all your time and effort you have put into your studies on aluminum.

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Jan 1Liked by Dr Christopher Exley

Thank you Dr. Exley! This has been on my mind lately. I want to install a high-grade water filtration system in my home and was wondering if there was a way to get silica added. Alas, nothing beats nature 

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Perhaps outlawing the chemtrails ( which I have heard contain aluminum particles) we see so often here in the states would be a first step. Attempting to eliminate the many sources of aluminum contamination might be worthwhile. I am disgruntled at the thought of having to take pills to try and balance the lack of vitamins and minerals as well as fight off toxins.

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Crix, these chemtrails are a major 'thing' for me. I live in southeast Texas and have been compiling pictures of their grids. I have already contacted some local officials, most of which have not responded, but now it is the new year and I will keep trying. I want to know WHO is doing this spraying and on whose authority. If I ever get an an answer, I'll post it on this forum. Hang in there!

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Horsetail Reed herbal supplement is effective chelator, inexpensive, easy to grow.

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Hey Chris thanks for your efforts, I hope there is a way of doing this and that it's cheap and cheerful. Has there been an extensive worldwide search for natural sources of silicon rich waters, are they as rare as they appear to be? The only reasonable source of these waters in Europe is Volvic. The cost is relatively high and the rights are owned by Danone, a huge multinational outfit (yuck).

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There are many silicon-rich mineral waters available in Europe. Volvic is perhaps the easiest to find and, if you read my book, you will find that I am no friend of Danone!

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