Thankyou so much for this. I was looking up Aluminium levels in drinking water in Australia, and it's recommended to have no more than 0.5 mg/L (ie 500 micrograms!). But 27 micrograms/L made the rainbow trout fry swim away, and the EU water level recommendations are allowable up to 0.9mg/L (900 micrograms!) and that killed the salmon parr. OK, sure, fish have water flushing over their gills to 'breathe' plus they are way smaller than most humans, so any water toxicity would be worse for them, but still. 500-900 micrograms of Aluminium in H2O is NOT OK!
In our local river catchment area, there were 29 analyses for Aluminium, and they ranged from 0.01 to 6.2 mg/L (10 to 62,000 micrograms!!), with 3.4% of samples over the limit. Geez. I hope we're not drinking the dodgy part of the catchment...?!?!? Can't wait to be back on tank water! But of course, even with filtered, tank water, one needs to have a clean, healthy roof, clean healthy tanks and not be in areas with contaminated air (eg under flight paths, near industrial areas, busy roads, in/around cloud seeding areas etc).
When the AU govt says this: "Aluminium concentrations <5 mg/L [< 50,000 micrograms!] in livestock drinking water should not be harmful to animal health" you really have to wonder if they are trying to commit murder on at least an hourly basis?!
And in WA/Perth in Australia, there is no health guidleline value set for acid-soluble aluminium in water, but an 'aesthetic" guideline value of 0.2mg/L (200 micrograms) is suggested.
What would we do without you, Dr Exley?! Every time I check your information against what is considered 'safe', it's just MORE lies from the govt!!
EVERYONE needs to be drinking silicic-rich water every day! Good on you for suggesting this!
I've just ordered 30 litres of Tongariro water yesterday, thank you Dr Exley.
I have my suspicions that our exposure to Al has increased in concert with superphosphate use, not only via vegetation but also carcasses.
There are a growing number of farmers here in NZ who are aware of the interaction of Al with super and the worsening detrimental effects it has on soil and microbe health, but ultimately phosphate availability.
One company has found a solution, a particular silica mineral that was ejected during one of the Taupo caldera eruptions.
It robs Al from the Aluminium Phosphate, releasing abundant amounts of P that has been locked up in the soil for years.
Livestock on treated land also have improved health, being more resistant to disease and parasites, plus they apparently make tastier eating.
After reading 'Imagine you are an Aluminium atom' I am seriously considering buying a trailer load of this silica sand for my veggie garden, although my pH could be too alkaline to facilitate an effective reaction as I've relied mostly on compost for nutrients.
Over my 67 years I've watched the local rivers' depletion of Atlantic salmon, and put it down to nitrate runoff from farms, but now knowing the link between Al and Super, I'm beginning to suspect Al is running off in the mix too!
Hi - I live in NZ and have been looking for a source of silica water. I found Antipodes Water which comes in a glass bottle with a aluminium top but there is a plastic piece inside to stop any contamination - I hope. The problem is - it is quite expensive which is a shame. Do you have any concern drinking out of a plastic container? Thanks - Im a newbie.
Hi Gay, No concerns with PET at all. Dr Exley has answered this question and he has no concerns either. I think much of the plastic hysteria is blown out of proportion, excluding pollution of course. It could even be a matter of diversion, as another directed nail in the fossil fuel coffin. Not denying the toxicity of plasticizers etc., but Al is more of a threat to us I believe.
Tongariro mineral water is much cheaper and has 59mg/l silica. The 15 litre bottles have the least surface area and are less likely to have much, if any plastic particles in them, but then PET is biologically inert, not like Al.
I'm unsure what to do with my bottles though.....maybe cut the bottom out and use them over my early tomatoes, cucumbers etc.,
Thanks for your reply. Sounds like you have been following Dr Exley for a while? Could you recommend a video I could send to family & friends? I would like to educate more kiwis about the benefits of silica water! Thanks for any help. 😊
Where I live there was a mass fish die off in a deep reservoir that killed fish at all depths. A couple of months later a local harbor had a die off and then weeks after that another die off at a marina down the coast. They were not able to find any cause at the reservoir despite testing and the only explanation I heard for the marinas was perhaps the oxygen level was low.
Since there have been proposals for blocking the sun with metal particle containing sprays, I can't help but wonder if that might be an explanation for fish die offs. If they sprayed over the mountains, runoff into streams might collect it into a reservoir. If they sprayed over the coast, sewer drainage might cause temporary spikes in concentration in shallow areas like a marina.
I remember, a few years back, the first week I drank a liter of Volvic bottle water with 32mg/liter, my tinnitus miraculously was nearly gone abøut half of that time, which hadn't happened before. As you can guess, I'm still on Volvic or other silica solutions....
Some 3 years ago, I FLUNKED the mental MMSE test as part of my annual GP physical.
I had BEGINNING and “IRREVERSIBLE” Alzheimer’s. My MMSE score was in the mid-teens. This is initial stage (and supposedly irreversible) Alzheimer’s.
I started reading and learned that…
1. Alzheimer’s is a new malaise. First diagnosed in the early 1900s.
2. Nobody knew what causes Alzheimer’s.
3. There is no cure.
I kinda didn’t like what I learned… so I started digging. I found the *very* technical book that you wrote, and did my first “overnighter” since University. (I am a graduate of… perhaps… the finest Technology University in the world… CAL Berkeley. So… maybe not all that dumb!)
What you taught me is simple…
1. Alzheimer’s is *caused* by metallic Aluminum.
2. Bodily Aluminum can be chelated from the body using OSA-Rich water… like Fiji Water.
I immediately began a Fiji water treatment… at least a liter/quart every day.
For the last 2 years, my MMSE score has *climbed* TO 28 last year and 29 this year.
HIGH NORMAL!
Put another way… I appear to be CURED from Alzheimer’s.
(I would have posted this a few weeks ago, but… as a recovered Alzheimer’s patient… I was in Antarctica learning about Penguins and Shackleton’s explorations.)
Hello Ashley, I know the author well and remember reading the paper upon its publication last year. I find her model based upon animal studies over simplistic. I think it underestimates the potential toxicity of aluminium in SCIT and similar. This was my take on allergy immunotherapy a few years ago. https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/1710-1492-10-4.pdf
It seems your fish tests were most significant at pH 5 while the Thames River and Great Lakes are at 7 or well above. For the Great Lakes and St-Lawrence the Al seems in the same mg ball park as iron but the form of aluminum is not given. In what form was hour Al in the fish avoidance tests that was no longer significant at pH at or above 6. Please comment on the pH issue in river water.
In brief since I have written about how and why aluminium is toxic many times here on substack. Toxicity is all about rate of delivery of Al3+ to susceptible functional groups, for example associated with the gill epithelium in fish. Generally, though there are exceptions aluminium is most toxic where availability of Al3+ and binding environment are optimised. In acute aluminium toxicity in fish this tends to be around pH 5. At pH 6 or even pH 7 where the binding environment is strong the delivery of Al3+ is slower. Hope that helps.
As per Wiki: at 20C 1 mg Al(OH)3 dissolves in water, about the amount found in the Great Lakes that are not acidic, while the Thames river at average pH 8 would shield fish form Al toxicity. So what form of Al did you use in your fish in a tube study.
Wiki?!! I was polite in giving you a precise answer to your original question. Understand to whom you ask your questions before insulting them through references to Wikipedia.
I am giving up on you. That 1 mg of course was per litre. Your book has the same problem, not sufficient amounts in mg in whatever population to make it relevant to the reader and you are plain wrong about aluminum cans. I'll see where to unsubscribe.
Sorry you have chosen to not learn from Dr Exley and instead have chosen a source such as Wikipedia for your information. I hope you see your error sooner rather than later.
I had my first degree in metallurgy in 1967, been an independent forensic engineer in the field for over 50 years, have some dozen references in Medline and a not for profit website as to the cause of heart disease and micro-nutrients since 25 years. I know how to read stuff about "associations" and toxins and re-reading todaythe first part of his book. Al is not good but scaring people with milligrams or less of a toxin without hard data is not correct. Not only that, Exley is not interested hearing where he is wrong; never mind the facts. The middle of page 57 has a typical oxymoron: the amount is "significant" but "largely unquantified:
My amount of 1 mg/L was accurate regardless its source, and Dr. Exley did not correct me, and his book without index has no clear reference. Incidentally, Al cans are not lined with 'polythene' and if canned with <1 ppm oxygen it can last safely for up to 10 years with water, and if it has 'coke' based on phosphoric acid, the latter will instantly combine with aluminum -- but Dr Exley was not interested in the data.
So, I won't worry about the 8 billions of a gram Al per L in my St-Lawrence River Montreal tap water at a pH of 7.5 Aluminum in packaging keeps oxygen away from foods .. is that a bad thing and worse than the packaging. Such considerations are not in his book?
I have come to the general conclusion that 'toxins' -apart from tobacco smoke- are not likely do do you in ... but being low in a bunch of vitamins by eating store-bought food while not taking a multivitamin [thus having above minimum self-made homocysteine, a sulphur based toxin] likely will. Our systems are resilient but need all known nutrients and it is known that vitamin C helps good health while lowering aluminum. Thank you for your comment and best wishes.
This Is Water. David Foster Wallace. Commencement address to a school of fish in the Kenyon College Aluminum barrel.
He said, “"It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. They shoot the terrible master.”
I don’t know if suicide is anti-social. I can see the stretch that says it is. I can see the only/merely ostensible “social” surround motivating such a conclusion, too.
But murder-suicide is obviously anti-social.
And keeping up with the jones’s sociality begets aluminum, laced with fentanyl, that shoots into heads already shot through with anti.
Silver bullets, garlic & silica water … squirt-guns?
I have paid for 2 tap water tests so far in the last 3 years, and both had aluminium value of under 0.01 mg/liter with the allowed value being max 0.2mg/liter. Is that figure of 0.2mg/liter the same value you assumed in europe max value?
Are there any studies that show, or is it even possible to measure the amounts of aluminium being removed from tissues by silica water? Or is it only done with urine samples that include both environmental and stored components?
Will silica, like what's in the horsetail plant, do the same thing as silicon water? I'm looking into bone supplements to treat osteoporosis right now.
THANK YOU Dr Exley! Blessings for a New Year of abundant love & peace, health & wealth!
Thankyou so much for this. I was looking up Aluminium levels in drinking water in Australia, and it's recommended to have no more than 0.5 mg/L (ie 500 micrograms!). But 27 micrograms/L made the rainbow trout fry swim away, and the EU water level recommendations are allowable up to 0.9mg/L (900 micrograms!) and that killed the salmon parr. OK, sure, fish have water flushing over their gills to 'breathe' plus they are way smaller than most humans, so any water toxicity would be worse for them, but still. 500-900 micrograms of Aluminium in H2O is NOT OK!
In our local river catchment area, there were 29 analyses for Aluminium, and they ranged from 0.01 to 6.2 mg/L (10 to 62,000 micrograms!!), with 3.4% of samples over the limit. Geez. I hope we're not drinking the dodgy part of the catchment...?!?!? Can't wait to be back on tank water! But of course, even with filtered, tank water, one needs to have a clean, healthy roof, clean healthy tanks and not be in areas with contaminated air (eg under flight paths, near industrial areas, busy roads, in/around cloud seeding areas etc).
When the AU govt says this: "Aluminium concentrations <5 mg/L [< 50,000 micrograms!] in livestock drinking water should not be harmful to animal health" you really have to wonder if they are trying to commit murder on at least an hourly basis?!
And in WA/Perth in Australia, there is no health guidleline value set for acid-soluble aluminium in water, but an 'aesthetic" guideline value of 0.2mg/L (200 micrograms) is suggested.
What would we do without you, Dr Exley?! Every time I check your information against what is considered 'safe', it's just MORE lies from the govt!!
EVERYONE needs to be drinking silicic-rich water every day! Good on you for suggesting this!
I've just ordered 30 litres of Tongariro water yesterday, thank you Dr Exley.
I have my suspicions that our exposure to Al has increased in concert with superphosphate use, not only via vegetation but also carcasses.
There are a growing number of farmers here in NZ who are aware of the interaction of Al with super and the worsening detrimental effects it has on soil and microbe health, but ultimately phosphate availability.
One company has found a solution, a particular silica mineral that was ejected during one of the Taupo caldera eruptions.
It robs Al from the Aluminium Phosphate, releasing abundant amounts of P that has been locked up in the soil for years.
Livestock on treated land also have improved health, being more resistant to disease and parasites, plus they apparently make tastier eating.
After reading 'Imagine you are an Aluminium atom' I am seriously considering buying a trailer load of this silica sand for my veggie garden, although my pH could be too alkaline to facilitate an effective reaction as I've relied mostly on compost for nutrients.
Over my 67 years I've watched the local rivers' depletion of Atlantic salmon, and put it down to nitrate runoff from farms, but now knowing the link between Al and Super, I'm beginning to suspect Al is running off in the mix too!
I think that 'company' may have read my early research on this subject, see; https://www.jstor.org/stable/49707
Nothing new under the sun, gosh, you were there over 30 years ago!
It felt new at the time!
Hi - I live in NZ and have been looking for a source of silica water. I found Antipodes Water which comes in a glass bottle with a aluminium top but there is a plastic piece inside to stop any contamination - I hope. The problem is - it is quite expensive which is a shame. Do you have any concern drinking out of a plastic container? Thanks - Im a newbie.
Hi Gay, No concerns with PET at all. Dr Exley has answered this question and he has no concerns either. I think much of the plastic hysteria is blown out of proportion, excluding pollution of course. It could even be a matter of diversion, as another directed nail in the fossil fuel coffin. Not denying the toxicity of plasticizers etc., but Al is more of a threat to us I believe.
Tongariro mineral water is much cheaper and has 59mg/l silica. The 15 litre bottles have the least surface area and are less likely to have much, if any plastic particles in them, but then PET is biologically inert, not like Al.
I'm unsure what to do with my bottles though.....maybe cut the bottom out and use them over my early tomatoes, cucumbers etc.,
Nice to see a fellow Kiwi here :-)
Thanks for your reply. Sounds like you have been following Dr Exley for a while? Could you recommend a video I could send to family & friends? I would like to educate more kiwis about the benefits of silica water! Thanks for any help. 😊
Hi Gay, I only recently found Dr Exley's Substack, but I did see him on The Highwire a while ago, but didn't put 2 and 2 together until recently.
There's this video, I'm sure there are better ones for newbies, but just not sure where, https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/imaging-aluminium-in-human-brain
See my website to access all videos as well as many through my substack posts. https://www.aluminiumresearchgroup.com/
Actually, that one doesn't mention the antidote Si, maybe someone else will pipe up with a good introductory one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GB_MNIdg_k&t=20s
Thank you. I will post a link to the Antipodes water for you to view. https://www.antipodes.co.nz/pages/about-us
Where I live there was a mass fish die off in a deep reservoir that killed fish at all depths. A couple of months later a local harbor had a die off and then weeks after that another die off at a marina down the coast. They were not able to find any cause at the reservoir despite testing and the only explanation I heard for the marinas was perhaps the oxygen level was low.
Since there have been proposals for blocking the sun with metal particle containing sprays, I can't help but wonder if that might be an explanation for fish die offs. If they sprayed over the mountains, runoff into streams might collect it into a reservoir. If they sprayed over the coast, sewer drainage might cause temporary spikes in concentration in shallow areas like a marina.
amazing but in Children too
I remember, a few years back, the first week I drank a liter of Volvic bottle water with 32mg/liter, my tinnitus miraculously was nearly gone abøut half of that time, which hadn't happened before. As you can guess, I'm still on Volvic or other silica solutions....
Thank you. Forwarding
Reading your paper (Aluminium adjuvants and adverse events in sub-cutaneous allergy immunotherapy) I realized why I’m so compromised.
3.5 years of allergy shots (in my 50’s, no less) that never succeeded in getting to maintenance and I finally just said forget it.
I will increase my Fiji water
This is another note of THANKS!
Some 3 years ago, I FLUNKED the mental MMSE test as part of my annual GP physical.
I had BEGINNING and “IRREVERSIBLE” Alzheimer’s. My MMSE score was in the mid-teens. This is initial stage (and supposedly irreversible) Alzheimer’s.
I started reading and learned that…
1. Alzheimer’s is a new malaise. First diagnosed in the early 1900s.
2. Nobody knew what causes Alzheimer’s.
3. There is no cure.
I kinda didn’t like what I learned… so I started digging. I found the *very* technical book that you wrote, and did my first “overnighter” since University. (I am a graduate of… perhaps… the finest Technology University in the world… CAL Berkeley. So… maybe not all that dumb!)
What you taught me is simple…
1. Alzheimer’s is *caused* by metallic Aluminum.
2. Bodily Aluminum can be chelated from the body using OSA-Rich water… like Fiji Water.
I immediately began a Fiji water treatment… at least a liter/quart every day.
For the last 2 years, my MMSE score has *climbed* TO 28 last year and 29 this year.
HIGH NORMAL!
Put another way… I appear to be CURED from Alzheimer’s.
(I would have posted this a few weeks ago, but… as a recovered Alzheimer’s patient… I was in Antarctica learning about Penguins and Shackleton’s explorations.)
You are not only a good man, but a great one. And, I think, a brilliant scientist. Thank you.
Thank you.
Hello Dr. Exley, have you addressed the following study in any of your writings? Thank you for your work.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40629-024-00288-7
Hello Ashley, I know the author well and remember reading the paper upon its publication last year. I find her model based upon animal studies over simplistic. I think it underestimates the potential toxicity of aluminium in SCIT and similar. This was my take on allergy immunotherapy a few years ago. https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/1710-1492-10-4.pdf
It seems your fish tests were most significant at pH 5 while the Thames River and Great Lakes are at 7 or well above. For the Great Lakes and St-Lawrence the Al seems in the same mg ball park as iron but the form of aluminum is not given. In what form was hour Al in the fish avoidance tests that was no longer significant at pH at or above 6. Please comment on the pH issue in river water.
In brief since I have written about how and why aluminium is toxic many times here on substack. Toxicity is all about rate of delivery of Al3+ to susceptible functional groups, for example associated with the gill epithelium in fish. Generally, though there are exceptions aluminium is most toxic where availability of Al3+ and binding environment are optimised. In acute aluminium toxicity in fish this tends to be around pH 5. At pH 6 or even pH 7 where the binding environment is strong the delivery of Al3+ is slower. Hope that helps.
As per Wiki: at 20C 1 mg Al(OH)3 dissolves in water, about the amount found in the Great Lakes that are not acidic, while the Thames river at average pH 8 would shield fish form Al toxicity. So what form of Al did you use in your fish in a tube study.
Wiki?!! I was polite in giving you a precise answer to your original question. Understand to whom you ask your questions before insulting them through references to Wikipedia.
I am giving up on you. That 1 mg of course was per litre. Your book has the same problem, not sufficient amounts in mg in whatever population to make it relevant to the reader and you are plain wrong about aluminum cans. I'll see where to unsubscribe.
Sorry you have chosen to not learn from Dr Exley and instead have chosen a source such as Wikipedia for your information. I hope you see your error sooner rather than later.
I had my first degree in metallurgy in 1967, been an independent forensic engineer in the field for over 50 years, have some dozen references in Medline and a not for profit website as to the cause of heart disease and micro-nutrients since 25 years. I know how to read stuff about "associations" and toxins and re-reading todaythe first part of his book. Al is not good but scaring people with milligrams or less of a toxin without hard data is not correct. Not only that, Exley is not interested hearing where he is wrong; never mind the facts. The middle of page 57 has a typical oxymoron: the amount is "significant" but "largely unquantified:
My amount of 1 mg/L was accurate regardless its source, and Dr. Exley did not correct me, and his book without index has no clear reference. Incidentally, Al cans are not lined with 'polythene' and if canned with <1 ppm oxygen it can last safely for up to 10 years with water, and if it has 'coke' based on phosphoric acid, the latter will instantly combine with aluminum -- but Dr Exley was not interested in the data.
So, I won't worry about the 8 billions of a gram Al per L in my St-Lawrence River Montreal tap water at a pH of 7.5 Aluminum in packaging keeps oxygen away from foods .. is that a bad thing and worse than the packaging. Such considerations are not in his book?
I have come to the general conclusion that 'toxins' -apart from tobacco smoke- are not likely do do you in ... but being low in a bunch of vitamins by eating store-bought food while not taking a multivitamin [thus having above minimum self-made homocysteine, a sulphur based toxin] likely will. Our systems are resilient but need all known nutrients and it is known that vitamin C helps good health while lowering aluminum. Thank you for your comment and best wishes.
This Is Water. David Foster Wallace. Commencement address to a school of fish in the Kenyon College Aluminum barrel.
He said, “"It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. They shoot the terrible master.”
I don’t know if suicide is anti-social. I can see the stretch that says it is. I can see the only/merely ostensible “social” surround motivating such a conclusion, too.
But murder-suicide is obviously anti-social.
And keeping up with the jones’s sociality begets aluminum, laced with fentanyl, that shoots into heads already shot through with anti.
Silver bullets, garlic & silica water … squirt-guns?
I have paid for 2 tap water tests so far in the last 3 years, and both had aluminium value of under 0.01 mg/liter with the allowed value being max 0.2mg/liter. Is that figure of 0.2mg/liter the same value you assumed in europe max value?
Yes.
Are there any studies that show, or is it even possible to measure the amounts of aluminium being removed from tissues by silica water? Or is it only done with urine samples that include both environmental and stored components?
Needs to be non-invasive hence urine and potentially sweat fit the bill.
Will silica, like what's in the horsetail plant, do the same thing as silicon water? I'm looking into bone supplements to treat osteoporosis right now.
No, read my posts/book.