YES! Drinking a cup of coffee made with OSA water as I type this. Have been drinking about a liter/quart of Fiji water daily for 3+ years.
Because of your research and shared experiences showing that *ALUMINUM CAUSES ALZHEIMER’S* my MD-measured cognition has improved FROM “beginning and *irreversible* Alzheimer’s TO “high normal cognition.”
Thank you Chris. This sub stack and compilation of your info on silicon-rich mineral waters is what I asked for in our email exchange. I wish some industrious person would figure out how to get an affordable silicon-rich mineral water in GLASS BOTTLES for purchase. If someone figured out how to do that and asked for your endorsement of the product, you both would rightly and handsomely benefit!
Hi Chris, Thank you. From what I see at that link, it would be $868 US dollars to consume one glass bottle per day for 28 days (4 weeks). That is out of the range that is affordable for me and most others. This would be what I spend every 28 days for one person for all my USDA certified organic food. We must get affordable silicon-rich mineral water in GLASS BOTTLES for purchase. Hopefully someone will figure this out and get your endorsement. Right now, I use Mountain Valley Spring water dispensed in 2.5 gallon bottles. From what I can gather that does not contain the right amount of silicon but it's the best I can do in the water department for now. If you have a formula for a "detox" period. I would buy from this link for that. For example, what could be accomplished re my body burden of aluminum after 2 months? I would consider it a $1,736 investment in my heath.
We might want to check the math.. It looks to me like one can get 24 cases of 12 1 Liter bottles (288 glass bottles total) for 599 pounds, which converts to $800, or approx $2.75 per day.
I very much appreciate this reply Mary! I didn't see that the price they listed was for 12 one Liter bottles. I'm on the site now attempting to order a pallet to be shipped to my address in the US and I'm getting a message: "There are no shipping methods available. Please ensure that your address has been entered correctly, or contact us if you need any help." I will email them now.
Unfortunately in many countries even just in Europe those waters are not available … I wanted to send some to my sister in Italy but I would have to ship it from the UK even if one of the waters is from Portugal 🤷♀️
Was in Italy recently. Italy is chock-full of volcanic-origin waters, one of the best countries in the world to find silica rich waters. Many are VERY silica rich (into the 100s mg/L). Check out, for example, Ferrarelle. Or just go into any Italian supermarket and look on back of the bottle for silica content. There are many. Denis Crouse has a table in his book (think you can find online) of silica rich waters from each country around the world. finewaters.com also lists silica content for more waters you can imagine, think you can search by country.
Note that many of the ones with highest silica content are also sparkling. I took to freezing the water in a metal tray to remove the fizz, I *think* this does not affect the silica content.
Hmmm....when I look closer it has a TDS of 101 ppm. (Reverse Osmosis water, which is recommended for good effects on Zeta Potential, has about 10 TDS.) And have not looked into deuterium.
Yes, where I live in Australia, the only one I can readily get at a not exorbitant price is Fiji water which comes in plastic. But I'm taking the risk with the plastic. My family and I have certainly experienced benefits of silica water.
I, too, wish this could be done, given what we have likely all read concerning nano to microplastics. I simply do not know how it could be made affordable (at least from what I’ve seen in the US); sourced at the site in glass bottles then sold is quite the premium cost! Until a biologically safe and regulated method comes about for man-made Si-rich water (imagine water store depots with a silica option), it’s the lesser of two evils, and all….
Synthetic OSA solutions have been made for years in the laboratory. These solutions can be made with either water glass or with sodium ortho silicate. Water glass because of its spill potential should only be used in the laboratory. Sodium ortho silicate is a powder and can be safely used outside the laboratory. Sodium ortho silicate is only available to buy in the United States. If you want more information in this regard, Dennis has done a write up about these two methods of making silica water. https://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/2023/06/25/hand-crafted-silicade-made-the-easy-way/
A reversal anecdote and a small positive step getting the message out in the midwest (Ohio and Michigan).
A singer friend of mine in Cleveland OH in her early 70’s was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s last November. She said it was as if Stick-It notes were just dropping off her. I sent her the Atom book and a crate of Fiji. She continued with the Fiji and got better to the point that she wrote a play with music about her mother's struggles with Alzheimer's called "Living on the Moon”. The mother comes back to life as an arm puppet called Memory.
In August we performed it together in Michigan (I played piano accompaniment). She remembered about 98% of her lines and all the song lyrics. She also had to remember when to speak as herself in "Flat Mid-Western" then revert to “Hillbilly" as her Mum puppet on her arm - a remarkable test of recall in front of an audience. One song was a "memory loss" song called Where or When. The third actor happened to also be the Director of Communications for the Senior Services in the City we performed in. After our chats backstage she now also drinks Fiji water every day and is in a good position to influence how the elderly are treated at their facilities.
After the show there was a panel discussion about how families can better deal with the challenges of living with dementia patients. At the end I held up the Atom book and gave a 3 min summary of Dr Exley's work discovering very high levels of aluminum in the brains of patients who had died of Alzheimers & Autism and heeding his warning to always read labels.
Another memory test was 2 days later when we did a 90 minute cabaret together with some challenging arrangements. At a small reception that followed I continued the discussions about aluminum. There was no push back - after the Plandemic people tend to say “I’m not surprised”.
I had also recommended that she exercise to the point of SWEATING and adopt the MIND diet or similar - which she did. Although I don’t know the details, she said the neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic agrees with most of what I told her. If I find out more I will add a further comment.
On the flight over to the States, to be well prepared, I re-read Dr Exley's Atom Book and also a new book called “Can You Catch a Cold” (a riveting summary of 203 experiments that failed to prove contagion) both books highly recommended.
PS. We are still working on one little memory issue. She stills calls it Fuji water. Oh well…
Thank you. That is indeed music to my ears. Every time I hear about someone benefitting from regular drinking of a silicon-rich mineral water I feel that all my hard work was worthwhile and I am inspired to continue what I can through my substack. Wonderful.
Thank you always Dr Exley for your work which has brought significant benefits to my family. Grateful to be able to pay for a subscription at this time.
I'm curious how you landed at 30 mg/L as the magic cutoff? Would it not depend on how much of your daily water intake is silica water, and how much is regular water? E.g. 0.6L/day of Fiji water @ 90 mg/L silica (=54mg total silicic acid) might be the equivalent of 1L/day of Acilis @ 53 mg/L silica (=53mg total silicic acid)?
There is no magic. Over the years we looked at a number of mineral waters containing varying concentrations of silicon. Our first clinical trials used Volvic, approximately 30mg/L as silica, and it worked so we used this as our baseline. We do not know if waters with a higher content of silicon than 30 mg/L are more effective. We never had the funding or opportunity to test this. We know that 30 mg/L is effective and we have healthy volunteer data to suggest that 15 mg/L (Evian if I remember correctly) is not as effective. That is where we are with the science.
Does 1L hold for all ages/body sizes? Can I get away with giving my 6 year old less than my husband and I might drink? And does the silicon/silicic acid evaporate or otherwise…degrade…if I open a bottle, drink part of it today, close the bottle, and finish it tomorrow?
If it helps, I know a similarly aged child who has benefited (experienced improvements in various aspects of health) from drinking 1-2 cups per day for several months.
If I remember correctly, your book recommended that if painkillers are required, to only use those without aluminium. How do you identify these? I couldn't find any references to aluminium in any paracetamol products for example. Were you perhaps referring to the packaging?
It should be written on the packaging. If the painkiller is described as buffered and/or extra strength then you can be pretty confident that it includes an aluminium salt as a buffer.
I am not saying useless, I am saying that this product like many so-called silicon supplements cannot facilitate the removal of aluminium from the body via urine.
Yes, there are many similar products. They contain silica not silicic acid. The claim of water solubility is spurious and probably refers to the other constituents of the product. If the particles of silica are truly nano in size as claimed then such particles may enter cells lining the gut. I doubt they can progress any further. Some say that 'silica' per se has health benefits. If true it has nothing to do with facilitating the removal of aluminium from the body. Silica cannot achieve this nano or otherwise.
Beer has a lot of silica in it, this from Science Daily-
A new study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. Researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California, Davis studied commercial beer production to determine the relationship between beer production methods and the resulting silicon content, concluding that beer is a rich source of dietary silicon. (end of quote)
My grandmother lived to be 98, and spent lots of time with my family, never saw her drink a glass of water. I suppose because she was from the old country (Romania) and you simply did not make a habit of drinking water without at least boiling it first, and then usually making tea. I have a Multipure filter system, but I am going to stick with teas, beer and wine that I make myself. I really appreciate your work, thank you.
Bodily Aluminum can *safely* be dissolved by an acetic compound… Orthosilic Acid (OSA). A number of OSA-containing “spring waters” are available at retail and online. My “beverage of choice” is Fiji Water.
OSA has the (apparently unique) property of *safely* dissolving Aluminum *from* the brain. Once dissolved, the body’s urinary system takes care of naturally removing it.
YES! Drinking a cup of coffee made with OSA water as I type this. Have been drinking about a liter/quart of Fiji water daily for 3+ years.
Because of your research and shared experiences showing that *ALUMINUM CAUSES ALZHEIMER’S* my MD-measured cognition has improved FROM “beginning and *irreversible* Alzheimer’s TO “high normal cognition.”
Thanks again! (My wife thanks you also!)
Thank you Chris. This sub stack and compilation of your info on silicon-rich mineral waters is what I asked for in our email exchange. I wish some industrious person would figure out how to get an affordable silicon-rich mineral water in GLASS BOTTLES for purchase. If someone figured out how to do that and asked for your endorsement of the product, you both would rightly and handsomely benefit!
I think you can get glass bottles through this company. https://www.silicawaters.com/
Hi Chris, Thank you. From what I see at that link, it would be $868 US dollars to consume one glass bottle per day for 28 days (4 weeks). That is out of the range that is affordable for me and most others. This would be what I spend every 28 days for one person for all my USDA certified organic food. We must get affordable silicon-rich mineral water in GLASS BOTTLES for purchase. Hopefully someone will figure this out and get your endorsement. Right now, I use Mountain Valley Spring water dispensed in 2.5 gallon bottles. From what I can gather that does not contain the right amount of silicon but it's the best I can do in the water department for now. If you have a formula for a "detox" period. I would buy from this link for that. For example, what could be accomplished re my body burden of aluminum after 2 months? I would consider it a $1,736 investment in my heath.
We might want to check the math.. It looks to me like one can get 24 cases of 12 1 Liter bottles (288 glass bottles total) for 599 pounds, which converts to $800, or approx $2.75 per day.
I very much appreciate this reply Mary! I didn't see that the price they listed was for 12 one Liter bottles. I'm on the site now attempting to order a pallet to be shipped to my address in the US and I'm getting a message: "There are no shipping methods available. Please ensure that your address has been entered correctly, or contact us if you need any help." I will email them now.
Glad it was helpful. Hope that shipping is available!
Hi Mary, I see if you are from US that you are directed to Aquene and Aguene offers: 12-Pack Crystal Source Water (12 x 750ml Bottles)
VENDOR
AQUENE SPRINGS LLC
Sale price
$200.00 They do bottle in glass
I will check the link that someone posted above and see what is offered in the US!: https://finewaters.com/bottled-waters-of-the-world/usa/alive-waters?highlight=WyJvcmVnb24iXQ==
Some common foods that contain silica.
https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/ss/slideshow-worst-fridge-foods
But need to be silicon not silica?
Unfortunately in many countries even just in Europe those waters are not available … I wanted to send some to my sister in Italy but I would have to ship it from the UK even if one of the waters is from Portugal 🤷♀️
There are many available throughout Europe. Look and you will find.
Thank you I will.
I wrongly understood that only those specific 2 brands were correct to drink.
I will now look at the labels and check it towards your data.
Many thanks again
Was in Italy recently. Italy is chock-full of volcanic-origin waters, one of the best countries in the world to find silica rich waters. Many are VERY silica rich (into the 100s mg/L). Check out, for example, Ferrarelle. Or just go into any Italian supermarket and look on back of the bottle for silica content. There are many. Denis Crouse has a table in his book (think you can find online) of silica rich waters from each country around the world. finewaters.com also lists silica content for more waters you can imagine, think you can search by country.
Note that many of the ones with highest silica content are also sparkling. I took to freezing the water in a metal tray to remove the fizz, I *think* this does not affect the silica content.
Wow! I checked the website you linked, and there is a water being produced 4 hours from where I live with a silica content of 38 mg/l. Who knew!
https://finewaters.com/bottled-waters-of-the-world/usa/alive-waters?highlight=WyJvcmVnb24iXQ==
Hmmm....when I look closer it has a TDS of 101 ppm. (Reverse Osmosis water, which is recommended for good effects on Zeta Potential, has about 10 TDS.) And have not looked into deuterium.
Thank you
I was looking only at the 2 indicated in the silica water website ..
I would not drink ferrarelle as it is too commercial but I will look for smaller labels from volcanic areas
Many thanks
Yes, where I live in Australia, the only one I can readily get at a not exorbitant price is Fiji water which comes in plastic. But I'm taking the risk with the plastic. My family and I have certainly experienced benefits of silica water.
I, too, wish this could be done, given what we have likely all read concerning nano to microplastics. I simply do not know how it could be made affordable (at least from what I’ve seen in the US); sourced at the site in glass bottles then sold is quite the premium cost! Until a biologically safe and regulated method comes about for man-made Si-rich water (imagine water store depots with a silica option), it’s the lesser of two evils, and all….
Denis Crouse has a method to make silica rich water at home. Think he is a chemist. I've not tried it.
I thought I had read Dr Exley say somewhere that you can't "make" silica water.
Synthetic OSA solutions have been made for years in the laboratory. These solutions can be made with either water glass or with sodium ortho silicate. Water glass because of its spill potential should only be used in the laboratory. Sodium ortho silicate is a powder and can be safely used outside the laboratory. Sodium ortho silicate is only available to buy in the United States. If you want more information in this regard, Dennis has done a write up about these two methods of making silica water. https://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/2023/06/25/hand-crafted-silicade-made-the-easy-way/
I have no idea. I was deferring to Dr Exely's expertise.
Thank you. Sent to my daughter-in-law. She’s trying to figure out how to help her niece. She sees me drinking Fiji, but…?!?
People don’t seem to be able to absorb the fact that doing something so simple could bring large benefits. Why wouldn’t you try it?
Yes, the Achilles heel is its simplicity.
A reversal anecdote and a small positive step getting the message out in the midwest (Ohio and Michigan).
A singer friend of mine in Cleveland OH in her early 70’s was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s last November. She said it was as if Stick-It notes were just dropping off her. I sent her the Atom book and a crate of Fiji. She continued with the Fiji and got better to the point that she wrote a play with music about her mother's struggles with Alzheimer's called "Living on the Moon”. The mother comes back to life as an arm puppet called Memory.
In August we performed it together in Michigan (I played piano accompaniment). She remembered about 98% of her lines and all the song lyrics. She also had to remember when to speak as herself in "Flat Mid-Western" then revert to “Hillbilly" as her Mum puppet on her arm - a remarkable test of recall in front of an audience. One song was a "memory loss" song called Where or When. The third actor happened to also be the Director of Communications for the Senior Services in the City we performed in. After our chats backstage she now also drinks Fiji water every day and is in a good position to influence how the elderly are treated at their facilities.
After the show there was a panel discussion about how families can better deal with the challenges of living with dementia patients. At the end I held up the Atom book and gave a 3 min summary of Dr Exley's work discovering very high levels of aluminum in the brains of patients who had died of Alzheimers & Autism and heeding his warning to always read labels.
Another memory test was 2 days later when we did a 90 minute cabaret together with some challenging arrangements. At a small reception that followed I continued the discussions about aluminum. There was no push back - after the Plandemic people tend to say “I’m not surprised”.
I had also recommended that she exercise to the point of SWEATING and adopt the MIND diet or similar - which she did. Although I don’t know the details, she said the neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic agrees with most of what I told her. If I find out more I will add a further comment.
On the flight over to the States, to be well prepared, I re-read Dr Exley's Atom Book and also a new book called “Can You Catch a Cold” (a riveting summary of 203 experiments that failed to prove contagion) both books highly recommended.
PS. We are still working on one little memory issue. She stills calls it Fuji water. Oh well…
Thank you. That is indeed music to my ears. Every time I hear about someone benefitting from regular drinking of a silicon-rich mineral water I feel that all my hard work was worthwhile and I am inspired to continue what I can through my substack. Wonderful.
Just find your Substack through the comment of another follower. Thank you for this article!
Thank you always Dr Exley for your work which has brought significant benefits to my family. Grateful to be able to pay for a subscription at this time.
I'm curious how you landed at 30 mg/L as the magic cutoff? Would it not depend on how much of your daily water intake is silica water, and how much is regular water? E.g. 0.6L/day of Fiji water @ 90 mg/L silica (=54mg total silicic acid) might be the equivalent of 1L/day of Acilis @ 53 mg/L silica (=53mg total silicic acid)?
Or perhaps it does not work like that?
There is no magic. Over the years we looked at a number of mineral waters containing varying concentrations of silicon. Our first clinical trials used Volvic, approximately 30mg/L as silica, and it worked so we used this as our baseline. We do not know if waters with a higher content of silicon than 30 mg/L are more effective. We never had the funding or opportunity to test this. We know that 30 mg/L is effective and we have healthy volunteer data to suggest that 15 mg/L (Evian if I remember correctly) is not as effective. That is where we are with the science.
I hope if RFK gets in he will bring you out of retirement and fund you to continue researching these questions...
Yes!
Does 1L hold for all ages/body sizes? Can I get away with giving my 6 year old less than my husband and I might drink? And does the silicon/silicic acid evaporate or otherwise…degrade…if I open a bottle, drink part of it today, close the bottle, and finish it tomorrow?
As I said in the post, drink as much as you can. No, no issues with leaving a bottle open and drinking it over a day.
So it's ok to drink more than 1 litre? (I'm fine with not knowing if drinking more than 1l that provides additional benefit or not)
If it helps, I know a similarly aged child who has benefited (experienced improvements in various aspects of health) from drinking 1-2 cups per day for several months.
If I remember correctly, your book recommended that if painkillers are required, to only use those without aluminium. How do you identify these? I couldn't find any references to aluminium in any paracetamol products for example. Were you perhaps referring to the packaging?
It should be written on the packaging. If the painkiller is described as buffered and/or extra strength then you can be pretty confident that it includes an aluminium salt as a buffer.
That's interesting! I'd not heard this before
What about drinking horsetail (Equisetum arvense) tea?
Please read my post called Horsetail
Thank you!
Does monomethylsilanetriol a.k.a. silicium G5 ( https://www.llrg5.com/silicium-organique-g5) also fall in the category of useless supplements? Thank you
I am not saying useless, I am saying that this product like many so-called silicon supplements cannot facilitate the removal of aluminium from the body via urine.
Have you heard of or evaluated this product that claims to be a high silica source? https://hiimisu.com/
Yes, there are many similar products. They contain silica not silicic acid. The claim of water solubility is spurious and probably refers to the other constituents of the product. If the particles of silica are truly nano in size as claimed then such particles may enter cells lining the gut. I doubt they can progress any further. Some say that 'silica' per se has health benefits. If true it has nothing to do with facilitating the removal of aluminium from the body. Silica cannot achieve this nano or otherwise.
Beer has a lot of silica in it, this from Science Daily-
A new study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. Researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California, Davis studied commercial beer production to determine the relationship between beer production methods and the resulting silicon content, concluding that beer is a rich source of dietary silicon. (end of quote)
My grandmother lived to be 98, and spent lots of time with my family, never saw her drink a glass of water. I suppose because she was from the old country (Romania) and you simply did not make a habit of drinking water without at least boiling it first, and then usually making tea. I have a Multipure filter system, but I am going to stick with teas, beer and wine that I make myself. I really appreciate your work, thank you.
How is a metalloid like silicon preferable to aluminium for consumption?
Bodily Aluminum can *safely* be dissolved by an acetic compound… Orthosilic Acid (OSA). A number of OSA-containing “spring waters” are available at retail and online. My “beverage of choice” is Fiji Water.
OSA has the (apparently unique) property of *safely* dissolving Aluminum *from* the brain. Once dissolved, the body’s urinary system takes care of naturally removing it.
What is the difference between orthosilic acid and orthosilicic acid?
Would OSA-mediated water be a net improvement over reverse osmosis filtered water?