Live and Let Live in the Aluminium Age
A reminder on silicon-rich mineral waters
It is over two years since I wrote my post on silicon-rich mineral waters. My substack musings were in their infancy and likewise my number of subscribers and so I thought it couldn’t do any harm to reprise this very important subject.
Silicon-Rich Natural Waters
I have written extensively about the natural history of silicon-rich mineral waters in my recent book, Imagine You Are an Aluminium Atom, and elsewhere. I will not repeat this information herein. I will explain why silicon-rich mineral waters are the ‘notable exception’ mentioned in my previous post,
I am not going herein to write about the detailed chemistry behind this subject, interested readers and can find this in a later post.
A Contribution to Science
I am often asked about the science, my science, that I am most proud of. If I may be immodest, I actually find this a difficult question to answer since I am immensley proud of my scientific record and specifically the science detailed in over 200 peer-reviewed published papers. Good science is tough and getting good science that concerns a subject of c…
A frequently asked question in relation to human exposure to aluminium is something along the lines of ‘well what can I do about it?’
My answer is that as a bare minimum you can do what I do and that is to adopt regular drinking of a silicon-rich mineral water as a philosophy for healthy living. Not detox, not a one-off treatment, a commitment to drink about 1L (or as much as you are able to drink) of a silicon-rich mineral water each and every day for the rest of your life.
So, some quick-fire facts.
We defined a silicon-rich mineral water as any water that has a ‘silica’ concentration of 30ppm (mg/L) or more.
There is no ‘silica’ in these waters. The term comes from the historical use of this term by water treatment companies and suppliers.
The silicon content of any water with a silica concentration of 30ppm is actually 14ppm and the silicon is present in the water as silicic acid.
All potable waters contain silicic acid and this silicic acid is absorbed from the gut into the bloodstream along with water.
The significance of the concentration, 30ppm, is that this is the amount of silicic acid which must enter the bloodstream to form stable, transient, complexes with aluminium. See my chemistry post on this subject for the wonderful detail.
Upon binding aluminium to form something called an hydroxyaluminosilicate (HAS) the complexes are filtered from the blood by the kidney and aluminium ends up in your urine where it is removed from the body.
This is how silicon, as silicic acid, facilitates the excretion of aluminium from the body in the urine.
I say body because while silicic acid binds aluminium present in the blood all aluminium in the tissues, including the brain, is in dynamic equilibrium with aluminium in the blood. So when aluminium is removed from the blood it is replaced by aluminium moving from the tissues, hence the removal of aluminium from the whole body.
We say that regular drinking of a silicon-rich mineral water lowers the body burden of aluminium and so helps to protect from the ravages of aluminium including such devastating diseases as Alzheimer’s disease and autism.
Don’t take my word for this. Go to my website and look through my many scientific publications where you will find all the peer-reviewed science to support my views including clinical trials in which individuals with Alzheimer’s disease benefitted from drinking a silicon-rich mineral water over a 12 week period.
You can also find all this information in my book including a Silicon Fact Sheet that I have reproduced for you below.
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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!