The other day, Tessa Lena posted a ridiculous article by Dr Mercola that stated that Alzheimer's could be contagious.
Clearly this is nonsense, which I've grown to expect from pseudo scientists like Dr Mercola.
I mentioned the aluminum connection and how focusing on a contagious disease is much like blaming a virus for causing polio while ignoring the frakking elephant in the room in that case, DDT/pesticides.
Obviously, the peanut gallery jumped on this to act like there are multiple causes and the contagious theory is as valid as aluminum.
Sheesh, how much are these people brainwashed to not see aluminum, a neurotoxin, as the primary cause?
I read that too. Concluding the herpes virus may be causative in Alzheimer’s is a stretch when you consider almost EVERYONE has been exposed to one or more variations of that virus 🙄
Chris - Aside from bottled water which includes silica is there any other way to get this into our diet? I think you’ve addressed this before but not finding.
I’ll admit I struggle with some of the science here, so I’m looking for the simple translation for how to get it and how much daily.
I see there are products that you can buy (mineral drops and the like) but most do include silica Checking my bottle of Trace Minerals (which mainly lists magnesium chloride) I see that silica is not listed.
Thank you for your always informative posts and all the great work you’re doing in this area.
Diet, including silica supplements, will contribute some silicic acid to your body. However, not in the concentrations required to facilitate the removal of aluminium from the body via urine. These additional contributions to silicic acid in the body may have other benefits and many anecdotes suggest that they do.
Thank you. You said (somewhere, I think) that you consume 1L of bottled water that includes silica. Do you recommend that? Evian is the main one I’ve found that includes silica.
I just saw this one minute, eighteen second video posted on The Highwire. It supposedly shows what happens when mercury and aluminum are mixed in the body. It seemed a little far-fetched to me and wondered if you've seen this, Dr. Exley, or have a comment:
I have been reading about lithium lately and find that it is considered "essential" and yet we also might say that there is "no identifiable lithium biochemistry." Your thoughts? Seems like a paradox. Lithium may have a role in brain healing.
Well, I have scanned through this review paper and also looked at papers it cites as showing the essentiality of lithium. I agree that some studies in animals have shown differences between animals fed high and low quantities of lithium but I could not find a study where lithium was wholly absent from the diet. There is no question that lithium is biologically reactive, though the mechanisms remain to be fully elucidated, but is it essential for life. I am not convinced.
From the paper: "Based on experiments in which animals are deliberately lithium-deprived and suffer a decline in fertility, lithium is probably an essential trace element in the diet (Anke et al. 1991; Pickett and O’Dell 1992; Schrauzer 2002)" On the one hand, we have OSA which removes one "cause" of neurological problems and on the other hand, lithium may be useful in brain healing. I understand there is presently a clinical trial of lithium for long covid at Univ of Buffalo.
Yes, I looked at all three of these papers and in each case the experiments involved low and high exposures to lithium, not zero lithium. To be classed as an essential metal the metal must be the required co-factor for a protein, e.g. enzyme, of some sort. To my knowledge no such protein has been identified for lithium. As I said, this doesn't mean that lithium is not biologically reactive, it most certainly is, but can we survive without it. Yes.
I do enjoy your articles and have been consuming high silica content water but the water I buy also has fluoride in and I wondered what your thoughts were on fluoride. There seems to exist a huge debate about fluoride and its benefits. I suppose what I'm asking is are the benefits of higher silica content water offset by the claimed harm of fluoride?
Thank you. I have written a substack on fluoride. Did you read it? Personally I am not concerned about fluoride in water providing the concentration does not exceed 1 mg/L (1 ppm).
Maybe a stupid question, how does FSA Fluorosilicic Acid that is used to Fluoridate drinking water tie in with this, and possible reactions with Aluminium?
Not at all but bearing in mind that it is usually the hexafluoro salt that is used, so 1 Si to 6 F, then the amount added is unlikely to make a significant difference to the concentration of silicic acid already present in the treated water.
Dr. Exley, I read the paper on silicic acid in sea water. If it were commercially feasible to desalinate sea water, would the silicic acid remain in the water?
Thank you for your work, and for sharing its importance with the world! It has been a honor and a blessing to know you!
Thank you. The feeling is mutual.
I love reading your posts.
Real science by real people...interesting to say the least.
The other day, Tessa Lena posted a ridiculous article by Dr Mercola that stated that Alzheimer's could be contagious.
Clearly this is nonsense, which I've grown to expect from pseudo scientists like Dr Mercola.
I mentioned the aluminum connection and how focusing on a contagious disease is much like blaming a virus for causing polio while ignoring the frakking elephant in the room in that case, DDT/pesticides.
Obviously, the peanut gallery jumped on this to act like there are multiple causes and the contagious theory is as valid as aluminum.
Sheesh, how much are these people brainwashed to not see aluminum, a neurotoxin, as the primary cause?
It boggles the mind.
Perhaps Dr Mercola sometimes wishes to be 'all things to all people'.
I read that too. Concluding the herpes virus may be causative in Alzheimer’s is a stretch when you consider almost EVERYONE has been exposed to one or more variations of that virus 🙄
Chris - Aside from bottled water which includes silica is there any other way to get this into our diet? I think you’ve addressed this before but not finding.
I’ll admit I struggle with some of the science here, so I’m looking for the simple translation for how to get it and how much daily.
I see there are products that you can buy (mineral drops and the like) but most do include silica Checking my bottle of Trace Minerals (which mainly lists magnesium chloride) I see that silica is not listed.
Thank you for your always informative posts and all the great work you’re doing in this area.
Diet, including silica supplements, will contribute some silicic acid to your body. However, not in the concentrations required to facilitate the removal of aluminium from the body via urine. These additional contributions to silicic acid in the body may have other benefits and many anecdotes suggest that they do.
Thank you. You said (somewhere, I think) that you consume 1L of bottled water that includes silica. Do you recommend that? Evian is the main one I’ve found that includes silica.
I just saw this one minute, eighteen second video posted on The Highwire. It supposedly shows what happens when mercury and aluminum are mixed in the body. It seemed a little far-fetched to me and wondered if you've seen this, Dr. Exley, or have a comment:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/5uGjOvcqMlZO/
Yes, it is nonsense. Metallurgy not biology.
I have been reading about lithium lately and find that it is considered "essential" and yet we also might say that there is "no identifiable lithium biochemistry." Your thoughts? Seems like a paradox. Lithium may have a role in brain healing.
Lithium is not an essential element for life. I wonder where you read that it was.
See the abstract: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5696506/ "Based on experiments in which animals are deprived of lithium, lithium is an essential nutrient."
Well, I have scanned through this review paper and also looked at papers it cites as showing the essentiality of lithium. I agree that some studies in animals have shown differences between animals fed high and low quantities of lithium but I could not find a study where lithium was wholly absent from the diet. There is no question that lithium is biologically reactive, though the mechanisms remain to be fully elucidated, but is it essential for life. I am not convinced.
From the paper: "Based on experiments in which animals are deliberately lithium-deprived and suffer a decline in fertility, lithium is probably an essential trace element in the diet (Anke et al. 1991; Pickett and O’Dell 1992; Schrauzer 2002)" On the one hand, we have OSA which removes one "cause" of neurological problems and on the other hand, lithium may be useful in brain healing. I understand there is presently a clinical trial of lithium for long covid at Univ of Buffalo.
Yes, I looked at all three of these papers and in each case the experiments involved low and high exposures to lithium, not zero lithium. To be classed as an essential metal the metal must be the required co-factor for a protein, e.g. enzyme, of some sort. To my knowledge no such protein has been identified for lithium. As I said, this doesn't mean that lithium is not biologically reactive, it most certainly is, but can we survive without it. Yes.
Thanks for looking!
I do enjoy your articles and have been consuming high silica content water but the water I buy also has fluoride in and I wondered what your thoughts were on fluoride. There seems to exist a huge debate about fluoride and its benefits. I suppose what I'm asking is are the benefits of higher silica content water offset by the claimed harm of fluoride?
Thank you. I have written a substack on fluoride. Did you read it? Personally I am not concerned about fluoride in water providing the concentration does not exceed 1 mg/L (1 ppm).
Thank you! I found that article and have ordered your book too.
Maybe a stupid question, how does FSA Fluorosilicic Acid that is used to Fluoridate drinking water tie in with this, and possible reactions with Aluminium?
Not at all but bearing in mind that it is usually the hexafluoro salt that is used, so 1 Si to 6 F, then the amount added is unlikely to make a significant difference to the concentration of silicic acid already present in the treated water.
Dr. Exley, I read the paper on silicic acid in sea water. If it were commercially feasible to desalinate sea water, would the silicic acid remain in the water?
Yes providing that the mechanism of desalination (ion exchange?) does not involve raising the pH of the seawater to something approaching 10.