Thank you for your great efforts over the years to bring to light and uncover the dangerous chemicals all around us. Big Pharma has spent $300 million targeting amyloid, to no avail, and are still mystified by the disease. Both your efforts and Dr. Bredesen’s book: “The end of Alzheimer’s” brings new hope to cure this terrible disease that robs us of our memories, which is all we really are!
Thank you for this, one of the best yet. And many thanks to Laurie and Dennis! I've been making silicade for a year now. Last year I bought a bunch of the only aluminum-free coffee makers that I could find: Beautiful by Drew Barrymore. They're available at Walmart, they're inexpensive, and they make great coffee. I'm also using many of his recommended supplements, including PQQ and CoQ10, which is particularly helpful for those of us who are in our 60s and above.
It's very difficult to share one concise source of information about this with others; this post solves that problem.
Unfortunately, we have done further research on the beautiful by drew coffee maker. Dennis tore it apart and it does have an aluminum tube where the water gets heated. The company had responded by email to three different people stating the water did not come in contact with any aluminum. I have emailed the company with a copy of the email they sent me with the incorrect information and I did not get an adequate response. I need to write again. Please write to the company and ask for your money back. As one person said they are only going to trust the coffee maker if Dennis tested it and not trust what the manufacturer says. For drip style coffee makers Bunn is the best bet as the water is heated in a stainless steel reservoir. Also, two of the coffee makers that Dennis tested that were aluminum free are no longer being made. Here is a link to Dennis’ write up on coffee makers. Thanks for sharing the information Dennis' writes about. I agree the interview is a "great brief review" of Dennis' books. I will also be sharing this interview. https://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/2021/07/12/my-moms-aluminum-free-coffee-maker/
Here is an email from Keurig. This information is a few years old. I am not sure Keurig still makes coffee makers with the stainless steel reservoir. If you do some research and get more information would you let me know. Thanks "Keurig brewers do not have aluminum parts in the water path. The hot water tank is made of stainless steel and other water pathways are non-metal. K-Cup lids are multilayered and one of the layers is aluminum foil so if a consumer has an aluminum allergy, it is not recommended that they use K-Cup pods. We do recommend that they use the My K-Cup Universal Filter and ground coffee of their choice." I reached out to the appropriate department regarding your inquiry, please see below for the information I was provided with. "The K400 would be a good choice for him as that system is primarily constructed with a stainless steel heater. Other brewers that would interest this consumer is K-Classic, K-Elite, K-Select, K-Café, K-Café Se, K-Compact (although this system may be more difficult to find), K-Duo Essentials, K-Duo, or K-Duo Plus. The best direct comparison to K-400 would be K-Select or K-Elite."
This was amazing, hats off to Unbekoming. The parallels between Dennis's mother and mine are one and the same. I was devastated watching my mother's rapid decline, it destroyed me knowing what she was turn into the unrecognizable. Science said AD was incurable. Nothing could be done. Like stroke, "we just don't know enough about the brain". At the time I remember thinking, but said nothing, Isn't it amazing how medical students study the human body for 12 years to become big shot doctors and never studied the one body organ, through which all body functions are controlled, the brain? Explain that to me like I'm a 4 year old.
Studying Spanish for some time, in 2006 I was on my way to Argentina when a classmate of mine brought a ton of bottled water to take on the plane. Eye roll, thought all people who bought what was essentially filtered tap water in bottles were nutz. Turns out all was denied and thrown in the trash, and she boarded with no water. I laughed. To prove my point I walked down the water aisle, that had now become longer than my ranch home and spent time there. I did the same a couple months ago in the ice cream aisle, a necessary food group for me.
Took the info home and researched. I found only one water of value. Fiji. No other water came close. Although I have a Berkey and a reverse osmosis attached to my kitchen sink (not in my shower though) I decided to buy Fiji for my nighttime drinking in my bedroom. I down a litre a night. Since I lost my chelation specialist I knew that silica can act as a chelate agent.
A shoulda became a chemist. Chemistry I just loved in high school. It's heartening to read articles such as this and lends validation to a lowly HS graduate, to know that my rudimentary research has come to the same conclusion as learned folks, simply due to gut instinct. A good feeling.
I am sorry you had to watch your mother die from Alzheimer's. It is beyond devastating to see the decline and as you say to witness your loved one become someone unrecognizable to you. I am sorry this information was not available to help you mother and great you are taking action to protect your brain. Thanks for sharing your story of 'discovery'. Re: Berkey filter. Don't use the fluoride filter made by Berkey as it uses aluminum oxide (alumina) to remove the fluoride and despite the company's claims it adds aluminum to the water. A person had her water tested by a certified lab before and after filtration using this filter.
Can anyone explain why Diatomaceous Earth is not good? It is silica? I am confused as I find it great for so many things and wondering what I am missing. I can't seem to find an email to message Dr. Crouse himself to ask.
Dennis tested DE for OSA, the form of silica needed to remove aluminum. 625 mg of DE has .24 mg of OSA. This is not enough to remove aluminum. Dennis tested several silica supplements and none had enough OSA to remove aluminum. The only source of enough OSA is some mineral waters. You need a mineral water that has 48 mg or more of OSA and you drink 3 to 4 cups of water a day. From question 6 las paragraph " I have assayed virtual all silica supplements on the market for OSA released after 24 hours of exposure to simulated gastric acid and found they release too little OSA to be efficacious in facilitating the removal of aluminum. In fact, my mother took choline stabilized OSA for a year before beginning on Fiji water and she had no observable improvement. This is because you can only take 10 drops a day and the bioavailability of choline stabilized OSA is only 17% compared to 43% with mineral water."
“CR also tested samples of Starkey Spring Water in 2019, finding levels of arsenic that approached or exceeded the federal limit: Three samples ranged from 9.48 to 9.86 ppb of arsenic; a fourth registered 10.1 ppb. Those results are cited in two pending consumer lawsuits over Starkey's arsenic content.”
I made Silicaid for about 8 months. It took about an hour weekly. Small price to pay for health.
I have extreme concerns about drinking out of plastic and that’s the problem with Fiji water. There really isn’t a safe, silica rich water that comes in glass in the United States to my knowledge. Starkey water has known issues with arsenic and that leaves…nothing.
If anyone knows of a silica rich water, with no other heavy metal issues in the United States, that is bottled in glass, let me know!
Check our Gerolsteiner. It has enough OSA to remove aluminum and comes in glass. Just to clarify for people if you make 1 gallons of Silicade, it takes less than 10 minutes.
One gallon took me much less time than an hour, so I hope people don't give up before they try! You may want to consider looking for a post on Laurie's site that explains how to make silicade in four gallon batches. That's more time consuming of course, but you don't have to make it nearly as frequently.
I don’t know how you were making it but if I drank 8 x 4 oz a day (32 ounces) it took me about an hour to make 7 x 32 ounces, which is less than 10 minutes per quart.
So I think we’re talking about the same amount of time just daily or done once a week. It was quite a bit of prep to get out all the ingredients, pour it through the Britta water filter, test it with the pH meter, and all that, so I definitely preferred to do it just once a week.
Also, it would be nice if there were some kind of hard-core document online that shows Dennis’ qualifications and why the recipe is SAFE.
I had not one, but two people actually quit working for me because I requested that they help me make this silica water. They were convinced that we were using the unsafe “glass” form of silica to start with and that I was poisoning them!! Someone actually called Poison Control who told them that I was poisoning them so they quit. I mean, that’s how fringe this is.
And that is also why I quit making it because I don’t have time to go through all the steps to make this water every week — 10 minutes a day, an hour a week, I literally just don’t have time! I would love to, and I believe in it, but not everyone has the time and — for real — I could not get other people to help me make it!
Also, the way, Dennis makes it, you use a microwave. I don’t have a microwave and I don’t believe in using microwaves. Heating it up on the stove is a little bit more complicated and difficult. You have to really get the timing right and I just did not find it as easy as everyone is saying it is. I wish there were an easier recipe. Honestly.
I’m deeply appreciative that there is this recipe, and I did it for a long time, but I just want to share my experience as someone who really committed to it, that it isn’t quite as easy as everyone’s making it out to be and I don’t think that saying oh — it’s just 10 minutes — is going to help people adopt a practice that’s actually a little bit more complicated.
You have to buy numerous weird things like the initial chemicals that scare the bejeezus out of normies; you need at least one Britta water filter (I got two because it took forever with just one), you need a pH meter — you need a bunch of equipment to do this. Once you get it set up, then you have to be a chemist! You have to check the pH; you have to make sure your pH meter is working correctly. You have to correct the pH with baking soda and you have to do all these extra things. It’s just not as easy as everyone’s making it out to be! I wish it were, but I think people being more prepared actually will help more people decide to do it, rather than just acting like it’s just ten easy minutes. It certainly wasn’t for me.
Telling people — yes, it’s somewhat complicated, but you can get it into your life rhythms — that’s more practical and sets people up for success.
Better than just saying oh, it’s easy, no problem. I feel gaslighted when people say it was just 10 easy minutes. Maybe if you have a microwave. Maybe if you have all that extra time. But I don’t and I honestly did not find this as easy as everyone saying it is! That’s just my experience.
Good to know, thanks for your input. Like you, I don't have a microwave. When I finally got my dream stove, gas, a microwave was completely redundant & unnecessary. In the trash it went. In researching microwaves, I remember when they became household appliances, they will say how the molecular structure of food is changed thru the waves but they never use the word "dangerous". Think micro wave 5G or DEW's or radiation from bombs. THAT'S a micro-wave.
In response to Melissa, the Silicade recipe makes OSA, which is considered GRAS (generally recognized as safe) by the FDA in concentrations of 160 ppm of OSA in drinking water. That is the reason Why there is a American waterworks association standard for adding OSA to water. This is done and many municipalities in the United States to prevent corrosion. Dennis has a PhD in chemistry from Harvard University. You and I have corresponded before. If you start with the same water each time you make Silicade you do not have to check the pH each time. That should make it slightly easier. I hope you find a way to get silica water for yourself.
agree, I saw this recipe years ago and decided to forgo doing it. I am scared of the chemicals and the PH meter etc... and I know my way around a kitchen.
We started drinking Fiji water about 7 months ago as advised by C. Exley. It's so GOOD to hear more evidence that this helps! FYI, I've never been good about drinking water, but I started putting some fresh organic spearmint in my water and letting it stand for a few hours. Then I strain it and refrigerate. I LOVE it and drink so much more water this way!
Dennis has tested Bamboo. Last paragraph question 6: "I have assayed virtual all silica supplements on the market for OSA released after 24 hours of exposure to simulated gastric acid and found they release too little OSA to be efficacious in facilitating the removal of aluminum. In fact, my mother took choline stabilized OSA for a year before beginning on Fiji water and she had no observable improvement. This is because you can only take 10 drops a day and the bioavailability of choline stabilized OSA is only 17% compared to 43% with mineral water." The test results for Bamboo: 300 mg of Bamboo has .99 mg of OSA. The only source of enough silica to remove aluminum is mineral water that has 48 mg or more of OSA and you drink 1 litre a day to remove aluminum.
They also use 100% recycled PET (rPET) bottles which can be contaminated with other petroleum-based products during the recycling process. This contamination can potentially introduce unwanted chemicals into the water.
ditto many times thank you Unbekoming for this interview. A while back on an earlier stack you wrote about aluminum i mentioned my mom having Alzheimer Dementia. I mentioned that since I was a kid my mom cooked with aluminum frying pan and made coffee with aluminum parts. I was lucky to met people in the late 1960s thru the 1970s who deduced aluminum is bad, as is fluoride put in water. So I avoided both like the plague. As mentioned in that comment I took care of my mom for 7 years when UC Davis Med Center gave mom only two to 5 years to live. I believe removing all aluminum containing products and cooking utensils from mom's diet and drinking high sierra spring water (drove every week to the spring for water) prolonged her life. Sadly I was and am a dummy. Though I wished to help mom, I could do nothing like Dennis N Crouse Phd did for his mom.
I am truly grateful for this interview. I wish to know where to purchase "acidified heptomolybdate". We drink well water that is from a deep well in a very rural area of the Sierra Nevada foothills. I wish to see if the water contains OSA?
Your help in this is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
There is a test kit you can purchase to test your water for OSA. I will get you that information. I found the information quicker that I thought I would. Silica Test Kit, Model SI-7
If I'm understanding this right the description says it's range is from 0 to 1mg so looks like it's just testing for presence. we want a much higher # don't we so would this actually work for those who want to know how much they're getting?
You are correct the link above is to a test that determines the presence of OSA. If you want to test water for the amount of OSA you need 3 things mentioned in question number 6. "The amount of OSA in water is easily measured because it forms a blue complex in the presence of acidified heptomolybdate. Using this assay with a spectrophotometer and a commercially available 80ppm OSA NIST-traceable SiO2 standard, I measured 146ppm of OSA in Fiji water."
PLEASE DO NOT TAKE ALUMINA, alumina is aluminum if you use alumina you will be adding aluminum to your body. Silica in the form of OSA is essential for the body and it forms a tight bond to the aluminum detoxifying it as well as facilitating it's elimination from the body.
That is how homeopathy works, “similimum similibus cural” like cures like. It was first observed by Hippocrates and Samuel Hahnemann expounded on it. One would only be taking the vibrational equivalent of aluminum, not material doses. The electromagnetic spectrum of aluminum informs the body to expel it. Homeopathy works, that is why it is The Law of Similars, not a theory, a Law of Nature.
There is no scientific backing for taking any form of aluminum to remove the aluminum from your body including your brain or help your body in any way. Aluminum is not required for any body function. The human body has evolved a mechanism to protect our bodies including our brains from aluminum it is called orthosilicic acid (OSA) (the form of silica found in mineral water).
There is a long history of scientific evidence for the efficacy of homeopathy in numerous medical texts going all the way back to Hippocrates, as I have stated, as well as in the sharing of medical homeopathic knowledge among Doctors practicing homeopathy. They have diligently recorded their successes and observations of the effects of substances on the human body. The remedy Alumina, is not isolated aluminum, as found in products now being sold to the Public. It is aluminum that is found in Nature, attached to mineral clays, used for thousands of years in cooking vessels without causing any poisoning. It is only with the introduction of Chlorine and flouride in the water that is causing poisoning from these natural substances. Alumina is the perfect Similimum to detox from isololated aluminum. You clearly have no experience with homeopathy. It is a shame that you are just repeating mainstream propaganda.
Off topic but I've been mulling this over and here I come across you so I'll ask.. if nicotine works per dr Ardis for helping cov crap leftovers (smell/taste issues, fatigue etc) would nicotine homeo remedy work? Except it should be like cures like so how do you find a covid like remedy? I thought of tabacum but that seemed a stretch.
Tabacum is a good place to start. I would try it. I have tried many remedies and I have learned a lot from taking them. They are "Information" for your cells. If it works for you, then great, if not, on to the next with no harm done. As long you are not repeating very high potencies over and over again, there is no harm in trying Tabacum 30C and see if you feel better. Here is the Materia Medica, http://homeoint.org/books/boericmm/t/tab.htm
Dr Crause How have you missed the 24/7 worldwide spraying of nano particles of Aluminum and who knows what else? Look up from your research books once in a while.
Everyday Dennis monitors the amount of particles in the air through the app AirVisual. The reason he does this is the particles in the air contain a percentage of aluminum that is significant. We live in the Eastern part of the US. The primary source of these aluminum particles has recently been from forest fires as tree contain aluminum. The secondary source of these particles is the top soil erosion as most clay contains aluminum. Aluminum is the 3rd most common element in the earth’s crust. The size of these particles are pm2.5. We protect ourselves by using an air purifier (Airmega 100 made by Coway) in our home whenever the pm2.5 levels are higher than 20.
Thank you for your great efforts over the years to bring to light and uncover the dangerous chemicals all around us. Big Pharma has spent $300 million targeting amyloid, to no avail, and are still mystified by the disease. Both your efforts and Dr. Bredesen’s book: “The end of Alzheimer’s” brings new hope to cure this terrible disease that robs us of our memories, which is all we really are!
Thank you for this, one of the best yet. And many thanks to Laurie and Dennis! I've been making silicade for a year now. Last year I bought a bunch of the only aluminum-free coffee makers that I could find: Beautiful by Drew Barrymore. They're available at Walmart, they're inexpensive, and they make great coffee. I'm also using many of his recommended supplements, including PQQ and CoQ10, which is particularly helpful for those of us who are in our 60s and above.
It's very difficult to share one concise source of information about this with others; this post solves that problem.
And thanks again to Dennis for his investigation that led to the Beautiful coffee maker.
Unfortunately, we have done further research on the beautiful by drew coffee maker. Dennis tore it apart and it does have an aluminum tube where the water gets heated. The company had responded by email to three different people stating the water did not come in contact with any aluminum. I have emailed the company with a copy of the email they sent me with the incorrect information and I did not get an adequate response. I need to write again. Please write to the company and ask for your money back. As one person said they are only going to trust the coffee maker if Dennis tested it and not trust what the manufacturer says. For drip style coffee makers Bunn is the best bet as the water is heated in a stainless steel reservoir. Also, two of the coffee makers that Dennis tested that were aluminum free are no longer being made. Here is a link to Dennis’ write up on coffee makers. Thanks for sharing the information Dennis' writes about. I agree the interview is a "great brief review" of Dennis' books. I will also be sharing this interview. https://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/2021/07/12/my-moms-aluminum-free-coffee-maker/
Has there been any study done on aluminum and cancer?
Yes, aluminum has been linked to breast cancer. Chris Exley has an evidence-based write up on this. There is some evidence aluminum may be linked to prostate and colon cancer. https://open.substack.com/pub/drchristopherexley/p/aluminium-and-breast-cancer?r=1be2vl&utm_medium=ios
Do all the Keurig style use aluminum for heating the water?
Here is an email from Keurig. This information is a few years old. I am not sure Keurig still makes coffee makers with the stainless steel reservoir. If you do some research and get more information would you let me know. Thanks "Keurig brewers do not have aluminum parts in the water path. The hot water tank is made of stainless steel and other water pathways are non-metal. K-Cup lids are multilayered and one of the layers is aluminum foil so if a consumer has an aluminum allergy, it is not recommended that they use K-Cup pods. We do recommend that they use the My K-Cup Universal Filter and ground coffee of their choice." I reached out to the appropriate department regarding your inquiry, please see below for the information I was provided with. "The K400 would be a good choice for him as that system is primarily constructed with a stainless steel heater. Other brewers that would interest this consumer is K-Classic, K-Elite, K-Select, K-Café, K-Café Se, K-Compact (although this system may be more difficult to find), K-Duo Essentials, K-Duo, or K-Duo Plus. The best direct comparison to K-400 would be K-Select or K-Elite."
Also, thank you Laurie for being here and actively participating with answers and information!
This was amazing, hats off to Unbekoming. The parallels between Dennis's mother and mine are one and the same. I was devastated watching my mother's rapid decline, it destroyed me knowing what she was turn into the unrecognizable. Science said AD was incurable. Nothing could be done. Like stroke, "we just don't know enough about the brain". At the time I remember thinking, but said nothing, Isn't it amazing how medical students study the human body for 12 years to become big shot doctors and never studied the one body organ, through which all body functions are controlled, the brain? Explain that to me like I'm a 4 year old.
Studying Spanish for some time, in 2006 I was on my way to Argentina when a classmate of mine brought a ton of bottled water to take on the plane. Eye roll, thought all people who bought what was essentially filtered tap water in bottles were nutz. Turns out all was denied and thrown in the trash, and she boarded with no water. I laughed. To prove my point I walked down the water aisle, that had now become longer than my ranch home and spent time there. I did the same a couple months ago in the ice cream aisle, a necessary food group for me.
Took the info home and researched. I found only one water of value. Fiji. No other water came close. Although I have a Berkey and a reverse osmosis attached to my kitchen sink (not in my shower though) I decided to buy Fiji for my nighttime drinking in my bedroom. I down a litre a night. Since I lost my chelation specialist I knew that silica can act as a chelate agent.
A shoulda became a chemist. Chemistry I just loved in high school. It's heartening to read articles such as this and lends validation to a lowly HS graduate, to know that my rudimentary research has come to the same conclusion as learned folks, simply due to gut instinct. A good feeling.
I am sorry you had to watch your mother die from Alzheimer's. It is beyond devastating to see the decline and as you say to witness your loved one become someone unrecognizable to you. I am sorry this information was not available to help you mother and great you are taking action to protect your brain. Thanks for sharing your story of 'discovery'. Re: Berkey filter. Don't use the fluoride filter made by Berkey as it uses aluminum oxide (alumina) to remove the fluoride and despite the company's claims it adds aluminum to the water. A person had her water tested by a certified lab before and after filtration using this filter.
Can anyone explain why Diatomaceous Earth is not good? It is silica? I am confused as I find it great for so many things and wondering what I am missing. I can't seem to find an email to message Dr. Crouse himself to ask.
Christopher Exley"
"No, DE is silica, it will pass through the human digestive tract unchanged. Just like sand from the beach."
Dennis tested DE for OSA, the form of silica needed to remove aluminum. 625 mg of DE has .24 mg of OSA. This is not enough to remove aluminum. Dennis tested several silica supplements and none had enough OSA to remove aluminum. The only source of enough OSA is some mineral waters. You need a mineral water that has 48 mg or more of OSA and you drink 3 to 4 cups of water a day. From question 6 las paragraph " I have assayed virtual all silica supplements on the market for OSA released after 24 hours of exposure to simulated gastric acid and found they release too little OSA to be efficacious in facilitating the removal of aluminum. In fact, my mother took choline stabilized OSA for a year before beginning on Fiji water and she had no observable improvement. This is because you can only take 10 drops a day and the bioavailability of choline stabilized OSA is only 17% compared to 43% with mineral water."
“CR also tested samples of Starkey Spring Water in 2019, finding levels of arsenic that approached or exceeded the federal limit: Three samples ranged from 9.48 to 9.86 ppb of arsenic; a fourth registered 10.1 ppb. Those results are cited in two pending consumer lawsuits over Starkey's arsenic content.”
I made Silicaid for about 8 months. It took about an hour weekly. Small price to pay for health.
I have extreme concerns about drinking out of plastic and that’s the problem with Fiji water. There really isn’t a safe, silica rich water that comes in glass in the United States to my knowledge. Starkey water has known issues with arsenic and that leaves…nothing.
If anyone knows of a silica rich water, with no other heavy metal issues in the United States, that is bottled in glass, let me know!
Check our Gerolsteiner. It has enough OSA to remove aluminum and comes in glass. Just to clarify for people if you make 1 gallons of Silicade, it takes less than 10 minutes.
Oh that’s great to hear! I have digestive issues and sparkling water crucifies my stomach so I can’t do Gerolsteiner.
Any tips for still water with silica? Thanks Laurie!
I am sorry sparkling water is not a good choice for you. There are silica waters in Australia in glass, but I don’t know of any others in the US.
Thank you Laurie. I'm in Oz, I'll check out Gerolsteiner. Can you name any products that are available in Australia?
Three Bays and Cottonwood springs are available in Australia. Three bays is in glass. Here is a link to a list of waters from around the world. https://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/2021/08/26/bottled-silica-waters-from-around-the-world/
One gallon took me much less time than an hour, so I hope people don't give up before they try! You may want to consider looking for a post on Laurie's site that explains how to make silicade in four gallon batches. That's more time consuming of course, but you don't have to make it nearly as frequently.
I don’t know how you were making it but if I drank 8 x 4 oz a day (32 ounces) it took me about an hour to make 7 x 32 ounces, which is less than 10 minutes per quart.
So I think we’re talking about the same amount of time just daily or done once a week. It was quite a bit of prep to get out all the ingredients, pour it through the Britta water filter, test it with the pH meter, and all that, so I definitely preferred to do it just once a week.
Also, it would be nice if there were some kind of hard-core document online that shows Dennis’ qualifications and why the recipe is SAFE.
I had not one, but two people actually quit working for me because I requested that they help me make this silica water. They were convinced that we were using the unsafe “glass” form of silica to start with and that I was poisoning them!! Someone actually called Poison Control who told them that I was poisoning them so they quit. I mean, that’s how fringe this is.
And that is also why I quit making it because I don’t have time to go through all the steps to make this water every week — 10 minutes a day, an hour a week, I literally just don’t have time! I would love to, and I believe in it, but not everyone has the time and — for real — I could not get other people to help me make it!
Also, the way, Dennis makes it, you use a microwave. I don’t have a microwave and I don’t believe in using microwaves. Heating it up on the stove is a little bit more complicated and difficult. You have to really get the timing right and I just did not find it as easy as everyone is saying it is. I wish there were an easier recipe. Honestly.
I’m deeply appreciative that there is this recipe, and I did it for a long time, but I just want to share my experience as someone who really committed to it, that it isn’t quite as easy as everyone’s making it out to be and I don’t think that saying oh — it’s just 10 minutes — is going to help people adopt a practice that’s actually a little bit more complicated.
You have to buy numerous weird things like the initial chemicals that scare the bejeezus out of normies; you need at least one Britta water filter (I got two because it took forever with just one), you need a pH meter — you need a bunch of equipment to do this. Once you get it set up, then you have to be a chemist! You have to check the pH; you have to make sure your pH meter is working correctly. You have to correct the pH with baking soda and you have to do all these extra things. It’s just not as easy as everyone’s making it out to be! I wish it were, but I think people being more prepared actually will help more people decide to do it, rather than just acting like it’s just ten easy minutes. It certainly wasn’t for me.
Telling people — yes, it’s somewhat complicated, but you can get it into your life rhythms — that’s more practical and sets people up for success.
Better than just saying oh, it’s easy, no problem. I feel gaslighted when people say it was just 10 easy minutes. Maybe if you have a microwave. Maybe if you have all that extra time. But I don’t and I honestly did not find this as easy as everyone saying it is! That’s just my experience.
Good to know, thanks for your input. Like you, I don't have a microwave. When I finally got my dream stove, gas, a microwave was completely redundant & unnecessary. In the trash it went. In researching microwaves, I remember when they became household appliances, they will say how the molecular structure of food is changed thru the waves but they never use the word "dangerous". Think micro wave 5G or DEW's or radiation from bombs. THAT'S a micro-wave.
In response to Melissa, the Silicade recipe makes OSA, which is considered GRAS (generally recognized as safe) by the FDA in concentrations of 160 ppm of OSA in drinking water. That is the reason Why there is a American waterworks association standard for adding OSA to water. This is done and many municipalities in the United States to prevent corrosion. Dennis has a PhD in chemistry from Harvard University. You and I have corresponded before. If you start with the same water each time you make Silicade you do not have to check the pH each time. That should make it slightly easier. I hope you find a way to get silica water for yourself.
agree, I saw this recipe years ago and decided to forgo doing it. I am scared of the chemicals and the PH meter etc... and I know my way around a kitchen.
We started drinking Fiji water about 7 months ago as advised by C. Exley. It's so GOOD to hear more evidence that this helps! FYI, I've never been good about drinking water, but I started putting some fresh organic spearmint in my water and letting it stand for a few hours. Then I strain it and refrigerate. I LOVE it and drink so much more water this way!
How about silica rich bamboo tea
Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Effects of Leaves and
Sheath from Bamboo (Phyllostacys edulis J. Houz)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773139122000076
Multitasking bamboo leaf-derived compounds in prevention of infectious, inflammatory, atherosclerotic, metabolic, and neuropsychiatric diseases
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35183589/
Lig-8, a compound extracted from bamboo, exhibits neuroprotective properties.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17894646/
Dennis has tested Bamboo. Last paragraph question 6: "I have assayed virtual all silica supplements on the market for OSA released after 24 hours of exposure to simulated gastric acid and found they release too little OSA to be efficacious in facilitating the removal of aluminum. In fact, my mother took choline stabilized OSA for a year before beginning on Fiji water and she had no observable improvement. This is because you can only take 10 drops a day and the bioavailability of choline stabilized OSA is only 17% compared to 43% with mineral water." The test results for Bamboo: 300 mg of Bamboo has .99 mg of OSA. The only source of enough silica to remove aluminum is mineral water that has 48 mg or more of OSA and you drink 1 litre a day to remove aluminum.
They also use 100% recycled PET (rPET) bottles which can be contaminated with other petroleum-based products during the recycling process. This contamination can potentially introduce unwanted chemicals into the water.
ditto many times thank you Unbekoming for this interview. A while back on an earlier stack you wrote about aluminum i mentioned my mom having Alzheimer Dementia. I mentioned that since I was a kid my mom cooked with aluminum frying pan and made coffee with aluminum parts. I was lucky to met people in the late 1960s thru the 1970s who deduced aluminum is bad, as is fluoride put in water. So I avoided both like the plague. As mentioned in that comment I took care of my mom for 7 years when UC Davis Med Center gave mom only two to 5 years to live. I believe removing all aluminum containing products and cooking utensils from mom's diet and drinking high sierra spring water (drove every week to the spring for water) prolonged her life. Sadly I was and am a dummy. Though I wished to help mom, I could do nothing like Dennis N Crouse Phd did for his mom.
I am truly grateful for this interview. I wish to know where to purchase "acidified heptomolybdate". We drink well water that is from a deep well in a very rural area of the Sierra Nevada foothills. I wish to see if the water contains OSA?
Your help in this is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
There is a test kit you can purchase to test your water for OSA. I will get you that information. I found the information quicker that I thought I would. Silica Test Kit, Model SI-7
Product Number: 2255000
Here is the link. https://www.hach.com/p-silica-test-kit-model-si-7/2255000
Thank you so much Laurie. Really appreciated!
If I'm understanding this right the description says it's range is from 0 to 1mg so looks like it's just testing for presence. we want a much higher # don't we so would this actually work for those who want to know how much they're getting?
You are correct the link above is to a test that determines the presence of OSA. If you want to test water for the amount of OSA you need 3 things mentioned in question number 6. "The amount of OSA in water is easily measured because it forms a blue complex in the presence of acidified heptomolybdate. Using this assay with a spectrophotometer and a commercially available 80ppm OSA NIST-traceable SiO2 standard, I measured 146ppm of OSA in Fiji water."
According to my homeopathic materia medica, Cadmium oxidatum will antidote aluminum poisoning. You can also use the homeopathic remedy Alumina.
PLEASE DO NOT TAKE ALUMINA, alumina is aluminum if you use alumina you will be adding aluminum to your body. Silica in the form of OSA is essential for the body and it forms a tight bond to the aluminum detoxifying it as well as facilitating it's elimination from the body.
That is how homeopathy works, “similimum similibus cural” like cures like. It was first observed by Hippocrates and Samuel Hahnemann expounded on it. One would only be taking the vibrational equivalent of aluminum, not material doses. The electromagnetic spectrum of aluminum informs the body to expel it. Homeopathy works, that is why it is The Law of Similars, not a theory, a Law of Nature.
Actually, here is a suggestion for detox, Silicea LM1 in liquid, Silicea is SiO2, silicon dioxide, what we are using to detox, you can buy it at Helios, https://www.helios.co.uk/shop/silicea, and Alumina LM1, pellets dissolved in liquid, https://www.helios.co.uk/shop/alumina. Here is a description of LM or Q potencies and how they are used, https://hpathy.com/homeopathy-papers/lm-or-q-potencies-the-fifty-millesimal-potencies/
There is no scientific backing for taking any form of aluminum to remove the aluminum from your body including your brain or help your body in any way. Aluminum is not required for any body function. The human body has evolved a mechanism to protect our bodies including our brains from aluminum it is called orthosilicic acid (OSA) (the form of silica found in mineral water).
There is a long history of scientific evidence for the efficacy of homeopathy in numerous medical texts going all the way back to Hippocrates, as I have stated, as well as in the sharing of medical homeopathic knowledge among Doctors practicing homeopathy. They have diligently recorded their successes and observations of the effects of substances on the human body. The remedy Alumina, is not isolated aluminum, as found in products now being sold to the Public. It is aluminum that is found in Nature, attached to mineral clays, used for thousands of years in cooking vessels without causing any poisoning. It is only with the introduction of Chlorine and flouride in the water that is causing poisoning from these natural substances. Alumina is the perfect Similimum to detox from isololated aluminum. You clearly have no experience with homeopathy. It is a shame that you are just repeating mainstream propaganda.
Off topic but I've been mulling this over and here I come across you so I'll ask.. if nicotine works per dr Ardis for helping cov crap leftovers (smell/taste issues, fatigue etc) would nicotine homeo remedy work? Except it should be like cures like so how do you find a covid like remedy? I thought of tabacum but that seemed a stretch.
Tabacum is a good place to start. I would try it. I have tried many remedies and I have learned a lot from taking them. They are "Information" for your cells. If it works for you, then great, if not, on to the next with no harm done. As long you are not repeating very high potencies over and over again, there is no harm in trying Tabacum 30C and see if you feel better. Here is the Materia Medica, http://homeoint.org/books/boericmm/t/tab.htm
Actually, Tabacum is also a good Similimum to detox aluminum, because tabacco is a bio accumulator of aluminum.
Dr Crause How have you missed the 24/7 worldwide spraying of nano particles of Aluminum and who knows what else? Look up from your research books once in a while.
https://open.substack.com/pub/gbray/p/brace-for-impact?r=1d6qya&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Everyday Dennis monitors the amount of particles in the air through the app AirVisual. The reason he does this is the particles in the air contain a percentage of aluminum that is significant. We live in the Eastern part of the US. The primary source of these aluminum particles has recently been from forest fires as tree contain aluminum. The secondary source of these particles is the top soil erosion as most clay contains aluminum. Aluminum is the 3rd most common element in the earth’s crust. The size of these particles are pm2.5. We protect ourselves by using an air purifier (Airmega 100 made by Coway) in our home whenever the pm2.5 levels are higher than 20.
Hi Laurie. What about Dane Wigington Geoengineering Watch?
https://youtu.be/cuA03jPMCG8?si=MbZHtMrf65ukLhF5
I posted the recipe and my experience with it here if it is helpful!
https://www.athousandpaths.com/wild-nutrition/2022/1/18/silicade-recipe
Thank you www.geoengineeringwatch.org wth Dane Wigington & his documentary The Dimming *Catherine Austin Fitts chimes in on The Dimming
Thanks. I've seen this a while back, time to redo. Never seen Fitts to be wrong. IMO.
no concerns about microplastics from Fiji bottles?