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Perspectives on aluminum toxicity in three parts:

  1. Chris Exley, PhD, the “Aluminum Man,” is the foremost academic authority.

  2. Dennis Crouse, PhD, wrote a book about how aluminum causes Alzheimer’s and describes how to make silica water to eliminate it. His interview is at the top.

  3. Mark Kennard, my good dude in New Zealand, has an aluminum allergy that makes him highly sensitive. He is a case study of how silica water can help.

1. Chris Exley’s aluminum book

Imagine You Are An Aluminum Atom: Discussions With Mr. Aluminum (2020) by Christopher Exley is a beautifully written and well-documented book that discusses the relationship between silica-rich mineral water and aluminum toxicity. The author presents his research journey spanning several decades, focusing on how silica-rich mineral water can help remove aluminum from living organisms.

Here is a summary of Chapter 9, “A Silica-Rich Mineral Water Keeps Aluminum at Bay.” Exley describes aluminum toxicity and its mitigation using silica-rich mineral water. His research journey began with his early work studying aluminum in salmon, where he discovered that silica could protect against aluminum’s harmful effects. This led to implications for human health, particularly concerning neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.

The toxicity of aluminum in aquatic environments was the subject of Exley’s undergraduate research. He observed how aluminum at concentrations permitted under European Union law could kill young salmon within forty-eight hours. He wrote, “Only after eighteen hours do the fish show any obvious signs of distress. Their movements, within the confines of an experimental tank, begin to appear spasmodic, even frantic, as if searching for sanctuary from the poison.” Then they died.

Exley also describes how silica-rich mineral water helps remove aluminum from the body. He explains that biologically available silicic acid silica follows water across the human gut into the blood. When its concentration is sufficiently high, it binds with aluminum hydroxide to form hydroxy aluminosilicates, which the kidney can remove.

His initial experiments with salmon led to human trials that focused on Alzheimer’s patients. Drinking silica-rich mineral water produced clinical improvements.

One study involved Alzheimer’s disease patients drinking up to 1.5 liters of Spritzer silica water daily for twelve weeks. The results were remarkable: “Just twelve weeks of drinking up to 1.5 l/day of Spritzer resulted in three of the fifteen participants with Alzheimer’s disease having significantly improved cognitive abilities. Cognitive function in the remaining twelve participants remained unaltered after the twelve weeks of the trial.”

The author also describes interactions with the Volvic Water Corporation and its parent company, Danone. They initially showed interest but later withdrew support, possibly due to aluminum’s presence in their products and packaging and the aluminum industry’s adverse influence. This led Exley to a partnership with Spritzer, a Malaysian company, and eventually the creation of Acilis, a UK silica-rich mineral water brand.

Exley believes that natural silica-rich mineral water works, but supplements do not. He warns against attempts to create homemade silica-rich water: “Unless water is made or bottled under conditions that have been proven to be biologically safe, you cannot produce drinking water safe for human consumption.”

After carefully reading the chapter, Mark Kennard (substack HERE) and I disbelieve Exley’s claim that you cannot make silica water at home. E is a giant, but he hard-sells commercial brands, and we speculate he is financially influenced to promote them. Mark wrote me:

It just doesn’t come across right does it? All of a sudden, he gives no reason for something when giving reasons has been his life’s work. If there was a valid reason, he would have documented it. He wouldn’t have been able to help himself because that’s what he’s always done, and he would automatically put the reason without thinking about it. When you read what Exley wrote, you can feel him pause.

Exley says daily consumption of about one liter of mineral water with silica content above 30 mg/L (when labeled as silica) or 14 mg/L (when labeled as silicic acid or silica) rids the body of aluminum. He says this is not a “detox” therapy but a “philosophy for living in the Aluminum Age.”

By now, multiple published studies, including work in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, prove that silica-rich mineral water reduces aluminum body burden. Exley notes success not only with Alzheimer’s disease but also with multiple sclerosis, autism, epilepsy, and vaccine injury.

This chapter shows that silica-rich mineral water prevents and treats aluminum exposure. Regular consumption is a simple yet effective way to manage this, particularly for neurodegenerative conditions.

Exley has been suppressed—he lost his academic appointments and research funding. This improves his credibility.

I recommend you read the whole book, but here is the chapter:

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And HERE is a summary of the book by Unbekoming.

Exley’s description of aluminum toxicity from my 2023 post:

BODY BURDEN

Why should we be concerned that we are ac­cumulating aluminum in our bodies as we age? The answer is that while the aluminum industry has long perpetuated the myth that aluminum is benign, nontoxic, and even safe, nothing could be further from the truth.

In fact, there are few more biologically re­active metals than aluminum. The biologically reactive form of aluminum is its free metal ion, known as Al”3+(aq). Aluminum is bound strongly by oxygen-based functional groups in biochem­istry; one example would be the phosphate groups in ATP—the energy currency of our body. Essentially, aluminum (as Al”3+(aq)) is so reactive that we expend energy simply coping with its presence in our body. If there wasn’t any aluminum in our body, all of us would have so much more natural energy.

ALUMINUM AND THE BRAIN

If feeling a little more tired than usual was the only repercussion from our body burden of aluminum, we might tolerate this state of af­fairs in exchange for all of the advantages of modernity brought about by the Aluminum Age. However, what happens to our brain cells and our neurons, which are struggling to cope with burgeoning amounts of aluminum? I have written elsewhere about neurons’ role as the longest-lived cells of the human body; with their biochemical advantages, neurons can be viewed as “an ostensibly immortal cell line” that has enabled human beings to live longer.3 Unfortunately, the lifespan of neurons also predisposes them to a lifetime accumulation of aluminum. With constant exposure to aluminum, can we tolerate the early loss (death) of this important immortal cell line?

When aluminum loads exceed the body’s excretory capacity, they form deposits and accumulate in tissues. In Alzheimer’s disease, alu­minum accumulates in brain tissue to an extent that the brain’s coping mechanisms begin to fail. Think of your brain aluminum burden (while you still can) as a catalyst of the aging process that is bringing about age-related and eventually catastrophic changes in brain chemistry, well ahead of what should be your normal longevity.4 At a time when we are all living longer, and some dream of living forever, it is noticeable that advancing age is not ushering in better health. We may be living lon­ger—but we are living unwell. In the Aluminum Age, it would seem all but futile to aspire to a healthy older age.

NUMBER-ONE THREAT

I have highlighted the role of aluminum in Alzheimer’s disease, but aluminum is everywhere throughout the body and is more than capable of contributing to most chronic diseases, including diabetes, autoimmunity, multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions. To many, it seems fanciful to suggest that human exposure to aluminum is the number-one threat to human health in the twenty-first century, but thirty-five years of thinking about and researching aluminum at the highest level tell me otherwise.5

ALUMINUM AND AUTISM

Ordinarily, I am somewhat of a skeptic when I am alerted to new health issues purportedly associated with human exposure to aluminum. One recent example would be aluminum and autism. While various studies suggested a link between aluminum and autism—primarily via the aluminum adjuvants in vaccines—at first, I could not easily see a biological mechanism to support such a link. We knew that the accumula­tion of aluminum in brain tissue toward a toxic threshold occurred over a period of decades, so how might this relate to autism in infants? We had to test this link. We did so by obtaining brain tissues from individuals who had died with a di­agnosis of autism. We then measured how much aluminum was in the brain and, significantly, where any aluminum was located in the brain.

The rest, as they say, is history. To summa­rize, we found extraordinarily high amounts of aluminum in autism brain tissue, and we made the unique observation that the aluminum was associated with a variety of inflammatory (non-neuronal) cells originating both in the brain (for example, the microglia) and outside of the brain (such as lymphocytes).6 The latter provided a mechanism to link aluminum adjuvants to the rapid accumulation of aluminum in brain tis­sue and, potentially, to autism. Our data—hard science—on aluminum and autism changed my mind; I now had to consider that aluminum could play a role in autism and that aluminum administered as adjuvants in vaccines could be a significant contributing factor.7 I am now, ap­parently, an “anti-vaxxer,” as they say—simply for following the science.

Reference

Exley’s Substack

2. Dr. Dennis Crouse makes silica water in his kitchen

Dr. Dennis Crouse’s dear mother was losing her memory. So he studied Alzheimer’s disease (AD) for over a decade and wrote Prevent Alzheimer’s, Autism and Stroke: With 7-Supplements, 7-Lifestyle Choices, and a Dissolved Mineral (2016).

Dr. Crouse majored in biochemistry at Harvard College and has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University. His YouTube videos at the end of this post may be the easiest way for most of us to understand silica supplementation.

Crouse proves that aluminum causes Alzheimer’s (AD)

When Alois Alzheimer first described AD in 1906, it was rare. Now, a third of US citizens over 80 have it. After diagnosis, their lifespan is only three to nine years. Here are some critical studies from Dr. Crouse’s book:

The increase in AD precisely matches the rise in aluminum use:

It is a profoundly powerful correlation.

The data from this study proves causality.

Above: The residential drinking water history was collected for 600 people over the ten years before their deaths. Some developed Alzheimer’s, and others did not. The study correlated the dosage of aluminum with the incidence of Alzheimer’s.

A lot of US drinking water is treated with alum, which dissolves aluminum into our tap water and increases AD by 7.6 times (last line above). Crouse writes:

Over half the alum-treated drinking water in the USA contains over 100 ppb of aluminum. In the seven largest epidemiology studies, aluminum over 100 ppb has been linked to an elevated risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Fortunately, this exposure can be reduced by filtering.

Above: AD patients have much higher aluminum brain levels than controls.

Crouse shows evidence that aluminum exposure shortens lifespans and causes many other diseases besides AD. These include atherosclerosis, heart disease, autism, multiple sclerosis (MS), osteoporosis, Parkinson’s disease (PD), seizures, and many cancers. It also decreases male fertility.

The “aluminum age” is a health disaster.

Aluminium began to be widely used in the late 1800s. It is now in drinking water, food, colored candy, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and even inhaled air.

Dr. Crouse:

Chronic use of aluminum-containing pharmaceuticals and cookware can be the largest source of bioavailable aluminum. The largest acute source of bioavailable aluminum is from the adjuvant in vaccines. Yoho: for our children, vaccine sources dwarf all others.

Chronic aluminum exposure produces a gradual onset of many diseases and, eventually, death. The exponential increase in autism and Alzheimer’s disease over the last 80 years cannot be explained by genetics. The U.S. Alzheimer’s Association and the US aluminum industry, led by big Pharma with their vaccines, are covering it all up. Exley’s research was “canceled” by the aluminum cartel.

Crouse writes,

Those countries, such as Sweden, Iceland, and Finland, that schedule no aluminum-containing vaccinations from birth to 3 months have less than half the ASD prevalence compared to the UK and the USA, where babies are given aluminum-containing vaccinations from birth to 2 months of age. In addition, a positive correlation was found between autism prevalence and childhood vaccination uptake across the US population.

Many health issues can be boiled down to silica and aluminum exposure—the former improves health, and the latter destroys it.

Aluminum and silica are independent variables for human well-being and longevity. Independent variables are the prime movers influencing dependent variables, which change because of independent variables. These are my words, not Dr. Crouse’s, but he agreed with the idea during the interview.

This is an enormous claim. Crouse makes a strong case for it in Silica Water, the Secret of Healthy Longevity in the Aluminum Age (2018), then supplies comprehensive proof in Finding a Cause and Potential Cures for Alzheimer’s Disease: Climbing the Ladder of AD Causation (2022). This section summarizes some of his data.

Oxygen (46 percent), silicon (28 percent), and aluminum (8 percent) together make up over half of the Earth’s crust. However, the human body has only dealt with aluminum in the last century and has little resistance to its toxicity.

To avoid aluminum, Dr. Crouse recommends the following lifestyle choices.

  • Trash your aluminum cookware. It dissolves the metal into your food. Substitute glass, stainless, cast iron, or enamel-coated pots instead. Test them by trying to scratch them with a key. If it makes a mark, they are aluminum.

  • Never drink from aluminum beverage cans, even though they are claimed to be enamel-coated. Use glass instead. And those little juice boxes are lined with aluminum-based film.

  • Testing canned goods with a magnet will tell you if they are aluminum, which isn’t magnetic.

  • Colored food, candies, and vitamins are aluminum sources. For medications, if the ingredient list says “Aluminum lake” or “FD&C,” it is no good.

  • Use no antacids except calcium carbonate. Others are aluminum-based. Yoho comment: avoid any medications that you cannot live without, including over-the-counter ones.

  • Avoid baking powder! It has contained aluminum since 1900, and even the brands claiming to be aluminum-free are contaminated. It is used to make pickles, pancakes, muffins, and waffles. Instead, use old-fashioned cream of tarter baking powder, which has no aluminum. Alternatively, you can make baking powder using Crouse’s recipe in his book or on the internet.

  • Trash all aluminum antiperspirants. They have been linked to Alzheimer’s, and many have deceptive labeling. The ones that contain no aluminum are Arm and Hammer Essentials, Tom’s of Maine, and Schmidt’s. A natural alternative is to moisten a small amount of aluminum-free baking soda in your palm and use that.

  • Filter your drinking water for aluminum. Reverse osmosis systems such as Culligan and distillation systems like Costco work well. Most filters also remove silica, but you can replace that; see the next section.

  • Avoid processed foods. These contain far more aluminum on average than unprocessed foods.

  • Mothers must make their own infant formula to avoid poisoning their babies with the aluminum in commercial baby food.

  • Quit smoking. Two packs a day doubles the risk of AD. Cigarettes and marijuana have lots of aluminum, and when you smoke, you put it straight into your brain.

  • Avoid having more than one or two alcoholic drinks a day.

  • Eat the right foods. Whole grains, vegetables, beer (averages 65 ppm), and bananas are sources of silica.

  • Sleep properly

  • Oatmeal porridge contains some silica.

Harmless silica water prevents and treats AD and many other diseases.

It binds aluminum and forces its urinary elimination from the body. Hundreds of studies show improvement in many diseases when silica water is used. Fiji, for example, has a silica concentration of 146 parts per million (ppm). Other brands include Langkawi Pure (133 ppm) and Volvic (51 ppm).

As Dr. Crouse describes in his video and article HERE, silica water can also be made inexpensively at home from tap water. This is valuable information, and I’ve included it in a PDF for you to save in the event his website is taken down:

Preparation Of Silicade
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Crouse writes:

Drinking silica water (i.e., OSA) facilitates the excretion of aluminum resulting in lower levels of fasting glucose, glycated hemoglobin, and triglycerides in the blood and less BMI, waist circumference, and cardiovascular disease…

The best evidence that AD [Alzheimer’s disease] can be prevented is comparing the AD rate in countries with high orthosilicic acid [solubilized silicon] levels in their drinking water, such as Singapore and Malaysia, with countries with low levels of orthosilicic acid in their drinking water, such as the US and Iceland.

With comparable life expectancy and higher orthosilicic acid in their drinking water, people who live in Malaysia and Singapore have a much lower death rate due to AD. Since orthosilicic acid facilitates the excretion of aluminum by the kidneys, there is evidence that lowering aluminum will prevent AD.

Crouse’s other recommended treatments and prevention for aluminum toxicity include:

  • Vitamin D. Cod liver oil is a great source.

  • Taurine, vitamin K2, CoQ, vitamin B12, and alpha-linolenic acid. Animal foods are the best food sources.

  • Exercise and perspire. Saunas help, too.

Here are two of Dr. Crouse’s many success stories:

His mother was diagnosed with moderate (stage 4) AD: “A year later, I started her on a liter of Fiji water daily. Before this, she couldn’t remember her brother and sister’s names, struggled with cooking, had issues driving, and wouldn’t talk on the phone for more than 5 minutes. Now, she corrects herself when she says the wrong word, is cooking again, driving again, and talks on the phone all the time. But most importantly, she is happy! She now has only mild (stage 3) AD.”

She used aluminum pots and pans, but her cheap coffee maker was the primary culprit. Crouse bought her a fancy one with a steel heating element that would not poison her.

Crouse tells another story: “The Fiji Water has been removing aluminum from my brain for almost five months. I can drive and go shopping by myself again and also do memory block video puzzles. My scores have been more than triple since starting detoxing.”

Examples of diseases affected by aluminum but improved by silica

Multiple Sclerosis:

Compared with those without MS, people with relapsing-remitting MS have 7-fold more aluminum and people with secondary progressive MS have 2.6-fold more aluminum in their urine on average. Also, people with MS have much higher than normal concentrations of accumulated aluminum in their brains. Silica-rich drinking water has been shown to increase aluminum excretion in the urine by 2.5-fold in those with MS.

Parkinson’s

The incidence rate of PD is correlated with increasing worldwide aluminum production… Aluminum levels are higher in the [substantia nigra, SN] region of the brain in people with PD as compared to people without PD. Aluminum alters the metabolism of levodopa resulting in the inhibition of neuromelanin (NM) production and ultimately lowering NM levels by 50% in the SN region of PD patients allowing aluminum to cause oxidative damage to the SN region.

Osteoporosis

People living in the Okinawan longevity region have 40% fewer hip fractures than those in the U.S.A. This is most likely due to higher levels of [silicon] in the Okinawan drinking water.

And you will look younger:

Restoring or maintaining a youthful appearance as you approach 100 years of life is a goal that can best be achieved on a diet that includes supplemental [silicon]. This is because silicon is an essential element required for metabolism of connective tissue that makes skin, hair, and nails. Youthful skin appears soft and smooth… [silicon] both activates enzymes that cross-link collage and is incorporated into structural proteins as a cross-linker. This adds strength and elasticity to your body’s structural proteins…

Crouse concludes:

The primary reason for taking supplemental silica is to decrease the accumulated aluminum burden of your body’s organs. This will lower the risk of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, atherosclerosis, stroke, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and seizures leading to greater longevity. In addition, supplemental silica may allow the brain to heal from aluminum accumulation and also provide healing from autism and improve male fertility.

Crouse makes silica water at home

His parents drink Fiji water, however. Dr. Crouse says that if everyone did this, it would be unsustainable. His video shows how he makes this water for about five cents a gallon. He calls it “Silicade.” In the final step of this simple process, he filters the water with a Brita pour-through pitcher system using filter number OB03. This process removes all aluminum from his tap water. If you have a reverse osmosis water purifier like Culligan, your system already removes aluminum, but Dr. Crouse still recommends filtering just to be safe. HERE is the recipe from his website.

When I studied all this, I wondered if there was an easy way to add a concentrate to a gallon of water. I also wondered, “Why not use higher concentrations or simply take a pill?” I learned that silicon in water is limited by solubility. Above 200 ppm, silicon comes out of the solution, and super-saturated mixes like this might produce kidney stones. Pills have the same theoretical issue.

For references, see the original posts.

3. Mark Kennard is a “canary in the coal mine” for aluminum.

He has multiple metal allergies, which makes him far more symptomatic after small exposures than simple toxicity would. Using Crouse’s video instructions, he makes “Silicaid” silica water to treat his aluminum toxicity. His symptoms have improved. He has a Substack article about this HERE. He also wrote:

I have had aluminum sensitivity for 39 years. It causes me to have ADHD-type symptoms. This happened when I was younger as I got vaccines, but more recently, I developed a bad memory when exposed.

When this happened, I removed all my aluminum-containing dental fillings and replaced them with metal-free ceramics. The ADHD symptoms disappeared, but I was still left with a noticeably declining memory.

Then, in 2019, I had a titanium alloy orthopedic implant placed and had an allergic reaction to it. When it was removed, my symptoms vanished.

The surgery resulted in a second problem. During the original procedure, the surgeon accidentally hit a blood vessel while drilling a hole in my vertebra. He stopped the bleeding with Stryker-brand Cortoss aluminum-based bone cement. It is not supposed to be used for that purpose because as it cures, it expands, causing tiny fractures that push bone cement into the blood. After the surgery, the surgeon told me he did not have the skills to remove the bone cement and that I’d have to go overseas to do it.

Yoho: Butchered by “Healthcare” describes the Stryker company. They operate like a Pharma company.

Cortoss had been pulled from our New Zealand medical formulary and was not supposed to have been used in 2019.

While I was replacing my dental work, I decided to try Fiji silica water to lower the amount of aluminum/alumina in my body. Twelve liters of Fiji water costs $70NZD, which is expensive. Luckily, it only took me three boxes of 12 x 1-liter bottles to improve my memory. I drank a liter a day as Exley suggested.

It helped. I had a productive cough that resolved while using the Fiji, but I developed vertical lines on my fingernails. I thought it was a small price to pay for my improvement.

So I stopped drinking Fiji water, hoping the vertical lines meant I had therapeutic levels of silica. I thought I’d likely continue to get the benefits for a while. As the months went by, the vertical lines started to disappear. At the same time, my cough returned but my memory was fine.

Dr. Yoho sent me silica from the US to make my own silica water. (Yoho: it was the least I could do. Mark was involved in the chain of events that saved my wife’s life.) I added magnesium and calcium as per Dennis Crouse’s recipe. He calls the result “Silicaid.”

My best friend tried silica water at the same time. Both of us had weak urinary streams due to prostate enlargment that improved.

Learn more about Mark in Judas Dentistry and from his Substack HERE.

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Thanks to Engineer George for bringing this issue back to my attention for my personal health. I had forgotten how important and effective silica water was.

102 Comments

  • Avatar Alouicious Jackson says:

    I use diatomaceous earth, shilijat, sodium citrate etc. and it really seems to help me with not only aluminum but also graphene and excess iron.

  • Avatar Quiet_living says:

    The Vitamin K shot has this in it. Please be aware.. I didnu2019t know this when my son was was born. I wish I did.

  • Avatar Alina says:

    Wonderingu2026 How about chlorine dioxide and dmso for detox of those toxins?

  • Avatar Don says:

    From the Chemical Store website:
    “Sodium Silicate, Powder, Low Alkaline (SSG)
    –> Total Aluminum 13 ppm”
    ?

    • Avatar Robert Yoho, MD says:

      don’t know
      is that the exact source Crause recommends?
      I bought a 5 gallon container of the stuff and don’t remember anything like that

    • Avatar Laurie says:

      I am Dennis Crouseu2019s wife. That is the correct source for sodium silicate to make Silicade. When you make silicade you use a Brita filter which will remove the aluminum found in the sodium silicate.

      • Avatar TheRealLisa says:

        On their website, Brita doesn’t mention that their filters remove aluminum. https://www.brita.com/why-brita/better-water/

        • Avatar erin says:

          yup see my reply to Laurie above

        • Avatar Laurie says:

          I am Dennisu2018s wife and Dennis has tested the Brita filter and found it removes 98.5% of aluminum from water. When developing the recipe for Silicade he tested many filters. He needed a filter that would remove the aluminum, but would keep the OSA(silica). The Brita standard/original filter is the one that qualified.

      • Avatar erin says:

        Ok Robert and Laurie, I just spent a LOT of time looking at filters, and almost nobody mentions Brita as removing aluminum. I even went to seeks specific info on the OB03 filter, and it still does not mention aluminum. And amazon reviews said one customer complained that aluminum increased with this particular filter.

        They (AI) recommend Pro-One filter against aluminum. So I am confused. I will use Fiji water until I get more info.

        • Avatar Mark.Kennard says:

          I am incredibly hypersensitive to alumina/aluminium and if the Brita filter didnu2019t filter aluminium I would get symptoms. I think the big problem is people need to stop listening to what the manufacturing and advertising network tell us and just try things for themselves. Iu2019m also severely hypersensitive to titanium and the tiny amount in one composite dental filling can cause a range of bad symptoms. If the Brita filter didnu2019t filter aluminium, I would have got worse not better. I was at the point where I couldnu2019t trigger my own memories. Iu2019d have to rely on others to trigger them for me. At home during the day, if I did nothing, the day only felt two hours long. Iu2019d set an alarm to turn the oven off and when the alarm went off Iu2019d forgotten what it was for. So it was a pretty scary time in my life and if I had been ingesting aluminium I would not have recovered. Iu2019d suggest you just try it. Nothing beats personal experience. Knowledge without experience is meaningless.
          https://healthcarenotmedicine.substack.com/p/reverse-your-dementia-symptoms-using

        • Avatar Laurie says:

          There are many filters that remove aluminum. The information on the web that the Brita adds aluminum to the water is being given by someone who is not a chemist and he did the testing himself. The filter business is highly competitive. There are some filters which add aluminum to the water because they use aluminum or aluminum oxide to remove the fluoride. I mentioned in another reply Dennis chose the Brita filter for making Silicade because it removes aluminum but does not remove the OSA (silica) from the Silicade.

      • Avatar Robert Yoho, MD says:

        Hi Laurie. Thanks for reading and clarifying. I will add this to the post after my opinion solidifies. Tell your husband he is doing fantastic work. Best

  • Avatar Charles Cresson Wood says:

    Thank you so much Dr. Yoho – always great and informative content!

  • Avatar Karen Amos says:

    Very comprehensiveu2026Thank you!

  • Avatar Jayeson Vance says:

    Thanks so much I was aware of most of this information, except that I have had up to 4 or 5 aluminum canned drinks per week and now NOT drinking from aluminum cans ever again.

  • Avatar kitty says:

    I read about silica ruch water this past spring and have formed the hypothesis that aluminum could be causing coliny collapse in honey bees. I am designing an experiment to test if high silica (using horsetail herb) will help with bee health.

    • Avatar Sunshine says:

      I too was thinking about the bees, now we know aluminum is a large component of the chemtrails. If we could make a mix and spray on the bee-friendly flowers, but that’s a job. Maybe add silica to the soil?

      • Avatar kitty says:

        My plan is to provide a nearby water source and plant horsetail and perhaps dry it and add to the water. Both horsetail and bamboo are high in silica.

        • Avatar Sunshine says:

          Was thinking about adding silica drops to a water source too. Did not know that about horsetail and bamboo – thanks Kitty!
          Bamboo of course is invasive and grows like crazy, so I will be mindful of planting that.

          • Avatar Michael Baird says:

            Do not put horsetail with asparagus!!! I would say that horsetail is also invasive

          • Avatar kitty says:

            Another person said the silica in these plants is not bio available and suggested pureSi supplement for horses. I ordered some and will try it instead.

          • Avatar Robert Yoho, MD says:

            I asked Dr. Crouse about this and will report back.

    • Avatar Robert Yoho, MD says:

      nice

    • Avatar erin says:

      I used horsetail supplement for a while last spring, along with boric acid, teasel, and gin-soaked raisins, to help with arthritic body pains, They completely disappeared, and only reappeared recently a few weeks ago. Hm…. 🙂

  • Avatar Fran says:

    This is very helpful. Thank you.

  • Avatar Dachsie says:

    I remember learning about how fluoride in drinking water was bad for you, so I started only distilled water. I have mainly only drunk bottled distilled water for last many years. I remember that siliica- ? type chemicals are what are used to put fluoride in our city tap water. I remember hearing orthopaedic Dr. Stan Monteith on his radio shows say fluoride causes brittle bones. Seems brittle bones would mean higher likelihood of fracture with any trauma.

    Iu2019ve had gallstones and kidney stones requiring ER visits and surgeries. I really canu2019t connect any causation dots regarding all of this. I am doing better lately regarding kidney stones but I donu2019t know why.

    Neurological disease seems very complex and hard to diagnose. Itu2019s not known what causes these diseases and they can be helped with treatment but never cured. My mother had myasthenia gravis.

    • Avatar Mark.Kennard says:

      Osa is different. Silica is used in lots of things.Iu2019ve found silica water has strengthened my teeth

    • Avatar Laurie says:

      The name of the silica type chemical your mention is “Hydrofluorosilicic acid ((HFSA)), also known as fluorosilicic acid ((FSA))”. It is used by 98% of water departments in the US to fluoridate drinking water. When this chemical is dissolved in water it releases fluoride ions and OSA. Fluoride is a neurotoxin which increases the amount of aluminum going into the brain. This answer is from Dennis N Crouse. I am Dennis’ wife.

  • Avatar Elizabeth says:

    Hopefully we reach a state where awards and accolades are no longer given to actors who play heroes self entitling them to lecturing the rest of us and are instead given to those who are true heroes and not actors. I nominate Dr. Yoho.

  • Avatar Henry Lahore says:

    Extensive discussion with Perplexity AI about proven ways to remove Aluminum from your body
    https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-ways-have-been-found-to-e-GNbg2FplRyG7yI0H3JVOZA
    ———————–
    Perplexity reviews the 60 year history of Aluminium and Alzheimer’s
    https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-the-association-betwee-HFeHurrJSqmr7p2s8wXikQ
    ———————–
    I happen to use the ZERO water filter – which eliminates 100% of Aluminum in water.

    • Avatar Sunshine says:

      I’ve been using the Zero Water filter for years, very happy with it. I add in mineral drops or a pinch of Celtic sea salt to remineralize it once the aluminum, microplastics etc. have been removed.

  • Avatar Marci Van Horn says:

    Aluminum is in chemtrails.
    AND. Vaxcines

  • Avatar Laurie says:

    Thanks Robert, for sharing the interview you did with Dennis with your subscribers. For people who donu2019t know I am Dennis Crouseu2019s wife. In the comments a few people have mentioned diatomaceous earth and horsetail as a source of silica. Both of these contain silica however, the silica is not in the form that is needed to remove aluminum from the body. You need silica in the form of orthosilicic acid (OSA). The only source with enough OSA is some mineral waters. Dennis has tested DE, horsetail and other silica supplements in the pH of the gut. These supplements either did not have the correct form of silica or they did not have enough OSA to remove aluminum from the body.

  • Avatar ron vrooman says:

    thank you

  • Avatar Sally Smith, NP says:

    What do you think about Patrick Flanniganu2019s PhiSciences crystal energy supplement? It has Silica 1mg per 10drops to be added to drinking water.
    https://www.phisciences.com/products/crystal-energy

    • Avatar Robert Yoho, MD says:

      Dr. Crouse told me nothing like this works but I do not know of this specifically
      Fiji is a saturated solution and the concentrates are impossible without some sort of stabalizer.

  • Avatar erin says:

    My neighbor just got dxed with ALS. Terrible news. Does anyone here know of any helpful alt remedies?

  • Avatar jmsmithmd says:

    What about OrthoPur Si which is an equine liquid supplement with 375 mg OSA per 15 ml ( Fiji has 93 mg /liter) if itu2019s good enough for my friend whou2019s a mare, I feel itu2019s good enough for me. Cheaper than Fiji.

    • Avatar Mark.Kennard says:

      You can have too much osa. Be careful, vertical lines on my fingernails tells me Iu2019ve had enough. I then stop drinking silica water until they are gone, then start again.

      • Avatar Laurie says:

        In the areas of the world called Blue Zones (where people live longer than in the surrounding areas) the drinking water in these areas is rich in silica. In these areas people live longer, have less dementia, less heart disease and lower rates of some cancers. For any one who wants to learn more read Dennis’ book “Silica Water the Secret of Healthy Longevity in the Aluminum Age”. He looked at the underlying geology in all these areas. He also found an additional “Blue Zone” Bama Yao in China. He learned about his area in an exhibit in the Science Museum in Boston. Once again the drinking water was rich in silica.

    • Avatar Laurie says:

      I had Dennis look at the information at OrthoPur Si website the amount of OSA is well over the saturation level which means there must be a complexing agent present keeping the OSA in solution. They don’t list a complexing agent in the ingredients. When a complexing agent is used it lowers the bioavailability of the OSA. Dennis tested one product (Biosil) which uses choline to stabilize the OSA.

  • Avatar MarkPitt says:

    Wow! Exciting topic! [Disclaimer: I haven’t had time to review the material and only listened to some of the conversation on my way home and it’s after 1: AM]

    To find another HUGE source of aluminum all you have to do is Look Up! That shit they spray over our heads, almost daily (Chemtrails) is mostly aluminum. In 2008, or 2009 I donated to help make the film, “What in the World Are They Spraying?” (available for free on youtube and is a “Must See” Robert!). In that film they went one mile above the ski lifts on Mt Shasta and sampled the “pristine” snow and had it gov lab tested. If 1000 parts per million was the upper limits of normal (don’t hold me to these exact numbers as this was a LONG time ago) the snow came back at like 61,100ppm!!! This is the snow hikers and campers melt for their drinking and cooking water! And, of course this shit is running into all our drinking water sources.

    I’ve been using whole house activated carbon block filtration (so I don’t have to even shower in that crap, including chlorine) and followed it up with Reverse Osmosis almost 50 years ago. I also have a similar system in my business, PLUS I have activated charcoal filtration in all my HVAC systems and my greenhouse (which only has big Tilapia in it since I went on the Carnivore way of eating over a year ago) also has no traditional vents, just one big air intake that also has a big charcoal filtration. Yes, I have to breath the shit as I go in and out, but I breath aluminum and whatever the hell these maniacs are spraying us with, WAY less. I even put charcoal filtration in my RV! My cognition is precious to me and “They” are NOT getting it!

    • Avatar MarkPitt says:

      I’m going to shut up now (I could go on and on :), but back in the early 80’s I also had 24 rounds of EDTA, IV therapy because I used to repair auto radiators and breathed in lead vapor, until I grew a clue and quit. 2 years ago, I also used EDTA Disodium powder (1/8 teaspoon) under my tongue 3 times a day for 2 months and was shocked to find my blood pressure went from 120/80 down to 100/60 (or a tiny bit higher on occasion). I think this took out what little calcium I had in whatever plaque in had, out making my vascular system more elastic? So, it looks like even a sublingual EDTA detox is valid. Another tool I use is dry sauna since our skin is MUCH more porous than we think. I try to hit that at around 160 degrees for 30 minutes 4 days a week..

      • Avatar MarkPitt says:

        Oh, I just remembered your guest mentioned Silica. For years I’ve been taking a heaping teaspoon full of Diatomaceous Earth (DE) every other morning in enough water to get it down (it’s not horrible). DE has a VERY high % of silica and I’ve been doing this for joint health/lubrication/cartilage support, but it sounds like there is an additional aluminum removal benefit? And, up above I mentioned lowering blood pressure and that I might have had some mineral buildup (mostly calcium), but 10 years ago my cardiac CAT scan yielded a score of 0.8 so there wasn’t a lot to take out. I’m sure it will continue to be less heading toward zero because people with significant CAC scores (like over 500!) got zero scores after eating carnivore for a few years! Just another reason to do carnivore, for at least 90 days (hopefully, you’ll come to your senses and keep eating that way when you see the flood of astounding improvements in your body and mind 🙂 And if you don’t believe me, just watch the first 5 mins of a few Carnivore youtube videos, where they usually rave about all the improvements in their health, wellness, mental clarity, etc. (be sure to cruse the comments too).

        And remember… There Are NO Essential Carbohydrates! You ONLY eat them because they taste Great and because Big Food engineered them to be Totally Addictive! Fiber is NOT good for you! The Food Industry paid the researchers (in the 50’s) to LIE to you! Fiber just causes Gas, Bloating, IBS and a host of other digestive ailments (apologies for all the shouting ;->)! And, don’t feel like you were the only one duped… I have friggin juice machines all over the place and built a goddamn $50K four season heated greenhouse that now only has Tilapia and huge house plants in it! I’m the one with the right to pissed off… Thank God I at least went Low Carb Keto a LONG time ago, so I don’t have a load of unbelievably inflammatory Oxalates and Lectins to dump like you carb freaks! I just cleaned out a freezer (to make room for more MEAT), by tossing hundreds of dollars worth of frozen mixed veggies and bags and bags of frozen berries, pineapple, mango, blah, blah. I wouldn’t even give that poison away (It was really HARD though, I LOVE that shit! 🙂

        • Avatar Robert Yoho, MD says:

          Yeah, lots of evidence supports your views, but when you have Parkinson’s, you focus on constipation and eat your veggies.

      • Avatar Pam Brown says:

        Great information thanks will have ago x

  • Avatar Mary says:

    Would like to see Exley’s view on this. Doubt that he would suppress an afforable solution to the problem.

  • Avatar Eric Myer says:

    Thank you Dr. Yoho for interviewing Dennis Crouse. We purchased all 4 books several years ago and share the information with family and friends, especially the tables.

  • Avatar Ann-Marie Michaels says:

    Great to see this info getting out there. Iu2019ve been adding silica to my water ever since I read Dr. Crouseu2019s book in 2018. When I drink high silica water plus chlorine dioxide water daily, I only need 5 hours of sleep per night. Iu2019ve tested it and donu2019t get the same results with just silica water or CDS u2014 only with both. Also, no jet lag whatsoever on my recent trip to France. I didnu2019t need a nap when I got there like I usually do. I ate dinner, stayed up till 11 pm on a business call, and woke up at 4 am full of energy. uD83DuDD25

    • Avatar Ann-Marie Michaels says:

      Also Robert I told you my water supply in my rental home was contaminated due to a broken hot water heater that was not getting hot enough and a dishwasher that had standing water. I was sick most of last year u2014 mucus, fatigue, heartburn, vomiting. Did not know what was causing it.

      Anyway, as you know they got the water heater replaced in November and when I realized the dishwasher had standing water that was recirculating, I stopped using it in December. Since then Iu2019ve been recovering and Iu2019m almost completely better u2014 mucus and cough have cleared up uD83DuDCAF and I have more energy and heartburn is gone.

      Guess what else has happened? I effortlessly lost 12 pounds in 6 weeks. I believe it because I detoxed the bacteria that was in the water u2014 which had contaminated my dishes etc.

      Iu2019ve been drinking my daily CDS (no silica water bc I am moving) and using a zeolite spray. In addition to that I have been taking long chlorine dioxide baths every couple days and doing chlorine dioxide enemas a couple times a week. Absolute game changer.

  • Avatar Sandra Young MD says:

    Fluoride combines with aluminum to make AlF4- which is a phosphate mimic. I believe it is in this form that allows Al to cross the blood-brain barrier.

  • Avatar Susan says:

    Incredibly interesting article.

  • Avatar Bard Joseph says:

    Bentonite clay is cheap, has a negative charge to attract toxins. You can put a tablespoon in any juice. Use a plastic spoon to maintain its charge.

  • Avatar Ocean Waves says:

    Hopefully Bobby K Jr already understands the issues and gets appointed to work towards eliminating the spiral death agenda that has plagued our country for far too long! uD83DuDE4FuD83CuDFFBuD83DuDE4FuD83CuDFFBuD83DuDE4FuD83CuDFFB

  • Avatar Jody Kwasniewicz says:

    Fiji water is recommended as a silica source but what of microplastics touted to be bad. Is there some way to filter Fiji water for possible microplastics since itu2019s not bottled in glass?

  • Avatar Aaron says:

    The links at the beginning of your articles have never worked for me while using the app. They just take me to your main page and not any specific article.

    • Avatar Robert Yoho, MD says:

      should work next week, hang on

      • Avatar Aaron says:

        No problem. I’ve found that the links work if I click them from a browser. It takes me to a substack article that I’m unable to find in the app while browsing your main page. I’m still trying to learn how this app works.

        Thanks for all that you do!

  • Avatar Beata Maria says:

    I am just wondering if drinking bamboo tea known for a very high amount of silica would have similar detox effects as the proposed silica water ?

  • Avatar Jeff Gomes says:

    It would be very helpful to have links to the research that Dennis Crouse referred to in his statement that “There are vaccines that have been tested that have no aluminum in them that we use routinely. And those vaccines are, have been shown to be harmless and I do think they are harmless. So I think that, that there is data out there that vaccines by itself is a okay.”

  • Avatar Don says:

    Hi Laurie, by any chance is the AQUA-TRU Countertop CARAFE Reverse Osmosis water filter system among those Dennis tested?
    https://www.amazon.com/AQUA-TRU-Countertop-Technology-Installation/dp/B0BT4FYHFJ/?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=pd_hp_d_btf_ci_mcx_mr_ca_id_hp_d&th=1

    I recently bought it for removal of fluoride. But if it is *adding* aluminum in the process(!)… Sure would like to know. Thanks

  • Avatar Robert Yoho, MD says:

    Dr. Crouse wrote me this email:

    Hi Robert,

    You asked my opinion of the “chelation” of aluminum. This is my RI (real intelligent) answer:

    Chelation is defined as the formation of multiple coordination bonds between organic molecules and a transition metal ion leading to sequestration of the metal.

    Aluminum and silicon are not transition metals
    Aluminum hydroxide and orthosilicic acid (OSA) do not contain a carbon atom and are therefore not organic molecules

    Therefore, with this definition of chelation: OSA and aluminum reacting to form nontoxic hydroxyaluminosilicates above pH 5.5 in the body does not involve chelation of aluminum.

    Aluminum hydroxides have a high affinity for organic molecules containing the N-(hydroxy)amide moiety. These molecules are strong proton donors and are synthetic chemicals not commonly found in the body, but can be formed as metabolites of xenobiotics that can be harmful to the body. The transition metal iron is chelated by desferoxamine an organic (carbon containing) molecule with four N-(hydroxy)amine moieties per molecule. Desferoxamine also reacts with aluminum. Desferoxamine must be injected into the body and is not taken orally. Desferoxamine has many side effects and should only be taken under doctor supervision. Desferoxamine is FDA approved for facilitating iron removal by chelation therapy but not for aluminum removal. This is inspite of Desferoxamine having been shown to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer patients by 50% after being injected 5 days a week for two years.

    The remarkable feature of OSA is that it is targeted to just detoxify aluminum and facilitate its elimination from the body in sweat and urine. Most importantly it has no effect on iron. In addition OSA is considered GRAS (generally regarded as safe) by the FDA and can be taken orally. Drinking three to four cups of OSA rich water a day will lower the body’s burden of aluminum to that of a teenager. My wife and I have done this treatment for over ten years and proven with total 24-hour urine tests that we have the aluminum body burden equivalent to that of teenagers. Also, like Desferoxamine, OSA has been shown to reverse cognitive decline in some Alzheimer’s patients after just 12 weeks.

    Thanks for posting our interview.
    Dennis

  • Avatar Mark.Kennard says:

    Brita filters have to be replaced once a month. I suspect thatu2019s why Brita donu2019t state that their filters remove aluminium. Because some idiot is likely to use their filter for 12 months in which case it could leak aluminium that has already been captured. Most filters release aluminium if they arenu2019t replaced regularly

  • Avatar Pam Brown says:

    Thank you for Dennis I loved it 2 books ordered x

  • Avatar Rob Ford says:

    Great post uD83DuDCA5uD83DuDE4FuD83CuDFFC
    Here in the UK asylum we have plastic Fiji water. Could the silica leach plastic? I’m guessing the benefits out way the negatives?

  • Avatar blkmjkwmn says:

    There appears to be many toxic issues with Fiji Water. Can you please comment-also any alternative to Fiji water?

  • Avatar John Ortiz says:

    What about geo engineering dusting us with nano particles of aluminum

  • Avatar Raje says:

    Thank you so much Dr. Yoho for this informative interview!!! uD83CuDF1FuD83DuDC4FuD83DuDE4F

  • Avatar Fraulein Zen says:

    What about Berkey filters? I have been using one for drinking and showers for years. Does it filter aluminum? Do I.need to add silica?

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