Many companies are marking Alum containing deodorants as a natural safe deodorant. Yikes !!! Alum is Aluminum - it is Aluminum Sulfate. Two companies are advertising these deodorants as aluminum free.
I have written to a few companies to inform them. One company was very appreciative of the information and asked Dennis for what other ingredient they could use. They were not aware that Alum was Aluminum Sulfate. I will let you know if I hear back from the other company.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Sources of Aluminum in our daily lives
Improve your Health
Reduce your daily intake of Aluminum
List of sources of aluminum generated from a book written by Dennis N Crouse:
Prevent Alzheimer’s Autism and Stroke with 7 Supplements, 7 Lifestyle Choices and a Dissolved Mineral
http://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/
http://prevent-alzheimers-autism-stroke.com/
List of sources of aluminum
Aluminum Cookware - Pots,
baking pans, cookie sheets, dutch ovens, calderos
Safer Alternative – Stainless
Steel, cast iron, porcelain, ceramic
Non stick thermolon is safe if it is attached to stainless steel
Non stick thermolon is safe if it is attached to stainless steel
Aluminum Foil – Safer
Alternatives for cooking, use nonstick aluminum foil or parchment paper
For storage use plastic wrap between
food and aluminum foil
Drinking Water – Aluminum in drinking water comes from alum which is used to purify
drinking
water and cement lined drinking water pipes which leach aluminum.
Use pitcher style Brita
Water filter to remove aluminum and keep silica in the water.
BEWARE: Some inline home water filters add aluminum to the water
Water Filters -
Most fluoride filters use alumina (aluminum oxide) to filter the fluoride whichadds aluminum to your drinking water.
Safer Alternative - Bone Char filter - make your own (video to be made soon 6-2020)
Baking Powder – even aluminum free baking powder contains some
aluminum
Safer
alternative – make you own – recipe: 1 teaspoon baking soda, 2 teaspoons cream of tartar, 1 teaspoon
corn starch (so it doesn’t cake)
Coffee/Tea Maker –the heating element in which the water is
heated is usually made of
aluminum
Safer Alternative :Coffee
makers where the water never contacts aluminum
Drip Style : Krups Mocha brew, Jura Copresso MG 900, Bunn Speed/Velocity Brew, Keurig, Nespresso Type C110 (the aluminum cups have been tested and they are safe), Braun coffee maker model KF7000
Percolator:
Faberware FCP 240-A (small),
Faberware FCP 412 (large)
Alum – check your spice
cabinet
Food – Products that contain baking powder
(some baking powders contain Aluminum):
Pancakes, Frozen pancakes, pancake mixes, waffles,
donuts, muffins, cupcakes, cakes,
biscuits, scones, biscoti, tortillas, corn bread, brownies, baked fruit and
vegetable breads (
Candy – Jelly beans, M&M’s,
skittles – the dyes contain Aluminum Lake
Pickles – Alum (aluminum sulfate)
Antiperspirant
- Most contain Aluminum, sometimes listed as Alum
Safer
alternatives Arm and Hammer Essentials, Schimdts (there is a stick for sensitive skin which has
no baking soda - baking soda causes skin irritation in some people)
Antacids most contain Aluminum
Hydroxide
Safer
alternative those that contain sodium carbonate
Pharmaceuticals -Prescription /over the counter
aluminum is used as a colorant, anticaking
agent and astringent
Levothyroxine
(Thyroid medication) – aluminum lake – Safer alternative 50 mcg is the only
dosage that doesn’t contain aluminum lake
Domeboro – astringent– aluminum sulfate tetradecahydrate -Safer
alternative – Epsom
salts
Mutivitamins – colorant
Musinex 12 Hour – yellow # 10
aluminum lake
Citrucel caplets - FD&C
Yellow 6 Aluminum Lake
Bayer
Low dose aspirin safety coated - D&C Yellow #10 Aluminum Lake, FD&C
Yellow #6
Aluminum Lake Safer atlternative Walgreens Low Dose Dye-free Asprin 81 mg
Aluminum Lake Safer atlternative Walgreens Low Dose Dye-free Asprin 81 mg
Centrum
Multivitamins – sodium aluminum silicate (SAS) is present in some of the
Centrum multivitamins
Ascriptin Maximum Strength Buffered Aspirin - uses aluminum hydroxide as the buffer
Safer Alternative CVS regular strength buffered aspirin uses calcium carbonate (some people's stomach don't react well to calcium carbonate)
Ascriptin Maximum Strength Buffered Aspirin - uses aluminum hydroxide as the buffer
Safer Alternative CVS regular strength buffered aspirin uses calcium carbonate (some people's stomach don't react well to calcium carbonate)
Cosmetics Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate as an absorbent , an anticaking agent and a viscosity increasing agent - nonaqueous.
Suntan lotion – aluminum oxide
Styptic Pencil – Alum (aluminum
sulfate)
Lipstick – aluminum lake as a
colorant
Dry Shampoo Medicated Selsun Blue
Look for and avoid these ingredients on
food labels
alum (aluminum sulfate), alumina, aluminum, or bauxite.
Artificial Food Colorants – containing Aluminum Lake, Carmine contains aluminum
Safer Alternative
– Natural Food Colorants – Color Kitchen makes good colorants for frosting
VACCINES - This source of aluminum is potentially 100% bioavailable as opposed to ingested aluminum which is .2% bioavailable. Bioavailable means the amount which gets into your bloodstream.Vaccines need to be considered a daily source of aluminum as the aluminum that is used as an adjuvant in the vaccine is time released. The aluminum continues to get into your bloodstream long after the vaccination! |
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Vaccines and Aluminum The dangers of vaccines
Aluminum in Vaccines
I
will discuss aluminum in vaccines and ways you can protect your infant or child
when they are vaccinated.
Aluminum is a
neurotoxin. Aluminum
in Vaccines causes Autism.
The
body burden of Aluminum from vaccinations exceeds that from dietary
sources.
After
attending a family party and seeing all the healthy, vibrant little ones
running around and playing, I was compelled to take information from Dennis’s
book to inform people about the dangers of vaccines.
Aluminum
hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, and alum are used as adjuvants in human vaccines
because they potentiate the response of our bodies to the vaccine. (potentiate
means: to increase the power, effect, or likelihood of
(something, especially a drug or physiological reaction)
In
2011 Tomljenovic and Shaw looked at the prevalence of autism as a function of
vaccination schedules in 7 western countries including the U.S. They found the
following:
11. Children from countries with the highest autism prevalence have
the highest exposure to aluminum containing vaccines.
22. The increase in exposure to aluminum adjuvants in the U.S.
significantly correlates with the increase in autism prevalence in the U.S.
over the last two decades.
33. A significant correlation exists between the
amount of aluminum administered to children, particularly at 3 to 4 months of
age, and the current prevalence of autism in 7 western countries.
There has been an increased
Number of Infant/Childhood Vaccinations
The
number of vaccinations required for school entry increased from 10 in the late
1970’s to 32 in 2010. As these vaccines have become available they have been
adopted by developed countries around the world. Of the 32 vaccinations
currently required for school entry, 18 vaccinations that are given in the
first 72 months contain an aluminum salt as a helper or adjuvant for the
vaccine.
What you can do
Ask your doctor to have
your child vaccinated with one vaccine at a time.
If the doctor is not receptive to this request you can tell them about the landmark case in 2008. The Poling family was awarded damages under VICP ( Vaccine Injury Compensation Program) when
their daughter Hannah developed autism-like symptoms after the administration
of vaccine.
Give
your child Vitamin D Vitamin D3 lowers aluminum
levels in your blood. . In order to protect the fetus and infant from aluminum,
mothers are recommended to take 4,000 IU/day while pregnant and 6,000 IU/day of
vitamin D3 while breastfeeding. Infants should be given 400 IU/day and children
should be given 800 IU/day of vitamin D3. If baby formula is used it should
have a sufficient level of vitamin D3 to correspond to 400 IU/day based upon
the volume of formula the infant consumes, otherwise vitamin D3 supplementation
is recommended.
Have
your child Drink Fiji water – The silica in this water has been
proven to remove aluminum from your body.
If you want more information about aluminum and it’s effect on the brain you can read Dennis’ book Prevent Alzheimer’s, Autism and Stroke with 7 supplements, 7 lifestyle choices and a dissolved mineral and Silica Water the Secret of Healthy Blue Zone Longevity in the Aluminum Age. Both books are available from Amazon.
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Aluminum - everything you need to know !
Here is an excellent resource for information on Aluminum
http://www.cmsri.org//?s=aluminum&x=0&y=0
http://www.cmsri.org//?s=aluminum&x=0&y=0
Monday, September 5, 2016
Cognitive decline seen in Alzheimer's can be reversed !!!!!
Yes in people with Alzheimer's, cognitive decline has been reversed. Aluminum causes Alzheimer's and drinking Silica water and eating silica rich foods removes Aluminum from your body. Vitamin D also helps your body remove Aluminum. Read my husband's book to find out more ways to limit your exposure to Aluminum and it's neurotoxic effects.
Alzheimer's is a dreadful disease and my husband's and my mission is to get the information he has learned about preventing and reversing Alzheimer's to millions of people.
Alzheimer's is a dreadful disease and my husband's and my mission is to get the information he has learned about preventing and reversing Alzheimer's to millions of people.
Prevent Alzheimer's Autism and Stroke BOOK AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
My husband's book has been published !!!! It is available on Amazon in paperback and kindle.
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Silica Water - make your own - reduce the levels of aluminum in your body
Recipe for making silica water is below
Video on Making silica water
DENNIS N CROUSES' BOOK IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON BuyBook https://www.amazon.com/Dennis-N-Crouse-Ph-D/e/B01LFW4782?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1588252494&sr=8-1
Dennis and I have made 2 videos.
Video - Preventing Alzheimer's
Click and you will get link to video
Video - Eliminating Aluminum
Click and you will get link to video
Dennis put on his chemistry hat and after some experimentation has made a recipe for making silica water.
Aluminum is a neurotoxin which is the cause of Alzheimer's and Autism. Silica has been shown to prevent Alzheimer's. To learn more read Dennis' book.
Recipe for 'Silicade' water (silicone 32 mg/L) which has about the same amount of silica as Fiji water (silicone 36 mg/L). This will take 15 minutes to prepare.
ORDERING INFORMATION
Sodium Silicate powder - Chemical Store and Zchemicals online
https://shop.chemicalstore.com/navigation/detail.asp?MySessionID=300-585809627&CatID=&id=SSG
For international orders
https://zchemicals.com/product/sodium-silicate-low-alkaline/
https://zchemicals.com/
Sodium Bisulfate - from amazon Professor Fullwood of LoudWolf Limited
https://www.amazon.com/Loudwolf-Sodium-Bisulfate-Microprills-Reagent/dp/B014AQ45DM?crid=3USU0QJNOG6XV&keywords=sodium+bisulfate+loudwolf&qid=1540647187&sprefix=loudwolf+sodium+bisulfate%2Caps%2C314&sr=8-1-fkmrnull&ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1
Measuring spoon - dash, smidgen, pinch - Mini Measuring Spoons Set
Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Measuring Spoons for Dry or Liquid Ingredients, Fits
in Spice Jar
Brand: YellRin ASIN B09J8CDQS4
Available on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09J8CDQS4?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
If
you live outside the United States here is a company that will give you
a US address and ship the products to your country. The company sends
to 220 countries. https://www.myus.com/
Video of Dennis making Silicade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8IuIXjCME
Excerpt from Dennis' book Prevent Alzheimer's, Autism and Stroke and Silica Water the Secret to Healthy Blue Zone Longevity in the Aluminum Age
Preparation of Silicade
Silicade as a Synthetic
OSA Rich Silica Water Supplement
Making silicon rich water weekly at home is easy and much less expensive
and more sustainable than purchasing water bottled in Fiji or Malaysia. I call this water “Silicade” and there is a
You Tube Video on how to make it at “Silica Water – How to Make it at Home”. Silicade provides 124ppm
of dissolved silica to lower your body-burden of aluminum. Silicade preparation
requires only two ingredients and a set of small measuring spoons that in the
U.S.A. can be purchased online and shipped to your home. Silicade can be stored indefinitely in the
dark like Fiji water. The chemicals to
make Silicade store well and should be kept out of children’s reach:
·
Low Alkalinity Hydrous Sodium
Silicate: a hydrous powder available online from ChemicalStore.com. The powder is safer and easier to measure than the liquid form but
has the same ratio of 3.22 SiO2 to Na2O. The powder has a
as a purity of 99.5% and a formula of SiO2[Na2O]1/3.22
H2O (18.5% water) Mw of 97.25. Only order “sodium silicate – low
alkalinity”. Do not order “sodium
silicate – alkaline” from the ChemicalStore.com or Zchemicals.com. This powdery chemical can be stored
indefinitely in its screw-cap plastic container but slowly clumps. The clumps
are easily converted back to powder with a small mortar and pestle.
Note: This solid sodium silicate from the Chemical Store is Product G manufactured
by the PQ Corporation of Valley Forge, PA. Brenntag Specialties (Telephone No. 888-926-4151)
buys Product G from PQ Corporation and resells it worldwide as G Sodium
Silicate product number 387721 in 50 pound bags. ChemicalStore.com and
Zchemicals.com buy this product from Brenntag Specialties and sell it in 2
pound containers online.
·
Sodium Bisulfate (a.k.a. Sodium Hydrogen Sulfate): a white powder 99.5% pure of micro-prills (i.e. very small
pellets) from Professor Fullwood of LoudWolf Ltd. is available from Amazon. Note:
both optional calcium chloride and magnesium chloride are available from the
same source.
·
Mini Measuring Spoon Set: Norpro
3061D from Dine Company Online. Currently priced under $4 without shipping.
Three measuring spoons come attached to a single ring. Only the dash (1/8 of a
teaspoon) and smidgen (1/32 of a teaspoon) are used for Silicade preparation. In
order to avoid accidental use of the wrong measuring spoon, remove the pinch from
the ring. Note: in the early 2000’s some companies, such as Norpro and Dine, began
defining and accurately calibrating the dash and smidgen measuring spoons as precise
fractions of a teaspoon. Do not use antique dash and smidgen measuring spoons
as they may not be correctly calibrated.
·
Spatula: Any small spatula with a straight-edge works to level the contents of
the measuring spoons prior to addition.
Detailed Instructions
with Options for Making Silicade
By following these detailed instructions you can prepare a gallon of
Silicade or just follow the “Short Recipe for Silicade” that follows after
these detailed instructions:
1)
A level dash and two level smidgens (3/16 of a teaspoon, 600mg) of hydrous
powdered sodium silicate is placed in a Pyrex glass measuring cup. Add 1/8 cup
of tap water and bring to boiling in the microwave or on the stove, and let boil
for 30sec. This powder contains 99.5% water soluble sodium silicate monohydrate
and a maximum of 0.5% of water insoluble materials, as required by the American
Waterworks Standard B104-98 for adding sodium silicate to drinking water23.
Note: Do not heat to
boiling more than 1/8 cup of tap water as more water will lower the pH making
the sodium silicate less soluble.
2)
The hot water with dissolved sodium silicate is immediately diluted to
one gallon (3.785 liters) with cold tap water resulting in a 1.29 mM/liter (124ppm)
solution of pH 9.8 OSA.
3)
One level dash (1/8 of a teaspoon, 0.83 gr, 6.9 mM) of sodium
bisulfate is added to the solution of OSA and dissolved with stirring in order
to acidify the solution to pH 4 to 5. Optionally,
if tap water is more basic than pH 8.5, use a pH meter while slowly adding a
little more sodium bisulfate in order to lower the pH to 4.0-5.0. A pH 7.0 standard
solution is recommended for periodic calibration of the pH meter.
4)
The clear colorless acidic solution of OSA is further purified by
filtering through a Brita pitcher style filter resulting in OSA at a pH of 4.4.
This removes impurities added with sodium silicate and sodium bisulfate.
5)
Two level smidgens of sodium bicarbonate (a.k.a. baking soda) are
added and dissolved with stirring in the gallon of filtered OSA, resulting in Silicade
with a pH of 6.5, a TDS of 285 at 25oC, and less than 2mcg/L labile
aluminum. Each quart of Silicade
contains 36.5mg of dissolved silicon as 124ppm of monomeric (OSA).
6)
Optionally make
Silicade Plus Calcium, if tap water is low in calcium, add two level dashes of calcium
chloride flakes or prills (840mg 36% calcium) 99% pure from Loudwolf/Amazon.
This will increase the calcium level by 80 ppm, the TDS to 450 at 25oC,
and the pH to 6.6 in a gallon of Silicade + Ca. Labile aluminum in calcium
enriched Silicade is less than 2mcg/L. Calcium at
concentrations greater than or equal to 75ppm have a significant protective
effect on cognition433.
Optionally in order to increase magnesium by 20ppm add a dash of
magnesium chloride hexahydrate (>98%
purity) from LoudWolf/Amazon. Optionally make
Sparkling Silicade – Carbonating Silicade will result in a pH 4.5 sparkling beverage.
Drink 3 to 4 cups of Silicade a day around
meal times in order to provide a total of 25.5 to 34mg of silicon as monomeric
OSA. This is 7.7 to 10.3 times the 3.3mg of silicon that when consumed as OSA
per day was observed to lower the frequency of AD118. Silicade contains 124ppm of OSA and in the U.S.A. 160ppm of OSA (i.e. 100ppm of SiO2) is
generally recognized as safe in drinking water22.
Short Recipe for
Silicade
Ingredients
needed:
·
Sodium Silicate
·
Sodium Bisulfate
·
Baking Soda (sodium
bicarbonate)
Tools
needed:
·
Dash measuring spoon = 1/8 tsp
·
Smidgen measuring spoon = 1/32 tsp
·
1 cup Pyrex measuring cup
·
1 gallon measuring container
·
Brita filter - pitcher style
·
Spatula for leveling
·
Stirring utensil
Steps:
1. Add
1 level dash & 2 level smidgens of sodium silicate to a one-cup Pyrex
container
2.
Add 1/8 cup of tap water to the one-cup Pyrex measuring container
3.
Heat the contents of the Pyrex measuring cup to boiling and boil
for at least 30 seconds
4. Dilute
immediately with a small amount of unheated tap water
5. Pour
all the contents of the Pyrex measuring cup into a 1 gallon container
6. Fill
the 1 gallon container with unheated tap water to the 1 gallon mark on the
container
7.
Add 1 level dash of sodium bisulfate to the one gallon container
8.
Stir the mixture thoroughly and then filter the mixture through a Brita
filter pitcher
9.
After filtering, add 2 level smidgens of baking soda (sodium
bicarbonate) to the mixture
10. Stir
Silicade to dissolve the baking soda
11. Enjoy
the health benefits of drinking Silicade!
Silicade can be stored indefinitely in the dark at room temperature or in a refrigerator.
Why This Recipe
Works
The goal of this recipe for orthosilicic acid
(OSA) in drinking water is to use an easily measured solid silica powder and an
acidic microprill that are commercially available online and shipped to anyone,
not just chemical laboratories. Both of these chemicals are high purity (e.g.
99.5%).
·
Solubilize sodium
silicate: Boiling powdered sodium silicate for 30 seconds in an eighth of a cup
of tap water keeps the pH high enough (e.g. pH = 13) to solubilize silicate434-436.
·
Neutralize to form
OSA and prevent polymerization: In order to form OSA and other silica species
in equilibrium with OSA489 and to prevent OSA polymerization435-437,
immediately dilute the basic (e.g. pH=13) OSA solution to a gallon with tap
water and then immediately render the
solution non-hazardous by acidifying the solution to pH 4 to 5 with the
solid acid sodium bisulfate. A 1.29mM OSA solution is well below OSA’s
saturation level in water (e.g. 2-3mM) but requires 7 days to fully stabilize
rising from 108ppm immediately after preparation to 124ppm174. Polymerization of OSA
has been observed at neutral pH only well above OSA’s 200ppm saturation level435-437.
·
Remove Aluminum: For optimal
aluminum removal acidify the OSA solution with sodium bisulfate to pH 4.0 to
5.0 and then filter through a Brita pitcher style filter (OB03)174. A significant
portion (e.g. 98.5%) of the labile aluminum introduced in tap water is removed174,175.
This Brita filter is a combined activated
carbon and weak cation exchange resin that removes cations like aluminum but
does not remove OSA174. If
the tap water used for Silicade is between pH 6.5 to 8.5, as per EPA’s
secondary drinking water standard, then after acidification, filtration, and
bicarbonate addition Silicade will be pH 6.5.
·
Optionally add
Calcium and/or Magnesium: Have your tap water checked and if it is low in calcium and/or magnesium, add
supplemental calcium and/or magnesium to Silicade. The Brita filter reduces calcium and magnesium in
Quabbin tap water by one half175. Drinking water with calcium at levels of 80mg and
magnesium at levels of 20 ppm has been found to be optimal for good health438. This may be due to calcium and magnesium competing
with aluminum for absorption by the gut433. Calcium catalyzes the polymerization of OSA but
only at pH greater than 818,19.
Silicade + Ca is pH 6.6 and at this pH OSA in Silicade + Ca
is primarily a non-polymeric monomer174,439.
Link to FAQ about making Silicade. FAQ
Silicade as a Synthetic OSA Rich Silica Water Supplement
Making silicon rich water weekly at home is easy and much less expensive
and more sustainable than purchasing water bottled in Fiji or Malaysia. I call this water “Silicade” and there is a
You Tube Video on how to make it at “Silica Water – How to Make it at Home”. Silicade provides 124ppm
of dissolved silica to lower your body-burden of aluminum. Silicade preparation
requires only two ingredients and a set of small measuring spoons that in the
U.S.A. can be purchased online and shipped to your home. Silicade can be stored indefinitely in the
dark like Fiji water. The chemicals to
make Silicade store well and should be kept out of children’s reach:
·
Low Alkalinity Hydrous Sodium
Silicate: a hydrous powder available online from ChemicalStore.com. The powder is safer and easier to measure than the liquid form but
has the same ratio of 3.22 SiO2 to Na2O. The powder has a
as a purity of 99.5% and a formula of SiO2[Na2O]1/3.22
H2O (18.5% water) Mw of 97.25. Only order “sodium silicate – low
alkalinity”. Do not order “sodium
silicate – alkaline” from the ChemicalStore.com or Zchemicals.com. This powdery chemical can be stored
indefinitely in its screw-cap plastic container but slowly clumps. The clumps
are easily converted back to powder with a small mortar and pestle.
Note: This solid sodium silicate from the Chemical Store is Product G manufactured
by the PQ Corporation of Valley Forge, PA. Brenntag Specialties (Telephone No. 888-926-4151)
buys Product G from PQ Corporation and resells it worldwide as G Sodium
Silicate product number 387721 in 50 pound bags. ChemicalStore.com and
Zchemicals.com buy this product from Brenntag Specialties and sell it in 2
pound containers online.
·
Sodium Bisulfate (a.k.a. Sodium Hydrogen Sulfate): a white powder 99.5% pure of micro-prills (i.e. very small
pellets) from Professor Fullwood of LoudWolf Ltd. is available from Amazon. Note:
both optional calcium chloride and magnesium chloride are available from the
same source.
·
Mini Measuring Spoon Set: Norpro
3061D from Dine Company Online. Currently priced under $4 without shipping.
Three measuring spoons come attached to a single ring. Only the dash (1/8 of a
teaspoon) and smidgen (1/32 of a teaspoon) are used for Silicade preparation. In
order to avoid accidental use of the wrong measuring spoon, remove the pinch from
the ring. Note: in the early 2000’s some companies, such as Norpro and Dine, began
defining and accurately calibrating the dash and smidgen measuring spoons as precise
fractions of a teaspoon. Do not use antique dash and smidgen measuring spoons
as they may not be correctly calibrated.
·
Spatula: Any small spatula with a straight-edge works to level the contents of
the measuring spoons prior to addition.
Detailed Instructions
with Options for Making Silicade
By following these detailed instructions you can prepare a gallon of
Silicade or just follow the “Short Recipe for Silicade” that follows after
these detailed instructions:
1)
A level dash and two level smidgens (3/16 of a teaspoon, 600mg) of hydrous
powdered sodium silicate is placed in a Pyrex glass measuring cup. Add 1/8 cup
of tap water and bring to boiling in the microwave or on the stove, and let boil
for 30sec. This powder contains 99.5% water soluble sodium silicate monohydrate
and a maximum of 0.5% of water insoluble materials, as required by the American
Waterworks Standard B104-98 for adding sodium silicate to drinking water23.
Note: Do not heat to
boiling more than 1/8 cup of tap water as more water will lower the pH making
the sodium silicate less soluble.
2)
The hot water with dissolved sodium silicate is immediately diluted to
one gallon (3.785 liters) with cold tap water resulting in a 1.29 mM/liter (124ppm)
solution of pH 9.8 OSA.
3)
One level dash (1/8 of a teaspoon, 0.83 gr, 6.9 mM) of sodium
bisulfate is added to the solution of OSA and dissolved with stirring in order
to acidify the solution to pH 4 to 5. Optionally,
if tap water is more basic than pH 8.5, use a pH meter while slowly adding a
little more sodium bisulfate in order to lower the pH to 4.0-5.0. A pH 7.0 standard
solution is recommended for periodic calibration of the pH meter.
4)
The clear colorless acidic solution of OSA is further purified by
filtering through a Brita pitcher style filter resulting in OSA at a pH of 4.4.
This removes impurities added with sodium silicate and sodium bisulfate.
5)
Two level smidgens of sodium bicarbonate (a.k.a. baking soda) are
added and dissolved with stirring in the gallon of filtered OSA, resulting in Silicade
with a pH of 6.5, a TDS of 285 at 25oC, and less than 2mcg/L labile
aluminum. Each quart of Silicade
contains 36.5mg of dissolved silicon as 124ppm of monomeric (OSA).
6)
Optionally make
Silicade Plus Calcium, if tap water is low in calcium, add two level dashes of calcium
chloride flakes or prills (840mg 36% calcium) 99% pure from Loudwolf/Amazon.
This will increase the calcium level by 80 ppm, the TDS to 450 at 25oC,
and the pH to 6.6 in a gallon of Silicade + Ca. Labile aluminum in calcium
enriched Silicade is less than 2mcg/L. Calcium at
concentrations greater than or equal to 75ppm have a significant protective
effect on cognition433.
Optionally in order to increase magnesium by 20ppm add a dash of
magnesium chloride hexahydrate (>98%
purity) from LoudWolf/Amazon. Optionally make
Sparkling Silicade – Carbonating Silicade will result in a pH 4.5 sparkling beverage.
Drink 3 to 4 cups of Silicade a day around
meal times in order to provide a total of 25.5 to 34mg of silicon as monomeric
OSA. This is 7.7 to 10.3 times the 3.3mg of silicon that when consumed as OSA
per day was observed to lower the frequency of AD118. Silicade contains 124ppm of OSA and in the U.S.A. 160ppm of OSA (i.e. 100ppm of SiO2) is
generally recognized as safe in drinking water22.
Short Recipe for
Silicade
Ingredients
needed:
·
Sodium Silicate
·
Sodium Bisulfate
·
Baking Soda (sodium
bicarbonate)
Tools
needed:
·
Dash measuring spoon = 1/8 tsp
·
Smidgen measuring spoon = 1/32 tsp
·
1 cup Pyrex measuring cup
·
1 gallon measuring container
·
Brita filter - pitcher style
·
Spatula for leveling
·
Stirring utensil
Steps:
1. Add
1 level dash & 2 level smidgens of sodium silicate to a one-cup Pyrex
container
2.
Add 1/8 cup of tap water to the one-cup Pyrex measuring container
3.
Heat the contents of the Pyrex measuring cup to boiling and boil
for at least 30 seconds
4. Dilute
immediately with a small amount of unheated tap water
5. Pour
all the contents of the Pyrex measuring cup into a 1 gallon container
6. Fill
the 1 gallon container with unheated tap water to the 1 gallon mark on the
container
7.
Add 1 level dash of sodium bisulfate to the one gallon container
8.
Stir the mixture thoroughly and then filter the mixture through a Brita
filter pitcher
9.
After filtering, add 2 level smidgens of baking soda (sodium
bicarbonate) to the mixture
10. Stir
Silicade to dissolve the baking soda
11. Enjoy
the health benefits of drinking Silicade!
Silicade can be stored indefinitely in the dark at room temperature or in a refrigerator.
Why This Recipe
Works
The goal of this recipe for orthosilicic acid
(OSA) in drinking water is to use an easily measured solid silica powder and an
acidic microprill that are commercially available online and shipped to anyone,
not just chemical laboratories. Both of these chemicals are high purity (e.g.
99.5%).
·
Solubilize sodium
silicate: Boiling powdered sodium silicate for 30 seconds in an eighth of a cup
of tap water keeps the pH high enough (e.g. pH = 13) to solubilize silicate434-436.
·
Neutralize to form
OSA and prevent polymerization: In order to form OSA and other silica species
in equilibrium with OSA489 and to prevent OSA polymerization435-437,
immediately dilute the basic (e.g. pH=13) OSA solution to a gallon with tap
water and then immediately render the
solution non-hazardous by acidifying the solution to pH 4 to 5 with the
solid acid sodium bisulfate. A 1.29mM OSA solution is well below OSA’s
saturation level in water (e.g. 2-3mM) but requires 7 days to fully stabilize
rising from 108ppm immediately after preparation to 124ppm174. Polymerization of OSA
has been observed at neutral pH only well above OSA’s 200ppm saturation level435-437.
·
Remove Aluminum: For optimal
aluminum removal acidify the OSA solution with sodium bisulfate to pH 4.0 to
5.0 and then filter through a Brita pitcher style filter (OB03)174. A significant
portion (e.g. 98.5%) of the labile aluminum introduced in tap water is removed174,175.
This Brita filter is a combined activated
carbon and weak cation exchange resin that removes cations like aluminum but
does not remove OSA174. If
the tap water used for Silicade is between pH 6.5 to 8.5, as per EPA’s
secondary drinking water standard, then after acidification, filtration, and
bicarbonate addition Silicade will be pH 6.5.
·
Optionally add
Calcium and/or Magnesium: Have your tap water checked and if it is low in calcium and/or magnesium, add
supplemental calcium and/or magnesium to Silicade. The Brita filter reduces calcium and magnesium in
Quabbin tap water by one half175. Drinking water with calcium at levels of 80mg and
magnesium at levels of 20 ppm has been found to be optimal for good health438. This may be due to calcium and magnesium competing
with aluminum for absorption by the gut433. Calcium catalyzes the polymerization of OSA but
only at pH greater than 818,19.
Silicade + Ca is pH 6.6 and at this pH OSA in Silicade + Ca
is primarily a non-polymeric monomer174,439.
Link to FAQ about making Silicade. FAQ
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