Silicade Recipe
Aluminum is a neurotoxin which is the cause of Alzheimer's and Autism. Silica has been shown to prevent Alzheimer's as silica binds with Aluminum so it can be removed from your body.
This recipe is from my book titled Prevent Alzheimer's, Autism and Stroke with 7 Supplements, 7 Lifestyle Choices and a Dissolved Mineral.
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Video -How to make your own silica water
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Recipe for 'Silicade' water (silicon 32 mg/L) which has about the same amount of silica as Fiji water (silicon 36 mg/L). This will take 15 minutes to prepare.
ORDERING INFORMATION
Sodium Silicate powder - Chemical Store online
Sodium Bisulfate - from amazon: Professor Fullwood of LoudWolf Limited
Measuring spoon - dash, smidgen, pinch - Nopro 3016D from Dine
Recipe for Silicade excerpt from my book Prevent Alzheimer's, Autism and Stroke
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”. Silicade
provides dissolved silica to keep your body-burden of aluminum under control.
Silicade preparation requires only two ingredients and a set of small measuring
spoons that are all easy to purchase online and have 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 Sodium Silicate Hydrous: a powder available from
Chemical Store Online. The powder is safer and
easier to measure than the liquid form and has a purity of 99.5% with a
ratio of SiO2 to Na2O of 3.22 (Na2O=19.2%,
SiO2=61.8%) and a water of hydration to SiO2 ratio
of 1.0. Only order “sodium silicate
– low alkalinity”. Do not order
“sodium silicate – alkaline” from the Chemical Store. Chemical store link
- Sodium Bisulfate: 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 that
both optional calcium chloride and magnesium sulfate 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 and smidgen are used for Silicade
preparation. In order to avoid accidental use of the wrong measuring
spoon, remove the pinch from the ring.
- Spatula: Any small spatula with a straight-edge works
to level the contents of the measuring spoons prior to addition.
By following these instructions you can easily prepare a gallon of
Silicade:
1)
A level dash and two level smidgens (3/16 of a teaspoon, 600mg. with
597mg as SiO2[NaO2]1/3.22 H2O (mw
88.66) of hydrous powdered sodium silicate is placed in a Pyrex glass measuring
cup, suspended in 1/8 cup of tap water, brought to boiling in the microwave or
on the stove, and boiled for 30sec. The powder contains 99.5% water soluble
sodium silicate and 0.5% max. of water insoluble materials as required by the
American Waterworks Standard B104-98 for
adding sodium silicate to drinking water.
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 4.0 to 5.0. 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. Etekcity pH pen meter
PH-2011 is a temperature compensated low cost pH meter available online. 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 (i.e. OB03) resulting in OSA at
a pH of 4.4.
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 34mg of dissolved silicon as 117.3mg 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 80mg per liter, 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. It has been found that calcium at concentrations greater than or equal to 75mg/L have a significant
protective effect on cognition461.
Optionally add a heaping dash of magnesium sulfate to increase magnesium
by 20mg/L.
7)
Optionally make
Sparkling Silicade - Carbonate Silicade resulting in pH 4.5 beverages.
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 AD76. In the
U.S. 160mg per liter of OSA (i.e. 100mg per liter of SiO2) is
generally recognized as safe in drinking water462.
Why This Recipe Works
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
and hydrolyze sodium silicate to OSA: 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 and hydrolyze 99.5% to monomeric OSA and short
silica polymers463-465.
- Neutralize
and prevent re-polymerization of OSA: In order to prevent OSA
re-polymerization, immediately dilute the basic (e.g. pH=13) OSA solution
to a gallon with tap water. To
render the solution non-hazardous, acidify the solution to pH 4.0 to
5.0 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 124ppm417.
Polymerization of OSA has been observed at neutral pH only well above
OSA’s saturation level (i.e. 42mM)453,464,465.
- Remove
Aluminum: For optimal aluminum removal acidify the OSA solution to pH 4.0
to 5.0 and then filter through a Brita pitcher style filter (OB03)417. A
significant portion (e.g. 98.5%) of the labile aluminum introduced in tap
water is removed416,417. This
Brita filter is a combined activated carbon and cation exchange resin that
removes cations like aluminum but does not remove OSA417. 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 half416. Drinking water with calcium at levels of 80mg/L and magnesium at
levels of 20mg/L has been found to be optimal for good health466. This may be due to calcium and magnesium
competing with aluminum for absorption by the gut451. Calcium
catalyzes the polymerization of OSA but only at pH greater than 8467,468. Silicade + Ca is pH 6.6 and
at this pH OSA in Silicade + Ca is primarily a non-polymeric monomer417.