In 1977, a Japanese Engineer Did Something Geology Takes Millions of Years to Do

I want to thank the readers who stuck with me over the last three posts , in which I presented a theory called the Rock-Water Circuit, integrating findings from fields as diverse as geology, hydrology, biology, chemistry, and origin-of-life science.
 Since it may have been too “scienc-ey” for some, know that it is over now. We will be leaving science behind as we continue the rest of the journey this book (i.e., series of posts) will take you on.
 A core insight of our proposed Rock–Water Circuit framework, which goes beyond current origin-of-life models, is that the same iron–sulfur–aluminum–water (ISAW) mineral chemistry thought to have helped initiate life on early Earth also plays a central role in re-releasing the minerals that sustain biological systems today.
 That insight should actually be unsurprising in a way. Any energy system capable of sustaining life on Earth must include a mechanism that continually renews the energy gradients on which lifeforms depend. Without it, mineral systems would gradually exhaust themselves.
 When a Human Isolated a Phase of the Planetary Circuit
 For billions of years, ISAW operated only within the slow machinery of the Earth itself. Water circulated through rock; mineral lattices hydrated and exchanged ions with passing water; electrochemical gradients formed and dissipated; and the planetary energy architecture sustained the conditions under which life eventually emerged and evolved.
 Then, in the twentieth century, a human being isolated a working phase of it.
 In 1977, after two decades of solitary experimentation, a Japanese engineer succeeded in extracting and stabilizing a single operational link in the Rock–Water Circuit, separating a geologically generated chemistry from its mineral host, rendering it portable in liquid form.
 His name was Asao Shimanishi.
 What is truly remarkable about his accomplishment is that most scientific discoveries either newly map previously unknown processes in nature or, in technology, create processes that did not previously exist. Shimanishi’s work fell into a third, historically unusual category of discovery: he succeeded in isolating and stabilizing a functioning phase of a planetary process.
 This was not the work of a famous academic, a government laboratory, or a large industrial research group.
 It was done by a single individual operating outside the scientific mainstream.
 The Question That Volcanic Water Raised
 I do not believe that Shimanishi knew he was extracting a foundational piece of planetary chemistry. His goal was far more practical at the time.
 In the 1950s, given that he was trained in both mining and engineering, he had already become troubled by data showing that modern agriculture and industrial development were gradually stripping soils and water of the complex spectrum of trace minerals that had historically sustained both ecosystems and human nutrition.
 The story begins when Shimanishi was in his thirties, sitting near the water in meditation. As he gazed across the landscape, something caught his attention: a tree growing straight out of what appeared to be naked stone. There was no soil, no visible earth, only a narrow crack in a granite boulder from which the trunk rose, supporting a tree in full bloom.

 Where was it getting nourishment? Seeing a full-grown tree thriving from bare rock, Shimanishi began to suspect that the mineral composition of the rock held a unique energy or vitality that likely reminded him of volcanic regions that often produced springs whose waters were widely regarded as unusually restorative.
 Later, he discovered that the rock was an iron-rich mica, known for containing an extraordinary spectrum of trace elements, and he began to wonder whether the properties of certain waters might arise from the minerals they acquire as they pass through different rocks.
 His ambition eventually crystallized into a simple idea.
 It was an idea simple enough to describe in a sentence, yet difficult enough to occupy the next twenty years of his life.
 The vermiculite species or rock that he chose was a weathered derivative of biotite, a layered iron-bearing mica typically formed deep within Earth’s crust. Although vermiculite is more open and hydrated than biotite, its minerals remain tightly bound within stacked aluminosilicate sheets.
 Simply mixing the rock mineral with water would not release the desired spectrum of ions. Strong acids could dissolve the structure entirely, but doing so would produce unstable and potentially toxic mixtures. Gentle leaching methods were safer but painfully slow, often producing only weak solutions after years of extraction.
 For twenty years, he was driven by a single conviction: that restoring the mineral complexity modern life was quietly losing might be of benefit to humanity.
 He worked directly with rock, heat, water, sulfur, and time, advancing only through repetition, failure, adjustment, and patience measured in years. Shimanishi had one stone, one question, and the discipline to remain with it until the problem finally yielded.
 The ambition itself was elemental: to extract minerals in a form that could move beyond a single volcano or spring and enter ordinary water, soil, and life.
 A Historically Unparalleled Achievement
 It is my opinion that his achievement is unique in the history of Science. Although many scientific discoveries begin with moments of insight that then take years to develop into practical form, Shimanishi’s path was different. He spent more than 2 decades working on a single technical problem until it finally yielded a solution.
 Further, other giants in the history of science had teams, theories, funding, or infrastructure. For instance, Pasteur refined revolutionary ideas within an ecosystem that steadily supplied recognition and resources. And although Mendel also worked alone for years, and similarly succeeded in mapping out a single problem, genetics, it took him approximately a decade less. Tesla spent much of his life pursuing the idea of resonance as a transformative principle in energy and communication, but he never fully realized the system he envisioned.
 Thus, as far as I can tell, those who had come before him had either a combination of collaborators and institutional support or met with success more quickly. Shimanishi had one rock, one question, and for twenty years, he worked alone, altering temperatures, acid strengths, reaction times, sulfur sources, heating and cooling cycles, and filtration methods. Each change solved one problem but created several new ones. Too harsh a treatment destabilized the chemistry. Too gentle a process released almost nothing.
 Sulfur chemistry eventually became central to the process. In retrospect, aspects of this process resemble what modern geochemists now study as enhanced weathering , the accelerated chemical breakdown of minerals in water to release ions and alter surrounding geochemistry.
 But after nearly twenty years of iteration, failure, and refinement, he discovered that, under carefully controlled conditions, sulfur-based reactions could convert certain minerals into water-soluble sulfate forms while simultaneously helping undesirable metals precipitate or be filtered out.
 In 1977, he produced a liquid solution containing a spectrum of minerals, dominated by iron and sulfur, with dozens of other elements appearing in minute (yet still active) amounts. He named this extract Themarox , or “Rock Extract.”
 What followed was unexpected. When the extract was added to water, it seemed to awaken processes already present in nature. Murky water clarified. Suspended debris gathered into visible clusters and settled to the bottom. In ponds and fish tanks, foul, stagnant water became clear and oxygen-rich.
 When applied to soils and irrigation water, crops grew with unusual vigor, grasses thickened, vegetables strengthened, and fish in aquaculture ponds became more active and resilient. Again and again, the extract appeared to stimulate the same self-organizing processes that nature uses to clean water, restore soil, and support living systems.
 The Rock Extract: Water Purification
 The mineral complex Shimanishi released from vermiculite contained an unusually broad spectrum of trace elements derived from the original mica lattice. Crucially, the elements appeared primarily as sulfate salts, reflecting the sulfur chemistry central to his extraction process.
 In practical terms, this meant the minerals were already water-soluble and charged.
 The result was a liquid mineral extract that behaved much like naturally mineralized waters, carrying a dense spectrum of ions capable of conditioning the surrounding water’s electrochemical environment.
 One of the first properties Shimanishi noticed was its ability to clarify water. When added to ponds, tanks, or reservoirs, impurities and contaminants gathered into visible aggregates that settled to the bottom.
 What is fascinating is that this phenomenon mirrors what happens continuously in nature. In rivers, wetlands, and mineral springs, water is clarified by contact with rock surfaces, which release minerals into the water, causing dispersed particles and contaminants to coagulate and settle.
 What Shimanishi had unknowingly done was extract a working fragment of nature, a phase of Earth’s mineral–water chemistry normally confined to rocks and sediments, and which could now operate inside glasses and containers.
 He obtained a patent for its use in purifying and clarifying brackish water. Eight years later, in 1985, his innovative achievement led to the founding of Shimanishi Co., where he began producing Themarox®, a citrus-colored liquid containing a “perfect symphony” of minerals (my words), electrically charged, fully dissolvable, and readily absorbed. What’s impressive is that this mineral complex belonged to nature alone; no man-made process could have synthesized a composition of minerals like these.
 As an illustration of the clarifying and purifying properties of Themarox, there is a famous 3.5-minute video clip from a Japanese news broadcast of a “clean-up” event where his minerals were used to clarify a brackish, polluted pond at a famous Shinto shrine in Tokyo. The pond was especially popular with Japanese students who visited to pray for success in entrance exams and studies. The pond went from brackish to clear in 4 hours.

 At the 2:00 mark, you’ll catch the only public sighting of Shimanishi that I am aware of, smiling as he drinks the freshly treated pond water from a glass mug that they had lowered into the pond on a rope.
 Others performed similar demonstrations in smaller tanks and bowls. At 2:41 in the same television segment above, on the host’s desk, two cloudy, contaminated fishbowls are shown, each containing a single fish barely visible through the haze. The host then treats one bowl with Themarox, and viewers can be heard reacting in surprise as the suspended particles clump together and sink, leaving the fish clearly visible and swimming in crystal-clear water.
 The Rock Extract: Agricultural Applications
 Next, he directed his efforts beyond water treatment and into agricultural and aquacultural applications, moving Themarox into agricultural trials, seed germination tests, and soil restoration initiatives in Japan and other countries.
 It did not take long for farmers to notice certain patterns in soil and crops.
 The rice didn’t just grow. The stalks were sturdier, more resistant to pests and insects, and the plants stayed upright instead of collapsing in wind and rain. Vegetable plots developed plants that grew with a vigor older farmers recognized from their youth. Golf courses began buying Themarox to ensure fuller, verdant, and more resilient grasses.
 In fish farms and ponds, operators added his extract and watched as foul-smelling, low-oxygen water cleared. Fish that had been sluggish and prone to disease became more active and fed more vigorously. The mortality in eel farms dropped, and the eels reportedly scored the highest quality meat grades in the sushi market. A few environmental engineers began using the solution in polluted lakes and lagoons, reporting improvements in water clarity, odor, algal blooms, and biota.
 Problem: Shimanishi did not work within academia; thus, his objectives were not centered on research and publication. He preferred relying on demonstrations to customers to help grow his business.
 Despite not being a pure academic (although a brilliant scientist), there does exist a small collection of published studies and technical reports on the efficacy of Themaraox in agriculture, including a U.N. internal report of a soil restoration project, a Japanese Ministry of Health field trial, a peer-reviewed seed germination study, and company video archives.
 However, based on a comprehensive analysis of the existing evidence base, which includes two recent studies conducted by U.S distributors of Themarox-derived solutions, the number and diversity of the positive outcomes suggest that Themarox represents a “novel functional category” in terms of its potential impacts on agriculture.
 The studies demonstrate coordinated improvements in;
 plant yield

 photosynthetic activity,

 antioxidant capacity

 disease resistance

 nutrient uptake

 reductions in immature yield components

 increased soil microbial diversity

 improved balance among dominant bacterial species

 enhanced soil habitat quality

 significantly reduced uptake of pesticide residues (an observation particularly relevant in light of growing concerns about glyphosate exposure).

 A summary of the above studies, including the reports themselves, has been compiled in a separate post here , detailing the precise magnitudes of the observed improvements for each outcome listed above.
 What I am trying to communicate to the public (and the world) is that, to this point in history, no single conventional agricultural input, either fertilizers, biostimulants, microbial inoculants, or soil amendments, has been shown to influence all these metrics simultaneously.
 More difficult to write off, although not formally documented, are the thousands of use cases reported to the company and its representatives.
 The Rock Extract: Therapeutic Applications
 Readers sometimes wonder how yours truly, a physician, ended up spending what is now seven months glued to a computer for eighteen hours a day, wandering far outside medicine into mineralogy, water chemistry, geology, soil biology, agriculture, and origin-of-life science (which has done noticeable damage to his own health in the process).
 The explanation is straightforward: for the first time in my career, I had stumbled onto something that appeared to influence physiology not just in patients, but across entire living systems — microbes, plants, animals, humans, and even the water systems that sustain them.
 There is no precedent for that in medicine, really. No vitamin, antibiotic, immune modulator, cytotoxin, or metabolic therapy operates across biological kingdoms, let alone extends its influence into soil and water.
 No physician expects a therapeutic principle to operate in bifidobacteria, basil, eels, potatoes, and people alike. The only medicine I could find that could be tolerated outside mammals was aspirin, as salicylic acid participates in signaling in plants, but even that analogy collapsed quickly. No one has ever treated a plant with aspirin (I don’t think).
 But, for me, my journey into the world of minerals and water started when I encountered the work of a physician named Hisotake Nojima.
 Dr. Hisotake Nojima and his “Super Mineral Solution”
 Nojima was not an outsider to medicine. He rose within Japan’s public health system and served as Director of the Sawara Health Center in Chiba Prefecture before later becoming head of a regional hospital. Yet during his years in practice, he became increasingly troubled by what he saw as a blind spot in modern medical thinking. Research, he wrote, had become almost entirely focused on organic molecules while largely ignoring the role of inorganic elements, metals, salts, and mineral ions in biological function.
 His interest deepened after he encountered a solution made from Themarox. One of the first cases he described was of a town mayor with advanced gastric cancer. Surgery was being planned. The mayor’s family had heard that Nojima was quietly experimenting with a new ionized mineral solution. They were desperate.
 Nojima was still in an exploratory phase. He adjusted concentration, designed a high-dose oral regimen, and proceeded cautiously. Based on many later cases, he noted retrospectively that gastric cancers, because they are directly bathed in the mineral solution twice daily, often respond unusually fast.
 Within days, the mayor’s appetite returned. His pain diminished. He began to regain strength.
 Before gastric cancer surgery, surgeons repeat an endoscopy. The first had documented a clear malignant mass. When they returned to confirm the target, the mass was gone. The hospital physicians were, by his account, confused and effectively speechless.
 What struck Nojima was the disappearance of a documented tumor between two scopes, with no conventional therapy in between. He did not treat this as proof of a cure, but as the first signal that something fundamental was occurring that existing frameworks could not explain.
 Whatever the tumor biology was doing, equally notable was the upstream shifts he described, appetite, strength, sleep, tolerance, repair.
 Nojima then began offering the therapy to patients with advanced cancer who had exhausted surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation. He repeatedly described observing pain subside and strength return. Imaging showed reduced tumor burden or halted progression. Infections improved unexpectedly. Chemotherapy became more tolerable.
 These were not isolated anecdotes in his book. They recurred in a pattern. Over time, Nojima came to understand what he was seeing as follows:
 “The minerals were restoring the body’s mineral architecture, and the body was doing the healing.”
 What Nojima Actually Claimed
 Because stories like the mayor’s invite distortion, restraint matters. Nojima never claimed universal cures. He documented recoveries, partial responses, stabilization, and non-responders. His insistence was that mineral architecture mattered to all of them. Some improved. Some stabilized. A few experienced remission.
 He also acknowledged patients so depleted that mineral restoration could not reverse the decline.
 Author’s Note: The reports above come from Nojima’s own clinical writings and have not been independently verified through modern controlled clinical trials.
 Nojima did not describe these observations as universal cures, nor did he claim that the mineral solution worked in every patient. What struck him instead was a recurring pattern: when the body's mineral (or aqueous) environment was restored, physiological resilience often seemed to improve. In his writings, he summarized this idea with a phrase that appeared repeatedly throughout his books: the solution was helping restore what he called the body’s “mineral architecture.”
 Over the following years, he documented his experiences in several books (one of which was translated into English here) and founded a nonprofit organization devoted to exploring the roles of minerals, nutrition, and environmental factors in chronic disease. At its height, he wrote, the organization had tens of thousands of members.
 Although his work remained largely unknown outside Japan and was never integrated into mainstream medical research, his clinical observations represent one of the earliest attempts by a modern physician to investigate the biological effects of a sulfated biotite-derived broad-spectrum mineral complex.
 Shimanishi also believed that the mineral spectrum in his solution could support human biological processes. In his view, since minerals act as cofactors that activate enzymes throughout the body and enzymes require specific minerals to function properly, restoring mineral diversity to water could help restore normal biological activity.
 He claimed that health improvements reported by users arose from this mineral–enzyme interaction, though he acknowledged that medical claims were legally restricted and should be approached cautiously.
 **I recount the observations above as historical medical reporting rather than as evidence of established therapeutic effects.
 What I Eventually Realized Shimanishi Had Done
 Seen this way, Shimanishi’s achievement becomes less mysterious and, in some respects, even more remarkable. He did not create a new form of water. What he succeeded in isolating was a mineral chemistry capable of conditioning water into an electrochemically organized state , much like the mineralized waters that have naturally emerged throughout history from geothermal systems dispersed among the Earth’s crust.
 Ultimately, in the framework of ISAW and the Rock-Water Circuit, what Shimanishi did, unknowingly, was extract from rock and carry into water a redox-active chemistry set that geology had long ago already assembled.
 An Older Pattern Comes Into View
 In Shimanishi’s own region of Japan alone, the accessible vermiculite reserves are sufficient for centuries, perhaps millennia, of human-scale application.
 This is not a scarce remedy.
 It is a geological inheritance.
 As detailed in From Volcanoes To Vitality , if understood and applied responsibly, Themarox may represent a path for the gradual restoration of soils, waters, husbandry, and even human health.
 Beyond that aspiration, a separate, rather unique question arose in the wake of my studies into Themarox. If a specific mineral–water chemistry capable of organizing electrochemical energy has been operating quietly within rock for billions of years, and if a human being has now managed to isolate a working phase of that chemistry, then why do ancient traditions, alchemical writings, and even fragments of early scripture appear to describe processes that map so precisely onto this same mineral–water transformation?
 The chapters that follow explore how this pattern connects modern science with far older attempts to understand the relationship between matter, water, and the organizing forces of life.
 Author’s Note on Stewardship
 Encountering Shimanishi’s work did more than reshape my understanding of minerals and water. It imposed a responsibility.
 If what he had isolated truly represented a recoverable phase of the Rock–Water Circuit, with potential impacts in restoring water, soils, agriculture, and even human health, then leaving it confined to obscurity would have been, in my view, a failure of stewardship rather than restraint.
 For that reason, midway through writing this book, I, along with my wife Lisa and my long-time practice partner at the Leading Edge Clinic , Scott Marsland, took the practical step of founding The Asao Group , a company that has made this extract accessible for careful, ethical use in drinking water ( Aurmina ) and for agricultural applications ( Primorabio ).
 Some readers will undoubtedly question this decision, but know that I did not embark on this effort solely for commercial reasons; instead, my motivation was threefold: to make a profit, fund research, and disseminate philanthropically. In fact, those principles are explicitly stated in the Asao Group’s operating agreement as the guideposts for all future corporate decisions.
 I insisted on this to preserve and carry forward Shimanishi’s ethos: to help humanity.
 In this way, the formation of the Asao Group is an attempt to ensure that a potentially consequential material, if validated through continued observation and study, would not remain locked behind geography, language, or historical accident.
 The scientific argument of this book stands independently of that effort; the company arose in response to it, not as its justification.
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Summary: After two decades of solitary experimentation, a Japanese engineer isolated a functioning phase of Earth’s mineral-energy system and brought it into the human world. History barely noticed.


Falling Down a Mineral Rabbit Hole Led Me to a Strange Conclusion About the Planet

Author Aside: We’re in the middle of a brief run of what I call the “Deep Science” posts. They’re a bit more technical than usual, but they’re necessary to understand the larger story we will return to tomorrow, about water, minerals, and life. Hang in there for this one more rabbit hole, then we’ll return to one of, if not the, most important tales I have ever told.
 RECAP
 Before continuing, it is worth briefly recalling the elemental logic of the iron-sulfur-aluminum-water engine itself (ISAW). In earlier sections, I argued that Earth’s mineral–water chemistry operates through a kind of division of labor among four elements. Iron governs the movement of electrons, cycling between oxidation states and keeping energy in motion. Sulfur mediates proton activity and drives mineral transformations that reopen reactive surfaces. Aluminum provides the stable aluminosilicate framework within which these reactions can occur without collapsing the system. And water serves as the mobile medium that links them all together, dissolving minerals, carrying charge, and transporting the resulting chemistry outward into soils, oceans, and eventually living organisms.
 Living Water and the Deep Earth Circulation System
 In the previous act, I examined ISAW at the elemental scale, where water plays a critical role in activating mineral chemistry in rock and then carries both its energy and mineral inputs from rock into life.
 As I followed that chemistry outward from mineral reactions into planetary processes, one realization became unavoidable.
 The planetary energy system is not the cause of ISAW chemistry.
 It is the cumulative expression of it.
 Across the crust and mantle, iron-, sulfur-, and aluminum-bearing mineral systems continuously interact with circulating water. Wherever this interaction occurs, iron-bearing minerals oxidize, water is reduced, and electrochemical gradients emerge.
 Modern mineral physics confirms that this circulation is not confined to the crust. Two well-documented geological processes illustrate how circulating water and iron-rich rock naturally generate electrochemical energy long before biology appears.
 Natural Electrochemical Systems in Rock and Water
 One process that repeatedly appeared in discussions of early planetary energy systems is serpentinization. When water infiltrates deep fractures in iron-rich mantle rocks, a powerful chemical transformation begins. The minerals reorganize into rocks such as serpentine and magnetite, releasing hydrogen and heat.
 The surrounding fluids become strongly alkaline. When these fluids encounter comparatively more acidic seawater, steep redox and proton gradients develop. In energetic terms, this stores electrochemical potential, the same kind of energy difference that biology later exploits through electron transport chains and proton gradients.
 For this reason, serpentinizing hydrothermal systems are widely considered among the most powerful natural energy engines operating on the early Earth.
 Not long after encountering this process, I came across a closely related phenomenon described in the geophysical literature: what some researchers call “natural geobatteries.” In many regions of the crust, reduced iron- and sulfur-bearing minerals at depth are electrically connected through rock and groundwater to more oxidized environments closer to the surface.
 The arrangement resembles a battery: reduced minerals act as electron donors, oxidized zones act as electron acceptors, and groundwater serves as the ionic pathway that closes the circuit. Portions of the crust therefore behave as distributed electrochemical circuits, quietly moving charge through the coupled pathways of rock and water.
 At that point, the implication became difficult for me to ignore.
 Wherever water circulates through iron-rich rock under conditions of chemical imbalance, electrochemical gradients emerge that allow electrons and protons to move simultaneously through mineral structures and water.
 The metabolic machinery of life may therefore represent something deeper: not a new invention, but the internalization of an energy system that had long operated within rock and water.
 Water Circulation Through the Deep Earth
 When I zoomed out to view Earth’s energy cycle as a whole, water again emerged as the central medium through which planetary chemistry operates continuously.
 Heat rises from below, but it is the circulation of water, descending into rock, dwelling within fractures, exchanging charge and minerals, and eventually returning upward, that connects Earth’s interior chemistry with surface environments. Through this circulation, mineral reactions occurring at depth are carried outward and redistributed.
 Rainwater enters fractured bedrock worldwide. Once below the surface, water slows dramatically and transitions from an atmospheric process into a geochemical one. Moving through faults, fractures, and porous zones, it remains in prolonged contact with iron-, sulfur-, aluminum-, and silica-rich minerals as pressure increases, temperature rises, and time extends, thus becoming chemically conditioned by the geological environments it traverses.
 Some of this subsurface water returns quickly to springs and streams, but much of it remains confined for decades or centuries , repeatedly contacting the same mineral interfaces. One example of such transformation is the gradual alteration of biotite into vermiculite, in which potassium is released, without collapse of the structure.
 Eventually, this deep, mineral-conditioned water returns upward, sometimes gently through springs and seeps, and sometimes violently through ruptures, geysers, and volcanic systems.
 Ancient texts referred to these events as “the fountains of the great deep,” but the mechanism is physical: heat rising from the mantle drives portions of this conditioned water back toward the surface, carrying with it the chemistry acquired at depth.
 From Local Gradients to a Planetary System
 One discovery genuinely surprised me: just how much water the Earth stores at depth.
 Vast quantities of water are held directly within mantle minerals themselves, chemically bound as hydroxyl groups. Laboratory experiments and seismic observations indicate that mantle minerals may store one to three percent water by weight, suggesting that the mantle alone may contain an amount of water comparable to, or even exceeding, all surface oceans combined.
 The 2014 identification of water-bearing ringwoodite provided direct confirmation that water is embedded deep within the planet’s interior, not merely flowing above it.
 I present the sequence above as a conceptual framework that helps make sense of how several well-established geological processes, deep iron-rich reservoirs, circulating water, and persistent redox gradients, could couple into a continuous planetary energy system.
 Primordial Circuit Stabilization
 As I began connecting these pieces, a broader picture gradually came into focus.
 Over geological time, as these systems expanded and interconnected, Earth assembled into a planet capable of sustaining continuous electrochemical disequilibrium.
 Iron-rich mantle and crustal systems act as vast reservoirs of reducing potential, forged under immense pressure and heat. From these environments, heat, pressure, and reducing power propagate upward through the mantle and into the surrounding crust.
 As water infiltrates iron-bearing rock, iron oxidizes while water is reduced, producing hydrogen and alkaline fluids rich in dissolved hydrogen. These fluids move upward through fractures and hydrothermal systems, carrying chemical potential toward the surface.
 At the same time, the early oceans followed a different chemical trajectory. Influenced by volcanic gases, atmospheric reactions, and rainfall, surface waters were comparatively oxidized and more acidic.
 Wherever reducing fluids rising from depth encountered these more oxidized surface waters, strong redox and proton gradients emerged. These interfaces appeared repeatedly wherever rock, water, and chemical imbalance intersected.
 Within these environments, electrons moved through mineral networks while ions moved through water, establishing a planetary-scale architecture capable of sustaining continuous energy flow.
 Once sustained electrochemical gradients formed between Earth’s interior and its surface waters, their influence no longer remained confined to the depths where they originated. Circulating fluids carried heat and dissolved minerals through the crust, hydrothermal systems altered ocean chemistry, and reduced gases entered the atmosphere. Over immense spans of time these exchanges linked rock, water, and air into a continuously operating planetary system.
 Only after this planetary architecture stabilized did a fourth domain emerge from within it: the biosphere.
 At that point a realization began to take shape in my mind.
 Life did not invent this energetic logic.
 It inherited it.
 Long before the first cell assembled its membranes and enzymes, the Earth itself had already become a working electrochemical system.
 Figure D. The Planetary Energy Architecture: From Rock–Water Gradients to Biological Metabolism

 Caption:
 Persistent electrochemical gradients arise wherever circulating water interacts with iron-rich rock under conditions of chemical disequilibrium. The iron–sulfur–aluminum–water (ISAW) chemistry described in yesterdays’ post represents one of the mineral architectures through which those gradients form, stabilize, and propagate through rock and water.
 In living systems, the same energetic logic reappears in miniature: electrons move through redox centers, protons accumulate across boundaries, and biological metabolism internalizes a pattern of energy flow that had long operated within the geology of the Earth itself.
 What I refer to as the Primordial Circuit Stabilization marks the stage at which Earth’s internal chemistry and global water circulation became sufficiently integrated to sustain persistent electrochemical gradients across the planet.
 Death, Decay, and the Chemical Return
 Why Life Is Not Immortal
 Up to this point, the Mineral–Water–Energy Cycle has been described within stone, followed by its journey into water, then into life, and the work it does to sustain all life—plants, animals, microbes, and humans.
 Now we must examine what happens when organisms reach the end of their cycle. What is the mechanism by which we give ourselves—literally—back to the Earth, to the same mineral–water chemistry we borrowed and that sustained us during our lifetime?
 ACT VII: Death as the Loss of Energy Governance
 Viewed cosmologically, death is a chemical transition. Nothing disappears. Heat it, freeze it, scatter it, bury it, dissolve it: the matter persists. Minerals do not die. Water does not die. Even carbon, the backbone of life, does not decay in any meaningful sense. It rearranges endlessly.
 What dies is control.
 Life is defined by the ability to govern the flow of energy. To move electrons and protons in precise sequences. To maintain gradients, timing, pressure, and coordination across trillions of interacting parts. A living human is not a thing but a process: a vast, synchronized choreography of movement. When that choreography holds, a person exists. When it fails, personhood vanishes instantly, even though every component remains behind.
 From this perspective, aging and disease are not mysteries. They are failures of flow.
 The minerals remain intact, but the structures that guide them degrade. Ligaments stiffen. Vessels calcify and narrow. Muscles lose elasticity. Nerve impulses slow as insulating sheaths thin and fragment. Carbon-based architectures, the proteins, membranes, and scaffolds that once flexed, conducted, and responded, begin to lose precision. Not because they disappear, but because they lose alignment.
 Pipes clog. Valves stick. Signals arrive late or not at all.
 Blood thickens. Clots form more easily. Circulation falters. Oxygen delivery stutters, areas of dead tissue or scar from, removing them from participation. Iron can no longer cycle smoothly through hemoglobin. Calcium and magnesium drift out of rhythm along nerve and muscle pathways. Stress hormones assemble imperfectly or fire at the wrong time. Receptors miss their signals. Feedback loops overshoot or collapse.
 Every system depends on uninterrupted cycling. When flow slows, pressure builds. When pressure builds, damage accumulates.
 Cancer is not chaos; it is obstruction. A mass presses on a vein, a nerve, an intestine. Flow is distorted. Signals back up. Energy pools where it should not. Elsewhere, starvation begins.
 Infection is an invasion with the destruction of cell or organ units needed for coordinated energy cycling. Pathogens slip past cilia, mucus, filters, and currents designed to keep surfaces moving. Cells sense danger and call for help. Inflammation floods the area with water, heat, and immune cells, firehoses aimed at a blockage that cannot be cleared.
 Autoimmunity is misrecognition within a machine too complex to tolerate confusion. Something in the environment mimics a familiar component. The guards misread the signal. Soldiers descend from the watchtowers and attack the courtyard itself. The system expends energy destroying its own infrastructure.
 Eventually, a threshold is crossed. The heart muscle, starved of oxygen and flow, can no longer maintain its rhythm. Electron transport fails. Proton gradients collapse. Energy production halts. The orchestra stops mid-measure.
 The minerals remain. The water remains. The atoms remain.
 But the battery is no longer regulated.
 Death is the moment when a system built to channel energy loses the ability to do so. The universe does not notice. Chemistry continues. But the person, the singular pattern of motion, response, memory, and intention, vanishes completely.
 Not because matter failed.
 Because harmony did.
 In living systems, this recursion has a hard limit. Unlike the Earth, the human body cannot recycle its own primary fuel indefinitely.
 Iron is the courier. Oxygen is the fire. Together, they are the gas that keeps the engine turning.
 Death arrives when coordination collapses.
 In older language, this was called the departure of the animating force, not because anything vanished, but because the pattern that once braided stone, water, and charge into a person dissolved. The stones still hold charge. The water still flows. But the cycle no longer closes.
 What follows is chemical reassignment.
 Closure and Renewal: How the Cycles Relate and Reset
 Once that organizing pattern dissolves, the elements that once participated in it begin their return.
 Iron and sulfur re-enter soils, waters, and sediments. Aluminum remains bound within silicate frameworks. Over time, sometimes very long spans of time, burial, pressure, and heat reorganize these materials back into layered mineral structures such as biotite.
 What life borrows, it returns.
 While thinking about this phase of the cycle, something else became apparent to me as well: water itself changes roles.
 During life’s emergence and operation, water helps maintain gradients, supporting organized flows of charge across mineral surfaces and biological membranes. But when biological structures begin to break down, water is no longer held within those ordered systems.
 Instead, it moves through heterogeneous environments shaped by microbial activity, enzymatic cleavage, fluctuating pH, and oxidation. The state of the water changes as the system around it evolves.
 Where once it helped preserve gradients, it has now become the medium through which those gradients dissolve. The same medium that once sustained structure now enables its dismantling.
 Water dissolves, mobilizes, and redistributes minerals, carrying them through soils, sediments, and aquifers, returning elemental components to the geochemical domain from which they came.
 Once I began to notice this pattern, I realized you can see the difference almost anywhere.
 Picture water emerging from a mountain spring, issuing cold and clear from a rock face. It may have spent decades or centuries moving slowly through fractured rock, pressed, filtered, and conditioned by mineral lattices. Such water supports gradients. It holds a charge. It sustains vitality, not because it is “pure,” but because it has been organized through prolonged contact with rock.
 Now picture water in a bog, dark, tea-colored, heavy with dissolved organic matter. It moves slowly as well, but through a very different environment: one dominated not by ordered mineral surfaces but by decaying leaves, microbial mats, and collapsing biological structures.
 Here, water performs a different role. It dissolves structure. Acids accumulate. Oxygen is consumed. Charge dissipates. Minerals are released back into circulation as organic architecture breaks down.
 Both waters are doing exactly what the system requires: one supports life by maintaining order, the other supports continuity by enabling return.
 Together, they complete the cycle.
 Conclusion
 By the time I reached this point in the work, the distinction between the different cycles had finally become clear to me.
 The Primordial Circuit Stabilization allowed planetary-scale energy flow to occur, as comparitively proton-rich surface waters began to encounter alkaline, electron-rich fluids seeping up from depth.
 ISAW is the recursive loop operating within that energized planet. It governs how energy and matter are organized, transferred, and sustained across rock, water, and life.
 And when life ends, the circuit does not stop. The chemistry returns to Earth, where water once again becomes the medium through which minerals dissolve, migrate, and eventually reform into new geological structures.
 Nothing disappears.
 One event established the planet’s energy architecture. A second system governs how life operates within it. What life releases returns to rock, and through water, pressure, and time, the system continues.
 But arriving at that realization raised one final question for me.
 For billions of years this mineral–water chemistry operated only within the slow machinery of the Earth itself.
 Until, at one point in the twentieth century, a human being managed to isolate a functional phase of that planetary chemistry and carry it forward intentionally.
 The person who did this was not a famous academic or a researcher at a government laboratory.
 That story begins with a man named Asao Shimanishi .

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 The Blueprint of Life - The Hidden Architecture That Powers Life and Health
 From Volcanoes to Vitality -The Untold Story of Asao Shimanishi
 The War on Chlorine Dioxide - The Medicine That Could End Medicine
 The War on Ivermectin - The Medicine That Could Have Ended The Pandemic
 Leading Edge Clinic - Tele-Medicine Clinic Caring For Patients in All 50 States

Summary: The chemistry that powers living cells began long before biology, when circulating water and iron-rich rock were already generating the electrochemical gradients that life would later inherit.


Part II: Three Minerals and Water: The Engine of Life

ACT IV: Iron–Sulfur–Aluminum–Water (ISAW) — The Elemental Division of Labor
 By the time I arrived at this stage of the investigation, a pattern had begun to reveal itself. The energy-generating logic I kept encountering in rock and water was not random, nor was it the product of a single mineral reaction unfolding in isolation. Instead, the same elements appeared again and again, each performing a distinct role within a coordinated system.
 Iron moved electrons. Sulfur mediated proton activity. Aluminum provided the structural framework within which those exchanges could occur. And water, moving through rock and mineral interfaces, carried the entire process forward.
 Taken together, these elements form what I have come to describe as iron–sulfur–aluminum–water chemistry , or ISAW —a recursive engine capable of generating and sustaining usable energy as it moves through rock, water, soils, and eventually living systems.
 Once this pattern became visible, the division of labor among the elements began to make sense.
 Electron Flow — The Role of Iron
 As I followed the redox chemistry deeper into the geological literature, one element repeatedly stood out.
 Iron.
 Iron–sulfur redox systems embedded in rock represent one of Earth’s earliest distributive energy architectures. Yet that architecture would likely have remained confined within rock if it were not for the presence of water. Water serves as the continuity layer through which this redox logic was eventually inherited by biology, allowing it to appear inside proteins, mitochondria, cells, and organisms.
 Iron stands out among the elements because of its unusual redox flexibility. It can donate electrons when the chemical environment requires it and then accept electrons again when conditions change. Energy generation depends on precisely this kind of reversible cycling. A battery that allows electrons to move only once quickly exhausts itself.
 Iron, by contrast, can switch repeatedly between oxidation states, storing and transmitting energy without being consumed or structurally destroyed. It can perform this cycling indefinitely, keeping energy in motion while the surrounding structures remain intact.
 Every living cell ultimately depends on this controlled movement of electrons, coupled to proton gradients, to power respiration and metabolism. For this reason, redox-active minerals—especially iron-bearing ones—sit at the foundation of both geology and biology. Iron conducts life’s current because it keeps energy moving.
 Proton Flow — The Role of Sulfur
 If iron excels at moving electrons, sulfur excels at mediating proton activity.
 This relationship is not accidental. Sulfur exists across a wide range of charged states and participates in reactions that couple electron movement to the creation of proton gradients. Throughout Earth systems it appears in volcanic gases, reduced sulfur species, and sulfate dissolved in rain, oceans, sediments, and biological chemistry.
 But sulfur becomes especially productive when it operates within iron-rich mineral systems. In those environments iron-bearing minerals stabilize and organize sulfur’s reactivity, allowing the two elements to couple tightly in proton-coupled redox reactions expressed at water–mineral interfaces.
 This iron–sulfur partnership forms the energetic core of the ISAW system and underlies both ancient geochemical energy regimes and modern biological metabolism.
 What took me longer to appreciate was that sulfur also performs another role: it helps reset the cycle.
 Circulating continuously between rock, water, atmosphere, and life, sulfur links planetary-scale processes to local metabolic function. Delivered primarily as sulfate in mildly acidic rainwater, it participates in the slow weathering of iron-rich minerals such as biotite. Over geological time this destabilizes rigid mineral lattices and expands them into vermiculite, reopening mineral surfaces and restoring the reactivity required for continued charge transfer.
 Once that transformation occurs, water assumes the next role in the sequence. It enters expanded mineral layers, mobilizes ions, buffers proton activity, mediates electron transfer, and carries liberated mineral chemistry into soils, root zones, microbial systems, and eventually into living organisms.
 Sulfur renews the initiating chemistry, while water propagates it forward through the cycle.
 Controlled Redox Flows — The Role of Aluminum
 At first glance, aluminum seems like the odd participant in this system.
 Iron moves electrons. Sulfur mediates proton activity. Aluminum appears to do neither. Yet as I examined the mineral structures where these reactions unfold, it became clear that aluminum plays a role just as essential as the more obviously reactive elements.
 Aluminum does not participate directly in the constant exchange of electrons that defines redox chemistry. Instead, it locks itself into aluminosilicate lattices that form some of the most persistent mineral structures on Earth. These lattices carry a stable negative charge and remain structurally intact over immense spans of geological time.
 That stability turns out to be precisely what the rest of the system requires.
 Where redox chemistry involves relentless electron transfer and charged mineral movement, aluminum provides a fixed internal scaffold within which those exchanges can occur. Positively charged ions can bind to the negatively charged lattice, release when conditions shift, and be replaced by others without the structure itself collapsing.
 In this way, the lattice becomes a dynamic stage on which energy exchange can take place continuously. The structure holds steady while the actors—electrons, protons, and ions—move through it.
 This environment also shapes the behavior of surrounding water. The persistent negative charge of aluminosilicate frameworks organizes nearby ions and charge distributions in ways that allow energy differences to accumulate rather than dissipate immediately.
 Put simply, aluminum provides the architecture that allows the rest of the system to operate without destroying itself.
 Iron moves electrons.
 Sulfur mediates protons.
 Aluminum provides structure.
 If aluminum behaved like iron or sulfur, the system would burn through its own framework and collapse.
 The Aluminum Question
 At this stage in the investigation an apparent contradiction presented itself.
 Aluminum clearly plays a foundational role in the geochemical phase of ISAW. Yet when the same energetic logic appears inside living systems, aluminum itself is nowhere to be found.
 For a time this seemed puzzling.
 Eventually the answer became obvious once the system was viewed not as a set of elements but as a set of functions.
 In geological systems aluminum provides the stable, negatively charged scaffolding within which redox chemistry can occur. In biological systems that same stabilizing function is performed by proteins, membranes, and enzymes that establish boundaries and organize charge.
 What biology carried forward was not the element.
 It carried forward the role.
 The absence of aluminum from mitochondria therefore is not a contradiction. It is evidence that a successful transition occurred, in which a geochemical mineral architecture gave rise to a biological one capable of performing the same organizational work.
 The mineral scaffold came first. Biology later reinvented its function using organic structures.
 Water: The Control Layer
 At this point in the investigation the role of water could no longer be treated as secondary.
 Water is the medium through which the entire cycle operates. Without water, minerals remain locked within crystalline lattices. Without minerals, water remains chemically inert. Only when the two interact does the system become capable of generating and transmitting usable energy.
 The role water plays in biology, I came to realize, is inherited from the path water travels long before biology ever encounters it.
 In intact Earth systems rainwater does not simply fall to the surface and run away. Instead, it enters fractured rock and begins a much slower journey through mineral environments rich in iron, sulfur, aluminum, and silica. As it descends into these geological settings it remains confined within fractures and pore spaces for extended periods of time, interacting continuously with mineral surfaces under conditions of pressure, temperature, and time.
 Through this prolonged contact water gradually acquires organized charge distributions and structured ionic arrangements. Earlier cultures described such water as living water , a term that captured its unusual vitality long before the underlying physics was understood. Today similar states are increasingly described in physical terms as structured or coherent forms of water shaped by mineral interfaces.
 However one describes it, the important point is that the water biology inherits has already passed through a long geological preparation.
 ACT VI: Where ISAW Drives Generative Loops
 Biotite-Bearing Fracture Systems
 As I continued following this chemistry through geological systems, one mineral kept appearing in places where water, charge, and mineral exchange were especially active.
 Biotite.
 The layered aluminosilicate lattice of black mica lines many of the fracture planes through which groundwater circulates. This geometry turns out to be remarkably well suited to sustaining ion exchange, redox buffering, and charge organization at the mineral–water interface. What emerges from these environments is not simply mineralized water, but water whose physical behavior has been shaped by prolonged contact with ordered mineral structures.
 Biotite itself forms deep within the Earth, often tens of kilometers below the surface, where heat and pressure allow its layered structure to assemble. Over immense stretches of time tectonic uplift and erosion slowly carry these minerals upward toward the surface.
 As biotite approaches shallower environments, a new sequence begins to unfold.
 Sulfur-bearing rainwater and oxygen begin acting on the iron-rich layers of the mineral. Iron oxidation initiates electron flow. Sulfur, present primarily as sulfate, supplies protons that acidify mineral interfaces. These coupled changes weaken potassium binding within the lattice, allowing potassium to leave while water enters and hydrates the structure.
 Through this process biotite gradually transforms into vermiculite, a mineral whose expanded aluminosilicate lattice becomes far more open and reactive.
 The opening of that lattice serves two inseparable roles.
 First, it creates the structural environment within which redox reactions and energy generation can occur. Second, it becomes a sustained source of liberated mineral chemistry, gradually releasing iron, potassium, aluminum-associated trace elements, and charge into surrounding soils and waters.
 In this way the same structure that enables energy flow also supplies the material substrate from which biological systems are ultimately built.
 When Energy Becomes Generative
 At this stage an important question emerged for me.
 It is one thing for energy to circulate through geological systems. It is another thing entirely for that energy to become generative , meaning capable of producing new structure, organization, and complexity that can move forward into living systems.
 The answer, once again, pointed back to water.
 Water carries these coordinated redox processes forward as an ordered medium. In doing so it performs two inseparable functions. First, it acts as an energetic participant, organizing charge, sustaining gradients, and preserving coherence across mineral interfaces. Second, it serves as the transport agent that mobilizes mineral chemistry, carrying iron, sulfur species, potassium, and associated trace elements from weathered rock into soils, microbial systems, and eventually plants and animals.
 Through sulfated rainwater the rock opens. Charge organizes. Energy becomes transferable. Mineral chemistry becomes mobile.
 Materials that were once locked inside crystalline lattices are redistributed through water into biologically accessible forms, entering a system in which energy generation and material supply advance together.

 The Insight
 The insight that emerged from following these processes was both simple and surprising. The same iron–sulfur–aluminum–water chemistry that drives the transformation of biotite into vermiculite also generates energy within the rock itself, and that chemistry is then carried forward by water into living organisms. What initially appeared to be separate domains, geology on one side and biology on the other, began to look instead like sequential expressions of a single system.
 At that point I realized I was no longer looking at two different systems. I was looking at the same engine operating at two different scales.
 ISAW, in other words, is not merely a mineral reaction occurring in rock. It is the underlying engine through which geology prepares the energetic and material conditions that biology later inherits.
 At this point in the sequence the chemistry of ISAW is already complete. Its components are established, its reactions sustained by geological processes, and its operation does not depend on the presence of life.
 What remains is time.
 Through pressure, water, sulfur, and immense geological patience, nature builds this chemistry gradually, storing potential energy within the layered structures of minerals such as biotite. These minerals rise slowly from depth over millions of years, carrying within them the accumulated tensions of a planetary energy system waiting to be activated.

 If what you just read raised questions about the mineral system at the center of it, you can explore it further at Aurmina.com , where we are working to make Shimanishi’s extraordinary discovery more widely available.

 From Research to Practice - Links Below

 Aurmina – The Mineral Extract For Naturally Vitalized Drinking Water
 The Blueprint of Life - The Hidden Architecture That Powers Life and Health
 From Volcanoes to Vitality -The Untold Story of Asao Shimanishi
 The War on Chlorine Dioxide - The Medicine That Could End Medicine
 The War on Ivermectin - The Medicine That Could Have Ended The Pandemic
 Leading Edge Clinic - Tele-Medicine Clinic Caring For Patients in All 50 States

Summary: Life did not invent its engine. It inherited one from iron, sulfur, aluminum, and water.


Reclaiming the Digital Commons: No Bots. No Censorship. Just Humans.

A New Platform for Human Voices (and Why I’m Joining It)
 Over the last few years, many of us who write and speak publicly have learned a hard lesson: the modern internet is not a neutral space. Throttling, curating, algorithms, outright censorship, and propaganda boosting. Genuine human dialogue is drowned out by bots, trolls, and invisible moderation policies that shape what can and cannot be seen.
 So when Jeff Dornik , one of the best (and most censored) podcast interviewers I’ve had the chance to speak with, and with whom I’m doing a launch interview on Pickax today at 4:30 p.m. EST, told me he was building a new creator platform around a simple idea - let humans decide what matters, not algorithms - I paid attention.
 For transparency, I have no financial relationship with Pickax. I’m supporting this launch simply because I believe in the idea and in the people building it.
 The platform is called Pickax . Its premise is straightforward but also radical: no algorithmic manipulation of reach, the ability to publish full-length articles (not just fragments), embedded video content directly in the feed, and a verification system intended to ensure you are interacting with real people, not anonymous accounts or automated noise. Just as importantly for writers and independent thinkers, the business model is aligned with creators: revenue sharing, affiliate opportunities, and paywalled content options that reward meaningful work rather than outrage-driven engagement.
 What resonated most with me was the philosophical core. The stated goal is not to harvest data to train AI models or to engineer controversy for clicks, but to build a more human-centered digital commons where voice, authorship, and thoughtful exchange can actually flourish. That last part is key. I’m sick of the polarizing two sides to every argument when, to be honest, there are pieces of truth and honest perspectives on both sides.
 Given my own experience over the past several years and the audience we’ve built together here, that vision is one I want to support. I’ll be setting up my account and publishing there as well. For those who are already paid subscribers to this Substack, I plan to offer complimentary access to any paid content I post on Pickax as a thank-you for supporting my work here (not functional yet, but will be soon).
 We all benefit when more platforms exist that are aligned with creators and readers rather than control systems. I’m hopeful this one succeeds, and I’m willing to lend my voice to help it try.
 Thanks for listening and hope you guys check out… Pickax !
 P.S The Jeff Dornik Show on Rumble can be found here and on Spotify here (fun fact: Jeff had been kicked off Spotify prior to their bringing Joe Rogan on, after which they decided they would let free speech do its thing, and let him come back).

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 Aurmina – The Mineral Extract For Naturally Vitalized Drinking Water
 The Blueprint of Life - The Hidden Architecture That Powers Life and Health
 From Volcanoes to Vitality -The Untold Story of Asao Shimanishi
 The War on Chlorine Dioxide - The Medicine That Could End Medicine
 The War on Ivermectin - The Medicine That Could Have Ended The Pandemic
 Leading Edge Clinic - Tele-Medicine Clinic Caring For Patients in All 50 States

Summary: A new creator platform is attempting something rare in today’s internet landscape: real human reach, real dialogue, and no invisible algorithm deciding who gets heard.


"The War on Chlorine Dioxide" Is Now Published: Why a Simple Compound Became Too Dangerous to Discuss

Why This Book Had to Be Self-Published
 Let’s be honest: I knew when I started researching The War On Chlorine Dioxide that it was never going to fly on Amazon, or in a bookstore, or in an airport. We live in a very different world now, visible to some and invisible to most. That’s the thing about censorship: the people affected by it know it’s happening; everyone else is oblivious.
 In my case, I thank God for Substack, one of the few remaining refuges from the relentless suppression of information deemed “inconvenient” to the powers that be
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 But I am pretty much used to censorship by now, as my previous book, “The War On Ivermectin,” received the same treatment. No bookstores, libraries, or airports wanted to carry it. Yet, somehow I still have a fond memory of being interviewed during that “war” by the famous journalist Matt Taibi, who, in a surprisingly even-handed article, called me “The Ghost of the Internet,” because every time I appeared on a podcast during Covid, the host would receive a strike, or the episode would disappear, or the channel would be demonetized for disturbingly long periods of time.
 So yes, I suppose you could say I’m at it again. This time, my brilliantly witty co-writer, Jenna McCarthy (whose phenomenally sharp Substack you can find here ), and I decided to commit the crime ourselves: documenting, contextualizing, and preserving a story that was clearly not supposed to survive.
 When I began researching the book, originally a Substack series that grew into something larger, one of the first things I learned was that before 2020, chlorine dioxide was openly discussed. Social media allowed discussion. Amazon carried pamphlets and small books.
 Then COVID arrived, and the subject vanished. Information was scrubbed, discussion declared “illegal,” or more precisely, “in violation of community guidelines.” That was censorship in action, and as usual, most people never noticed.
 The most telling is what they did to Mark Grenon and his three sons. Mark is likely the most experienced chlorine dioxide practitioner alive today, and during my research and writing of the book, he became a friend and colleague.
 They had been selling (and giving away to those who couldn’t afford) chlorine dioxide at a truly modest cost for ten years, that is, until April 2020, when, after he refused to answer a threatening “cease and desist” letter from the FDA, officers from literally ten different law enforcement and regulatory agencies raided his house, helicopter overhead, accompanied by the local ABC news team filming the whole thing to beam it into millions of living rooms, as if it were a public service announcement.
 Mark and one son were in Colombia at the time, so the FDA politely asked Colombian authorities to arrest and imprison them, followed by their extradition to the U.S where they were sentenced to five years in federal prison (with release in the fifth year), while his other sons received the same sentence plus an extraordinary additional punishment: one of the longest contempt-of-court sentences in modern U.S. history — seven and a half extra years.
 So this genius thought it would be a good idea to write a book about the topic. Yup.
 But, here’s the thing: The “crime” I committed was the same behavior I have always pursued, simply following data, mechanisms, and clinical experiences wherever they led. Unfortunately, they led somewhere inconvenient, somewhere that doesn’t fit neatly into the stories we’re allowed to tell about cheap, unpatentable therapies with disturbingly broad activity across numerous illness categories.
 This book examines a molecule that has been deliberately mischaracterized, rhetorically flattened, and quietly removed from serious scientific discussion, not because it lacks data, but because it lacks profitability. Chlorine dioxide has been reduced to a single word, bleach , in much the same way other inconvenient ideas are reduced to labels (does “horse dewormer” ring a bell?), so no one has to look too closely at mechanisms, history, or outcomes.
 What you will find in this book is a forensic reconstruction of how a cheap, widely used chemical, employed globally in water purification, food sanitation, and industrial processes, became untouchable the moment people began discovering its therapeutic implications. Problem: it can’t be owned, branded, or controlled, thus it is verboten in modern Medicine. I was about to write “American” medicine, but that is simply not true. One of the most disturbing aspects of the book is the evidence I provide on the global reach of the suppression of discussion and restrictions on research. Every. Single. Country.
 When something threatens a business model, the fastest way to neutralize it is to caricature it. Call it bleach. Call it quackery. Call it “settled science.” This book documents exactly how much effort went into preventing that knowledge from reaching you in a serious, highly referenced, comprehensive way. Read the book.
 Recall the lesson behind “ The Kory Scale, ” which is that suppression is much more revealing of efficacy than its refutation. However, that suppression has not been total. And that is one of the discoveries I am most proud of in this book's research.
 I came across a handful of studies that slipped through the cracks of what can only be described as the “editorial mafia” governing modern medical journals, particularly the high-impact ones.
 These were well-designed, properly conducted studies, funded by a quietly daring pharmaceutical company called Neuvivo, hiding in plain sight.
 The trick was linguistic. In those papers, the molecule is never called chlorine dioxide. It is referred to by a different name, sodium chlorite , a closely related compound that serves as the therapeutic backbone and direct precursor to chlorine dioxide. The results are published, peer-reviewed, and statistically rigorous. And yet chlorine dioxide is never mentioned. Not once.
 Except, almost comically, in the title of a single reference buried in the bibliography. (Ooh. How daring.)
 Anyway, this book isn’t for everyone. That’s fine.
 It’s for readers who still believe that truth is what survives scrutiny. If you’ve followed my work for any length of time, you already know why this matters. If you haven’t, this may be an uncomfortable place to start.
 Read It. Argue With It. Share It.
 You do not have to agree with every conclusion in this book . In fact, I hope you don’t. I hope you read it skeptically. I hope you check the sources (there are tons of them). I hope you ask why certain studies exist quietly while headlines scream “bleach” so confidently. And I hope you recognize how often language is used to end conversations before they begin, especially when those conversations might cost someone money.

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 How To Buy The Book.. and How To Help Mark Grenon’s Sons
 If you’ve read this far, you already understand why this book could not exist inside the usual systems. The War on Chlorine Dioxide is a documented, heavily referenced account of how a molecule became untouchable.
 This book exists because suppression leaves fingerprints. What follows is the record of those fingerprints, assembled carefully, without hysteria, and with the respect that serious readers deserve. If you want to see what was buried, why it mattered, and how close it came to disappearing entirely, the book is available below (click on the image).

 APPEAL FOR THE GRENONS
 Here you have a chance to support those who, in my opinion, have devoted their entire adult lives to helping humanity. Humanity should come to their defense in return. I myself just sent a donation to support their legal defense.
 I will end with this appeal on behalf of the Grenon’s, written by Dr. Robert Yoho on his Substack, Surviving Healthcare :
 Mark is now 67 years old and needs your help. His Social Security benefits were terminated in Sept. of 2020. Grenon’s sons, Jonathan and Jordan, are still being held in federal prison. Please consider donating to the Grenons’ legal defense HERE . Since the FDA and DOJ silenced the Grenons, many people died unnecessarily from Covid. Also, you can purchase his books HERE (print version) and HERE (PDF download). A wide-ranging discussion with Mark, describing his and his family’s situation, the availability of chlorine dioxide, commercial products, and much more, is HERE .
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Summary: When a subject threatens a business model built on chronic disease management, curiosity towards simple solutions becomes heresy. Booksellers run. Platforms get twitchy. So we went around them.