Deuterium — The Elephant in the Space Capsule

By Victor Sagalovsky - 02 Oct 2020  |  21min read

The year is 2031 and Elon Musk and his NASA crew have moments before touchdown on Mars. Everything they need to create a permanent human colony on our neighbor planet they have brought with them. This monumental achievement for humanity cannot be overstated. Here is Astronaut Musk now, live from Mars to answer the questions of randomly selected first graders on this historic day. Let’s go to Timmy from Temecula.

Timmy: Congratulations Mr. Musk on getting to Mars.

Elon: Thanks Timmy! I was only a boy your age when I dreamed of coming to Mars and here I am. If you work hard you too can achieve your dreams!

Moderator: Go ahead Timmy, ask your question.

Timmy: Did you remember to bring the deuterium water filter?

Elon: The what?

Is colonizing Mars on your to-do list? You have it all planned out you say? Unlimited cash. Rockets. Fuel. Ground Control and Major Tom. Check. Ability to remove deuterium from your drinking water? Not checked. Wait — what?

The new science of Deutenomics.

The new possibilities of the 21st century is radically exciting. We are living in unprecedented times. While in the midst of an ecosystem crisis we are in the throes of a technological renaissance, living through the 4th industrial revolution that will transform our society like never before.

We are closer than ever to sending a colony of humans to settle the moon and the Red Planet. There are lots of challenges to overcome to get there, so in the big picture it is best to consider even the smallest obstacle. In this case we are looking at deuterium — the big elephant in the space capsule. Deuterium is left over from the Big Bang. It’s everywhere, we can’t clean it up, and we are late to the party.

What does it do to us? In short, it damages mitochondria. You know, the powerhouse of the cell.

The new science of Deutenomics shows us that when our ability to manage deuterium breaks down disease starts to creep in. This “new science” is sixty five plus years in the making. It is vehemently followed by a handful of early investigators worldwide and barely known about at present in mainstream medicine. Yet, mark my words, it will grow in interest exponentially as its implications in unraveling the mechanisms behind the aging process are fully understood.

What is deuterium?

Deuterium, also known as heavy hydrogen or 2H, is together with protium (1H) one of the two stable hydrogen isotopes. In the Big Bang, the first element created was protium, which makes up the bulk of hydrogen, and deuterium came second and made it possible for the creation of all other elements.

In contrast to protium, which only contains a proton, deuterium is composed of a proton and a neutron. Therefore, the mass of deuterium is twice the mass of protium, and thus is also called heavy hydrogen.[1] Two hydrogens and an oxygen make a water molecule. But when it comes to water, what we think of as H2O is actually one molecule of HOD for every 3300 H2O, (in water one hydrogen in roughly 6,600 is deuterium).

Consider that there are two stable hydrogen isotopes, they both can make water, yet one is twice the weight of the other. This is a pretty big deal.

They say the best way to poison someone to death over time without suspicion is replacing their normal water with heavy water. It looks, smells and tastes like water, but it is not. This is the problem with hydrogen: it can have a bad neutron. Hydrogen is used in just about every biological reaction, and most of the time everything functions smoothly because it is the protium version of hydrogen, but when deuterium gets in it goes where it doesn’t belong. Imagine being forced to squeeze an elephant through a glass revolving door. The elephant doesn’t think it’s a good idea, and neither does the door. There’s going to be significant damage. Lawsuits and insurance payouts will ensue. Premiums will go up significantly. Someone will lose their job.

Now, for as evil as deuterium is to our physiological energy production, it is found naturally in the earth’s waters, (roughly to the tune of one HOD molecule for every 3,300 H2O molecules), making the deuterium content of the ocean @ 155.76 ppm. That is about 3 drops of HOD in every tall glass of water.

Whether from a pristine natural mountain spring or out of your tap in Torrance California drinking water typically contains 140–150 ppm of deuterium. Antarctica has the lowest deuterium on the planet (89 ppm), a throwback to an ancient earth of giant dinosaurs and forty-foot ferns, literally frozen in time. Glacial and spring water from a high elevation tends to be 10–20% lower than the ocean (155.76 ppm).

Deuterium concentration below 120 ppm typically made through fractional distillation or electrolysis is considered deuterium depleted water (DDW).[2] — (Full disclosure: My company, Litewater Scientific, sells super deuterium depleted water).

All water ladled up from anywhere on earth whether ocean, lake, river, pond, the summit of Everest, from the depths ofthe Marianas trench or any cup of tea from London to Lihue, the hydrogen-to-deuterium ratio will never be higher than 6,660-to-1.

BUt on Mars it’s closer to 1,100-to-1.

On Earth deuterium makes up 0.0156% of the hydrogen in water.

On Mars, the lowest is 0.078%. That’s five times more deuterium on Mars than on Earth!

In 1961, Russian scientists in Siberia were the first in Western Civilization to report on the positive biological effects of DDW.[3,4] They observed that people who live in areas with 20% lower deuterium in their water had 8 times more centenarians than anywhere else in Europe or Asia. That’s why I refer to DDW, and specifically our brand Litewater™, the purest, lowest deuterium depleted water in the world, as the “practical modern fountain of youth.”

By now I hope I have sufficiently convinced you that it will be a real Debbie Downer when we find ourselves 42 million miles from home scratching our butts on Olympus Mons having failed to bring along a specialized water filter for deuterium. Putting mankind on Mars without Litewater™ is going to be a seriously heavy burden on our earth born physiology.

What determines the levels of deuterium in the body?

The 2H:1H isotope ratio in living organisms is affected by various factors, including diet, metabolic activity, and most importantly, the amount of deuterium in your daily drinking water. Cells have a system to eliminate deuterium from the mitochondria.[15] However, this adaptive evolutionary system is limited and error prone. It is believed we age out faster than we should, barely making it past 100 years of age primarily because of this compounding burden.[6]

Therefore, consumption of DDW daily to significantly decrease the 2H:1H ratio in human fluids[5] is the easiest and most efficient way of keeping the deuterium levels in our body low.

Life on earth has reluctantly adapted to live with the deuterium we have. Research shows that those that live in areas where there is less deuterium statistically enjoy better health and longer lifespan. In nature, it has been theorized that animal migration and procreation cycles have to do with deuterium regulation. For example, many birds migrate thousands of miles to lay their eggs in places with less deuterium because even a 5% reduction in heavy hydrogen gives a higher chance of survival for their hatchlings. The tropics are nice for a vacation, but chances of survival are biologically better where there is less deuterium.

Isotopes of elements can behave very differently from each other in biological process, on this the science is clear.

The high level of deuterium on earth is bad enough. Imagine having to live on Mars drinking water and eating food with 5 times more! Any average soothsayer or probability expert will say: “ya not gwan survive!”

Effects of deuterium on human health.

Chemically, deuterium slows down biological systems.[23] According to the Kinetic Isotope Effect the dissociation of a carbon-deuterium bond is 6–8 times slower than a carbon-hydrogen bond. It’s simple physics; protium quantum tunnels smoothly, deuterium does not.

Increasing evidence over the last sixty plus years shows that high levels of deuterium pose severe threats to human health. Perhaps the most well demonstrated effect of deuterium on biological systems is its constant interference with energy production, metabolism, cell development and division.

Deuterium has been shown to cause mitochondrial dysfunction and subsequent alteration in metabolic homeostasis linked directly to aging and dysbiosis.[12] Notably, it has been shown that deuterium compromises the metabolic energy production process within the innermost sanctum of the mitochondrial matrix. In 2007 Prof. Dr. Abdullah Olgun showed that deuterium inhibits ATP synthase and compromises the electron transport chain in the mitochondria, impairing the ability of mitochondria to produce energy (ATP), and thereby enhancing ROS production and accelerating the downward spiral towards mitochondrial senescence, apoptosis, and oblivion.[10,11]

Deuterium depletion, on the other hand, has been studied for its rejuvenating effects, for maintaining genomic stability, regulating cell growth, optimizing gene expression, and optimizing cellular energetics.[5,13,14]

Recently, the effects of DDW on metabolism and metabolic conditions have gained increasing attention. Dr. László Boros, a leader in the field of Deutenomics and a professor at UCLA pinpointed that DDW may represent a critical link in disease prevention and treatment using natural ketogenic diets and low deuterium drinking water.[15]

Boros and colleagues have also shown that deuterium depletion protects cells from the genotoxic effects of radiation, in this case identifying the precise mechanism of how it works.

By minimizing the deuteration of sugar-phosphates in the DNA and modulating water exchange reactions in the tricarboxylic acid substrate cycle, a net energy benefit is attained.[15] In mice, 30 ppm DDW exerted a significant radioprotective effect against X-ray radiation in terms of animal survival, as well as blood and immunological parameters.[17,18]

More evidence published in Pharmaceutical Biology indicated the potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects of deuterium depletion, showing a decrease in expression and activity of COX-2, a key regulator of inflammation and carcinogenesis.[14] Many subsequent in vitro studies have confirmed the anti-cancer effects of DDW when used as an adjuvant to treatment in various malignancies, the most responsive being lung, breast and prostate cancer.[13,19] Recent pre-clinical and clinical studies have confirmed the strong anticancer effects of a body that is deuterium depleted and the ability of DDW supplementation to assist to restore redox balance.[20,21]

Earlier research on athletes in Russia and Hungary showed a stark increase in oxygen utilization, and improved tissue oxygen. The studies showed that a deuterium depleted body can utilize oxygen much more efficiently.[26,27] With half the oxygen a body deuterium depleted below 120 ppm, (25% below the average) needs half the oxygen to perform the same amount of work as someone whose body is 150 ppm deuterium. That’s a big breakthrough! I beleive that deuterium depletion properly applied will allow someone in the near future to break the three minute mile.

Sherpas that drink Himalayan glacial water (15% lower in deuterium than the average), are able to ascend Mt. Everest without oxygen much to the shock and admiration of western technical climbers. This is because they are naturally deuterium depleted.

“Where oxygen is at a premium, the less deuterium, the less tedium”

- William Shakespeare

No, he didn’t say that, my bad. Deuterium was first discovered in 1931, but at the 4th International Congress on Deuterium Depletion in Budapest, 2019, I asked Dr. Olgun what made him interested in studying deuterium in the first place. He related how he was originally alerted to the potential biological implications of HOD when he calculated how much of it we have in our blood, (~17mM). What upon first glance seemed benign became of prime interest when he calculated there is about 4–8 times more deuterium in blood plasma than calcium, ~4 times more than potassium, ~20 times more than magnesium, and ~3 times more than glucose. That’s a big red flag!

This revelation drove him to devote two years to the mathematical modeling of the complex biochemistry of ATP production and ultimately led to the discovery of the exact mechanism by which deuterium damages the ATP Synthase nanomotors in the mitochondria.

I believe this may one day gain him the Nobel Prize in biochemistry.

Whereas Olgun discovered how deuterium does its damage, Boros discovered the mechanism by which the body tries to keep it out of the mitochondrial matrix energy factories inside our cells. He verified to me that he coined the term ‘Deutenomics’ for this new branch of molecular biology as the handful of researchers studying deuterium’s role in living organisms did not have a specific name for this new branch of science.

In the Western institutional medical research world Boros is the loudest voice on this subject. Gabor Somylai, the Hungarian doctor who first alerted Boros to deuterium interference and the author of ‘Defeating Cancer, the Biological Effects of Deuterium Depletion’ published twenty years ago, has now over 3000 case studies on the positive long term effects of deuterium depletion.

It’s as simple as realizing the water inside the mitochondria does not come from the ‘bulk’ water we drink. Water inside the mitochondria is not store bought, its made from scratch by combining two gases, hydrogen and oxygen, in a ratio of 2:1, and kaboom — pure metabolic water. This is the dance party happening inside the smallest nano confinements of the mitochondrial matrix. Deuterium is not invited to this bash, but it’s a relentless bully and inevitably crashes the party nonetheless, breaking up the good vibe, wreaking havoc and damaging the foundation.

Structured metabolic water is your body’s most prized asset, your sacred precious gelatinous plasma of life. Metabolic water has very little in common with any liquids you consume. It is constantly produced and recycled by the thousands of liters per day as the inner ocean lubricator and transporter of life. When this endogenous ‘matrix’ water was first analyzed for deuterium content, it was confirmed to have 60–70% less deuterium than the bulk water in our blood or extracellular fluid.

I think it’s easy to agree that if our deuterium management system is off-balance it will cause mitochondrial dysfunction and subsequent alterations in metabolic homeostasis, i.e., aging and dysbiosis.[12] Deuterium misshapes DNA every moment of every day. You cannot reverse the actions of error reactions, and thus we age, a copy of a copy of a copy, losing resolution as information is lost.

Deuterium and space exploration.

If you do survive on Mars long enough to procreate, your children may likely be sterile. (Unless your body is deuterium depleted).

Experiments in mice and other animals have shown that high levels of deuteration may cause sterility due to impairments in the development of gametes. In rats, heavy water consumption for a week leads to death.[12]

Even at low concentrations (20–30%), D2O significantly decreases fertility or even causes sterility, especially in male mice.[22] Because it would take a very large amount of heavy water to replace 25% to 50% of a human being’s body water (which in turn is 65–70% of body weight) with heavy water, accidental or intentional poisoning with heavy water is unlikely to the point of practical disregard, however the effects on energy production and cellular health in the long run is significant and detrimental.

It would be an insult to injury to have to be a settler on the Red Planet where oxygen and water is scarce and the atmosphere is 94% CO2, and you have to drink water with a deuterium content 5X more than on Earth because someone didn’t think of addressing this issue well ahead of extraterrestrial exploration.

With the Red Planet on the menu we really have to solve the deuterium problem or our life spans there will be exceedingly short and our mortal end will be painful. Research by Villanueva of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center employed powerful telescopes to map water (H2O) and its deuterated form (HOD) across the surface of Mars. They found that the Martian globe contained a significantly high D:H ratio.[7] These findings corroborated the results obtained by NASA’s Curiosity/Mars Science Laboratory in 2013, which indicated that the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio on Mars is five to seven times higher than that on Earth.[8]

This is a burning dumpster fire of bad news for any biological organisms hoping to colonize and build a homestead complete with robot barn and white picket fence on Cydonia, Valles Marineris, or the slopes of Olympus Mons.

As we clamor and plot to blast ourselves off terra firma to exploit new worlds, we better send those brave voyagers out there with a DDW water maker.

“We will not colonize Mars until we solve the deuterium problem!”

- Abraham Lincoln

 

Not many people know this quote from our 16th president. I’m joking of course! It’s probably more like something that Ulysses S. Grant would say. Okay, let me be serious, going to Mars without developing a strategy for reducing deuterium levels in astronauts. In fact, it’s mission critical.

If this revelation is new to Elon Musk or NASA it is not new to our Russian roommates on the International Space Station. A 2003 study by Russian aerospace scientists pinpointed that Mars exploration and other interplanetary missions may have severe effects on the health of crew members due to exposure to high levels of deuterium, in addition to significant radiation exposure.[9]

Studies to identify methods of reducing the risk of radiation-induced cancer in humans are at the forefront of preparation efforts for the mission to Mars, and so one of the most promising approaches is designing life support systems that generate DDW for consumption by crewmembers.[16] We are only as strong as our weakest link. So we should not let deuterium become our Achilles’ heel. Just because it is new information to most, we must fully understand and educate ourselves that the type of water we drink on Earth and off-planet matters.

Excessive deuterium changes three-dimensional structures in the body, creating misshapen proteins and lipids that don’t function properly and this creates an environment favorable to all kinds of neoplastic conditions. Preliminary investigations by Russian space researchers have demonstrated that decreasing deuterium in water by 65% endows it with radioprotective anticancer properties, an vital key to long-term space missions.[9]

Space can be a lonely place, here again DDW comes to the rescue. Another Russian study explored the link between depression susceptibility and deuterium depletion with positive results.[25] The lighter you feel, the happier you are. This is just a theory.

In the interest of sharing all vectors of information from the fringes of investigative reporting, I can report that extraterrestrials have also been kind enough to warn us about the deuterium problem as evidenced by the encounters of famous UFO contactees Billy Meier, reported in 1973, and “Warp-speed” creator Wesley H. Bateman, in Knowledge from the Stars, published in 1993. These two alleged contactees, unrelated, queried their respective Pleiadian and Arcturian ET informants as to why our lifespans on Earth are so inadequately short compared to those lucky big eyed bastards.

Apparently, not only can these humanoid-like ETs travel at superluminal speeds in their fancy flying disks and motherships but they also live for thousands of years while maintaining their girlish figures.

The ETs response to the contactees in both instances was the same, paraphrased in this way, “you poor schmucks can barely crack a century before you drool, drop and decompose to fertilizer; the reason is simple, you have too much deuterium on your planet.” It seems logical, lightbody vehicle maintenance for humans does not come with an owner’s manual. But they really shouldn’t have traveled so far just to give us bad news. And the ETs offered no mitigating solution by the way, not to Billy, not to Wesley, or the Dogon. They just shrugged their shoulders, said sorry sucker and zoomed off.

It took the Russians to figure it out. That shouldn’t surprise anyone when you discover the process is similar to high-purity distillation of alcohol. If Russians know anything, its how to make a superior vodka! It’s the separation of two waters, the light and lovely goes to the top, the heavier more complicated to the bottom. To observe, copy, and improve on nature is the brilliance of the human race.

In addition to ETs, home-grown ultra-terrestrial “Ascended Masters” such as Kryon, Hilarion, Melchizedek, Sunanda and others have also weighed in on the deuterium problem, usually channeling their condolences to humanity through crystal wearing white robed middle-aged Caucasians, primarily in Marin county.

Documented channelings on deuterium by ascended masters have so far offered no mitigative strategies. I don’t blame them, it’s not in their best interest to extend the lifespan of the plebeian masses. Not in the least. They do however like to string us along.

Nikola Tesla claimed aliens gave him the secrets to electricity in his dreams, but it is the simple informed observation of the natural world, deductive reasoning and Aristotelian logic that has revealed to us the deuterium problem. We are in the infant stage of solving it. A lower deuterium lifestyle is important for human health and our extraterrestrial evolution.

Whomever you believe or whatever data you analyze, it is clear that we are standing on the shoulders of giants looking way ahead. So, if you are a space cadet and you don’t want to become Mars dust, regular Litewater™ DDW consumption to lower your own body’s burden is an absolute must.

I’ll put it this way; if you’re going to drink your own recycled piss, having it be deuterium depleted is certainly not to be missed!

Whatever precious hydrogen there is on Mars has to be purified to be 99.999% the protium kind of H2 if you hope to survive and thrive. Mars is where air-to-fuel and air-to-food technologies will be the difference between a successful permanent colonization or the Martian version of the Colony of Roanoke. (If you don’t know the story, they came, they saw, and they disappeared). CO2 will be combined with hydrogen to make glucose, ketones, ethanol, and everything responsible for maintaining and assisting life. If this hydrogen is the deuterium free protium kind, we will actually have a fighting chance.

Solution: Make DDW on Space Missions.

Drinking high latitude glacial melt water that is 20% reduced in deuterium is the inadvertent strategy of the Siberians that have an average of eight times more centenarians than the rest of the world.

Given the bleak and limited resources on Mars, efficient metabolism and cellular energy production is key for survival. Protect your head, protect your family jewels; when it comes down to health it’s all about the fuel, and in this case the number one contaminant that needs to be removed.

NASA, Musk, Bezos, Russia, China, Japan and all those empowered to meet the call of our collective and never ending thirst to explore new worlds need to heed the call to the importance of DDW. To survive the cold dark vacuum of space requires an outside the box life support strategy, and it verily should, especially since you will be living full-time inside a box.

“If protium is the fuel of life, then deuterium depletion is the greatest discovery in biology of our time.”

- Kurt Cobain

“Sell the kids for food, weather changes moods, spring is here again, reproductive glands…”

- Victor Sagalovsky

Okay, sorry again. I got those credits mixed up, lol.

Given the potentially detrimental effects of deuterium on human health, it is not surprising that DDW is emerging as the tasty beverage of choice at the gero-protection lu`au. If youth is wasted on the young and wisdom on the old, then this new science may allow us to find the happy middle.

The problem is it’s not easy to filter deuterium from water. Removing deuterium from water commercially itself is relatively new, and something that took decades to engineer and achieve. The first super deuterium depleted water (below 20 ppm) was not available in the US market until 2019 when I started my company, Litewater Scientific.

The current method, fractional vacuum distillation rectification, requires lots of energy and a big footprint. Columns from thirty feet to six stories run continuously to separate out the molecules of HOD as well as the much less prevalent D2O.

Miniaturizing this complex beast and taming its energy needs is the challenge. Or let’s do one better and create an entirely new technology using novel sources of energy. This is the call of wild science. Who will be chosen to take up the challenge to push this needle forward? I once asked a Silicon Valley venture capital billionaire what he was looking for. He replied, “a couple of guys in a garage with a dog.”

“If you’re looking to the stars and ready to settle on Mars, avoid delirium by depleting deuterium.

If your water is not atomically pure, then you have a problem for which there is no cure.

Get your portable DDW filter today, on sale for a limited time, only ten million Federal Reserve Notes, easy credit financing available.”

- Implanted brain chip TV ad jingle from the year 2045

I have confidence in the adage that necessity is the mother of invention. Given substantial financial and intellectual capital, lots of elbow grease, some blood and a little luck, a DDW rectification extraction filter can be scaled to the size and specs necessary for takeoff and become indispensable kit for all extraterrestrial environments, (provided gravity is available). It costs $80,000 per gallon to send water to outer space. Elon Musk wants to carry 100 people per flight. Two liters is about how much water an astronaut consumes per day. It’s not hard to do the math and see water is already a major problem to solve for long term space travel, and removing the deuterium being the most important aspect of meeting hydration and survival needs.

Edison gave us the lightbulb, Tesla gave us AC current and wireless tech. Salk invented penicillin. Bell Labs created the transistor. Warburg on Jekyll Island gave us the Federal Reserve and Hofmann brought forth LSD. These inventions changed the course of history. Whoever creates a countertop DDW filter to meet this new standard of water purification will make no less a paradigm shifting contribution to human history and genomic evolution.

If the 20th century was all about the potential of deuterium heavy water, which was needed as a neutron moderator to create nuclear power plants and nuclear bombs, then the 21st century will be about light water, which is needed to boost our health to propel us to the stars.

Protium was the first element to be created; it is the alpha. It comprises 75% of the universe and is the foundation of everything else. It is the fabric of the material universe, and two thirds of the trinity of the ‘first water,’ alluded to in Genesis 1:6–8 as in, ‘let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters’ which perhaps could refer to water free of deuterium. 1H2O (without any HOD or D2O) is closest to meeting the definition of the proverbial first water, the fountain of youth, a foundation of the primordial sea within.

Only time will tell how the revelation of Deutenomics impacts life on this planet and beyond. As the seasons turn we will know if the promise of radical life extension is achieved by deuterium depletion. The odds are good and there is nothing to lose. Cheers!

About the author: Victor Sagalovsky is the cofounder and CEO of Litewater Scientific, producers & purveyors of the most deuterium depleted water on the planet, and probably the solar system, heck the Milky Way galaxy as far as we know. Read his Brief History of Deuterium Depleted Water. He is working on a DDW maker for space travel but has no interest in going to Mars, although terraforming Venus is on his bucket list.

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