Is Your Water Giving You Alzheimer’s?

For decades, researchers have been trying to crack the code on what causes Alzheimer’s…

And why some seniors are struck with this debilitating disease, and some continue to have sharp minds into their 80s, 90s, or beyond.

Ask your typical doctor about what triggers Alzheimer’s, and he’ll chalk it up to bad genes… or just bad luck.

But it looks like there may be a lot more to the story…

Fasting new research out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is advancing a fascinating theory on what might cause some of the changes occurring in Alzheimer’s brains.

And, believe it or not, the problem may be coming from your water.

I’ve talked to you a bit about deuterium before.

Deuterium is the “heavy” form of hydrogen (it has an extra neutron) and is regularly found in drinking water. The only problem – our mitochondria (the power plants of our cells) don’t like it.

It can’t pass through the energy producing “motor” in the mitochondria, and interferes with energy production.

Now, it looks like our bodies may hate deuterium even more than we realized.

New research out of MIT, published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, is advancing an important new hypothesis.

Researchers believe the tangles and clumps seen in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s brains may be our bodies’ attempt to trap deuterium and protect our cells and tissues from it.

We know that our cells actively try to keep deuterium away from their mitochondria. And when scientists look at these amyloid plaques and clumps, they often see damaged mitochondrial components.

Now, do I believe that deuterium is the sole cause of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s?

No.

If we have learned one thing about Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s over the years, it is that they are complex diseases with multiple potential triggers.

But many modern diseases today have their origins in metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction.

So the idea that deuterium could play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s is not a strange concept at all.

Listen, the research on this is still very, very early. But I’ll continue to watch it closely and report back to you what I learn.

In the meantime, I continue to believe that drinking deuterium-depleted water (DDW) is one of the smartest decisions you can make for your overall health.

It doesn’t just support cellular energy, either. Research is showing it may have powerful anti-cancer effects.

I told you months ago about a study out of Hungary where DDW tripled cancer survival when it was added to treatment.

If you’re interested in trying DDW, I buy mine at www.extralightwater.com.

If DDW is out of your budget, look for spring water that comes from higher elevations or near the poles (think Alaska). That water tends to be naturally lower in deuterium.

DDW is an easy way to support your health, all the way down to the cellular level.

And as this new research emerges, we may find it helps protect us from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, too.

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Seneff S and Kyriakopoulos AM (2025) Deuterium trafficking, mitochondrial dysfunction, copper homeostasis, and neurodegenerative disease. Front. Mol. Biosci. 12:1639327. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2025.1639327