My interest in silica water was inspired by a desire to help my mother slow the progression of her Alzheimer's disease. My mother was 86 when she lost her short term memory and was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The facts that she had MCI and could no longer perform daily tasks, such as meal preparation, sewing and balancing the checkbook, were indications she had Alzheimer's disease. In order to save my mother from the terrible death of end-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD), I devoted myself to studying scientific literature looking for causal factors of AD. My belief was that only by finding a causal factor could I help my mother stop the progression of AD. I was fortunate as a freshman at Harvard to have Dr. Lewis L. Engle Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School as my tutor. During our first meeting Dr. Engle suggested I read a book written almost 40 years earlier by Lawrence J. Henderson Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard University entitled "The Fitness of The Environment". This book describes how the earth's chemical environment made life on earth sustainable. The information in Henderson's book shaped my career path. Even before graduating from Harvard with a Ph.D. I cofounded a company to detect and quantify toxic chemicals in food. The company's commercial chemical analysis laboratory performed analytical procedures for a wide variety of toxic environmental chemicals. Most of these toxic chemicals are man-made and eroding the fitness of our environment for sustaining life on earth. Because of my recent research into mother's Alzheimer's disease, I have now added aluminum to the list of toxic chemicals that are increasing in our diet and accumulating in our brains due to man's influence. Aluminum is a neurotoxin and chronic accumulation of aluminum has been linked to a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. Aluminum has become more bioavailable since the dawn of the Aluminum Age in the 1880's when a process to purify aluminum from bauxite was developed. Like the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages that preceded it, the Aluminum Age has brought great changes, both good and bad, to human civilization. In addition, see my first book entitled "Prevent Alzheimer's, Autism, and Stroke" and three videos on You Tube: -"Brain Fitness in the Aluminum Age - Preventing Alzheimer's" -"Brain Fitness in the Aluminum Age - Eliminating Aluminum" -"Silica Water - How to Make it at Home"