My first and only single author book, Imagine You Are An Aluminium Atom, was published almost three years ago in November 2020. Probably, like many on writing their first book, I harboured great hopes that it would be bought and read by the interested masses. Indeed, when I had to secure the rights to use one photograph in the book, the black and white picture of my ‘father-in-science’ JD Birchall FRS OBE, I estimated sales of approximately 150,000 in the first instance. My optimism was not shared by the book-reading public and book sales to-date are a mere one twentieth of this figure. I am disappointed and especially when one considers that hundreds of thousands of individuals have downloaded my scientific papers, one paper alone having been downloaded over one million times. I am not going to suggest that my book has been subject to some form of censorship (or am I?) but I was surprised, and continue to be so, that the publishers of my book failed to solicit one single independent review of my book. Nothing, not by an individual or on behalf of an organisation. I did quiz them on this but no reviews appeared and I soon lost the inclination to push them further on the subject. Needless to say, unlike other books from the same publisher, my book was not appearing on the New York Times Best Sellers List.
So, almost three years on from publication I was surprised and honoured to find that my book has just been reviewed by the queen of ‘Cash is King’ herself, Catherine Austin Fitts and her colleague at The Solari Report, Carolyn Betts. I am a huge fan of CAF, a true fighter for our freedom and someone with a voice that is heard. The review is published on the Solari Report website and guessing that many of my substack subscribers are not yet subscribers to Solari I asked permission to reproduce the review herein in its entirety. I hope you find it helpful and interesting.
I love my book so it doesn’t really matter how many copies have been sold. I know that many have read it and I am always happy to receive comments on the book. Please continue to do so.
For my indulgence, please find their review below.
Book Review: Imagine You Are an Aluminum Atom: Discussions with Mr. Aluminum by Christopher Exley, PhD, FRSB
By Carolyn Betts and Catherine Austin Fitts
If you care about the future health of the human species, you should read this absorbing book by the world-renowned expert on the subject of aluminum, Dr. Christopher Exley, who has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers on the subject. Jennifer Walters, host of Solari’s Health Series, selected Exley for her first interview in 2022. After reading this book, we understand why.
This is a self-admitted “love story” by a brilliant scientist in love with his research topic, though that sentiment is unrequited by the powers-that-be in the world of prestigious medical and scientific journals and by Exley’s own Keele University. For five years prior to publication of his book, Keele betrayed Exley’s devotion by failing to support his research efforts in any meaningful way. In the face of financial bribery by the likes of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the “arrival on campus of an outlet of Well, the United Kingdom’s largest independent pharmacist,” Keele’s lack of support extended even to the point of censorship and turning away a generous research donation by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. In mid-2021, Keele shut down Exley’s lab entirely.
At the book’s outset, Exley explains:
I say I am writing a love story because my pursuit of the understanding of aluminum’s role in life and living has occupied all my working days. Without love, without passion, my aluminum crush would have passed long, long ago. Indeed, many whom I respect and admire have, on numerous occasions over the years, encouraged me to consider a quick divorce from aluminum. In doing so they were only thinking of my well-being and my academic career, though I am sure that they expected their advice to fall on deaf ears. Persistence, indeed pursuance, in science needs an appreciation, if not a love, of the subject and, for most, some acknowledgment of years of effort by your peers. The latter proves most elusive. While thirty-five years of continuous effort have afforded me the label of “Mr. Aluminum,” in truth it often feels like I am the person who knows most about something that few are really interested in knowing about. In scientific circles, aluminum—in relation to human health specifically—has gone the way of the dinosaurs, though unlike dinosaurs there has not yet been a popular revival. Perhaps the resurgence is about to begin? Each waking day I continue my quest to understand aluminum in all living things, my Holy Grail, because I believe that it is the greatest untold story of science and, yes, it is belief that continues to nurture my fascination and not a vain hope that my scientific peers will one day reward my efforts.
You may ask whether this is hyperbole, but when we learn that aluminum is the third-most common element in the earth’s crust, and that it only began to be isolated roughly 150 years ago, and that it now is ubiquitous in vaccines, soil, and the very air we breathe, you may understand the importance of Exley’s call to arms against this toxin. It has virtually no redeeming industrial value other than as a light substitute for stainless steel, and no natural biological function (as opposed to other metals such as magnesium and iron). Superreactive and capable of migrating into the brain, aluminum fatefully entered the biologically reactive cycle in 1889 through a chemical extraction process invented by Charles Martin Hall, whereby it was separated from silicon/silicic acid. As Exley observes, there is a poetic explanation for what aluminum does—as in an orchestra, it creates “cacaphony when [it] substitutes for an essential metal and, acting as a conductor, directs notes from compromised instruments at all the wrong times.”
Readers who are scientists or chemistry experts presumably will be impressed by this book, but the wonderful thing is that Exley’s account is also highly digestible by non-scientists. The beautiful color photographs are fascinating—including (among others) images showing a reimagined Charles Darwin Tree of Life demonstrating the emergence in evolutionary time of biologically reactive aluminum; human sperm cells lit up with aluminum; a schematic drawing identifying the main factors in humans’ uptake and excretion of aluminum (hint: sweating is good); and florescent microscopy showing aluminum located with amyloid-β in an Alzheimer’s disease plaque.
One of the most useful, if horrifying, aspects of Exley’s presentation is the enumeration of ways in which we are daily exposed to aluminum. The following is an abbreviated list!
· Cosmetics and deodorants
· Foil-like packaging
· Aluminum cans
· Infant formula
· Breast milk (from mothers who have been exposed)
· Cookware
· Aluminum salts in many prepared foods
· Aluminum sulfate to make bread white
· Food contamination through aluminum machinery in food processing
· Contamination of tea, coffee, tobacco, marijuana, soy, and other edible plant products from aluminum in acidic soil resulting from poor farming practices (acidic soil is better able to take up aluminum, and glyphosate is a strong aluminum binder at low pH levels)
· Weather control (“climate engineering”) through “chemtrail” spraying composed of barium and aluminum
· Food spray-on products including herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides
· Medications—importantly, these include antacids, phosphate binders used for kidney dialysis, buffers present in many painkillers, and intravenous preparations (for babies and hospitalized adults)
· Transfused fluid (e.g., blood) warming devices
· Prosthetic devices (including for hip replacements and dental products)
· Volcano plumes
· Incompletely combusted hydrocarbon and other fuels, including in aluminum propellants
· Fish exposed in contaminated sea and fresh water
His conclusion is that traditional methods of chelation and detoxification are useless in removing Al3+(aq) from our bodies. In his research-informed view, consumption of silicon-containing mineral water in large amounts and of silicon-containing beers are our only defenses known to date (in addition to natural bodily processes involving excretion through semen, urine, feces, skin, sweating, nails, etc.). He recommends 1.5 liters/day of silicon-rich mineral water (e.g., Fiji Water and, recently, Acilis in the U.S., and Volvic and Acilis in Europe).
Exley is careful to distinguish between what he believes, based on years of research, and what he can prove—to the point of refusing to draw any conclusion without near-perfect proof in the form of results from carefully controlled lab experiments. Nevertheless, he does share his considered opinion about diseases and conditions that may be caused (or partially caused) by aluminum exposure, which he categorizes according to the level of proof obtained through his and others’ lab work and science-based experience. From a list of 37 such conditions and diseases ranked according to the probable role of aluminum in causation (where 1=low and 10=high), he gives a “10” to Alzheimer’s disease, anemia, and dialysis encephalopathy; an “8-10” to breast cancer; and a “7-10” to immunosuppression. Earning a “7-9” are conditions like asthma, autism, autoimmune conditions, Parkinson’s disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn’s disease (as well as irritable bowel disease and ulcerative colitis), and issues related to fertility and reproduction. Finally, arthritis, other cancers, diabetes, and vascular disease and stroke earn a “6-8” rating, and hyperactivity gets a “5-7.”
It is safe to say that readers will think twice in the future when they see or hear the word “aluminum.” When they see children with autism, friends with multiple sclerosis (MS), or parents with Parkinson’s or whose minds are lost in an Alzheimer’s fog, they will think, “Oh, that’s the aluminum.” And when readers hear that well over 50% of American children suffer from chronic conditions (for example, atopic conditions like allergies, eczema, and asthma; behavioral and learning difficulties; or diabetes) or that the CDC (conservatively) estimates that one in 36 eight-year-olds overall—and one in 23 eight-year-old boys—has the form of toxicity diagnosed as an autism spectrum disorder (ASD)—versus the already high autism rate of one in 150 two decades ago—a little voice may whisper, “That’s the vaccines.” As Exley reminds us in the chapter titled “Tell Me Again Why There Is Aluminum in Vaccines,” most of the vaccines on the childhood schedule in the U.S. contain aluminum adjuvants, intentionally included to stimulate the body’s response to the antigen. Government judgments as to “safe” levels are not based on science. Moreover, those who say that the “small” amount of aluminum in childhood vaccines is not enough to cause developmental disorders and other health problems fail to account for the accumulation of aluminum (the full “bodily burden”) from the many sources to which we are exposed.
