What is Deuterium Depleted Water?
Guest : Victor Sagalovsky
august 12, 2022
Steve Washuta
Welcome to Trulyfit. Welcome to the Trulyfit Podcast where we interview experts in fitness and health to expand our wisdom and wealth. I am your host, Steve Washuta, co founder of Trulyfit and author of Fitness Business 101. This is our water week, both episodes the Monday and Thursday episodes are going to be about water.
Steve Washuta
Today I speak with Victor Sagol offski, who is the co founder of light water, you can find everything about light water scientific at drink light, that's lite water.com. Victor is very knowledgeable and very passionate about his DD W which stands for deuterium depleted water. What is deuterium? Well, it is a isotope of hydrogen, it's also known as heavy hydrogen, he's going to go into the science behind this.
Steve Washuta
The reason why I wanted to have Victor on is because I know even 25 years ago, the President of the United States didn't have a smartphone in his pocket. And now everybody in the country, and probably third world countries has a smartphone in their pockets, technology moves quickly, we can't really see what's on the horizon and how fast these things come about.
Steve Washuta
And when I heard about this, I thought, You know what, this could be something who knows 1015 20 years that everybody knows about, and it becomes more mainstream. I am going to tell you to do your due diligence. This is not my area of expertise. I think it's interesting. I'm not promoting it. This is just an educational podcast. Victor is going to talk about what deuterium depleted water is exactly why it can be beneficial for you, especially if you're somebody who is an optimizer and how it's made, which I think is the most interesting thing, what the studies say that this does or does not do in your body.
Steve Washuta
He is a wealth of knowledge surrounding this topic. And he is super passionate you can tell he's dedicated his life and his time and his energy and his efforts to light water scientific to this deuterium depleted water. And it's not about making a ton of money. It's not about making this mainstream even because it's really difficult to do that by the process of a water, you'll hear Victor talk about that. It's about explaining to people how they could potentially benefit from this from just a pure health perspective.
Steve Washuta
And Victor again, was a wealth of knowledge. It was really fun talking to him, I will tell you that in advance. It's mostly him talking. It's not me asking a lot of sharp questions, because this is not a subject in which I can come up with a lot of creative, intelligent questions. So I really let him steal the floor here and explain the products.
Steve Washuta
If you're interested again, and learning more about this go to drink light li te water.com. With no further ado, here is Victor. Victor, thank you so much for joining the Trulyfit podcast, why don't you give my audience and the listeners a little background on who you are and what you do in the health and wellness fields?
Victor Sagalovsky
Of course. Hi. Great to be on your show. My name is Victor. I have been in the health and wellness space probably for 30 years. So I'm a co founder of litewater scientific, which is what we're going to be talking about today, which is a company based around a new science that's been developing, and called deuterium depletion.
Victor Sagalovsky
So I've been a citizen scientist all my life, and started out my early 20s and culinary arts, essentially, I figured out soon as I figured out that, that doctors weren't gonna make me better. When I was sick as a teenager, I made some really important connections, and one of them was you are what you eat. So in my early 20s, I started the very first organic raw food restaurant in the United States, or at least, I think one of them.
Victor Sagalovsky
And that led me on a path of inquiry into basically at that point, I was an armchair nutritionist, so I figured out what works for the human body, what worked for me and how to replicate it and create optimal health for people. So I've been after this for a long time, this state of optimal health. So 2004 I read an article called In Search of the fountain of youth and he talked about this deuterium isotope, which I knew very little about, I only knew it from chemistry as something that's a version of hydrogen known as isotope as an isotope.
Victor Sagalovsky
So, you know, you have the periodic table, we all learn that in school and then the very first element in the periodic table is hydrogen. And then, at some point, we may or may not have learned that hydrogen has other forms. It has a form known as deuterium and a form known as tritium. These are all types of hydrogen, the only differences the hydrogen that is 99.98% of the universe is the one that's an electron and a proton. And then deuterium has an extra neutron. So tritium, we don't talk about too much because it barely exists unless you're conducting atomic blast testing.
Victor Sagalovsky
So we have this small amount of deuterium. And so in 2004, I read this article which pointed me in the direction that this may be something that we should take a look into because this could be an underlying cause of aging. And when you look at aging is we under understand it, it is a decrease in the amount of energy that we have, right? As our cells replicate as our DNA replicates a copy or copy of a copy or copy, each time it does it, there's less energy in the system. So essentially, as you get old, you have less energy. And that's essentially what we see in a mitochondrial level.
Victor Sagalovsky
When we start out very young, let's say a cell has 1000s of mitochondria in it, maybe 20,000 50,000, depending what cell it is. And that same cell, when you're a senior citizen, by the time you're a senior, at same cell has maybe 10% or less of the mitochondria that it did when you were younger. So mitochondria is responsible for making the energy in our body. And so we have this problem where we're slowly going down after we peak, we go down and so 1% A year after certain age, some say 23, some say 2627, whatever it is, in our 20s into our mid 30s.
Victor Sagalovsky
We look at different biomarkers as we age, and we see that there's a gradual 1% On average decrease in cognitive ability, cardiovascular function, collagen, I mean, you just, you know, it goes on and on and on. And that is that's aging. So, so I was looking at how do we intervene with this aging process and slow it down and make it more gradual?
Victor Sagalovsky
So being a citizen scientist, I look at everything, not only do I study what's comes out academically, but I look, I just look at it every three, nine, because I'm a crease or my entire life seeking the truth, right? The truth is what works. And so what is the truth? Or what would they teach in school, but, but you get incomplete pictures, and then it's up to us to put that picture together completely. So that's, that's what I've undertaken as my endeavor.
Steve Washuta
And you explain, you explain what deuterium is, and where it where it comes from. But explain about the water component, how is this involved in water? What should the average person if fcwc least right? am I expecting to have a lot of the Purium? Or a little deuterium is a do we need more of it? Or do we need less of it?
Victor Sagalovsky
Okay, so I'll cut to the chase. We have too much deuterium on this planet right now. We have. So if you look at if you look at a liter of water, a liter of water is how many drops of water, you know, it's 20, it's 20,000. So your take out of that 20,000 drops, the drinking water on this planet has an average of six drops in that water. That's not h2o, right?
Victor Sagalovsky
Because we know water is h2o. That's how we learn. But that component that has determinate is H DL, or H O D where that hydrogen is replaced by its by its bigger and less useful cousin, deuterium. So six drops. So that liter of water is this deuterium. And this gets into everything this gets into our food. This gets into, you know, it's prevalent on the planet.
Victor Sagalovsky
And so the theory goes as part of this new science known as due to nomics, which is endeavours to explain how deuterium is managed by the body and by eukaryotic or oxygen breathing cells. So the the issue here is that when we evolved, we had less deuterium on this planet. So the ideal for our bodies is about 120. In that range, or less parts per million as measured, we measure it through saliva, you can measure breath vapor, you can measure any bodily fluid. But on average, you want to be in 120 range, and the population of humanity which is over five, or no, and I think it's close to 7 billion people now or more. It has a deuterium level of 150.
Victor Sagalovsky
On average, some people have more, which makes them chronically ill, and live live a lot shorter, and some have a lot less, which is based on the geography in which they live. And now based on drinking water that we produce. So the goal is to lower your deuterium level. And when you lower by 15 to 20 25%, you experience something that cannot be experienced any other way. Because what you're getting is a net energy benefit. By allowing more oxygen to be utilized, how does more oxygen get utilized?
Victor Sagalovsky
Well, where your ATP is healthier produces when your mitochondria is healthy, and produces more ATP more efficiently and there's less damage on these motors, these mitochondrial motors, these factories, these power plants and ourselves. Then you have an optimization which increases the net energy that you have. So deuterium is the opposite. You could say of its brother hydrogen, because hydrogen is the element that was responsible for creating all life on the planet. In fact, it's responsible for how stars shine, it's responsible For rocket ships and the fuel they use to get the outer space.
Victor Sagalovsky
And deuterium is the opposite. It's the gum that stuck to your shoe. It's complete, it's now there'll be some controversy on this. There's no one has been able to challenge this when I say it's completely useless, I don't really see any benefit unless you're using it as a neutron moderator and an atomic reaction. But in the body, deuterium. It when you look at how the body or nature uses deuterium, you see that there's something very common in nature, and that's a hydrogen carbon bond, right? We're more carbon beings, we run on hydrogen.
Victor Sagalovsky
So nature, you see carbon hydrogen, and that's a bond, that's a very important bond that exhibits itself and so many molecules in nature, okay. And that hydrogen bond with carbon, when you replace that hydrogen with deuterium, then you have a deuterium carbon bond, right? And that disassociation of that bond is nine times slower. So your body can't do the work that it needs to do, which happens this quick, very fast, it cannot jump those quantum gates like it does, which is a separate subject when it has deuterium attached to it.
Victor Sagalovsky
So nine times slower disassociation with deuterium. So it's, it slows us down, it slows us slows down our biology. And when you slow down something and take away its energy, what happens? You get errors, you get errors in transcription. And that's why we look older as we get as we get older, you know, we get we look older, too. So
Steve Washuta
are there objective studies about this? It sounds like you're you're citing a lot of things. Are you doing these studies on your own? Is your company doing these studies? Who
Victor Sagalovsky
I'm citing, I'm citing all the literature that's out there right now. Myself, I would only cite things that are qualitative, because I have not been able to quantify anything. Because I'm not doing studies right now. But there's 60 plus years of literature, and a lot of it is phenomenal if you tap into it. So I've tried to put up all that into one cohesive place where depository where a lot of those studies exist, but the proof is in the pudding, because people that tell me that so so what we what we did is i i My partner, we knew about this deuterium problem, we saw that we looked at the science, we saw that it was legit, these look legit.
Victor Sagalovsky
And, and so we started this company, and started making determine we started importing to tear him up to water. And so why why? Oh, there's subject of how, how difficult it is to make this product. Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask expensive to doing it offshore, or we're not in the UAE. Now. I mean, there's this subject matter. But the point is that we looked into this, and we said, this might be something that is a higher level intervention, this may be an upstream solution, there's not many of these upstream type solutions where everything down have it benefits.
Victor Sagalovsky
So when we started in 2019, a company we're importing, and selling and marketing this water that works with the science, this concept that when you drink the water, you reduce the deuterium load in your body, you decrease that totalitarian burden in your body. And then you have more energy and other things, obviously, down stream of that. But the energy benefit is so profound, because because it manifests itself not like adrenal energy, right? It's a different type of it's a mitochondrial energy.
Victor Sagalovsky
It's a source energy that, that because is it the source, it, it, it plugs itself in to places where this type of caloric energy that we derive daily doesn't doesn't go? So like repair for one and deep level kind of restructuring? Because when your body is a self healing organism, it's just missing that one component. Energy?
Steve Washuta
How does one test themselves for this? Is it expensive to test yourself? I know you, you mentioned there's a few different ways whether this
Victor Sagalovsky
whole like this whole lifestyle is is I'll tell you this whole lifestyle that expensive, because we didn't think you know, nobody thought that we'd be paying 320 or more dollars per month for water. But here we are. And that's because it's difficult to produce. It takes it takes a lot, it takes a lot of energy. And to remove that component, because you're separating water from water. It's a very, it's like HDL from h2o.
Victor Sagalovsky
So we make a small amount of this water available for people and in the United States. And you can test your deuterium, it's a $200 test, you can test your saliva, you can test your water to maybe you live somewhere in the mountains of Idaho and you're really curious to see if your water is like anything special it is if you're there, and because there's certain places on the planet where you're going to find 15 to 20%, lower deuterium than the rest of us are drinking and when you look at the populations of those areas, you see that they're far healthier. There are they're like superior and health compared to people that are living coastally.
Victor Sagalovsky
And that's because Oh, the net benefit, the net energy benefit over time, you know, this is a delta over time, that really makes a big difference. So what people do is they, they get on the program, and then they in three months, two to three months, you could drop your deuterium levels into the 120 PPM range or lower.
Steve Washuta
Why does the public know more about this? Do you think
Victor Sagalovsky
it hasn't been available for very long at all, if you try to buy a liter of deuterium depleted water, 15 years ago, you would pay 1000 bucks, you know, it's just not wasn't available, and the science was available. And that knowledge of deuterium, even as far back as 1953, when they started investigating deuterium, they, American scientists concluded and I quote, incompatible with life.
Victor Sagalovsky
So we have a little bit of it of this in us, you know, we have maybe a gram and a half, you know, maybe a gram to two grams and a human body but, but when you compare it to how much of basic nutrients that we have, that we need for life, like glucose, magnesium, potassium, calcium, you have a lot more five times or more deuterium, because it's bound to everything and, and when it gets into our motors, it jams up, it causes them to stutter, no energy is produced, it slows us down.
Victor Sagalovsky
So So we recognize this problem. And just because you know about a problem doesn't mean it's going to get popular because you have to have a solution. And so we have a solution. Like I said, it's expensive, it's something you do continuously. But even a little bit goes a long way in terms of in terms of benefits. So
Steve Washuta
do you think the larger beverage and water companies will eventually take this on? Or do you think it's just too pricey for them right now, why do you think they're involved in this process?
Victor Sagalovsky
They, maybe in the decade or so, because for one, you can't make much of it, that you can't, it's not that interesting to large consumer kind of big business because it's just, it just can't make that much of a period. You know, we have, we have a big factory of ours, and we don't make that much, you know, we make enough for a few 1000 People consider that you want to change the world with millet, giving this water to millions of people, you'd be better off telling an iceberg from Antarctica that has water that's at nine parts per million, which isn't an anomaly on this planet, but it's phenomenally good for health, but in the future,
Victor Sagalovsky
I think better technologies will come out because a small market that we've started now stimulates innovation and somebody will create maybe it could be us somebody will create some a way to do it that's more economical, this water will be cheaper to produce. Certainly it takes a while for things to get known about. Has to be has to be validated or at least considered and and by by mainstream science.
Victor Sagalovsky
And so this is all starting right now. We're very we're very new on this. It's very exciting because I'm I lecture to a lot of a lot of doctors and and they can't they can't argue against it because it's a mechanical problem. See that this this has been known about for 60 plus years. But it wasn't until 2007 that Dr. Gu Olgun actually did the work and discovered you may be nominated for a Nobel Prize one day discovered how deuterium damages specific really how it damages the mitochondria in these motors known as ATP synthase motors which is a smallest motor in nature.
Victor Sagalovsky
It's it's nanoscopic and it spins close to 9000 rpm and it uses hydrogen protons to spin these motors the energy currents body at and and create metabolic water which is already 70% deuterium depleted. So he discovered the mechanical room. The terrarium damaged motor and it is a mechanical problem. It's too big for it. It's a square peg in a round hole every 15 seconds, that motors these trillions of motors that we have in our bodies that it's producing our energies working overtime, okay? They are impinged upon by instead of a proton by a proton neutron pair, which is a deuteron.
Victor Sagalovsky
And this causes the motor to stutter breakdown. And this is one of the reasons why we age it's not the only reason we age. But I think we've discovered something so profound it's going to be it's going to go down as one of the greatest discoveries in biology is this deuterium problem? And it was overlooked because when you look at it doesn't seem like much like I said, six drops and 20,000.
Victor Sagalovsky
But when you look at it deeper, like Dr Rogan did, or Dr. Burrows, who coined the term due to nomics and is the leading authority in the world on this new science, this new biochemistry, peer reviewed no less. And you start seeing things that fill in a lot of answers to questions that didn't have any and when You start considering deuterium and biochemistry, a lot of those gaps, a lot of those missing, links get filled in. So it's very exciting
Steve Washuta
is the profile change to this water meaning does the taste or the viscosity or anything change when you take this out.
Victor Sagalovsky
The only difference in our water is, well, there's a few differences, but people can replicate those. But what makes our water different is it's known as super, super deuterium depleted water, super light water, meaning that it's over 90%, reduced and deuterium. So we make a 94 to 97% reduced water, which is 10 or five ppm. Now, some will say that our water does taste very good. It's a very interesting anomaly because our water is distilled water.
Victor Sagalovsky
For all intents and purposes, we don't add minerals back into it, we let you do that. So we have a water that's that's so pure it tests to mega ohms, which is purely just like lab grade water, meaning it has no ionic activity, meaning you can't even measure the pH of it because there's nothing, there's no minerals in there to measure pH with. So it's completely inert water.
Victor Sagalovsky
Typically, when you have such lab grade pure water, it doesn't taste very good. But for some reason, our water tastes great, it really does taste phenomenal, and tastes very pure, very light. But the only difference really, when you consider our water and other waters other than being its purity, which anybody can replicate, you cannot replicate the fact that it has 94 to 97% Less deuterium. And that's the difference that we're going for.
Victor Sagalovsky
Because there's a mechanism known as hydrogen exchange, when you drink water, you expel water through sweat, breath vapor urine. When you put in water, there's less deuterium, you will let go of some of your material. So about half a ppm or one ppm per day, roughly. So that's the whole that's the whole reason why you drink the water because it through the mechanism of hydrogen exchange, you lower your deuterium level.
Victor Sagalovsky
And that's the intervention here that we're talking about. This is the big biohack that is the crown on your Christmas tree. It really is everything, everything else is just downstream of it. Because there's nothing else that creates a net energy benefit, all food will eventually create will be will be a deficit. So this is why we age we're constantly we're constantly in a state of ongoing entropy, right? Everything that spins up, has to eventually spin down.
Victor Sagalovsky
And that's the entropy part, which we don't really care for too much. So we want to become superconductors. We want to we want to we want to have no decay of spin ever we want to be coherent superconducting beings. In order to do that, we have to keep our energy levels up. energy levels up, keep contaminants from coming in. And this is the oldest widest contaminant that we have on this planet to natural contaminant. It's known as deuterium. Have they disguised as age? Do
Steve Washuta
they figured out why the deuterium levels let's say in Idaho, are less in the water than maybe in New Jersey? Is it elevation is it time is it
Victor Sagalovsky
it's the it's the hydrological cycle. It's the condensation cycle evaporation condensation cycle and is a little complexity to it which, which allows for a reduction of deuterium in places that are away from the hydrological cycle of the ocean. So the eastern slope of the Sierras, you're going to get maybe almost 10%, lower deuterium than you will on the coast. So on the western slope, we won't be the same because it's closer to that weather pattern.
Victor Sagalovsky
You're also going to have lowered deuterium based on elevation and latitude, because those condensation precipitation, evaporation cycles will be magnified or amplified. And that also is better removing a little bit of deuterium. So this was first discovered in the early 1950s. And then, so in the in the 50s. There was the Siberian scientists, these Russian scientists, Soviet scientists at the time, they were trying to figure out why these populations, these two Siberian populations, they're primarily Eskimos, essentially the Altai ins and the Akuto.
Victor Sagalovsky
Ian's why they had so many more centenarians, people that live over 100 years than anywhere else in Europe, 324 per 1 million, and everywhere else, it's like, you know, five to 20, okay, like, Why are these people live like Eskimos, why do they, first of all not have any health problems that modern, Western health problems, but they also live over 100 very easily, at least quite a few of them in their population. And they were trying to figure out why.
Victor Sagalovsky
And they honed in on this deuterium problem, because they saw that the water that they were drinking was 60%, lower and deuterium and this is what set this whole thing off this whole bit of inquiry, and they published in 1961. And this is from that time, that we know that the reduction of determine your body will increase your energy and the accumulation of deuterium will do the opposite. It will slow you down.
Steve Washuta
Do you have any competitors and do you expect to down the road have competitors because it seems like such a, you know, up and coming niche market.
Victor Sagalovsky
There's four factories that can produce this right now. Nobody in the US we're building we're in the process of building a factory in the United States. But right now, we have three competitors. One is a Chinese competitor that brings in their water into the US and markets it here. Then there's a Hungarian water and a romaine ours. So I'm, I'm friends with most of them.
Victor Sagalovsky
It's not like it's competition, because there's just not enough. If everybody woke up tomorrow, oh, my God, I get I get it. This is huge. You know, where would you get it? You maybe the whole, maybe everybody together has enough water for 10,000 people if that. Okay. So where would everybody woke up tomorrow and said I wanted to play by Uteri and working to get this water after after that small amount of and how many? How many? How many culturally creative, biohacking type athletic people involved with their own health you have in the United States? You know, it's 25 million or so.
Victor Sagalovsky
So you can you know, it would it would be a radical shift. And I think, I think this is one of those things, that's, that's coming in, at this time, of great shift in human consciousness, technology, everything, you know, this is a, this is a real long term strategy. It's, it's here now just landed. And it's, it's growing.
Victor Sagalovsky
So we've just planted the seeds now. And we're it's very exciting, because it's only been three years that we've actually been commercially making this available to people where they can not only feel a benefit, short term, but actually be on it for a number of years and see what the long term benefit is. Because it's so a lot of a lot of this is unpaid territory. This is all very new, because it's mostly existed in theory, up until ourselves and our small number of competitors actually started making this available for people is
Steve Washuta
the goal to focus on the technological component. And to make this let's say, 30 years from now actually available to a large swath of people.
Victor Sagalovsky
Absolutely. Yeah, the technology is a big piece here. Yeah, because you're what we're doing right now is we're copying the hydrological cycle inside a factory. And, and it's, and we've amplifying it, right. But that's how we're removing the deuterium, or the HDL, the semi heavy water from the h2o water is, is through this mechanical process, you know, you have this, you have these columns that are 40 feet tall, and then they have water going up and down and you pull a little bit off at the top that has less deuterium.
Victor Sagalovsky
So So I think it's very exciting. Because, you know, I make this I put this challenge out to everybody, I talked to you, at least in scientific circles. And I tell them, hey, maybe you know, what, I make an analogy that you and I are, it's 1860 and you and I are sitting around a campfire talking about the fact that sometime in the future, somebody's going to invent the light bulb. We haven't seen the light bulb yet, but we know it's close because we have other things that point to it.
Victor Sagalovsky
So now we have the water you know, and do we have the technology to do it? We don't have it for the whole planet yet. But we're close Alright, somebody is going to come along maybe they're not born yet. Maybe they already are. Maybe it's you maybe it's me, but we'll figure out a way one it'll get accepted in mainstream science to it'll get accepted as a household where people will know that there's a new standard of water purity because that's that's really all it is here it's a new standard in the purity of water we figured out in last century that Oh, we got to remove arsenic from water you know, we have to remove chlorine we you know, it's best to remove particulate matter, it's not good to good for us.
Victor Sagalovsky
So we've, so it's only in the last 50 years that we have reverse osmosis filtration by the way, my partner Robert Slovak is one of the pioneers of reverse osmosis now again, second, second, or second round around the merry go round with deuterium depletion and lightwater. So what we have here is a new standard of water purity, it's just not everybody has been able to come up to it yet. In fact, it's very difficult to come up to the standard, but when you incorporate this standard into your body into your lifestyle, you benefit immensely.
Victor Sagalovsky
Incredibly, I mean, I can I can attest to that just for my own testimonial but, but when people that do drink lightwater over a period of time or any determine up to water or even, I'll go I'll go even further to say that don't even consume any deuterium depleted water, but observe a deuterium depleted lifestyle. They also benefit. So it's this deuterium depletion concept that people need to get familiar with and understand how less is more.
Steve Washuta
Have you or anyone done it? study where they just take, let's say, a bottle of avian water bottle of Dasani and uh, you know, the tap water and tested the deuterium levels and is one more than the other and your average, you know?
Victor Sagalovsky
So we've we've done those tests, others have done those tests where basically you see what the term level is of all table waters and for that matter, all municipal water that's public information they do test to determine level of most municipal water.
Victor Sagalovsky
And so that's a that's widely available and there's really no water commercially available water out there that's below one four, I would say 135. Even, you know, there may be you can get a glacial water that's 135 parts per million. And certain parts of the world you will find you can get water for it's 120 PPM range, but you'll have to hike to those places.
Steve Washuta
Well tell my audience a little bit about where they can find more about lightwater, specifically, whether it is your website, whether they really are interested in buying it, or maybe they want to reach out to you specifically or someone in your company because they have more questions concerning?
Victor Sagalovsky
Yeah, I would, here's what I would suggest you go to our website drinklitewater.com li te, W A T E R, and it's called litewater because we put it on the scale compared to a equal amount of regular water you'll see that it's slightly slightly lighter because there's no Deterium a minute, but familiarize yourself with information on drinklitewater.com and download the free termed guide that really good like quick information you can you can see if this is it, what it is and if it's for you and you know what it involves to be successful the strategy or deuterium depletion in general and I will I will do want to say one more thing, because you the beginning of the podcast,
Victor Sagalovsky
you mentioned that you have a lot of people listening, that are trainers and athletes and so forth. There was one study which I honed in on which which is phenomenal, and this is one that we are going to recreate here is that after 30 days on deuterium depletion, they show this study showed now it used athletes and and weekend warriors, non athletic people as well. And there was a there was a study which was done with six people. And so there was a group that drank slightly term depleted water is another group that drank double that terribly polluted water, and a group that drank just regular water.
Victor Sagalovsky
And the the group that for 30 days drank to turn it to water where they were able to get themselves down. Probably this isn't a study with probably to a level that was between 100 and 125 PPM range. It showed that they had that after 30 days on the term depletion, they were able to utilize twice, they were able to have I said, they were able to use half the oxygen to produce the same amount of effort. So they basically utilize their oxygen, they basically double their bodies of how their body uses their oxygen doubled its efficiency.
Victor Sagalovsky
And so when I read this study originally years ago, it made me think of something because, you know, when you look at these Alpine climbers, and they go up to they climb Mount Everest, they, they have to deal with supplemental oxygen. And the Sherpas that live there don't, they could go up and down all day long to the top of Mount Everest, which is supposed to be impossible because of the lack of oxygen up there, or the very thin, thin atmosphere, but they can go up there without supplemental oxygen.
Victor Sagalovsky
And the reason they can't is because the base camp of Mount Everest, the water there is 125 parts per million. So when a when a Westerner is acclimates there for a few months or more and they practice a keto diet, they too can summon Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, because of this study that shows that when you are deuterium depleted, you need half the amount of oxygen to perform the same amount of work.
Victor Sagalovsky
So that when I want to recreate replicate here, because that's like that can change sports, you know, as I and for me, I'm I'm 50 and my cardio is just for somebody that sits mostly in front of a computer. My cardio is like off the charts. This is phenomenal. And it's all because of its deuterium depletion and oxygen strategies. But But yeah, this is this is a upscale intervention. So if you want to, if you want to increase your performance, like if you're stuck somewhere performance wise, decrease your deuterium a little bit and tell me what happened.
Steve Washuta
The science seems amazing. I myself, I'm going to read more about it. I'm going to list I'm going to list all the links below and anything else I if you have anything else to say to the audience, please please go for a
Victor Sagalovsky
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