What is Deuterium Exactly
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Deuterium is a heavier isotope
Deuterium is a heavier isotope of hydrogen with an added neutron that effectively DOUBLES the weight of hydrogen. Before Harold C. Urey and his colleagues at Columbia University discovered deuterium in 1932, scientists believed there was only one version of hydrogen, and it contained one proton and one electron.
Urey discovered that hydrogen has three different chemical element variants known as isotopes. Hydrogen isotopes include protium (1H), deuterium (2H, D), and tritium (3H).
All three hydrogen isotopes combine with oxygen to form water. However, the isotope protium is the most abundant and creates the lightest version of the water we drink.
• If two protium atoms combine with oxygen, it forms H2O (light water - 99.985%).
• If one protium and one deuterium atom combine with oxygen, it forms HDO (heavy water - 0.015%).
• If two deuterium atoms combine with oxygen, it forms D2O. (Too rare to think about).
• Deuterium had gone undetected by physicists because it only makes up 0.0149% of all hydrogen in the Universe.
On average, there is about one deuterium atom for every 6,420 hydrogen atoms in ocean water on Earth’s surface, and the deuterium concentration in most of our planet’s water is about 150-156 ppm or 0.0156%.
The average adult human body contains about 45 liters of total body water (TBW). The concentration of semi-heavy water in the average body is about the same as most water supplies on Earth, 150 ppm. Multiplying 45 liters by 150 mg/liter gives 6.75 grams of semi-heavy water in the average adult human body, or about 1.5 grams of total deuterium.
Doesn’t seem like very much but it has taken many decades for scientists to unravel just how extremely significant this small amount of deuterium is.
With 4-12 times more deuterium than the most important nutrients we need for life, this makes it the most abundant contaminant in our bodies.
Age, weight-gain, depressed immune system, bad habits and lack of quality sleep decrease our body’s ability to deplete deuterium.
If the body’s deuterium burden is too high, its presence continuously interferes with our ability to generate mitochondrial energy.
Urey discovered that hydrogen has three different chemical element variants known as isotopes. Hydrogen isotopes include protium (1H), deuterium (2H, D), and tritium (3H).
All three hydrogen isotopes combine with oxygen to form water. However, the isotope protium is the most abundant and creates the lightest version of the water we drink.
• If two protium atoms combine with oxygen, it forms H2O (light water - 99.985%).
• If one protium and one deuterium atom combine with oxygen, it forms HDO (heavy water - 0.015%).
• If two deuterium atoms combine with oxygen, it forms D2O. (Too rare to think about).
• Deuterium had gone undetected by physicists because it only makes up 0.0149% of all hydrogen in the Universe.
On average, there is about one deuterium atom for every 6,420 hydrogen atoms in ocean water on Earth’s surface, and the deuterium concentration in most of our planet’s water is about 150-156 ppm or 0.0156%.
The average adult human body contains about 45 liters of total body water (TBW). The concentration of semi-heavy water in the average body is about the same as most water supplies on Earth, 150 ppm. Multiplying 45 liters by 150 mg/liter gives 6.75 grams of semi-heavy water in the average adult human body, or about 1.5 grams of total deuterium.
Doesn’t seem like very much but it has taken many decades for scientists to unravel just how extremely significant this small amount of deuterium is.
With 4-12 times more deuterium than the most important nutrients we need for life, this makes it the most abundant contaminant in our bodies.
Age, weight-gain, depressed immune system, bad habits and lack of quality sleep decrease our body’s ability to deplete deuterium.
If the body’s deuterium burden is too high, its presence continuously interferes with our ability to generate mitochondrial energy.
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