FAQ

What is BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate?

It’s a concentrated, water based solution of ionic minerals made from a type of crystalline deposit called biotite. The mother concentrate from which this product is made comes from extracting mineral salts from a biotite deposit. These minerals are then diluted in purified water and bottled as a liquid based water purifier. Because of this process, the extract is a concentrated source of structured water matrices and when those structures are added to unstructured water, the treated water also becomes structured. This is why it is also called a “Structured Water Concentrate.”

How is BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate used?

Use is very simple. Depending on the initial quality of the water being treated, just add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of concentrate per gallon of water. This is a ratio of about 1000 parts water to one part concentrate. You can add a bit less or more depending on how pure the water is to begin with. Distilled water, for example, would need less, questionable water would need more. Specifics are below.

Is BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate expensive?

No. Because it’s so highly concentrated, it costs pennies per day. Here are some examples:

A 2oz bottle costs $19.95 and purifies up to 25 gallons of water. This comes to less than $0.80 per gallon. If you drink, say, half a gallon of water a day, the cost would be less than $0.40 per day.

A 32oz bottle costs $99.95 and purifies up to 400 gallons of water. This would come to $0.26 per gallon. If you drink half a gallon of water a day, the cost would be $0.13 per day.

Compare these prices to what it costs to buy a liter (considerably less than a gallon) of bottled water, very often costing from $0.99 to $1.49. Not only do you save a great deal of money, but by using the concentrate, you decrease the waste stream of plastic bottles by reusing just one bottle as many times as you need.

So, using BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate saves resources, decreases pollution, keeps landfills from getting clogged with endless numbers of empty plastic bottles and costs remarkably less too.

By the way, we recommend using either glass, ceramic or stainless steel for storing/carrying water, not plastic.

Can you explain a bit more about BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate?

Let’s start off with biotite, which is a type of mineral deposit. Other well known types are quartz, granite, feldspar, etc. Biotite has certain geological characteristics and was named in honor of a French physicist, Jean-Baptiste Biot. In Nature, biotite is in the form of very thin sheets of minerals and has a unique structure. Biotite deposits are found in many places around the globe but each deposit is different from all the others. The differences between them can be categorized by weight, mass, constituent profile, color, etc.

Research on the properties of biotite began in the 1960s and it was soon determined that it was jam packed with minerals. A process was invented to produce a super-concentrate, water purifying liquid from the biotite. The liquid was then filtered and diluted to make BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate (Liquid Crystal Minerals.) This process imitates Nature because when volcanic gases come in contact with water, they produce acidic compounds that, under the right temperature and pressure, in the presence of these biotite deposits, produce the same water purifying effects.

As a result of much research and investigation, this BiotiteH3O2™ concentrate is now capable of sanitizing water, no matter how polluted it might be, no matter what the contaminants might be or where they may be. This is what makes BiotiteH3O2™ such a revolutionary substance–it’s ability to clean water no matter what.

Do I need to refrigerate BiotiteH3O2™?

No. It’s remarkably stable, does not degrade or lose potency and has an indefinite shelf life. Just keep it out of direct sunlight.

What products do you offer in the marketplace?

Currently, we offer four products, listed here:

A 2oz bottle of BiotiteH3O2™ Liquid Crystal Minerals: This is a travel size that will fit into a pocket or purse. The travel size has a dropper included so no matter where you might be or the circumstances, you can put a few drops into any water that’s available and ensure that it’s clean and pure. The cost of a 2oz bottle is $19.95

Our NEW 16 oz Cobalt Blue Bottle of BiotiteH3O2™ Liquid Crystal Minerals: This beautiful cobalt blue bottle is esthetically pleasing and can be reused over and over. The cost is $62.95 and treats up to 200 gallons. 

A 32oz bottle of BiotiteH3O2™ Liquid Crystal Minerals: This is the large, family size and costs less per ounce so saves money too. Some people like to have the 2oz dropper bottle that they refill from the 32oz size. And remember that in either case, although BiotiteH3O2™ liquid is very shelf stable, it should be kept out of direct sunlight. The cost of a 32oz bottle is $99.95

The Mountain Spring Filtration System: This system has significant advantages over other purification systems. First of all, the design uses gravity to feed water through the filter network and therefore, it doesn’t need electricity to run. Usually, no matter how much a filter system costs, the far greater cost is in running it, either using electricity directly in order to operate or indirectly, because the system requires water pressure which can only be produced by a water pump that requires electricity to operate. Second, the Mountain Spring system filters down to 0.2 microns. A micron is technically defined as a millionth of a meter. As a result, the Mountain Spring system, when properly used, cleans down to an extremely small particle size. Third, the system uses several different technologies all in one unit because different contaminants sometimes require different approaches in filtering. The Mountain Spring Filtration System costs $239.95. Here are it’s key points:

1. Circular, free-standing unit
2. No electricity needed
3. Gravity fed
4. 0.2 micron ceramic filter
5. Multi-level natural earth filter system
6. 11.5” base X 21” tall
7. Living, oxygenated, fresh tasting mountain spring water
8. Easy to install, easy to use, easy to maintain, easy to clean
9. Plastic water bottles can now be eliminated as well as the landfill waste they create
10. 2 gallon capacity
11. Filter cartridge replacement very user-friendly

For further information on this system, Contact Us.

How do I obtain these products?

They’re available by contacting us here, by going to your local natural food store, or through select dealers. If your local store does not carry BiotiteH3O2™, please ask for it and let us know. All we need is the store’s name and address and we’ll do our best to get the product to them.

How long should I wait before drinking my treated water?

There are two factors at work here: first, although treating water with BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate will quickly reduce or completely eliminate any questionable substances in the water, there could be a cloudy opaqueness in the water or some other contamination that’s not readily apparent. If there is contamination, it will usually settle to the bottom. Second, the creation of the opaqueness and the settling do take some time, depending on 1) how many contaminants are in the water, and 2) how much of those contaminants the water has. Although the treated water will be decontaminated within a few minutes or less, it may have a cloudy look. Some people don’t care about this and just drink the water. Others prefer to wait until the cloud settles and in many cases, because a person is using the concentrate as well as our gravity-fed filter system, there’s no need to wait. However, all of these things are, to a large degree, determined by the initial quality of the water. If it is clean, or more or less so before being treated, then the clouding may not occur. However, there are many other instances where water is not clean even though it looks like it is. Even chlorine, which is found in most municipal water supplies around the country but is colorless, is, from the perspective of pure water, a contaminant, and BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate will clean that up too, changing the chlorine (a gas) into chloride salts (particulates) which will precipitate out and fall to the bottom.

Some people prefer to wait until the sediments completely settle and then pour off the clean water but if the water was initially of poor quality, then it’s going to take as much as 24 hours or even longer before the sediment falls to the bottom, at which point, you can decide what you’d like to do–pour off the rest of the water, use a filter system to eliminate the sediments, pour the sediments on houseplants or in the garden or drink them since they’re inert and harmless.

So, you’re saying that depending on how polluted the water, it’s drinkable almost immediately but if there’s a cloud, it could also take a couple days for the sediments to settle, is that right?

That’s right. Although the water is cleaned immediately, and you can drink it, the cloudiness, if it occurs, may not settle for a longer time. In fact, BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate can be used as a test for the purity of water. If you follow label directions and see no sediments occur, then you know the water you’re using is very clean. And the opposite is true too. If there’s a huge cloud in the water and it takes a long time to settle, then the water was filled with contaminants. We recently ran this test on a high quality spring water that is well known for it’s superior quality, even though over 25 years ago, the EPA stated that there was no longer any source of completely pure water in the continental US. We added an appropriate amount of BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate to this spring water, which came to us in a sealed glass bottle. 24 hours later there were bits of rusty sediment on the floor of the container. We haven’t had the sediment analyzed but this test suggests that even spring water can be contaminated.

The label says, “treats up to…..” Why isn’t it more specific?

Again, this depends on the purity of the water before treatment. Here are a couple examples: if a person uses tap water which has fluoride and chlorine and maybe even ammonia (another water treatment), along with several other things that might be in the water, the use of BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate will clean the water but most likely, a cloud will form and it may take overnight (or longer) to settle. In another example, a household may have a GAC (granular activated carbon) filter system or a de-ionization module, a reverse osmosis unit or a purification system that uses one or more technologies such as UV or ozonation. BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate can certainly be used on any type of water but if the water was initially cleaner than say, raw river or tap water, the concentrate might not produce much of a cloud or any cloud. Should this be the case, it’s entirely possible that only a very small amount of treatment is needed. Since we can’t predict each user’s water quality, the label gives a range of “up to” a certain amount. In some cases, a good deal less than the amount on the label recommendations is all that’s required and the only way to find out how much anyone needs is to simply experiment with different amounts until each individual discovers what works for their own situation.

What else can BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate be used for?

Here’s a brief list:

As a soak/wash for produce that’s not organically grown.

As an additive to hot tubs, jacuzzi’s, whirlpools, spas, etc., because it’s completely natural, less harmful to the environment than chemicals and lasts up to eight months between uses.

As an additive to a bath because, essentially, the same compounds that are found in mineral baths and spas in Europe and many other places, are the ones in BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate so you can have an honest-to-goodness mineral spa right in your own bathtub, and at a tiny fraction of the usual cost.

As a replacement for chemicals that are ordinarily used for cleaning, for example, contact lens solutions or washing the kitchen countertops.

At a dilution level determined through experimentation, as a spray for houseplants or in the garden.

BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate can also be diluted at the rate of 1000:1 for agricultural purposes because it improves the moisture characteristics of soil. Add it to the water, stir or agitate, then water your plants.

As a foliar spray for orchards, herbs or flowers.

Does BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate do anything to the chlorine in municipal water?

Yes, it transforms the chlorine into chloride(s), meaning, the chlorine is no longer in the water. It has become various types of chloride salts which fall to the bottom.

By what process does BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate clean pollutants?

It’s essentially the same process that attracts the south pole of one magnet to the north pole of another magnet. If you bring them close together, they instantly stick to each other. But in the case of BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate, the positively charged pollutants get so “stuck” to the negatively charged concentrate that they can’t be unstuck after that. They’ve been transformed into other compounds (the technical term would be “salts”) that are now harmless. The bonding that occurs cannot be undone. And along with this is the fact that these new salts seem to be attractive to plants, either in the house or garden. We’re doing research in this area but we hypothesize that these salts can be recycled by plants and turned into nutrition, not only for the plants but for the soil as well.

In addition, this cleansing process is seen in nature, but because of the increased amount of pollutants in our biosphere, we need a water technology that emulates nature to help restore our water back to purity at a rate which keeps up with this increased pollution.

You mean that BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate can be used to grow things?

Yes, it certainly can. For those who would like instructions on how to dilute the product for this use, it’s simple: just use the same dilution that you do for drinking water, which is approximately1000 to 1. Other dilution strengths can be used too so it’s a good idea to keep an open mind and experiment a little bit to see what works best for your garden, houseplants, orchard, etc.

How do I stay well hydrated?

Traditionally, It goes like this: take your weight, divide by two and that is the number of ounces of water you should drink every day. Ex: weight–150 pounds. Half of that is 75 so you would drink 75 ounces of water every day, which comes to a little over nine glasses of water, each glass being 8 ounces. It’s important to note that sodas, colas, milk, coffee and a lot of other beverages, do not count towards the total. However, fresh juices, like fresh orange juice, apple juice, etc., do. Some experts suggest drinking one ounce of pure water for every pound of weight of the body. Either way, it’s important to have plenty of pure, structured water to stay hydrated.

What about the ecological impact/carbon footprint of BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate?

Here are a few ideas:

The top selling product in the largest chain of natural food stores in the US is bottled water. We don’t have hard figures to cite but we know that practically all those bottles of water are made of plastic, plastic that winds up in landfills more often than not. In some parts of the country, the plastic goes in the recycle bin but that, in itself, is not a guarantee that the plastic will be recycled. Without going into a long analysis of what happens in the recycling industry, we know that often, if pricing for raw plastic is lower than for recycled plastic, the bottles which were supposedly headed for recycling actually get dumped into landfills and the public never hears about that.

So, in order to guarantee that there’s a reduction in the amount of plastic going into landfills, the best option is to use as few of those plastic water bottles as possible. Since the public tends to be unaware of market forces that send off all those bottles to the landfill instead of the recycling stream, there are many more plastic bottles winding up in the landfill than is reported.

How do we avoid this issue? One way is to purify water with BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate. Because the extract will clean any kind of water, we can just take any bottle, fill it with tap water, filtered water or any other kind of water, add in the appropriate amount of concentrate, agitate and allow any sediments to settle to the bottom, or filter them out. If the water was initially clean, then the waiting process is practically instantaneous.

So, what we’re really talking about is reducing the number of plastic water bottles by something like 99.9%. Translated into everyday circumstances, that means that if someone regularly buys bottled water, over a period of perhaps two or three years, switching over to BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate means that their plastic water bottle consumption has dropped to just one bottle. If the person keeps using the same bottle over that period of time, then the ratio might be 1000 to 1. In fact, if you already have a water bottle, it can essentially be used endlessly and now we may be talking 10,000 to 1 or more.

Here’s some in depth information on the subject of how polluting and expensive bottled water really is: http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/01/07/us-town-concord-bans-bottled-water/  Although the article is quite long, some of the facts cited are very educational which is why we recommend having a look.

Another impact from the use of the extract has to do with water remediation.  As is well known in many parts of the world, pollution caused by effluents from industrial processes, petrochemical runoffs, illegal dumping of industrial wastes and hazardous materials, pharmaceutical drug residues, illegal drug residues, agribusiness fertilizers, medical wastes, acid rain, sulfoxides, nitroxides and other airborne pollutants all contribute to or directly create polluted bodies of water.

All of these issues can, to one degree or another, be ameliorated by using BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate. This product has been shown to reduce and/or eliminate a wide variety of hazardous compounds by chemical bonding that creates harmless residues and sediments that fall to the bottom of lakes, rivers and other waterways, where the microbial life, plant roots and mycological colonies can make use of these compounds and completely break them down for reuse. We are only at the very beginning of studying this phenomenon and intend to publish more and more information on the subject as we move forward.

I’ve noticed some floaters in the BiotiteH3O2™, like tiny feathers or something. Is this okay?

I’ve heard that people can go through a detoxification cycle when they first use BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate. Could you explain that?

This is a very important point. There is a mistaken idea prevalent in modern cultures that any type of health issue that arises is automatically cause for alarm but this bears closer scrutiny. In fact, “getting sick” is often a simple reaction of the human organism to the inevitable build up of toxic waste materials. Having a tummy ache from overeating is a well known example.

Some of the materials that the body reacts to are generated internally from the normal functioning of glands, organs, muscles and other tissues. Many other wastes, however, are built up from substances found in air, water and food. While the details lie beyond the scope of this article, the bottom line is that engaging in health-building activities such as the use of a water purifier like BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate, can lead to feelings, initially, of light headedness, for example, or headaches or rashes.

Unlike “disease”, all these symptoms pass if allowed to do so. What’s happening is that the body is releasing the accumulated wastes that had built up beyond the point of homeostasis (the balance point that the body maintains) and with the introduction of a new health-restoring modality, whether it be improvements in diet, starting a regular exercise regime or any number of other things, the body, sooner or later, will most likely dump accumulated toxins. Before they exit the organism though, they circulate for a time and when they do, we don’t feel so good. People have reported detoxing symptoms like colds, flus, runny nose, coughing, mucus congestion, lowered vitality, no energy, skin eruptions, sore throat, constipation, diarrhea, etc.

The important thing to remember if experiencing these things is simply that the episode of discomfort will fade away on it’s own. We should certainly not interfere with it, though it might feel unusual to do so since we’re programmed to react by taking pharmaceuticals, running off to the ER and the like. Should we do these things, in all likelihood, we’ll only suppress the symptoms driving them right back into the body and not allowing it to free itself of toxic buildups.

So, once again, if such symptoms come up, it’s best to simply let them have their day and within short order they will all pass and we’ll feel much better than before they arose.

It’s suggested that reading up on this topic can be very helpful. Search the terms, “healing crisis,” “cleansing reactions” and “detoxing.” Here’s an excellent article that goes into considerable depth on the subject: http://www.health-science-spirit.com/healingcrisis.html

Does detoxing take a long time?

It’s not a predictable phenomenon. One person might have a headache that lasts an hour or two, someone else could have a rash that lasts for a few days and then fades out. Because we’re all unique in many ways, the detoxing process is different for each individual, not only in terms of how long a detox will last but also, how intense it is. Depending on many factors like age, diet, exercise regularity and dozens of other parameters, detoxing is very often just a brief phase as the body rebalances itself.

What is the piezoelectric effect?

“Another way in which the human system transforms the energies it assimilates…..is by virtue of what is known in Western science as the ‘piezoelectric effect.’ This refers to a unique property possessed by all crystalline structures, whereby any sort of vibratory or wave energy applied to a crystal structure is transformed into electromagnetic pulses. The human body contains a variety of tissues with crystalline structures within their matrix, particularly bone, connective tissue and the electrolytes in certain bodily fluids. These crystalline structures have the capacity to transduce various types of high-frequency wave energies to which they are exposed, such as light and sound, producing specific electromagnetic pulses that are conducted by the meridians and nerves and utilized by various organs and tissues of the body. This is the mechanism by which mantra, music and various sacred syllables may be used to balance and heal the body: as the sound waves vibrate through the body, crystalline structures within the tissues transform them into pulsed currents that are then conducted to various organs and glands, depending on the frequency and amplitude of the incoming wave signal.”(from The Complete Guide To Chi Gong–Transforming The Power Of The Universe by Daniel Reid)

How does regular water become structured from the addition of the BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate?

To understand this, we need to first explain that water responds to everything around it. For example, when it’s hit by sunlight, say, in a creek or riverbed, it picks up the photonic energy from the sunlight and begins to get structured because it’s being energized. There are many other ways that it responds too. It will begin to get structured from the warmth of infrared energy or from the minerals it comes in contact with on a streambank or when it’s coursing underground and picks up the paramagnetic influences of tiny rock fragments that are being rubbed by the watercourse as it passes by heading downstream. Water also starts getting structured from contact with organic substances. For example, autumn leaves falling on a pond and breaking down from microbial action or the effect of wind, rain, snow and the moon, all have effects on the water. In a sense, some have said that water is “alive” because like other lifeforms, it’s constantly responding to the environment in which it is found.

Now that we’ve mentioned some of these energetic effects on the water, we come to a delivery system for structuring when the water is treated with BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate. The highly charged ionic minerals in the concentrate cause the water being treated to create an organized structure but in this case, it’s a far stronger reaction than the effects of sunlight or infrared frequencies. The organized structure is theorized to be a hexagonal polyhedron with a repeating pattern in which oxygen atoms are always found in a specific relationship to the hydrogen atoms and the hydrogen atoms are also always found in a repeating pattern and relationship to the oxygen. The structure is in three dimensions and remains stable for extremely long periods of time even under unusual ambient circumstances, like cold weather or high humidity. So what this all boils down to is simply that the strong electrical potential of the ionic charges in the concentrate, organize the bulk, unstructured water into a coherent, repeating pattern. A simple analogy is what we see again and again in Nature. For example, bees swarm, build a hive and create a hexagonal structure because of all their energy being directed in a very organized pattern. BiotiteH3O2™ does the same thing to water. And this is a completely natural effect because it’s a mimic of what happens from all the influences mentioned before–sunlight, warmth, rocks, minerals and so on. But because the concentrate is highly charged, the structuring effect is much stronger and faster.

Here is a quote from, Forbidden Health by Andreas Kalcker: …the key to understanding the human body lies precisely in the interstitial fluids–specifically, the structured waters of the semi-crystalline form which represent the fourth stage of water. This water can store energy as information, being the primary source of immediate and long-term memory in our bodies. Neuronal networks and synapses serve both to structure and read the water, through electromagnetic impulses from the water…”

How necessary is it to be fully hydrated?

In brief, it’s crucial. If you look over some of the information provided in our Resources/Research page, it becomes clear that proper hydration reduces the daily cellular stress that occurs and is absolutely necessary for the body to carry out the millions of processes that together, we call “life.” Without high quality, energized, structured water, life would cease almost instantly. That’s how important it is.

I have a very high quality water purification system and when I use BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate on my water, it leaves a slight yellowish stain on the inside of the bottle. Could you explain this?

Although quite rare, in cases where this happens, it’s because the water being treated was already very clean. What’s happening is that some of the sulfate minerals in the BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate are naturally attracted to the glass. This is because really pure water has a pH that is slightly acidic, like 6.7-6.9. When the slight acidity comes in contact with the liquid minerals in the concentrate, the resulting salts are drawn to the glass. The stain is yellowish because the minerals are in a sulfate form and sulfate minerals are yellowish by nature. (Sulfur itself is very bright yellow). However, the stain on the glass can be easily removed since it just wipes off. Another option is to use less BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate since you now know that your purification system is doing a really good job. Of course, if you want your drinking water to have a full complement of ionic minerals, you’ll have to decide how much concentrate to use. Again, a bit of experimentation in each situation can bring about a good compromise between pure water and a balance of ionic minerals. After all, Mother Nature always adds other things to water. Some examples: The Great Salt Lake in Utah has ionic minerals in the water, as do the oceans of the world. Mineral springs found in many places around the world also contain an abundance of ionic minerals, and so too, can they be found in high altitude waterfalls and other pristine aquatic environments. To a degree, it’s true to say that BiotiteH3O2™ Concentrate is a convenient way to recreate the naturally occurring ions that are present in the waters of the world.

I like the idea of having really pure water and then adding in the concentrate. Is that okay?

Yes. Clearing the water of possible contaminants and then adding in the ionic minerals produces high quality water. Some people add the concentrate first and then purify their water. While the concentrate reduces and/or eliminates many harmful pollutants and industrial wastes, having a good quality filter system and BiotiteH3O2™ is a great combination. The filtering system removes the contaminants but also reduces the energetic structure of the water. Then adding in the concentrate creates the dynamic structured matrix that re-energizes the water. If you’d like more information on our gravity-fed filtration system, just Contact Us

BiotiteH3o2 Liquid Crystal Minerals – 3 sizes available