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10/29/2026

It fuels hydrogen bombs. It's in every glass of water on Earth.

What is deuterium? It's heavy hydrogen: a hydrogen atom with an extra neutron, which makes it about twice as heavy as normal hydrogen. It's used as fusion fuel in thermonuclear weapons, and it's also a natural part of all water. About 1 in every 6,420 hydrogen atoms in the water you drink is deuterium.

Is deuterium radioactive? No. It's a stable isotope of hydrogen.

Why does it matter? Your mitochondria make energy using a flow of hydrogen, and researchers are studying how the heavier kind affects that process. some believe it causes your ATP motor to jam and stutter.

Deuterium-depleted water (DDW) is water with less of it. Litewater has up to 97% less deuterium than regular water.

Curious how much deuterium is in you? Find out with the Litewater Deuterium Saliva Test. Link in bio.

10/22/2026

Same chemistry. Double the mass. Watch what happens on the course.

Hydrogen is the lightest atom there is: one proton and nothing else. Deuterium is its heavy twin, a proton with a neutron stuck to it. Same chemistry, twice the mass.

That extra mass matters inside your cells. Hydrogen is light enough to quantum tunnel through energy barriers in enzymes, which is part of how enzymes move it so quickly. Deuterium tunnels far less, so reactions that involve it slow down. Chemists call this the kinetic isotope effect, and it's well established.

The rotor in this video is based on ATP synthase, the motor in your mitochondria that makes most of your cellular energy and runs on a flow of protons. Researchers propose deuterium can jam that motor the way it jams the course.

About 1 in every 6,420 hydrogen atoms in water is deuterium. Litewater is up to 97% deuterium depleted.

Tag someone who'd make it through the Quantum Tunnel.

Read the research at deupletion.ai. Link in bio.

Sources:
Klinman JP, Kohen A. Hydrogen tunneling links protein dynamics to enzyme catalysis. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 2013;82:471–496.
Olgun A. Biological effects of deuteronation: ATP synthase as an example. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. 2007;4:9.
International Atomic Energy Agency. VSMOW2 reference water (natural deuterium abundance standard).

10/21/2026

One of these 6,420 dots is not like the others. Find it, then tell us how long it took.

That red dot is deuterium, hydrogen's heavy isotope. It carries a neutron that ordinary hydrogen doesn't have, which makes it twice as heavy. In Earth's water, about 1 in every 6,420 hydrogen atoms is deuterium, and the grid in this video is drawn to that exact ratio.

It's in every glass, every ocean and every raindrop. Freeze pure heavy water and the ice sinks instead of floating. That's how much one extra neutron changes.

Your filter can't take it out. Deuterium isn't a contaminant floating in your water. It's part of the water molecule itself, bonded in as HDO, so carbon filters, mesh and reverse osmosis let it straight through. Removing it takes specialized isotope separation.

Researchers propose that this heavier hydrogen jams the ATP synthase motor inside your mitochondria, the machine that makes most of your energy. It's a model still being studied, and it's why scientists look at deuterium depletion.

Litewater is up to 97% deuterium depleted. Now you know where to look.

Read the research at deupletion.ai. Link in bio.

Sources:
Olgun A. Biological effects of deuteronation: ATP synthase as an example. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. 2007;4:9.
International Atomic Energy Agency. VSMOW2 reference water (natural deuterium abundance standard).
Haynes WM, ed. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. CRC Press. (properties of heavy water)

10/20/2026

Your blood carries more deuterium than calcium. Roughly six to seven times more.

Deuterium is hydrogen's heavy isotope, with one extra neutron. About 1 in every 6,600 hydrogen atoms in natural water is deuterium, and since blood plasma is mostly water, that works out to about 15 to 17 millimoles of deuterium per liter.

Compare that with the minerals your blood work actually tracks. Calcium sits around 2.2 to 2.6 millimoles per liter, potassium 3.5 to 5, glucose about 4 to 5.5, and magnesium under 1. Count for count, deuterium outnumbers calcium six to seven times, potassium and glucose three to five times, and magnesium 15 to 20 times.

That doesn't make deuterium dangerous by default. It's been in every drop of water since before life began. It does make it hard to call trivial. Researchers in deutenomics propose that your body's deuterium load is associated with how efficiently your mitochondria make energy.

A Deuterium Saliva Test measures your level. Litewater is up to 97% deuterium depleted, and it's how you bring that number down.

Save this, and send it to someone who just got their blood work back.

Read the research at deupletion.ai. Link in bio.

Sources:
Olgun A. Biological effects of deuteronation: ATP synthase as an example. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. 2007;4:9. (natural deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio)
Plasma concentrations: standard clinical laboratory reference ranges.

10/15/2026

Almost all the deuterium in the universe was made in a few minutes, 13.8 billion years ago.

Deuterium is hydrogen’s heavy isotope: one proton plus one neutron. It formed during Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the first minutes after the Big Bang, when the young universe was hot and dense enough to fuse protons and neutrons together. Then the window closed. Stars don’t make deuterium. They burn it. Nothing since has added meaningfully to the supply, which is why astronomers use the amount left over to measure conditions in the early universe.

Some of that primordial deuterium ended up in Earth’s water. About 1 in every 6,600 hydrogen atoms in natural water is deuterium, twice as heavy as the ordinary hydrogen your mitochondria use to make energy. Researchers in deutenomics propose that this heavier hydrogen adds drag to that machinery. It’s a hypothesis still being studied.

Every glass of water you drink holds atoms older than the stars.

Litewater is up to 97% deuterium depleted. It’s how you take in less of it.

Save this, and send it to the space nerd in your life.

Read the research at deupletion.ai. Link in bio.

Sources:
Cyburt RH, Fields BD, Olive KA, Yeh TH. Big bang nucleosynthesis: Present status. Reviews of Modern Physics. 2016;88:015004.
Planck Collaboration. Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2020;641:A6.
Olgun A. Biological effects of deuteronation: ATP synthase as an example. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. 2007;4:9.

10/13/2026

Ice made from heavy water sinks. Drop a cube of frozen D2O into a glass of ordinary water and it goes straight to the bottom, while every normal ice cube floats.

Heavy water is water built with deuterium instead of ordinary hydrogen. Deuterium is hydrogen's heavy isotope: same chemistry, one extra neutron. That neutron makes a heavy water molecule about 11% heavier than regular water, so its ice ends up denser than liquid water.

The extra neutron changes more than buoyancy. Heavy water freezes at about 3.8°C instead of 0°C, boils at a higher temperature, and slows many chemical reactions. Chemists call that slowdown the kinetic isotope effect, and it's the reason biologists study deuterium at all.

Every glass of water on Earth carries a trace of it. About 1 in every 6,600 hydrogen atoms in natural water is deuterium, almost all of it as HDO: one heavy hydrogen in an otherwise ordinary water molecule. That's nowhere near enough to sink an ice cube, and it doesn't make tap water dangerous. The question researchers in deutenomics are asking is whether a lifetime of that trace matters to the hydrogen-driven machinery inside your mitochondria. It's still being studied.

Litewater is up to 97% deuterium depleted. It's how you take in less of it.

Save this, and send it to the friend who thinks all water is the same.

Sources:
Olgun A. Biological effects of deuteronation: ATP synthase as an example. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. 2007;4:9.
Haynes WM, ed. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. CRC Press. (physical properties of heavy water)

10/10/2026

🤯 Have you ever stopped to think about the incredible machinery inside our bodies?

We have trillions of tiny molecular motors called ATP synthase inside our mitochondria that help produce the energy our cells need to function.

These things literally spin!

The more I learn about the human body, the more amazed I am!

This week’s episode is 75 with Victor Sagalovsky cofounder of Litewater. We dive into the mind-blowing world of cellular energy and deuterium.

The human body is pretty freaking fascinating!
What do YOU think?

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10/09/2026

Everyone has a supplement for your mitochondria. Nobody has actually measured yours.

Methylene blue. NAD. CoQ10. Urolithin A. Cold plunge. You did everything they said. Some of it might be working. Some of it might be doing nothing for you. Without a test, you're guessing.

How do you test your mitochondria at home?
mescreen is an at-home mitochondrial efficiency test. One finger-prick blood spot gives you scores across four areas: Energy Profile, Mito ROS, Mito Network and Energy Balance.

Why mitochondria?
They produce most of the energy your cells run on. The common estimate is around 90%.

The Mighty Mito Bundle pairs mescreen with the Deuterium Test, an at-home saliva test for your deuterium level. $598, which is $300 off retail.

Audit your energy before you buy the next bottle. Link in bio.

10/07/2026

Your body makes roughly its own weight in ATP every single day. You keep very little of it on hand, so you build it and spend it on repeat.

ATP synthase is the machine behind it: a rotary motor set into the inner membrane of your mitochondria. Hydrogen ions stream through its rotor like water through a turbine, and each turn presses out fresh ATP, the energy currency every cell in your body runs on.

Deuterium is hydrogen’s heavy twin. It carries an extra neutron, which makes it twice as heavy as ordinary hydrogen, and about 1 in every 6,600 hydrogen atoms in natural water is deuterium. It enters your body with every glass you drink.

In 2007, biochemist Abdullah Olgun modeled what happens when a deuterium ion, instead of ordinary hydrogen, lands on the binding site that drives the rotor. His proposal: the heavier ion lets go more slowly, which could slow the motor. It’s a theoretical model, not a measurement in people, but it’s a cornerstone of deutenomics, the field studying deuterium’s role in cellular energy.

Litewater is up to 97% deuterium depleted. It’s how you take in less of it.

Save this for later, and send it to someone who still thinks mitochondria are just the powerhouse of the cell.

Read the research at deupletion.ai. Link in bio.

Sources:
Olgun A. Biological effects of deuteronation: ATP synthase as an example. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. 2007;4:9.
Gulati A, et al. Stepwise ATP translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum by human SLC35B1. Nature. 2025.

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10/06/2026

Deuterium research goes back more than 60 years. Most of it is buried in PDFs nobody has time to read.

Deupletion AI is a free research assistant for deuterium depletion and deuterium-depleted water (DDW). You ask a question in plain English. It answers from 60+ years of published research and links every answer to the original source PDF, opened to the page it came from.

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