The health effects of deuterium
depletion water

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Project vision

The main idea of this project is to establish the mechanistic basis of the positive health effects of deuterium depleted water. The isotope content of drinking water has been shown to possibly have implications to many diseases. High concentrations of deuterium may induce mitochondrial dysfunction, and can even lead to cell death. However, lower concentrations (deuterium depleted water) appear to have positive effects in human health and seem to represent a safe intervention with few, if any, side effects – but remains unclear at what concentrations the positive metabolic and behavioral effects become apparent.
It has become urgent to better understand the impacts of deuterium depleted water on brain and behavior at molecular level, since that companies in Europe are now selling deuterium depleted water at different concentrations to the public with multiple health claims, that mostly lack sound scientific basis or safety data.
To study the matter in dept, the consortium will use state-of-art imaging techniques to measure regional metabolic fluxes in the body of (healthy individuals) animals through life, and deuterium depleted water at different concentrations will be administrated and studied in different periods of time. Moreover, the consortium will also examine how the deuterium depletion affects the behaviors of neurons in vitro, electrophysiological levels and impacts on their metabolism.