Table Of Contents Chapter Links For "From Volcanoes To Vitality - The Untold Story of Asao Shimanishi - The Man Who Cracked Earth's Hidden Code For Vitality And Health"
It just dawned on me (painfully, spectacularly) that I failed to tell my own readers the entire book is already available online. Diagnosis: severe messaging deficiency. Anyway, here are the links.
Ed: For those interested in reading the entire book, I would suggest bookmarking this post so you have easy access to all of the hyperlinked chapters in the Table of Contents below :)
The Day I Invented Substack Book Publishing (Badly)
I woke up this morning with a colossal “palm-to-forehead” moment.
While enjoying my first coffee and replying to reader comments on my book, I slowly realized I had somehow failed to make it clear that the entire book is already available to paid subscribers—right now!
Not-so-fun fact: as far as I know, no one has ever published a whole book on Substack, in serial fashion—meaning each post is a chapter with a link at the bottom to the next one. (Brilliant idea, right? Well, just wait.)
Of course, publishing in serial form isn’t “novel” (ignore the pun, please). From the 1830s through the early 1900s, literary giants like Dickens, Tolstoy, Hardy, Zola, and James all released their novels in installments—one chapter at a time in weekly or monthly magazines (not that I am putting myself in their category). Readers followed them like we now binge-watch TV seasons, breathlessly awaiting the next cliffhanger.
It was actually one of the greatest advances in the dissemination of writing and thought - just as literacy rates were surging, it allowed working and middle-class readers to access major works cheaply. The approach revolutionized reading: cheap, accessible, and addictive. It turned literature into a communal event—people discussed each new “episode” around literal water coolers (well, pubs). It was also great business: publishers got repeat customers, writers got steady paychecks, and the world got Great Expectations and Anna Karenina.
Now, I’d like to say that “Pierre’s Publishing Plan” was inspired by this noble history. But no—I dreamed it up entirely on my own, convinced it was a genius idea. Except that, when it came time to execute this plan… it turned out to be a complete pain in the ass.
How I Spent Saturday, October 25, 2025
I woke up pumped. The night before, I’d finally finished the book that had consumed ten obsessive weeks of my life. I couldn’t wait to share it with my paid Substack subscribers—an audience I’d neglected while writing the book and I desperately wanted to make it up to them.
Little did I know I was about to spend the next thirteen straight hours at my desk.
Normally, posting on Substack is simple. But my “brilliant” idea—to publish the entire book at once, each chapter as its own post, linked sequentially—quickly turned into a logistical nightmare. Here’s what that looked like:
Publish backward: I had to start from the last chapter and work my way to the first so they’d appear in order on the archive.
Avoid email chaos: Each post had to not go out to subscribers—otherwise, you’d have gotten random emails like “Chapter 9: Volcano Alchemist: Asao Shimanishi and the Code Hidden in Black Mica.
Link madness: Each chapter’s link to the next only existed after publishing the next one—so I was constantly jumping back and forth.
Typos galore: I discovered a templated post-script message typo after posting all 42 chapters, sub-chapters, and appendices.
Mangled chapter numbering: Fixing that took eons (and possibly part of my soul).
Finally, exhausted but triumphant, after “carefully” reviewing all, I published the “Intro to the Book” post and hit “launch” (i.e. an email to just my paid subscribers as I will be soon publishing the book in hard copy to the rest of the public). Everything looked perfect—until I realized I’d forgotten to include the Table of Contents with all the chapter links.
Hence, the forehead-slap (I am also pretty sure my readers can imagine the many swear words reverberating throughout the house).
Anyway, I needed to vent (and laugh at myself a bit). So, without further ado—here’s the actual Table of Contents and the full book, for all you patient, paid subscribers. Enjoy.
Preface: Guided by Brilliance - The Mentors Who Lit My Path
Reflections on a career defined not by invention, but by the rare gift of recognizing it in others.
Chapter 1 — The Missing Minerals of Modern Life
Framing the Hypothesis: I begin by exploring several hypotheses, such as what does a deficiency of trace/rare-earth minerals represent?
Chapter 2 — The Fire Beneath the Sea: How Volcanic Minerals Sparked Life
Deep in volcanic undersea darkness, heat and minerals joined forces to forge the planet’s earliest metabolism long before sunlight powered the surface.
Chapter 3 — The Dying Ground: How Modern Agriculture Lost Earth’s Mineral Code
As we stripped the soil of its minerals, we unwittingly stripped vitality from our crops, our livestock, and the human body itself.
Chapter 4 — The Blind Spot in Mineral Science: When Deficiency Became Invisible
A forensic look at how bureaucratic definitions and technological limits erased dozens of potentially life-supporting minerals from nutrition science
Chapter 5: The Enzyme Enigma: The Missing Mineral Keys to Human Metabolism
We’ve mapped the genome, but not the enzymes that make it work—how many unstudied enzymes depend on minerals we’ve stopped measuring?
Chapter 6 — The Forgotten Elements: When Non-Essential Minerals Become Essential For Health
Case Studies Of the Impacts of Lithium, Copper, and Boron on Health
Chapter 7: Starved and Poisoned: The Dual Crisis of Missing Minerals and Rising Metals
What happens when the building blocks of life vanish — and their toxic counterparts take their place?
Chapter 8 — Ignored, Then Vindicated: Early Visionaries of Mineral Medicine
The forgotten researchers who traced vitality to the soil and wisdom to the water
Chapter 9 — Volcano Alchemist: Asao Shimanishi and the Birth of Themarox
Through sulfur, fire, and persistence, he transformed ancient stone into the spark of living water.
Chapter 10 — The Mineral Bath Hypothesis: The Waters That Heal
What early trials, big anecdotes, and a mechanistic mystery reveal (and don’t yet) about relief and repair.
Chapter 11 — The Middle Mile of the Mineral Journey
Where evidence is firm, where it’s thin, and how ionic, sulfated complexes could bridge the gap.
Chapter 12 — From Story to Circuitry: The Science of Mineral Energy Flow
A fork in the road: skip to the layman’s summary or dive into the chemistry that powers biology.
Chapter 13 — Living Water and the Science of Structure
How volcanic minerals purify, structure, and energize water—restoring its lost intelligence.
Chapter 13B: The Fourth Phase: When Water Learns to Organize Itself
How a quiet revolution in physics—and a long-forgotten Japanese inventor—reveals that water is far more alive than we ever imagined
Chapter 13C: Understanding Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP)
ORP measures the relative balance between oxidizing and reducing forces in water.
Chapter 13D: Increasing Electrical Conductivity and Water Dynamics
Sorry folks, we’re not done yet. There’s even more to unpack about how Themarox interacts with water.
Chapter 14A. The Bridge: From Purified Water to Mineral Sufficiency
Why ultra-clean water can’t fix mineral deficits—and where supplementation begins.
Chapter 14B Sulfur: The Switch That Turns Detox On
How sulfate, minerals, and a few enzymes keep chemistry clean and tissues strong.
Chapter 14C. Redox with a Ruler: The Proton–Mineral Balance
Beyond “antioxidants”: how ionic minerals buffer acid, steer charge, and stabilize metabolism.
Chapter 14D: The Proton Code: How Minerals Keep Acid in Check
Rethinking “acid–alkaline” through the lens of proton flow, mineral charge, and the hidden physics of proton-mineral balancing
Chapter 14E: The Cell’s Battery: Proton Gradients, Leaks, and Modern Stressors
How mitochondria make ATP—plus what toxins and EMFs do to the gradient (and how minerals help).
Chapter 15 — Laypersons Summary - Minerals Made Simple: How Nature Balances Charge, Flow, and Form
A short course in mineral science—no scientific jargon, just the essentials of how life stays charged.
Chapter 16 — The Five Faces of Earth’s Mineral Intelligence
Brine, ocean, seaweed, soil, and stone—how the origin of a mineral supplement determines its power, purity, and purpose.
Chapter 17: Aluminum—From Feared Toxin to Forgotten Ally
The same element long accused of harm is, in truth, one of nature’s oldest purifiers and an invisible architect of life.
Chapter 18A: Japan: The Disinformation Campaign Against Super Mineral Solution
From “gene minerals” to raids—what really happened to Super Mineral Water and why it mattered.
Chapter 18B: U.S: The Disinformation Campaign Against Adya Clarity
Inside the 2010 dogpile—who said what, what actually happened, and what the FDA did (and didn’t) do.
Chapter 19 — What’s Really in Your Water: The Hidden Crisis Beneath the Surface
Why seemingly clean-looking water hides a toxic reality—and how simple minerals can reveal (and reverse) the damage beneath the surface.
Chapter 20: From Volcano to Validation: Independent Science Validates Themarox Purification
How laboratory evidence confirmed what nature—and Shimanishi—already knew
Chapter 21 — Truth in Transparency: Why I Chose to Step Into the Story
Reconciling scientific discovery, personal conviction, and the uncomfortable realities of purpose.
Chapter 22 — The Mineral Code of Life
How trace elements compose the universal language of energy, structure, and adaptation.
Chapter 23 — From Lab to Kitchen: Applying the Science of Structured Minerals
Real-world applications of retail Themarox-derived water purification products formulation for safe, structured hydration.
Chapter 24 — Plants: Themarox in Modern Agriculture
How ionic sulfated minerals are redefining soil fertility, nutrient balance, and sustainable yields
Chapter 25 — Animals Recharged: The Mineral Key to Vitality
New research reveals how restoring trace and rare-earth elements enhances growth, resilience, and well-being across species.
Chapter 26 — Humans: Evidence for the Benefits of Mineral Supplementation and Hydration
The same currents that charge the soil and animate the cell also flow through us—minerals are the memory of life made human.
Chapter 27: Escaping the Supplement Spiral: Return to the Elemental
How health seekers drown in good intentions—and too many capsules.
Chapter 28 — From Garden to Clinic: Designing the Research That Proves What We See
Transforming natural success stories into data, trials, and reproducible science by integrating soil, plant, animal, and human research into one electrochemical narrative of life
Epilogue — Restoring the Planet’s Bioelectric Balance: A New Framework for Renewal
The current that gave rise to life still flows through us—and it’s time we restore its circuit.
Appendix A — Purpose Before Profit: Why Taking a Stand Means Taking a Stake
When a discovery holds the power to heal the planet, neutrality becomes complicity
Appendix B — Artificial Intelligence Weighs In On My Situation
In seeking to test the science, I found myself in dialogue with something that mirrored back both logic and awe.
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