Hey Swordmaker,
You are an intelligent person. Reread every word in my post at least three more times. Every word is true. We can currently track the relative gray matter shrinkage in infants from the first bottle of iron fortified formula milk. The pathology is underway before the kids have teeth and any other evidence of disease. The iron causes the gray matter shrinkage and is continuous throughout life. We can reverse the cell senescence with iron chelators and improve cognition/working memory in Down syndrome individuals.
I read it. I discounted it. Who is "We" in "We can". . . and where are these 50-60 articles published? I am curious because there are hundreds of "scientific journals" that publish on payment from the authors. . . and their "peer-reviewed" articles are bogus hokum. In other words, some published articles are not worth the spit to make spit wads out of them.
For example, how do you track the "shrinkage of gray matter over 30K years in the fossil record, when I know of very few human brains that have ever been fossilized. . . and there are VERY few fossils that are as young as 30K years.
That's just one of the reasons I discounted it: on the face of it, it's a false claim.
Secondly, the human body is an extremely efficient machine at extracting from normal dietary intake what it needs to include in its cellular structure and to remove from its structure what it does not need. It excretes what it doesn't need. . . especially iron. The effect of LEAD in the environment over the period in question is much more striking in the brains of children in our inner cities and it is HARD to quantify its effects. The effects of the drugs and alcohol their parents injected, ingested and inhaled while the child was in utero or the spermatozoa was being formed probably has one hell of a lot more effect on brain growth and size in the time that milk and bread had iron fortified vitamins added as a component than anything you can claim is caused by someone who really cannot make a causal relation based on any statistical claims. Correlation is NOT causation. . . even for oral spirochetes and the 95% correlation that Dr. McKlosky has identified until she applied Hills and Koch's criteria and proved it.
Complete cellular chelation of Iron would be very difficult considering Iron is a necessary component of blood. . . which anyone would know who has a basic understanding of the Oxygen transportation system in our bodies. One chelates people who suffer from Hemochromatosis, an over abundance of red blood cells either through illness or through transfusions. Iron Chelation can have serious side effects if not monitored by a qualified medical doctor. Yes, there does seem possible a benefit for some Down Syndrome persons. . . but at this point nothing has been clinically proved. Obviously you believe that diet can solve every problem. Would that were true. It isn't.