Posted on 10/14/2014 1:01:10 PM PDT by opentalk
Professor Chrisopher Exley of Keele University claims that aluminium present in everyday items like cosmetics and food may be building up in the brain and causing Alzheimer's disease
Aluminium poisoning may be fuelling Alzheimer’s disease, a leading professor has claimed.
Professor Chrisopher Exley, of Keele University, said that exposure to the metal causes deposits in the human brain which can exacerbate other problems
...Aluminium, he argues, is now added to or used in almost everything we eat, drink, inject or absorb. The metal is abundant in the Earth’s crust and is naturally absorbed from the soil by plants and foodstuffs. But aluminium sulphate is also added to water to improve clarity, to cakes and biscuits as a raising agent and it is in tea, cocoa, wine and fizzy drinks
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Aluminum. The new Lead.
Let the junk science begin.
This theory has been advanced before, with the blame falling on the aluminum cans that beer and soft drinks are delivered in. Nothing conclusive could be demonstrated then, has the research gotten better, or is the aluminum coming from some other source?
Or is there simply a new search for research funding?
I’ve read somewhere that ingestion of fluoride causes the body to retain aluminum in the brain and that aluminum deposits were found during autopsies in the brains of deceased who were suffering from Alzheimer’s.
This idea has been around a long time and I felt it was a good hypotheses almost thirty years ago when I was in grad school and saw the reports of aluminum in neurofibrillary tangles.
So, it was not something ignored, but there never seemed to be enough evidence to attribute the cause to aluminum.
We noted a correlation between aluminum and Alzheimer’s when Alzheimer’s was still pretty newly in the news. Many years ago. But the trend of most research then led in other directions. Some of us were never fully satisfied that aluminum had really been ruled out as a cause or at least partial cause, mostly just ignored maybe . So it’s fascinating to see aluminum is being questioned again now. Thanks for this.
At least it’s not in my Marlboros...
My mother was told in the forties to get rid of her aluminum cookware because of my father’s intestinal problems. She never used anything except stainless steel for cooking after that nor did her daughters. The change did have a large impact on my father’s health.
You’re right.
Municipal water supplies in the US are frequently and deliberately tainted with aluminum fluoride as opposed to stannous fluoride which is what you want for dental health.
It is of note that aluminum fluoride (under the name ‘FLUoxetene’) is the active ingredient in Prozac.
Aluminum? They’ve been saying this for probably 30+ years.
This is NOT new ... I heard this in the 1980s.
“Alum” (aluminum sulfate) was used in pickles and as a component in baking powder, among other things. I don’t see it in commercial pickles any more, and not all brands of baking powder use it. Aluminum toxicity can cause dementia ...
A big culprit is anti-perspirant. There are deodorants without aluminum but not anti-perspirants.
Well, seeing as aluminum is the third most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, it’s going to be difficult to stay away from it entirely.
I heard that theory about 20 years ago.
No, not aluminum. The article specifically says aluminium.
Does this guy know just how much aluminum we are exposed to even without additives? We’re all doomed.
It’s not aluminum itself alone. They may have something with the fluoride though. Aluminum fluoride.
I’m thinking plastics may be part of the problem. The generation that is now in their 80s has a never before seen EPIDEMIC of Alzheimers, other dementias, and other neurodegenerative diseases. In the 50s when plastics hit, they were seen as lifesavers and money savers for industry and household. People did everything with plastics. (Still do a lot). Plastics get into the bloodstream so easily, through ingestion as well as transdermally. I would like to see more studies.
There are deodorants without aluminum ...
I have tried a few of them in the past. I didn’t like any of them. Too much of a scent or left a wet feeling film under arms.
Aluminum is highly reactive ... in nature it is found primarily in the form of insoluble oxides and silicates.
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