Aluminum is the third most common element on this planet.
ken
At 05:03 PM 4/7/2003 -0400, you wrote:
It is fact that the brains of alzheimers patients have an elevated level
of aluminum
in them. It is unclear whether aluminum in the brain causes alheimzers,
or if the
disease causes accumulation of aluminum in the brain. Also it is unclear
how the
aluminum gets in the brain, since I believe it is suppose to be stopped by
the blood
brain barrier. Since there is a great deal of aluminum and aluminum
compounds around
us and in the soil, there is likely some other unidentified mechanism at work.
One of the latest things I read was that it could actually be caused by a
prion.
Marshall
Jack Dayton wrote:
> > In what form? There is a lot of aluminum in the earth's crust. I am
not aware
> > of any significant toxicity unless it gets through the blood brain
barrier.
> >
> > Marshall
> **************************
>
> Many years ago, before desk top computers,
> I read an article condemning aluminum as a
> possible cause of Alzheimers - I have never
> used an antiperspirant since --
> even if that were not true, think of the
> money I have saved. :-)
>
> Jack
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