Virtually everyone uses aluminum pots and pans, and aluminum filled deodorant. Because its cheap.
Interesting link. No maybes. The Aluminum did it. Period.
Makes one wonder about other common, "harmless", "trace metals". Not to mention phosex and all the other farming poisons, insecticides, whatnot. And to think I once scoffed at the old Romans for not suspecting that all that lead could poison them into even earlier, even nastier, graves.
Quod Deus vult perdere, indeed.
(Note - Another primary means of aluminum-to-brain seems to clearly involve the
Aluminum in underarm deodorants used by at least a hundred million of Americans daily. -ed)
Aluminium Toxicity In Edinburgh (1976)
In the 1970s, there were outbreaks of encephalopathy (dementia) and bone disease (osteomalacia) in various dialysis units. This was often called "dialysis dementia". The key researchers into this were David Kerr in Newcastle and Alan Alfrey in the USA. Alfrey and colleagues associated the encephalopathy in dialysis patients with aluminium toxicity (Alfrey et al, 1976). Studies were done and a geographical variation of toxicity was found, and it was associated with aluminium in that water supply.
Water that was peaty and brown in colour was not very attractive for drinking, so was treated with alum (aluminium hydroxide) and then filtered crudely. Aluminium in the water varied enormously from one area to another. In areas with very peaty water, the aluminium level can be very high. Aluminium also came from Alucaps, (aluminium hydroxide tablets). These were used to bind phosphate in patients who were hyperphosphataemic. Alucaps, reduced phosphate absorption from the diet. Originally it was thought that the aluminium in the Alucaps, was not absorbed into the body, but it was later found to be absorbed, increasing the plasma aluminium level. So there was a hunt for new substances to control phosphate, and calcium and magnesium were considered. Magnesium was not used since it causes diarrhoea. Calcium carbonate was chosen and used in Edinburgh in 1980s.
" I remember walking into a ward round with an article from the New England Journal of Medicine about fracturing bone disease associated with aluminium, written by a research group in Colorado." (Dr C Swainson)
[The dialysis encephalopathy syndrome. Possible aluminium intoxication" by Alan Alfrey and colleagues, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1976]
"At that time one of the home HD dialysis patients was confused every time before coming into hospital, and she improved in hospital. She also had terrible fractures, but it was not due to hyperparathyroid disease. Dr Lambie thought it was an interesting article, and the patient's condition maybe related to what was described in the article". (Dr C Swainson)
"There was a terrible problem of encephalopathy and bone disease in the patients dialysed in Newcastle. It was called "the Newcastle bone disease". Dialysis patients in Edinburgh also got terrible fractures. Not a week went by without at least one dialysis patient getting a fracture." (Dr R Winney)
So the aluminium level from the water supply in her home (to the south of Edinburgh) was tested and was found to be very high. Water in the Edinburgh area was subsequently tested and the aluminium level was also found to be high. Water in Edinburgh was "medium hard", not as hard as the water in London, but harder than the water in the Western parts of Scotland.
"There was a terrible problem of encephalopathy and bone disease in the patients dialysed in Newcastle. It was called "the Newcastle bone disease". Dialysis patients in Edinburgh also got terrible fractures. Not a week went by without at least one dialysis patient getting a fracture." (Dr R Winney)
From Yuru Youhatsu
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