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Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

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post #6

Where is the presumed aluminum exposure coming from? I recently read about a relationship between alzheimers and pesticides. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep32222 There is obviously much more to learn.

Really interested here for my far future health as I'm starting a project with some CNC'd aluminum.

Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

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There is a genotype called ApoeE-e4/e4 which increases risk by 11x. https://snpedia.com/index.php/APOE

Interestingly the only differences between Apoe4 and a neutral, very common variant called ApoE3 is one amino acid at position 112. The small variance appears to account for most of the negative effect of the ApoE4 genotype. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28533891

Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Other than antiperspirant, are we exposed to aluminum in a form that our bodies readily absorb? Is it ever used as a food additive?

Aluminium from antiperspirants is not readily absorbed. We ingest a lot more aluminium simply from our daily diets.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691500...

Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Can someone tell the deodorant manufacturers please? It's very hard to find aluminium free anti-perspirant in the uk

http://www.saje.com/ca/peaceful-warrior-4011.htmlhttps://everymanjack.com/body/deodorant.html

I have used these and are not bad. See if you can get these in the UK.

Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

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post #6

Where is the presumed aluminum exposure coming from? I recently read about a relationship between alzheimers and pesticides. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep32222 There is obviously much more to learn.

Really interested here for my far future health as I'm starting a project with some CNC'd aluminum.

it would be good to get an opinion from someone who knows, but I'm pretty sure elemental aluminum and its oxides aren't directly metabolizable?

Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

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post #8

TLDR: "Aging is the major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease though the advent of Alzheimer’s disease within a normal human lifespan is suggested to be brought about through human exposure to aluminum. Essentially without aluminum in brain tissue there would be no Alzheimer’s disease."

Wait, didn't aluminun used to be much more rare in the past, yet we still had Alzheimer's cases? Or are we assuming things in the past were Alzheimer's without good evidence?

Edit: Removed question about exposure, since it was answered in parent.

Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

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post #8

TLDR: "Aging is the major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease though the advent of Alzheimer’s disease within a normal human lifespan is suggested to be brought about through human exposure to aluminum. Essentially without aluminum in brain tissue there would be no Alzheimer’s disease."

There's also a bad joke here.

Can't have Alzheimer's without Al.

EDIT: Oh come on HN, periodic table jokes are in right now.

Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Other than antiperspirant, are we exposed to aluminum in a form that our bodies readily absorb? Is it ever used as a food additive?

I'm concerned about aluminum cookware. Though maybe it doesn't leach out?

Google edit- it definitely can leach.

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