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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 by jxramos »

ianai wrote: post #19
CountSessine wrote: post #10

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.

I had an Organic Chemistry professor back in like 2001 who swore by the Al link, or at least was very cautious about it and made the lifestyle changes to eliminate all the aluminum cookware she said could leach with the cooking of acidic foods and all. Seemed a pretty easy enough thing to avoid when we went all cast iron and stainless steel. I'm curious what the history to this Al hypothesis is.

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Post by positr0n »

reubenmorais wrote: post #13
CountSessine wrote: post #10

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...

Relevent sentences from the abstract:

At this rate, about 4 μg of aluminium is absorbed from a single use of ACH on both underarms. This is about 2.5% of the aluminium typically absorbed by the gut from food over the same time period. Therefore, a one-time use of ACH applied to the skin is not a significant contribution to the body burden of aluminium.

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

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Post by seanp2k2 »

euroclydon wrote: post #7
mccada wrote: post #5

It is interesting how the editorial talks about perspiration being a natural way for the body to excrete aluminum, while aluminum is the active ingredient in most anti-perspirants. So we are effectively blocking the release of aluminum by using aluminum.

Only in the arm-pits. There are plenty of other places to sweat when you're hot.

But still, this is part of why I go out of my way to use deodorant without anti-perspirant. The idea of aluminum bits causing the pores to swell shut doesn't sound like a good idea.

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

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Post by HarryHirsch »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #2

Note that this is an Editorial

An editorial in a journal that no one ever heard of by an author from an also-ran university. In medical research you can really only trust meta-studies, because attempts to find a simple cause for any complex disease are legion, and usually wrong.

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

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Post by pc86 »

prodikl wrote: post #20

dude... does this mean antiperspirant is going to increase my risk of alzheimer's in the future?? what about aluminum cans and alumnium foil?

dude... there are a half dozen nearly identical comments on this thread that give you the answer to your question.

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

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Post by mamon »

Xeoncross wrote: post #22
michaelmu wrote: post #4

Have there ever been studies linking the aluminum in antiperspirant to development of Alzheimers?

...or even aluminum foil wrapping those delicious foods like stuffed potatoes?

...or aluminum cans for drinks and tinned meat? although those seem to have other metal covering them on the inside.

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

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Post by dwg »

kbenson wrote: post #17
pmontra wrote: 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.

My understanding:

Aluminum exists naturally in soil and is absorbed into plants and the animals that eat them. We have always been exposed aluminum in trace amounts via food. Ones total exposure increases over their lifetime.

Over a century ago aluminum extraction became much cheaper and it started to be used in various food additives, thereby increasing the amount of aluminum we consume and the average total exposure over our lifetimes. If aluminum is a primary factor in Alzheimer's, we would see an increase in incidence over that time period as well.

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

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Post by iandanforth »

Red-flags:

- A journal name I don't recognize

- A single author from an institution that I don't recognize

- Use of absolute terminology 'unquestionably'

- Implied vague relationships between large biological systems 'sweating' reduces chances of Alzheimer.

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