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- A paper that doesn't have any experimental data
- A single author paper (nobody to collaborate with)
- A paper that uses many of the the author's previous papers as references
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
#62Other 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.
Cookware for hiking etc. commonly uses aluminium.
Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
#63Other than antiperspirant, are we exposed to aluminum in a form that our bodies readily absorb? Is it ever used as a food additive?
I believe there's some in coffee mate (a non-dairy creamer)
Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
#64Red-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.
Also, I think it's an old idea, probably recycled. The title seemed very familiar, but from long, long ago, pre-2000 at least, maybe circa 1990.
Well, either that, or I got too much aluminum in my brain and I'm confused. :)
Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
#65Have any of you guys ever written or read scientific papers before? This is a pretty poorly written article and I'm surprised it has so many upvotes. It's a bold headline, but the article itself makes many logical leaps that are pretty sensational and unfounded.
Overall I'd say this is a pretty garbage article and that we shouldn't be upvoting it so much / only reading the headline and accepting it as fact.
Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
#66TLDR: "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.
You know what's a (C + Ji)? A complex joke.
You know why complex jokes are not funny? Because the joke part is imaginary.
Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
#67TLDR: "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.
Aluminum is the third most common element in the Earth's crust, so we've been heavily exposed for our entire 4-plus-billion-year evolution. That's one reason to be suspicious of claims that aluminum is dangerous; we should be pretty well adapted to it by now.
That said, big brains and 100-year lifespans are a pretty new development, so a bad reaction is certainly not impossible. But it's worth taking extra care evaluating the evidence.
Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
#68Red-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.
Yeah, they totally seem legit...
Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
#69Red-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.
Yeah, they totally seem legit... http://i.imgur.com/FlCnduG.png
They publish in Latin. That shows you how old and established they are.
Re: Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Without anti-perspirant I sweat a lot (which is not a problem) but it's the stink it causes that makes me use them. Anyone has any tips?
Shave your armpits. No, seriously, no hair means less surface area for bacteria to grow on.
I do shave them or keep them trimmed. Doesn't help much.