here are two more articles - losely linked - that concern us all :
Merck senior management tried to pay off its own vaccine scientists to remain silent about scientific fraud
naturalnews.com/048545_MMR_...
Aluminum in antacids, food, water and vaccines causes Alzheimer's disease
goosey, the aluminum hypothesis has been dismissed a long time ago.
Some refer to Alzheimer's disease as type 3 diabetes. Apparently the brain makes its own insulin and when there's problems you get the same abnormalities as is found in the pancreas. The amyloid plaques. The tangly things they see under the microscope were thought, back in the 1980s, to be aluminum but they turned out to be not.
OK. I haven't read anything about that. Perhaps you could post some links, please. There are still a lot of people that think aluminium is the cause.
Dr. Daniel Perl: Aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease, a
personal perspective after 25 years
file:///home/chronos/u-3ff4d2a3f1599f5c931d6bdff8dd669fde1fefb2/Downloads/Al%20paper.pdf
Scroll down to 6. Final Words on page 298.
If you read the whole piece written by the guy who first identified aluminum in the brain, he also states that there is a lot of iron in diseased brains.
Not quite sure how you use that link, Gabkad.
goose, cut and paste it into your address line. It opens to the article.
Basically, the fact that iron, aluminum etc. are found in the fibre things in the brain doesn't mean this is what has caused Alzheimer's or Parkinsons or any of the other neurodegenerative diseases in which abnormalities are found. It is associated with the diseases but not causative.
Aluminum is the third most common element on the planet. It is impossible to avoid. If aluminum is why people get dementias, then we'd all have them. Something happens in the bodies of people who develop these diseases.
Zamboni, basing his studies on the amount of iron deposited in the brains of MS patients, hypothesized that this was the result of narrowing of the veins that take blood away from the brain. The procedure he advocated for 'curing' MS has been proven to not be effective. Not all MS patients have narrowing of the veins and not all normals have open veins. MS is also a form of dementia.
Alzheimer's disease is a horrible and horrifying condition. So far, no medications have been successful in treating it. It is very frustrating for neurologists who have spent most of their working lives trying to improve the quality of life for their patients. One of my aquaintances is a neurologist here in Toronto at Sunnybrook Health Sciences centre. She is inundated (due to restricted budgets of course and the lack of hiring of neurologists) with the numbers of patients presenting with various forms of dementia.
We are just on average living longer and these are in most part diseases of aging. Except for MS.
If you think about it, for we of a certain age, lead would be the most pervasive toxic element we would have been exposed to. The coal, the leaded fuel, the lead in house paint and water pipes...... Now that stuff is toxic and not naturally present in the environment the way in which it was when we were young. Nobody makes a big deal out of this probably because lead has been removed from fuels since the 1970s. But the people today who are getting on in years would have experienced significant exposure. Even today, the older homes have layers of lead based paint even if it is underneath fresher layers which are lead free.
Yes, my brother puts all his health problems down to lead in the paint when we were children - apparently, he used to chew the wood work! I can't imagine why. It would never have occured to me to do such a disgusting thing! Perhaps that's why we don't have the same health problems. Although...
Yes, the link, I tried copying and pasting - obvious solution - but it didn't work. Nothing came up.
From the Alzheimer's disease website:
What has led some scientists to believe there is a connection between aluminum and Alzheimer's disease?
Aluminum has been studied for over 40 years as a substance that might be linked to Alzheimer's disease. However, there have been many conflicting findings.
Some studies show increased levels of aluminum in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, while others do not.
Research has not found an increased incidence of Alzheimer's disease in people with occupational exposure to aluminum.
Tea is one of the few plants whose leaves accumulate large amounts of aluminum that can seep into the brewed beverage. However, there is no evidence that Alzheimer's disease is more prevalent in cultures that typically drink large amounts of tea.
Unfortunately, earlier animal studies focused on one animal that is particularly susceptible to aluminum poisoning, thus leading to incorrect conclusions about the general effects of aluminum on the body.
What about pots and pans?
It would be difficult to significantly reduce exposure to aluminum simply by avoiding the use of aluminum cookware, foil, beverage cans and other products. Even if aluminum were clearly implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease, these means of exposure contributes only a very small percentage of the average person's intake of aluminum.
In other words, they still have no idea what causes it.
I was listening to a program about some breakthrough test that may be able to indicate if someone would develop Alzheimer's in the next decade or so. A woman who was interviewed had a father who died of Alzheimer's and a mother who has it. I thought, there must be something environmental about the disease unless her parents were consanginous. They would have lived in the same home, eaten the same foods..... maybe it starts in the gut like so many other diseases.
Or maybe it's some sort of deficiency rather that an excess of something that shouldn't be there.
They are testing for lipopolysaccharides in the blood. These are toxins released by the membranes of gram negative bacteria. ? leaky gut? dysbiosis? immune dysfunction? lung infection?
exeter.ac.uk/news/featuredn...
Oh, it's more than likely that my great grandmother was vit D deficient! She was over 90 when she died and hadn't left the house for years because she was blind. She had her daughter to look after her. And we didn't have suppléments in those days! Frankly, I'm amazed she managed to live that long. None of her children did.
Well worth the read greygoose, thank you.
You're welcome.
