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Do anti-perspirants containing aluminum really cause Alzheimer's disease? |
I've seen inconclusive reports that indicate so, and in the new movie "Smokin' Aces" they mention it as well that Aluminum causes Alzheimer's disease, and aluminum is the active ingredient in most anti-perspirants. The debate rages on! The deal is this. Aluminum is suspected of playing a role in Alzheimer's disease, a form of degenerative senile dementia thought to afflict 5-10 percent of all persons over 65. Victims of Alzheimer's have been found to have four times the normal concentration of aluminum in their brain cells. Aluminum is known to be a neurotoxin that can cause brain damage if you're exposed to it in sufficiently large amounts. The question is whether chronic exposure to small amounts can affect you. Despite lots of research, we still don't know. But several studies have shown that people exposed to higher-than-average amounts of aluminum tend to have higher rates of Alzheimer's. It's obvious aluminum isn't the sole cause of Alzheimer's disease, since many people don't contract it, even in environments where they're exposed to high amounts of aluminum. In fact, there's some indication that a predisposition to the disease may be hereditary. Thus, if one of your forebears had Alzheimer's, you may have inherited some genetic kink that makes you especially vulnerable to aluminum poisoning. In any case, aluminum isn't easy to avoid. You can probably dump your aluminum cookware without too much trouble, but you'll find aluminum is also contained in many common antacids and antiperspirants. I note, for example, that my friendly bottle of Ban Basic here contains aluminum chloride and aluminum chlorhydrate. (Granted, you can now get aluminum-free deodorants.) Even more insidious, aluminum is added to many municipal water supplies to help remove floating debris. Aluminum is also found in household baking powder, self-rising flour, cake mix, pancake batter, and frozen dough (as sodium aluminum phosphate, a leavening agent); in non-dairy creamers, table salt, and other powdered foods (as an anti-caking ingredient); in processed cheese (as an emulsifier); and in hemorrhoid preparations (up to 50 percent aluminum hydroxide). For a very good read, I suggest the following link: Source(s): http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0819... no |
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