Reading an article in the June 2008 issue of Acres USA ("Aluminum: Valued Servant, Dangerous Master"), was reminded of the dangers of excess aluminum to the human body. Just a few reminders:
•Alzheimer's Disease is the chief result of a lifetime of aluminum exposure.
•Flouride is a by-product of aluminum production. It and aluminum sulfate are used in public water supplies, so if you drink public water that hasn't been purified you are ingesting both. Aluminum sulfate is added to public water supplies to clear up turbidity (cloudiness) in the water. This adds even more aluminum to food and other body products that are made using public water supplies.
•Aluminum is widely used in all antiperspirants. Check the label of yours -- if you see "aluminum-anything" on the label, stop using it.
•Don't use aluminum cookware.
•Don't use baking powder that contains aluminum. (Aluminum-free powders are available.)
•Most processed foods contain aluminum. For example, American cheese best melts on hamburgers because of added aluminum.
•Food colorings contain aluminum. If the "-lake" suffix appears on a food label it is an aluminum-based additive.
•Aluminum is used in almost all commercial candy formulations (think Halloween).
•Aluminum from Detroit's drinking water fed to lab rats showed up in the rats' brain tissue in 4-7 minutes after ingestion.
•Dialysis for renal patients requires the use of distilled water because of the damage to kidneys caused by aluminum and fluorine in city water. "Dialysis dementia" was the name given to dialysis patients in the early days who exhibited Alzeimer's-like symptoms within days of starting dialysis.
•Patients taking large doses of aspirin (blood thinning, etc.) are often switched to coated aspirins to decrease stomach irritation, the coatings of which contain significant amounts of aluminum.
Is aluminum always bad? No. In trace amounts, like arsenic and other "bad" natural elements, it plays its role in maintaining health. Aluminum is one of the natural elements in trace amounts in nature's perfect blend of all the 100+ elements: seawater. And fish don't get Alzheimer's. In natural, trace amounts, aluminum has a role to play. We get those trace amounts from food grown in healthy, balanced soils. But when excess, non-natural amounts of aluminum are added to food and body products (in addition to being found in toxic air pollution from industrial and internal combustion uses), it becomes a poison in the body.
•Alzheimer's Disease is the chief result of a lifetime of aluminum exposure.
•Flouride is a by-product of aluminum production. It and aluminum sulfate are used in public water supplies, so if you drink public water that hasn't been purified you are ingesting both. Aluminum sulfate is added to public water supplies to clear up turbidity (cloudiness) in the water. This adds even more aluminum to food and other body products that are made using public water supplies.
•Aluminum is widely used in all antiperspirants. Check the label of yours -- if you see "aluminum-anything" on the label, stop using it.
•Don't use aluminum cookware.
•Don't use baking powder that contains aluminum. (Aluminum-free powders are available.)
•Most processed foods contain aluminum. For example, American cheese best melts on hamburgers because of added aluminum.
•Food colorings contain aluminum. If the "-lake" suffix appears on a food label it is an aluminum-based additive.
•Aluminum is used in almost all commercial candy formulations (think Halloween).
•Aluminum from Detroit's drinking water fed to lab rats showed up in the rats' brain tissue in 4-7 minutes after ingestion.
•Dialysis for renal patients requires the use of distilled water because of the damage to kidneys caused by aluminum and fluorine in city water. "Dialysis dementia" was the name given to dialysis patients in the early days who exhibited Alzeimer's-like symptoms within days of starting dialysis.
•Patients taking large doses of aspirin (blood thinning, etc.) are often switched to coated aspirins to decrease stomach irritation, the coatings of which contain significant amounts of aluminum.
Is aluminum always bad? No. In trace amounts, like arsenic and other "bad" natural elements, it plays its role in maintaining health. Aluminum is one of the natural elements in trace amounts in nature's perfect blend of all the 100+ elements: seawater. And fish don't get Alzheimer's. In natural, trace amounts, aluminum has a role to play. We get those trace amounts from food grown in healthy, balanced soils. But when excess, non-natural amounts of aluminum are added to food and body products (in addition to being found in toxic air pollution from industrial and internal combustion uses), it becomes a poison in the body.
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Hey there, William...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the good article...I actually read a little booklet, in the early seventies, with almost the same info. The exception being, Alzheimer's wasn't a known problem (right?), instead it was explained, that aluminum "destroys brain cells." In the same booklet, I also remember reading that aluminum waste was a problem, so, the decision was made to translate it into floride. Hope remembering all that is a good sign (smile).
Blessings on your weekend, mi amigo...Priscilla
PS...How do we know that fish don't get Alzheimers (smile)?
Prisc -- Good question. "Fish don't get Alheimer's" is a generalization taken from the work of Dr. Maynard Murray. He was an internist who, in the 'Fifties and 'Sixties, dissected (did "autopsies" on) hundreds of ocean fish looking for signs of disease -- and found none. He was curious about the natural mix of elements found in seawater and wondered what kind of health those who were exposed to it constantly enjoyed. As it turns out, their health was excellent. (Not always true today as aquatic creatures show signs of living in polluted waters -- but in unpolluted ocean water the balance of minerals seemed to be a healthful environment.) He went on to pioneer the use of sea salts, and then ocean water itself, in agriculture -- with great success -- in an effort to restore the balance of minerals to our depleted soils. That made sense to me as Genesis 1:9 talks about the land "appearing" out of the seas, as if it was once underwater. If so, land and sea would have had the same mineral mix "in the beginning," the land having been drenched in ocean water. Where does that leave fresh-water fish? I don't know, but it's a good question. (The book he wrote describing his research is called Sea Energy Agriculture.)
ReplyDeleteI also have read somewhere about fluoride being a waste product from aluminum manufacturing. It's amazing that the U.S. still labors under the "fluoride prevents cavities" myth when it has been shown that it doesn't -- Europe has banned it from their water supplies.