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Aluminum in Water May Up Alzheimer's Disease Risk

 

Alzheimer's Disease has been linked to a number of risk factors, including exposure to aluminum.

Now from France comes a report that drinking water with high aluminum concentrations may indeed increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's and dementia.

To summarize:

  • Researchers determined that a concentration of aluminum in drinking water above 0.1 milligrams/liter may be a risk factor of dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

  • Nearly 2,700 individuals were followed for an 8-year period to identify new cases of probable Alzheimer's or other dementing illness.

  • The sample was divided into 77 drinking water areas, with surveys conducted to determine concentrations of aluminum, calcium, and fluorine in each water supply.

The study authors point out that their findings support those of several other studies linking aluminum to Alzheimer's, but add that "this result needs to be confirmed using a higher number of exposed subjects."

American Journal of Epidemiology 2000;152:59-66.



Dr. Mercola Dr. Mercola's Comments:

Another reason to make sure that you limit your water intake to filtered or bottled. Aluminum is an issue but for most, but probably not as significant as the chlorine exposure. Unless you have well water you will also need a filter for your shower as most of us will absorb for more toxins from bathing or showering than we ever will from drinking tap water.

It is intesting to note, however, that a significant amount of the aluminum in tap water is actually added by the water companies as it is used as alum (aluminum sulfate) to remove particulate and organic matter. Click on the following links for more information on this subject (1, 2)

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Pindar
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I got involved with glyconutrition, since my colleague's brother in law who had a ruptured brain anyurism 8 years ago improved remarkably, and continues to, from short term memory loss and a balance problem (used to be a very successful architect, but became a depressed couch potato, as he had to close his practice -with 5 children still at school etc. that was quite a challenge to his wife).

In our research to see how we can further enhance and help others with brain-issues, I came across the website of the Endowment for Medical Research (www.endowmentmed.org).

I see they are conducting studies on TREHALOSE (an 'upside-down' binding of two glucose molecules) and its potential for improving brain function, for neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's.

It seems quite an economical option, and easy to do (a 'lemonade' is made as a hot or cold beverage, using Trehalose powder, with fresh lemon juice, in filtered water).

Apparently, the Trehalose has something to do with the condition of the cell membrane, onto which the protein and lipid receptors attach (for those who know, this is the attachment which forms the GlycoPROTEIN or -LIPID), and the success theyve seen, may be attributed to avoiding the cells from 'dying' before they should (e.g. motor cells in Parkinson's and memory cells in Alzheimer's) As we live in Africa, and at this stage importing it will be prohibitively expensive due to weight, we are still looking at options of shipping it in at better rates, but I thought I should at least post this for the ones fortunate enough to live in the US and Canada, where it is available from the site mentioned above.

Trehalose has only recently been extracted from corn, in a more economical process in Japan, which makes it available to the 'public' for the first time, aparently.

There's also a GREAT book (e-book for now) on improving brain-function, on their site

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