| ALZHEIMER'S AND YOU!
By Hesh
Goldstein
Americans are losing their minds to Alzheimer's
disease. It's an epidemic and it's not typical of what's
going on in the rest of the world.
The World Health Organization estimates that there are
18 million people with Alzheimer's. Over 4 1/2 million Americans
have the disease. We account for 25% of all Alzheimer's cases,
even though we represent only 4.6% of the world's population.
Europe is experiencing half our rate of disease. For Americans
over 85 years of age, 50% are thought to have Alzheimer's.
The question is, "Why"?
Alzheimer's was first discovered in 1906, about 20 years
after aluminum cookware was introduced. It is not a part
of normal aging says the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The NIH contends that the cause of Alzheimer's is "not
known". They say, "Prior theories regarding the
accumulation of aluminum, lead, mercury, and other substances
in the brain have been disproved".
Do not believe that crap! Federal agencies have a talent
for not finding environmental causes for many diseases. They
live by the motto, "Do not seek and thou shall not find".
Genetic triggers and lifestyle choices get the research dollars
for pretty obvious reasons - their findings don't hurt polluters'
profits.
The world's scientists and government researchers have
not taken aluminum off the scientific table as a causal factor
in Alzheimer's. Research scientists with the International
Aluminum Network report, "Aluminum has been implicated
as a potential factor or cofactor in the Alzheimer syndrome
as well as in the etiopathogenesis of other neurodegenerative
diseases, Parkinsonism, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and
other diseases". Whaaat?
Initially, it was thought that aluminum might be the sole cause of Alzheimer's.
Persons with Alzheimer's have been found to experience increased absorption
of aluminum in the brain, as well as exhibit densities of senile plaques and
neurofibrillary tangles. However, there are no reports that suggest plaques
and tangles do not always signify Alzheimer's, and vice versa.
Further clouding the issue are patients on kidney dialysis
machines. They are unable to excrete aluminum, plus they
may also be treated with medicines that include aluminum.
However, reports say that dialysis patients don't develop
Alzheimer's, although they can develop dialysis dementia
if the equipment doesn't filter out aluminum. And therein
lies a clue.
The process of kidney dialysis requires very purified,
non-fluoridated water. Do you get the feeling that fluoride
is aluminum's partner-in-crime?
In 1998, Julie Varner and two colleagues published research
on the effects of aluminum-fluoride and sodium-fluoride on
the nervous system of rats. They concluded, "Chronic
administration of aluminum-fluoride and sodium-fluoride in
the drinking water of rats resulted in distinct morphological
alterations of the brain, including effects on neurons and
cerebrovasculature". In laymen's terms, it looked like
fluoride and aluminum could cause Alzheimer's. Although the
study was not definitive, they may have been on to something.
Aluminum, along with fluoride, is in our drinking water,
foods, beverages, processed foods, and consumer products.
Europe, which is largely unfluoridated, (the U.S. is over
60% fluoridated) has half our Alzheimer's rate.
Stay tuned!
Hesh Goldstein is
the moderator of “Health
Talk”, a weekly radio show on K-108 radio
(1080 on the AM dial), that airs on Saturday morning from 8am to 9am.
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