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Aluminum in the Human Diet
Aluminum: Contamination of Human Neurophysiology and Behavior

KEYWORDS: Aluminum in cookware, antacids, adjuvants in vaccines,toothpaste tubes,drink cans, cooking foil, baking powder,food containers,foods, pharmaceuticals,etc.

INTRODUCTION
The majority of the human population in the industrialized nations ingest a minimum of 30 to 50 milligrams of aluminum metal per day. An examination of labels on consumer products will reveal that many of them contain the metal. Most foods contain aluminum products. Beverage cans, aluminum foil in contact with food, aluminum pots and pans and aluminum in drugs (including most antacids) insure that the cumulative load of aluminum in the human body eventually reaches critical level.

Aluminum in consumer drugs is a big problem. Aspirin is commonly buffered with aluminum hydroxide, aluminum glycinate and other aluminum compounds. Vaginal douches contain potassium aluminum sulfate, ammonium aluminum sulfate, and alum. Antacids contain aluminum hydroxide, magaldrate, dihydroxyaluminum, and aluminum oxide. Antidiarrheal drugs contain aluminum magnesium silicate and kaolin, an aluminum salt. Cake mixes, self-rising flour, processed cheese, baking powder, food starch modifiers, pickling salts and anti-caking agents provide additional aluminum in the form of sodium aluminum, sodium aluminum sulfate, aluminum ammounium sulfate, and sodium aluminum silicate. Aluminum contaminates drinking water, milk and other products.
 

The Problem of Aluminum Cookware

One wonders why aluminum cookware, as opposed to stainless steel, was introduced in the United States in the first place. Along with aluminum foil, cookware made of aluminum is a significant source of excess aluminum in the diet. Boiling water in aluminum containers, especially water containing acidic substances, causes aluminum to leach into the water and food. Water containing fluorides encourages the leaching process from aluminum cookware.

Water containing 1ppm fluoride[The usual level of fluoride in public water supplies.], boiled for ten minutes in an aluminum pot, will increase the concentration of aluminum to 200 ppm. Prolonged boiling can increase the concentration to 600 ppm.[Tennakone et al., "Aluminum leaching from cooking utensils" Nature, Vol 325, January 15-21, 1987.] Add acidic food (tomato sauce, for example) and it even goes higher. In addition, as we see in the chapter in fluorides, the presence of aluminum increases the negative effects of fluorides (which is why fluoride toothpaste comes in aluminum tubes). Since the scientific data has been around for some time on all these issues, it cannot be anything but intentional. Aluminum cookware has been around since the late 1920's.

The Effect of Aluminum on the Human Brain

In order to prove that all of this is intentional, we have to prove that it was known early enough that aluminum causes a problem. One would assume that indications of negative effect would preclude introduction of aluminum cookware. Not in the United States. German experiments done in 1897 , where aluminum was analyzed for pathological reaction in animals, showed that aluminum is a selective neurotoxin and a nerve cell poison of specific affinity for the brain.[ Doellken, P. "Ueber die wirkung des aluminum mit sonder beruecksichtigung der durch das aluminum verursachten lasionen im zentralnervensystem" Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Arch Exper Path Pharmakol 40:58-120, 1897.] Exposure of the central nervous system to aluminum salts produces a progressive encephalopathy.[ Munoz-Garcia et al, "An immunocytochemical comparison of cytoskeletal proteins in aluminum-induced and Alzheimer-type neurofibrillary tangles." Acta Neuropathology Vol 70, 1986, p.243-248. Now we see that aluminum deposition produces encephalopathy, vaccines produce encephalopathy, fluorides and mercury amalgams produce encephalopathy, and they knew about all of it early on. Someone or some group in high position, more than 70 years ago, intentionally planned to use the United States as a testing ground for all of this, ultimately resulting in a sociopathic society pleading for totalitarian control. They knew about the effect of mercury and vaccines in 1926. It's in the medical literature. All of this is not an accident. Are you going to stand by and not take responsibility for your health and the health of those you love? The government isn't, because it's a conflict of interest.]

Earlier we mentioned the fact that a great number of cases of degenerative brain diseases in Guam drew the curiousity of researchers. Ten percent of the total population of native Guamanians die of brain disease. Fifteen percent of the natives in the Mariana Islands die of neurodegenerative disease. Why? Part of the answer is that there are high levels of aluminum in the drinking water. There are also high levels of aluminum in the food.[Perl, D., et al., "The association of aluminum, Alzheimer's disease, and neurofibrillary tangles" Journal of Neural Transmutation, Vol 24, 1987, pp.205-211; Dalton et al, "Aluminium and calcium in soil and food from Guam, Palau and Jamaica: implications for ALD and Parkinsonism-dementia syndromes of Guam", Brain, Vol 112, 1989, p. 45-53.]
 

Aluminum Interaction With Brain Chemicals

Aluminum is a potent inhibitor of the uptake of choline and dopamine.[ Banks, W., et al., "Aluminum increases permeability of blood-brain barrier to labelled DSIP and beta-endorphin: possible implications for senile and dialysis dementias" Lancet Vol 26, Hov 1983, p.1227 ; Guest, J., et al., "The effects of aluminum on sodium-potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase activity and choline uptake in rat brain synaptosomes" Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol 29, 1980, p.141; Davison, A., et al., "Differences in the inhibitory effect of aluminum 3+ on the uptake of dopamine by synaptosomes from forebrain and from striatum of the rat", Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol 30, 1981, p.3123-3125.] Both are vital chemicals released during nerve inpulse transmission, as well as nerve impulse conduction to muscles and various glands. As a result, the presence of aluminum ions in the brain has an adverse impact on thought and reasoning processes, as well as short-term memory. Furthermore, there is significant evidence that aluminum ions alter enzymes involved with acetylcholine metabolism,[ Wong, P.C., et al., "The effects of aluminum on the methylation of phospolipids in the rat brain synaptosomal membrane", Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol 30, 1981, p.1704; Simpson, J., et al, "Cholinergic enzymes in neurofibrillary degeneration produced by aluminum", Brain Research, Vol 197, 1980, p. 269-274. affecting interplay between thought processes and motor coordination, resulting in ataxia and other serious problems so obvious in those with Alzheimer syndrome and other "senile" degenerative conditions.