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Protect Your Brain
Protect Yourself by
Removing Toxic Aluminum From Your Body
From
Newsmax.com
Aluminum is thought to play a major role in most of
the neurodegenerative diseases and has been a
suspect in Alzheimer’s for many years as well as in
the development of dementia, Parkinson’s, Lou
Gehrig’s disease (ALS) and other degenerative
diseases.
Experimental studies show that aluminum can produce
all the same changes in the brain we see with
Alzheimer’s disease. Most of us are exposed to
dietary sources of aluminum including cookware,
medications, baking powder, vaccinations, several
foods (teas) and public drinking water.
Normally, people absorb very little of ingested
aluminum, but recent studies have discovered that
those with Down’s syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease
absorb a lot more aluminum than normal.
In
fact, Down’s children absorb 11 times more aluminum
than is normally absorbed. Children with Down’s
syndrome have the same pathological changes in their
brains as those with Alzheimer’s disease.
Ironically, several commonly consumed products
dramatically increase the absorption of aluminum and
increase its toxicity in the brain.
Fluoride, when combined with even small amounts of
aluminum, produces dramatic destruction of the same
brain cells that are destroyed in Alzheimer’s
disease.
In
fact, as little as 0.5 ppm (parts per million)
fluoride added to aluminum in water was found to
produce extensive brain cell loss in the
hippocampus, the memory part of the brain. Most
water systems add 1 to 1.5 ppm fluoride and all add
aluminum.
The
amino acid glutamate, as found in monosodium
glutamate (MSG), also increases aluminum absorption
and deposition in the brain. MSG is added to most
processed foods, usually under a disguised name such
as hydrolyzed protein, soy extract, natural
flavoring or even spices. As with fluoride,
glutamate is even more destructive to brain cells
when combined with aluminum.
Another surprising culprit is citric acid. Lemon
juice is high in citric acid, as are most citrus
fruits. Adding lemon to tea, for example, increases
aluminum absorption from the tea (which contains
very high aluminum levels) over sevenfold. This is
why you should not add lemon to your tea.
Chemicals that remove toxic metals such as aluminum
from the tissues and organs of the body, do so by a
process called chelation, hence they are called
chelators.
A
study done in 1993 at the University of Toronto
found that patients given aluminum-chelating drugs
deteriorated at half the rate of those given no
treatment. Recent studies have found that using
aluminum chelation could reverse the pathological
changes characteristic of Alzheimer’s dementia.
You
can reduce your brain load of aluminum yourself by
using the following supplements, also shown to
significantly lower brain aluminum.
Magnesum citramate. Magnesium reduces brain levels
of mercury and the citramate, a combination of
citrate and malate, has been shown to significantly
stimulate elimination of aluminum from the body.
Ascorbate (as magnesium or
calcium ascorbate). A study found ascorbate to be a
very effective chelator of aluminum, especially when
the aluminum was bound to brain cell DNA. Taking
higher doses of ascorbate with the magnesium
citramate increased the removal of aluminum even
more.
Malate. Malate was shown to be
one of the more effective aluminum chelators for the
brain.
Pyruvate (as calcium pyruvate). Pyruvate has been
shown to effectively prevent aluminum absorption.
Flavonoids. Eat a lot of fresh
vegetables. Supplements containing flavonoids, such
as quercetin and hesperidin, also prevent aluminum
absorption. Chlorella helps remove mercury and lead
and may remove aluminum. These supplements are in
addition to the antioxidant vitamins you normally
take.
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Normally, people absorb very little of ingested
aluminum, but recent studies have discovered
that those with Down’s syndrome and Alzheimer’s
disease absorb a lot more aluminum than normal.
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