Inquest to report on aluminium link to Alzheimer's - autism too

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Another forum mentioned this so thought i would pass it onto you folks.This arrived in my in box this morning, and I read it, but thought I would read it again when I was more awake. I find it very interesting, and something more I will look into in the up coming weeks.

Wouldn't it be something if lets say at the age of 50 (tossed out an age), doctors started to test for aluminium yearly, and lets just say for funny sake, insurance pays for the tests? And even funnier they pay for you to detox out the aluminium...Oh in turn saving them money on the other end because they are not paying for your alzheimer's?

Below.

two autism-related cites hereinbelow

Inquest to report on aluminum link to

Alzheimer's.

This week, an inquest into the cause of one resident's death

will be reported, twenty-four years after 20 tonnes of aluminium

sulphate leaked into the water supply from a water treatment

plant. Aluminium is ubiquitous, found in water, food and drink,

food packaging, vaccines, and drugs. How safe is it?

.....The inquest into the cause of Mrs Cross’s death,

delayed twice in the past few years, is set to report this week.

Among those who will be watching the outcome with interest is

Professor Exley, who was called in nearly eight years ago to

examine Mrs Cross’s brain (it contained 23 micrograms of aluminium

per gram of brain, compared to normal levels of 0‑2mcg).

But Prof Exley, a world-renowned expert on aluminium, hopes

the inquest will do more than finally establish the truth about

why Mrs Cross died (he is convinced that aluminium from the

drinking water played a role in her mental deterioration). He

also hopes it will highlight how little we know about the

implications for our health of the most prolific metal on the

planet.

Aluminium, he argues, is now added to or used in almost

everything we eat, drink, inject or absorb. At high levels, it

is an established neurotoxin – yet no one knows whether the

levels we are ingesting are safe.

“Hundreds of publications demonstrate that aluminium is not

safe,” he says. “But the accumulation of aluminium in the body

has yet to become the subject of serious investigation and

consideration in medicine.”

Exley, who is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Keele

University, has been researching aluminium for a quarter of a

century. His office is piled high with books on the subject, and

he has contributed to scores of peer-reviewed papers and

publications.

The metal is the most abundant in the Earth’s crust, naturally

absorbed from the soil by plants and foodstuffs. But while 50

years ago we may have ingested minute amounts from vegetables

(and possibly from some of the pots they were cooked in), today

aluminium is found in almost everything.

In the form of salts, it has properties that make it a

versatile and useful additive. “Aluminium sulphate is added to

our water to improve clarity,” says Prof Exley. “All foods that

need raising agents or additives, such as cakes and biscuits,

contain aluminium. Children’s sweets contain aluminium-enhanced

food colouring. It is in tea, cocoa and malt drinks, in some

wines and fizzy drinks and in most processed foods.

“It is in cosmetics, sunscreens and antiperspirants, as well

as being used as a buffering agent in medications like aspirin

and antacids. It is even used in vaccines. We know aluminium can

be toxic, yet there is no legislation to govern how much of it

is present in anything, apart from drinking water.”

“When the amount of aluminium consumed exceeds the body’s

capacity to excrete it, the excess is then deposited in various

tissues, including nerves, brain, bone, liver, heart, spleen and

muscle,” he explains. “We call it the 'silent visitor’ because

it creeps into the body and beds down in our bones and

brain.....

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Do

aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence

of autism?

Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA.

J

Inorg Biochem. 2011 Nov;105(11):1489-99

Mechanisms

of aluminum adjuvant toxicity and autoimmunity in pediatric

populations.

Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA.

Lupus. 2012

Feb;21(2):223-30.

Immune challenges during early development, including those

vaccine-induced, can lead to permanent detrimental alterations of

the brain and immune function. Experimental evidence also shows

that simultaneous administration of as little as two to three

immune adjuvants can overcome genetic resistance to autoimmunity.

In some developed countries, by the time children are 4 to 6 years

old, they will have received a total of 126 antigenic compounds

along with high amounts of aluminium (Al) adjuvants through routine

vaccinations. According to the US Food and Drug Administration,

safety assessments for vaccines have often not included

appropriate toxicity studies because vaccines have not been viewed

as inherently toxic. Taken together, these observations raise

plausible concerns about the overall safety of current childhood

vaccination programs. When assessing adjuvant toxicity in

children, several key points ought to be considered: (i) infants

and children should not be viewed as " small adults " with regard to

toxicological risk as their unique physiology makes them much more

vulnerable to toxic insults; (ii) in adult humans Al vaccine

adjuvants have been linked to a variety of serious autoimmune and

inflammatory conditions (i.e., " ASIA " ), yet children are regularly

exposed to much higher amounts of Al from vaccines than adults;

(iii) it is often assumed that peripheral immune responses do not

affect brain function. However, it is now clearly established that

there is a bidirectional neuro-immune cross-talk that plays

crucial roles in immunoregulation as well as brain function. In

turn, perturbations of the neuro-immune axis have been

demonstrated in many autoimmune diseases encompassed in " ASIA " and

are thought to be driven by a hyperactive immune response; and

(iv) the same components of the neuro-immune axis that play key

roles in brain development and immune function are heavily

targeted by Al adjuvants. In summary, research evidence shows that

increasing concerns about current vaccination practices may indeed

be warranted. Because children may be most at risk of

vaccine-induced complications, a rigorous evaluation of the

vaccine-related adverse health impacts in the paediatric population

is urgently needed.-- is