... "
One theory proposed to explain Alzheimer's suggests that aluminum
plays some role in its development. Aluminum is a neurotoxin damaging
to brain cells. Aluminum, when given to rats, produces the same neural
fibrillatory tangles in the brain that we see in the brains of patients
with Alzheimer's disease. The aluminum content of the brains of
patients who died of Alzheimer's is ten to thirty times higher than in
nondemented individuals. I know several scientists who are so taken with
these observations that they personally avoid all contact with
aluminum."...
(from Womans Day 3/4/86 p.110)
... " Every year, several thousand Americans find they forget to turn
off the stove when they leave the house, or they fail to recognize familiar
objects or remember the name of the U.S. President. For them, the occasional
absent-mindedness that all people experience is the beginning of the loss of
the minds -- and a wasting death." ...
"'Alzheimer's is a tougher disease than AIDS', says Henderson of Johns
Hopkins. 'We dont even know the cause of it.' Researchers believe genetics
plays a role. A Johns Hopkins study suggests that people who have an
affected parent or sibling face a 1-in-6 chance of developing the disease
by age 80. Other theories about its causes point to an infectious agent
similar to the slow virus that causes rarer brain disorders and to
environmental toxins such as aluminum." ..
(from US News and World Report 8/12/85, p.47, by Abigail Trafford and Joseph Carey)