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

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oh my god - I had no idea about aluminum being added to so much

Sheri

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. Aluminum 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

aluminum (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

pediatric population is urgently needed.

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

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