Between many factors the Aluminium factor 

Five to ten percent of people over the age of 85 have Alzheimer’s disease. A smaller percentage of those under 65 are affected with it. Strongly implicated in this dreaded disease is aluminium.

Aluminium is the commonest metal on the earth’s crust and, after oxygen and selenium, the most abundant element on earth. It comes in bauxite ore. Fifty years ago the widespread use of this metal became common. And for many more years, aluminium salts have been used for pickling vegetables.  We now find it in tap water, antacids, antiperspirants, and many other places.

Dialysis patients go mad, have trouble talking, confusion, muscle spasms, become helpless, demented, bedridden, and die. The large amounts of tap water from cities using aluminium for flocculation procedures apparently caused these patients to have their difficulty. These patients routinely swallow large amounts of aluminium in antacids to prevent the build-up of phosphorus in their blood. Dialysis dementia is a common complication of dialysis. Aluminium attaches itself to blood protein and gains easy entry to the brain.

In Guam, soil and water is low in calcium and magnesium, and especially high in aluminium. There is much Lou Gehrig’s and Parkinson’s disease in Guam. Aluminium is high in the neurofibrillary tangles.

Only 12 to 25% of aluminium consumed seems to be absorbed. The daily intake of 22 mgs. seems to be average, although some get 100 times that amount! The excess is excreted in the urine.  Plaques and tangles both occur in the neurons. The tangles and plaques are usually located in a critical area in the basilar nuclei. This is the cerebral activator, keeping the higher brain levels from falling asleep, etc., and is a rich source of acetylcholine (important for recent memory processing).  Cats injected with aluminium directly into the brain showed behavioural changes similar to Alzheimer’s.

There are two mechanisms postulated for the increase in aluminium in certain individuals; an increase in uptake, possibly due to genetic influences, or an increased storage of aluminium.  A second reason is that of a virus which can induce aluminium storage, or may be associated with aluminium storage to assist in the inflammatory process in some way.

Symptoms 

This affliction often begins with inability to bring up words from the memory. If a person has as many as two 3 second pauses in conversation in one minute, it is an indication of beginning Alzheimer’s disease. Since fatigue and distractions can also be a factor causing pauses in conversation, the diagnosis has to be made with caution. Many other afflictions cause dementia, and it is wise not to place the label on afflictions of the mind until every possible avenue has been investigated to determine the cause of poor mental functioning. Once the disease was present mainly in the elderly, but we are seeing the disease more and more frequently in younger people, even beginning in the 30s and 40s.

Every experience and impression a person experiences are permanently recorded in some way in the brain; however, the recall of these recordings is often blocked by intervening happenings, by the ability of the brain to forget unpleasant impressions, and the capability of only certain thoughts or occurrences stimulating a chain of neurons in the brain which would communicate with those stored recordings.

The amount of attention a person pays to an event or thought, the degree of stress the person is experiencing, and the general health of the body, which also includes the health of the brain, can determine to a large degree the ability to recall. Persons who are preoccupied with their own thoughts, rather than with what is happening around them, will often feel they have a poor memory, when it is merely poor attention.

Causes of Alzheimer’s according to the general view or actual paradigm

“Alzheimer’s disease is thought to be caused by the abnormal build-up of proteins in and around brain cells. One of the proteins involved is called amyloid, deposits of which form plaques around brain cells. The other protein is called tau, deposits of which form tangles within brain cells.” (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/alzheimers-disease/causes/).