It has been advised for a few years that many individuals that suffer from Alzheimer’s illness have been proven to have deposits of aluminum of their brains and the connection between aluminum and Alzheimer’s illness has been pretty well-discussed and customarily accepted as, not less than, a contributing issue. Alzheimer’s illness (AD) was unknown previous to the twentieth century. The primary case was printed in 1907 by a German psychiatrist by the identify of Alois Alzheimer. Textual content books on pathology as much as 1938 didn’t point out any of the neurological modifications that happen throughout the mind that trigger Alzheimer’s illness. The epidemic of Alzheimer’s illness elevated dramatically after 1950, Alzheimer’s illness tends to be extra prevalent in “developed international locations”‘. It was round 1950 that copper plumbing turned extensively utilized in “developed international locations”; it’s felt that the leaching of copper from copper plumbing is a significant component within the growth of Alzheimer’s illness. Many ailments have a number of components and contributing causal brokers so it might be a mixture of aluminum and copper.

This potential for copper to be a contributing issue within the growth of Alzheimer’s illness was supported by research with laboratory animals during which the modifications within the brains of the animals, fed copper of their ingesting water, had been precisely the identical substance known as amyloid-beta that happens in Alzheimer’s illness sufferers’ brains. It was additionally proven that these laboratory animals had twice as a lot copper lining their blood vessels of their brains. The mind can take away this amyloid-beta with a protein known as LRP (lipoprotein receptor associated protein). This substance escorts the amyloid out of the mind. It was discovered throughout this analysis that copper damages the LRP and it stops working. Of curiosity, the US EPA permits 1.3 elements per million of copper in human ingesting water which is over ten occasions the quantity utilized in these animal experiments.

There are two primary types of copper. One is natural copper, which is within the meals we eat and is sure to meals proteins. It’s subsequently metabolized by the liver and is protected. An inorganic copper is a salt of copper, which is the type that’s usually put in dietary dietary supplements and leaches into ingesting water. It isn’t metabolized by the liver and will increase the physique’s total copper pool the place it turns into accessible to trigger toxicity; it generates reactive oxygen species (free radicals). Free radical harm is a significant function of the Alzheimer’s illness of the mind.

Analysis has additionally proven that many individuals with Alzheimer’s illness are also poor in zinc and zinc supplementation is often a part of a complete chelation remedy program.

So far as dietary sources of copper are involved, pink meat is a typical supply. Processed meats together with scorching canines, sausage and bacon are additionally a supply. Copper sulfate used as a bactericide and fungicide generally on meat and fats and meat merchandise can be a supply. Copper sulfate has additionally been used as a fungicide, bactericide in crops of rice, wild rice, cherries, oranges, wine grapes, peaches, nectarines, walnuts, almonds, lemons, apricots and grapefruit. It’s also possible to have your water examined for copper. If in case you have your individual water therapy system, reverse osmosis is about 99% efficient in eradicating copper.

Chelation remedy chelates or removes poisonous metals from the physique, together with minerals equivalent to copper and aluminum. Using chelation remedy to deal with somebody who has Alzheimer’s illness could also be useful, relying upon how lengthy the situation has been apparent. It’ll definitely be useful in retarding early Alzheimer’s illness and a significant factor in lowering the potential of its occurring within the first place.

Different analysis has proven that iron may also contribute to the mind modifications that happen in Alzheimer’s illness. Injury to DNA is concerned in Alzheimer’s illness and each iron and copper intervene with the exercise of two enzymes that restore DNA harm.

Along with lowering your publicity to copper and inappropriate ranges of iron, chelation remedy to take away them ought to be a vital a part of treating present and contributing to stopping the appearance of Alzheimer’s illness. The excellent news is one thing could be accomplished about it, and as traditional, with all continual degenerative ailments, the earlier somebody commences on an applicable program the more practical will probably be and the extra lengthy lasting the advantages.

Dr Conrad G. Maulfair, D.O.

December 2014