However, beside the inhalation of aluminum, the largest source is dietary, so there are some obvious things we can do.

(1) Cease cooking in aluminum cookware, and stop using aluminum foil, at least when it will touch food or have liquid dropping back into the food, such as happens while cooking a roast or covering a chicken that is baking.

(2) Stop drinking from aluminum cans. The acidic soft drinks, including tea and fruit juices dissolve the aluminum off into the fluid.

(3) It is often said we should stop using free flowing salt, but one experimental trial (I think in Canada) showed that little absorption resulted from that source.

(4) Instead the blood levels were up markedly when the subjects ate bakery goods --bagels and donuts, and such. The bakers use self-rising flour, even when yeast is used for the primary leavening and they use the baking powder containing aluminum compounds, because it is a few cents cheaper than the other. Do not eat "store-bought" baked goods! Make bread and etc. at home

(5) For the same reason you should use a baking powder at home that is not based on aluminum, such as Rutherfords. Read the labels on the containers.

(6) The alum used to crisp up pickles is aluminum! Eat fewer pickles or use some other recipe. Like wise, the alum crystal rock you may have to rub under your arms. I personally see not much harm in aluminum deodorants if that is your only source, as most aluminum is acquired through the bowel.

(7) There is a high level of aluminum in your tap water, as aluminum is used to flocculate the proteins in water filtration, or "purification". Another reason to use distilled water. But here is the surprise.

(8) The highest source of dietary aluminum is beer. It seems as though it is not made from clear running mountain streams and artesian wells, but from tap water. (maybe if it is from mountain water, that water is contaminated.)

If we discontinue the use of Aluminum in the kitchen altogether, we will not make a tiny dent in the supply, understanding that the very mining of the substance causes the contamination of the earth. I doubt we could send a message to Alcoa and Reynolds, and there are good uses for Aluminum. ( I would like to think we might replace those uses if it can't be mined safely, and not contaminate the earth) And I doubt we have the energy for a boycott campaign. All we are doing is cutting our personal exposure.

Here are some facts about aluminum in the body:

1. Aluminum has no measured biological half-life in humans or animals, as it never comes out on its own accord. It sequesters in long lived cells: the longest lived ones are the neurons, i.e. brain cells. It accumulates continually.

2. Aluminum is implicated in Alzheimer's. The concentration is highest in the brain at death. Alzheimer patients have high levels in the brain on autopsy and generally have high hair aluminum which represents soft tissue deposition.

3. Aluminum is quite often high in the hair minerals of children with behavioral or learning difficulties. (Yes, ADD, ADHD, what-all)

4. Aluminum is often high in the hair of adults with memory impairment and thinking difficulties, even if they have not been graced with the diagnosis of Alzheimer's.

This situation occurs in young adults as well

Problems caused by aluminum, that explain how the aluminum causes injury to the brain:

1. Aluminum interferes with the isocitrate dehydrogenase enzyme, produced in the TCA cycle, which is a main part of the energy production cycle. The isocitrate dehydrogenase is in turn used in transamination (transferreing a nitrogen-hydrogen group called amine, with goes to ammonia). Nitrogen freed from protein utilization or degradation is toxic, because it leads to the reductive amination of a-ketoglutrate in mitochondria (the cells energy packets), catalyzed by glutamate dehydrogenase. The reaction is written thus:

NH₃ + a-ketoglutarate + NADH + H+ ---> glutamate + NAD⁺ + H2O

The equilibrium of this reaction is far to the right, so the effect of ammonia is to remove a-ketoglutarate from the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA), and cause severe inhibition of respiration in the brain, as well as excess ketone body formation from acetyl-CoA in the liver.

In summary, the Nitrogen (N) that should be transferred out of the body through urine, sweat, etc., is formed into ammonia which is known to injure cognition.

2. Aluminum interferes with phosphorylations, phosphate transfers, "kinase" enzymes and ATP, ADP, and AMP. Note that phosphate and aluminum compete. The phosphates are vital to energy production. the ATP, etc. are the end molecules that release free energy for use in any cell.

3. Aluminum follows pathways of increasing phosphate concentration. That is

expressed as:

Blood plasma_______ Cytosol of cells ______ Cell nucleus

[PO4] = 2mM/l [PO4] = 10mM/l [PO4] = 50 mM/l

This means that in the nucleus of a cell, aluminum binds to phosphorylated RNA and DNA fouling up protein replication. RNA and DNA are the protein of genes: interfering with their replication causes extensive trouble: disrepair of tissues, and creates a cancer potential.

In Alzheimer's Disease, these are found:

1. Insufficient acetylcholine (energy cycle necessity)

2. Excess B amyloid protein in the brain

3. Neurofibrillary tangles, containing elevated deposition of aluminum

2. Calcium will compete for absorption. Minerals will move when your pH is right.

Take the colloidal phosphate, Mincol, for the phosphates mentioned above.

Take silicon, such as found in Horsetail herb, as caps (or liquid drops for young children), for the silicate above.

Take calcium according to your pH needs. Only enough to effect your pH if you have excess tissue calcium.

3. Chelates in the blood stream, being excreted then through the kidneys. (See number (4) below)

4. Perhaps Cellular mechanisms, yet unknown.

II. Agents that enhance Aluminum mobility

(moving it from tissue to tissue, e.g. from brain to liver, brain to kidney, etc.)

1. Amino acids, peptides, protein.

2. Glycine, the same that we used for mercury binding during DMPS treatments

5. DMPS doesn't move it preferentially, but it does help, as shown many times on the 24 hour urine collection following the DMPS injection. You will recall here that we said many time that the only thing worse on the brain than mercury is a combination of mercury and aluminum. Before the aluminum can move out, the mercury has to go. Get your folks (and yourselves) free of mercury, and other minerals will begin to move.

6. There is also a Parcel detox bath. I feel insecure about this because of the chlorox bleach contained in it. Try everything else first.

Summary: That is a little of the chemistry (just so you will know it's serious) and then the practical side. How hard is it to give up store-bought baked goods, tap water, aluminum canned drinks and beer? How many more pills a day can you take to make up for continuing those habits? How can you even think of giving your kids one more handicapped parent to care for in a few more years? Get busy! E-mail your questions but no promises on the answer.