People are developing dementia earlier and dying of it more, a study shows (Much more so in USA)

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30. Aluminum

There is currently a global Alzheimer’s pandemic involving tens of millions of victims. In the USA alone, the number of those affected is expected to reach 14 million by 2050. This suffering and the financial costs associated with it are unnecessary. Alzheimer’s disease is caused by aluminum and is particularly common in those carrying the APO E4 allele(s), who are more susceptible to this toxic metal because they are less capable than the general population of removing brain beta-amyloid and tau proteins. As a consequence, such individuals are at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, as these abnormal proteins build up in the brain and form neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Naturally, this process occurs more often and most rapidly in regions that promote the deposition of beta-amyloid and tau. Such “harmful” environments are those in which drinking water is acidic, high in monomeric aluminum, and lack magnesium, calcium, and silicic acid. Under these circumstances, aluminum enters the brain and impairs various enzymes, including choline acetyltransferase, calcium/calmodulin kinase II, alkaline phosphatase, and phospholipase.

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http://hdfoster.com/dr-fosters-work-alzheimers-disease

Geography vs. Genetics

For many years, scientists have believed that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is passed through the family line and is genetic due to the possession of a particular gene called Apo E. Through our research, we have clearly demonstrated this cannot be the case.

If AD was purely genetic, we would expect four natural consequences to be true:

Global spatial distribution would be random and uniform;
There would not be an earlier and rapidly increasing onset of the disease;
Migration would not alter the incidence of this disease; and
Changes in lifestyle would have no impact on someone with the disease.

1. Global Distribution of Alzheimer’s disease.

Given that the Apo E gene is found in people all over the world, we would expect AD to have a random and uniform distribution pattern – i.e. to see the same incidences of the disease in countries in Europe as in South America. However, this is not the case; there are clear patterns of this disease across the globe.

In fact, in some areas of the world, there are really low incidences of AD, like in Maracaibo, Venezuela where there has only been one case of AD was found in a decade. Maracaibo has an AD mortality rate of 1 per 10,000,000 per year. Conversely, in Norway, AD is diagnosed in 6 - 109 per 100,000 women and 4 - 55 per 100,000 men every year, ranking Norway as having the highest incidence of this disease. Therefore, AD is thousands of times more common in parts of Norway than in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

2. Earlier and rapidly increasing onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

Human genes do not change quickly, they remain constant over long periods of time which means that if AD was genetic we would not expect to see fast increasing incidences of the disease in younger people.

However, the opposite is true, we are seeing the rates of AD increasing faster than the population is aging (almost to epidemic proportions), particularly in the USA, Canada, England, Norway and Australia. We often hear the term ‘early onset Alzheimer’s’ which must mean other factors are causing the disease, rather than genes.

http://www.hdfoster.com/geography-alzheimers-disease


The book. He talks about the causes and what you can do to prevent alzheimers. You can download it for a small donation, or free if you can't afford it, or order a hardcopy.

What really causes Alzheimer's disease by Dr Harold Foster

There is currently a global Alzheimer's disease pandemic, involving tens of millions of victims. This book shows what to do about it, including memory loss issues. This book suggests how to reverse memory loss in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

http://www.hdfoster.com/publications