What Science Says About Aluminum and Alzheimer’s

8 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Matt Kelly. This content was uploaded by Matt Kelly. This is a YouTube video titled "What Science Says About Aluminum and Alzheimer’s" (created 2024-12-08) featuring a single speaker who explains research showing higher aluminum levels in the brains and blood of people with Alzheimer’s. The speaker describes aluminum’s ubiquity in water and food supplies, characterizes it as a metal toxicant (though not a heavy metal), and outlines a possible mechanism in which aluminum disrupts neuronal ion-gating/mineral binding sites and thereby interferes with neural signaling.

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It was found that aluminum was higher in the brains and the blood of people with Alzheimer's, and on postmortem they would find more aluminum. And one of the things about aluminum is it's ubiquitous in the water supply around the world. Some places are higher, some places are lower, but there's no way to not have some background aluminum in usually your water supply or maybe even your food supply. And aluminum is not a heavy metal, but it is a metal and it's a metal toxicant. And so what it does is it can get into your tissues. And in tissues where you have very sensitive neurological functioning, what you have is very sensitive— we call ion gatings or mineral gates. And you need the minerals to transpose back and forth across the gates in order to create action potentials and neurological information. Aluminum has the potential to essentially mess with those gatings or those landing sites for the minerals.