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- From: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk (Diane Bailey)
- Subject: Re: Deodorants Harmful?
- Reply-To: dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:09:00 +0000
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- In article <1992Dec28.095352.8870@visual.spk.wa.us>
- pwageman@visual.spk.wa.us (Peggy Wageman) writes:
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- > Are deodorants that contain aluminum harmful? And what would be the long
- > term effects of using them? Thanks, Peggy Wageman
-
- stefan.m.gorsch@dartmouth.edu replies in article
- <1992Dec29.010727.20735@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- > If you are concerned about the much publicized and probably
- > incorrect association between aluminum and alzheimers, fear not.
- > A study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology in 1990 failed to
- > find any statistically relevant association between aluminum
- > containing antiperspirants and alzheimers.
-
- Personally I'd like to know more about the basis of that study
- before feeling reassured. And I'm someone who has for twenty
- years avoided consuming food or drink directly heated or stored
- in aluminium containers, but had never made the connection
- between the anti-perspirants I've used for thirty years and
- aluminium until reading this thread.
-
- It was reading the homoeopathic proving of alumina that first
- alerted me to the dangerous properties, and then realising how
- easily the metal was dissolved. By 1929 Boericke had listed
- confusion as to personal identity and being prematurely old,
- amongst several others, as effects of alumina.
-
- As for orthodox studies linking aluminium with complaints in
- humans, I'm reminded of the enquiries which found no connection
- between the accidental dumping into the water supply of a Devon
- town of a truck load of an aluminium chemical and the well
- documented complaints of many who drank the water. On
- examination one finds they were simply swayed by the orthodox
- opinion that aluminium cannot pass through into the relevant
- parts of the human body - "It's impossible so it cannot have
- happened."
-
- I'd like to know the epidemiological history of Alzheimers
- (balanced for the increasing numbers living to greater age) in
- relation to the introduction of aluminium cookware (1920s?),
- drinks and food containers, cooking foil, anti-perspirants (both
- roll-on and aerosol - 1950s and 1960s, but generally later for
- men?), and the use of aluminium in the purification of water.
- Although 10% solutions were being used medically (eg in
- Tonsillectomy) probably long before any of those other uses were
- introduced. And is there an increased incidence of Alzheimers
- amongst those that have been around aluminium casting or
- soldering processes - since solder contains the metal, in
- addition to lead, usually.
-
- Diane
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