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- From: bhjelle@hydra.unm.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Deodorants Harmful?
- Message-ID: <gcqr_sl@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 15:11:33 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <memo.833374@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In article <memo.833374@cix.compulink.co.uk> dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >
- >I wrote (not Brian Kantor, to whom this was misattributed):
-
- >> there is, in fact, NO ALUMINUM in Alzheimer's brain lesions.
- >
- >aluminium could not get to the brain, finding no aluminium in
- >Alzheimers lesions is no suprise and doesn't actually seem very
- >relevant.
- >
- >Clearly many substances can cause problems in humans without
- >actual being present in the tissue at the site of the eventual
- >problem. Even very small quantities of some substances can cause
-
- Well, then there is little hope of assuaging your fears. Thus
- far, there is utterly *no* credible epidemiologic evidence to
- support a role for aluminum in Alzheimer's; the *entire* case
- rested upon the finding that aluminum was present in the
- brain lesions of Alzheimer's. What I am telling you is that
- that finding is now known to be wrong. That leaves utterly
- nothing to support an aluminum-Alzheimer's link.
-
- I wouldn't discourage you from being interested in environmental
- agents that might cause Alzheimer's (even though genetics is
- now known to be responsible in at least some cases). But why
- aluminum? The only link to aluminum is now known to be artifact.
-
- Brian
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