Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2A (XREF PATCH) 05/16/85; site neuro1.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!neuro1!rick From: rick@neuro1.UUCP (Rick Gray) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Aluminum pans-a health risk? Message-ID: <531@neuro1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 06:32:36 EDT Article-I.D.: neuro1.531 Posted: Thu Aug 8 06:32:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 19:29:18 EDT References: <2015@ukma.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@neuro1.UUCP (Rick Gray) Distribution: na Organization: Neurophysiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx Lines: 39 In article <2015@ukma.UUCP> wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) writes: >The first indication that aluminum was a serious brain toxin came to >light back when kidney dialysis first started. The first series of >patients all turned into vegetables after about 6 months of dialysis. The January 1985 _Scientific American_ has a good review article on Alzheimer's disease (Alz.) by Richard J. Wurtman. It covers 6 models of the disease and the evidence supporting and contradicting each of them. One model is that aluminum salts MAY contribute to the development of Alz. It is pointed out that some of the symptoms of dialysis-associated dementia are not present in Alz. The conclusion of the section on toxic models (based on this and other evidence in the article) is "It is possible that aluminum cannot by itself give rise to the clinical and pathologic indicators of the disease but that its presence contributes to their appearance in people exposed to another causative factor". >... The same people are still around who, for economic and >political reasons, are trying to cover up the data. How dare they cover up information by hiding it in magazines sold in practically every drug store and super market in the country?! Not to mention hiding it in medical journals in libraries! >... Those of you who are willing to >give them that power over you are welcome to continue to support the >"Medical/Pharmaceutical Complex" with your bodies and your $. The >rest of us have got to get busy gathering data to make up our own >minds. Good idea! Let me know how your experiments turn out. -- Rick Gray Program in Neuroscience uucp: {ihnp4!shell,rice}!neuro1!rick Baylor Col. Med., Houston *** I am not a spokesman for BCM (or anyone else) ***