{"id":93206,"date":"2018-01-24T07:47:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93206"},"modified":"2018-01-24T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:59:20","slug":"scientists-discover-huge-amounts-of-aluminum-in-the-brains-of-deceased-autistic-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93206","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Huge Amounts of Aluminum In The Brains of Deceased Autistic People"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scientists have been aware of aluminum\u2019s neurotoxicity for decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n

by\u00a0Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Although aluminum\u2019s apologists have tried to shroud the metal\u2019s risks in manufactured\u00a0controversy<\/a>, a growing number of reports by researchers in the\u00a0United Kingdom<\/a>,\u00a0France<\/a>,\u00a0Canada<\/a>,\u00a0Israel<\/a>, the\u00a0U.S.<\/a>and elsewhere has furnished substantive evidence linking aluminum to neuropathology, including the epidemics of\u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>\u00a0(AD) and\u00a0autism spectrum disorder<\/a>\u00a0(ASD).<\/p>\n

Aluminum levels were particularly high in the male brains, including in a 15-year-old boy with ASD who had the study\u2019s single highest brain aluminum measurement.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Dr. Christopher Exley<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 one of the world\u2019s leading experts on aluminum toxicity \u2014 has shown that\u00a0chronic intoxication<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0myriad forms<\/a>\u00a0of this \u201cubiquitous and omnipresent metal\u201d is exacting a high price on human health.<\/p>\n

Dr. Exley and other aluminum experts such as molecular biologist Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic have confirmed that aluminum readily and actively traverses the blood-brain barrier to\u00a0selectively accumulate<\/a>\u00a0in brain tissues, where it induces unwelcome changes in brain biochemistry.<\/p>\n

As Dr. Exley has noted, \u201cThere are no \u2018normal\u2019 levels of brain aluminum,\u201d meaning that \u201cits presence in brain tissue,\u00a0at any level<\/i>, could be construed as\u00a0abnormal<\/a>\u201d [emphasis added].<\/p>\n

Below is a video of him speaking on his study.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/SmkVv8pcVhc<\/p>\n

Documenting Aluminum in the ASD Brain<\/p>\n

In light of the fact that even\u00a0minute<\/a>\u00a0amounts of aluminum can have adverse neurological consequences, Dr. Exley\u2019s newest\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which reports on the first-ever study of aluminum in ASD brain tissue \u2014 is groundbreaking.<\/p>\n

Published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, the paper documents some of the highest values for aluminum in human brain tissue ever recorded. Using a two-pronged study design (see box), the researchers measured and characterized aluminum deposits in brain tissues from five to ten ASD donors, most of whom died in their teens or twenties.<\/p>\n

Study DesignQuantitative component:\u00a0<\/b>First, the investigators used graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GRAAS<\/a>) to measure aluminum content in frozen brain tissue samples.<\/p>\n

Frozen tissue was available from one female donor (age 44) and four male donors (ages 15, 22, 33 and 50) who, when alive, had a confirmed ASD diagnosis. The researchers quantified aluminum levels in 59 tissue samples representing five different areas of the brain (frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal and hippocampal).<\/p>\n

Qualitative component:<\/b>\u00a0Using a technique called\u00a0fluorescence microscopy<\/a>, the researchers visualized aluminum deposits according to their presence (a) insideversus outside the brain cells and (b) in the two types of brain tissue (grey matterversus white matter).<\/p>\n

For this component, fixed tissue samples were available for the same five donors plus an additional five donors diagnosed with ASD, including two females (ages 13 and 29) and three males (ages 14, 22 and 29).<\/p>\n

What the research team found was startling. The study\u2019s quantitative arm documented \u201cconsistently high\u201d aluminum levels representing \u201csome of the highest values for brain aluminum content ever measured in healthy or diseased tissues.\u201d Specifically:<\/p>\n