Deodorants, cooking, water… If the regulations to limit exposure to aluminum in Europe are strict, the risk remains present. Numerous studies have already highlighted the risk of diseases promoted by exposure to aluminum which would leave deposits in the brain, but this time new research suggests that it could also cause multiple sclerosis. Published in the scientific journal Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
MS: a “worrying” level of aluminum in the brains of patients
During their study, the scientists studied the brain tissue of 14 patients (6 men and 8 women) who died of multiple sclerosis. All were between 39 and 82 years old at the time of death. The results showed that 42% of brain tissue from people who died of multiple sclerosis had more than 0.001 mg of aluminum and 33% had more than 0.002mg. Figures that scientists describe as “worrying”. Before being able to confirm their hypothesis, the researchers plan to repeat the same analyzes with people not affected by the disease in order to compare the levels of aluminum in their brains with those of sick people.
In addition to this study, the researchers explain that they have also discovered that water rich in a mineral naturally enriched with silicone could favor the elimination of aluminum particles in the body through the urine.
Alzheimer’s and aluminum
In a study published in the medical journal Frontiers in Neurology, Professor Christophe Exley already denounced the favored risk ofAlzheimer’s from daily exposure to aluminum. “The presence of aluminum in the brain should already warn us of its repercussions with age” he had. If the body naturally eliminates the excess aluminum, quantities remain all the same in the nerves, the brain, the bones, the liver, the heart, the spleen or the muscles. In the brain, the researcher reports that aluminum accumulates until it reaches a threshold of toxicity that neurons can no longer cope with. In this case, the presence of aluminum can accelerate a degenerative disease like Alzheimer’s.
Multiple sclerosis: the first symptoms
The symptoms of MS vary widely depending on which areas of the central nervous system have been demyelinated. Nevertheless, statistically, we know that the systems most often affected are sight, balance, coordination of gestures, sensitivity (with feelings of numbness in particular). Significant fatigue, physical weakness and disorders of sexuality (impotence, loss of sensations) and cognitive functions (trouble with short-term memory, concentration or reasoning) are also very frequently observed.
