Thank you. It's very helpful for us laypeople to be armed with relevant information for those who could use the help. And FWIW: Martin Pall arrived at an understanding of multiple chemical sensitivity and other related illnesses and wrote about it in 2002, as well as writing a chapter about it in a toxicology text for Wiley. Part of what he described as a vicious cycle includes an increase in peroxynitrite levels, which in turn, increases the permeability of the blood brain barrier. A few years ago, I started supplementing with nicotinic acid and melatonin (3x/day) for something unrelated, and to my surprise, I had a dramatic reduction in chemically-induced migraines. I later eliminated the morning and afternoon doses of melatonin, and I began having occasional migraines again. I restarted those doses and I'm back to solid prophylaxis. I don't know if it's via a related mechanism, but melatonin has been demonstrated to strengthen the blood-brain barrier.
Fascinated to learn that melatonin seems to strengthen the blood-brain barrier.
While the initial effect would be to *reduce* Aluminum’s penetration *into the brain*... wouldn’t this strengthening also tend to *trap* already-penetrated Aluminum and “prohibit” it from being extracted/expelled?
Glad to learn that “Mr. Aluminum” recognizes the same issue.
Meanwhile… Thanks to Dr. Chris and another PhD Chemist, I understand that Aluminum *causes* Alzheimer’s.
More importantly… to ME… is the understanding that drinking commercially available OSA-water… like Fiji water… has the nearly *unique* ability to *dissolve* bodily Aluminum for subsequent extraction via urine and perspiration.
Thanks to this, my MD-administered MMSE 30 point score has *climbed* from the mid-teens (beginning and supposedly irreversible Alzheimer’s) TO… 28-29…
The real question is why aluminum and even mercury is being purposely introduced into the body via drugs, vaccines and dental procedures. These toxins are present enough in our environment to begin with.
Because the machines that dispense grated cheese onto the pizza will get clogged up with clumps of grated cheese sticking together .... do to prevent the cheese from clumping , they spray the grated cheese with aluminum .
Somewhere in this stack is a paper explaining the “whyness” of adding Aluminum to a vaccine. It seems that vaccines are poorly absorbed all by themselves. The Aluminum seems to add a disruptive element at the injection site. During this disruption, the vaccine gets absorbed. (A poor explanation... perhaps someone with a deeper understanding can jump in here?)
It seems that cats get better treatment than us. I recently discovered that there is a good body of work spanning over 20 years on the topic of negative effects of aluminium adjuvants in feline vaccines. Why not the same level of investigation and care for us and our kids I wonder?
"... Most important is the presence of adjacent macrophages containing a characteristic bluish-grey material, which is comprised of aluminum and oxygen. Aluminum hydroxide is a common component of feline vaccine adjuvants and many pathologists consider this material to be the most definitive evidence that a feline sarcoma is vaccine-associated."
"... The time interval between vaccine administration and development of a sarcoma can vary tremendously; they have been seen to occur anywhere between 2 months to 10 years after vaccination."
Thank you so much for sharing this information! I always forward your posts to my functional medicine doctors to keep them updated on your aluminum work.
Sep 28, 2023·edited Sep 28, 2023Liked by Dr Christopher Exley
Thank you for spreading this information - this has been eye opening to me and my family. It is customary for us to cook lentils and rice in aluminum pressure cookers at least once or twice daily. Can this also get into the body? We use stainless steel pots which have food which is then in turn put into the pressure cooker. Appreciate your insight on this.
Thanks Dr. Exley, I appreciate your explanation of how the BBB actually is permeable.
I have a strange question: Can aluminium be absorbed through the foot soles? Since aluminium is a light and sturdy material, it is quite often used for balcony floors. If you then spend some time under the hot sun with bare perspiring feet on the aluminum floor of your balcony, due to to the heat, can small amounts of the aluminium be dissolved and absorbed transdermally into the body?
Sweat is composed of salts (among other things) and salts have been shown to accelerate the leaching of aluminium into oven baked fish, so that's why I consider it a possibility.
Yes, it is as you suggest a possibility. However, I personally would not lose any sleep over this and particularly if I am a regular drinker of a silicon rich mineral water.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion, even if it is small amounts. Anyone with contact allergy to aluminium can probably put this to good use, and preventatively shield their foot soles from direct contact to the aluminium.
I know I can detect if something is probably made of aluminium, by hovering or sliding a very strong magnet just above the metal, and feel a very minute tug, or resistance.
Just as there are nickel test kits available you can buy at the pharmacy, do you know if a similar solution exists, to test if a material contains aluminium?
I never stepped foot in a medical class room, and even I knew there was no blood brain barrier. We are ONE body. Circulation goes throughout the body. Thank you. I was thinking the people putting the toxic mess in shots may have made up this nonsense about blood brain barriers yo inject babies.
I do not expect you to simply believe everything I write here though I do try to support what I write with peer-reviewed published science. Not everything you believe about glyphosate is supported by peer-reviewed science, it is mainly opinion written in over-hyped books. Speaking of which, you can read my opinions on glyphosate in my book.
I agree, in a limited sense. For instance: Senneff's "Toxic Legacy' was such a "firehose" of information, and a distressing mix of "suggested" links with demonstrated ones, that it lost me and I considered it, in the end, over-hyped. One of those books, like most of Hawking's stuff, that thougthful people buy and reference but rarely read through. We DO NEED a good, scientific but readable glyphosate book IMHO. There is a significant, and troubling body of evidence waiting to be synthesized.
I respect your patiently redirecting us to your book - which I have bought. You need not be asked to repeat over and over things you have stated there. I would note though that the book's lack of an index is a handicap for one like me who read the whole book but do not remember the gist of your glyphosate comments - and am now directed to seek your thoughts there. The ToC is no help. I suppose I should have bought the Kindle version and then could to a text search for "glyphosate". Would it be possible to create a basic index for the book using some sort of indexing e-tool and post it?
My apologies if I offended you for my comment, i should have added context. I agree with your article re countering arguments against aluminum crossing the BBB. It made me also consider the same context re glysophate. Respectfully, "peer-reviewed science" is not the the gold standard science, it once was😉
Perhaps it will be again, but it's certainly been slumming it over the last 30 years.
Always happy to explore others opinion on glysophate, as with many of the other substances still not clearly understood, especially when we are at the dawn of nanobiochemistry and it's effects within the body. I'll look at picking up a copy of your book🙏😊
I was not offended. I wanted to guide your thinking on glyphosate, for example there is no scientific evidence that glyphosate can substitute for glycine in the body.
Oh I'm glad. Thank you, its kind of you to offer to guide my thinking🙏😉
It's funny you should use that statement, I believe that's the exact title of the 2019 paper by Antoniou et al. I think I'll wait a little longer for more studies, as their paper left me with more questions than answers. I think the subject warrants more attention and study. Much like the ubiquitous use of Aluminum.😉🙏
The health effects of a Roundup-tolerant NK603 genetically modified (GM) maize(from 11% in the diet), cultivated with or without Roundup application and Roundup alone (from 0.1 ppb of the full pesticide containing glyphosate and adjuvants) in drinking water, were evaluated for 2 years in rats. This study constitutes a follow-up investigation of a 90-day feeding study conducted by Monsanto in order to obtain commercial release of this GMO, employing the same rat strain and analyzing biochemical parameters on the same number of animals per group as our investigation. Our research represents the first chronic study on these substances, in which all observations including tumors are reported chronologically. Thus, it was not designed as a carcinogenicity study. We report the major findings with 34 organs observed and 56 parameters analyzed at 11 time points for most organs. https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-014-0014-5
The Control Group study indicated that the K-shot ALONE (without any vaccines at all) can cause autism. It also indicates kids are basically at ZERO risk of autism if they avoid ALL pharma injections.
I have read enough reports... some at 3AM... to have concluded that knowledgeable scientists have concluded that Aluminum *causes* Alzheimer’s.
The only *accepted* technique for the elimination of bodily Aluminum is via drinking water containing OSA... the abbreviation for a long chemical name.
OSA water CAN CLEANSE THE BODY OF ALZHEIMER’S!
DISCLOSURE... Several years ago, *I* was diagnosed by Alzheimer’s MD specialists as being in the beginning... and supposedly incurable... stage of Alzheimer’s.
I am a University-trained-engineer. I didn’t like *that* prognosis very much, so I spent hundreds of hours researching this deadly disease.
I learned that Aluminum is *always* found in the post mortem... (that means after death for the readers in Rio Linda) brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
Remove the Aluminum... Cure the Alzheimer’s.
Please feel free to query me re this.
But *hurry*! At age 83... in a couple days... I’m headed to Africa.
If for honest skepticism and open discussion then I think you may have "gone off the rails" here. We would all welcome specific, civil critigue on your part.
Thank you. It's very helpful for us laypeople to be armed with relevant information for those who could use the help. And FWIW: Martin Pall arrived at an understanding of multiple chemical sensitivity and other related illnesses and wrote about it in 2002, as well as writing a chapter about it in a toxicology text for Wiley. Part of what he described as a vicious cycle includes an increase in peroxynitrite levels, which in turn, increases the permeability of the blood brain barrier. A few years ago, I started supplementing with nicotinic acid and melatonin (3x/day) for something unrelated, and to my surprise, I had a dramatic reduction in chemically-induced migraines. I later eliminated the morning and afternoon doses of melatonin, and I began having occasional migraines again. I restarted those doses and I'm back to solid prophylaxis. I don't know if it's via a related mechanism, but melatonin has been demonstrated to strengthen the blood-brain barrier.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080225122730/http://molecular.biosciences.wsu.edu/Faculty/pall/pall_mcs.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31811815/
Fascinated to learn that melatonin seems to strengthen the blood-brain barrier.
While the initial effect would be to *reduce* Aluminum’s penetration *into the brain*... wouldn’t this strengthening also tend to *trap* already-penetrated Aluminum and “prohibit” it from being extracted/expelled?
The BBB Delusion
Or why the blood brain barrier is not a barrier to aluminium
https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/the-bbb-delusion
Glad to learn that “Mr. Aluminum” recognizes the same issue.
Meanwhile… Thanks to Dr. Chris and another PhD Chemist, I understand that Aluminum *causes* Alzheimer’s.
More importantly… to ME… is the understanding that drinking commercially available OSA-water… like Fiji water… has the nearly *unique* ability to *dissolve* bodily Aluminum for subsequent extraction via urine and perspiration.
Thanks to this, my MD-administered MMSE 30 point score has *climbed* from the mid-teens (beginning and supposedly irreversible Alzheimer’s) TO… 28-29…
High Normal!
CURED (?) from Alzheimer’s!
The real question is why aluminum and even mercury is being purposely introduced into the body via drugs, vaccines and dental procedures. These toxins are present enough in our environment to begin with.
Aluminum compounds are added to processed food. Since the FDA considers these compounds GRAS, the manufacturer does not need to list that ingredient on the label. This paper was published in 2005. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7724598_Aluminium_content_of_some_foods_and_food_products_in_the_USA_with_aluminium_food_additives
Why is aluminum in processed foods? Like pizza?
Because the machines that dispense grated cheese onto the pizza will get clogged up with clumps of grated cheese sticking together .... do to prevent the cheese from clumping , they spray the grated cheese with aluminum .
Somewhere in this stack is a paper explaining the “whyness” of adding Aluminum to a vaccine. It seems that vaccines are poorly absorbed all by themselves. The Aluminum seems to add a disruptive element at the injection site. During this disruption, the vaccine gets absorbed. (A poor explanation... perhaps someone with a deeper understanding can jump in here?)
The aluminum is an adjuvant - it excites/activates the immune system so that less of the biological agent (which is expensive to make) is needed.
Thank you so much for your work, Dr. Exley. It's vital.
It seems that cats get better treatment than us. I recently discovered that there is a good body of work spanning over 20 years on the topic of negative effects of aluminium adjuvants in feline vaccines. Why not the same level of investigation and care for us and our kids I wonder?
A few examples:
https://www.vin.com/apputil/project/defaultadv1.aspx?pid=8708&catid=&id=3843754
"... Most important is the presence of adjacent macrophages containing a characteristic bluish-grey material, which is comprised of aluminum and oxygen. Aluminum hydroxide is a common component of feline vaccine adjuvants and many pathologists consider this material to be the most definitive evidence that a feline sarcoma is vaccine-associated."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18401961/
"... Aluminium was demonstrated in the central necrosis and giant cells."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28960714/
"Aluminium has been found in feline vaccine-associated sarcomas."
"... aluminium exposure may contribute, theoretically, to both initiation and promotion of tumours in the absence of an inflammatory response."
https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/pet-owners/petcare/vaccines-and-sarcomas-concern-cat-owners
"... The time interval between vaccine administration and development of a sarcoma can vary tremendously; they have been seen to occur anywhere between 2 months to 10 years after vaccination."
Thank you so much for sharing this information! I always forward your posts to my functional medicine doctors to keep them updated on your aluminum work.
Great explanation!
Thank you for spreading this information - this has been eye opening to me and my family. It is customary for us to cook lentils and rice in aluminum pressure cookers at least once or twice daily. Can this also get into the body? We use stainless steel pots which have food which is then in turn put into the pressure cooker. Appreciate your insight on this.
If I can avoid any form of cooking in an aluminium pan, pressure cooker or otherwise, I would do.
The Instant Pot is stainless steel.
Please explain...”the only immortal cell line in our body, neurons...”?
Thank you for picking up on this. I write about this here; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2014.00212/full
Thanks Dr. Exley, I appreciate your explanation of how the BBB actually is permeable.
I have a strange question: Can aluminium be absorbed through the foot soles? Since aluminium is a light and sturdy material, it is quite often used for balcony floors. If you then spend some time under the hot sun with bare perspiring feet on the aluminum floor of your balcony, due to to the heat, can small amounts of the aluminium be dissolved and absorbed transdermally into the body?
Sweat is composed of salts (among other things) and salts have been shown to accelerate the leaching of aluminium into oven baked fish, so that's why I consider it a possibility.
Yes, it is as you suggest a possibility. However, I personally would not lose any sleep over this and particularly if I am a regular drinker of a silicon rich mineral water.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion, even if it is small amounts. Anyone with contact allergy to aluminium can probably put this to good use, and preventatively shield their foot soles from direct contact to the aluminium.
I know I can detect if something is probably made of aluminium, by hovering or sliding a very strong magnet just above the metal, and feel a very minute tug, or resistance.
Just as there are nickel test kits available you can buy at the pharmacy, do you know if a similar solution exists, to test if a material contains aluminium?
A question I wonder about too. How can we distinguish aluminum from other cooking equipment?
you can test it with a magnet since aluminum is not magnetic
Thank you.
Illuminating article ! thank you. ladyinthebarn
There's a debate whether the blood brain barrier even exists.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was "invented" by pharma to cover their asses for neuro issues, 😂
We know so little of these critical topics, like the immune system etc.
I never stepped foot in a medical class room, and even I knew there was no blood brain barrier. We are ONE body. Circulation goes throughout the body. Thank you. I was thinking the people putting the toxic mess in shots may have made up this nonsense about blood brain barriers yo inject babies.
Glysophate specifically affects tight junctions and gap junctions. 🤔😐
I would assume that given the pernicious nature of that molecule in the environment cycles and humanity, that it plausibly may also affect the BBB.🤔🤔
Especially when taking into account that the body will accept glysophate instead of glycine, and glycine can cross the BBB.😐🤐
I do not expect you to simply believe everything I write here though I do try to support what I write with peer-reviewed published science. Not everything you believe about glyphosate is supported by peer-reviewed science, it is mainly opinion written in over-hyped books. Speaking of which, you can read my opinions on glyphosate in my book.
I agree, in a limited sense. For instance: Senneff's "Toxic Legacy' was such a "firehose" of information, and a distressing mix of "suggested" links with demonstrated ones, that it lost me and I considered it, in the end, over-hyped. One of those books, like most of Hawking's stuff, that thougthful people buy and reference but rarely read through. We DO NEED a good, scientific but readable glyphosate book IMHO. There is a significant, and troubling body of evidence waiting to be synthesized.
I respect your patiently redirecting us to your book - which I have bought. You need not be asked to repeat over and over things you have stated there. I would note though that the book's lack of an index is a handicap for one like me who read the whole book but do not remember the gist of your glyphosate comments - and am now directed to seek your thoughts there. The ToC is no help. I suppose I should have bought the Kindle version and then could to a text search for "glyphosate". Would it be possible to create a basic index for the book using some sort of indexing e-tool and post it?
The publisher was not keen on an index. I didn't disagree too much as I want people to read the 'story' and not think of it as a reference only.
My apologies if I offended you for my comment, i should have added context. I agree with your article re countering arguments against aluminum crossing the BBB. It made me also consider the same context re glysophate. Respectfully, "peer-reviewed science" is not the the gold standard science, it once was😉
Perhaps it will be again, but it's certainly been slumming it over the last 30 years.
Always happy to explore others opinion on glysophate, as with many of the other substances still not clearly understood, especially when we are at the dawn of nanobiochemistry and it's effects within the body. I'll look at picking up a copy of your book🙏😊
I was not offended. I wanted to guide your thinking on glyphosate, for example there is no scientific evidence that glyphosate can substitute for glycine in the body.
Oh I'm glad. Thank you, its kind of you to offer to guide my thinking🙏😉
It's funny you should use that statement, I believe that's the exact title of the 2019 paper by Antoniou et al. I think I'll wait a little longer for more studies, as their paper left me with more questions than answers. I think the subject warrants more attention and study. Much like the ubiquitous use of Aluminum.😉🙏
So thank you for doing your work.
would you mind posting a link to the 2019 paper you referenced ?
I was baffled at the seriousness of the apparent issues associated with glyphosate.
WHO CARED?
Then I looked it up.
A common OTC embodiment of glyphosate is ROUND UP!
The health effects of a Roundup-tolerant NK603 genetically modified (GM) maize(from 11% in the diet), cultivated with or without Roundup application and Roundup alone (from 0.1 ppb of the full pesticide containing glyphosate and adjuvants) in drinking water, were evaluated for 2 years in rats. This study constitutes a follow-up investigation of a 90-day feeding study conducted by Monsanto in order to obtain commercial release of this GMO, employing the same rat strain and analyzing biochemical parameters on the same number of animals per group as our investigation. Our research represents the first chronic study on these substances, in which all observations including tumors are reported chronologically. Thus, it was not designed as a carcinogenicity study. We report the major findings with 34 organs observed and 56 parameters analyzed at 11 time points for most organs. https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-014-0014-5
The Control Group study indicated that the K-shot ALONE (without any vaccines at all) can cause autism. It also indicates kids are basically at ZERO risk of autism if they avoid ALL pharma injections.
Aluminum is clearly implicated.
ELIMINATING ALUMINUM FROM THE BRAIN...
ANOTHER IDEA!
I have read enough reports... some at 3AM... to have concluded that knowledgeable scientists have concluded that Aluminum *causes* Alzheimer’s.
The only *accepted* technique for the elimination of bodily Aluminum is via drinking water containing OSA... the abbreviation for a long chemical name.
OSA water CAN CLEANSE THE BODY OF ALZHEIMER’S!
DISCLOSURE... Several years ago, *I* was diagnosed by Alzheimer’s MD specialists as being in the beginning... and supposedly incurable... stage of Alzheimer’s.
I am a University-trained-engineer. I didn’t like *that* prognosis very much, so I spent hundreds of hours researching this deadly disease.
I learned that Aluminum is *always* found in the post mortem... (that means after death for the readers in Rio Linda) brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
Remove the Aluminum... Cure the Alzheimer’s.
Please feel free to query me re this.
But *hurry*! At age 83... in a couple days... I’m headed to Africa.
Why are you here?
If for honest skepticism and open discussion then I think you may have "gone off the rails" here. We would all welcome specific, civil critigue on your part.
If you really want to find crap, take a look in the mirror.