Aluminum can kill your brain

Once aluminum enters in your body, it can easily cross blood brain barrier. Blood brain barrier is highly selective barrier that allows only selective substances to pass through, and hence keep the brain protected.

After crossing the barrier aluminum starts to accumulate in tissue and causes degeneration of brain, which if not managed causes the brain shrinkage, that is an irreversible disorder called Alzheimer’s disease.

Aluminum can enter in body by:

i) With food: Mostly preservatives like (E541)(E520)(E554), processed cheese, baking mixes, and drinking water contains aluminum.

ii) Inhalation: By breathing aluminum dust or fumes, coal fire in power plants.

iii) Medication: Antacids, buffered aspirin(aspirin containing antacids), some antidiarrheal drugs like Kaolin, attapulgite, aluminum Hydroxide Gel, and Magaldrate.

iv) Absorption from skin: Skin products like antiperspirants contain aluminum, from where aluminum can be absorbed into body.

It is very important to avoid such aluminum sources that contain absorbable aluminum, so that we can avoid damaging effects of aluminum.