Aluminum
ALUMINUM is not classified as an essential element but levels in the human body have steadily increased due to the widespread use of aluminum products such as cookware, foil, and antacids. Known to damage the brain and spinal cord, high levels of aluminum have been implicated as causing some degenerative diseases such as senile dementia and Alzheimers. Aluminum produces a substance that neutralizes the digestive juices which is the reason that it works so well in antacids. Aluminum can be found, not only in cookware and antacids but also in deoderants and medications, and is used to process certain foods and to purify water. Aluminum is absorbed in the body after it binds to the essential element phosphate, a salt of phosphoric acid with the highest concentrations found in the bones and lungs.. Other names include: alumium (originally), aluminium (later), Al, Al+³, Al+++, element 13. Toxicity symptoms include: constipation, colic, decreased appetite, nausea, skin ailments, twitching leg
muscles, increased perspiration, fatigue, motor paralysis, local numbness, fatty degeneration of kidneys and liver, and results from decreased levels of calcium and phosphorus.
