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For the past two years I have lived through most experiences that you will read in this article: memory loss, arthritic symptoms, kidney and liver stress and heavy metal poisoning from nickel, mercury and aluminum. Now I am on my way back to recovery–at age 40!

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the fourth leading cause of death for people living in Western industrialized countries such as the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Most victims are older than 60, but the disease, as happened in my case, can strike persons as young as 40 years of age. Down’s syndrome patients can become senile as young as 30! Alzheimer’s disease accounts for the deaths of a minimum of 150,000 North Americans per year.

The National Institute of Aging (NIA) estimates that the number of people suffering from Alzheimer’s is expected to triple from four million today to 12 million by the year 2020.

Should we worry that we could be next in line for early senility? In my opinion-no! Multinational organizations peddling chemical solutions to disease have kept you in the dark. There are answers. The studies have been there for years, for those who wish to find them.

Senility Or Dementia?

First, lets clear up the myths. What is senility? The dictionary reads, "Suffering from bodily or mental weakness because of old age, characteristic of elderly people."

Senility depends on how you live and take care of your mind and body. For example, the life span of the natives in Hunza land, located in Northern Pakistan, ranges from 120-140 years of age. There are no prevalent signs of cancer or crippling diseases among them that are common in our society today. Their secret? They live in a serene unpolluted environment, surrounded by nature, with natural, unprocessed food supplies, pure mountain-fresh glacial water, exercise in the outdoors–and community.

Dementia is a combination of Latin words that mean "away" and "mind." The mind has "gone away" for an Alzheimer’s patient.

Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of aging. It is not something that inevitably happens later in life. Rather, it is caused by brain cell damage. What causes brain cell damage? Is it possible that senility, dementia, Alzheimer’s–whatever the medical system wants to label it–has mistaken this mysterious disease for something far more dangerous, that has the capability of turning a thinking, living human being into a brain-dead zombie?

Many of us in our society believe that our planet is a victim of a conspiracy of "chemical warfare" and that not only Alzheimer’s, but a majority of diseases with the same symptoms, may be caused by deadly poisonous toxins! Author Maureen Kennedy Salaman, in her latest book, All Your Health Questions Answered Naturally, says, "Too many people are led to believe Alzheimer’s is a prison sentence–trapped in a body that has lost its mind. Alzheimer’s is a physical reaction to poisons present in the environment and the body. Not only is Alzheimer’s preventable, it is reversible!"

A research team led by Dr D. Crapper at the University of Toronto autopsied several Alzheimer’s victims and each time found isolated aluminum accumulated in localized brain areas and incredible tangles of nerve fibres (neurofibrils: nerve conductors inside brain cells) resembling pieces of unwound string. Toxic metals tend to collect in the brain as the major cause of this disease. Recent innovative research in the United States and Canada by Professor Donald R. McLaughlan, MD, has shown increased concentrations of aluminum in the brains of many patients with Alzheimer’s. Orthodox medicine refuses to even admit to the evidence and research.

Deadly Poisons

Kimberly Easterbrook is a longevity research writer and health consultant.

Source: alive #217, November 2000