Why Aluminum is Bad

Aluminum in its natural form is not a bad thing. It's part of our Earth. God made it.

Aluminum is not part of our body. We are mostly composed of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. We also have trace amounts of calcium, phosphorous, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, magnesium, and very, very trace amounts of what are considered non-essential elements, though researchers believe they may have a biological component: silicon, boron, nickel, vanadium, and even lead. And if you want to get very technical, our body weight is also composed of essential elements such as iodine (.000016%) molybdenum (.000013%), and chromium (.0000024%). There are other extremely trace amounts of essential elements, but aluminum is not one of them. (http://www.livescience.com/3505-chemistry-life-human-body.html)

Aluminum is all around us today. It is found in food, food packaging, cooking/eating utensils, beauty care products, medicine, jewelry, money, and lots of everyday items. Non-organic tea and potatoes contain aluminum, as do cake and pancake mixes, among other foods. If you read the ingredients on the back of your baking powder, you will see "aluminum sulfate." Additionally, our drinking water is treated with several metals, including aluminum to kill micro-organisms. Although there are safer known ways to clean water, aluminum is a very cheap resource. It is the most abundant metal and 3rd most abundant element in the earth's crust. 

Since the mid 1960's, the U.S. has been experimenting with weather control by spraying deflective particles, partially composed of aluminum, into the atmosphere. Today, geoengineering efforts to prevent global warming allow for more spraying of these chemical cocktails.  Visit this website to see videos and read more: http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

This Scientific American article gives a recent historical timeline of geoengineering. You can also search the journal's database for other geonengineering research-based articles. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geoengineering-worldwide-rules-regulations-timeline/

People have tried to find details on the exact make-up of the chemical cocktail of contrails being sprayed into the atmosphere around the globe. This website documents the back and forth of an individual trying to gain information about this through the Freedom of Information Act, but the Department of Energy and Climate Change refused to answer his questions: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/geoengineering

In 2008, California's water supplies were tested after several weeks of contrails were sprayed in the sky above. Water levels showed over 4,000 times the maximum contaminant level of aluminum. Another water supply filled with filtered water and previously shown to contain zero aluminum, tested almost 400 times the maximum contaminant level of aluminum after 18 months of aerial spraying.  http://www.viewzone.com/chemtrails.html

Here's the best thing you can read all day: One of a handful of patents made on the best chemical concoction to spray in the sky and fight global warming with. The number 12 ingredient is aluminum oxide. Everything else looks pretty scary too. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5003186.PN.&OS=PN/5003186&RS=PN/5003186

What are the side effects of all this extra aluminum exposure? Since it would be unethical to systematically inject a sample of humans with large amounts of aluminum and take notes, we have to take notice of circumstantial evidence, studies of the effects of aluminum on animals in controlled studies, and correlations between aluminum exposure and disease in humans.


Elevated levels of aluminum are found in the brain tissue of elderly patients who die with Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Although it is natural to have somewhat elevated aluminum levels as we age, studies have shown patients with AD have much more. 
(Aluminum levels in brain in Alzheimer's disease. Trapp, George A; Miner, G. D.; Zimmerman, R. L.; Mastri, A. R.; Heston, L. L. Biological Psychiatry, Vol 13(6), Dec 1978, 709-718). 

Other studies have not shown significant increases in aluminum deposits in the brains of AD patients. If you look up "neurofibrillary degeneration" you will find that examining aluminum deposits in brain tissue is somewhat complicated. Also the aluminum deposits may be a result of AD, not a cause. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2725861
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7367858
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0197458086901028

One thing is for sure. There is a relationship between aluminum and neurodegenerative disease. In the 1960's scientists discovered that exposing rabbits' brains to aluminum cause nerve cell damage that resembled AD. Doctors in the 60's also noted that some patients undergoing long-term dialysis developed a neurodegenerative disease resembling Dementia due to a buildup of aluminum in the bloodstream. 
http://www.alz.org/alzwa/documents/alzwa_resource_ad_fs_aluminum.pdf. 

Since not everyone exposed to elevated aluminum levels gets struck with neurodegenerative disease, a genetic component is likely involved. Dr. John McDougall reviews the dangers of aluminum and sites research studies dating back to 1885 that show aluminum to be toxic to the nervous tissues of animals. He acknowledges there is a "normal" dietary intake of aluminum that is about 3-5 mg/day. However, only a very small percentage is absorbed into the body. But for some individuals, their bodies seem to absorb aluminum more readily. They may also have unhealthy kidneys which aren't eliminating the majority of this 3-5 mg/day intake of aluminum from the body. (http://www.rense.com/general37/alum.htm)

Why doesn't the FDA regulate the use of aluminum, since research shows it can be harmful, even deadly. Actually the FDA has an extensive list of chemicals and additives not regulated for use in food, body products, and medicine. Aluminum is one of MANY substances exempt from testing for safety by the FDA.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfCFR/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=73

The FDA classifies aluminum as GRAS (Generally Regarded as Safe). The FDA doesn't  put restrictions on the amount of aluminum used food and other product, and admits to the dangers of high aluminum exposure, while simultaneously protecting themselves by saying that the various chemically altered forms of aluminum haven't been sufficiently researched: 

"There is no evidence in the available information on aluminum ammonium sulfate, aluminum potassium sulfate, aluminum sodium sulfate, aluminum sulfate, acidic sodium aluminum phosphate, basic sodium aluminum phosphate, and aluminum hydroxide that demonstrates, or suggests reasonable grounds to suspect, a hazard to the public when they are used at levels that are now current or that might reasonably be expected in the future."
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fcn/fcnDetailNavigation.cfm?rpt=scogsListing&id=20

This outdated FDA document doesn't account for more current forms of aluminum, such as aluminum chlorohydrate (ACH), the active ingredient listed in many antiperspirants.
http://www.olivebranchorganic.com/aluminum-in-antiperspirant/

How convenient. The FDA allows untested forms of aluminum to be used in food and products, based on the fact that research has not yet proven them unsafe. With one exception. Aluminum zirconium, an aerosol form of aluminum, was banned by the FDA in 1977, citing "concerns about long-term inhalation safety.
http://anti-perspirant.info/history_of_antiperspirants/

Funny that geoengineering uses purely aerosol forms of aluminum today in blocking out the oh-so-harmful rays of sunshine that are supposedly getting "trapped" in our ozone layer due to chemical speciation, which I'll touch on later. Basically we're using the same method to solve a problem that caused the problem in the first place. Not good.

Both human and animal studies have showed consumption of sodium aluminum phosphate and other forms previously mentioned in the FDA's safe list to indeed cause health problems such as a decrease in fertility and increase risk of kidney disease, among other risks. These studies have been around for about a hundred years.

Alfrey, A. C., Le Gendre, G. R. & Kaehny, W. D. (1976) The dialysis
         encephalopathy syndrome. Possible aluminum intoxication. New
         England Journal of Medicine, 294, 184

Crapper, D. R., Krishnan, S. S. & Quittkat, S. (1976) Aluminum,
         neurofilorillary degeneration and Alzheimer's disease, Brain,
         99, 67-80
Katz, A. C. et al. (1981) A 6-month subchronic dietary toxicity study
         with Levain(R) (sodium aluminum phosphate, acidic) in beagle
         dogs, unpublished report by Stauffer Chemical Co., Farmington,
         Connecticut. Submitted to WHO by USFDA, 1982
Lymann, J. F. & Scott, E. (1930) Effects of the ingestion of tartrate
         or sodium aluminum sulfate baking powder upon growth,
         reproduction and kidney structure in the rat, Amer. J. Hyg.,
         12, 271-282
Schaeffer, G. et al. (1928) The dangers of certain mineral baking
         powders based on alum, when used for human nutrition, J. Hyg.,
         28, 92-99
Schteeder, M. T. (1979) Dialysis encephalopathy, Arch. Intern. Med.,
         13, 510-511
Spencer, H. & Lender, M. (1979) Adverse effects of aluminum-containing
         antiacids on mineral metabolism, Gastroenterology, 76,
         603-606
Underhill, F. P., Peterman, F. I. & Sperandeo (1929) Studies on the
         metabolism of aluminum. VII. A note on the toxic effects produced
         by subcutaneous injection of aluminum salts, Am. J. Physiol.,
         90, 76

The FDA has lied to us about the health risks associated with aluminum intake. The GRAS document further says aluminum is safe as long as it is "used at levels that are now current or that might reasonably be expected in the future." 

Well the future is here. People have all kinds of strange diseases that seem to be affecting the population exponentially. And the FDA still avoids regulating aluminum because it is on that old 1975 GRAS document.

There are over 2,000 references in the National Library of Medicine on adverse effects of aluminum.You are welcome to visit the website and pay the subscription fee and read away.

Like the FDA, the WHO (World Health Organization) also seems to ignore the health threats posed by aluminum in food, despite the research. Here is an excerpt from the WHO's Guidelines for the Use of Aluminum: (Notice what I put in bold)

"Aluminium is present in foods naturally or from the use of aluminium-containing food additives. The use of aluminium cookware, utensils, and wrappings can increase the amount of aluminium in food; however, the magnitude of this increase is generally not of practical importance. Foods naturally high in aluminium include potatoes, spinach, and tea. Processed dairy products, flour, and infant formula may be high in aluminium if they contain aluminium-based food additives 
(FAO/WHO, 1989; Pennington & Schoen, 1995; WHO,1997). 

Read the entire 14 page WHO document on aluminum here: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/en/aluminium.pdf

In a 2005 study testing aluminum levels in foods, the highest levels, by far, were found in baking powder, cake mix, cheese powder, pancake and waffle mixes. There were also moderate aluminum levels in meat such as sausage and pepperoni. Relish even had low trace amounts of aluminum. 
(Food Additives and Contaminants, March 2005; 22(3): 234–244)

Relish, too?? I had to go get my relish out of the fridge and read the ingredients. There's no way I would eat something that listed aluminum on the ingredients list. I didn't see it listed. But I did see three food additives: Polysorbate 80, Yellow 5, Blue 1. The aluminum hides in "food additives" which include artificial flavoring, coloring, and preservatives. 

 
If you visit the Wisconsin DHS (Department of Health Services, not to be confused with Dep't of Homeland Security), you'll notice several links pertaining to Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease. If you search in the search bar for "aluminum in drinking water" you will find a record of public drinking water warnings. The document states with certainty "short-term exposures to high aluminum levels in drinking water or dialysis fluid resulted in clinical diagnoses of dementia." dhs.wisconsin.gov 

I visited nearly 40 states' Department of Health Services website and found that all had a history of public water safety warnings having to do with the admitted health risks associated with aluminum posted in their database. It seems to be pretty well understood by the Department of Health that aluminum in high levels makes drinking water toxic. 

Lots of the research on aluminum is flawed. For instance, when the WHO investigated a news story about 20,000 people exposed to elevated aluminum levels in their drinking water for three weeks in 1988, they published an article in 1989 saying there were no long term health effects. (They spent only one year evaluating long term health risks.) http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/wsh0304_53/en/index7.html

The immediate effects of aluminum poisoning on those 20,000 people, in case you were wondering, included reports of nausea, diarrhea, and other nasties within days of consuming the contaminated water. 

In addition to the genetic component for AD, there may be other factors in addition to aluminum intake that increase an individual's risk of neurodegenerative disease. Neuropathologist Dr. Daniel Perl of the University of Vermont College of Medicine reports "deficits of calcium and magnesium combined with the accumulation of heavy metals such as aluminum may play a role in the beginning of Alzheimer's Disease." 
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/alzheimers-aluminum-toxicity-linked/#

As of 2013, independent studies conducted in Norway, France, Canada, and the UK showed a direct correlation between the prevalence of AD and levels of aluminum in the drinking water.
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/10/alzheimers-and-aluminum-toxicity-are-they-linked-2792982.html

Carole Cross suffered from an early-onset form of Alzheimer's and died in 2004 at the age of 59. In 1988, she was the victim of an industrial accident that contaminated her town's water supply with 3,000 times the limit of aluminum according to European safety guidelines. Carole had no family history of Dementia or AD, but she did purportedly have a genetic marker, or APOE, for the disease (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/05/13/aluminum-exposure-increases-your-alzheimers-risks.aspx). We also know that there was an unusually high amount of aluminum in her brain tissue upon postmortem analysis. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17246490) 

Is a 3,000 fold increase in aluminum intake irrelevant to the 2014 world citizen? I would say no. Take your deodorant for example. Consider that antiperspirant contains about 20-25 percent aluminum, and visualize that one quarter of all your deodorant sticks are pure aluminum, being partially absorbed into your armpit and breast tissue daily. Many studies have been popping up linking breast and other cancers to aluminum intake, based on finding a build up of aluminum in the affected tissues. 

However, our skin does not absorb aluminum nearly as well as our guts. In one very small study, two brave individuals applied aluminum chlorohydrate, the active ingredient in antiperspirant, to their underarms, for seven weeks (Flarend et al, 2001). Blood, urine, and skin cell samples were drawn to show how much aluminum was absorbed into the skin. Only 4 mcg of the aluminum was absorbed in each single application to both underarms, which is pretty insignificant. However, over time, this adds up. My problem with this study is that it involved only 2 people, done over 7 weeks, ignoring long-term implications. 

In a separate long-term case study (Guillard et al, 2004), a 43 year old woman was applying 1 gram of aluminum chlorohydrate cream to her underarms for 4 years. She developed a strange condition involving bone pain and fatigue. She also had elevated aluminum levels in her blood and urine. Within a couple months of discontinuing her antiperspirant, her aluminum levels decreased. After eight months, her symptoms went away. 
http://www.olivebranchorganic.com/aluminum-in-antiperspirant/

We probably go through at least 50 sticks of deodorant in a lifetime. Even at 4 mcg/day, this adds up to about 1 milligram of aluminum per year. 

Our gut is said to absorb about 4-5 mg/day of aluminum from food, which is much more than our skin absorbs. (http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/suppl_2/13.full.pdf). Food and beverage is a bigger source of aluminum by about 1,000% compared to antiperspirant. The FDA reports an average of 20 mg of aluminum in foods we eat daily. Carole Cross was exposed to about 30 mg/liter of aluminum-tainted water for a few weeks. If she drank 3 liters of water a day, that is close to 100 mg of aluminum she took in each day, not counting other sources of aluminum. Strangely, the FDA today estimates man has an aluminum intake of 10-100 mg/day (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fcn/fcnDetailNavigation.cfm?rpt=scogsListing&id=20). This would have been considered a toxic level in 1980's Europe.

At the rate of 100 mg/day, a person's aluminum intake would add up to about a quarter pound after 50 years. 

There are ways to minimize and eliminate aluminum intake. I make my own deodorant (coconut oil, peppermint oil, baking soda, and corn starch). I also buy aluminum-free baking soda, and stay away from foods with artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, and preservatives, as these have been shown to be composed of aluminum compound derivatives and other FDA-regarded "safe" chemicals. Vitamin D may also play a role in the rate of aluminum absorption and excretion of aluminum, though that role is not complely understood yet (http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/suppl_2/13.full.pdf). Also, experts say that drinking mineral water with a high silicon content of more than 30 mg could help remove aluminum from the brain (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17246490). 

The aluminum we can't avoid is the aerosol form sprayed in our atmosphere by a handful of world government forces who are experimenting with weather control and trying to block out harmful sunlight rays that contribute to greenhouse gases and global warming. Blah blah blah. I think spraying aluminum all over the globe isn't the solution. But it's happening right now, and has been going on for decades.

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson's science advisors were concerned about global warming. They suggested spreading reflective particles over 13 million square kilometers of ocean in order to reflect an extra 1 percent of sunlight away from Earth. (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geoengineering-and-climate-change/)

Al Gore later revived this effort and helped gain public sentiment for the battle against global warming and the need for more research on how to fight it (research directed toward geoengineering). An Inconvenient Truth was released in 2006. It got people to believe they could save the polar bears by supporting global warming prevention efforts. And geoengineering, or the spraying of aluminum and other chemicals into the earth's atmosphere, has become the tool to fight sunlight. Meanwhile, the polar bears Al Gore told us were dying are now overpopulating, and the weather is all messed up, and some places are actually getting colder... What is going on in the world?

Our world is becoming increasingly chemically speciated. Chemical speciation is the disbursement of an element into the environment in its unnatural form. This is what geoengineering does on an extreme level. 

When trying to sort through the literature on chemical speciation, I came to a dead end. The scientific jargon is just too advanced to understand. For instance, there is a neat graph in chapter 4 of a PDF E-book called Environmental Modelling that illustrates the effect of chemical speciation on precipitation patterns. View the graphs here, since I wasn't able to copy/paste. 

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/environment/2011/fall/chapter_04.pdf

(Weber, C.L., VanBriesen, J.M. and Small, M.S. (2006). A stochastic regression approach to analyzing thermodnamic uncertainty in chemical speciation modeling. Environmental science & Technology. 40:3872-3878. Copyright 2006 American Chemical Society.)

Great. Did you look at the graphs? Did you understand them? Can you explain them to me? 

Lots of "science" being published right now is so densely coded with acronyms and a syntax that could fill its own separate dictionary. How are we supposed to understand this?

Many reputable journals are littered with impossibly complex mathematical formulas used in deciphering the unpredictability element of thermodynamic modeling of multicomponent phase equilibria. It's just too hard to decode.

Not to mention, the entire collective body of research on aluminum and Alzheimer's Disease, as well as aluminum and cancer, is conflicting. I think the government powers that want to continue using aluminum as a cheap natural resource want us to be confused. The World Health Organization (WHO) revised documents pertaining to adverse affects of aluminum at least five times in the 1990's. In 1993 it claimed that aluminum may be connected to Alzheimer's Disease, and in 1997 acknowledged, "Aluminium intake from foods, particularly those containing aluminium compounds used as food additives, represents the major route of aluminium exposure for the general public, excluding persons who regularly ingest aluminium-containing antacids and buffered analgesics, for whom intakes may be as high as 5 g/day (WHO, 1997)

It's important to note here that people who regularly take antacids consume about 250 times more aluminum per day than those who don't!

The WHO is also contradictorily involved with geoengineering. But unlike in other documents where it is easy to understand the WHO's verbiage on the dangers of aluminum, the documents pertaining to global aluminum disbursement are strangely worded. They want us to be confused, I think! 

Take a look at this excerpt from the WHO's "Aluminum in Water: Guidelines For Drinking-water Quality," in a section titled "Environmental Fate":
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/en/aluminium.pdf

"Aluminium is released to the environment mainly by natural processes. Several factors influence aluminium mobility and subsequent transport within the environment. These include chemical speciation, hydrological flow paths, soil–water interactions, and the composition of the underlying geological materials." (ATSDR, 1992; WHO, 1997)..."Aluminium can occur in a number of different forms in water. It can form monomeric and polymeric hydroxy species, colloidal polymeric solutions and gels, and precipitates, all based on aquated positive ions or hydroxylated aluminates. In addition, it can form complexes with various organic compounds (e.g. humic or fulvic acids) and inorganic ligands (e.g. fluoride, chloride, and sulfate), most but not all of which are soluble. The chemistry of aluminium in water is complex, and many chemical parameters, including pH, determine which aluminium species are present in aqueous solutions. In pure water, aluminium has a minimum solubility in the pH range 5.5–6.0; concentrations of total dissolved aluminium increase at higher and lower pH values." (CCME, 1988; ISO, 1994)

In closing, I scanned thousands of research study titles pertaining to aluminum dating back almost 200 years, I found that the vast majority of research on aluminum had to do with its economic profitability, according to Scientific American, the oldest regularly published U.S. science magazine dedicated to publishing articles about current scholarly journal findings in all fields of science.

Notice that the bulk of these aluminum studies were done about 20 years after the industrial revolution began. There was better technology to mine aluminum, and being the most abundant metal in the earth's crust, it was a profitable resource for big government, or more specifically, for the private sector that owned the federal reserve.  Aluminum was discovered in 1787 but could not be extracted until 1825. By 1845, samples of aluminum were being widely studied.

Here is a short sample of the 1,000+ Scientific American article titles pertaining to research on aluminum, published between 1847-2008. I have not read these articles or the studies they pertain to, but judging by the titles, we can see that the interest in researching aluminum had everything to do with profitability and nothing to do with health risks, until a study 1997.

1847: Aluminum Advancements on all Fronts: To make aluminum the number one Nonferrous Metal of the Future

1848: New Chemical Law

1854: Depositing of Aluminum and Silicium
1854: Aluminum Steel

1855: The New Metal, Aluminum
1855: A Light Metal

1856: Electro-Plating with Aluminum
1856: Aluminum Becoming Cheaper
1856: How to Obtain the Metal Aluminum
1856: American Aluminum

1857: Alloys of Aluminum
1857: Manufacture of Aluminum

1859: The Amalgamation and Gilding of Aluminum
1859: Aluminum Becoming Cheap
1859: Aluminum-Bronze for Axle Boxes
1859: Extracting the Metal Aluminum

1861: Aluminum Bronze - Brass 

1863: Cryolite--Aluminum Minerals
1863: Aluminum Bronze

1864: Reducing Aluminum by Zinc
1864: The Way Aluminum is Procured
1864: Aluminum Bronze Bearings

1865: Aluminum Bronze for Coins

1867: Aluminum--Its Properties and Uses

1868: Aluminum--A Field for Scientific Effort
1868: Aluminum Bronze
1868: Aluminum Bronze--Its Properties and Uses

1872: Plating with Aluminum

1876: The Extermination of the Phylloxera by Alkaline Sulpho-Carbonates 

1886: Aluminum Iron and Steel
1886: The Dynamo Colossus at Work 

1887: A Combined Feed Cooker and Scalder

1888: An Improved Bell Collar for Cattle

1890: Progress of Aluminum
1890: The Manufacture and Uses of Aluminum

1891: Aluminum Works in Switzerland 

1892: The Acoustic Properties of Aluminum
1892: Aluminum Electro-Plating in Architecture 
1892: An Improved Propeller Blade
1892: A New Air Ship
1892: An Aerial Ship

1893: Brooding Snakes

1894: Aluminum Boat--The Jules Davoust
1894: An Aluminum Torpedo Boat
1894: A Cycle Cab

1896: A Durable Bicycle Tire

1897: Practical Directions for Soldering Aluminum
1897: The Beelin Aluminum Balloon 

1898: A Coin-Controlled Bicycle Pump

1916: An Industrial Giant of Recent Birth: The Importance of Aluminum in Modern Technology Necessitates Immense New Plant in North Carolina

1917: Aluminum Coated Iron Castings, Nothing New Under the Sun, and More

1918:  Plating of Aluminum with Nickel now Possible

1919: Aerial Conductors of Aluminum

1920: Preventing Rust at High Temperatures: Aluminum-Coated Metals That Will Go to the Melting Point Without Formation of Scale
1920: Quick Dry Lacquer Coating, Protecting the Surface of Aluminum from Corrosion and more
1920: A Mammoth Steam Unit and its Work, Aluminum Dust Explorations and more

1921: What Becomes of Our Coal?, Honeycombs of Aluminum and more

1923: A New and Novel Use for Aluminum
1923: Solders for Aluminum, A Draw Bridge Which Slides Diagonally and more
1923: Emissivity of Roofing Materials

1928: Asphalt Emulsion for Curing Concrete, Electro-Plating on Aluminum and more: A Department Devoted to the Advancements Made in Industrial and Experimental Chemistry

1929: Aluminum on Trial: Cooking Utensils Made of Aluminum Are Shown to Have No Harmful Effects on Food
1929: Cheap Aluminum Chloride Now Available, Australian Motorists to Use Gasoline Mixed with Alcohol: Advances Made in Industrial and Experimental Chemistry

1930: Aluminum and its 'Hard Boiled' Alloys: How a Chemical Curiosity Became a 225,000,000-Pound Industry in Forty-Three Years

1932: Something New--Aluminum Jewelry

1933: Fiddling on Aluminum
1933: How Much Poison Can We Eat? 

1936: Aluminum's Future: The Next Fifty Years of Aluminum: In the Light of Yesterday's Progress and Tomorrow's Research Possibilities
1936: Way Down Under In A Bauxite Mine

1938: Aluminum Can Be Plated: Long Resisted All Efforts to Plate it, Final Success, Process is Cheap, Fast, and Practical. Will Greatly Expand Uses of Light Metal.
1938: Molten Strength and Light Weight

1940: Propeller Cuffs

1941: Foil Substitute, Matting, and more

1942: Why are we Short of Aluminum? Huge Quantities of Electricity are Needed to Reduce this Common Metal from its Ore
1942: An Aluminum Torpedo Boat
1942: Steel, Aluminum Clay, and more
1942: Aircraft Engines Get New Heads: Aluminum Forgings Replace Castings, Speeding Up Production and Releasing Needed Equipment
1942: Plywood, Civil Air Patrol, and more: Utilized As Float, Conserves Aluminum 

1943: A Lighter Age is Coming: Magnesium is Moving Ahead Rapidly and Now Challenges Aluminum in Many Industrial Applications

1944: Nonferrous Metals Tomorrow: How will Aluminum, Magnesium, Copper, Zinc, Lead, and Other Important Metals Fare Individually
1944: As Metal Resources Dwindle, and Aluminum Ores are Nearing Exhaustion, but the Chemical Industry is Doing Things about the Development of Methods of Working Wide-Spread Low-Grade Ores
1944: Continuous Casting: Practically All Aluminum, Magnesium, and Copper Alloys are Now Cast in this Manner, and Experiments Currently Under Way with Steel Show Great Promise
1944: Refrigerated Metals: Temperatures are Now Used in Treating and Storing Aluminum Rivets, Shrink-Fitting Mating Paris

1945: Metals in the Air: Of These, Aluminum Is Most Widely Used Because It Combines the Necessary Qualities of Toughness
1945: Two-in-One Materials: With Desirable Properties for Many Specific Purposes. Plastics Plus Metals and a New Aluminum-Cast
1945: Metals Fight Corrosion: Improvement of Alloys and Coatings to Combat the Ravages of Corrosion is One of Today's Most Hopeful Industrial Trends, Involving Both Metals and Chemicals. Industrial and Consumer Products Last Longer, Look Better, and Make Everyone Concerned Happier

1946: Steel-Aluminum Rivet, Plated Piston Rings: Heat-Treatable to Handle High Shear Loads
1946: Anodized Magnesium: Holds Paint, Resists Attack Like Aluminum
1946: Copper-Coated, Non-Aging Steel: Aluminum Has Advantages For Electrical Uses
1946: Aluminum vs Copper, Silver "Solder" Base, and more
1946: Plant-Truck "Intercoms," Aluminum Welding
1946: Aluminized Steel, Copper-Bearing, and more: Resistant to Corrosion, Reflects Heat Well

1947: Heat-Tube Material
1947: Aluminum Welded, Printed Silver, and more: By Processes Using Air, Heat, and Dyes

1948: Anti-Friction Bearings, "Impossible Machining, and more

1957: Chemical Milling: The art of cutting metals has recently been extended by new techniques of etching. These techniques not only shape metals but also will very likely shape the design of metal products 

1963: The Amateur Scientist: How to grind, polish, and test an aluminum telescope mirror
1963: Minerals: Deposits of important minerals that can be economically mined are poorly distributed over the surface of the earth. Modern substitutions may, however, alleviate some of this imbalance

1967: The Competition of Materials: Now that the properties of all materials are better understood, it is clear that quite different materials can be used for the same purpose. This calls for subtle choices involving both technology and economics

1979: The Amateur Scientist, September 1979: A radiation detector made out of aluminum foil and a tin can

1986: The Amateur Scientist--Retracing the Steps By Which Aluminum Metal was Initially Purified Back in 1886
1986: Materials For Ground Transportation: The 40 million cars and trucks produced every year consume a huge quantity of material. Far more of it is now aluminum, plastic, or high-strength steel; correspondingly less is ordinary steel or cast iron
1986: Materials for Aerospace: U.S. goals for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight and for space exploration call for alloys and composites notable for strength, light weight, and resistance to heat

1989: Sharpening the Edge: Will steel beverage cans return to store shelves? 

1994: The Aluminum Beverage Can: Produced by the hundreds of millions every day, the modern can--robust enough to support the weight of an average adult--is a tribute to precision design and engineering

1997: Is there any proof that Alzheimer's Disease is related to exposure to aluminum -- for instance, by using aluminum frying pans?

1999: Why does a ball go farther when hit with an aluminum bat?

2002: Computer Simulations Showcase Aluminum's Odd Behavior

2005: Aluminum Clusters Exhibit Multiple Personalities

2007: Rotor in Motor: Replacing aluminum with copper in electric motors saves energy
2007: Fact or Fiction?: Antiperspirants Do More Than Block Sweat: Do antiperspirants cause dementia or breast cancer? 

2008: Lightweight aluminum v. a hand grenade, who wins?
2008: Mind Control by Cell Phone: Electromagnetic signals from cell phones can change your brainwaves and behavior. But don't break out the aluminum foil head shield just yet.

2010: Storing megawatts: Liquid-metal batteries and electricity
2010: Analysis lags on Hungarian sludge leak: Report stirs controversy as it reveals unexpected levels of toxic heavy metals.

2011: What Causes an Airline Fuselage to Rupture Mid-Flight? How Can This Be Prevented? Cracks in the aluminum skin of an aircraft are commonplace, but the hole that opened up

2012: Buoyant Science: How Metal "Boats" Float
2012: To Boost Gas Mileage, Automakers Explore Lighter Cars: By cutting down on steel and other heavy materials, vehicles can be made lighter, boosting energy efficiency

2013: Cleaner, Cheaper Way to Make Steel Uses Electricity: Making steel in a similar way to aluminum is cheaper and reduces greenhouse gas emissions  



Other sources used:

Read more about geoengineering:
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

Scientific American subscription info and research database:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/

Read the online document for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry:
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=1076&tid=34

Learn about how to remove aluminum from your tap water: http://www.freshwatersystems.com/s-264-aluminum-in-water.aspx

Read about the World Health Organization's Guide for Drinking-Water Quality: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/en/aluminium.pdf

Read about aluminum in deodorant: 
https://suite101.com/a/aluminum-in-deodorant-a45498 
http://www.infantrisk.com/content/aluminum-rich-antiperspirants-potential-hazard

Read about Alzheimer's and aluminum: http://www.alz.org/alzwa/documents/alzwa_resource_ad_fs_aluminum.pdf

Read more about Carole Cross' rare form of Dementia and the high levels of aluminum found in her brain:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17246490
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread858463/pg1

Read about an Oxford study examining the factors contributing to aluminum absorption:
http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/suppl_2/13.full.pdf

Doing A Coffee Enema For The First Time

Warning: You Don't Have to Read This

It's hard to imagine an audience for a piece of writing like this. I will get a few views from friends, but most of my readers are complete strangers who accidentally found me in a Google search. Many will type "Coffee Enema First Time" or something like that. To you strangers, I promise to not disappoint, and to be candid and explicit about my experience doing a coffee enema for the first time.

Let this be a friendly warning to some of you to just stop reading now.

I wrote a blog about a year ago called "Pooping and Weightloss," and it's had over 7,000 views. People want to discuss this stuff. So here I go.

For you, reader, out there in cyberspace, who is thinking of trying a coffee enema yourself, let this blog be a clarification of just how unpleasant an enema can be the first time.  On an unrelated note, I've also used the words "twerk" and "tweek"  interchangeably for the past 10 years.

I've been watching The Big Bang Theory quite a bit and sometimes my thoughts sound like Sheldon inside my head. I think I share his weirdness, but not his intelligence. I am far more lazy and much less motivated when it comes to figuring things out. Except when it comes to colon health.

I ordered my coffee enema kit from the Gerson Institute, an alternative cancer-treatment center known for its success with curing cancer through holistic and alternative health therapies. I ordered the coffee enema kit  for about $20. I was so excited. It actually came with 2 separate kits and 2 pounds of organic coffee. Good deal!

I should clarify I don't have cancer. The Gerson Institute uses coffee enemas to treat cancer. Patients receive 4 coffee enemas per day (sometimes more) for 2 full years. If you are out there reading, and you need to do an enema for health reasons, don't be too scared by the things I am going to say in this blog. Please know that people get better at "holding" the coffee inside their intestines through practice, so it wouldn't be so bad after you'd done it a few times. One website even said "Practice makes perfect."  (Read more here)

How to Administer an Enema: 7 Steps

1. Preparing the coffee: Ideally you need to "hold" one quart of coffee inside your bowels. FYI: There's 4 cups in a quart. And one quart is about the same as one liter.

Boil 2 tbsp of organic coffee grinds in one quart of water for 5 minutes. Stir. Strain. Allow the liquid to cool to body temperature, about 100 degrees. Use your finger to feel when it's warm. One website adds:

"Remember that your finger is less delicate and less sensitive to heat than the mucus membrane lining your gut." Read more here

2. Hook up your enema kit. This involves hooking a tube into a bag or bucket. I ordered a bucket kit because it seemed easier to clean, plus the bucket doesn't need to "hang" on anything like a bag would. My bucket kit had one long clear tube which went into a hole at the base of the bucket and on the other end, I connected the soft rubber tube. The bucket holds the coffee before it enters you. The soft rubber tube gets inserted 5-8'' into the colon. (I didn't realize it had to go that far at my first attempt, but I got it in that far the second attempt. Lube it up with oil. Shove it in there. Breathe. Details on that later.) Pour the one quart of prepared coffee into the bucket.

3. Position the bucket. The bucket (or bag) should be elevated about 18'' over your butt.  I put my bucket on a storage bin next to the place on my bedroom floor wear I planned to lay and do the enema.

4. Get comfortable. Websites suggest doing everything you can to get comfortable. I put a soft down mattress feather thing on the floor, along with some candles, lavender oil (for scent), coconut oil (for lube), my bible (for prayer), and a box of Kleenex. I laid down and massaged my belly and lubed up my tube.

5. Lay in a fetal position on your right side, holding your knees to your chest with one arm, and adjusting the flow of coffee to your colon with your other free hand.

6. Push the rubber tube deep into you, at least 5-8 inches. On my first enema try, I only inserted the tube about 2 inches. I didn't realize how far it was supposed to go in. I was in great discomfort and felt terribly violated at the sensation. I had never had anything EVER enter me back there. For the love of God. It really felt awful. Only a little bit of coffee flowed into me. About 1 cup. I waited the 15 minutes, pulled the tube out (ouch), and went to the bathroom. I decided to do some more research the following day to find out how to get the coffee to flow better into me, and give it a second try.

Well after doing a little more online research the next day, I discovered the reason the coffee stopped flowing into me. It was because I hadn't inserted the rubber tube deep enough. So on my second try, I really got it in there, and the coffee flowed fast! I used the clasp on the long clear tube to shut off the flow of coffee frequently. The sensation of the coffee flow deep into my intestines was uncomfortable at first, and unbearable at the end. The tube itself, however, felt more comfortable deep inside me than it did when it was just a couple inches into my rectum. You must push the tube past the sensitive rectum walls and get it into your colon/large intestine where there is less sensitivity to poking and prodding and flow. I wish I had stuck it in further my first try and not been such a pussy. I was more relaxed my second try, too. I used more lube. I took deep breaths. It went in, and in, and in. No biggie.

7. Prepare for pain. Actually, there is no way to prepare for the pain associated with "holding" a quart of coffee in your innermost bowels. The tips you will read online regarding how to deal with the pain of "holding" an enema are just laughable. I don't think hard drugs could have helped me. It was just out of this world pure agony.

I had spent 10 minutes letting the whole quart of coffee flow into me, slowly but steadily, stopping the flow every 20 or 30 seconds with the clasp, just to take a few breaths and say a quick prayer. It was just as the last few ounces of the quart entered me that I experienced a violent, explosive pain in my guts. I let out a tiny scream, followed by some moans and groans. I completely forgot all the tips I'd read. I forgot to try pressing my thumb into the first knuckle of my ring finger. I forgot to try rocking my knees left and right, I think I even forgot to breathe.

I grabbed my bucket and staggered toward the bathroom door, hunched over like an old lady, and nearly in tears, sat down on the toilet. I pulled red tubing out of my butt for what felt like an eternity, at least 10-12'' of it. I was surprised I'd pushed so much in! I had a brief moment of self satisfaction at the success of getting it so deep inside me, but my attention quickly got re-directed back to my pain and getting that coffee OUT. And out it came. A coffee fountain poured from my loins. I felt ecstatic once it was all done. The pain was gone. The enema was over. I'd held the full quart, even if just for a minute. Whether my ecstasy was a result of my pain ending, or at the sense of accomplishment of a difficult task, or some totally unrelated physiological effect of having a cleaner liver and less toxins in my body, I don't know.  But I experienced sheer ecstasy. I had a case of the giggles for about 18 hours afterward. Everything was funny. I felt intoxicated with joy.  But a couple days later I am back to feeling normal.

Other tips:

One website recommended sitting on a toilet after administering the enema. It said you could actually take the tube out of your butt once all the coffee was inside, and sit on the toilet and wait 15 minutes. I don't know how a person just sits on a toilet with 4 cups of coffee in their ass and "holds" it, other than by an act of sheer willpower. Another tip reads, "Walking around the house with the enema inside is not recommended." And another, "To deal with cramping, press your thumb into the first knuckle of your ring finger" and "don't forget to breathe."   

Some websites are very explicit about the extreme pain an enema causes. Such website warnings are best summarized in a "tip" on the Gerson.org website:

"It happens to everyone at some point or another, especially when you’re just starting to do coffee enemas. On occasion, one may experience difficulty holding the coffee enema for the full recommended 12-15 minutes. Don’t worry; we won’t go into graphic detail. You might experience some cramping, intestinal distress, gas, or spasms that send you running to the toilet before you’ve even managed to take in the full solution."  http://gerson.org/gerpress/tag/coffee-enemas/

If you are scared to try an enema at this point of reading my blog, consider a "gentle" enema. Most enema websites recommend doing a "gentler" warm water enema before trying a full fledged coffee enema. I kind of wish I had tried that first.

Another thing that you might find helpful is studying a diagram of the intestinal tract. If I had just done that to begin with, I wouldn't have made the initial mistake of only inserting the enema tube 2 inches. I didn't have an anatomical understanding of why I should have to push the tube any deeper inside me. No wonder the coffee stopped flowing and I only got 1 cup inside me that first try! I hadn't gotten the tube past my rectum walls and into my large intestine where the coffee needs to flow. When I understood where the tube was going, it made the process less psychologically unbearable. Learn more about the digestive system here.

The diagram showed me the direction in which my colon winds, and I saw that the tube needs to take a sharp left-slightly up-then down-then up again- motion. Like going up the front of a little hill and then coming down its side at a 90 degree angle. Then my rectum merges into my large intestine which proceeds vertically up the left side of my body before making a perpendicular right hand turn toward the rest of my large intestine and organs. Namely, the liver is further north but also on the right side of my body. This is why you need to lay on your right side while administering the enema. The colon starts off going up the left side of your body and eventually takes a sharp turn for the right, which leads to all the other intestinal organs.

Do your own research. There's surely information I've left out in this blog, but you have the basics, and dare I say, enough information to successfully try an enema yourself.

Are Coffee Enemas Legit? 

People have told me not to believe everything I read online. Well, once you read the same thing five or ten times online, you start to believe it. If you research coffee enemas, you are going to find credible sources of educated people giving sound, scientific explanations for why enemas work. I am not a doctor, so a lot of these explanations baffle me, but I could not find one website or source online that criticized coffee enemas. They are a pretty well-respected overall health therapy even in today's modern world of medicine. Hospitals, health spas, and even vacation resorts offer various forms of enemas and colonics for cleaning out the colon and detoxifying the liver.

Enemas have been used for thousands of years, and some of the ancient writings about enemas that I found were like verses taken right out of the bible itself. Here's a sample of the ancient writings about enemas:

 "Seek, therefore, a large trailing gourd, having a stalk the length of a man; take out its inwards and fill it with water from the river which the sun has warmed. Hang it upon the branch of a tree, and kneel upon the ground before the angel of water, and suffer the end of the stalk of the trailing gourd to enter your hinder parts, which the water may flow through all your bowels.

Afterwards, rest kneeling on the ground before the angel of water and pray to the living God that he will forgive you all of your past sins, and pray to the angel of water that he will free your body from every uncleanness and disease.

Then let the water run out from your body, that it may carry away from within it all the unclean and evil-smelling things of Satan. And you shall see with your eyes and smell with your nose all the abominations and unclean things which defiled the temple of your body; even all the sins which abode in your body, tormenting you with all manner of pains. I tell you truly, baptism with water frees you from all of these.”  http://greenvitamin.weebly.com/enemas.html

The ancient dead sea scrolls from Jesus' day, along with writings from the Ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and many other people groups, contain detailed instructions on how to administer an enema (including coffee enemas) and the necessity of doing so for overall health, particularly when battling chronic illness.

 Why Should I Care About My Liver?

Everything we eat, drink, and breathe is filtered through the liver.  The liver can be overcome with all this filth and become toxic itself.

We're more exposed to chemicals now than ever. Next to your skin, the liver is the second most crucial organ in eliminating harmful chemicals from the body. Chemicals are unavoidable. Since the chemicals are everywhere, taking care of our livers via enema makes a lot of sense because the liver ultimately cleans out the chemicals in our blood and keeps us healthy.

The liver breaks down all the nutrients and chemicals we take in so that our body can use what is useable and discard what is toxic. The liver excretes a bi-product called bile which helps carry waste products out of the body.  The liver is the only organ in our body that can regenerate itself, and it is responsible for more than 500 vital functions, such as breaking down fats, producing proteins for blood plasma, storing energy and iron, cleaning chemicals and bacteria from the blood, and sending everything harmful out of our body through feces and urine. Doing a coffee enema increases the liver's ability to remove toxic chemicals from the body by stimulating the activity of an enzyme system called glutathione S-transferase. Two substances found in coffee – kahweol and cafestol palmitate – stimulate this process. Glutathione S-transferase is responsible for eliminating carcinogens from the body, and neutralizing free radicals. It also restores the electrolyte balance in cancer patients.

Coffee enemas have also been known to eliminate chronic pain. In fact, there is a story out there of a nurse who accidentally put coffee in the enema bag of soldiers during WWI, and the pain these soldiers were in after having severed limbs and internal injuries, miraculously disappeared after receiving the coffee enema. Later on, when medical units were out of morphine, coffee enemas were administered with great success at relieving pain.

The liver is basically the chemical factory of the body, and what Dr. Gerson discovered to be the most important organ for maintaining health and overcoming disease. The reason we need to "hold" the enema for the recommended 15 minutes, is because the liver filters about 3 pints of blood per minute. The average human body holds 10 pints of blood. So in 15 minutes, all the body's blood passes through the liver about five times! The coffee enema literally cleans out all your blood in addition to cleaning the liver!


My Bathroom Experience After Enema
If you've made it this far reading, you probably want to know about the bathroom experience I had after holding the full quart enema. It wasn't that gross, and didn't smell or look any different than coffee poured in a toilet bowl would. I basically peed coffee out my butt. The 18 hours of laughter that followed was rather maniacal, and I think it was a weird psychological coping mechanism or nervous twitch that came from what I did to myself.

I'm sorry if you've found anything I've written here offensive. Don't sit there and throw stones when you're hiding behind a glass monitor. You were warned!

Feel free to email me with more specific questions. I do believe wholeheartedly in the health benefits of doing an enema. If I attempt an enema again someday, I will use warm water, about a half quart, and lay right next to the toilet.

Thanks for sharing in my health journey.

Other good websites to check out:

http://www.raw-wisdom.com/coffee-enemas

http://www.peak-health-now.com/retain-a-coffee-enema.html

http://www.healingaia.com/blog-resources/nutritional-balancing/five-elements-of-nutritional-balancing/detox-protocols/coffee-enemas/

http://drjfibrosupport.com/coffee-enemas/ 

https://www.healthbeyondhype.com/page.html?id=18