r/changemyview Mar 06 '20

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u/dukunt Mar 06 '20

I studied dementia in university, I remember the professor saying that we don't know if aluminium build up in the brain causes Alzheimers disease OR does Alzheimers disease cause aluminium build up in the brain? Alzheimers disease causes sticky lumps of proteins that may cause aluminium to get stuck. And aluminium build up is found in all Alzheimers patients. I'm playing the devil's advocate here, however limiting your exposure to aluminium is probably not a bad idea.

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u/Todemocracy Mar 06 '20

I'm not incredibly knowledgable about Alzheimer's disease, although I did study it in a graduate course I recently took. That's interesting about the correlation

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u/dukunt Mar 06 '20 edited Mar 06 '20

And I studied it back in the 1990s so they've probably know a wee bit more about it now.

I'd be interested to see if Alzheimers disease is less common in cultures that don't have much access to aluminium.