Alzheimer’s disease, metals, heavy metals and other kinds of rock

Today i will talk about oligoelements, or as you know them minerals, or even metals present in our body and their link with mental health and AD (Alzheimer’s disease). But what are these oligoelements? I will tell you, they are small amounts of chemical elements present in our body. If we do not have enough of them, defficiences will appear, as a result of specific pathologies, unbalanced diet, poor assimilation, excessive physical effort, soreness, fatigue and pregnancy, just to name few of the causes. Just to make a list, we are talking mainly about Silver, Gold, Bismuth, Calcium, Cobalt, Chrome, Copper, Fluorine, Iron, Iodine, Potassium, Lithium, Magnesium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Selenium, Silicon, Vanadium and Zinc. But for today we will only insist on those linked to AD risk factors.

First, one of the tests associated with dementia and AD is the copper/zinc ratio. Most of us (and the risk is increased if you are libing in a developed country) have too much copper and not enough zinc. You may have too much copper because of the copper piping and extra copper from the multivitamins. You may have less zinc because of a zinc poor diet and poor zinc absorbtion (less acid production in our stomach as we age or medication — proton pump inhibitors for gastric reflux). Not only ageing is associated with the zinc levels decrease, but also AD. The type 3 of Alzheimer’s disease (the toxic one — we talked about it in here) can have only 50% of the optimal zinc level that a…