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Environmental causes and prevention measures for Alzheimer's disease /
This book examines the increased incidence of the disease in developed countries, and provides new insights into environmental causation, primarily metals.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Elsevier,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A little background on dementia and Alzheimer's disease
- 3. Interesting and important historical and demographic facts about the epidemic of Alzheimer's disease in developed countries pointing to environmental intoxicants causing the epidemic
- 4. Candidate environmental factors for the Alzheimer's epidemic part 1 : the metals
- aluminum, lead, mercury, zinc, iron, and copper
- 5. Candidate environmental factors for the Alzheimer's epidemic part 2 : diet and other lifestyle factors
- 6. Identification of copper-2 and copper in general, as major environmental intoxicants in the Alzheimer's disease epidemic : the copper hypothesis
- 7. Background on copper, including why copper-2 is so specifically neurotoxic
- 8. Inorganic copper, or copper-2, ingestion as a major causal factor for the Alzheimer's disease epidemic : the web of evidence
- 9. Increased copper absorption resulting from dietary changes in developed countries as another causal factor in the Alzheimer's disease epidemic
- 10. The copper hypothesis fits nicely with known risk factors and theories of Alzheimer's disease causation
- 11. Prevention measures action items : two simple steps to eliminate ingestion of copper-2, and dietary changes to reduce copper absorption
- 12. Failures : what the government has not done to ensure healthy drinking water and nontoxic multimineral pills
- 13. Treatment of Alzheimer's disease
- 14. Summary and conclusions.