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Environmental causes and prevention measures for Alzheimer's disease electronic book
First edition.
2018
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ISBN 1
9780128111635
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| URL 1 | Gale eBooks |
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| Titles | Environmental causes and prevention measures for Alzheimer's disease |
| Volume No. | electronic book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Author | George J. Brewer. |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pub. Date | 2018 |
| Classification 1 | 493.185 老人病．老人医学 |
| ISBN | 9780128111635 |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. This book examines the increased incidence of the disease in developed countries, and provides new insights into environmental causation, primarily metals. Description based on print version record. |
| Subjects | LCSH:Alzheimer's disease. |