Aluminum Prevalence, Health Risks and Effective Protection
Hello, I am Julie Donaldson and I am a clinical nutritionist with functional health training. I specialize in restoring balance in complex, chronic and acute health conditions. I welcome you to peruse other articles that may be of interest to you in your health investigation!
“My daughter experienced loss of speech and some motor disturbances after her 18 month vaccinations. I contacted Julie for help, and I just do not know where we would be without her. My daughter’s first hair test showed very low aluminum, which Julie knew to be a problem. With protocols, her next test showed very, very high levels. A person would think this would be a problem...but she had begun to speak again after less than 2 weeks of using her protocols. She is a normal, healthy girl now.”
My clients are often surprised to hear that I want them to display a certain level of aluminum excretion on a metals test. Many are already aware that aluminum is connected to dementia and other health problems, so it would seem that none is the best amount. But the truth is that aluminum is the most prevalent metal in our environment, and as a light metal (vs. heavy metal), it is much more easily excreted. It is everywhere, throughout air, soil and water - and if it’s not coming out, it’s building up in the body’s tissues. That’s where health risks enter. Here we’ll discuss how aluminum is getting into our bodies and how to monitor the levels to assure safety. This is an absolute must for every living being in order to maintain holistic health.
How does aluminum get into the body?
Virtually everyone knows not to cook/eat with aluminum products anymore. Following are the major sources of aluminum exposure for Americans.
Car exhaust is undoubtedly the major source of contamination for most people living in industrialized nations. It is the most chronic and insidious exposure to aluminum. The estimate is that cars provide 95% of toxic emissions in our cities and towns. Of course, industrial manufacturing is a source as well, and its contributions were up 8% from 2012-2021.
Car exhaust and manufacturing pollution
We know that jet exhaust rivals diesel exhaust in its emission of toxic nanoparticles, including aluminum. The deleterious health effects and hospital admissions are elevated in those who work near airplane exhaust. These are often lung-related, and remember, the majority of the body’s toxins are excreted through the lungs. Their purity and health are paramount for our own. Diesel exhaust is already known to be associated with cancer - it is likely we will understand the same of jet exhaust in due time.
Our water?? Yes, our municipal waters are a source of aluminum. Aluminum is used in water treatment processes and remains present for consumption. So are some processed foods, baby formula, toothpaste, anti-perspirant, aspirin, antacids, vaccines, and certain foods. The foods most vulnerable to absorption of aluminum are tea leaves, spices, potatoes and spinach.
Another unfortunate and hotly defended source of aluminum is through the practice of cloud-seeding and/or geoengineering of climate patterns. These practices have been occurring for the last 7 decades. Unfortunately, many people still believe this is a hoax and not happening…some cities are quite secretive and underhanded with their practices, others are in the wide open with them and claiming them to be solutions for climate change. Have you seen a sky like the photo below? If you have, your city has cloud seeding operations…
Cloud seeding trails
This is distinctly different from jet contrails, which are singular and rarely crossing one another. In some cases, you will see 10 or 12 of these chemtrails at the same time, all criss-crossing.
What happens post-spray is that the clouds begin to accumulate and “if they’re lucky”, rain will fall but, at the very least, the hope is for cloud cover that lowers temperature. Last year, I stood underneath a solid blue southern Arizona sky in the morning. Just after lunch, the cloud seeding trails appeared and 15 minutes later, the sky was completely gray, not a spot of blue anywhere. No storm system had “approached” to produce an atmospheric change. A telltale sign of the particular types of clouds generated by this chemical process is “flattening” - the clouds are thin and flat vs. puffy and shaped as storm clouds typically are.
Cloud seeding process
So, how is this connected to aluminum absorption? One of the first things known about the artificial rain created by cloud seeding is that it is much more likely to be acidic rain. Remember when acid rain was a huge topic of conversation? Acid rain was the environmental challenge of the 1990’s. Coal emissions were reduced and limited via regional policy, and acid rain occurrence plummeted. But it does still exist and is monitored via a variety of procedures in different countries. Acid rain is full of aluminum (which mobilizes/circulates naturally from ground moisture during atmospheric changes). As acid rain falls to the earth, absorption of its particulates move into all water sources, leading us back to unfortunate contamination of food crops. The acidification of soil (from conventional farming practices and toxic runoff) creates a massive export of aluminum into the atmosphere. Acidic particles and gases deposit to surfaces (water bodies, vegetation, buildings) quickly and react during atmospheric transport to form larger particles that can be harmful to human health. When the accumulated acids are washed off a surface by the next rain, this acidic water flows over and through the ground, and can harm plants, wildlife, insects and fish.
ACID RAIN = LOW NUTRIENT/DAMAGED PLANT FOODS = POOR MICROBIOME DIVERSITY = LOWER OVERALL HEALTH STATUS
Special Note: Cloud seeding is one of 4 geoengineering practices. The other 3 types are solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal and weather modification. Another risky and dangerous practice is in the category of solar radiation management. This practice involves the use of nanoparticles of graphene, an ice nucleon element utilized for “surface cool-downs”. Referred to as GFNs, these particles can reach various locations in the body through blood circulation or biological barriers such as the blood-brain barrier, blood-air barrier (lungs), blood-testes barrier and blood-placental barrier.
After internalization, graphene accumulates in the cell cytoplasm, perinuclear space, and nucleus, which induce cytotoxicity in macrophages by increasing intracellular ROS (reactive oxygen species) through depletion of the mitochondrial membrane potential and by triggering cellular apoptosis through activation of the mitochondrial pathway.
GFNs bio-accumulate in human and animal tissues. Below is a partial of a large chart of negative effects of GFNs.
Toxic effects of various graphene nanoparticles
The unhelpful, “unintended” consequences of these practices are stated here by researchers/reviewers at Scientific American:
“The best-studied proposal, to pump sulfate aerosols into the upper atmosphere to block sunlight, would cause its own troubles. The sulfates would slow or reverse the recovery of the ozone layer; they might also reduce global rainfall, and the rain that did fall would be more acidic. And those are just the foreseeable effects. Aerosols are the least understood aspect of the climate system.”
What are the dangers and detrimental effects of aluminum?
If aluminum is moved quickly and effectively out of the body, we can consider ourselves safe from its harms. When the systems that must remove metal of any kind from the body are overwhelmed and/or malfunctioning, aluminum accumulates. I believe this is a significant piece of a bigger picture with aluminum toxicity in children on the autism spectrum disorder.. These children are often over-burdened with a multitude of stresses as fetuses and these combined stresses leave them frequently disabled in both detoxification and immune functions. Unlike some in the ASD community, I do not believe that aluminum-containing vaccines are the sole cause of the disorder, but rather that it is a complex vulnerability which involves aluminum overwhelm (most certainly worsened by excess aluminum injection - see chart below).
Infant/toddler aluminum exposure 1996-2016
When unable to effectively excrete aluminum, its accumulation begins to contribute to structural and functional abnormalities of organs and tissues and neurotoxicity. . Below is a chart of the greatest deleterious effects.
Toxic actions of aluminum
NOTE that the inhibition of cartilage formation listed above is causative in aluminum-related joint damage.
In addition to these effects, aluminum toxicity is a known factor in the diseases of Alzheimers, epilepsy, autism and cardiovascular disease. Researchers on the latter state: “In this study, we observed that bone Al accumulation was independently associated with major adverse cardiovascular events”.
It causes cellular degeneration, necrosis and atrophy. Excess production of inflammatory cytokines is also a very damaging effect. The picture becomes yet one more of intersected functions creating dysfunction in the body.
What can we do to protect ourselves?
The most important steps to handle your aluminum exposure are:
Create foundational energy/health through personalized nutrition (ALL challenging health conditions & long-term optimal health require this stabilization)
Utilize appropriate binders for metals such as liposomal silica, citrus pectin, zeolite, charcoal, etc. Professional guidance is recommended to assess your particular needs as, while all helpful in a variety of conditions, specific binders may be required in individual circumstances to be most effective for healing
Test for methylation pathway function and support as required individually
Complete regular hair testing (minimum twice annually) for analysis of burden and excretion capacity. Below are two examples that can be seen in a hair analysis. They are the opposite ends of the spectrum, one with extreme retentive pattern and one with extreme toxicity/high excretion.
Low aluminum/retentive pattern
Aluminum toxicity/high excretion pattern
I recommend all persons to be tested for aluminum burden and excretion pattern, even (perhaps more importantly) children.
A personal burden and elimination pattern is not difficult to obtain over time so that one may manage it successfully. Please contact me at Julie@truenaturehealthconsulting.com to begin your investigation and solutions today. We provide holistic telehealth services.