Environmental causes and prevention measures for Alzheimer's disease / George J. Brewer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brewer, George J., 1930- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alzheimer's disease--Etiology.

Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's disease--Environmental aspects.

Alzheimer's disease--Prevention.

Alzheimer Disease--etiology.

Alzheimer Disease--prevention & control.

Medical Subjects:

Alzheimer Disease--etiology.

Alzheimer Disease--prevention & control.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Elsevier : Academic Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Environmental Causes and Prevention Measures for Alzheimer's Disease examines the increased incidence of the disease in developed countries and aims to educate neuroscientists, medical practitioners and other educated individuals on new insights into environmental causation, primarily metals. This book looks into the web of evidence around the hypothesis of copper toxicity and the additional role that a high fat diet plays in disease progression and cognition loss. The data and its implications are discussed, along with potential prevention measures. This book will generate excitement and interest among neuroscientists, medical practitioners and other biomedical researchers.

Contents:

A little background on dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Interesting and important historical and demographic facts about the epidemic of Alzheimer's disease in developed countries pointing to environmental intoxicants causing the epidemic

Candidate environmental factors for the Alzheimer's epidemic part 1: The metals-aluminum, lead, mercury, zinc, iron, and copper

Candidate environmental factors for the Alzheimer's epidemic part 2: diet and other lifestyle factors

Identification of copper-2 and cooper in general, as major environmental intoxicants in the Alzheimer's disease epidemic: the copper hypothesis

Background on copper, including why copper-2 is so specificially neurotoxic

Inorganic copper, or copper-2, ingestion as a major causal factor for the Alzheimer's disease epidemic

the web of evidence

Increased copper absorption resulting from dietary changes in developed countries as another causal factor in the Alzheimer's disease epidemic

The copper hypothesis fits nicely with known risk factors and theories of Alzheimer's disease causation

Prevention measures action items: two simple steps to eliminate ingestion of copper-2, and dietary changes to reduce copper absorption

Failures: what the government has not done to ensure healthy drinking water and nontoxic multimineral pills

Treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Sumary and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Brewer, George J., 1930- Environmental causes and prevention measures for Alzheimer's disease.

ISBN:

9780128111635

0128111631

OCLC:

1005104051

Access Restriction:

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