Copper identified as culprit in Alzheimer's disease

Have you got old plumbing in your house?

At one time, we used to have lead pipes that fed our water supplies to us. Millions of us have copper pipes in our homes and workplaces. Over the last few years, there has a been a ‘silent promotion’ of plastic pipes for water feeds. You might have seenthem, black poly pipe for mains water into a building then red and blue pipes internally.

I wonder why these new pipes were introduced a few years back. Did someone know something back then and has just not said anything? If this copper poison is the cause of Alzheimers then why is there so very little media coverage on the subject?

“Copper appears to be one of the main environmental factors that trigger the onset and enhance the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by preventing the clearance and accelerating the accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. That is the conclusion of a study appearing today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“It is clear that, over time, copper’s cumulative effect is to impair the systems by which amyloid beta is removed from the brain,” said Rashid Deane, Ph.D., a research professor in the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Department of Neurosurgery, member of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, and lead author of the study. “This impairment is one of the key factors that cause the protein to accumulate in the brain and form the plaques that are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.”

Copper’s presence in the food supply is ubiquitous. It is found in drinking water carried by copper pipes, nutritional supplements, and in certain foods such as red meats, shellfish, nuts, and many fruits and vegetables. The mineral plays an important and beneficial role in nerve conduction, bone growth, the formation of connective tissue, and hormone secretion.”

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Copper identified as culprit in Alzheimer's disease