Aluminum Cancer and Brain Damage

Aluminum in antiperspirants is linked to cancer and brain damage from vaccines

 

Antiperspirants with aluminum must be labeled (Aluminum Cancer)

Public health agencies and medical organizations quickly denied the link between aluminum-containing antiperspirants and cancer, labeling these concerns as “rumors” and “myths.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published an article in a July-August 2005 edition of its consumer magazine:

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) stated: “the breast cancer and antiperspirant myth first appeared in the form of an email in the 1990s, and continues to resurface and circulate approximately every year or so.”

The false information suggests that antiperspirants contain harmful substances, which can be absorbed through the skin or can seep into the body near the breasts through nicks in the skin caused by shaving.

Emails also suggested that antiperspirants prevent a person from “sweating out toxins,” leading to the spread of carcinogenic toxins through the lymph nodes. But the NCI says there is no existing scientific or medical evidence linking the use of antiperspirants or underarm deodorants with the later development of breast cancer.

The FDA, the Mayo Clinic, the American Cancer Society (ACS), and the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association agree. Nicks from shaving may increase the risk of skin infection, but not cancer.

 

The article continues by stating, “According to the ACS, sweat glands are not connected to lymph nodes. Most cancer-causing substances are eliminated by the kidneys, released through urine or by the liver, and are excreted with feces.” The ACS website states that it is still unclear how much aluminum is absorbed through the skin.

Interestingly, a few months before the release of this particular issue of the FDA’s consumer magazine, on December 9, 2004, the FDA issued a ruling requiring that all antiperspirants manufactured in the U.S. containing aluminum and aluminum compounds be clearly labeled on the packaging.

This ruling was implemented to warn consumers about potential health hazards regarding aluminum and to advise individuals with renal dysfunction (a disorder in the normal excretion of aluminum by the kidneys) to stay away from antiperspirants.

Since individuals suffering from renal dysfunction are warned not to use aluminum-containing antiperspirants, this decision implies that aluminum-based compounds are indeed absorbed into the body when applied to the skin.

However, the industry of these products, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the FDA continue to state that there is no need to throw away your antiperspirant for fear that aluminum absorbed through the skin causes cancer, but it remains true that the link between aluminum and breast cancer has not been ruled out. In fact, the NIH National Cancer Institute website makes this very clear: “Because studies of antiperspirants and deodorants and breast cancer have yielded conflicting results, further research is needed to determine whether there is a relationship.”

 

Aluminum disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, and the autism spectrum

Aluminum has not only been implicated in an increased risk of cancer but aluminum (Al) in the body has been associated with the development of central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction, which includes autism and Alzheimer’s disease leading to dementia because aluminum is a neurotoxin.

In a 2009 article by Dr. Russell Blaylock, the author of the study suggested that aluminum could be one of several neurotoxins contributing to the symptoms of brain dysfunction diagnosed as autism spectrum disorder in susceptible children. He stated: “We suggest that environmental and dietary excitotoxins, mercury, fluoride, and aluminum may exacerbate pathological and clinical problems by worsening excitotoxicity and through microglial priming. Furthermore, each has effects on cell signaling that may affect neurodevelopment and neuronal function.”

 

Researchers from the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Japan studied and reported on the link between aluminum and the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease in a 2011 article. They stated:

It is widely accepted that aluminum (Al) is a recognized neurotoxin and that it may cause cognitive deficiency and dementia when Al enters the brain and can have various adverse effects on the CNS.

In general, the absorption of metals through the gastrointestinal tract is highly variable and influenced by various factors, including individual differences, age, pH, and stomach content. Recent studies using Al mass spectrometry have shown that a small but considerable amount of Al crosses the blood-brain barrier, enters the brain, and accumulates semi-permanently.

Therefore, Al may cause serious health problems in particular populations, including infants, the elderly, and patients with renal function impairments, and unnecessary exposure to Al should be avoided for such patients.

Aluminum in vaccines and safety assumptions

While there is growing public concern about the dangers of aluminum absorbed through the skin via inhalers, some people switch to aluminum-free deodorants or use natural products, it is understandable because there is equally growing concern about injecting aluminum into our bloodstream through vaccines.

Aluminum is used as an adjuvant in some inactivated vaccines. Adjuvants hyper-stimulate a stronger immune response to the vaccine in an effort to produce more antibodies that confer protection.

According to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 27 licensed vaccines in the U.S. and Europe contain aluminum in varying amounts, including anthrax, DT/Td, DTaP/Tdap, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Hib, HPV, meningococcal, and pneumococcal vaccines.

There is no known need or biological use for aluminum in the human body, but aluminum can enter the body through the gastrointestinal tract (such as from using aluminum cookware and beverages in aluminum cans), through vaccines containing injected aluminum, or from the kidneys.

Dialysis products, and intradermally from the use of antiperspirants. If an individual cannot efficiently excrete aluminum through bodily fluids (urine, feces, sweating), it deposits in various tissues, bones, brain, liver, heart, spleen, and muscles.

Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines have not undergone adequate toxicity testing (Aluminum Cancer). Aluminum expert Chris Exley stated: “There are no clinically approved aluminum adjuvants, only clinically approved vaccines that use aluminum adjuvants. This makes it imperative that all vaccine trials using aluminum salts as adjuvants do not use the aluminum adjuvant as a control or placebo. This has been a common practice for many years and has led to many adverse vaccine events due, in part or in whole, to aluminum adjuvants that have not been accounted for in vaccine safety trials.”

In 2017, researchers published an article in the journal Toxicology that investigated the toxicity of a commonly used aluminum adjuvant in vaccines. The authors of the study stated: “Concerns arose about its safety following the recognition of its unexpectedly long biopersistence within immune cells in some individuals, and reports of chronic fatigue syndrome, cognitive dysfunction, myalgias, dysautonomia, and inflammatory autoimmune features temporarily linked to multiple (Al)-containing vaccine administrations. Experiments with mice have documented its slow capture and transport by monocyte-type cells from the injected muscle to lymphoid organs and ultimately the brain.” It found that the aluminum adjuvant was neurotoxic to mice when injected into muscle at low doses, and noted that “the dose makes the classic chemical toxicity rule of poison seem overly simplistic.”

On one hand, public health agencies acknowledge that more scientific research is needed to study the possible relationship between antiperspirants and breast cancer. On the other hand, they actively promote and approve vaccines containing aluminum (Al) as safe despite aluminum being neurotoxic and aluminum adjuvants not having been thoroughly tested to ensure their safety.