Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Why Have I Written a Book on Aluminum? 1
Chapter 2 Why Am I Worried about Aluminum? 5
Chapter 3 Some Simple Aluminum Biochemistry 10
Chapter 4 Where Is Aluminum in the Body? 14
Chapter 5 Measuring the Body Burden of Aluminum 18
Let's Start with Hair 19
What About Blood? 20
We Advocate Urine 21
Urine Sampling to Estimate the Body Burden of Aluminum 23
Chapter 6 Aluminum In Doesn't Equal Aluminum Out 25
Chapter 7 I Am the Aluminum I Eat (or Am I?) 30
Chapter 8 Live Safely and Effectively in the Aluminum Age 33
Food and Drink 33
Medication 37
Cosmetics and Personal Care Products 39
Social Habits 41
The Air We Breathe 44
Getting Aluminum Out of the Body 45
Chapter 9 A Silicon-Rich Mineral Water a Day Keeps … Aluminum at Bay 48
Early Days 48
Back to Today 49
Chapter 10 Pregnancy and Why Infant Exposure to Aluminum Is a Special Case 61
Chapter 11 Tell Me Again Why There Is Aluminum in Vaccines 72
Chapter 12 Aluminum Is a Cause of and Contributor to Human Disease 89
Chapter 13 What We Need to Know about Aluminum in Human Brain Tissue 93
Chapter 14 Alzheimer's Disease and the Aluminum Elephant in the Room 95
Chapter 15 Building a Case for Aluminum and Breast Cancer 104
Chapter 16 Aluminum Is a Genuine Contender as a Cause of Multiple Sclerosis 108
Chapter 17 A Top Trumps Mechanism of Aluminum Toxicity 112
Chapter 18 Camelford-Anatomy of a Government Cover-up 117
Aluminum and Camelford 119
Chapter 19 Politics 127
Letter to the Editor 132
Letter to the Editor of Academic Pediatrics: The Safety of Aluminum Adjuvants in Infants 139
Closer to Home 142
Chapter 20 Imagine You Are an Aluminum Atom 147
Acknowledgments 151