Aluminum Aluminum toxicity has been recognized in many settings where exposure is heavy or prolonged, where renal function is limited, or where apreviously accumulated bone burden is released in stress or illness. Toxicity may include: encephalopathy (stuttering, gait disturbance, myoclonic jerks, seizures, coma, abnormal EEG) osteomalacia or aplastic bone disease ( associated with painful spontaneous fractures, hypercalcemia, tumorous calcinosis ) proximal myopathy, increased risk of infection, increased left ventricular mass and decreased myocardial function microcytic anemia with very high levels, sudden death.

Additional Sources of Aluminum are: Most abundant metal in nature, Combined in nature with other elements (oxygen, silicon, fluorine), Leached by acid rain -> free element -> water -> food, Anti-caking, Perspirants, Cooking pots/pans, Cans and foil, Dialysis (aluminum hydroxide as phosphate binder in hemodialysis fluid), Coal fired plants, Soy based infant formula, Passes through placenta, Little in breast milk. Additional Effects of Aluminum on Humans are: Brain and bone accumulation in children, Neurotoxicity (motor function, cognition), Alzheimers, ALS, Parkinson's