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More on Ulcers and Acid Discussion

Hope this helps you: From my office newsletter...
Aluminum is a very abundant metal in the earth's crust, and it gets incorporated into plant life, and we in turn eat those plants. We always have. Yet scientists have not found a reason for aluminum to be in our bodies... it plays no known important role. So our bodies must have always been very good "aluminum processing factories" moving aluminum in and then back out of us all the time. It never used to build up.

Has something gone wrong retarding the ability to remove aluminum, so that it builds up in our brains? Or are we allowing even greater amounts of aluminum into our bodies by using aluminum cooking utensils, aluminum drink containers, aluminum chlorhydrate antiperspirants, aluminum antacid tablets, etc? Or could it be a little of both? My personal belief is that something is interfering with our ability to move the aluminum out... and I think I'm on to the reason why... and it's correctable! I'm going to go off on a tangent. Stick with me: I've been doing hair tests for 20 years and I find a lot of people are low in the mineral silicon. No, not silicone (like in implants), but silicon, the mineral of which sand and glass are made. Your bones are made of silicon too, but nobody tells you that. Do you know how they build a skyscraper by putting up a steel frame and hanging brick and glass on it? Well your bones are constructed by making a silicon frame, and then calcium is hung on it! Not enough silicon can be a cause for osteoporosis (a reason to supplement with silicon.)

Now here's the real point: Bio-chemists have done a study in which silicon was added to the water supply. This resulted in preventing aluminum from being absorbed. Moreover, the silicon has been found to flush aluminum out of the body quite rapidly. Silicon was found to move aluminum out of the brain, liver, bones, and kidneys. I'm recommending that silicon be added to your water intake, and for anyone with ALZ. Silicon can be found in the herbal remedy Horsetail. It comes in capsules and one capsule two or three times daily is the dose. Touted as a better way to get silicon absorbed is the nutritional product "Bio-Sil". It's a liquid and six drops are placed in a glass of water and consumed daily.

Dear Doctors:
Fluoridation increased aluminum absorption. Aluminum is a flocculating agent and is added to water in many areas.

Hair Aluminum levels in Villacabamba were VERY HIGH in those who LIVE VERY LONG. There are many confounding factors including valence to consider, things like Magnesium that help inhibit aluminum absorption. Also, balancing phosphorus to calcium dietary intake prevents the secondary HYPERPARATHYROIDISM that is known to markedly increase aluminum absorption!

Sincerely,
Garry F. Gordon, MD,DO,MD(H)

A simple home-based test for whether betaine HCl or glutamic acid supplement might relieve "heartburn", is to have the patient sip a glass of water containing a teaspoonful of raw cider vinegar. Although it may be uncomfortable on the way down, if the water-vinegar mixture relieves the symptoms, the patient probably needs HCl.