Environmental Causes and Prevention Measures for Alzheimer’s Disease

Dr. George Brewer is a recognized world expert on all aspects of copper, but also has expertise in zinc and other micronutrients. He worked for over 30 years on the inherited disease of copper toxicity, Wilson's disease. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers on the topic and developed two new therapies for the disease: zinc and tetrathiomolybdate. Due to his research, zinc was approved for Wilson's disease by the FDA in 1997 and is now the treatment of choice for maintenance therapy. Over the last decade he has been working on Alzheimer's disease; his research has demonstrated that Alzheimer’s patients are zinc-deficient and benefit from zinc therapy. Dr. Brewer has developed a new zinc formulation that is non-irritating and can be taken once daily. Over his career he has published over 430 papers and has written and edited numerous books.

1. Introduction2. A Little Background on Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease3. Interesting and Important Historical and Demographic Facts About the Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease Pointing to Environmental Intoxicants Causing the Epidemic4. Candidate Environmental Factors for the Alzheimer's Epidemic Part 1: The Metals - Aluminum, Lead, Mercury, Zinc, Iron, and Copper5. Candidate Environmental Factors for the Alzheimer's Epidemic Part 2: Diet and Other Life Style Factors6. Identification of Copper-2, and Copper in General as Major Environmental Intoxicants in the Alzheimer’s Epidemic: The Copper Hypothesis7. Background on Copper, Including Why Copper-2 is so Specifically Neurotoxic8. Inorganic Copper, or Copper-2, Ingestion as a Major Causal Factor for Alzheimer's Disease - The Web of Evidence9. Increased Copper Absorption Resulting from Dietary Changes in Developed Countries as Another Causal Factor in the Alzheimer’s Disease Epidemic10. The Copper Hypothesis Fits Nicely with Known Risk Factors and Theories of Alzheimer’s Disease Causation11. Prevention Measures Action Items: Two Simple Steps to Eliminate Ingestion of Copper-2, and Dietary Changes to Reduce Copper Absorption12. Failures: What the Government Hasn't Done to Ensure Healthy Drinking Water and Nontoxic Multimineral/Multivitamin Pills13. Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease14. Summary and Conclusions