Environmental causes and prevention measures for Alzheimer's disease

1. Introduction

2. A little background on dementia and Alzheimer's disease

3. Interesting and important historical and demographic facts about the epidemic of Alzheimer's disease in developed countries pointing to environmental intoxicants causing the epidemic

4. Candidate environmental factors for the Alzheimer's epidemic part 1 : the metals

aluminum, lead, mercury, zinc, iron, and copper

5. Candidate environmental factors for the Alzheimer's epidemic part 2 : diet and other lifestyle factors

6. Identification of copper-2 and copper in general, as major environmental intoxicants in the Alzheimer's disease epidemic : the copper hypothesis

7. Background on copper, including why copper-2 is so specifically neurotoxic

8. Inorganic copper, or copper-2, ingestion as a major causal factor for the Alzheimer's disease epidemic : the web of evidence

9. Increased copper absorption resulting from dietary changes in developed countries as another causal factor in the Alzheimer's disease epidemic

10. The copper hypothesis fits nicely with known risk factors and theories of Alzheimer's disease causation

11. Prevention measures action items : two simple steps to eliminate ingestion of copper-2, and dietary changes to reduce copper absorption

12. Failures : what the government has not done to ensure healthy drinking water and nontoxic multimineral pills

13. Treatment of Alzheimer's disease

14. Summary and conclusions.