While the cause of Alzheimers disease is still for the most part unknown, one environmental factor that has been suggested as playing a role in the disease is the chemical element aluminum (Al). The third most abundant element in the Earth's crust, aluminum exists mostly in the form of insoluble aluminosilicates and oxides¹.

In addition to the many dietary sources of aluminum, such as cheese, beer², antacid tablets, tea, toothpaste, infant formula, leaching of aluminum cookware, drinking water³, and pharmaceutical products⁴, the population is also exposed to aluminum by deodorants and with the possible inhalation of aluminum and aluminosilicate dusts⁵. Much of the technology now present in our society makes use of this light metal, "from beer cans to jetliners"⁶.