Health and personal care products choices

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In one of my last postings, I focused on Ammonium as one of  the toxic ingredients ubiquitous in cleaning reagents, especially window and glass surface cleaners. Ammonium toxicity is mainly associated with respiratory problems. There are hundreds of these toxic ingredients in personal care products. In the current posting I wish to introduce to you one of the hidden toxic ingredients in a number of personal care products as well as medications, vaccines and household utensils. Aluminium is considered by many health care authorities worldwide as a harmless mineral element, used for various purposes in personal care products, vaccines, medicines etc. However, new emerging research points to Aluminium as a harmful mineral element to human health, being of particular concern to the nervous system toxicity, related to alzheimer’s diseases, Parkinson’s disease and  multiple sclerosis, and also hemotoxic (blood system). If it is true that effective prevention of any health problem is achieved if the cause or causative factors are known, then prevention of many chronic diseases including the ones noted above would be problematic for the mainstream medical and health care approaches to human health. The challenges therefore, with  Aluminium linked health problems is that, if health care policy makers consider Aluminium as an inert harmless mineral element, then it won’t be considered as one of the possible causal factors and therefore part of the preventive or therapeutic measures. With growing and widespread documented primary evidence from basic sciences, of the harmful effects of Aluminium to human health, the challenge is left upon us as individuals to ensure that we prevent ourselves from exposure to sources of Aluminium toxins. This means avoiding use of products containing Aluminium, be it household cleaning products, personal care products or food and nutritional supplements. Helpful net resources to help with awareness on health care personal products include the Environmental Working Group website at: https://www.ewg.org/consumer-guides. 

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