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    Pure aluminum is a silvery white metal with many desirable characteristics. Yet within the body it can be toxic. This factsheet covers aluminum toxicity, summarizing sources, symptoms, toxicity and testing.

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    Pure aluminum is a silvery white metal with many desirable characteristics. Yet within the body it can be toxic. This factsheet covers aluminum toxicity, summarizing sources, symptoms, toxicity and testing.

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    Aluminum Toxic Heavy Metals Fact Sheet

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    Pure aluminum is a silvery white metal with many desirable characteristics. Yet within the body it can be toxic. This factsheet covers aluminum toxicity, summarizing sources, symptoms, toxicity and testing.

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    ALUMINUM - TOXIC HEAVY METALS FACTSHEET Pure aluminum is a silvery-


    white metal with many
    desirable characteristics.
    13 It is light, nontoxic (as the

    Al
    metal), nonmagnetic and nonspark-
    ing. It is somewhat decorative and
    easily formed, machined, and cast.
    Aluminum is an abundant element
    26.982 in the earth’s crust, but it is not
    Number 13 on the “periodic table” of elements Image source: http://images-of-elements.com/aluminum.php found free in nature.

    SOURCES Aluminum is used in: cans and foils, kitchen utensils, TOXICITY The amount of aluminum in the human body ranges from
    outside building decoration, industrial applications 50 to 150 mg., with an average of about 65 mg. Most of
    where a strong, light, easily constructed material is this metal is found in the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver and
    needed. It is used in electrical transmission lines, in the thyroid. Our daily intake ranges from 10 to 110 mg but
    construction of modern aircraft and rockets. Aluminum the body will eliminate most of this in our feces, urine
    coatings are used for telescope mirrors, decorative pa- and some in sweat.
    per, packages, toys, and in many other uses. The oxide, alumina, occurs
    naturally as ruby, sapphire, corundum, and emery, and is used in glass Organic Toxicity Limits - A reading under 15-20 ppm is considered
    making and refractories. Synthetic ruby and sapphire are used in the normal, but 10-15 ppm, is probably ideal.
    construction of lasers. Inorganic Toxicity Limits - Should be 0 ppm

    TOXICITY Acute aluminum poisoning has been associated with TESTING Check out aluminum levels in your body with our easy to
    use, home-based, HMT Aluminum Test Kit
    SYMPTOMS constipation, colicky pain, anorexia, nausea and
    gastrointestinal irritation, skin problems, and lack
    of energy. Slower and longer-term increases in body Osumex HM-Chelat is most
    aluminum may create muscle twitching, numbness, effective in eliminating
    paralysis, and fatty degeneration of the liver and heavy metals contamination
    kidney. Aluminum toxicity has been implicated in in the body.
    the brain aging disorders. Alzheimer’s disease and For more information, visit
    parkinsonism have both become more prevalent as incidents of alumi- heavymetalstest.com/
    num toxicity have increased. aluminum.php

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