Re: Tellurium

Hello Sharon and Jim,

I found the information you posted 11/24/99 on tellurium very interesting. The chemical changes are a bit above my head I must confess.

You mentioned PMID 8869917 "Tellurium toxicity as a factor in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease".

I seem to remember that it was discovered that Alzheimer patients on autopsy were found to have excessive amounts of Aluminium in the brain.

Do you think that there is a relation between this and Tellurium. I tried to look up PMID 8869917 in the archives (via Simon Coles website) but found only the same reference to it.

Does anyone have the full article? It might make interesting reading.

Thanks and best wishes to all from Erika.

On 11/24/99 Jim and Sharon wrote in part:

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Telluride can be
turned into tellurium by the gram positive bacilli that make N-methyl
during the fermentation of food in your stomach. I just wonder if the
tellurium along with the N-Methyl are getting into the body and binding the
iron somehow, or whatever metal it can find. Methylamine binds with the
melanin to form an aldehyde, like formaldehyde, and (R)Salsolinol is formed
from dopamine combining with this aldehyde. This leaves less dopamine
available and would cause Parkinsons. The aldehyde I read could also be
produced from too much iron in a cell. Methylamine binds tubulin that is
found in Lewy Bodies. Airline Stewardesses that have a mysterious
Parkinson's like illness complain of a metallic taste and an unusual rash.
Tellurium is also used to bind metallic coins. Anybody know anything about
tellurium or can you find any studies of this substance and parkinsons
disease, or ALS, or ALzheimers, or Leukemia, or Multiple Sclerosis, or
Pagets Disease, or Bone Cancer or Tumor Growth? It seems metallothioneins
are involved in ALS and in Cisplatin that is the retinoid cis or tretinoin
and the metal platinol. It seems metaloproteinases are elevated in
Alzheimers, Leukemia, Multiple Sclerosis, Pagets Disease and Cancer. Thanks
Jim and Sharon.

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