Many scientists have believed that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is passed through the family line and is genetic due to the possession of a particular set of genes, however research is showing the incidence is more correlated to excitotoxins and heavy metals which play a critical role in the development of several neurological disorders, especially in North America.
Not Genetic
If AD was purely genetic, we would expect four natural consequences to be true:
- Global spatial distribution would be random and uniform;
- There would not be an earlier and rapidly increasing onset of the disease;
- Migration would not alter the incidence of this disease; and
- Changes in lifestyle would have no impact on someone with the disease.
Human genes do not change quickly, they remain constant over long periods of time which means that if AD was genetic we would not expect to see fast increasing incidences of the disease in younger people.
However, the opposite is true, we are seeing the rates of AD increasing faster than the population is aging (almost to epidemic proportions), particularly in the USA, Canada, England, Norway and Australia. We often hear […]
