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Copper pipes contribute to heart disease & Alzheimer's Scientists have claimed people should remove old copper pipes from their homes or install special filters because the metal has been shown to build up in their bodies and cause serious health problems. Even tiny traces of copper from pipes, which are still installed in most homes, mix with tap water and are then consumed by people. Over a long period of time, this leads to a build-up of copper in the body which then leads to Alzheimer's disease, heart disease and diabetes because the body cannot process the metal. The study found people over 50 should also avoid vitamin and mineral pills that contain cooper and iron, lower meat intake since meat is high in copper, and avoid drinking water from copper pipes. They should also donate blood regularly to reduce iron levels and taking zinc supplements to lower copper levels. Copper and iron are essential when people are young as they help during the years when people are trying to have children. But the body can no longer process them effectively when people move beyond 50 years old. The study from the American Chemical Society found that people were at risk from copper as they aged. Dr George Brewer, lead researcher, said the study in mice had wide ranging implications for health authorities. "Their toxicities are so general in the population that they are a looming public health problem in diseases of ageing and in the ageing process itself," he said. But Mr Brewer said: "Both contribute to the production of excess damaging oxidant radicals. "Evolution has kept stores of copper and iron in excess during the reproductive years because they are so vital to life. But the oxidant damage from these excess stores of metals builds up as we age, and natural selection ceases to act after about age 50 since diseases after that do not contribute to reproductive fitness." Mr Brewer said diseases of Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease were made worse by excess copper and iron. The study the "Risks of Copper and Iron Toxicity during Ageing in Humans" was published in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Research in Toxicology journal. Dr. Cinque's comments: Observe that when the government and media hound us to drink tap water instead of "wasting money" on bottled water, they never mention this problem of the rusty pipes; and they never mention the chlorine in the water either (which is also toxic). How much do you want to bet that the Olympic athletes in Vancouver are being provided with bottled drinking water? If you have ever had to tinker with your house pipes, as I have, you know how disgusting they are, especially if they are old. For this and other reasons, unfiltered tap water is unfit to drink. E-mail to a friend Previous Article |
