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: ------quote---- 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. ---end of quote---