While the zeolite zealots are exhorting their MLM downline dummies to consume inorganic aluminum /silicon salts to cure everything from cancer to chronic fatigue, disturbing new evidence about the possible effects of aluminum salt cosmetic ingredients in breast cancer has been published out of Reading University UK.
It has long been known that many breast cancers occur in the UOQ area of the breast. This led to the suspicion that organic chemicals in underarm deodorants may act as endocrine disrupters and promote breast cancer by affecting estrogen receptors. Most endocrine disrupting carcinogens are organic compounds including parabens, the commonest preservative additive in cosmetics. The Reading research shows that aluminum salts, (common excipient ingredients in deodorants) belong to the expanding group of metallic elements that are capable of modulating estrogen effects both by direct binding to estrogen receptors and by affecting estrogen regulated gene expression in MCF7 breasts cancer cells.
As my favorite Oregon herbalist Cascade Anderson Geller used to say, if you wouldn’t spread it on your toast, don’t spread it on your skin. Surface absorption is rapid, efficient, and by-passes the liver. Aluminium salts in cosmetics are no exception. As for zeolites - ‘nuff said.
Darbre PD. Aluminium, antiperspirants and breast cancer. J Inorg Biochem 2005;99:1912-1919.