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POS, Ashley Bush has not had an easy time bringing his metals theory forward. His theories told the whole industry they were on the wrong track and they didnt like it. I think some of that hostility still remains and some comentators havnt noticed that one treatment has actually reversed Alzheimers decline. This old 2003 article describes the uphill battle he had.

"BOSTON -- Ashley Bush, a 44-year-old researcher at Harvard Medical School, was pilloried after he put
forth a radical theory of Alzheimer?s disease in 1994.
?Worthless,? wrote one scientific critic. Others have described his style as brash, his content as flimsy,
and his ideas unworthy of being published. At worst, Dr. Bush recalled, it felt like ?hate mail.?
Over the years, he submitted 30 scientific papers that were rejected by scientific journals. Eight times, his
grant applications were spurned by the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Bush's theory is that the real culprit in Alzheimer's is a copper and zinc buildup in the brain ? an idea
few scientists have looked at. He believes the accumulated metals mix abnormally with a protein called
beta amyloid in the brain, oxidizing -- literally rusting -- and destroying nerve cells. Published in the
prestigious journal Science; his hypothesis swiftly drew criticism because it ran counter to the leading
theory that Alzheimer's disease is caused mainly by the protein clumps themselves. And by highlighting
metals as the culprit, it drew scowls from some who thought it resembled a largely discredited theory that
aluminum caused the disease. (He never saw aluminum as a culprit.)
Now scientists are giving Dr. Bush more credence. He has a five-year grant from the NIH and this year
won an American Academy of Neurology prize for Alzheimer?s disease research."
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