Fluoride: From Rat Poison to Dental Health?
It's Effect on you body, brain & teeth!
Do you know the story behind the fluoride in our water supplies, toothpaste, mouthwash and topical dental treatments? It seems the manufacturers of aluminum, phosphate fertilizers, nuclear weapons, and steel had a problem with disposing its chemical-by-product fluoride. It was expensive disposing their hazardous waste.
Well, someone in marketing came up with the brilliant idea to advertise this fluoride waste as beneficial for dental health. It was anything, but beneficial. At one time, fluorides only approved uses were as an insecticide and rat poison. After I learned this information, I had no desire to ever put it in my mouth.
There is a major dfference between natural fluoride, which occurs in the soil in different parts of the world; and the chemical by product waste from the production of aluminum and other manufacturing goods.
At one time, Deaf Smith County in Texas was known for its populations exceptionally low tooth decay. Its soil was very rich in natural fluoride. However, there is no comparison between it and the residue left over from manufacturing.
It’s interesting to note that China provides the US with a significant amount of the fluoride for our water supply. And, that those containers come with a poison warning label; Skull and crossbones.
According to information coming from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), and from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride is a dangerous toxin that can cause serious harm.
The chemical targets your: * Kidneys * Gastrointestinal System * Heart * Nerves * Teeth * Bone and Skeletal Structures
The MSDS for sodium fluoride also states that fluoride compounds can induce: * Systemic toxic effects on your heart, liver and kidneys * Depleted calcium levels in your body leading to hypocalcaemia and death
Health problems associated with fluoride accumulation in the body: * Hyperactivity and/or lethargy * Lowered thyroid function * Cancer * Dental fluorosis (staining and pitting of teeth) * Dementia * Lowered IQ and brain damage in infants * Disrupted Immune System * Digestive problems * Damage to Joints * Weight Gain
Fluoride also causes genetic damage and cell death: * Inactivates 62 enzymes in your body and accelerates the aging process.
What about the teeth? Does it or doesn’t it protect them? According to Science Daily (December 18, 2010) a new study found that the protective shield fluoride forms on the teeth is up to 100 times thinner than previously believed. Does this renowned “Cavity-fighter” really work?
"It was long believed fluoride changed the main mineral in tooth enamel, hydroxyapatite, into a more decay-resistant material called fluorapatite. But new research found that this fluorapatite is only 6 nanometers thick…meaning it would take 10,000 such layers to span the width of a human hair. This information was published in the Journal Langmuir (December 21, 2010).
“The scientists question whether a layer so thin, which is quickly worn away by ordinary chewing, if it can really shield teeth from decay?” According to Science Daily, Americans spend a staggering $50 billion yearly on the treatment of cavities.
Fluoride, long heralded as the answer to decaying teeth can be found in a vast assortment of tooth pastes, mouth washes and professionally applied fluoride dental treatments. Its even added to drinking water for this purpose to prevent dental decay. However, how can an element that is so toxic do anything, but harm to the body?
Another study reported by PR Newswire (December 21, 2010) shows that exposure to fluoride may lower children’s intelligence. Fluoride is added to over 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water.
“About 28% of the children in the low-fluoride area scored as normal, bright or higher intelligence compareed to only 8% in the “high” fluoride area. In the high-fluoride city, 15 percent had scores indicating mental retadation; only 6% in the low-fluoride city.”
According to Paul Connett, Director of the Fluoride Action Network, “This is the 24th study that has found this association, but this study is stronger than the rest because the authors have controlled for key confounding variables; and in addition to correlating lowered IQ with levels of fluoride in the water; the authors found a correlation between lowered IQ and fluoride levels in children’s blood.
This brings us closer to a cause and effect relationship between fluoride exposure and brain damage in children.
What is also striking is that the levels of the fluoride in the community where the lowered IQs were recorded were lower than the EPA’s so-caalled “safe” drinking water standard for fluoride of 4 ppm and far too close for comfort to the levels used in artificial fluoridation programs (0.7 - 1.2 ppm).”
Dr. Connett was trained as a chemist specializing in environmental chemistry. He is known throughout the world as a leader in the movement opposing water fluoridation. His organization, the Fluoride Action Network, contains a wealth of information on this subject. Dr. Mercola joined forces with Dr. Connett to end water fluoridation in Canada and the United States.
There was an organization in Delaware, Ohio which offered $100,000 reward for the first person who could show that any of the following statements was untrue.
According to the handbook Clinical Toxology of Commercial Products: fluoride is more poisonous than lead and just sliglhtly less poisonous than arsenic.
According to the Physicians’ Desk Reference:
In hypersensitive individuals, fluorides cause skin eruptions such as, atopic dermatitis, eczema, or urticaria. Gastric distress, headache and weakness have also been reported. These hypersensitive reactions usually disappear promptly after discontinuation.
A study by Proctor and Gamble showed: that as little as half the amount of fluoride used to fluoridate public water supplies resulted in a sizeable and significant increase in genetic damage.
In the largest U.S. study * on fluoridation and tooth decay: the United States Public Health Service dental records: of over 39,000 school children, ages 5 to 27, from 84 areas around the United States showed that the number of decayed, missing and filled permanent teeth (DMFT) per child was virtually the same in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas. * U. S. National Institute of dental Research
The New England Journal of Medicine (March 22, 1990 issue) Mayo Clinic researchers reported that fluoride treatment of osteoporosis increased bone fracture rates and bone fragility.
Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health sciences admitted: “In cultured human and rodent cells, the weight of the evidence leads to the conclusion that fluoride exposure results in increased chromosome aberrations (genetic damage).”
The research of Dr Dean Burke, former Chief Chemist of the National Cancer Institute showed: 10,000 or more fluoriadation-linked cacer deaths occur yearly in the United States.
The National Cancer Institute, the New Jersy Department of Health, and the Safe Water Foundation since 1990 found that the incidence of osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, was substantially higher in young men exposed to fluoridated water as compared to those who were not.
The Subcommittee on Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride of the National Research Council admitted: 8% to 51% and sometimes up to 80% of the children living in areas fluoridated with tthe amount of fluoride recommended by promoters of fluoridations have dental fluorosis (fluoride poisoing).
The Argonne National Laboratory confirmed : the ability of fluoride to transfer normal cells into cancer cells. in 1988.
Fluoride Has been banned in Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. It was never started in France. You can check out fluoride information from the Editors of PureHealthMD: health.howstuffworks.com
Many still believe our government is protecting them from all threats to their health. How wrong they are. The government is no wiser than the citizens who trust it. The government is primarily interested in money - and it isn’t looking for answers that would stop the money flow. So, if you are really interested in staying well, you are going to learn everything you can in order to protect yourself and those you love.
I came to the realization years ago that fluoridation was being promoted in order for companies to find a way to get rid of their stockpiles of toxic waste. People were conned into thinking - fluoride was beneficial to their teeth; not knowing it was residue from primarily the aluminum industry and the phosphate fertilizer industry.
If you are really interested in becoming an educated consumer, I would recommend an organization, which I joined over 40 years ago: the National Health Federation. Its website has information on fluoridation and many other important issues: www.thenhf.com
Good health is too valuable to take for granted. Learn to avoid the pitfalls that rob you of your health.
Healthfully Yours,
Barbara Charis
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It is great, when one finds that there are others who know the truth. These chemcials that are being injected into the body and which are now number in hundreds of thousands, are destroying as you said our "antenna to the universe and the seat of our intuition." Humans may have to go back to absolute basic needs in order to survive.
Having gone so far down the 'road to certain Technologies' I think we can see where the road leads; to poisonous by-products of many chemicals that as you said are 'too' expensive to dispose of 'properly' if they can be disposed of at all (ie forever chemicals). Our pineal gland functions as our antenna to the universe and the seat of our intuition. They want to deaden our ability to receive and process information in favor of their products, computers, and the evil 'internet of things' in which the 'things' will be us. I think it means we have to really evaluate which sorts of technologies we may choose to live without, akin to the kinds of choices certain groups made long ago, like the Amish, Quaker, Menonites and Hutterites. They will be among the survivors.