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Is Fluoride Really As Safe As You Are Told?

 

Part 1 of 3 (I will try to get part 2 and 3)

 

Fluoride is added to the water supply of most American cities for

the

ostensible purpose of dental hygiene. The reader will be amazed to

find out that such a thing is not only unlikely, but actually the

reverse of the ongoing reality

 

The U.S. has been fluoridating drinking water for so many decades

that we hardly think about it. Very few articles appear about

fluoridation in newspapers and magazines any more.

 

At least chlorine will evaporate from a glass of water if you let it

sit for an hour or so. No such luck with fluoride. Even cooking,

food processing, filtration, or digestion doesn't remove fluoride.

Goes right up the food chain. Accumulates in fat cells.

 

This Is No Accident.

 

What would you do if you suddenly found out that fluoride was not

safe at all, but was actually a carcinogenic industrial waste?

 

What would you think if you suddenly found out that fluoride doesn't

stop tooth decay at all, but actually causes teeth to rot and

crumble, and by the same mechanism also causes osteoporosis?

 

And after you found out all this, would it surprise you that all

federal health agencies have known these facts for years, but have

been controlled by the political interests of the nuclear arms,

aluminum, and phosphate manufacturers to keep it a secret?

 

Why would they do that? So that, in the total absence of scientific

proofs, a toxic industrial waste could be passed off on the public

as a nutrient with necessary health benefits, to the tune of $10

billion per year. Or more.

 

Is a deception of this magnitude possible for the sophisticated,

discerning American public? Perhaps Lance Ito could answer a

question like that.

 

Let's start at the beginning.

 

What Is Fluoride?

 

Fluorine is an element. It is a gas, never occurring in its free

state. In microscopic amounts complexed with other minerals, it is

often listed as a trace mineral, a nutrient for human nutrition.

 

This has nothing to do with fluoride or fluoridation. The fluoride

added to 90% of drinking water is hydrofluoric acid which is a

compound of fluorine that is a chemical byproduct of aluminum,

steel, cement, phosphate, and nuclear weapons manufacturing.

 

Such fluoride is manmade. In this form, fluoride has no nutrient

value whatsoever. It is one of the most caustic of industrial

chemicals. Fluoride is the active toxin in rat poisons and cockroach

powder.

 

Hydrofluoric acid is used to refine high octane gasoline, to make

fluorocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons for freezers and air

conditioners, and to manufacture computer screens, fluorescent light

bulbs, semiconductors, plastics, herbicides, -- and toothpaste.

 

It also has the ability to burn flesh to the bone, destroy eyes, and

sear lungs so that victims drown in their own body fluid. "

 

Once in the body, fluoride is a destroyer of human enzymes. It does

this by changing their shapes. You'll remember from the Enzymes

chapter that in human biochemistry, thousands of enzymes are

necessary for various essential cell reactions that take place every

second we're alive. (Howell) Without

enzymes, we'd die instantaneously.

 

Once in the body, fluoride is a destroyer of human enzymes. It does

this by changing their shapes. In human biochemistry, thousands of

enzymes are necessary for various essential cell reactions that take

place every second we're alive. Without enzymes, we'd die

instantaneously.

 

Enzymes trigger specific reactions in the body. One way they do this

is by having the exact shape necessary, like a key in a lock.

 

Fluoride Changes The Shape Of The Enzymes So That They No Longer

Fit.

 

Since enzymes are proteins, once they've been changed, they're now

foreign-looking. The body now treats them as invaders, even though

they're part of that body. This is known as an autoimmune situation -

 

the body attacks itself.

 

Another way to look at it: enzymes are long-chain proteins held in

certain shapes. Hydrogen bonds are the velcro strips that hold the

enzyme in a certain shape. Fluoride comes along and hydrolyzes the

enzyme: cuts the Velcro strips away. The shape collapses. No more

enzyme; now just a foreign protein.

 

Starting Point

 

The most thorough explanation of the origin, action, diseases, and

politics of fluoride was presented in a book called Fluoride the

Aging Factor by John Yiamouyiannis, PhD.

 

This book is the result of 25 years of research and working behind

the scenes of the fluoride phenomenon. Big money generally means big

monkey business, you may have noticed by now, and fluoride is right

up there.

 

Dr. Yiamouyiannis was the science director of the National Health

Federation. He then went on to head the Safe Water Foundation. Dr Y

can tell you all about monkey business.

 

No one can comment intelligently about fluoride in the U.S. without

dealing with the issues raised in his pivotal book. It is simply a

review of the literature on fluoride up to 1994.

 

Dr. Y starts by citing hundreds of international studies of

fluoridation that have been conducted all over the world since the

1930s. After awhile, there seem to be just two types:

 

* Studies that were really looking to find out about fluoride

* Studies that were trying to cover up what had already been

discovered

 

Examples Of The Former:

 

Taylor Study, University of Austin: fluoride concentration of 1PPM

(parts per million) increases tumor growth rate by 25%

 

Fluoride is more poisonous than lead, and just less poisonous than

arsenic - Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products -- 1984

 

" A seven ounce tube of toothpaste, theoretically at least, contains

enough fluoride to kill a small child. " - Procter & Gamble, quoted in

Fluoride the Aging Factor p14

 

Fluoride supplements should not be given to children under three

years old - 1992 Canadian Dental Association Proposed Fluoride

Guidelines, Dr. Limeback

 

Fluoride Accelerates Your Aging Process

 

Austrian researchers proved in the 1970s that as little as 1 ppm

fluoride concentration can disrupt DNA repair enzymes by 50%. When

DNA can't repair damaged cells, we get old fast.

 

Fluoride prematurely ages the body, mainly by distortion of enzyme

shape. Again, when enzymes get twisted out of shape, they can't do

their jobs. This results in collagen breakdown, eczema, tissue

damage, skin wrinkling, genetic damage, and immune suppression.

Practically any disease you can name may then be caused.

 

All systems of the body are dependent upon enzymes. When fluoride

changes the enzymes, this can damage:

 

* immune system

 

* digestive system

 

* respiratory system

 

* blood circulation

 

* kidney function

 

* liver function

 

* brain function

 

* thyroid function

 

Things wear out too fast - the young body becomes old.

 

The distorted enzymes are proteins, but now they have become foreign

protein, which we know is the exact cause of autoimmune diseases,

such as lupus, arthritis, asthma, and arteriosclerosis.

 

Collagen Is The Body's Glue and Fluoride Ruins It

 

That's not just a metaphor; when collagen breaks down, tissues

simply lose their substance, their framework. Fluoride dissolves the

body's glue simply by preventing new collagen from being formed.

 

DR Y gives a masterful explanation of fluoride's disruption of

collagen. Not only is the collagen incorrectly formed, it is wrongly

mineralized.

 

Some collagen, like bones and teeth, should be mineralized in order

to give it hardness. Other collagen structures, like ligaments,

tendons and, and muscles, should not be mineralized, in order to

keep

them flexible and resilient.

 

Fluoride mineralizes the tendons, and muscles and ligaments, making

them crackly and painful and inflexible. At the same time fluoride

interferes with mineralization of bones and teeth, causing

osteoporosis and mottling or dental fluorosis.

 

Fluoride Ruins Your Teeth

 

Wait a second here! I thought that was the whole reason why we

fluoridated water in the first place - to prevent cavities and build

strong teeth, right? Wrong again. And this is where politics and dog-

wagging have eclipsed science. DR Y gives an exhaustive review of

the scientific literature of the past 40 years proving beyond a

reasonable doubt that fluoride interferes with tooth formation,

causing permanent discoloration and actual crumbling.

 

The process whereby teeth are discolored and crumble from

fluoridation is know as dental fluorosis.

 

The US Public Health service has known since the research of its own

Dr. HT Dean in 1937 that as fluoride levels rose, so did the

percentage of children with dental fluorosis, in a study of 15 major

American cities.

 

The same findings were evident in a University of Texas study

comparing dental fluorosis in children who lived in fluoridated and

unfluoridated areas of Texas.

 

Dr. Segretto found a 35% higher incidence of fluorosis in children

who drank water with fluorine concentration of 1-1.4 PPM, compared

with those whose water was in the .3 PPM range. This little study

was written up in the Journal of the American Dental Association.

 

Yiamouyiannis goes on and on, citing one peer-reviewed study after

another, all coming to the same inescapable conclusion:

 

The More Fluoride In The Water, The More Tooth Malformation And

Discoloration.

 

It's beyond controversy, when you view these studies from all over

the world - New Zealand, India, Denmark, England, Ireland, Italy,

Illinois - same finding. Even with this consistent finding across

the

board, the standard level of fluoridation recommended for dental

health in the US is 1 part per million.

 

How Is This Possible?

 

A major gain for antifluoridation happened in the past few years,

which most people haven't even noticed. The FDA required all

toothpaste manufacturers to print a warning on the label that if

more

than a pea-sized amount of toothpaste is swallowed, the local Poison

Control Center should be notified.

 

The American Dental Association and other defenders of fluoride have

testified and continue to insist that dental fluorosis is

a " cosmetic condition " and is not a health issue!

 

Permanent malformation of the teeth is a little more serious than

cosmetic - but even if it weren't, how can a additive whose only

alleged purpose is to benefit teeth destroy teeth?? In their current

website, the ADA actually challenges this FDA warning on toothpaste

labels, saying that it is unnecessarily strict.

 

Paul Connett, PhD explains that spots on the teeth and dental

fluorosis are just an indication of damage to other parts of the

body:

 

" The teeth are windows to what's happening in the bones. "

 

Fluoride And Osteoporosis

 

Bone is collagen. We already saw how fluoride disrupts the formation

of enzymes necessary for collagen production. So it's no wonder then

that the thin brittle bones characteristic of osteoporosis are the

result of fluoridation.

 

This is no false claim.

 

DR Y cites the 1990 study of 541,000 cases of osteoporosis that

found

a definite connection between hip fractures in women over 65 and

fluoride levels. The study was written up in JAMA. Several other

major studies are cited, massive amounts of research, again all

reaching the same conclusion -

 

the undeniable correlation of fluoridation with osteoporosis and hip

fracture in the elderly.

 

Bone Is Living Tissue.

 

It is constantly being replaced with new cells, and having old cells

removed. Bone building is a finely balanced, complicated process.

Fluoride has been known to disrupt this process since the 1930s. Dr.

Alesen, who was the president of the California Medical Association,

clearly explains what fluoride does to bone formation.

 

He cites dozens of international scientific studies proving beyond a

shadow of a doubt that fluoride has caused thousands of cases of

osteoporosis, skeletal thinning, fractures, " rubber bones, " anemia,

and rickets.

 

Fluoride also causes osteoporosis by creating a calcium deficiency

situation. Fluoride precipitates calcium out of solution, causing

low blood calcium, as well as the buildup of calcium stones and

crystals in the joints and organs.

 

Dozens of other studies, like the Riggs study in the 1990 New

England Journal of Medicine, showed that fluoride treatment of

osteoporosis in the elderly actually increases skeletal fragility,

i.e., more fractures.

 

It's the same mechanism at work: incorrect mineralization, as we saw

above. Thin old bones lose calcium; young bones age too rapidly by

over-mineralization.

 

Using fluoride as a treatment for diseases like osteoporosis has

always been a particularly dumb idea, because of side effects known

beforehand:

 

* general arthritis

 

* stomach pain

 

* nausea

 

* vomiting

 

* bone spurs

 

* bone inflammation

 

* kidney fibrosis

 

* dental fluorosis

 

Other mineral contaminants like lead and strontium-90 are damaging

to human bone just by means of their occupying space where they

don't belong. They are inert. The difference with fluoride is that

it is biochemically active. With all the diseases caused by

fluoride, the common thread is

 

" Svirtually all these ill effects can be traced to the effect of

fluoride on enzymes or proteins, as well as a possible direct effect

on the DNA molecule itself. "

 

Above we saw how fluoride changes the all-important shape of

enzymes, thereby rendering them not only useless, but actually

foreign antigens.

 

Cancer And Fluoride

 

By now we all know how cancer begins with one cell whose inner

blueprint - its DNA - has been screwed with.

 

Remember those Velcro hydrogen bonds? Guess what other shape they

hold together. The double helix - DNA. This turns out to be the

exact mechanism of fluoride as a carcinogen.

 

Austrian and Japanese researchers both found that a concentration of

1 PPM fluoride causes disruption of the body's ability to repair its

own DNA. Without this most basic cell function, cancer is promoted,

and tumor growth is accelerated.

 

That's standard fluoride level in US city water: one part per

million.

 

On p. 65 of his book, Dr. Yiamouyiannis provides an amazing chart of

some 19 major scientific studies conducted in universities all over

the world, together proving beyond a doubt that fluoride causes

genetic damage.

 

End of story.

 

Except that on p 68, there is another list of world studies proving

the same thing with plants and insects - genetic alteration from

fluoride.

 

Chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Dean Burk when

confronted with mountains of data, stated before Congress:

 

" In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer death, and

causes it faster than any other chemical. "

 

- Congressional Record 21 July 1976

 

Can That Be Misconstrued?

 

Burk and Yiamouyiannis completed a monumental research project in

1977 in which they compared cancer death rates in 10 fluoridated and

10 non-fluoridated US cities between 1940 and 1970. The results are

on p75 of Fluoride the Aging Factor.

 

The unmistakable fact is that the graph shows that for the first ten

years (1940-1950), when none of the 20 cities fluoridated, the

average cancer deaths were virtually identical. But after 1950,

there

is a major increase in cancer deaths in every single one of the

fluoridated cities, while the nonfluoridated cities remain clustered

together at a much lower level of death.

 

They actually put a number on it:

 

" S30,000 to 50,000 deaths each year from various causes may now be

attributable to fluoridation. This total includes 10,000 to 20,000

deaths attributable to fluoride-induced cancer every year. "

 

These findings were first confirmed, then denied by the National

Cancer Institute (what a surprise). Finally the research was upheld

as valid in two separate state courts, Pennsylvania and Illinois.

 

Ask yourself, why are findings of a scientific study being disputed

in court? The usual pattern whenever valid research threatens big

money.

 

Another study by the New Jersey Health Dept., cited by Dr. Y, found

a

50% increase in bone cancer among young men in fluoridated areas.

(Cohn)

 

Dr. William Hirzy, an officer in the EPA explains:

 

" Fluoride is a broad-spectrum mutagen. It can cause genetic damage

in

both plant and animal cells. "

 

Once again, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of

scientific studies conducted and reported in the most credible

universities and agencies throughout the world for the past 25 years

have found an unmistakable correlation between fluoridation and

cancer deaths. Even the professional opinion makers can't just make

all this data vanish.

 

All they can do is what they're trained to do: change the subject.

And keep repeating how safe and effective fluoride is.

 

Brain Damage = Low IQ

 

Penetrating observation. The earliest reference to brain disruption

from fluoride exposure is found in a recently declassified secret

Manhattan Project memo (1944):

 

" Clinical evidence suggests that C616 [uranium hydrofluoride] may

have a rather marked central nervous system effect with mental

confusion, drowsiness and lassitudeS "

 

How can all these studies be dismissed and ignored? Many of them are

from the most prestigious of scientific journals. And the message

has been consistent for the past 40 years - fluoride is a poison..

What kind of power can contradict such a cogent, overwhelming body

of work?

 

Only one thing -very good -- $$$$$$$$!

 

Got it on your first guess!

 

So Then Why Are We Fluoridating, For The Last 60 Years?

 

Unrestricted research into almost any area involving health care is

really a tiresome business - it's the same boring story over and

over:

 

A Toxin in Search of A Market.

 

First a chemical is created, then an angle is figured out on how to

mass market it. Then a disinformation program is put into place to

create a permanent smokescreen for the actual scientific data.

 

As we saw with ADD, antibiotics, the history of pharmaceuticals,

HRT,

heart drugs, chlorination, and now fluoridation - the pattern is

consistent.

 

With billions of dollars in play, the chemical industry can afford

to

choreograph its two most willing marionettes: the media and the

medical profession.

 

I didn't make this up; I wish it were otherwise. It's embarrassing

to

be a human when you find out what's been going on.

 

But we digress.

 

Fluoridation. A certified poison, by all the government agencies and

scientific agencies cited above. Where does the money come in? Toxic

disposal. The rise of the EPA since the 1970s. The increase in

environmental consciousness as a political tool for creating the

illusion of safety in recent decades.

 

Here's the short version: fluoride is a toxic byproduct in the

manufacture of nuclear arms, aluminum, cement, steel, and

phosphates.

 

Millions of tons of this poison are produced every year. Imagine the

cost of containing and disposing of those mountains of waste every

year. It's in the billions.

 

But what if lobbyists from these industries could

present " scientific

studies " paid for by the industries, and provide for a continual

stream of media presentations about the health benefits of fluoride,

and create unimaginably lucrative positions for " research " and

" education " within the American Dental Association and the AMA, and

do all these things in a consistent and unending way, year after

year?

 

What are the economic advantages of that? Simple: instead of paying

money to dispose of toxic waste, money could now be made by selling

fluoride to the water companies of the nation.

 

They'll use the public water supply as a sewer for industrial

wastes.

And now with these new billions added instead of subtracted, there's

plenty to go around, for everyone involved. Out of the Red, into the

Black.

 

Somewhere Machiavelli smiles.

 

Dark Alliance

 

Up until 1931, the American Dental Association and the US Public

Health Service recognized that fluoride caused dental problems, and

that every effort should be made to remove such contamination from

drinking water. (Fluoride the Aging Factor, p 140)

 

By 1980, the ADA's tune had changed a little:

 

" Sthere is no evidence implicating naturally occurring fluorides as

a

health hazard even at eight parts per million. " - ADA News 24 Mar

1980

 

Following this? In the face of all the decades of our best research,

this arrogant and groundless pronouncement, by the profession to

whom

we have entrusted our teeth, is saying that our water could have 8

times as much fluoride as it has now, and still be perfectly safe!

 

The Players: ALCOA Aluminum, mega-giant producer of aluminum, was

founded by Andrew Mellon, who was also appointed Secretary of

Treasury, since he seemed to know something about money.

 

ALCOA funded a top research facility known as the Mellon Institute.

In 1931, a Mellon Institute report by Gerald Cox suggested that 1

PPM fluoride added to drinking water would be good for the teeth.

That was it. No studies, no comparisons, no data. All previous

research studies had shown that fluoride was toxic.

 

Stay with me now. The US Public Health Service (USPHS) at that time

was under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Treasury - Andrew

Mellon, who also owned ALCOA.

 

The USPHS sponsored some research put out by their own Dr. HT Dean,

manipulating data so that it " proved " that this same figure of 1 PPM

resulted in reduction of tooth decay. So now there were two studies,

one by Cox and one by Dean, both funded by agencies controlled by

ALCOA, both supporting this arbitrary figure of 1 PPM fluoride that

should be added to the water to lower tooth decay.

 

Next problem: sell it to the American Medical Association and the

American Dental Association.

 

This took years. Even in 1943, an article in JAMA described fluoride

as a poison that damaged enzyme systems even at a concentration of 1

PPM. The article showed concern about 25,000 tons of fluorine

released into the atmosphere every year from the phosphate

fertilizer

industry. (JAMA, Sept 18, 1943).

 

The following year Journal of the American Dental Association ran

another article warning that fluoridated water caused osteoporosis,

goiter, and spinal disease. They stated that " the potentialities for

harm far outweigh those for good. " (JADA, 1 Oct 1944)

 

So how did fluoridation get started then, with all this information -

 

thousands of negative scientific papers and only two favorable

studies? ALCOA money, that's how.

 

In 1944, ALCOA hired an attorney named Oscar Ewing at a salary of

$750,000 per year. That same year Ewing was appointed to the Federal

Security Administration. The USPHS was a division of the Federal

Security Association. So now ALCOA's boy was in a position to

control

the policies of the Public Health Service.

 

Ewing chose his PR man for fluoridation: Edward Bernays, the nephew

of Sigmund Freud.

 

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