Flourine and Chlorine

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No discussion about the body's immune system would be complete

without an

explanation of The Law of Halogen Displacement. There are five

elements that

make up what is known as the HALOGEN family of elements. The

Halogen Law states

that, " The Halogen element having the lowest atomic weight will

ALWAYS

DISPLACE another, within the Halogen group, whose atomic weight is

greater. "

Arranged in ascending order, the Halogen family is as follows:

 

Element Symbol Atomic

Weight

 

Fluorine F

9

Chlorine Cl

17

Bromine Br

35

Iodine I

53

Asatine At

85

 

Both Fluorine and Chlorine are sometimes additives to public water

supplies.

These two toxic elements will ALWAYS displace Iodine, an element

that is vit

ally needed to protect your Thyroid gland and prevent " goiter " and

poisoning

from " radioactive fallout. " Fluorine will decompose almost ALL

compounds to

form fluorides, and, the most important element for man's existence--

-OXYGEN

---will never combine with it. Both the element Fluorine and

Hydrofloric Acid are

dangerous " cumulative poisons " . Chlorine is a greenish-yellow gas

that,

because it attacks the respiratory tract, is almost always included

in most of the

" war gases'. Recent research about why the earth's stratosphere

(the slab of

air that is roughly 10 - 30 miles above the earth's surface) is

LOSING Ozone

(O3)---which is the earth's only defense against the effects of

potentially

harmful ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION from the Sun---has disclosed the

problem to be

pollution that is caused from chemical combinations known

as " Chlorofluorocarbons "

(CFCs). The Ultraviolet light from the Sun breaks down the CFCs

into their

constituents of carbon, fluorine, and chlorine. In this instance of

POLLUTION

of our vitally needed Ozone Layer, it is the chlorine that---split

by UV

rays---in turn then splits the Ozone into Oxygen and CHLORINE

MONOXIDE. And, the

" smoking gun " that is proof as to what is now destroying our Ozone

Layer is the

presence of CHLORINE MONOXIDE found in the Earth's stratosphere.

 

 

Chlorine Study in Japan

Chlorine Health Alert

http://www.fulvic.com/healthalert/chlorine2.htm

Hank Roelofs

 

Cancer fighting nutrients become deadly when combined with

chlorinated tap

water??

 

Some of nature?s most valuable and essential anti-cancer and anti-

disease

phytochemical nutrients, which are commonly found in food have been

discovered to

form deadly cancer causing substances when consumed or combined with

chlorinated tap water. This discovery includes familiar foods

including soy, fruits,

vegetables, tea, many health products, and even some vitamins.

Research has

proven that these essential nutrients are the exact same families of

compounds,

that even in infinitesimal amounts have been tormenting the water

treatment and

chlorine industries for years.

 

Recently, a joint study was undertaken in Japan by research

scientists at the

National Institute of Health Sciences and

ShizuokaPrefecturalUniversity.They

determined that natural organic substances originating from foods,

including

fruits, soy, and green or black tea, react when tap water is

chlorinated,

forming dangerous cancer causing compounds. These deadly compounds

have been named

MX, which stands for " unknown mutagen " , and are similar to the

already

well-known and more easily detected cancer causing THMs

(trihalomethanes).

 

The Japanese scientists specifically mentioned that their studies

showed that

MX is created by the reaction of chlorine with natural organic plant

phytochemicals such as catechins, which are contained in tea, and

flavonoids which are

found in fruit. Since Japan has an extremely high consumption of

tea, fruits,

and soy products, it is easy to see how high amounts of residues

from these

foods would end up in their wastewater treatment and water recycling

systems.

 

Earlier studies by scientists in Finland in 1997 determined that MX

is 170

times more deadly than other known toxic byproducts of chlorination,

and was

shown in laboratory studies to damage the thyroid gland as well as

cause

cancerous tumors.

 

THMs are known to be created by the reaction of chlorine with humic

and

fulvic acids, which are the final breakdown products of vegetation,

including

decayed leaves and organic matter. Humic substances are the same as

soil humus, of

which the fulvic fraction is water soluble and readily transported

into

streams and waterways, as well as utilized nutritionally by plants.

 

Very recent scientific discoveries have identified and clarified the

composition of fulvic and humic acids as containing a significant

amount of

nutritional phytochemical groups including hormones, sterols, fatty

acids, polyphenols,

and ketones, which subgroups include but are not limited to: flavins,

flavonoids, flavones, tannins, catechins, quinones, isoflavones,

tocopherols, etc.

 

These compounds are some of the most valuable and promising anti-

cancer

nutrients found in our foods and health supplements. Coenzyme Q10 is

a quinone,

vitamin B-2 is a flavin, vitamin E is a tocopherol, citrus

bioflavonoids

including hesperidin, quercetin, and rutin are all flavonoids, green

tea contains

catechins, phenols, tannins, and isoflavones. Potentially all of

these substances,

and many more, are implicated by chlorination.

 

Amazingly, is has been discovered that these phytochemicals remain

intact,

concentrated, and intricately combined within humic substances;

which are

valuable remnants of natures protective substances contained within

fruits, flowers,

pollen, nuts and seeds, as well as vegetative parts including roots,

stems,

bark, and leaves. Even the plant nucleic acids, RNA and DNA remain

intact.

 

To comply with EPA rulings, water treatment plants have had to

develop

special techniques to scrub the seemingly dubious organic residues

from water prior

to treatment with chlorine. There is nothing wrong with the organic

substances

themselves, it is chlorine that is at fault for turning them into

the deadly

THM and MX cancer cocktail. Reality is that the organic substances

have been

shown to be highly beneficial combined with pure drinking water in

trace

amounts.

 

The bottom line is this: when water treatment facilities remove these

substances, they are throwing the precious baby out with the bath

water, and the

remnants that remain are turned into cancer causing agents by

chlorination. To

make things worse, it is certain that the fresh plant foods we eat

similarly

react with the chlorinated tap water we drink with our meals,

creating toxins.

This means that fresh fruits and vegetables, green salads, green

tea, black tea,

herb teas, soy products, vitamin pills and various health

supplements, and

even some pharmaceutical drugs, all can be implicated in combination

with

chlorinated water.

 

The deadly cancer causing agents which are produced are extremely

toxic in

infinitesimal amounts, so small and obscure that they are extremely

difficult to

detect. Very little chlorine is required. When the concentrations of

phytochemicals are high, such as in concentrated health supplements,

or even fruits

and vegetables coming from more fertile soils, the deadly

combination with

chlorination intensifies.

..

It has been known by the water treatment and chemical industries for

many

years that chlorine reacts negatively with natural organic

compounds. These

industries call these compounds DBPs (disinfection by-products)

which are known to

cause cancer in populations whose drinking water contains them. THM,

the most

commonly known DBP, is known to cause a high incidence of bladder

cancer and

also to cause spontaneous abortion of fetuses.

 

The Environmental Protection Agency has continually tightened their

restrictions on THMs in drinking water, and even tighter

restrictions are just around

the bend. Yet it is interesting to note that the many government

agencies and

chlorine industries have conveniently neglected to take a serious

look at food,

health supplement, and pharmaceutical drug consumption, preparation,

and

production relating to use of chlorinated tap water.

 

There is good reason for the public to seriously examine and

question this

entire issue. Many years ago laws were passed making chlorination of

water

mandatory. Now, the chlorine industry and government agencies must

continue their

existing policies, because if sudden or drastic changes are made,

the legal

liabilities would be staggering. Certainly some government or

industry personnel

have known or theorized about these problems and have been covering

them up

for many years. However, if anyone were to admit to it, the

consequences could

be disastrous. This predicament could make the tobacco industry

scandal seem

insignificant in comparison.

 

Another area needing thorough scrutiny relates to pharmaceutical

drug safety

studies normally performed on animals in the laboratory. It would be

reasonable to surmise that good laboratory practices and procedures

would require that

such studies be performed using highly purified drinking water for

animals. It

would be reasonable to believe that drug companies would not take

the chance

of jeopardizing clinical studies using chlorinated tap water. Of

course

chlorinated tap water is a common denominator within the human

environment.

Educating people to the dangers of chlorine would be admitting to

knowledge of the

problem, which could invalidate past studies and certainly raise

serious legal

problems.

 

This whole chlorine issue should come as no real surprise to any

biochemist.

During the last century, chlorine has been combined with many other

normally

safe organic substances to form some of the most powerful deadly

toxins known,

such as dioxin, DDT, PCBs, etc. The bottom line is that the real

culprit is

chlorine, not the substances with which it reacts.

 

Although chlorine has essentially eliminated the risks of waterborne

diseases

such as typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery, there are many

pathogens that

are not controlled by chlorine. Other and better methods of water

treatment

exist. Many alternatives are already used throughout the world. Ever

tightening

EPA regulations have forced the water supply industry in the USA to

look into

alternative methods for disinfecting water.

 

For years, environmentalists have battled the water treatment

industry and

large chemical companies in an effort to ban the use of chlorine in

drinking

water. This ongoing battle has been a big source of revenue for both

sides. As

word of the problem spreads to the general public, something might

actually be

done about it.

 

As this message spreads, it will no doubt shake the very foundations

of the

chlorine and water treatment industries, let alone the government

agencies that

are implicated along with them. There certainly should be cause for

serious

alarm within the nutritional supplement and food industries, as well

as those

segments of the medical industry that might awaken to the dilemma.

 

This message is of utmost importance to the general public, because

chlorine

will one day, in the near future, be exposed as a major cause and

contributor

to cancer and degenerative disease. Chlorine will also be found to be

responsible for damaging the body?s immune and hormonal systems by

mutating the

food-based plant estrogens and phytochemicals that support those

systems. A healthy

immune system should be your first and best line of defense against

waterborne

disease.

 

Recer, P; Water chlorine byproduct may be cancer risk; June 18, 1997;

Associated Press Christman, RF; Kronberg, K; Singh, R; Ball, LM;

Johnson, DJ; R

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