The Biological Effects of Fluorides

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The Biological Effects of Fluorides

JoAnn Guest

May 03, 2006 21:39 PDT

 

 

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1. Fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to

the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage,

lungs, kidney and trachea.

A.K. Susheela and Mohan Jha, " Effects of Fluoride on Cortical and

Cancellous Bone Composition, " IRCS Medical Sciences: Library

Compendium,

Vol. 9, No.11, pp. 1021-1022 (1981); Y. D. Sharma, " Effect of Sodium

Fluoride on Collagen Cross-Link Precursors, " Toxicological Letters,

Vol.

10, pp. 97-100 (1982); A. K. Susheela and D. Mukerjee, " Fluoride

poisoning and the Effect of Collagen Biosynthesis of Osseous and

Nonosseous Tissue, " Toxicological European Research, Vol. 3, No.2,

pp.

99-104 (1981); Y.D. Sharma, " Variations in the Metabolism and

Maturation

of Collagen after Fluoride Ingestion, " Biochemica et Biophysica

Acta,

Vol. 715, pp. 137-141 (1982); Marian Drozdz et al., " Studies on the

Influence of Fluoride Compounds upon Connective Tissue Metabolism in

Growing Rats " and " Effect of Sodium Fluoride With and Without

Simultaneous Exposure to Hydrogen Fluoride on Collagen Metabolism, "

Journal of Toxicological Medicine, Vol. 4, pp. 151-157 (1984).

 

 

2. Fluoride stimulates granule formation and oxygen consumption in

white blood cells, but inhibits these processes when the white blood

cell is challenged by a foreign agent in the blood.

 

Robert A. Clark, " Neutrophil Iodintion Reaction Induced by Fluoride:

Implications for Degranulation and Metabolic Activation, " Blood,

Vol.

57, pp. 913-921 (1981).

 

 

3. Fluoride depletes the energy reserves and the ability of white

blood cells to properly destroy foreign agents by the process of

phagocytosis.

As little as 0.2 ppm fluoride stimulates superoxide production in

resting white blood cells, virtually abolishing phagocytosis. Even

micro-molar amounts of fluoride, below 1 ppm, may seriously depress

the

ability of white blood cells to destroy pathogenic agents.

 

John Curnette, et al, " Fluoride-mediated Activation of the

Respiratory

Burst in Human Neutrophils, " Journal of Clinical Investigation, Vol.

63,

pp. 637-647 (1979); W. L. Gabler and P. A. Leong, ., " Fluoride

Inhibition of Polymorphonumclear Leukocytes, " Journal of Dental

Research, Vol. 48, No. 9, pp. 1933-1939 (1979); W. L. Gabler, et

al.,

" Effect of Fluoride on the Kinetics of Superoxide Generation by

Fluoride, " Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 64, p. 281 (1985); A. S.

Kozlyuk, et al., " Immune Status of Children in Chemically

Contaminated

Environments, " Zdravookhranenie, Issue 3, pp. 6-9 (1987)

 

 

4. Fluoride confuses the immune system and causes it to attack the

body's own tissues, and increases the tumor growth rate in cancer

prone individuals.

 

Alfred Taylor and Nell C. Taylor, " Effect of Sodium Fluoride on

Tumor

Growth, " Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and

Medicine, Vol. 119, p. 252 (1965); Shiela Gibson, " Effects of

Fluoride

on Immune System Function, " Complementary Medical Research, Vol. 6,

pp.

111-113 (1992); Peter Wilkinson, " Inhibition of the Immune System

With

Low Levels of Fluorides, " Testimony before the Scottish High Court

in

Edinburgh in the Case of McColl vs. Strathclyde Regional Council,

pp.

17723-18150, 19328-19492, and Exhibit 636, (1982); D. W. Allman and

M.

Benac, " Effect of Inorganic Fluoride Salts on Urine and Cyclic AMP

Concentration in Vivo, " Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 55

(Supplement

B), p. 523 (1976); S. Jaouni and D. W. Allman, " Effect of Sodium

Fluoride and Aluminum on Adenylate Cyclase and Phosphodiesterase

Activity, " Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 64, p. 201 (1985)

 

 

5. Fluoride inhibits antibody formation in the blood.

 

S. K. Jain and A. K. Susheela, " Effect of Sodium Fluoride on

Antibody

Formation in Rabbits, " Environmental Research, Vol. 44, pp. 117-125

(1987)

 

 

6. Fluoride depresses thyroid activity.

 

Viktor Gorlitzer Von Mundy, " Influence of Fluorine and Iodine on the

Metabolism, Particularly on the Thyroid Gland, " Muenchener

Medicische

Wochenschrift, Vol. 105, pp. 182-186 (1963); A. Benagiano, " The

Effect

of Sodium Fluoride on Thyroid Enzymes and Basal Metabolism in the

Rat, "

Annali Di Stomatologia, Vol. 14, pp. 601-619 (1965); Donald Hillman,

et

al., " Hypothyroidism and Anemia Related to Fluoride in Dairy

Cattle, "

Journal of Dairy Science, Vol. 62, No.3, pp. .416-423 (1979); V.

Stole

and J. Podoba, " Effect of Fluoride on the Biogenesis of Thyroid

Hormones, " Nature, Vol. 188, No. 4753, pp. 855-856 (1960); Pierre

Galleti and Gustave Joyet, " Effect of Fluorine on Thyroid Iodine

Metabolism and Hyperthyroidism, " Journal of Clinical Endocrinology

and

Metabolism, Vol. 18, pp. 1102-1110 (1958)

 

 

7. Fluorides have a disruptive effect on various tissues in the

body.

 

T. Takamorim " The Heart Changes in Growing Albino Rats Fed on Varied

Contents of Fluorine, " The Toxicology of Fluorine Symposium, Bern,

Switzerland, Oct 1962, pp. 125-129; Vilber A. O. Bello and Hillel J.

Gitelman, " High Fluoride Exposure in Hemodialysis Patients, "

American

Journal of Kidney Diseases, Vol. 15, pp. 320-324 (1990); Y. Yoshisa,

" Experimental Studies on Chronic Fluorine Poisoning, " Japanese

Journal

of Industrial Health, Vol. 1, pp. 683-690 (1959)

 

 

8. Fluoride promotes development of bone cancer.

 

J.K. Mauer, et al., " Two-Year Cacinogenicity Study Of Sodium

Fluoride In

Rats, " Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 82, pp. 1118-

1126

(1990); Proctor and Gamble " Carcinogenicity Studies with Sodium

Fluoride

in Rats " National Institute of Environmenrtal Health Sciences

Presentation, July 27, 1985; S. E. Hrudley et al., " Drinking Water

Fluoridation and Osteosarcoma, " Canadian Journal of Public Health,

Vol.

81, pp. 415-416 (1990); P. D. Cohn, " A Brief Report on the

Association

of Drinking Water Fluoridation and Incidence of Osteosarcoma in

Young

Males, " New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton, New Jersey, Nov.

1992;

M. C. Mahoney et al., " Bone Cancer Incidence Rates in New York, "

American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 81, pp. 81, 475 (1991);

Irwin

Herskowitz and Isabel Norton, " Increased Incidence of Melanotic

Tumors

Following Treatment with Sodium Fluoride, " Genetics Vol. 48, pp. 307-

310

(1963); J. A. Disney, et al., " A Case Study in Testing the

Conventional

Wisdom: School Based Fluoride Mouth Rinse Programs in the USA, "

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, Vol. 18, pp. 46-56

(1990); D.

J. Newell, " Fluoridation of Water Supplies and Cancer - An

Association?, " Applied Statistics, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 125-135

(1977)

 

 

9. Fluorides cause premature aging of the human body.

 

Nicholas Leone, et al., " Medical Aspects of Excessive Fluoride in a

Water Supply, " Public Health Reports, Vol. 69, pp. 925-936 (1954);

J.

David Erikson, " Mortality of Selected Cities with Fluoridated and

Non-Fluoridated Water Supplies, " New England Journal of Medicine,

Vol.

298, pp. 1112-1116 (1978); " The Village Where People Are Old Before

Their Time, " Stern Magazine, Vol. 30, pp. 107-108, 111-112 (1978)

 

 

10. Fluoride ingestion from mouth rinses and dentifrices in children

is

extremely hazardous to biological development, life span and general

health.

 

Yngve Ericsson and Britta Forsman, " Fluoride Retained From Mouth

Rinses

and Dentifrices In Preschool Children, " Caries Research, Vol. 3, pp.

290-299 (1969); W. L. Augenstein, et al., " Fluoride Ingestion In

Children: A Review Of 87 Cases, " Pediatrics, Vol. 88, pp. 907-912,

(1991); Charles Wax, " Field Investigation Report, " State of Maryland

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, March 19, 1980, 67 pages;

George Waldbott, " Mass Intoxication from Over-Fluoridation in

Drinking

Water, " Clinical Toxicology, Vol. 18, No.5, pp. 531-541 (1981)

 

 

 

Other Facts

 

The contents of a family size tube of fluoridated toothpaste is

enough

to kill a 25 pound child.

 

In 1991, the Akron (Ohio) Regional Poison Center reported

that " death

has been reported following ingestion of 16mg/kg of fluoride. Only

1/10

of an ounce of fluoride could kill a 100 pound adult. According to

the

Center, " fluoride toothpaste contains up to 1mg/gram of fluoride. "

Even

Proctor and Gamble, the makers of Crest, acknowledge that a family-

sized

tube " theoretically contains enough fluoride to kill a small child. "

 

 

Fluorides have been used to modify behavior and mood of human

beings.

 

It is a little known fact that fluoride compounds were added to the

drinking water of prisoners to keep them docile and inhibit

questioning

of authority, both in Nazi prison camps in World War II and in the

Soviet gulags in Siberia.

 

 

Fluorides are medically categorized as protoplasmic poisons, which

is

why they are used to kill rodents.

 

The September 18, 1943 issue of the Journal of the American Medical

Association, states, " fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons,

changing the permeability of the cell membrane by inhibiting certain

enzymes. The exact mechanisms of such actions are obscure. "

 

 

Fluoride consumption by human beings increases the general cancer

death

rate.

 

In 1975 Dr. John Yiamouyiannis published a preliminary survey which

showed that people in fluoridated areas have a higher cancer death

rate

than those in non-fluoridated areas. The National Cancer Institute

attempted to refute the studies. Later in 1975 Yiamouyiannis joined

with

Dr. Dean Burk, chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute

(1939-1974) in performing other studies which were then included in

the

Congressional Record by Congressman Delaney, who was the original

author

of the Delaney Amendment, which prohibited the addition of

cancer-causing substances to food used for human consumption. Both

reports confirmed the existence of a link between fluoridation and

cancer. (Note: Obviously Dr. Burk felt free to agree with scientific

truth only after his tenure at National Cancer Institute ended,

since

his job depended on towing the party line).

 

 

Fluorides have little or no effect on decay prevention in humans.

 

In 1990 Dr. John Colquhoun was forced into early requirement in New

Zealand after he conducted a study on 60,000 school children and

found

no difference in tooth decay between fluoridated and unfluoridated

areas. He additionally found that a substantial number of children

in

fluoridated areas suffered from dental fluorosis. He made the study

public.

 

 

There is no scientific data that shows that fluoride mouth rinses

and

tablets are safe for human use.

 

In 1989 a study by Hildebolt, et al. on 6,000 school children

contradicted any alleged benefit from the use of sodium fluorides. A

1990 study by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis on 39,000 school children

contradicted any alleged benefits from the use of sodium fluorides.

In

1992 Michael Perrone, a legislative assistant in New Jersey,

contacted

the FDA requesting all information regarding the safety and

effectiveness of fluoride tablets and drops. After 6 months of

stalling,

the FDA admitted they had no data to show that fluoride tablets or

drops

were either safe or effective. They informed Perrone that they will

" probably have to pull the tablets and drops off the market. "

 

 

The fact that fluoride toothpastes and school based mouth rinses are

packaged in aluminum accentuates the effect on the body.

 

In 1976, Dr. D. Allman and coworkers from Indiana University School

of

Medicine fed animals 1 part-per-million (ppm) fluoride and found

that in

the presence of aluminum, in a concentration as small as 20 parts

per

billion, fluoride is able to cause an even larger increase in cyclic

AMP

levels. Cyclic AMP inhibits the migration rate of white blood cells,

as

well as the ability of the white blood cell to destroy pathogenic

(disease-causing) organisms. Reference: Journal of Dental Research,

Vol.

55, Sup B, p. 523, 1976, " Effect of Inorganic Fluoride Salts on

Urine

and Tissue Cyclic AMP Concentration in Vivo " . (Note: It is no small

accident that toothpaste tubes containing fluoride are often made of

aluminum)

 

 

" Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this

century "

 

Robert Carlton, Ph. D., former U. S. EPA scientist on " Marketplace "

Canadian Broadcast Company, Nov. 24, 1992

 

 

" Regarding fluoridation, the EPA should act immediately to protect

the

public, not just on the cancer data, but on the evidence of bone

fractures, arthritis, mutagenicity and other effects "

 

William Marcus, Ph. D., senior EPA toxicologist, Covert Action, Fall

1992, p. 66

 

 

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