Fluoride

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Fluoride is a toxin a little less toxic than arsenic and more toxic than

lead. 90 percent of fluoridated water in the United States has never been tested

and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made fluoride illegal to dump

at sea as it is a hazardous waste. However its in your water.

 

Effects of fluoride on your body.

 

Fluoride disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to breakdown in the

bone, tendon, skin, cartilage, lungs, trachea, and kidney. Fluoride inhibits the

formation of antibodies in the blood, which cause a disruptive effect on

various tissues in the body, which then confuses the immune system and causes it

to

attack its own tissues. Fluoride increases the tumor growth and the general

cancer rate. Fluoride has been linked to cancer, low IQ genetic disorders and

muscle degeneration. This information has been based on mercola.com research

which we trust as a source of information more responsible than government

agencies.

 

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What Is Fluoride?

 

Fluorine is an element and 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 is not the fluoride used for

fluoride or fluoridation. Fluoride added to 90% of drinking water is

hydrofluoric

acid which is a compound of fluorine that is a chemical by product 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. 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.

 

Fluoride the Aging Factor by John Yiamouyiannis, PhD.

 

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. Dr. Yiamouyiannis was the science director of the

National Health Federation. He then went on to head the Safe Water

Foundation. 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.

 

Studies looking to find out about fluoride and 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

scientific agencies cited above.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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 .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

lawyer was in a position to control the policies of the Public Health Service.

 

 

Thanks to dr mercola.com who always has the most up to date information and

solutions on many health subjects.

 

check also

 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/desanto1.html

 

 

 

references are made to research presented in

 

Fluoride the Aging Factor by John Yiamouyiannis, PhD.

 

 

 

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Fluoride is added to the water supply for dental hygiene and fluoridating

drinking water is accepted as a benefit . Chlorine evaporates eventually but

fluoride remains in the water and cooking, food processing, filtration, or

digestion doesn't remove fluoride and it accumulates in fat cells. Fluoride is a

carcinogenic industrial waste and causes teeth to rot and crumble, as well as

your

bones and cause osteoporosis? Why is a toxic industrial waste passed off on

the public as a nutrient with necessary health benefit? See further for

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Fluoride Ruins Your Teeth .

 

We fluoride water to prevent cavities and build strong teeth.

 

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 un fluoridated 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 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 anti fluoridation 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 " ¦virtually 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 non fluoridated

cities remain clustered together at a much lower level of death. They

actually put a number on it: " 30,000 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 lassitude¦ " 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?