Avoid fluoride to cure IBS

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Avoid fluoride to cure IBS

 

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The following letter has appeared in the UK magazine PROOF! What works in

alternative medicine. February 2002, Vol 6, No.7, page 4.

(PROOF! http://www.wddty.co.uk/shop/dept.asp is published by What Doctors

Don't Tell You).

 

Chris Gupta

 

Avoid fluoride to cure IBS.

 

Re irritable bowel syndrome (PROOF! vol 5 no 2). I was surprised to see no

mention of avoiding fluoride, which can cause 'non ulcer dyspeptic ' complaints

with symptoms similar to IBS.

 

Professor A.K. Susheela, a leading scientist in fluoride research and a

senior advisor to the Indian Government, has electron micrographs of the effects

of

fluoride on gut cells. She says that, by avoiding fluoride, IBS symptoms will

clear in 15 days. Dental advisor Tony Lees, though sceptical, took her

advice; his symptoms cleared in 15 days.

 

Liz Vaughan, Lowick Bridge, Cumbria.

 

 

Readers' Comments

 

Fluoride is not in any way shape or form a cause of IBS.

The " information " posted is almost certainly grossly exaggerated and possibly

even fabricated to a point.

The only research I can turn up from this individual is that a *continual

overdose* of fluoride can cause gut problems.

Posted by: flux on September 23, 2003 05:49 AM

 

 

Hi

 

There is a high degree of likelihood that there is an inapproriate infectious

agent in the intestinal tract that leads to ibs symptoms which may even be

linked to the more serious Crohn's and ulcerative colitis. Fluoride is

considered to be a potent enzyme toxin and may affect the balance of the

intestinal

flora. There are other factors including sugar in the diet and antibiotic use. I

have heard of great results using the soil based organism products Supreme

Flora or Flora Balance. Another product is Primal Defense but I do not have

direct experience with the latter. Start slowly because of die-off - Herxheimer

reaction potential. Drink a lot of water as suggested by Dr. Fereydoon

Batmanghelidj (Your Body's Many Cries for Water). (See

http://www.watercure2.com). One

of the important purposes of the colon (large intestine) is water conservation.

If we are chronically dehydrated bowel contents become thickened and bowel

movements sluggish.

Posted by: Andrew on September 30, 2003 08:10 PM

 

12 years ago I had an accident that broke teeth. This meant no hot drinks. I

was suddenly totally free of the IBS that had plagued me daily for 10 years

with bloating, tummy cramps and anal mucus. When I was better, I tested, and

retested various beverages?..and it was tea, that would bring back the cramps

every time. I researched tea to discover why it might cause IBS. I noted that

tea

contained more fluoride than any other edible plant. I found out also that a

symptom of fluoride poisoning is gut pain and remembered that Canadian

researchers blamed toothpaste for IBS. So, out went the fluoride toothpaste as

well

as the tea! I went from daily gut pain to total cure! Now I have had 12 years

free of IBS?.except for when I went to live in Feering, Essex for 9 months. The

symptoms began to creep back, so I enquired of the local water supplier if

they fluoridated. ?No need? was the response ?you have the highest natural

fluoride in the country. I changed to bottled water and the IBS totally

disappeared

again. This may not amount to a full-blown, ?double-blind, medical trial,?

but it did give ?blind? corroborative proof. Because I did not have, and could

not have, anticipated an IBS recurrence, since the water at Feering was not

?officially? fluoridated. I pride myself on a rigorously scientific mind so I

was

prepared to believe that it was only MY IBS that was caused by fluoride. I

remained suspicious however, because the enormous rise in IBS was ?coincident?

with the rise in fluoride-ingestion from water, toothpastes, pesticides,

non-stick cookware and mouthwashes. Scientific methodology means we generally

only

find links we are looking for. Has anyone looked for a link between TOTAL

Fluoride ingestion and IBS?

Posted by: L Harley on November 28, 2003 05:07 PM

 

 

Flux is wrong. I fabricated nothing and exaggerated nothing. It can only be

malicious speculation on his part.

 

If you have a " cosy " image of Flourides consider this The American ?Clinical

Toxicology of Commercial Products? (5th. Edition) rates fluoride only slightly

less toxic than arsenic, and more toxic than lead! This made it a useful rat

poison. And yet their Environmental Protection Agency permits 250 times more

Fluoride than lead, in water. Is this logical? Moreover there is a goal of zero

to be achieved for the, less poisonous, lead!

 

If we found that lead or arsenic hardened teeth would we add them to water?

Well Fluoride is just as toxic, with scores of proven detrimental effects on

the body. Why are we pursuing Fluoridation when medical/expert opinion is

becoming more sceptical about it, and whilst Ireland is considering reversing

Fluoridation and 98% of Europe is against it? The Fluoride used has no drug

approval; in fact it is an industrial waste, from fertiliser or smelting-plant

chimney-scrubbers. It contains heavy metal impurities including Arsenic, Lead

and

Antimony as well as Uranium 238. And it is illegal to discharge it into the

environment, or dump it at sea? A cynic might wonder if it?s put in the water

supply so that each time we wash the car, or flush the toilet we conveniently

tip

an industrial waste into the environment in a manner that is otherwise illegal.

It was one thing for Americans to solve a toxic waste problem in this manner,

but to export this idea to tea-drinking nations like Britain and Ireland was

downright irresponsible.

 

Recent Taiwanese research, published in ?Nature? magazine found huge

variations in the Fluoride content of different teas. This means control of the

Fluoride dose is impossible. The concentration of Fluoride in tea could be as

much

as 41 times the optimum to reduce dental fillings! Even this dental ?optimum?

is not necessarily good for our general health. If you drink tea you are

probably already getting too much Fluoride, as I certainly was. But we can

choose to

avoid tea we cannot avoid water.

 

Flouride is a thyroid suppressor, formally used to treat over-active thyroid

glands. There are literally hundreds of studies on the thyroid-toxicity of

fluoride. Furthermore, Chlorine (which is added to our water) and mercury (which

is in our teeth-fillings) are also thyroid suppressors. The aluminium in tea

enhances this effect. We seem to be conducting a multi-pronged assault on the

thyroids of a whole generation and many people claim that a large percentage of

the population is suffering from sub-clinically low thyroid function.

Research, published in 2001, also showed that fluoride calcified the vital

pineal

gland in the brain with potentially far-reaching consequences.

 

It would seem that the only argument for Fluoridation is the dental health

argument. But even this is hotly contested. I can do no better than refer you to

a paper published in The Irish Medical Journal by Dr. Don MacAuley (Dental

Surgeon). He was a supporter of Fluoridation but changed his mind only after

looking deeper into Fluoride at the request of some of his patients. His

dental-school training had not supplied these perspectives. He outlines some of

the

multitudinous toxic affects of this poison. (It seems naïve to me, to assume

that a substance that has profound effects on teeth and bone would have no other

effects on our bodies, particularly on the digestive tract through which it

passes). This would not be so alarming were it not such a powerful poison.

(Please find his paper attached here:- http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride/vul.htm )

Also

Re IBS/Fluoride see http://www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk/IBS.html

 

 

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