Scientific Facts on the Biological Effects of Fluorides

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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 retirement 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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For nearly two years, I used non-fluoride toothpaste and mouthwash

(Tom's toothpaste and Xlear mouthwash, both with Xylitol). They kept

my teeth nice and white, and I liked the clean taste in my mouth.

 

I did notice, however, my teeth seemed to be growing sort of

translucent, especially at the bottoms.

 

One day while sitting on the couch, I noticed something that seemed to

be stuck on a tooth. Thinking it was food, I began to pick at it. When

it finally came off, it turned out to be a splinter-shaped shard of tooth.

 

Never having been one for 48 years and despite meticulous care for my

teeth and gums, I was suddenly the victim of tooth decay.

 

Needless to say, I am back to using a fluoride toothpaste (Tom's, of

course-- if I'm going to get it, it might as well be from a natural

source) and mouthwash. I do my best to keep from swallowing any of it.

But having a heart condition requires me to keep my teeth and mouth as

free from disease of any kind. It trumps other concerns.

 

Why am I writing this? I felt it needed to be said to give a broader,

more personal perspective on the issue.

 

If you have a better suggestion for preventing tooth decay than

fluoride, I'd love to hear it.

 

 

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bestsurprise2002 wrote:

>

>

> Scientific Facts on the

> Biological Effects of Fluorides

> _http://www.all-natural.com/fleffect.html_

> (http://www.all-natural.com/fleffect.html)

>

> 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

 

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