The Fluoride Controversy

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Here is one article about fluoride. Fluoride started to be used in

water after WWII. An aluminum company. I think it was Alcoa had a lot of

leftover slag and other things from the aluminum making process. Some of this

had a lot of floride in it and they wanted to " recycle " it. A study was

published about the same time concerning flouride and teeth. They decided to

market it to put in the water to prevent cavities. Someone mentioned genetics

and teeth and that is a big factor. I think the teeth do need a certain amount

of fluoride but everyone needs a different amount. We should be able to choose

the amount we each need. Also, the chemical structure may make a difference.

Just pouring chemicals in water is different than getting fluoride from organic

means.

GB

 

The Fluoride Controversy By Dr. Ted Spence

Fluoride is a very controversial topic, but how controversial I did not

realize. The data reveals that fluoride is a chemical toxin. As you can see by

my studies and degrees, I place a large amount of confidence in nutritional

methods for over coming disease and place little in toxic drugs, synthetic

chemicals and especially toxins, like fluoride.

A few years ago, I was asked by the head of our local health department to

conduct a review of existing journal research on the toxicity of fluoride with

emphasis on its cancer causing potential. I went to the National Medical Library

and produced for him some 40 articles on the toxicity of fluoride. When we

reviewed them, there was some discrepancy in whether or not fluoride was

mutagenic.

Well, half of the articles said that it was and half said that it was not. But

it can not be both ways ... We wondered what was wrong. Then the element of bias

entered the picture, since Proctor and Gamble has paid for some of the

" negative-concluding " research. We were still puzzled.

My only goal is to tell this information to the patients and let them decide.

Isn’t that fair ... after all it is their decision? It is the patient’s choice

.... isn’t it? The toxicity of fluoride has caused many countries to rethink the

fluoride issue and many have rescinded fluoride in favor of the health of their

people.

Those banning fluoride are Sweden, Norway, Denmark, West Germany (now

unified), Italy, Belgium, Austria, France, and The Netherlands. Despite these

retractions of fluoride, the US still presses on with the goal to fluoridate

(poison) every community water supply in the United States.

All allopathically-trained dentists are very familiar with the ADA and other

" authoritative " positions on fluoride. They rarely mention its toxic potential

or the few studies revealing increased tooth decay after fluoride use. The

research of Burk and Yiamouyiannis revealed that every major city with fluoride

had increased rates of cancer. Not a fair trade for " good looking teeth " .

If you don’t want to look at this data, that is your decision. As health

professionals, we don’t want to harm patients in any way and fluoride produces

great harm. I am referring to taking fluoride internally, where it has been

found to cause unscheduled DNA synthesis, sister chromatid exchanges and yes,

mutagenic effects on the cells.

These terms may not bother some people at all, but they mean that there will

be an increase in cancer after the ingestion of fluoride. Tsutsui, et al found

that the addition of fluoride to healthy liver cell, in vitro, could establish

changes that can only be described as cancerous.

The ADA’s official position is that this stuff is safe, yet there have been

deaths of children in the dentists office due to fluoride, albeit very few. The

point I am trying to make is that this is not to be taken lightly. In a letter

[to me] from the ADA apologizing for fluoride, that stated, " There are three

basic compounds commonly used for fluoridating drinking water supplies in the

United States: sodium fluoride, sodium silicofluoride, and hydrofluorosilicic

acid. "

Now any chemist can tell you that these are not the sodium fluoride we are all

told about. Sodium hydrofluorosilicic acid is one of the most reactive chemical

species know to man. Its toxicity is known in many chemical circles. It will eat

through metal/ plastic pipes and corrode many materials including stainless

steel and other metals. It will dissolve rubber tires and melt concrete. This is

added to our water to produce " healthy teeth " .

Fluoride Does the Following:

inactivates 62 enzymes (Judd)

increases the aging process (Yiamouyiannis)

increases the incidence of cancer and tumor growth (Waldbott/Yiamouyiannis)

disrupts the immune system (Waldbott)

causes genetic damage (Tsutsui, et al)

interrupts DNA repair-enzyme activity (Waldbott)

increased arthritis and

is a systemic poison.

" Fluoride is a highly toxic substance.... "

L P Anthony, DDS editor of the Journal of the American Dental Association -

1944

Funny how times change, but truth does not change.

" ....we have very strong circumstantial evidence of systemic toxicity of the

so-called absolutely safe concentrate of fluoridated water "

Roy E Hanford, MD, " Where is Science Taking US? reprint from Saturday Review

" Don't drink fluoridated water .... Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will

produce harm on a long term basis. " Dr Charles Heyd, Past AMA president

Some 61,000 cancer deaths in the US result from fluoridation each year. I

repeat 61,000. (Burk and Yiamouyiannis) One study found that fluoride elevates

cancer mortality 17% in 16 years in large cities. (from Gerald Judd, PhD) " You

have been led to believe the fluorine makes teeth harder. The fact is, it

actually makes teeth softer. " (George Meinig, a founder of the American Academy

of Endodontics)

The US sees a 22% increase in decay every 16 years from fluoride use and a 50%

decline in decay every 20 years compared with Finland's 98%, Sweden's 80% and

Holland's 72%. And they are non-fluoridated. (Gerald Judd)

My only goal is to tell the truth about the ill-effects of a known toxin. I

mentioned the paper being published by the Health Freedom News on the

neurotoxicity of fluoride. Fluoride is a potent neurotoxin and this has been

known for some time; at least since the early 1940s, well before the

fluoridation experiment with Grand Rapids.

Dr Gerard Judd, PhD (chemistry), [ emeritus Manhatten project] found that

fluoride can inactivate 62 enzyme systems. As a naturopath, nutritionist and

master herbalist, I cannot endorse a substance that has known detrimental

effects.

Geoffrey Smith stated, " Recent studies suggest that fluoride may be

genotoxic. " (p 79, Smith) And added, " There is now a substantial body of

evidence suggesting that fluoride is mutagenic. " (p 93, Smith) Gibson also

noted, " Fluoride is one of the most toxic inorganic chemicals in the Earth's

crust, ... However, with increasing experience, doubts about both safety and

efficacy have arisen. " (p 111, Gibson)

And he added, " A possible link between fluoridation of public water supplies

and an increase in the cancer death rate has been debated for over 20 years and

there is now no doubt that fluoride can cause genetic damage. " (p 111, Gibson)

Gibson noted, " Inhibitory effects of fluoride on different enzyme systems have

been demonstrated. " (p 111, Gibson) And, " A section of the population may

therefore be at risk of compromised immune system function from water

fluoridation schemes. " (p 112, Gibson)

Get the drift; fluoride is not everything it is cracked up to be. Mutagenic,

enzyme inhibition, genetic damage, increased cancer rates, genotoxic and

controversial, all describe fluoride.

Tsutsui et al noted, a significant increase in chromosome aberrations at the

chromatid level, sister chromatid exchanges, and unscheduled DNA synthesis was

induced by NaF in a dose- and timedependent manner.

These results indicate that NaF is genotoxic and capable of inducing

neoplastic transformation of Syrian hamster embryo cells in culture. " (p 938,

Tsutsui et al) There, you can see the controversy for yourself. Fluoride is

toxic, fluoride is non-toxic; fluoride causes cancer, fluoride doesn't cause

cancer. Who do we believe?

The fluoride controversy comes down to

... Who Do We Really Believe?

Here's two articles on mutations caused by fluoride:

Sodium Fluoride-induced Morphological and Neoplastic Transformation

Chromosome Aberrations, Sister Chromatid Exchanges, and Unscheduled DNA

Synthesis in Cultured Syrian Hamster Embryo Cells, Takeki Tsutsui, Nobuko Suzuki

and Manabu Ohmori, Can Res, 44:938-941, 1984 (March) Sodium Fluoride-induced

Chromosome Aberrations in Different Stages of the Cell Cycle: A Proposed

Mechanism, Marilyn J Aardema, et al, Mutation Research, 223:191-203, 1989 The

titles say it all.

Therefore, because of this controversy my feelings on this matter is that is

should be up to the patient. They need both sides of the story to make an

" intelligent " decision. I only mean to give them the other side. References are

cited for your use and reading enjoyment.

The EPA found that at 2 ppm salmon were sterile, yet at 1 ppm it is placed in

our water supply. [Dr Richard Foulkes] Fluoride only helps [if it helps]

children up to age 12. Yet, everybody is " forced " to drink it. Oscar Ewing, who

pushed fluoride in the legislature, told the senators not to drink it.

The last thing I would say it that by endorsing fluoride you totally eliminate

the real prevention of tooth decay ... good sound nutrition. Tooth-brushing

[important as it is] does not stop tooth decay.

Fluoride [a toxic] does not stop rampant tooth decay. [Fluoride only hardens

to outer surface of the enamel and may prevent calcium from being deposited when

a tooth is re-mineralized.] Nutrition stops tooth decay. I have developed a

nutritional supportive program which will totally stop tooth decay in less than

two weeks.

I have watched many children go from all 20 carious deciduous teeth, to 20

ebernated [hardened] teeth, which are non-painful and hard as rock. I have never

seen fluoride do this [after 21 years of dentistry] and fluoride is not even a

part of my caries prevention program.

Ted H Spence, DDS, ND, PhD/DSc,MH

References:

Waldbott, George, MD, Fluoride: The Great Dilemma, 1978, Coronado Press,

Lawrence, KS

Yaimouyiannis, John, Fluoride: The Aging Factor, 1993, Health Action Press,

Delaware

On Neurotoxicity:

Varner, J A, et al, " Chronic Administration of Aluminum Fluoride or Sodium

Fluoride to Rats in Drinking water: Alterations in Neuronal and Cerebrovascular

Integrity " , Brain Research, 784(1-2):284-298, 1998, 1998, Feb 16.

Isaacson, R L, et al, " Toxin-Induced Blood Vessel Inclusions Caused By the

Chronic Administration of Aluminum and Sodium Fluoride and Their Implications in

Dementia " , Ann NY Acad Science, 825():152-166, 1997, Oct 15.

Varner, J A, et al , " Chronic Aluminum Fluoride Administration, Part I:

Behavioral Observations " , Behavior Neural Biology, 61(3):233-241, 1994, May.

Burgstahler, A W, Colquhoun, J, " Neurotoxicity of Fluoride " , Fluoride,

29:57-58, 1996 and

Li, X S, Zhi, J L, Gao R O, " Effects of Fluoride Exposure on the Intelligence

of Children " , Fluoride, 28:182-189, 1995 and

Mullenix, P J, et al, " Neurotoxicity of Sodium Fluoride on Rats " ,

Neurotoxicity and Teratology, 17:169-177, 1995 and

Zhao, L B, et al, " Effect of Fluoridated Water Supply on Children’s

Intelligence " , Fluoride, 29:190-192, 199

 

 

 

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