— THE AUSTRALIAN FLUORIDATION SKEPTICS —

1975 – 2012 

Previously Known As:

— THE BRISBANE ANTI-FLUORIDATION ASSOCIATION —

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WATER FLUORIDATION OVERVIEW

& IMPLICATIONS

     HISTORIC ERRORS AND OMISSIONS

Trillions of dollars have been spent in the last 60 years promoting artificial water fluoridation around the world. Yet very few countries adopted the practice and many of these have since discontinued it, with no increase in tooth decay. This money should have been spent on serious dental science, e.g. research into the anti-caries properties of vanadium, strontium 38, molybdenum, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and xylitol, plus diet, genetics, ‘good’ mouth bacteria – (oral microbiological antibodies), and finally the ultimate – stimulation of gums to grow more teeth, – tissue engineering. The harmful implications of poor nutrition as well as the damaging effects of lead, (old roofs and solder on rainwater tanks) Copper, Cadmium, Fluorides, Aluminium, Arsenic, * Beryllium, Chromium, Iron, Mercury, and Nickel have been virtually ignored.

Over 400 medications including Clonidine (Catapres), a high blood pressure medication also used to treat (ADHD) – increase tooth decay…

 

NATURAL SOURCES OF FLUORIDES

“Natural Fluoride” — Also causes health problems:

Calcium fluoride CaF2 occurs naturally, although mostly in relatively small amounts, in some rivers, wells and bore waters. However this natural fluoride does cause health problems. Excessive fluoride concentrations have been reported in the ground-waters of more than 20 countries including in India where 19 states are facing acute fluorosis problems. Large numbers of people in Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Mexico and Africa develop dental fluorosis, a biomarker for crippling skeletal fluorosis and other fluoride induced health abnormalities. Skeletal fluorosis is a crippling bone disease caused by fluoride exposure. Millions of people world-wide are afflicted. It also affects animals foraging on contaminated feed and consuming water from some underground sources.

F. is 14th by weight in abundance as an element in the earths crust. Fluorine forms compounds with all elements except helium and neon.

Seawater contains 1-1.4 ppm. of F. –

(Salmon swim up rivers to hatch eggs in F. free water.)

Fluoride toxicity Salmon species ↓↓↓

Google http://sonic.net/kryptox/environ/salmon.htm 

(Fluoride Vol.27 No.4 220-226 1994)

 

VOLCANOES AND FLUORIDE

 

The 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull

REYKJAVIK April 2010— The fallout of volcanic ash over parts of Iceland could jeopardise the safety of drinking water, health authorities warned Friday, but said the greatest health risk was to livestock.  “It is important to prevent the ash from reaching water supplies, both for public and animal health reasons and for safe milk production,” Halldor Runolfsson of the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority told AFP. Runolfsson said the blast — which covered large areas in a thin layer of volcanic ash — mostly posed a health risk to Livestock because the ash contained HIGH FLUORIDE LEVELS.

   

←   Volcano Chile June 2011    →

Volcanoes (hydrogen fluoride) and waters emanating from deep-water wells CaF2; are the main sources of natural fluoride contamination prior to the industrial revolution.

Fluorides also occur naturally, locked up with other elements, unless separated by heat.  

→  ( Volcanoes cool down the earth’s climate ! )  ←

Many bottled ‘Spring Waters’ sold in Australia should be tested for fluoride and labeled accordingly.

Similar adverse effects as humans, are observed in sheep consuming bore waters from the Great Artesian Basin under much of Queensland and New South Wales, and became a concern for productivity of flocks. Research by the Queensland DPI (formally – The Queensland Department of Agriculture & Stock) in the 1950’s developed management strategies to prevent young sheep (the equivalent of human children and adolescents), from gaining access to bore water, containing fluoride because of the devastating effect on their teeth and bones.

See the three PDF booklets with x-ray photos of damage to teeth

and bones on this site click here → Fluorosis of Sheep in Queensland

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ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES OF FLUORIDES

The burning / smelting of any material

will release fluorides into the environment.

The amount will depend on the material being heated e.g. “dirty” brown coal releases more F. into the air than the hard “clean” coal anthracite. Fluorides are released into the environment via coal combustion and process waters and waste from various industrial processes, including steel manufacture, primary aluminium, copper and nickel production, phosphate ore processing, phosphate fertilizer production and use, glass, brick and ceramic manufacturing, and glue and adhesive production, oil refining, car exhausts and, » » 

 The Nuclear Industry » Uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) → ( bombs )

— Oak Ridge — Site Of  The K-25 Fluoride Disaster — 

◊ Oak Ridge ◊

… Oak Ridge Tennessee USA, the home of the largest chemical [Fluoride] accident in the USA. This one plant absorbed 25 percent of the Manhattan Project’s funding to try and keep hydrogen fluoride poison gas from getting loose on the workers and the region. This plant was code-named the K-25 Plant, after the Kellex Corp. This plant would become a doomsday device under the management of Union Carbide. The very same sloppy methods that caused the Bhopal India accident also contributed to this huge fluoride poisoning disaster in Oak Ridge…

credit — Jim Phelps © 2004

SULFURYL FLUORIDE  SO₂F₂ 

The use of the fluoride containing pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride as a food fumigant (trade name ProFume ®) as well as the fluoridation of drinking water, also contribute to the release of fluoride from anthropogenic sources. Based on available data, phosphate ore production and use, as well as aluminium manufacture are the major industrial sources of fluoride release into the environment.

 

WATER FLUORIDATION –

AN ERROR FROM THE LAST CENTURY

Fluorosis is a pathological condition.

It affects humans and animals.

Dental fluorosis occurs during teeth formation in the presents of fluorides in air, water, or food, and is also an indicator of skeletal fluorosis, which can also occur after exposure later in life, after teeth formation, but this will not be recorded on the teeth.

— The Great Statistical Mirage —

THE ERUPTION OF TEETH IS DELAYED IN THE PRESENTS

OF FLUORIDES. THIS DELAY ACCOUNTS FOR THE ORIGINAL

STATISTICAL ERROR , WHICH LED TO THE BELIEF THAT

FLUORIDES HELP PREVENT TOOTH DECAY IN CHILDREN

 

This delayed eruption also occures in animals.

see below ↓↓↓

Fluorosis of Sheep in Queensland

merino_sheep_skulls_showing_damage

Continental Europe has abandoned water fluoridation, and so have many cities in USA, the home of this dangerous unscientific business, promoting and creating a market for toxic industrial wastes.

Tooth decay does NOT increase after countries or cities ceased fluoridation. Fluoride over-dose (fluorosis) is now pandemic in fluoridated areas. Tooth decay is caused by Streptococcus Mutans, a bacterium that lives in the mouth, poor nutrition, and poor hygiene NOT BY A DEFICIENCY OF FLUORIDE.

— Fluoridation is Dental Mythology Masquerading as Science —

 

— IT IS TIME TO STOP —

This heath/pollution problem is easy to fix

JUST TURN IT OFF !

FLUORIDE COMPOUNDS ARE:

Bio-accumulating, carcinogenic, protoplasmic

poisons and enzyme inhibitors. 

(Inactivate 62 enzymes)

They are also teratogenic, phyto-toxic, corrosive

(class 8), neurotoxic, fetotoxic, clastogenic,

thyrotoxic, mutagenic, and immuno-suppressive.

Fluorides have a synergistic effect with other

pollutants, including radioactive isotopes.

They destroy vitamins and are mind-altering

allergens, cause arthritis, and infertility.

Note: Fluorides Are Apoptosis Inducing Substances

The PTD (Probably Toxic Dose) is 5 milligrams of

fluoride for each kilogram of body weight. This is

sufficient to produce severe poisoning symptoms, 

including death.

Approximately 1. 2 grams of sodium fluoride,

“just a pinch” will kill an adult human.

 

OTHER COMMERCIAL FLUORIDE

APPLICATIONS:

TEN EIGHTY 1080 =

Sodium fluoroacetate FCH2CO2Na. S7

(Dingo Bait). When ingested through baited food, the animal

suffers a prolonged and horrific death. Herbivores take the

longest to die – up to 44 hrs, while carnivores can take up to

21 hrs. Besides being tasteless, odorless, colorless and highly

concentrated, 1080 has no antidote. – 

Oregon USA banned 1080

The N.Z. Ministry of Health’s 1080 limit for drinking

water contamination is two parts per Billion,

(note, not million).

TEN EIGHT ONE 1081 = Fluoroacetamide (rodenticide).

SARIN = Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl-Fluoride

(nerve gas).

It is the most potent neurotoxin.

(Sarin was used by members of the Aum Shinriky cult  terrorists in Japan–March 1995.)

Kasumigaseki Station,

( 地下鉄サリン事件 Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken?),

One of the many stations

affected during the attack.

SOMAN = Picacolyl-Methyl-Phosphonos-Fluoride

Both these ‘fluorides’ are nerve gases one drop of either if,

absorbed through the skin, will kill an adult human,

in seconds.

PROZAC = Fluoxetene Hydochloride is an

anti-depressant.

 

It affects chemicals in the brain that may become unbalanced

and cause depression, panic, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive

symptoms.

 

ROHYPOL = Fluorinated Valium – ‘Roofies’

(Date Rape Drug).

Flunitrazepam is a class of drugs depressing the central nervous system. 

Anti-cholesterol Drugs require fluorinated intermediates for their synthesis viz. Atorvastatin and Fluvastatin.

The Following Drugs, Also Contain Fluorides:

Diflucan fluconazole, Flixonase or Flixotide (fluticasone),

Stelazine trifluoperazine, Fluanxol or Depixol

(flupenthixol) or Floxapen (flucloxacillin), and Penthrox.

Fluoride-bearing Sarin was reportedly so strong,

❝ it made Zyklon B  look like underarm deodorant. ❞

(The Dickinson Statement, “Health Consciousness”, October 1988)

See our category on this web site ↓

FLUORIDES, THE DEADLY TOXIN WITHIN

By Professor Dzulkifli Abdul Razak

National Poison Centre

As can be seen by the above,  fluorides are medicinal drugs, and

poisons; therefore fluoridation without consent

constitutes assault with unlicensed medicine

on the unsuspecting general public.

Fluoride is a medicine, evidence on its side effects should be subject

to the standards of proof expected of drugs, including evidence

from randomised trials.

“There have been no randomised trials of water fluoridation.”

FLUORIDE AND THYROID FUNCTION

All fluoride compounds interfere with thyroid hormones and are factors in Hashimoto’s Disease. (Between 6% – 10% of Australians are affected by hypothyroidism which results in death after 10 to 15 years without medication.) The distortion of protein structure causes the immune proteins to fail to recognize body proteins, and so instigate an attack on them, which is Autoimmune Disease. Autoimmune diseases constitute a body of disease processes troubling many thousands of people: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus Erythematosus, Asthma and Systemic Sclerosis are examples. Fluoride causes thyroid antibodies to be produced, which cause Thyroiditis resulting in the common hypothyroid disease, Hashimoto’s Disease and the hyperthyroidism of Graves’ Disease.

See our category on this web site ↓

              → Brain Function Is Vulnerable To Fluoride →

 → Fluoride ←

FLUORIDE / IODINE IN A NUCLEAR DISASTER

❝ … Many people are relatively deficient in iodine, and because of this they will readily absorb iodine from the environment. Your body is unable to recognize the difference between regular iodine [53] and radioactive iodine [131]. It will absorb them equally well. So if you are deficient in iodine and a radioactive cloud passes by, [Japanese nuclear crisis] your body will tend to suck that radioactive iodine into your thyroid gland to fill up its iodine stores.

In an ideal situation you will have been taking adequate amounts of iodine from safe sources which will not only protect you from radioactive iodine but from environmental toxins that can poison your thyroid gland like Fluoride, Bromine and Chlorine.

 

If you have not been taking iodine and a radioactive cloud comes near your area then it would make sense to take large doses of prophylactic iodine to prevent your thyroid gland from absorbing the radioactive iodine. However it is important to understand that the large dose of [potassium iodide] only protects your thyroid for one to three days, no longer and it does absolutely nothing to protect you from detoxifying the radiation… ❞

 

Credit – Dr. Mercola

 

FLUORIDE AND OBESITY:

In view of the above it can be presumed that obesity would be augmented in a fluoride environment. Australia is the most fluoridated country in the world. “Obesity and related problems are rife in Australia – everyone points the finger at diet, but few researchers suspect fluorides in the water. Fluoride impairs thyroid function resulting in imbalances in metabolism that contribute to weight problems”…

See our category on this web site ↓

“The Effects Of Fluoride On The Thyroid Gland”

by Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield MBBS LRCP MRCS

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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. John Yiamouyiannis, PhD., gives a masterful explanation of this in his work ‘Fluoride The Aging Factor’. 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 a premature health decline.

— Unsafe at any dose —

Fluoride prematurely ages the body, mainly by distortion of enzyme shape. 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 and thyroid function. These 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. Fluoride also accumulates in the organelles of animal cells and shuts down enzyme activity. . Fluoride as a factor in cataracts has been established by statistical studies of Dr. Ionel F. Rapaport and confirmed by the research of Dr. Burgstahler. This has also been confirmed by analysis of cataracted and un-cataracted eye lenses. The older the person, the more the fluoride in the lens.

— FLUORIDATED WATER IS BAD MEDICINE —

WATER FLUORIDATION IS DELIBERATE ECOCIDE…

See our category on this web site ↓

“Fluoride The Protected Pollutant”

Fluoridation involves the dumping of thousands of tones of industrial waste into the drinking water supply systems of our state. Phosphate fertilizer plants produce large quantities of toxic waste (silicofluorides, “SiFs” – fluosilicic acid or hexafluorosilicic acid, H2SiF6, and sodium fluosilicate or silicofluoride, Na2SiF6), which are recovered and require neutralization and disposal. Normally it would cost several thousand dollars per truckload to do this. But it has been contrived for these unrefined products, with their heavy metal contaminants, to be sold for injection into the water supplies of compliant cities and governments, under the guise of reducing dental decay. Industry thus benefits from not having to pay for it’s disposal, and at the same time makes a tidy profit on the sale of this waste.   (Estimated 2000% profit)

Water fluoridation is often used to deliberately mask

the damage from industrial air pollution.

A  few cozy connections here!

Queensland’s Fluoridation

Chemicals Are Supplied By Countries

That Do Not Fluoridated Their Own Water.

Phosphate fertilizer manufacturers invest millions

of dollars in grants and lobbying of government officials,

political parties, and the ADA to promote water fluoridation.

SILICOFLUORIDES –

UNTREATED TOXIC INDUSTRIAL WASTES Na₂SiF₆

Na₂SiF₆ is a chemical compound formed by two atoms of Sodium,

one atom of Silicon and six atoms of Fluorine.

It is know by the following names:

Sodium Fluorosilicate, Sodium Hexafluorosilicate,

•  Sodium Silicon Fluoride and Hexafluorosilicate Disodium.

The chemicals mostly used to fluoridate drinking water are derived from the manufacture of phosphate fertilizer, – silicofluorides. These chemicals are captured by the industry’s wet scrubbing systems – in their smoke stacks. The product is not “fluorine” or “fluoride”. It is a pollution concentrate. Fluoride is only approximatly 19% of the total product captured. Silicofluorides are contaminated with a variety of toxic chemicals including:

Fluosiloxanes, Aluminium, Arsenic*, Iron, Beryllium,

Cadmium, Chromium, Lead, Mercury, Nickel,

Sulfides and Radionuclides.

→  unknown insoluble residue  ←

See our category on this web site ↓

FLUORIDE AND THE PHOSPHATE CONNECTION

THE QUALITY OF FLUORIDATION CHEMICALS

The Queensland Government May Be In  Breach Of  Its Own Code !

Extracts from:

CODE OF PRACTICE DECEMBER 2008

WATER QUALITY UNIT

Environmental Health Branch

Queensland Health December 2008

Version 1 – Form 1 23

❝… 4. Fluoridation chemicals

This section applies to all fluoridation plants.

It provides information on the quality and storage of fluoridation agents

4.1. Quality of fluoridation chemicals Performance criteria Minimum standards

P 4.1.1.

• The water supplier must ensure that any impurities in the fluoridation chemical used to fluoridate the water supply would not adversely affect public health.

MS 4.1.1.

• The water supplier must, on the receipt of each batch of fluoridation chemical, obtain a copy of the batch analysis certificate from the manufacturer, importer or supplier

• If a batch analysis certificate is unable to be obtained, the water supplier must arrange for a sample of the fluoridation chemical to be analysed, at a laboratory accredited by NATA for the analysis, to determine the level of any impurities.

MS 5.4.1.

• A daily quality control sample should be analysed by the fluoridation plant operator along with the mandatory daily samples of fluoridated water. This sample should be analysed using the same prescribed analysis as the routine samples.

• A weekly quality control sample should be analysed by the reticulation system manager along with the analysis of the recommended weekly samples of fluoridated water. This sample should be analysed using the same prescribed analysis as the routine samples.

• On 1 day each month the fluoridation plant operator must split a daily sample into 2 parts and analyse 1 part using a prescribed analysis. The other part must be forwarded to a laboratory that is NATA accredited for fluoride analysis, and the results of analysis obtained by the water supplier …❞

THE THERAPEUTIC GOODS ADMINISTRATION *

Department of Health and Ageing

Previous Minister for Health and Ageing since 3 December 2007 —  Nicola Roxon

It is to be hoped that the new Minister for Health Tony Burke 

who succeeds Nicola Roxon, sorts this matter soon. 

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The Australian Government Department responsible for this

matter, is derelict in its duty to the health of Australians by

permitting this abuse of the public water supply to continue, also its

‘National Industrial Chemicals Notification and

Assessment Scheme’ (NICNAS) and The ‘Office of Chemical

Safety and Environmental’ are invalid Government agencies unless

fluoride in its many forms, and its implications for human health

are recognized and included with other chemicals.

* → The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is the regulatory body for therapeutic goods (including medicines, medical devices, gene technology, and blood products) in Australia. It is a Division of the Australian Department of Health and Ageing established under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth). The TGA is responsible for conducting assessment and monitoring activities to ensure that therapeutic goods available in Australia are of an acceptable standard and that access to therapeutic advances is in a timely manner. ←

Why no regulation for fluoridation ?

SILICOFLUORIDES A CONTAMINATED PRODUCT

WITH CONTAMINATED ‘RESEARCH’

The marketing of water fluoridation has used promotion by endorsement, intimidation, biased research, censorship, propaganda, cover up, suppression of dissent, and fraud similar to those of Lead, Asbestos, DDT, Tobacco, Thalidomide, Dioxin and 245T. Two peer-reviewed studies, Neurotoxicology, December 2000; International Journal of Environmental Studies, September 1999, found an association between consumption of water containing hydrofluosilicic acid or sodium silicofluoride and higher blood lead levels in children.

See our category on this web site → ‘Lead Poisoning in Mount Isa and Fluoridation’.

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RECYCLING PROBLEMS:

The proposal to recycle water adds an extra complication, as tones of silicofluorides will be redeemed in the recycling process, (if it is efficient enough), which leaves the government with the disposal cost of these toxic industrial wastes.

Normal water (sewage) treatment will not remove fluorides, which can result in this water being re-fluoridated by other cities further down stream if this treated water is discharged into rivers or dams.

How many times will the same water be RE-fluoridated?

Recycled water may still contain fluoride which if returned to the Wivenhoe Dam could be a threat to the survival of the Australian Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri. These fish are tough survivors but fresh water fish EGGS are usually very sensitive to fluoride contamination.

Google:

Effects of Sodium Fluoride on Carp and Rainbow Trout by K.S. Pillai and

U.H. Mane – Department of Zoology, Marathwada University,

Aurangabad-431 004 India.

Salmon swim up rivers to hatch their eggs in fluoride free water.

(Sea water contains 1.2 -1.4 p.p.m Calcium Fluoride – Caf2.)

Google→ http://sonic.net/kryptox/environ/salmon.htm

MAD COW DISEASE AND RECYCLED WATER

THIS  IS  NOT A  FLUORIDE  MATTER  BUT  IT  NEEDS  TO   BE  NOTED

Mad cow disease-causing prions can survive conventional sewage treatment.

Prions — rogue misfolded proteins that cause mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease, and its human equivalent, variant Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease — are not degraded by standard wastewater decontamination. In Australia waste-water, sullage (grey water) and sewage (black Water) share the same system this includes hospital waste. Therefore as a precaution, we need to be aware of the problems that recycled water may represent. Prions are notoriously resilient to extreme heat, caustic chemicals and irradiation. Mad cow disease doesn`t manifest for 10 to 20 years.

RADIONUCLIDES –

RADIUM & URANIUM IN SILICOFLUORIDES

These radioactive elements are also present in Silicofluorides.

The two decay products of uranium – RADON-222 and POLONIUM-210 are dangerous and carcinogenic.

The health risks are enormous, including: bone cancer, internal organs destruction, brain damage and more.

POLONIUM-210

Tobacco companies for 40 years have been concerned about the public relations

and litigation problems posed by polonium-210 in cigarettes *

Polunium-210 is soluble and is circulated through the body to every tissue and cell. The proof is that it can be found in the blood and urine of smokers. The circulating Polonium-210 causes genetic damage and early death from diseases reminiscent of early radiological pioneers: liver and bladder cancer, stomach ulcer, leukemia, cirrhosis of the liver, and cardiovascular diseases. The Surgeon General C. Everett Koop MD (USPHS) stated that radioactivity, rather than tar, accounts for at least 90% of all smoking-related lung cancers. – The Center for Disease Control stated “Americans are exposed to far more radiation from tobacco smoke than from any other source.” — As little as 0.03 microcuries (6.8 trillionths of a gram) of polonium-210 can be carcinogenic to humans.

Alexander Litvinenko

The Death Of The Russian Former KGB (FSB) agent Alexander Litvinenko has been linked to the presence of a ‘major dose’ of radioactive Polonium-210 in his coffee. Traces of the radioactive substance were discovered at various locations in London visited by Mr. Litvinenko as well as in Russia and on two British Airways (BA) flights. His body was buried in a lead lined coffin – Dec. 2006  (Google). 

* Puff  by puff, the poison Polonium-210, builds up to the equivalent radiation dosage of 300 chest x-rays a year for a person who smokes one and a half packs a day.

— So why are we drinking it? —

SOME PLANTS SENSITIVE TO FLUORIDES:

(Forage, food crops and ornamental plants

vary in their sensitivity to fluorides.) —

Apricots, Calarhea spp., Chamaedorea elegans Parlor Palm, Chiorophytum comosum Spider Plant, Cordyline terminalis Good Luck Plant, Corn, Ctenanthe oppenheimiana Never-Never Plant, Daylilies (Hemerocallis), Dracaena spp., Gibasis pellucida Tahitian Bridal Veil, Gladioli, Grapes, Lilium spp., Maranta leuconeura Prayer Plant, Peaches, Petunias, Pine Trees (some), Roses, Spathiphyllum spp., Tulips, Yucca spp.,

Some Pine Trees are very sensitive to fluoride and can be used as bio-indicators for air [soil and water] pollution. Some ferns and rain forest plants show sensitivity to Fluoride water on their foliage.

Fluoride-induced injury (air pollution) to coniferous forests can occur at a distance of 32 km from an emitting source, and destruction of some species at 13 km distance. Fluorides are released into the air in both a gaseous state (as hydrogen fluoride and silicon tetrafluoride) and in solid particles. The particles fall on, and the gases are absorbed by, vegetation near the polluting industry. If this vegetation includes forage crops, which are fed to cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, or kangaroos. (The EPA says fluoride from Alcoa’s aluminium smelter at Portland [Victoria] is making kangaroos sick. 23 Feb. 2010), serious problems can ensue, since these animals, particularly cattle are vulnerable to fluoride. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “Airborne fluorides have caused more worldwide damage to domestic animals than any other air pollutant.” Huge compensation payments have been made, – mostly as out of court settlements.

❝ The thing to note with plants is that plants will readily absorb fluorine that is sprayed [(irrigation,) or falls] on the leaves. If flood [or drip] irrigation is used, the plants accumulate far less fluoride due to calcium absorption in the soil and the plant’s discriminatory uptake through the roots ❞ Dr. Miller.

see: “Fluorides In The Environment”

 by L.H.Weinstein and A.W. Davison

AQUATIC ORGANISMS AND F.

❝…Aquatic organisms living in soft waters may be more adversely affected by fluoride pollution than those living in hard or seawaters because the bioavailability of fluoride ions is reduced with increasing water hardness. Fluoride can either inhibit or enhance the population growth of algae, depending upon fluoride concentration, exposure time and algal species. Aquatic plants seem to be effective in removing fluoride from contaminated water under laboratory and field conditions. In aquatic animals, fluoride tends to be accumulated in the exoskeleton of invertebrates and in the bone tissue of fishes. The toxic action of fluoride resides in the fact that fluoride ions act as enzymatic poisons, inhibiting enzyme activity and, ultimately, interrupting metabolic processes such as glycolysis and synthesis of proteins. Fluoride toxicity to aquatic invertebrates and fishes increases with increasing fluoride concentration, exposure time and water temperature, and decreases with increasing intraspecific body size and water content of calcium and chloride. Freshwater invertebrates and fishes, especially net-spinning caddis fly larvae and upstream-migrating adult salmons, appear to be more sensitive to fluoride toxicity than estuarine and marine animals. Because, in soft waters with low ionic content, a fluoride concentration as low as 0.5 mg F-/l can adversely affect invertebrates and fishes, safe levels below this fluoride concentration are recommended in order to protect freshwater animals from fluoride pollution…❞

This MAY have implications for the Australian Lungfish

Neoceratodus forsteri, which inhabit the Wivenhoe Dam

and some rivers and dams of South East Queensland.

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ANIMALS SENSITIVE TO FLUORIDES:

 

HONEY BEES:  

Colony Collapse Disorder: ❝ The Bee Holocaust ❞

www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/5852.html  (BBC 4)

In 2009, China banned Fipronil products, citing toxicity to bees…

Fipronil is highly toxic for bees*, crustaceans, insects and zooplankton, as well termites, rabbits, the fringe-toed lizard and certain groups of gallinaceous birds.

It appears to reduce the longevity and fecundity of female braconid parasitoids.

It is also highly toxic to many fish.  

It is used in Australia to spray locusts.

‘Termidor’ is used against termites, and

‘Frontline’ for fleas, these also contain Fipronil (Fluoride).

* Seeds treated with Fipronil produce flowers toxic to the bees brain.

FIPRONIL → 

Fresh Water Fish, Tadpoles, Caddis Fly, Daphnia*,

Australian Lung Fish, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs,

Elephants, Turkeys, Chinchillas, Caimans, Deer,

Ants, Horses and Kangaroos. are all sensitive to fluorides.

Australian native wild animals are somewhat F. tolerant.

1080 Sodium fluoroacetate is used to kill dingos

(not strictly native to Australia).

Mammalian animals including humans suffering with severe

fluorosis, yield milk with a VERY low levels of fluoride.

— Nature protects her young —

* Daphnia, are an indicator species —

See our category on this site ↓

This is research by Queensland Government → ‘Fluorosis of Sheep in Queensland’

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PTFE – TEFLON COOKWARE (Polytetrafluethylene)

Pet birds can die an extremely painful and agonizing death when exposed to fumes from Teflon cookware polytetraflouethylene (PTFE). “Like so many products developed for the sake of convenience without concern for human health, Teflon coated non-stick cookware when heated has proven to be a primary source of a dangerous toxic fluoride derivative, specifically perfluorinated chemicals”. This non-stick coating is also marketed as Silverstone, Fluron, Supra, Excalibur, Greblon, Xylon, Duracote, and Resistal. PTFE is odorless and invisible and bioaccumulates. When heated above 260ºC it is lethal to birds (pets) and will give humans flu like symptoms. A Teflon pan reached 721°F in just five minutes as measured by a commercially available infrared thermometer.

DuPont studies show that the Teflon off-gases toxic particulates at 446°F. At 680°F Teflon pans release at least six toxic gases, including two carcinogens, two global pollutants, and MFA, a chemical lethal to humans at low doses. At temperatures that DuPont scientists claim are reached on stovetop drip pans (1000°F), non-stick coatings break down to a chemical warfare agent known as PFIB, a chemical analog of the WWII nerve gas phosgene…

QUEENSLAND’S FLUORIDATION HISTORY

Gold Coast fluoridation commenced on 5 November 1968, and finished on 14 July 1979.

Brisbane Mayor Atkinson April 1985 proposed to fluoridate Brisbane city, but changed her mind after she examined technical literature – Including ‘Fluoridation, 1979′ by Philip R.N. Sutton.

Dr. (Sir) Llewellyn (Lew) Edwards, Minister for Health, 1974-1978, lost his safe seat in Ipswich when he proposed to fluoridate all of Queensland.

The Lord Mayor’s Taskforce on Fluoridation was established in January 1997 in response to debate in the media and the political arena about whether Brisbane’s water supply should be fluoridated. - “The majority of Taskforce members would not support the introduction of water fluoridation to Brisbane until the recommended Australian research has been carried out”.

The Queensland Government’s official Water Fluoridation Position Statement in 2003 admits that without the express consent of the community, water fluoridation is unethical mass medication and that a referendum ensures community consent.

— In 2004, amendments were made to the Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act 1963 (Qld) which removed the need for a council to hold a poll for the purpose of determining whether a majority would vote against the proposal. —

HOWEVER:-

The Bligh Government ignored history,

science, and the wishes of the people.

The Queensland Government committed $35 million to rolling out a capital program to ensure that more than 90 percent of Queenslanders would have access to (read forced to drink) fluoridated water by 2012.

On the 12 Feb. 2008 the Fluoride Bill was introduced to

The Parliament of Queensland.

QUEENSLAND HEALTH – (DEPARTMENT) with help from the ADA, both with an agenda of secrecy, and with little knowledge of human health, democratic rights, or eco-systems and using distorted figures pushed the bill through the house.

The laws of nature cannot be reversed to suit commerce, pride, prejudice, pleasure, profit or politics. It matters little how many millions of dollars are spent bending the figures and promoting the absurdity of fluoridation, it will never change the facts.

Wasting Dollars Importing Industrial Waste!

Originally the fluoridation infrastructure for the Queensland was to cost $35 million and now it has blown out to $113 million and still counting, plus ongoing cost of chemicals, (read imported industrial waste), and operations payable by 73 Queensland Local Councils.

Fluoridation advocates can no longer claim

ignorance, and are now morally if not legally accountable,

and may in the future be subject to a class-action lawsuit .

Click on photos above 1, 2, 3 and 4* to read letters we sent to Premier Anna Bligh

* Letter #4 includes other letters, a newspaper clip and comments by locals…

(The Queensland Health Department,  funded The Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch, $220,000 as a CONtribution to its pro-fluoridation campaign. The request for this funding was directed to the Hon. Stephen Robertson MP. The Minister for Health at the time [Feb. 2006])…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SB1_0_L3Q

❝ The first job of conspiracy is to convince the world that conspiracy does not exist.❞

Dr. James Lucier,

FLUORIDATION IS NOT SUPPORTED BY

ALL DENTISTS, DOCTORS OR SCIENTISTS

Many Dentists Only Support

Topical Application of Fluoride

‘ You do not drink sunscreen ! ‘         Time to blow the whistle—  

Powerful corporate interests are involved in the push for fluoridation. Fluoridation is an entrenched myth from the 1950’s. It is based on flawed research, but has become a mantra for most dental schools whose uncritical staff and students have been indoctrinated about its supposed “benefits” for over two generations. Medical schools have become aligned with this thinking. This is encouraged by the financial support that flows to universities, dental schools and to some practitioners from the sugar purveyors and industries having much to gain financially in various ways from the promotion of fluoridation. – Follow the money…

“…The establishment ‘experts’ generally receive better coverage in the media than ‘dissidents’ on most environmental, health and political issues. In the case of fluoridation the ‘experts’ have succeeded in convincing the vast majority of people in whole countries that opponents must be either cranks, extreme right-wingers or left extremists, or health ‘faddists’. This remarkable propaganda success has been achieved primarily by trading on the authority of the medical profession and by putting pressure on ‘dissident’ medical doctors, dentists and scientists to keep silent. The stereotyping of opponents has placed pressure on scientific and professional journals and the media not to publish material critical of fluoridation…”

Click on the tower to see our news flashes

See: http://www.fluoridealert.org/silence-barrier.htm

by

Mark Diesendorf

Dr. WILLIAM MARCUS

Dr. William Marcus, the Former Chief Toxicologist of the

EPA’s Water Quality Program:

Dr. Marcus was an EPA whistleblower who was fired after

publishing scientific reports on the toxicity of fluoride and

recommending that it be taken out drinking water.

Dr. Marcus’ case was taken up by the Nation Whistleblower’s Center which protects government employees from retaliation for publishing damaging facts about the government. He fought a two year legal battle where it came out that EPA lied, shredded documents, and falsified documents in their campaign against him. EPA was ordered to reinstate Dr. Marcus and pay back wages and damages for its actions.It takes a brave (or retired) scientist or dentist to speak out against the discredited practice of artificial water fluoridation, without fear of censure, or reprisal, but now some are doing just that.

See our category on this web site ↓

→ Dentists & Fluoride ←

In April 1958, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, with more than 15,000 members, most of whom are also members of the American Medical Association, passed a resolution in opposition to fluoridation, which states “The Association condemns the addition of any substance to the public water supply for the purpose of affecting the bodily or mental function of the consumer.

KIDNEY DAMAGE

Indigenous Australians & People With Kidney Impairmen

Are At Greater Risk From Fluorides.

Indigenous Australians have smaller kidneys than non-indigenous Australians – a reduced number of nephrons and decreased renal reserve –

(Singh G, White A, Spencer J, Wang Z, Hoy W [1999]).

http://www.nature.com/ki/journal/v70/n1/abs/5000397a.html

Indigenous Australians are 6 times more likely than other Australians to be receiving dialysis or to have had a kidney transplant. Death rates from chronic kidney disease are 7 and 11 times as high for non-indigenous males and females respectively.

Australia’s peak medical advisory body, the Australian Government’s National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) advised in their Australian Drinking Water Guidelines 2004 that:

“People with kidney impairment have a lower margin of safety for fluoride intake. Limited data indicates that their fluoride retention may be up to three times normal”

Indigenous Australians have high rates of kidney disease and also diabetes, (6 times higher than for non-Aboriginal Australians) which can lead to kidney disease, they are less able to cope with fluoridation, they will have higher plasma fluoride levels, and circulating for longer will accumulate more fluoride in their bodies (particularly bones) because of their decreased ability to excrete fluoride.

The Queensland Government’s proposal to fluoridate indigenous communities, some of which are currently using underground water of untested levels of existing natural fluoride, can be described as reckless stupidity – genocidal, and needs to be reversed immediately.

      Inorganic fluoride. Divergent effects on human proximal tubular cell viability. R. A. Zager and M. Iwata. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA …

Inorganic fluoride. Divergent effects on human proximal tubular cell …

www.nofluoride.com/esteemed_voices.htm

THE NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION (USA)

NO LONGER ENDORSES FLUORIDATION:

“The 1981 NKF position paper on fluoridation is outdated. The paper is withdrawn and will no longer be circulated, effective from the 10/06/07″ – NKF Board of Director’s meeting.

http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/gfm663v1

❝ The safety margin for exposure to fluoride by renal patients is unknown, measurements of fluoride levels are not routine, the onset of skeletal fluorosis is slow and insidious, clinical symptoms of this skeletal disorder are vague, progression of renal functional decline is multifactorial and physicians are unaware of side effects of fluoride on kidneys or bone. ❞

www.fluoridation.com/quotes.htm

OTHER LOST ENDORSEMENTS FOR FLUORIDATION:

The National Parent-Teachers (USA) Association withdrew its support for fluoridation on 17 April 1991.

From August 1995 to August 1996,

The American Dental Association’s List Of Endorsements Diminished

by The Following Associations:

American Cancer Society, American Heart Association,

American Academy of Allergy and Immunology,

American Diabetes Association,

Society of Toxicology,

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Activation Network,

American Psychiatric Association,

American Chiropractic Association,

American Civil Liberties Union National Institute of Law Municipal  Officers.

FLUORIDATION IS A VIOLATION OF MEDICAL ETHICS

MASS MEDICATION – WITH NO CHOICE -

Fluoridation promoters try to deny that water fluoridation is a form of mass medication, claiming that, as there is often a small amount of natural fluoride in some waters (i.e. calcium fluoride), “…it is just topping up the water with extra fluoride to achieve the ‘optimal’ level…” arsenic also occurs naturally in some waters…?

This is a cunning evasion of the real issues involved, crooked thinking –

an unconscionable violation of medical ethics and is against many human rights charters.

◊ FIRSTLY, the “extra fluoride” is in the form of sodium fluorosilicate, an unrefined artificial toxic waste containing fluoride, this does not occur in nature. See above.

◊  SECONDLY, there is no “optimal level” for fluoride because it is not a nutrient. – No disease has been linked to fluoride deficiency -

◊  THIRDLY, the addition of fluoride to water cannot be likened to the blanket use of chlorine in water treatment, which is accepted as a necessary precaution to make the water safe to drink, and can easily removed unlike fluorides.

◊  FINALLY, a medication is any drug or remedy used to treat a specific medical condition. Here the fluoride is being used as a medication to treat / dose, people, not to purify the water, in this case targeting their teeth. Medical ethics demand that such substances be given to people with the right of refusal (i.e. informed consent), and if consent is obtained the medication is provided with individual dose and other specific recommendations to control its use. This does not occur with water fluoridation, which is an unregulated dose. It is a totally irresponsible, unethical dogma, clumsy and unscientific and a dangerous precedent in medicine, it is based on ignorance and or deceit and is in contempt of social justice…

Member States of UNESCO, this includes Australia, are required to recognize the absolute prohibition of non-consensual medication, and to implement it into national law…

FLUORIDE OVERLOAD

Fluoride proponents, talk as if water is the sole source of this element, or that it is in short supply, but many Queenslanders are already at risk of absorbing too much fluoride from other sources. Fluoride use and emissions have become increasingly common in industry since the end of World War II. Apart from superphosphate factories, pollution from aluminium smelters, the nuclear industry – uranium hexafluoride, oil refineries, car exhausts, glass manufacture, burning of coal, pottery firing and steel production are major sources. Others are processed foods, some countries use fluoridated salt in their foodstuffs, soft drinks and fruit juices, canned foods, teas, pesticides, rodenticides, wood preservative some pharmaceutical drugs, fluoridated toothpastes and dental rinses. Fluoride pollution is widespread but is being ignored by the Queensland Government. Fluorides are tasteless and colorless, and as air pollutants they are invisible.

 

CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLUORIDES

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— AIR POLLUTION —

Three of the six major air pollutants,

also Greenhouse Gases, are Fluorides:

Perfluorocarbons  — (PFCs)

Hydrofluorcarbons — (HFCs)

Sulphur Hexafluoride  — (SF6)

Sulphur Hexafluoride Has An Atmospheric

Residence Time Ranging From

500 To Several Thousand Years !

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 

SF₆ is the most potent greenhouse gas that it has evaluated, with

a global warming potential of 22,800 

[7] times that of CO₂ when compared over a

100-year period. Measurements of SF₆

show that its global average mixing ratio has increased

by about 0.2 ppt per year to over 7 ppt. 

[8] Sulfur hexafluoride is also

extremely long-lived, it is inert in the troposphere

and stratosphere and has an estimated atmospheric lifetime

of 800–3200 years. 

[9] SF₆ is very stable

(for countries reporting their emissions to the UNFCCC, a

GWP of 23,900 for SF₆ was suggested at the third

Conference of the Parties:

GWP used in Kyoto protocol).[10]

So what is the big deal about

carbon dioxide and global warming???

( The current  Volcanic activity will cool down the Earth’s climate ! )

❝ OPTIMAL DOSE ❞ ?

Adding fluorides to our drinking water at what is claimed to be the “optimal dose” will affect us all, including you the reader, to suffer fluoride at various levels. Fluoride promoters confuse the issue by setting a desired concentration 1 ppm of fluoride in the drinking water, — but this is a rate, not a dose. 

The dose is governed by the amount of treated water consumed by each individual. Population sub-groups like outdoor workers, diabetics, aboriginals, thyroid or kidney-impaired people and babies are the most vulnerable.

For Queensland Health to talk of an “optimal dose” for fluoride in water is transparent humbug and spin because the dose of fluoride is uncontrolled, unmonitored and little understood in many respects. The “dose” one acquires from fluoridated water depends upon how much water each person drinks, which is a great variable, this cannot easily be measured and in practice is ignored, it is dependent on climate, weather, latitude and in Queensland longitude.

Epidemiological studies performed in Kenya and Tanzania have indicated that higher prevalence and severity of fluorosis may also be related to altitude…

If you believe you are at risk for any reason,

have your blood fluoride levels measured.

❝ …DENTAL FLUOROSIS THE MOST COMMON

DENTAL DISEASE IN AUSTRALIA …❞ 

DENTAL FLUOROSIS

It is a pathological condition. It affects humans and animals. First recorded on teeth of Mexicans in 1888. Dental fluorosis also indicates the deposition of fluoride in the bones – skeletal fluorosis, causing brittleness in later life, – especially hip fractures in humans. It can occur after teeth formation but will not be recorded on the teeth after they are formed.

Dental fluorosis is not reversible and in more severe cases,

causes disfigurement, pitting, staining, positional defects,

(malocclusion) brittleness, and facilitates decay.

In these cases fluoride causes the exact problem

it is supposed to prevent.

See our category on this web site ↓

→FLUOROSIS AND THE WAYS TO CONTAIN IT←

The eruption of teeth, animal and human, is delayed in the

presents of fluorides. This delay accounts for the

original statistical error – inferring

that fluoride reduces decay in children’s teeth.

– It simply skews the data…

— THE ADA IS A PROFESSION IN DENIAL —

See our category on this web site ↓

→ DENTISTS & FLUORIDE ←

FLUORIDES – DO KILL

Fluorides are used to kill rodents, insects , wild dogs, termites and fleas. Chronic poisoning, from most toxic agents is rarely diagnosed by physicians in the initial stages. Most systemic poisons induce vague, subtle symptoms before the appearance of features characteristic of a particular kind of poisoning. For instance, the radial nerve paralysis or the lead line on the gums which are typical of lead poisoning are preceded by numerous vague symptoms such as lack of appetite, general fatigue, gastric pains, and bowel disorders. Similarly, the bone changes characteristic of chronic cadmium poisoning become apparent only after a prolonged, slowly progressive illness with changes in kidney function, George L. Waldbott MD.

Chronic exposure to low doses of fluoride cause progressive health problems, larger doses derived from accidents, (terrorists!), or incompetence at treatment works can cause acute toxicity resulting in illness, disability or death. Such incidents are known but are under-reported, or played down, since authorities have a vested interest in suppressing the information, but there have been many over the years. For example, in Hooper Bay, Alaska, 260 people were poisoned and one man died after drinking water contaminated with 150 ppm of fluoride. The accident was attributed to poor equipment and an unqualified operator. Was this a fluke? No not at all. The US Centre for Disease Control has recorded a number of such incidents where human error or equipment failure resulted in a toxic dose of fluoride.

http://robertmijas.com/blog/breaking-fluoride-linked-to-1-cause-of-death-in-new-research/

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DISTRIBUTION PROBLEMS – Corrosion

City Mains, Government              Domestic Plumbing              Industrial (back flow valves)

SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION 

Distributing Fluoride Evenly Via Kilometers

Of The Intricate System Of Trunk Mains,

Water Pipes, And Control Valves

Is A Hydraulic Nightmare.

Readings taken at various locations in the system will vary.

Dead-ends will often read high. Because fluorides are corrosive,

fibro mains will release asbestos, concrete lined pipes will absorb some fluoride, erode, and reset the concrete down-line during low use times (slow flow), forming partial blockages at bends and junctions. Corrosion in domestic pipes, water meters, hot water systems, washing machines, fire mains, valves and back-flow prevention equipment, will be accelerated.

The concentration of fluorides in cooling towers (air conditioning.) will increase due to evaporation, increasing corrosion rates with more risks of legionnaire’s disease. Accelerated corrosion/rust can also result in staining of laundry. Fluoride will leach various heavy metals into the water, from lead solder joints, copper, brass and plastic fittings. The risk of leaks, spills, burst water mains, and-over feeds, and subsequent political cover-ups, is historic and to be expected as occurred in Brisbane, May 2009.

- San Francisco – on 29 November 1960 a 200-foot portion of a 50-foot wide street collapsed after an almost-new water main burst. After an analysis of the pipe by Griffin-Hasson laboratories in Los Angeles, it was discovered that fluoridation chemicals had corroded the pipe, which showed a fluoride concentration of 22,000 ppm on the pipe.

The Queensland Health Department funded The Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch, $220,000 as a contribution to its pro-fluoridation campaign. The request for this funding was directed to the Hon. Stephen Robertson MP. The Minister for Health at the time [Feb. 2006]

HOW MUNICIPAL COUNCILS CAN ESCAPE

THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT’S

FLUORIDATION LAWS:

Council’s specifications for fluoridation plant design, construction, and operation needs to include financial penalties to ensure, and reveal to all concerned the serious implications of the process:

1)

PENALTIES FOR

• 1.  supplying products below standard

• 2.  over or under feeds

• 3.  contamination of the fluoride product

• 4.  damage to supply mains and plant etc.

2)

When calling for tenders, or re-tendering,

Councils could insist on a permanent bond of one + million dollars to cover the above and council’s public liabilities etc.

3)

This would discourage and or control any construction contractor, fluoride plant operator, or supplier of the fluoridation chemicals.

(In the light of overseas accidents and Brisbane, May 2009 these requirements are reasonable.)

4)

ESD Principals

Under ESD Principals National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development, Councils could apply the ‘Precautionary Principal’ and reject the construction maintenance or operation of fluoridation plants…

5)

COUNCIL RATE NOTICES AND OR WATER BILLS, SHOULD WARN CONSUMERS ESPECIALLY MOTHERS OF THE HAZARDS OF FLUORIDE TO BABIES

 

Oshlack Vs Rous Water, NSW

❝Although this judicial review is taking place in far-away Australia, its implications are already travelling around the world. The decision of Justice Biscoe in Sydney in June will affect the future welfare of millions who are presently forced to consume this unwanted and dangerous product at the whim of a tiny but vociferous band of fluoride fanatics. 

It seems probable that the Court will indeed decide that the evidence that allowing fluoridated water to discharge to “the environment” is in breach of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act’s prohibition, since it can be reliably demonstrated that this results in significant adverse effects on the environment and/or human communities.  If this is the case, then the evidence of the dangers of the practice must be respected by Health Departments and Administrations around the world.❞

( No judgment yet – 22 Jan.  2012)

 

The Lord Mayor’s Taskforce 

The Lord Mayor’s Taskforce on Fluoridation was established in January 1997 in response to debate in the media and the political arena about whether Brisbane’s water supply should be fluoridated:

❝…The majority of Taskforce members would not support the introduction of water fluoridation to Brisbane until the recommended Australian research has been carried out. However, if the required data gathering and research were carried out, the Taskforce could be reconvened to consider any new evidence. ❞

 COUNCIL RATE NOTICES AND OR WATER BILLS,

SHOULD WARN CONSUMERS

ESPECIALLY MOTHERS OF THE HAZARDS

OF FLUORIDE TO BABIES:

❝ Please do not let me down ❞

Since 2006 the American Dental Association, dental researchers,

and medical organizations throughout North America have

recommended that infants NOT consume fluoridated water in an

effort to reduce the risk of fluorosis.  While dentists have been

warned by the ADA, little has been done to warn the general

public or government officials.

We believe that if the state or council adds fluoride to the water,

it has the responsibility to at least disclose it to customers, and

act to protect the most vulnerable population–our children–by

warning parents about the risk of fluorosis.

See our category on this web site ↓

Babies & Fluoride

“FLUORIDE, BY ITSELF, IS A GREATER THREAT TO DRINKING WATER

SAFETY THAN ALL OTHER CONTAMINANTS COMBINED”

FLUORIDE FACILITATES THE UPTAKE OF ALUMINUM BY THE BRAIN

Aluminum salts (especially aluminum sulphate), are added to help clarify

the raw water at many municipal water treatment plants.

Several studies (1990’s) showed that aluminum uptake by brains of experimental animals doubled in the presence of fluoride. Rats fed the highest doses developed behavior similar to that of senile animals and their brains at post-mortem showed cell loss and other damage characteristic of dementia (Alzheimer’s disease). Since approximately half our population over 70 will eventually develop Alzheimer’s, based on US figures, this link needs to be explored in Australia. (The world will spend roughly $604 billion in 2010 to treat dementia.)

Firstly, because a large proportion of our population has been forced to drink fluoridated water for a long period.

EXPOSURE TO FLUORIDE REDUCES IQ

( Sorry ex-Premier Peter Beattie – This Is The End Of  ‘The Smart State’ ! )

There are now over 20 published studies, including 7 in the last 5 years, reporting an association between high fluoride exposure and reduced IQ. (intelligence capacity), [M. Connett & H. Limeback. 2008. Int Assn Dent Res 83rd Gen Session & Exhibn].

…Overall, the behavioral changes from fluoride exposure are consistent with interrupted hippocampal development… This is the first laboratory study to demonstrate that central nervous system functional output is vulnerable to fluoride, and that the effects on behavior depend on age at exposure and that fluoride accumulates in brain tissues…

Some of these studies were overlooked previously as they are in Chinese science journals, but they are of great concern to us because even in the absence of fluoridated water, our citizens, especially children, can absorb excess fluoride from their diet, toothpaste and environmental pollution. Babies are most at risk from early exposure to fluoride as their brains are still developing and therefore susceptible to interference from toxic chemicals, (fluoride crosses the blood brain barrier and reaches the pineal gland), exposure prenatal resulting in hyper activity and postnatal hypo activity. The US Centre for Disease Control now advises artificially fluoridated water should not be used for infants under one year old. Babies can drink up to four times that of an adult in ratio to their body weight.

Breast milk – even when the feeding mother is on a high fluoride diet, low fluoride breast milk prevails – nature knows best!

Food processing often concentrates fluoride, and foods processed with fluoridated water typically have higher fluoride concentrations than foods processed with non-fluoridated water… A study that found marked differences between cereals processed in fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas showed that cereals processed in a fluoridated area had fluoride concentrations ranging from 3.8 ppm to 6.3 ppm…” – Warren JJ, Levy SM. (2003). Current and future role of fluoride in nutrition – Dental Clinics of North America 47: 225-43.

Chinese studies have shown that fluoride lowers IQ levels in children; that fluoride may affect the intelligence of a person as early as “embryonic life or infancy, when the growth of the nervous system is most rapid.” Since fluoride levels in the body are cumulative, and fluoride intake lowers intelligence, the end result is a population with little ability to evolve.”

We cannot afford to have current and future generations “dumbed down” by a process, which is avoidable. Google searches will access many of these research papers and the science behind them.

See also our category → Water Treatment With Silicofluorides And Lead Toxicity

AUSTRALIA

– THE MOST FLUORIDATED COUNTRY –

Mainland European countries have abandoned, rejected, or banned fluoridation due to environmental, health, legal, ethical concerns or that it is unsafe and/or ineffective. Most countries have never taken it up. In 1971, after 11 years of testing, Sweden’s Nobel Medical Institute recommended against fluoridation and the process was banned. The Netherlands outlawed the practice in 1976, after 23 years of tests. France decided against it after consulting its Pasteur Institute, and West Germany, now Germany, rejected the practice because the recommended concentration in water of 1 ppm was “too close to that at which long-term damage to the human body is to be expected”. In other words, there is no margin of safety, as is understood by informed members of the medical profession, in the practice of fluoridation but this precaution is lost on many dentists and others actively involved in promoting water fluoridation. After 41 years, Basel the only city in Switzerland to fluoridate its water ceased. In Europe more than 53 million people who had water fluoridation for many years are now free from it.

There is no artificial fluoridation in India, (According to a UNICEF study, across the developing world fluorosis is endemic in at least 25 countries, with perhaps hundreds of millions of people affected. As long ago as 1993, according to one study, 20 of India’s 32 states were identified as facing problems. Fluorosis was recorded in Andhra Pradesh as early as the 1930s.)

Japan, China, Russia, Mainland Europe or Sri Lanka. There are now only 6 countries where the majority of people are forced to drink fluoridated water: USA, Australia, NZ, Ireland, Columbia and Singapore. See our category on this web site ↓

200 million people in China suffer from fluorosis from “natural” fluoride

in the water and more recently, coal burning.

.

NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL’S

FLUORIDE FATWAH ON THE AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC

NEEDS TO BE RESCINDED

Parroting previous promoters and endorsements is no longer good enough. Science is now showing the failure and hazards of fluoridation and the National Health and Research Council must deal with this exposed error to regain public respect and fulfil its policy on ethics. It is now indefensible to maintain its outmoded promotion of fluoridation.

— This Outcome Is Inevitable; Only The Timing Is Unknown —

Joining_the_Dots_on_Australian_Fluoridation_Fraud 

HOW TO AVOID FLUORIDATED WATER

“IF YOU DON’T HAVE A FILTER YOU BECOME THE FILTER!”

1.  Drink Rain Water (from tanks).

This is difficult if you live in a town house,

a home unit or a rented property.

2.  Use Reverse Osmosis Filtration

This three-stage system (RO) needs regular servicing and waste 2-4 times the saved water to continually wash the filtering membranes.

(Only a 0.0001 micron membrane will remove fluoride, the 0.0002 micron membranes which are being imported from Asia will not.)

3.  Use Steam Distillation.

These systems produce clean water using electricity.

Drinking distilled water may be helpful when detoxifying for a week or two, the longer you drink it, the more likely you’ll develop mineral deficiencies and an acidic state.

4.  The ‘Dragonfly’ M18 Air to Water Machine   www.urwater.com.au

These machines “produce” very clean water by extracting it from air, using electricity. The ‘Dragonfly’ can also be used in conjunction with rainwater tanks. The tank water is triple filtered and treated with ultra violet light.

5. Buy Bottled Water.

Bottled water is responsible for over 60,000 tones of greenhouse gas emissions every year. Only 35% of plastic PET gets recycled in Australia the rest becomes landfill. Many brands of bottled water are not fluoride free even if they are labelled “Spring Water.”

There is a push to fluoridate bottled water. We can presume this will solve the problem for the bottlers who would otherwise need to install and maintain R.O. filters in their bottling factories.

6. Move To A Town With No Fluoride In The Water.

Many Australians allergic to fluoride have moved to Queensland

only to find that Queensland is now being fluoridated…

‘The Dragonfly’  -  Water From Air Machine

The cost to ordinary citizens for abandoning the public water system or purchasing expensive reverse osmosis or distillation equipment, because simple filtration will not remove fluoride, is an unfair burden placed on all segments of populations but especially the least able to afford.

TOTAL AVOIDANCE IS IMPOSIBLE:

Absorption Though Skin:

Cleaning, swimming, showering/bathing and clothes washing will

result in some assimilation through the skin.

Boiling water will not remove fluoride; indeed it will increase

the concentration.

This will occur due to evaporation e.g. electric jugs,

kettles and aquariums.

(Boiling water will remove chlorine but NOT Fluorides.)

 ❝ INFANTS SHOULD NOT HAVE FLUORIDATED WATER ❞

WARNS AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION.

Baby formula may have contained fluoride before being dried.

Adding tap water containing fluoride will increased the dose.

No infant should be exposed to fluoride, as the blood brain barrier

is not yet fully developed.

The Queensland Government has a responsibility to

warn parents.

Use non-fluoridated toothpaste. “In case of accidental ingestion, seek professional assistance, or contact a poison control center immediately,” This is the required labeling by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on all tubes of fluoride toothpaste sold in USA. <

HOW TO MINIMIZE THE DAMAGE

FROM DRINKING FLUORIDATED WATER:

Vitamin C, Calcium, Magnesium, Iodine, (Bromide used in bread making and PBDEs [flame retardants] like fluorides are toxic antagonists of Iodine and interfere with thyroid function. Fluoride was commonly used to treat HYPERthyroidism in the early and mid-1900s at doses commonly ingested by people today)

Shilajit, [minerals] Boron and Strontium, will need to part of the diet of every one who is concerned about this problem. “Boron effectively counteracts symptoms of fluoride intoxication in humans (Zhou et al. 1987) and in experimentally poisoned rabbits (Elsair et al. 1980a, 1980b, 1981). Humans suffering from skeletal fluorosis experienced 50 to 80% improvement after drinking solutions containing 300 to 1,100 mg of borax/L daily, 3 weeks a month for 3 months (Zhou et al. 1987). Boron enhances sequestration of fluoride from bone and excretion through kidneys and possibly the intestinal tract (Elair et al. 1980a, 1981).

Borax is a compound form of boron, with oxygen and sodium attached. (However excess boron can cause problems. Conditions like ADHD, dyslexia, autism, asthma, allergies, cystic fibrosis, liver and oseophageal cancer can be triggered or made worse with excess boron. Boron increases estrogen and calcium levels and lowers B6, zinc, and blood glucose. Signs of toxicity are nausea, vomiting, lethargy, dermatitis and diarrhea. The antidote is extra vitamin B2. – “Boron, Phenols and Health” 1995 by Mary Duncan.)

Tamarind (Tamarindus indicus) intake is likely to help in 

delaying progression of fluorosis by enhancing urinary excretion of fluoride.

Societies with poor diets are at greatest risk from fluoride damage, indeed nutrition explains the great variation in damage between individuals, especially variations of vitamin C status.

Experimental animals need to be guinea pigs. Guinea pigs like humans do not make vitamin C in their livers. Lab. rats and mice will increase their vitamin C production to overcome the damage from F. or many other drugs being tested on them, and therefore yield false results…

Organising daily life around any of the above is intelligent but necessitates various levels of determination, knowledge, restrictions and a financial burden. – Water from outside the home e.g. work, friends, beer, bread, canned food and drinks, restaurant cooked food and coffee shops etc., will contain fluoride. Therefore most Queenslanders will have no choice but to be exposed to the accumulating hazards of fluoridated water.

www.bibliotecapleyades.net/salud/salud_fluor23.htm.

CONSIDERATIONS LEGAL:

Dr. Jeannette Young – Chief Health Officer for Queensland   →

She is an appointee to AHMAC Clinical, Technical

and Ethical Principal Committee…

Fluoridation is incompatible with:

UNESCO – Legal Instruments –

Universal Declaration on Bioethics

and Human Rights

19 October 2005

Article 6 – Consent:

❝ 1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice. 21… ❞

If only 10% of this web site is accurate, Dr. Young  should reverse her stand on

fluoridation, exert her influence on the Queensland Government

to switch off the fluoridation plants, or resign.

NATIONAL SECURITY

Farmers in Australia for reasons of national security (terrorism) are required to keep fertilizers under lock and key.

Fluoridation plants and the stored silicofluorides need to be under greater security against terrorists, and constructed high above flood level.

Back-flow prevention equipment, (anti-siphon) costing thousands of dollars is legally required to be installed by all hazardous industries and irrigators to protect our water supply. Yet amazingly the Queensland Government spend millions of tax dollars installing machinery to deliberately inject toxic industrial waste, Silicofluorides, directly into our drinking water supply?

If a private citizen deliberately adds poisonous products to our drinking water, or an industry accidentally were to so, a jail sentence would be expected. If a politician deliberately adds poisonous products to our drinking water a jail sentence should also apply…

Local councils need to keep accurate records that they did everything in their power to protect the health of their communities under ‘duty of care’ not to poison residents… regardless of ‘orders’ from the State Government. Ignorance is no excuse in law.

THE END MAY BE INSIGHT !

— European Court of Justice —

❝ Fluoridated Water Must Be Treated As A Medicine, and cannot be used to prepare foods. ❞ That is the decision of the European Court of Justice, in a landmark case dealing with the classification and regulation of ‘functional drinks’ in member states of the European Community. (HLH Warenvertriebs and Orthica (Joined Cases C-211/03, C-299/03, C-316/03 and C-318/03) 9 June 2005).  – See Brisbane Courier Mail 28/07/2009

Implications For International Trade In Food Products—

This ruling also has an equally profound implication for export trade in processed foods and drinks. The Court stated that even if a functional food product (or a food containing it) is legally marketed as a food in one member state, it cannot be exported to any other member state unless it has a medicinal license. So any company making a consumable product using fluoridated water in its preparation or as an ingredient cannot now export that product to any other state in the EC, even if their product is permitted in their home state. 

The economic implications are enormous. Not only does the ruling ban the use of fluoridated water for all retail catering and wholesale food processing in the UK and Ireland, (Guinness!) it also prohibits such trade from these states to other member states of the EC. But it goes much further than even this, because if British and Irish processed foods from fluoridated areas cannot be exported to the EC, this prohibition must also apply to the importing of such products into EC member states from any other country that practices water fluoridation. The decision effectively bans all processed food products from countries such as the USA, Australia and New Zealand, unless these foods can be proven to have been prepared using water that was not fluoridated…

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FINAL COMMENTS:

National security has become the bringer of plagues

on the citizens and the denial of their constitution rights. - Jim Phelps  

The very agencies that are supposed to protect us have a vested in maintaining

this historic deception. Loads of money and political careers are at stake…

Citizens have an expectation that their governments will supply them

with clean drinking water.

We certainly do not expect it to be deliberately contaminated

and or medicated by them…

Legally – The people are the sovereign body in this country

not industrialists. The Queensland Government our paid employees,

need to be reminded of this.

Fluoridation is mass medication, it is against freedom of choice, is a

violation of our democratic rights, and is in breach of many

international laws including -The Nuremberg Code.

❝   It is not the function of our Government

to keep the citizen from falling into error, 


It is the function of the citizen to keep the

Government from falling into error. ❞

– Robert Houghwout Jackson,

Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

Nuremberg War Crimes Trial

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LEAD POISONING AT MOUNT ISA

AND FLUORIDATION

A new study has suggested one child develops lead poisoning

every nine days in the northwest Queensland mining

city of Mount Isa.

“…There are about 400 children born every year in Mount Isa and about 11 per cent of those children, according to the last blood lead study, have a blood lead level in excess of the current acceptable guideline value…”

The Environmental Protection Agency states on their website that exposure to lead in water that is being consumed above the action level, or 15 parts per Billion, can result in delays in physical and mental development in children, anemia, and muscle problems. In adults, it can cause increases in blood pressure and, eventually with heavy exposure, the development of kidney problems or nerve disorders.

More: http://www.naturalnews.com/033122_garden_hoses_lead.html#ixzz1TusKP1ey

Read on …  

Read the rest of this entry »

Our Letter #1 of 4 sent to Anna Bligh see: LETTERS QUEENSLAND GOV.

Copies sent to electoral office and home address

- Premier of Queensland -

14/12/2007

Dear Ms. Bligh,

Re your proposal to fluoridate Queensland’s Water Supply:

We are ‘The Smart State’ for not having artificially fluoridated water.

Queensland is at the moment in step with most of the world. See attachment ‘A’ ‘State of the Nations’ + ‘Tooth Decay Trends’

The majority of countries, either, avoided it, have banned it, or have ceased to fluoridate. In parts of India and China where it occurs naturally, it is removed from the water used for drinking.

Are you aware of the political history of fluoridation in our state?

The Gold Coast City Council stopped fluoridating its water supply in 1979 due to public pressure. See attachment ‘B’

Lord Mayor Atkinson reversed her original decision to fluoridate Brisbane. See attachment ‘C’

Dr. Lew Edwards lost his safe seat due to public pressure because of his commitment to fluoridate the State of Queensland.

In 1952 The Queensland Government funded research into the health of Qld. sheep drinking naturally fluoridated bore water. See attachment ‘D’ ‘Chronic Endemic Fluorosis of Merino Sheep in Queensland by J.M. Harvey’

Does your government know what the levels of hydrogen fluoride from pollution are in the air we breathe?

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Does the Queensland Government monitor fluoride air pollution?

Do you know which industries pollute with fluoride?

Do you know how much natural fluoride is in our drinking water at the moment?

Are you aware that natural fluoride CaF2 is different from the chemicals used to artificially fluoridate water? See attachments ‘E’ and ‘F’

What are your proposals for recycled water? Are you going to

re-fluoridate it?

If you put recycled water through Reverse Osmosis equipment, which removes fluoride, what are you going to do with the redeemed toxic fluoride sludge?

If you store fluoridated water in the dams you risk fish kills. Fresh water fish, bees, turkeys, some plants and animals are very sensitive to fluoride pollution.

One part per million, is not a medical dose; it is a guide to industrial polluters.

Dentists have been lobbied with endorsements, not scientific research. Long-term health problems have been ignored.

See attachments ‘G, H, I,’ and ‘J’.

Fluoridation is deliberate pollution. See attachment ‘K’

What safe guards are you going to put into place to protect people who are super sensitive to fluorides?

See attachment ‘L’ Death Certificate Brisbane Mater Hospital for Jason Burton – death by Fluoride poisoning + statement by mother and newspaper cutting.

You have a duty of care, a responsibility to every person in the state.

See attachment ‘M’ Informed Consent – Nuremberg Code

On the matter of water fluoridation we are directing you to do nothing. The people of Queensland want clean water not contaminated water.

Keep Queensland ‘The Smart State’ by not having artificially fluoridated water.

We look forward to hearing from you very soon.

Yours truly,

Chairman Brisbane Anti-Fluoridation Association

— POSITION STATEMENTS —

— QUEENSLAND ELECTION 2012 — 

We Are Not Funded Or Sponsored By Any Government Agency, Political Party,

Religious Organization, University, Public Or Private Company.

— CLEAN WATER = CLEAN POLITICS ! —

MEDIA RELEASE January 2012 -

With kind permission from:

‘Queenslanders Against Water Fluoridation’

RESPONSE TO PREMIER BLIGH’S

FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT WATER FLUORIDATION:

Opposition to water fluoridation dominated the

Queensland Agenda ‘OURSAY’ Forum in late 2011. *

Premier Anna Bligh responded to the three most popular Forum issues, as per the agreement with  the ‘OURSAY’ organisers.

The question calling for a Fluoride Referendum received the most votes, and the most support in the Queensland Forum.

In Premier Bligh’s Fluoride response, she entirely ignored the issue of having a Fluoride Referendum, and she made claims that were false and misleading.

Queenslanders For Safe Water, Air and Food Inc have now responded via video, to Premier Bligh’s misleading claims of safety.

We have also responded to Premier Bligh’s false claim that the American Dental Association has never advised that fluoridated water is a risk for infants.

Our rebuttal of Premier Bligh’s misleading statements can be viewed at the following link: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SB1_0_L3Q

It can be seen that false and misleading information was used as the basis of Premier Bligh’s mandatory legislation.  Further references are available upon request.**

We call upon Premier Bligh to rescind the unethical and harmful legislation that forced fluoridation on 4 million Queenslanders, despite widespread opposition.

NO politician has the right to forcibly medicate a whole population or a single person.

Without informed consent, a politician is doing to everyone what a single doctor can do to no-one.

Citizens across Australia are being misled by fluoridation promoters and enforcers.***

Media Release authorised by  Queenslanders For Safe Water, Air  & Food Inc    www.qawf.org

* http://oursay.org/the-queensland-agenda

** Contact info@qawf.org   mob 0418 777 112

*** http://www.fluoridealert.org/Alert/Australia/OPINION-Citizens-are-being-misled.aspx

Forced Fluoridation – Anna Bligh’s unethical harmful legacy

— DENTISTS AND FLUORIDATION —

CaF2, Calcium Fluoride

See also our category↓

BABIES & FLUORIDE

Dentists reading this web site need to be aware that

the Australian Dental Association, and

the American Dental Association, will

not be very tolerant of any anti-fluoridation

stance by dentists, we therefore recommend

that you DO NOT openly attack them

 until just before you retire. 

www.fluoridealert.org/silence-barrier

However, should you wish to add your weight to the

movement please consider adding your name to the list

(web site below):

and join over 3,000 professionals who are calling for an

end to fluoridation of drinking water.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/professionals.statement

also

http://australianfluorideaction.com/

❝ Please Note:

The American Dental Association’s Deception ↓ ↓ ↓

The American Dental Association has bought the domain name “www.fluoridealert.COM” and “www.fluoridealert.NET” to bamboozle web surfers away from fluoridation opponents’ website, http://www.fluoridealert.ORG , the website of the Fluoride Action Network, an international coalition of organizations opposed to fluoridation.

Instead, with a slip of a “dot com,” unsuspecting web surfers are tricked to the American Dental Association’s deceptive fluoridation information…

Scientists and professionals have been

persecuted, censored, or harassed

when they oppose water fluoridation.

Ye shall know them by their fruits   –   Matthew 7:15-20

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RUDOLF ZIEGELBECKER – Graz Austria:

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/421/files/FJ2009_v42_n1_p2.pdf

http://naturalnews.tv/v.aspv=42652E035A1B1BAAAE1F340B54694975

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❝ … So while fluoridation is neither effective nor safe, it continues to provide a  convenient cover for many of the [vested] interests who stand to profit from the public being misinformed about fluoride.

Unfortunately, because [some] government officials have put so much of their credibility on the line defending fluoridation, it will be very difficult for them to speak honestly and openly about the issue. As with the case of mercury amalgams, it is difficult for institutions such as the American Dental Association to concede health risks because of the liabilities waiting in the wings if they were to do so … ❞

— Fluoride The Consecrated Poison —

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“…Editor–Jones et al claim that water fluoridation produces a 44% reduction in tooth decay in 5 year old children.¹ They fail to appreciate that fluoride causes a delay in tooth eruption of roughly a year.² This invalidates their data as they are not comparing like with like. Children aged 5 living in fluoridated areas should be compared with children aged 4 living in non-fluoridated areas. When this is done there is NO benefit from water fluoridation…”

Excerpts from:

Roholm K. (1937). Fluoride intoxication: a clinical-hygienic study with a review of the literature and some experimental investigations. London: H.K. Lewis Ltd.

“The teeth may be delayed in eruption and have abnormalities in size, shape and position, and resistance of such teeth is low.” p. 272

“The pathological enamel is brittle and readily chips off. The incisors wear down abnormally, which sometimes leads to defective occlusion and, as a secondary phenomenon, abnormal growth of opposing teeth. The incisors often exhibit lateral deviations; growth is retarded.” p. 272

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Extract from Australian Dental Association’s web site disclaimer:

❝ … The ADA Inc. shall not be responsible for information provided herein under any theory of liability or indemnity. Liability of ADA Inc., if any, for damages (including, without limitation, liability arising out of contract, negligence, strict liability, tort or patent or copyright infringement) shall not exceed the fees paid by the user for the particular information or service provided… ❞

(The Queensland Health Department, funded The Australian Dental Association Queensland Branch, $220,000 as a CONtribution to its pro-fluoridation campaign. The request for this funding was directed to the Hon. Stephen Robertson MP. The Minister for Health at the time [Feb. 2006])…

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AUSTRALIA:  Our government, is now in last place on the mercury treaty, asking the world to throw in the towel instead of working to phase out dental mercury.  A great new group has started, Australians for Mercury-Free Dentistry, led by dentist Lisa Matriste and consumer activist Anna Priest.  We urge you to go to its website and join:

http://www.mercuryfreedentistry.com.au/

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THE TWIN TOXIC DANGERS OF

MERCURY AND FLUORIDE

❝ … I have always liked all my dentists, trusting their competence more than doctors, but when I began to understand the twin dangers of fluoride and dental mercury amalgam I began to see that the entire profession has been duped, and that goes for most graduates of medical school. We first-world people like to think that our universities and medical schools are centers of higher learning and intelligence, but the fact is that they are intense conditioning machines that forcefully mind shape the brains of their vulnerable students who start out with good intentions… ❞

The University is not engaged in making ideas

safe for students.

It is engaged in making students safe for ideas.

— Clark Kerr —

www.slweb.org/bibliography.html

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Comment [extract] by  Dr Jason M Armfield:

Australian Research Centre

for Population Oral Health,

School of  Dentistry,

University of  Adelaide,

South Australia.

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❝… Statements regarding the scientific controversy surrounding water  fluoridation are generally regarded as artefacts of antifluoridationist activity, with actual scientific debate over water fluoridation being resolved decades ago. Almost all major dental and health organisations either support water fluoridation or have found no association between it and adverse health effects [20]. Nonetheless, propagating the idea of an ongoing scientific debate gives the illusion of scientific uncertainty and is a favoured tactic of water fluoridation opponents. In 1978, Consumer Reports published a two-part series on fluoridation that concluded:

The simple truth is that there’s no “scientific controversy” over the safety of fluoridation. The practice is safe, economical, and beneficial. The survival of this fake controversy represents, in Consumers Union’s opinion, one of the major triumphs of quackery over science in our generation.” [21]

And yet, more than a quarter of a century after these words were printed the manufactured ‘controversy’ shows no signs of diminishing …❞

Joining_the_Dots_on_Australian_Fluoridation_Fraud

So Dr. Armfield, who is not doing 

their home work ?

 

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See also →  Fluoride  ←  Credit Dr. Mercola

 

See: www.sustainabilitycentre.com.au/FluoridePublics.html   by Mark Diesendorf  → 

        See also: www.fluoridealert.org/silence-barrier.htm  by Mark Diesendorf  →

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H O W E V E R !

DATA FROM WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

The apparatus
 that has been erected

to lie and obfuscate this issue cannot

tolerate a single chink in its armour of deceit.

No compromise, no partial admission is possible without

the integrity of the whole edifice of deception being threatened.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something

when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”

Upton Sinclair

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H O W E V E R !

USA To Lower Fluoride Levels —

ATLANTA  7 January  2011 (extracts from reports)

In a remarkable turnabout, federal health officials say many Americans are getting too much fluoride, and it’s causing splotches on children’s teeth and perhaps other, more serious problems.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans Friday (7 Jan) to lower the recommended level of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in nearly 50 years, based on a fresh review of the science.

The announcement is likely to renew the battle over fluoridation, even though the addition of fluoride to drinking water is considered one of the greatest public health successes of the 20th century.

One reason behind the change: About 2 out of 5 adolescents have tooth streaking or spottiness because of too much fluoride, a government study found recently. In extreme cases, teeth can be pitted by the mineral — though many cases are so mild only dentists notice it. The problem is generally considered cosmetic and not a reason for serious concern.

  The splotchy tooth condition, fluorosis,     is unexpectedly common in youngsters      ages 12 through 15 and appears to have    grown more common since the 1980s,  according to the Centers for Disease  Control and Prevention.

 But there are also growing worries about  more serious dangers from fluoride.

The Environmental Protection Agency released two new reviews of research on fluoride Friday. One of the studies found that prolonged, high intake of fluoride can increase the risk of brittle bones, fractures and crippling bone abnormalities.

Critics of fluoridated water seized on the proposed change Friday to renew their attacks on it — a battle that dates back to at least the Cold War 1950s, when it was denounced by some as a step toward Communism. Many activists nowadays don’t think fluoride is essential, and they praised the government’s new steps.

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Extract from:

FLUORIDE IN DRINKING WATER

A SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF EPA’S STANDARDS

Committee on Fluoride in Drinking Water

Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology

Division on Earth and Life Studies

Credit to:

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS

Washington, D.C.

 Available Online →  HERE  ←

ENAMEL FLUOROSIS

❝  Fluoride has a great affinity for the developing enamel because tooth apatite crystals have the capacity to bind and integrate fluoride ion into the crystal lattice (Robinson et al. 1996). Excessive intake of fluoride during enamel development can lead to enamel fluorosis, a condition of the dental hard tissues in which the enamel covering of the teeth fails to crystallize properly, leading to defects that range from barely discernable markings to brown stains and surface pitting. This section provides an overview of the clinical and histopathological manifestations of enamel fluorosis, diagnostic issues, indexes used to characterize the condition, and possible mechanisms. Clinical and Histological Features

Enamel fluorosis is a mottling of the tooth surface that is attributed to fluoride exposure during tooth formation. The process of enamel maturation consists of an increase in mineralization within the developing tooth and concurrent loss of early-secreted matrix proteins. Exposure to fluoride during maturation causes a dose-related disruption of enamel mineralization resulting in widening gaps in its crystalline structure, excessive retention of enamel proteins, and increased porosity. These effects are thought to be due to fluoride’s effect on the breakdown rates of matrix proteins and on the rate at which the by-products from that degradation are withdrawn from the maturing enamel (Aoba and Fejerskov 2002).

Clinically, mild forms of enamel fluorosis are evidenced by white horizontal striations on the tooth surface or opaque patches, usually located on the incisal edges of anterior teeth or cusp tips of posterior teeth. Opaque areas are visible in tangential reflected light but not in normal light. These lesions appear histopathologically as hypomineralization of the subsurface covered by a well-mineralized outer enamel surface (Thylstrup and Fejerskov 1978). In mild fluorosis, the enamel is usually smooth to the point of an explorer, but not in moderate and severe cases of the condition (Newbrun 1986). In moderate to severe forms of fluorosis, porosity increases and lesions extend toward the inner enamel. After the tooth erupts, its porous areas may flake off, leaving enamel defects where debris and bacteria can be trapped. The opaque areas can become stained yellow to brown, with more severe structural damage possible, primarily in the form of pitting of the tooth surface.

Enamel in the transitional or early maturation stage of development is the most susceptible to fluorosis (DenBesten and Thariani 1992). For most children, the first 6 to 8 years of life appear to be the critical period of risk. In the Ikeno district of Japan, where a water supply containing fluoride at 7.8 mg/L was inadvertently used for 12 years, no enamel fluorosis was seen in any child who was age 7 years or older at the start of this period or younger than 11 months old at the end of it (Ishii and Suckling 1991). For anterior teeth, which are of the most aesthetic concern, the risk period appears to be the first 3 years of life (Evans and Stamm 1991; Ishii and Suckling 1991; Levy et al. 2002a). Although it is possible for enamel fluorosis to occur when teeth are exposed during enamel maturation alone, it is unclear whether it will occur if fluoride exposure takes place only at the stage of enamel-matrix secretion. Fejerskov et al. (1994) noted that fluoride uptake into mature enamel is possible only as a result of concomitant enamel dissolution, such as caries development. Because the severity of fluorosis is related to the duration, timing, and dose of fluoride intake, cumulative exposure during the entire maturation stage, not merely during critical periods of certain types of tooth development, is probably the most important exposure measure to consider when assessing the risk of fluorosis (DenBesten 1999).

Mechanisms

Dental enamel is formed by matrix-mediated biomineralization. Crystallites of hydroxyapatite (Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆(OH)₂) form a complex protein matrix that serves as a nucleation site (Newbrun 1986). The matrix consists primarily of amelogenin, proteins synthesized by secretory ameloblasts that have a functional role in establishing and maintaining the spacing between enamel crystallites. Full mineralization of enamel occurs when amelogenin fragments are removed from the extracellular space. The improper mineralization that occurs with enamel fluorosis is thought to be due to inhibition of the matrix proteinases responsible for removing amelogenin fragments. The delay in removal impairs crystal growth and makes the enamel more porous (Bronckers et al. 2002). DenBesten et al. (2002) showed that rats exposed to fluoride in drinking water at 50 or 100 mg/L had lower total proteinase activity per unit of protein than control rats. Fluoride apparently interferes with protease activities by decreasing free Ca²⁺ concentrations in the mineralizing milieu (Aoba and Fejerskov 2002).

Matsuo et al. (1998) investigated the mechanism of enamel fluorosis in rats administered sodium fluoride (NaF) at 20 mg/kg by subcutaneous injections for 4 days or at 240 mg/L in drinking water for 4 weeks. They found that fluoride alters intracellular transport in the secretory ameloblasts and suggested that G proteins play a role in the transport disturbance. They found different immunoblotting-and-pertussis-toxin-sensitive G proteins on the rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi membranes of the germ cells of rats’ incisor teeth.

Health Issues and Clinical Treatment

Whether to consider enamel fluorosis, particularly the moderate to severe forms, an adverse cosmetic effect or an adverse health effect has been the subject of debate for decades. Some early literature suggests that the clinical course of caries could be compromised by untreated severe enamel fluorosis. Smith and Smith (1940, pp.1050-1051) observed,

“There is ample evidence that mottled teeth,

though they be somewhat more resistant to

the onset of decay, are structurally weak,

and that unfortunately when decay does set in,

the result is often disastrous.

Caries once started evidently spreads rapidly. Steps taken to repair the cavities in many cases were unsuccessful, the tooth breaking away when attempts were made to anchor the fillings, so that extraction was the only course.” Gruebbel (1952, p.153) expressed a similar viewpoint: “Severe mottling is as destructive to teeth as is dental caries. Therefore, when the concentration is excessive, defluorination or a new water supply should be recommended. The need for removing excessive amounts of fluorides calls attention to the peculiar situation in public health practice in which a chemical substance is added to water in some localities to prevent a disease and the same chemical substance is removed in other localities to prevent another disease.” Dean advised that when the average child in a community has mild fluorosis (0.6 on his scale, described in the next section), “… it begins to constitute a public health problem warranting increasing consideration” (Dean 1942, p. 29).

There appears to be general acceptance in today’s dental literature that enamel fluorosis is a toxic effect of fluoride intake that, in its severest forms, can produce adverse effects on dental health, such as tooth function and caries experience. For example:

• “The most severe forms of fluorosis manifest as heavily stained, pitted, and friable enamel that can result in loss of dental function” (Burt and Eklund 1999).

• “In more severely fluorosed teeth, the enamel is pitted and discolored and is prone to fracture and wear” 

  (ATSDR 2003, p. 19).

• “The degree of porosity (hypermineralization) of such teeth results in a diminished physical strength of the enamel, and parts of the superficial enamel may break away … In the most severe forms of dental fluorosis, the extent and degree of porosity within the enamel are so severe that most of the outermost enamel will be chipped off immediately following eruption” (Fejerskov et al. 1990, p. 694).

• “With increasing severity, the subsurface enamel all along the tooth becomes increasingly porous … the more severe forms are subject to extensive mechanical breakdown of the surface” (Aoba and Fejerskov 2002, p. 159).

• “With more severe forms of fluorosis, caries risk increases because of pitting and loss of the outer enamel” (Levy 2003, p. 286).

• “ … the most severe forms of dental fluorosis might be more than a cosmetic defect if enough fluorotic enamel is fractured and lost to cause pain, adversely affect food choices, compromise chewing efficiency, and require complex dental treatment” (NRC 1993, p. 48).

Severe enamel fluorosis is treated to prevent further enamel loss and to address the cosmetic appearance of teeth. Treatments include bleaching, microabrasion, and the application of veneers or crowns. Bleaching and microabrasion are typically used with the mild to moderate forms of enamel fluorosis. Bleaching is the least invasive procedure, but does not eliminate the dark stains associated with severe enamel fluorosis. Microabrasion involves the controlled abrasion of enamel to remove superficial stains… ❞

OUR NOTE: The full text is available on line, → HERE ←

however it does not address the matter of the nutrition,

and the variations in results e.g. vitamin C, magnesium, intake etc.

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INTRIGUE, CONSPIRACY AND CORRUPTION

Following is what Sonja Hardy wrote about the book.

‘The Fluoride Deception’ by Christopher Bryson, quote:

Do you enjoy tales of intrigue, conspiracy and corruption? Then The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson won’t disappoint. It’s a very well written, meticulously researched expose´ of the history of fluoridation, which Dr Robert Carton (formerly of the US Environmental Protection Agency) has described as “the greatest case of scientific fraud of this (20th) century, if not of all time”. It’s a history of “greed, collusion, personal aggrandizement, corporate and government cover-up,” littered with human tragedy and the tattered careers of scientists who dared to try to expose the truth.

‘Esteemed Voices’ have,  for 50 years, warned the American public that water fluoridation has dangerous long-term consequences to health:

“I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle

for drugs.

Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious

effects on a long range basis.

Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable.”

Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd,

Past President of the American Medical Association.

See also → THE TOWNSVILLE REPORT

“Fluoridation …

It is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated

and it has been perpetrated on more people

than any other fraud has. “

❝ Contrary to what is widely assumed, the toxicity of

fluoride is not always related to concentration.

Under certain conditions fluoride toxicity actually

increases as the concentration decreases.

This is what is known as a paradoxical effect. ❞

Albert Schatz, Ph.D., M.C.R.S., Professor at the Univ.

of Chile and co-discoverer of streptomycin.  

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❝ Fluoridation is the greatest

case of scientific fraud of this

century, if not of all time. ❞

— Robert Carton , PhD, —

Scientist, formerly of the

US Environmental Protection Agency.

 

❝ The Public Health Service, unfortunately,

has locked itself into a position where it

has made this statement on the record that

there is absolutely no hazard to fluoridating

public water supplies and the matter is

closed. Now, that, of course, is immediately

an unscientific approach. ❞

- Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate, 1971.

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GROWING NEW TEETH – Item 1 of 3

(Natural News)

A new hormone gel that may stimulate teeth to grow back the tissue destroyed by tooth decay, according to a study conducted by researchers from the National Institute for Health and Medical Research in Paris and published in the American Chemical Society’s journal ACS Nano.

The gel is composed of a mix of melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) and the drug-transporting chemical poly-L-glutamic acid. MSH causes the body to produce more melanin, responsible for skin color. Recent research has suggested that it can also stimulate bone regrowth.

In studies conducted on human dental cells, the MSH gel led to the growth of new dental cells and their adhesion to existing cells. When the gel was applied to the decaying teeth of live mice, the cavities completely disappeared within one month.

It will take at least three to five years to develop the gel into a medical product. If all goes well, the gel may render dental drills obsolete. The researchers believe that because the gel stimulates the regrowth of the body’s own cells, the rebuilt teeth would be just as strong as the old ones — in contrast with artificial fillings, which can fall out or wear down. The gel would also be painless to apply and would not require anesthesia.

Of course, it is still best to avoid fillings in the first place by means of good dental hygiene. A good diet can go even farther, notes Michael Pollan in his book In Defence of Food.

“In the 1930s an argument raged in medical circles as to whether hygiene or nutrition was the key to understanding and treating tooth decay,” Pollan writes.

“That hygiene ultimately won the day had as much to do with the needs of the dental profession as it did with good science; the problem of personal hygiene was easier, and far more profitable, to address than that of the diet and entire food system.”

Sources for this story include: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a….

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030632_teeth_cavities.html#ixzz18Mv61fLl

GROWING NEW TEETH – Item 2 of 3

Jie CHEN, et al.

Smile!

A New Canadian Tool Can Regrow Teeth Say Inventors

Pulsed Ultrasound Tooth Regeneration

Wed Jun 28, 4:47 PM ET

A New Canadian Tool Can Regrow Teeth Say Inventors

Snaggle-toothed hockey players and sugar lovers may soon rejoice as Canadian scientists said they have created the first device able to re-grow teeth and bones.

The researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton filed patents earlier this month in the United States for the tool based on low-intensity pulsed ultrasound technology after testing it on a dozen dental patients in Canada.

“Right now, we plan to use it to fix fractured or diseased teeth, as well as asymmetric jawbones, but it may also help hockey players or children who had their tooth knocked out,” Jie Chen, an engineering professor and nano-circuit design expert, told AFP.

Chen helped create the tiny ultrasound machine that gently massages gums and stimulates tooth growth from the root once inserted into a person’s mouth, mounted on braces or a removable plastic crown.

The wireless device, smaller than a pea, must be activated for 20 minutes each day for four months to stimulate growth, he said.

It can also stimulate jawbone growth to fix a person’s crooked smile and may eventually allow people to grow taller by stimulating bone growth, Chen said.

Tarek El-Bialy, a new member of the university’s dentistry faculty, first tested the low-intensity pulsed ultrasound treatment to repair dental tissue in rabbits in the late 1990s.

His research was published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics and later presented at the World Federation of Orthodontics in Paris in September 2005.

With the help of Chen and Ying Tsui, another engineering professor, the initial massive handheld device was shrunk to fit inside a person’s mouth.

It is still at the prototype stage, but the trio expects to commercialize it within two years, Chen said.

The bigger version has already received approvals from American and Canadian regulatory bodies, he noted.

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Tarek El-Baily

University of Alberta 
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 
Dentistry 
Orthodontics 
Associate Professor Appointed: 2005

Mailing Address:

University of Alberta, Graduate Orthodontic Program 
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 
4051 Dent/Pharm Bldg. 
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2N8 
Canada

Contact Information

Phone: (780) 492-2751 
Fax: (780) 492-1624 
telbialy@ualberta.ca 
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/ortho/nav02.cfm?nav02=10606&nav01=1

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http://www.dent.ualberta.ca/nav02.cfm?nav02=47501&nav01=44192

Dr. Tarek El-Bialy, Dr. Jie Chen & Dr. Ying Tsui Awarded Grant

Congratulations to Dr. Tarek El-Bialy and his team Dr. Jie Chen and Dr. Ying Tsui (from the Electrical Engineering department) who has recently been awarded with the NSERC (121) [Idea to Innovation] grant for “Intraoral Wireless Device for Dental Tissue Formation and Tooth-Root Healing”.

Moreover, Dr. Tarek El-Bialy has discovered that this ultrasound can stimulate lower jaw growth especially in patients with craniofacial problems like Hemifacial Microsomia. Usually these patients have to undergo many surgeries during their lives. This new device will be expected to improve many unsolved problems in Dentistry and Craniofacial areas. A provisional patent has been filed based on this research as well as the awarded grant.  More details about this research can be found at the following website http://myprofile.cos.com/telbialy

For the second time in UA history, our research team has awarded an NSERC (I2I)[Idea to Innovation] grant to miniaturize a small ultrasound device for stimulating teeth healing and dental tissue formation. This team includes in addition to Dr. Tarek El-Bialy  (in the Orthodontic Graduate program and Biomedical Engineering), Drs. Jie Chen and Ying Tsui from the Electrical Engineering department. When it was published by Dr. Tarek El-Bialy at the American Journal of Orthodontics for the first time in History that new dental tissue can be reformed after the teeth are grown, this research team and patent was planned for.

http://www5.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uoa-umh062806.php

Contact: Phoebe Dey 
phoebe.dey@ualberta.ca 
780-492-0437 
University of Alberta

Ultrasound may help regrow teeth

Hockey players, rejoice! A team of University of Alberta researchers has created technology to regrow teeth–the first time scientists have been able to reform human dental tissue.

Using low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS), Dr. Tarak El-Bialy from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Dr. Jie Chen and Dr. Ying Tsui from the Faculty of Engineering have created a miniaturized system-on-a-chip that offers a non-invasive and novel way to stimulate jaw growth and dental tissue healing.

“It’s very exciting because we have shown the results and actually have something you can touch and feel that will impact the health of people in Canada and throughout the world,” said Chen, who works out of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the National Institute for Nanotechnology.

The wireless design of the ultrasound transducer means the miniscule device will be able to fit comfortably inside a patient’s mouth while packed in biocompatible materials. The unit will be easily mounted on an orthodontic or “braces” bracket or even a plastic removable crown. The team also designed an energy sensor that will ensure the LIPUS power is reaching the target area of the teeth roots within the bone. TEC Edmonton, the U of A’s exclusive tech transfer service provider, filed the first patent recently in the U.S. Currently, the research team is finishing the system-on-a-chip and hopes to complete the miniaturized device by next year.

“If the root is broken, it can now be fixed,” said El-Bialy. “And because we can regrow the teeth root, a patient could have his own tooth rather than foreign objects in his mouth.”

The device is aimed at those experiencing dental root resorption, a common effect of mechanical or chemical injury to dental tissue caused by diseases and endocrine disturbances. Mechanical injury from wearing orthodontic braces causes progressive root resorption, limiting the duration that braces can be worn. This new device will work to counteract the destructive resorptive process while allowing for the continued wearing of corrective braces. With approximately five million people in North America presently wearing orthodontic braces, the market size for the device would be 1.4 million users.

In a true tale of interdisciplinary work, El-Bialy met Chen at the U of A’s new staff orientation. After hearing about Chen’s expertise in nanoscale circuit design and nano-biotechnology, El-Bialy explained his own research and asked if Chen might be able to help produce a tiny ultrasound device to fit in a patient’s mouth. The two collaborated and eventually along with Tsui received a grant from NSERC’s “Idea to Innovation,” program to expand on their prototype.

Dr. El-Bialy first discovered new dental tissue was being formed after using ultrasound on rabbits. In one study, published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, El Bialy used ultrasound on one rabbit incisor and left the other incisor alone. After seeing the surprising positive results, he moved onto humans and found similar results. He has also shown that LIPUS can improve jaw growth in cases with hemifacial microsomia, a congenital syndrome where one side of the child’s jaw or face is underdeveloped compared to the other, normal, side. These patients usually undergo many surgeries to improve their facial appearance. This work on human patients was presented at the World Federation of Orthodontics in Paris, September 2005.

“After proving it worked, we looked at creating a smaller ultrasound carrier where we can take the patient out as a variable,” said El-Bialy. “Before this, a patient has to hold the ultrasound for 20 minutes a day for a year and that is a lot to ask.”

The researchers are currently working on turning their prototype into a market-ready model and expect the device to be ready for the public within next two years.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Tarek El-Bialy, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 
University of Alberta, 780-492-2751

Dr. Jie Chen, Faculty of Engineering 
University of Alberta, 780-492-9820

Dr. Ying Tsui, Faculty of Engineering 
University of Alberta 780-492-3192

Phoebe Dey, Public Affairs 
University of Alberta, 780-492-0437

http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/06/28/teeth-grow.html

Dentist, Engineer Team up to Regrow Teeth

CBC News

A tiny ultrasound device could help people regrow teeth, researchers at the University of Alberta say.

The prototype device offers a way to reform human dental tissue for the first time, the team said Wednesday.

Everyone from hockey players to children who knock out a tooth could benefit.

The treatment, called low-intensity pulsed ultrasound, massages the gums to stimulate jaws, encourage growth in the roots of teeth and aid healing in dental tissue.

“If the root is broken, it can now be fixed,” said Dr. Tarak El-Bialy of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. “And because we can regrow the teeth root, a patient could have his own tooth rather than foreign objects in his mouth.”

El-Bialy discovered ultrasound could be used to form new dental tissue from his research on rabbit incisors, which was published in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.

He then tested the technique on people who needed to get their teeth pulled.

Participants held the bulky ultrasound device for 20 minutes a day for four weeks against a tooth that had a problem, such as erosion after a root canal.

When El-Bialy looked at the extracted teeth under the microscope, he found new tissue was added to the roots of treated teeth, but not to untreated ones. The therapy regenerates the inner part of the tooth, but not the enamel.

He then teamed up with engineers Jie Chen and Ying Tsui to make the ultrasound device smaller so it could fit comfortably inside a patient’s mouth.

The prototype can be mounted on braces or a plastic removable crown.

The team has filed for a patent on their prototype in the U.S. They expect to have a version that is ready for patients within two years.

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=305b49c4-e413-4bf8-a2de-4fabbc165581&k=70530

Broke a Tooth? Grow it Back …

Susan Ruttan, The Edmonton Journal June 28, 2006

Waves beamed from dental ultrasound device developed at U of A have healing power

Jie Chen, left, Ying Tsui and Dr. Tarek El -Bialy, right, holds a model, Tuesday, of the ultrasound sleeve designed to slide over a tooth to help with the regeneration of the root.

Photograph by : Shaughn Butts, the Journal

Susan Ruttan, The Edmonton Journal Published: Wednesday, June 28, 2006

EDMONTON – Long used as a test for pregnant women, ultrasound may soon have a new role — growing teeth.

A team of University of Alberta researchers is seeking a U.S. patent on a tiny device that will sit inside the mouth and beam ultrasound waves at teeth.

The device won’t help Ryan Smyth, the Edmonton Oiler who lost three teeth in the hockey playoffs, but it may prevent tooth damage that can occur from wearing braces.

And it may do much more than that. The research team envisages bandages embedded with tiny ultrasound machines that may some day be wrapped around broken legs to help the bone heal more quickly.

The idea originated with Dr. Tarek El-Bialy, an Egyptian-born orthodontist who joined the university’s faculty of dentistry a year ago.

El-Bialy has shown in earlier research that ultrasound waves, the high frequency sound waves normally used for diagnostic imaging, help bones heal and tooth material grow.

“I was using ultrasound to stimulate bone formation after lower-jaw lengthening in rabbits,” El-Bialy said in an interview Tuesday.

To his surprise, not only did he help heal the rabbits’ jaws after the surgery, but their teeth started to grow as well.

He later did a human study to see if ultrasound could prevent damage to the roots of teeth when people wear braces. Braces force the teeth to move, and that can cause root damage.

That study, published in 2004, showed that a tooth getting a daily shot of ultrasound was protected from damage, and in fact had more dental tissue than before.

“The problem was that the ultrasound device we were using was very big, and the patient had to hold it in his mouth for 20 minutes every day,” El-Bialy said.

When he moved to the U of A, he joined forces with two members of the engineering faculty, Jie Chen and Ying Tsui, to design an ultrasound machine small enough to sit inside a person’s mouth. Chen is an expert in small-circuit devices, Tsui in ultrasound. They think it will take a year to create a workable ultrasound device less than a centimetre long, small enough to attach to braces or to a plastic temporary crown and powered by a tiny battery.

Tsui said once the device — which has been named LIPUS, for low-intensity pulsed ultrasound — is created, it can be used for a variety of purposes. One idea is to make bandages embedded with tiny ultrasound devices, for healing broken bones.

Ultrasound has also been shown to stimulate the growth of stem cells, the cells that create all other cells, he said. An ultrasound device could be made for triggering stem cell reproduction.

El-Bialy also has work to do. So far, he has been able to stimulate growth of the inner part of teeth, but not the enamel. That’s why he can’t regrow Ryan Smyth’s teeth.

He’s starting new research to try to use ultrasound to repair cracked or broken teeth.

The researchers estimate their LIPUS device will be ready for public use within two years.

sruttan@thejournal.canwest.com // © The Edmonton Journal 2006

US Patent # 6,120,287Method & Apparatus for Measuring Orthodontic Force…

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GROWING NEW TEETH – Item 3 of 3

(NaturalNews)

If you’ve got a cavity, maybe you want to try regrowing your own teeth before heading for a filling. Our bodies are constantly renewing themselves and although it isn’tcommonly known, we can regrow our teeth too. In fact, regrowing our teeth is highly preferable to having them filled because most fillings these days either contain mercury (a known toxin that damages the brain and nervous system) or are estrogenic (white fillings release estrogen and contribute to hormonal problems.)Besides, regrowing your teeth is simple. You’ll just need two things: comfrey root and organic eggshells. Eggshells are used because they contain 27 minerals and loads of calcium, so they contain the ideal building materials to regrow your teeth. In fact, the composition of eggshells is very similar to the composition of our teeth and bones. Comfrey root is used because it accelerates bone, teeth and tissue growth. In fact, another name for comfrey root is knitbone, primarily because of its ability to knit – or regrow – bone together so quickly.

When you’re regrowing your teeth, aim to eat one organic eggshell each day. Blending your shells into fresh fruit smoothies is a great way to consume them because blending breaks them into tiny particles that are easily consumed. Smoothies with bananas are ideal because the banana will keep the shell particles suspended instead of allowing them to sink to the bottom of your glass. After cracking the egg, just boil your shells in water for five minutes to kill any pathogens before use.

While you’re re-mineralizing and adding plenty of calcium to your body with eggshells, you’ll also want to use comfrey root on your teeth and gums. Either fresh or dried comfrey root will do the trick, but if it’s dried, boil the root lightly for ten minutes to rehydrate it. Then, blend a square inch of the root with a few tablespoons of water to make a liquid – and swish the liquid in your mouth and between your teeth for about 20 minutes. When you’re finished, just spit it out.

Using comfrey in this manner is best done once a day, and you’ll likely see progress within a few weeks. Many cavities can be completely regrown within a month or two with regular use. The best part is: you can heal your teeth without leaving toxic metals or hormone disruptors in your mouth for the rest of your life.

As a note, comfrey root can be a little hard on your liver so if you have liver problems, you’ll want to avoid using comfrey. After your teeth have regrown, you’ll also want to end the use of comfrey so as not to over do it.

More:

http://proliberty.com/observer/2002…
http://www.herbalremediesinfo.com/C…
http://www.naturalnews.com/028049_c…

Learn more: 

http://www.naturalnews.com/029112_teeth_

regeneration.html#ixzz1QvfHSC8q

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P 11-4

Is This the End of the Dentist’s Drill?

With thanks to Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

Most people regard a cavity, or even a root canal, as a minor inconvenience. But if your tooth has begun to decay to the point that a cavity is evident, this is a major sign that disease-causing bacteria has begun to overpower your immune system and your body.

In fact, your teeth are constantly under attack from the foods you eat, the beverages you drink and bacteria, so much so that your body constantly works at repairing small amounts of damage to the enamel of your teeth. If you’re healthy, this should be enough to prevent cavities from forming, but if the bacteria overwhelm your system, dental decay can result.

Specifically, cavities form on your teeth when the acid-producing bacteria in plaque dissolve the mineral in your teeth. While microscopic at first, the cavities can increase in size and number until the decay must be drilled out and repaired with a filling or crown, a root canal performed, or the tooth removed. But now researchers have developed a paste that may actually stop and even reverse this dental decay process, helping your body to rebuild your teeth from the inside out.

Is This the End of the Dentist’s Drill?

Researchers at the University of Leeds have developed a peptide-based fluid known as P 11-4. When applied to a decayed tooth, P 11-4 forms a gel-like scaffold that attracts calcium to help rebuild your tooth. As the University of Leeds reported in a press release:

“In practice, this means that when applied to the tooth, the fluid seeps into the micro-pores caused by acid attack and then spontaneously forms a gel. This gel then provides a ‘scaffold’ or framework that attracts calcium and regenerates the tooth’s mineral from within, providing a natural and pain-free repair.”

When the fluid was tested on a small group of adults with early tooth decay, results showed P 11-4 successfully reversed the damage and regenerated tooth tissue. This is the latest data from what appears to be a promising new dental strategy. Similarly, in 2008 scientists were also able to rebuild dentin and remineralize some parts of the teeth with the help of a calcium-containing solution of ions.

Regenerating your tooth from within is a far superior option to the “drill-and-fill” model currently used today, and it appears to be a technique that may soon be widely available in dentists’ offices. Aside from the obvious benefit of tooth regeneration while sparing people the pain and fear of having a tooth drilled, this new procedure could virtually obliterate the use of toxic mercury fillings (if our efforts don’t get them banned first!) …

If You Have a Cavity, Resist This Archaic Dental Procedure

The very process of “filling and drilling” a cavity is a rather outdated practice, but so far there has been no other practical solution to remove the damaged areas of a tooth and “repair” it. But, adding insult to injury, about 50 percent of U.S. dentists are still using mercury to fill cavity-ridden teeth — even though exposure to mercury, the most toxic and more vaporous of the heavy metals, can harm your kidneys, permanently damage your child’s developing neurological system, and even kill your unborn child in the womb!

To implant amalgam, a dentist drills out healthy tooth matter in order to carve the crater necessary for amalgam placement — a primitive process that irreversibly weakens tooth structure. With a damaged tooth structure and with a metal-based filling that expands and contracts with temperature changes, teeth with amalgam are much more likely to crack years later, necessitating additional dental work.

Amalgams are quick and easy. Dentists make more money per chair per day implanting mercury. For factory-style dentistry, where teeth represent dollar signs instead of part of a human being, dentists drill, fill, and bill. The term “drill, fill, and bill” is a joke aspiring dentists learn in dental school. But when it comes to mercury – it’s no joke. Please realize that mercury vapor from amalgams passes readily through your cell membranes, across the blood-brain barrier, and into your central nervous system, where it can cause psychological, neurological, and immunological problems.

Yet, even though it may be a few years before P 11-4 and other tooth-regenerating fluids are widely available, there are solid alternatives to mercury fillings available right now. One of the most popular is resin composite, which is made of a type of plastic reinforced with powdered glass. Unlike amalgam, resin composite does not require the removal of significant amounts of healthy tooth matter. Over the long term, composite preserves healthy tooth structure and actually strengthens teeth, leading to better oral health and less extensive dental work over the long-term.

A lesser-known alternative is atraumatic restorative treatment (also called alternative restorative treatment or ART), which relies on adhesive materials for the filling (instead of mercury) and uses only hand instruments to place the filling, making it particularly well-suited for rural areas of developing countries.

Preventing Cavities 101: The Secret to Healthy Teeth

Tooth regeneration is certainly a step up from using toxic substances like mercury to fill your teeth. But do you know what’s even better than tooth regeneration? Protecting your teeth and preventing cavities in the first place.

When it comes to oral hygiene and preventing cavities, there’s a virtual war going on. If you listen to conventional health agencies’ and your dentist’s advice, you may still believe that fluoride is the answer.

Think again!

The only way you can believe this misguided advice is if you completely ignore the science. Good oral health and strong, healthy teeth are NOT the result of drinking fluoridated water and brushing your teeth with fluoridated toothpaste. Rather it’s all about your diet.

Dr. Weston A. Price, who was one of the major nutritional pioneers of all time, completed some of the most incredible research on this topic back in the 1900s, and it is still very much relevant today. What he found, and documented in his classic book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, is that native tribes who were eating their traditional diet had nearly perfect teeth, and were almost 100 percent free of tooth decay — and they did not have toothbrushes, floss, toothpaste, or root canals and fillings.

But when these tribal populations were introduced to sugar and white flour, guess what happened … their health, and their perfect teeth, rapidly deteriorated. By avoiding sugars and processed foods, you prevent the proliferation of the bacteria that cause decay in the first place.

Most people whose diet includes very little sugar and few processed foods have very low rates of tooth decay. So the simple act of limiting, or eliminating sugar, and avoiding processed foods — along with regular cleanings with your natural mercury-free dentist — will ensure that your teeth and gums stay healthy and cavity-free naturally.

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— COURT SUITS —

… Besides the threat of two possible suits against the EPA, there

is a class action suit by 35-40 dentists against the American Dental

Association (ADA), its committees and affiliated organizations in the

Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the ADA’s “acting

contrary to the ethical precepts in a number of areas, [including] the

promotion of fluoridation, the pressuring of the EDP to raise the

Maximum Containment Level (MCL) [from 1 ppm to 4 ppm], and

failure to distribute to its members and to the general public, literature

regarding the significant possibility of adverse effects of fluoridation9

and the use of dental amalgam [which is another unhealthy practice.]1.”

“Dr. David Kennedy, one of these dentists, says: ‘I think it is

criminal to expose large groups of the population to toxic substances

without any evidence of safety. The proponents of toxic dentistry claim

that you can’t prove the agent caused a specific problem. . . . It is not

our responsibility to prove that a poison is not a poison. It is the

responsiblity of the person who applies the poison to prove that it is

harmless. . . .”

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— AUSTRALIAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION (QUEENSLAND) —

EXTRACT FROM THEIR WEB SITE:

❝… ADAQ acknowledges that all sources of fluoride availability (toothpastes, mouth rinses, tablets and water fluoridation) have the potential to contribute to varying levels of incidence and severity of dental fluorosis, a white mottled speckling of tooth enamel. This is a condition of aesthetic concern only and may occur in a small number of individuals as a result of inappropriate exposure to fluorides during the period of development of the secondary dentition. This must be taken into account when considering the tooth decay reducing effect of fluoridation (12). ADAQ supports and contributes to efforts to inform the public on responsible and age specific use of all fluoride sources in order to control the occurrence of dental fluorosis. ADAQ will continue to work with other health authorities to ensure that fluoride exposure from all sources is at a level recommended to maximise decay resistance whilst minimising the incidence of dental fluorosis.

No credible evidence exists to link optimal community water fluoridation to any

adverse health effect…❞

The ADA policy concerning fluoride side affects must be,

— Don`t Look, Don`t Find —

‘RE-EXAMINATION OF ACUTE TOXICITY OF FLUORIDE’

by

see → Kenji Akiniwa, ←

Tokyo, Japan

H O W E V E R !

14 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry

and Medicine,

including two specifically in the field of enzyme chemistry, have warned against the practice of dumping fluoride waste into the nation’s water supplies due to fluoride’s extreme toxicity and its cumulative nature.

Decades after the water fluoridation experiment began, EPA Scientists now say that the cumulative enzyme poison is indeed linked to a host of related diseases that have rapidly emerged over the past few decades.

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see also  

 The National Research Council

(NRC) report published in 2006,

Fluoride in Drinking Water:

A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards

 Available free online → HERE ←

 

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This section of our site will provide information on how to grow good teeth (nutrition)

and how to care for them, needles to say fluoridation is not required…

Please revisit this section as we shall be adding more information to it in the near future.

Thankyou

❝  The sign of fluoride over-dose [dental fluorosis]

is now pandemic in fluoridated areas. 

The teeth are a mirror of what also occurs

in our bones. ❞

In contrast to skeletal bone and dentine, which accumulate fluoride throughout life and in proportion to the absorbed dose of fluoride, enamel of teeth reflects the biologically available fluoride at the time of tooth formation. Enamel maturation of deciduous teeth is completed between the age of 2 to 12 months. In permanent teeth enamel maturation is completed at the age of 7-8 years, except in the third molars, in which it continues until the age of 12-16 years. Post-eruptive fluoride uptake of enamel is expressed only in the outer layer and depends on fluoride in saliva, food, dental plaque and dental products (WHO, 1994). In areas with low fluoride concentrations in drinking water (≤0.1 mg/L) the fluoride concentration at 2 micrometer depth of enamel averages 1700 mg/kg, with fluoride concentrations in water of 1 mg/L it is 2200-3200 mg/kg. When water contains 5-7 mg/L of fluoride the concentration in enamel has been 4800 mg/kg. Such concentrations usually are accompanied by dental fluorosis (NRC, 1993).

 

PRESS RELEASE:

When Fluoridation Ends, So Do Cavities

Fluoride May Not Prevent Cavities,

and Can Cause Health Problems

By Mary Shomon

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Wednesday January 24, 2001 –Cavity rates declined in several cities that stopped water fluoridation, new studies report, contradicting American Dental Association (ADA) predictions, according to Fluoride Action Network.

Fluoride added to over 62% of US water supplies is supposed to reduce tooth decay, but these six studies from dental journals show it hasn’t and, in fact, may have increased the likelihood of rotten choppers.

      “No increase in caries (cavities) was found in Kuopio (Finland) 3 years after the discontinuation of water fluoridation,” according to Caries Research

      (1). In fact, when Kuopio was compared to a similar never fluoridated Finnish town, cavity rates in both towns either remained the same or decreased six years after fluoridation was stopped in Kuopio.

      Seven years after fluoridation ended in LaSalud, Cuba, cavities remained low in 6 to 9 year olds, decreased in 10 to 11 year-olds, significantly decreased in 12 to 13 year olds, while caries-free children increased dramatically, reports Caries Research

      (2).

      East German scientists report, “following the cessation of  water fluoridation in the cities Chemnitz (formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt) and Plauen, a significant fall in caries prevalence was observed,” according to  Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

      (3). Additional surveys in the formerly-fluoridated towns of Spremberg and Zittau found. “Caries levels for the 12 -year-olds of both towns significantly decreased… following the cessation of water fluoridation.”

      Not only did decay rates remain stable during an 11-month fluoridation break in Durham, NC, between September, 1990, and August, 1991 but dental fluorosis declined in children born during that period, according to the Journal of Dental Research

      (4)

      In British Columbia, Canada, “the prevalence of caries decreased over time in the fluoridation-ended community while remaining unchanged in the fluoridated community,” reported in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology.

      (5)

      In 1973, the Dutch town of Tiel stopped fluoridation. Researchers counted drilled, missing, and filled tooth surfaces (DMFS) of Tiel’s 15-year olds, then collected identical data from never-fluoridated Culemborg. DMFS initially increased in Tiel then dipped to 11% of baseline from 1968/69 to 1987/8 8 while never-fluoridated Culemborg’s 15-year-olds had 72% less cavities over the same period, reports Caries Research. (6)

A recently released government report out of Canada (7) shows similar negative results and offers a reason.

Fluoridation was launched in the 1940′s when dentists believed fluoride’s beneficial effects were achieved internally, through the bloodstream then absorbed inside the teeth. The Canadians report that “this effect is likely to be minor…The evidence for a post-eruptive (topical) effect… is much stronger.”

Therefore, swallowing fluoride doesn’t reduce tooth decay but does cause dental fluorosis — white spotted, yellow or brown stained and sometimes pitted teeth.

According to the ADA’s website “Dental decay can be expected to increase if water fluoridation in a community is discontinued for one year or more, even if topical products such as fluoride toothpaste and fluoride rinses are widely used.”

http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/facts-benefit.html#5

“Well, science proves the ADA is wrong about the claimed benefits of water fluoridation and they are wrong about the safety of water fluoridation, too” says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. “Studies have linked fluoridation chemicals to increased blood lead levels, neurological defects, brittle bones, thyroid cancer and more,” says Beeber. “It’s time for the media to challenge the science that supports water fluoridation and present the truth to the public. We’ve made it easy for the media to access the ‘Medline’ [PubMed] abstracts via the links below. No more excuses.”

Other US government studies and statistics support the findings of these six studies and the Canadian government report. For example, children in fluoridated-since-1945 Newburgh, New York, have no less tooth decay but significantly more dental fluorosis than children from never-fluoridated Kingston, New York, according to Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology June 1999.

      (1) “Caries trends 1992-1998 <tel:1992-1998>  in two low-fluoride Finnish  towns formerly with and without fluoridation,” Caries Research, Nov-Dec 2000  – Reference <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=110930%2019&dopt=Abstract>

      (2) “Caries prevalence after cessation of water fluoridation in LaSalud, Cuba,” Caries Research Jan-Feb. 2000 — Reference <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10601780&dopt=Abstract>

      (3) “Decline of caries prevalence after the cessation of water fluoridation in the former East Germany, & quote; Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, October 2000 — Reference <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11014515&dopt=Abstract>

      (4) “The effects of a break in water fluoridation on the development of dental caries and fluorosis,” Journal of Dental Research, Feb. 2000 — Reference <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10728978&dopt=Abstract>

      (5) “Patterns of dental caries following the cessation of water fluoridation,” Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, February 2001 — Reference <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11153562&dopt=Abstract>

      (6) “Caries experience of 15-year-old children in The Netherlands after discontinuation of water fluoridation,” Caries Research, 1993 — Reference <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8519058&dopt=Abstract>

      (7) Benefits and Risks of Water Fluoridation — Reference <http://www.gov.on.ca/MOH/english/pub/ministry/fluoridation/fluoridation.html>

CONTACT: Paul Beeber, President, NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, 516-433-8882 <tel:516-433-8882> , or nysocf@aol.com; or Paul Connett, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, St. Lawrence University in Canton, 315-379-9200 <tel:315-379-9200> , or ggvideo@northnet.org, Fluoride Action Network

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Predictions can best be carried out only with some knowledge of

history, chemistry, geology and astrophysics.

A multi-disciplined view is required, not the keyhole view of the

specialist in a lab, or the biased opinions from the entrenched

worlds of commerce, politics or religion. .   .    .

Sadly, science like democracy is often for sale!

HISTORY

In the years 1421-22 the Chinese sailed around the north and south poles, and though the Northwest Passage, which was then ice-free. They chiseled marks in the rocks of various headlands. These marks are now below low water mark; evidence of warmer times and oceans rising…

In the so called ‘Dark Ages’ in Europe the Thames river in London froze over, yet in other times in history grapes were grown in Scotland. The climate keeps changing, and the oceans have been rising for several hundred years. 

The panic about ‘carbon’ is just a

diversion from the real pollutants and an excuse

to push the nuclear as a ‘clean industry’and

introduce yet another tax.

 

     ARE THE CO₂ BUBBLES IN CHAMPAGNE

     AND COKE TO BE TAXED?

Carbon dioxide is not a hazard, and to tax it makes no sense –

it is a breath tax !

 

HIDDEN AND PROTECTED POLLUTANTS:

Air Pollution by Fluorides :-

Three of the six major air pollutants,

also greenhouse gases are FLUORIDES:

Perfluorocarbons (PFCs),

Hydrofluorcarbons (HFCs),

Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF₆). 

Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF₆) is a non flammable greenhouse gas. It has an atmospheric residence time ranging from 500 to several thousand years

according to the intergovernmental panel on climate change.

SF₆ is the most potent greenhouse gas that it has evaluated, with a global warming potential of 22,800 times that of CO₂ when compared over a 100-year period. Measurements of SF₆ show that its global average mixing ratio has increased by about 0.2ppt per year to over 7 ppt.  Sulfur hexafluoride is also extremely long-lived,

it is inert in the troposphere and stratosphere and has an estimated

 atmospheric lifetime of 800–3200 years. (ozone depletion.)

Sulfuryl Fluoride also a greenhouse gas is about 4000-5000 times

more efficient in trapping infrared radiation (per kg) than CO₂ (per kg).

Sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2) developed by the Dow Chemical Company.

Sulfuryl fluoride is marketed as Vikane, ProFume, Zythor and Master Fume.



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CFCS – CHLOROFLUOROCARBON

contain carbon, chlorine, and fluorine.

The manufacture of these compounds has been phased out by the

Montreal Protocol, because they contribute to ozone depletion.

However CFCs are still leaking from old refrigerators in land fill,

and it may be many years before this stops.

METHANE

 chemical formula CH₄ also affects the degradation of the ozone layer —

Methane in the Earth’s atmosphere is an important greenhouse gas 

with a global warming potential of 25 compared to CO₂

 TERMITES:

Global emissions of methane due to termites are estimated to be between 2 and 22 Tg per year, making them the second largest natural source of methane emissions.

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Sun Spots are intense ‘bubbles’- storms of magnetic energy, larger than our Earth. These solar storms come in eleven-year cycles (average) and are recoded in sea coral, ice cores and tree growth rings. These organic records show many climate changes long before our industrial age…

The solar cycle length may also be responsible for variation in temperature as well as the number of sunspots, which also can vary in size.

The affects of pollution by humans and volcanoes will not be immediate and may be delayed for months or years, making it difficult to assign blame…

With so much disagreement amongst the ‘experts’ we can only speculate…

SEISMIC ACTIVITY

Volcanoes, earthquakes, rainfall, power grids failures and civil unrest, increase at times of high sunspot activity. The earth and the rest of our solar system have just come through some of the lowest peaks for several thousand years hence the global heating, and droughts. We are now entering what seems to be more normal activity, some predictions are that 2012-2014 will be a VERY active time for the sun with all the above implications…

GLOBAL COOLING?

Millions of tones of fluorides, dusts and carbon dioxide are emitted from active volcanoes. These emissions circulating in the upper atmosphere reflect heat back into outer space, with a delay time of a few years, so we can expect more rain, earth cooling, and more earthquakes in the near future – not global warming. One year’s volcanic activity of one Indonesian volcano can discharge more carbon into the atmosphere, than we humans have throughout our history.

OIL, COAL AND URANIUM

Burning coal, and oil results in pollution of the planet with mercury and a list of other chemical contaminants that will stress your dictionary and the alphabet. Nuclear power is uneconomic if the full cost of mining and the long-term management of waste and the decommissioning of power stations are included.

Nuclear power owes its existence to the need for plutonium for bomb manufacture – not cheap electricity.

CLEANER OPTIONS

Thorium reactors could be a safer alternative, but this would not suit the military – (no bomb material) or the uranium industry, as it would give all nations equal access, to power, as thorium is more ubiquitous than uranium.

The new efficient solar cells that respond to none visible light, (still work on cloudy days), DC wind turbines that can operate at any wind speed and do not require a gearbox. Peaking power plants and base load hydro-power from stored water pumped up behind dams by wind turbines, at off peak times, offer some cleaner options until we progress further with cold or hot fusion, conversion of water into hydrogen, or the harnessing neutrinos, or whatever scientists discover in the future…

Japan’s recent tragic nuclear experience may stimulate some new developments worldwide. However industrial corruption, electronic sabotage and debt banking in the USA will hinder these technical developments there and, its support for Israel with its endless Middle East wars will bleed the USA white, financially, thus reducing its research and development potential.

The myth of global warming, driven by massive well-financed media-protected propaganda, has persuaded many politicians and centers of learning that carbon (CO2) is the problem. But, as explained above, ‘It ain’t necessarily so’.

The Theory of CO₂ and Global Warming

May Be Seriously Flawed – Fluoride Pollution

Is The More Likely Explanation, Or Major

Contributor.

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       Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Food, and Clean Fire.

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❝ FLUORIDE … The Aging Factor ❞

HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND AVOID

THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF FLUORIDE

John A. Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D. (1943-2000)

At the center of the second-generation conspiracy is John Small. While he is only a high school graduate with no college degree, his credentials do include six years as an information officer for a government department on chemical warfare. He is now and has been the U.S. Public Health Service ‘expert’ on fluoridation since the 1960s.

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Mr. Small’s functions at the USPHS [United States Public Health Service] include the writing and printing of anonymous memos, on USPHS letterheads, covering up the harmful effects of fluoridation, and distributing these memos to promoters of fluoridation, and when necessary, getting his hands on memos and reports put out by the government (even the White House) and rewriting them so they no longer express their original concerns about the toxicity and ineffectiveness of fluoridation. Most of the information supplied to dentists and physicians concerning fluoridation comes either directly or indirectly from Mr. Small. He is the cover-up supervisor, an expert relied upon by the USPHS to supply answers to Congress.

He also has the task of harassing, intimidating, and destroying anyone whose publications, utterances, or activities work to the detriment of fluoridation. In some cases, he calls upon other divisions of the Public Health Service to ‘neutralize’ studies or articles showing adverse effects of fluoridation.

In 1969, when Dr. Yiamouyiannis was a biochemical editor for Chemical Abstracts Service, the world’s largest chemical information center and the largest division of the American Chemical Society, he began to publicly express his concern about the health risks associated with fluoridation.

Mr. Small contacted his employer and communicated his displeasure with the statements of Dr. Yiamouyiannis. Dr. Yiamouyiannis was notified by his employer several times and finally told that if he spoke out against fluoridation one more time, he would be fired. He was told that $1.1 million in federal funding was in jeopardy if Chemical Abstracts Service did not shut him up.

After the meeting, his employer wrote to Small, “I have again talked to Dr. Yiamouyiannis and I have again made my position as strong and as clear as possible. He will not repeat this kind of performance and remain as an employee of Chemical Abstracts Service.” Within weeks after Dr. Yiamouyiannis next spoke out against fluoridation, he was put on probation, was told that he would never receive a raise again, and was advised to find another job. He was ultimately forced to resign.

Two years later, Dr. Yiamouyiannis was appointed science director of the National Health Federation where he was able to devote more time on the fluoridation issue.

During the 1970s, the fluoridation battle was stalemated. On one side, those opposing fluoridation were winning elections to stop fluoridation. On the other side, there was the force and money and power of the USPHS, the ADA, and industry that kept fluoridation going. In 1978, Yiamouyiannis served as a consultant and witness in a court case in Pennsylvania that proved fluoridation was harmful and banned it. The fluoridation promoters had to do something.

ADA’s White Paper

In 1979, the American Dental Association came out with a “White Paper on Fluoridation” characterizing fluoridation opponents as either “uninformed or misinformed” or “self-styled experts whose qualifications for speaking out on such a scientific issue as fluoridation were practically nonexistent or whose motivation was self-serving.” It suggested that dentists should propagandize politicians while they are in the dental chair. The White Paper proposed setting up the conspiracy between the American Dental Association, Centers for Disease Control, Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Health Statistics, National Institute of Dental Research, state dental societies, and state dental directors for “identification of communities where the timing for political action is favorable as well as unfavorable and where the opponents of fluoridation are considering the initiation of referendums” and for “promoting fluoridation.”

It urged that “individual dentists must be convinced that they need not be familiar with scientific reports . . . on fluoridation to be effective participants in the promotion program” and that the ADA should cooperate with the USPHS to get EPA to soften its statements regarding fluoride as a contaminant. It suggested behavioral studies to “help anticipate the behavior of opponents of fluoridation,” e.g. studies that would determine “Why would some persons deny the life-long health benefits of fluoridation to children? What kind of mentality would reject the opinion of those who are qualified by education, training and experience . . .”

It suggested that ADA’s responses to opponents of fluoridation should be prefaced by: “The ADA reiterated its longstanding support of fluoridation . . . Numerous studies have shown . . . There is no evidence of any relation . . . Investigators have observed . . . .” It suggested that “The advice of behavioral scientists should be sought with regard to more realistic, convincing rebuttals” and that “The ADA should produce a step-by-step manual for the development and conduct of a fluoridation campaign . . . The ADA should provide field assistance if needed in a fluoridation campaign or cooperate with the [US]PHS and state health departments in providing such assistance.”

Strategies of the Second Generation

This conspiracy solidified in the formation of a planning committee to organize a symposium (sponsored by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), USPHS, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Care and Assistance, Maternal and Child Health Division, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Prevention Services, Dental Disease Prevention Activity, the W. K Kellogg Foundation, Delta Dental Health Plan of Michigan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, and Medical Products Laboratories). This symposium took place at the University of Michigan on August 9-10, 1983.

Members of the planning committee included Mr. Small, Mr. James Collins of the CDC, Dr. Stephen Corbin of the USPHS, Dr. Robert Mecklenburg, Chief Dental Officer of the USPHS, Dr. William Warren, Chief Dental Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Joel Boriskin, chairman of the American Dental Association’s National Fluoridation Advisory Committee, Dr. Wilbert Fletke of the ADA, Dr. Anthony Kiser of the ADA, Ms. M. Lisa Watson of the ADA, Ms. Martha Liggett of the American Association of Dental Schools, Dr. Michael Easley, formerly of the Ohio Dept. of Health and CDC, and Dr. Ray Kuthy of the Illinois Department of Health, who were and/or are some of the central figures in the conspiracy.

The stated purpose of the meeting was to “discuss the status of organized opposition to fluoridation; to analyze probable motives influencing the anti-fluoride movement; to assess the need for a national fluoridation strategy; to develop political and legal strategies for the defense and promotion of fluoridation; and to evaluate past legal and political pro-fluoridation initiatives, focusing on the defeats as well as the victories.”

An examination of the seminar speakers, their affiliation, and the content of their presentations provides a further look into the “un-American” nature of this taxpayer-supported event.

Speakers included:

Dr. William T. Jarvis, a member of the board of advisors of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) and the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF). He spoke on the “Psychology of Anti-fluoridationism.” With regard to those opposing fluoridation, he stated: “I do not believe in providing such people a public platform from which they can create confusion and doubt about fluoridation . . . For several years I have put on fluoridation debates in my dental classes, taking surveys before and after to determine attitudes toward fluoridation. Invariably, each class became more anti-fluoridationist as a result of the debate.”

Dr. Sheldon Rovin, a member of ACSH and coauthor with Stephen Barrett of the book, The Tooth Robbers, a book defaming anti-fluoridationists. He spoke on how to win fluoridation battles through the political process, pointing out that “if it is at all humanly possible, the referendum should be avoided.” In the discussion following, Dr. Myron Allukian asked what could be done to stop anti-fluoridationists from getting signatures to put fluoridation on the ballot.

Dr. Stephen Corbin of the USPHS. As chairman of his workshop, he reported that his committee felt “the lead entities, namely the U.S. Public Health Service and the American Dental Association” should accept a plan “to close the ‘windows of vulnerability’ in our defense.” He suggested avoiding trials based on the merits of fluoridation. Finally, he suggested that a mandatory state fluoridation law be developed. During the following discussion, Dr. Easley suggested a conspiracy to deny those seeking relief through the courts their right to due process.

Dr. Dennis H. Leverett of the University of Rochester. As chairman of his workshop, he reported that his committee felt that fluoridation was “a political rather than a scientific situation” and encouraged research on the adverse effects of fluoridation “that will presumably show no effect or will show equivocal results.”

Dr. D. Scott Navarro of Blue Cross/Blue Shield, as chairman of his workshop, suggested that the cost of litigation defending fluoridation should be borne by taxpayers, professional organizations, health groups, universities, and research institutes.

Colleen Wulf of the Ohio Department of Health. As chairman of her workshop, she reported that her committee suggested the formation of a nonprofit organization which would coordinate with the CDC and ADA, pointing out that CDC has already drafted promotional materials for fluoride and that the ADA and the USPHS had already formed the Ad Hoc Committee to Plan for the Legal Defense of Community Water Fluoridation. She suggested that the name of the new group might be something like “Coalition for Improved Dental Health or something similar.”

ASLAP

As a matter of fact, the name of the group ended up being the American Oral Health Institute, incorporated in the state of Ohio on February 19, 1985 as a not-for-profit corporation. In 1985 and 1988, this organization came out with the first and second editions of a book, titled Abuse of the Scientific Literatune in an Antifluoridation Pamphlet (ASLAP), edited by Coleen A. Wulf, Karen F. Hughes, Kathleen G. Smith, and Michael W. Easley. The 215-page second edition of this book attacked the 1982, 1983, 1986, and 1988 editions of a very well referenced Question and Answer pamphlet titled Lifesavers Guide to Fluoridation by Dr. Yiamouyiannis that was effectively being used to fight fluoridation.

The preparation of this book was a collaborative effort of 18 federal and state health officials who were promoting fluoridation. Those with an asterisk after their name were invited to or attended the University of Michigan on August 9-10, 1983 symposium discussed above. There was not a single scientist among them: 10 were dental hygienists (Colleen A. Wulf*, Karen F. Hughes*, Kathleen G. Smith*, Linda S. Crossett*, Elizabeth King, Sharon Pierce, Ruth Nowjak-Raymer, Beverly Wargo, Geraldine Wirthman, and Karen Zinner), 2 were dentists (Michael Easley* and Elizabeth Bernard), 5 had degrees in public relations, education, psychology, or public health (James Collins*, Taimi M. Carnahan*, Claire Gelband, Judy Harvey, and Helen S. Hill), and one had no college degree at all (John Small*). The person who wrote the introduction was a psychiatrist (Stephen Barrett). . .

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Consumer Reports

With the help of fluoride promoters, Consumer Reports prepared and published a two-part article on fluoride in its July and August 1978 issues. The writer of these articles was Mr. Joseph Botta. Mr. Botta holds a Master of Arts Degree in English, but no scientific degree. In this article he passed along the same lies and slander used by the promoters to the trusting readers of Consumer Reports.

The Consumer Reports article on fluoridation is the most artfully written piece incorporating the lies and slander necessary to discredit the research and personalities of scientists showing that fluoridation is harmful. It is by far the Number One article distributed by the government bureaucrats in their promotion of fluoridation. This is not because government bureaucrats are not skillful liars. It is because, by having their spoon-fed material rewritten and published by a “consumer” magazine, their lies become more believable. Dr. William Bock of the Centers for Disease Control thought it was so good that he ordered 10,000 reprints and paid for them with federal tax dollars. The American Dental Association gave Mr. Botta an award for writing it.

This Consumer Reports article was used by U.S. Public Health Service bureaucrats to provide a “scientific” foundation for their views on fluoridation. The situation has become ludicrous. For example, Dr. Vernon Houk, the director of the Environmental Center for Health of the Centers for Disease Control, traveled all the way from Atlanta, Georgia, to St. Paul, Minnesota, to give his “expert” testimony by reading from the Consumer Reports article.

The “Big Lie” in this article and the phrase most often quoted from it is the claim that “The simple truth is that there’s no “scientific controversy” over the safety of fluoridation.” In 1990, Dr. Edward Groth III, the technical director for Consumer Reports, nullified this claim by stating: “The point is that this is a legitimate scientific controversy. Proponents of fluoridation insist that there are no grounds for controversy at all, and with that, I totally disagree.” This hasn’t stopped proponents from quoting the same phrase to this day.

Who is Stephen Barrett?

Dr. Stephen Barrett, a psychiatrist, helped in the preparation of the 1978 Consumer Reports article and of the 1988 book Abuse of the Scientific Literature in an Antifluoridation Pamphlet. He has close ties with the American Dental Association, the American Medical Association, and the U.S. Public Health Service. He is a recipient of the FDA award for “quack-busting” and is a coauthor, along with William Jarvis and others, of the 1993 book Readers’ Guide to Alternative Health Methods, published by the American Medical Association. In this book, he cites, and gives summaries of, the two publications mentioned above to inform his readers about fluoridation. He is a science and editorial adviser to the American Council on Science and Health.

A glimpse into his character can be gained through his habitual use of words to mean their exact opposite. For example, in an article entitled “Poison Mongers,” Dr. Barrett refers to people who are trying to stop the addition of fluoride, a poison, to the water supply as poison-mongers. Now a monger is one who sells something, e.g. a fishmonger is a person who sells fish. Therefore, it is quite evident that a poison-monger is a person who sells poison. Thus, one opposed to having fluoride added to the water supply is exactly the opposite of a poison-monger. The word usage of Dr. Barrett is comparable to the process called “Newspeak” described in George Orwell’s 1984, where what is true becomes false and what is false becomes true. The first few paragraphs of Dr. Barrett’s article “Poison-Mongers” is the best example of how Dr. Barrett has used “Newspeak.” “In hundreds of American communities citizens have voted against healthier teeth.

“Why?

“They were confused by poison-mongers.

“These alarmists in our society are using confusion and a scare vocabulary as weapons against fluoridation. They are cheating all of us, but especially our children.

“The benefits of fluoridation are supported by 10,000 scientific studies which prove the poison-mongers are wrong.

“What do the poison-mongers say?

“Instead of telling you that fluoride is found naturally in all water, they call it a ‘pollutant’.

“Instead of telling you that fluoride is a nutrient essential to life, they call it a poison’.

“Instead of the big truth, that fluoridation has never harmed anyone, they tell the big lie and say it causes hundreds of ailments.”

This article was published in newspapers across the country and was printed in the November 1976 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association. It has also been used by the U.S. Public Health Service in its ‘education’ of Congressmen and in its campaign to get various areas around the country fluoridated.

A closer look into Dr. Barrett’s personality can be obtained by examining his correspondence in 1972 with a group of people in Minnesota interested in stopping fluoridation. On March 8, 1972, Dr. Barrett wrote to one of these people, saying:

“I read your letter in Prevention [magazine] with some interest. There have been other attempts to defeat the fluoridationists in court but most have failed. Before investing money, I would like to have full details of what you plan.”

Thanks, Stephen J. Barrett, MD.”

In another letter to these people, dated April 4, 1972, Dr. Barrett wrote:

“Thank you for your recent telephone call. I am sorry that I could not immediately make the financial commitment which you requested. I know how enthusiastic you are and did not want to raise your hopes until I had a chance to discuss the matter with my group.

I am part of a group which is vitally concerned about fluoridation and which has raised a considerable amount of money. We are not yet sure whether it would be more practical to lobby or to go to court in Pennsylvania. The reason your lawsuit interests us is because it might be more practical for us to join your effort rather than go it alone.

“Thus we would need to have a detailed, written description of the plans of your suit. Our attorneys would then be in a position to study how it would effect Pa. law and also to estimate the chances of your suit being successful. We would also need some detail as to how the Attorney General’s favorable attitude will be used to advantage without this becoming apparent to the American Dental Association.

“We realize you are hesitant to say too much about your plans. On the other hand, we could not make a total commitment unless we had full knowledge of what we would be getting for our investment. We realize this asks a lot of you. On the other hand, we think we have a lot to offer.

“You may be assured that whatever information you send us will be handled with appropriate discretion.

“Sincerely yours, Stephen Barrett, M.D.”

On April 12, 1972, he wrote another letter to Miss Mary Bernhardt, the person at the American Dental Association responsible for promoting fluoridation, and related the following:

“Dear Miss Bernhardt:

“At about 6:20 this evening, I received another phone call from Mike Liptak, the organizer of MOFF [Minnesotans Opposed to Forced Fluoridation]. He said that at 4.30, Judge Gordon McRae ordered an injunction ‘to keep the fluoride out of Brainerd.’

“He said that there were 1500 people who watched the trial and that the judge had cautioned them about becoming emotional. They were very quiet. The case presented by MOFF included an affidavit from Dr. Waldbott. The attorney general of Minnesota defended and was given ‘five days for rebuttal.’ According to Mr. Liptak, who again said he went to school with the attorney general, the attorney general said he ‘would not furnish a rebuttal’. He merely stated that the new Minnesota law required fluoridation.

“Mr. Liptak added that there was an additional legal action scheduled for September. In about two weeks, 500 local citizens were planning to gather at a meeting where the vice-president of a local bank would get from them ’3 year notes for $50 each’ to help finance the suit. He explained that such mass action would not get them much publicity in Prevention magazine and the National Health Federation. It was their plan to seek further injunctions of this type with eventual overturning of the new state laws. He again asked me for a contribution, even a token one. He added that there might be money left over for use in another state such as Pennsylvania.

“On 5/14, Dr. Gross will try to contact leaders of the pro fluoridation forces in the Minnesota Dental Society and will also call the American Dental Association attorney. We have Mr. Liptak’s confidence and hope to continue to use it to our advantage. Perhaps the dental society should consider entering the suit as a guardian of the children. It might also be helpful if some quick way could be devised to dissuade the Brainerd residents from their imminent investment in foolishness.

“Best wishes, Stephen Barrett, M.D.”

Ironically, Dr. Barrett is a co-founder of the National Council Against Health Fraud.

Subsequently, he and Mary Bernhardt got together and published a book called The Health Robbers, in which they refer to those opposing fluoridation as health robbers. Excerpts from this book, which consist primarily of the substance of his poison-monger article, were reprinted in newspapers around the country, as well as in Family Health Magazine.

Teaming up with others of his kind, including Drs. Thomas Jukes, Warren Winklestein, and Joel M. Boriskin, Dr. Barrett complained about and tried to prevent Dr. Yiamouyiannis from speaking before the Faculty Club of the University of California, Berkeley. Together they claimed that Dr. Yiamouyiannis was some disreputable person not deserving a forum at the University of California campus.

In another action, Dr. Barrett, Dr. Boriskin and Dr. William Jarvis, who also is on the board of the National Council Against Health Fraud, wrote letters of complaint to the National News Council concerning an article published in the National Inquirer which pointed out that higher cancer risks were associated with fluoridation.

An indication of how Barrett’s ‘Newspeak’ is passed down the line to local dentists is evident from the experience Dr. Yiamouyiannis had when he was called in by local residents of St. Charles, Missouri for a debate on fluoridation. When Dr. Michael Garvey, a local dentist, heard that Dr. Yiamouyiannis was going to be the opposition speaker, he refused to participate in the debate.

According to the November 12, 1982 St. Charles Post: “Dr. Garvey said American Dental Association Officials had told him, ‘running up against Dr. Yiamouyiannis is not recommended’. The man is well-known as an antifluoridation speaker, Dr. Garvey said. ‘This guy is a terror.’”

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Why haven’t Consumer Reports, Stephen Barrett and others who issue false and defamatory statements been sued for libel and slander? Why haven’t bureaucrats responsible for illegally spending tax monies to influence elections been prosecuted and sent to jail? Why haven’t bureaucrats who have lied in court while under oath been prosecuted for perjury?

In many cases they have. However, when legal action was taken against Consumer Reports, the court didn’t even allow a hearing on the case. The court claimed Consumer Reports’ right to freedom of speech outweighed the plaintiffs right to due process of the law.

When charges concerning Dr. Schneiderman’s alleged perjury in the Pittsburgh court case were brought before the district attorney’s office, they pointed out it would be virtually impossible to convict anyone on perjury and they rarely, if ever, prosecute such cases.

Dr. John Yiamouyiannis was not the first in the controversy over fluoridation. Even such accomplished physicians as Drs Ionel F Rapaport and George L Waldbott were severely oppressed in the early stages of the dispute over fluoridation. Even today, similar reprisals continue, as can be seen in the case of Forsyth Dental Research Center toxicologist Phyllis J Mullenix, phd, and USEPA cancer scientist William Marcus, phd. These actions are described by Professor Paul Connett in his “Fluoride: A Statement of Concern”, which is translated into Japanese in this issue of the Journal of the Japanese Society for Fluoride Research, as “a sickening thread that runs throughout this sorrowful 50-year history of fluoride promotion by the agencies of the US Public Health Service.”

Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, biochemist and founder of the Safe Water Foundation, USA, died October 8, 2000, passing away peacefully in sleep at his home in Delaware, Ohio, surrounded by members of his family.

by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis

Health Action Press

6439 Taggart Road

Delaware, Ohio 43015

First edition published 1983

Third edition published 1993

Excerpts from the book, with permission from the author.

Chapter 17 . . . The Conspiracy: The Second Generation

In 1975  Dr. John Yiamouyiannis publishes a preliminary survey which shows that people in fluoridated areas have a higher cancer death rate than those in non-fluoridated areas. The National Cancer Institute attempts to refute the studies. Later in 1975, Yiamouyiannis joins with Dr. Dean Burk, chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute (1939-1974) in performing other studies which are 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 NCI ended, since his job depended on towing the party line).

In 1989 Dr.Yiamouyiannis used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain carcinogenicity studies conducted by Proctor and Gamble (one of the makers of fluoridated toothpaste) that were submitted to (and covered up by) the United States Public Health Service. These studies showed dose dependent cell abnormalities caused by fluoride. These results were reported in the February 22, 1990 issue of the Medical Tribune. Additional studies by Proctor and Gamble scientists confirmed the link between oral precancerous growth and fluoride, as well as an increase in  osteomas (bone tumors) and osteosarcomas (bone cancer). In fact, the National Cancer Institute found in 1991 that  the incidence of bone cancer was 50% higher in men ages 0-19 years of age exposed to fluoridated water compared to those who were not.

❝ VITAMIN ‘C’ AND FLUORIDATION ❞

by John A. Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D. (1943-2000)

The National Health Federation

P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, California 91017

e-mail: contact-us@thenhf.com

Washington,  D.C.,  20002

Abstract: Vitamin C plays an important role in the orderly deposition of fluoride into various tissues. In higher fluoride areas, Vitamin C increases fluoride excretion and normalizes soft and hard tissue fluoride levels and thus prevents the development of fluorosis.  At lower fluoride levels, Vitamin C increases the incorporation of fluoride into teeth.  Fluoridation of water systems in not the solution to optimal incorporation of fluoride into teeth; in cases of Vitamin C deficiency, fluoridation may lead to fluorosis.

(21)          Hardwick & Bunting, J. Dent. Res. 50 (Supplement, Pt. 1), 1212 (1971)

- 7 August 1974 -

While fluoridation of public water systems has been advocated and encouraged by the national and state public health services, a number of questions concerning the need to add fluoride to public waters have gone unanswered.

Mother’s milk, containing as little as 0.01 to 0.05 ppm fluoride confers as much caries resistance on the child as other infants consuming 1 to 2 ppm fluoride present in commercially prepared formulas (1, 2).

In unfluoridated areas, containing natural fluoride levels of 0.1 to 0.5 ppm and even less, there exists a certain part of the population that are free of caries.  In fact, in Nigeria, a population has been found where over 98% of the population is caries free and the fluoride level in their water is within the above range (3).

In a study at Great Lakes Naval Base, the previous life-long residence of caries-free recruits, were examined to determine if any trace elements could be correlated with the low incidence of caries.

The level of fluoride in the drinking water was not implicated.

It has also been noticed that primitive areas in which the people of the area eat unrefined food have a relatively low caries rate as compared to later when these areas became “civilized” and their diets begin to consist of more refined foods.

In these cases, caries rates often soar and addition of fluoride to the water supply is unable to restore the previous caries rate (5, 6, 7).

In areas and among people where nutrition is poor, mottling is observed at levels below the 1 ppm level used to fluoridate public water systems (at levels as low as 0.4 ppm fluoride).

This has been noticed in India (8) as well as among American Negroes whose mottling rate, in the 1-ppm range is higher than that of whites in the same area.

In a comprehensive study in Japan, the fluoride levels associated with the lowest incidence of caries ranged from 0.2 to 0.4 ppm  (9).

In the 1930’s it was found that the ingestion of fluoride causes scurvy-like symptoms and that this was associated with a decrease in the Vitamin C levels of various tissues. Similarities in the symptoms of scurvy and mild fluorosis were also observed  (10, 11).

In 1954, in an area containing 0.34 to 0.8 ppm fluoride in the water, 23% of the children 4-7 years old exhibited mottling (dental fluorosis). The Vitamin C contents in blood for normal children (without mottling) averaged 0.78 mg %. In the mottled enamel group, the blood Vitamin C levels of most children were extremely low (0.15 to 0.3 mg % in 29%, and 0.0 to 0.15 mg % in 31%. Treatment of these subjects with Vitamin C brought substantial improvement  (12).

In 1964-65, the death rate of guinea pig population in Australia had reached epidemic proportion. (The Guinea pig is the only non-primate known that cannot synthesize its own Vitamin C). This death rate was eventually attributed to slightly higher levels of fluoride in feed pellets. Symptoms of sub-acute Vitamin C deficiency were observed. Fluorosis was diagnosed as the cause of death (13). In rats and mice (both of which synthesize their own Vitamin C, no such death rate was reported. U.S.P.H.S. experiments are performed with rats – they do not use guinea pigs (14). Both in the U.S. (15) and Russia (16) Vitamin C is recognized as being capable of retarding the development of fluorosis.

In guinea pigs exposed to fluoride, Vitamin C was found to normalize altered blood Ca, P, and sugar levels, as well as fluoride levels and ash contents in teeth and bone, and fat glycogen, and fluoride levels in the liver. Fed to men exposed to elevated fluoride uptakes, 100mg of Vitamin C increased the excretion of fluoride from 3-5.5 mg/day to 6-8.5 mg/day (17).

Most important, however, are the following findings:

1.) in guinea pig, fluoride added to the diet cannot make teeth more insoluble (caries-resistant) than the addition of Vitamin C to the diet and-

2.)  in low fluoride areas, dietary supplementation with Vitamin C leads to fluoride deposition in teeth equal to the of higher fluoride areas (18, 19).

In conclusion, it appears that Vitamin C is and essential factor in the deposition of fluoride in, as well as the exclusion of fluoride from, various tissues in the body.

While increased fluoride in teeth had been correlated to caries-resistant of teeth, adequate Vitamin C levels in the diet in areas of 0.1 to 0.5 ppm fluoride (and even 0.01 to 0.05 ppm in the nursing infant) leads to adequate uptake by the teeth. Indeed in animals that manufacture there own Vitamin C (e.g. rats), Fluoride is found not to have a caries protective effect until it reaches levels of 10-20 ppm (14); at these levels it acts as a strong antibacterial in the mouth.

The indiscriminate fluoridation of water systems is not the solution to the problems of tooth decay. In the absence of sufficient Vitamin C, fluoridation will lead to Vitamin C depletion, dental fluorosis, and to abnormal levels of metabolites in blood tissues.

Adequate intake of Vitamin C may explain why people or populations in low fluoride areas can be caries-free.

REFERENCES:

(1)           Y. Ericsson, U. Ribelius, Caries Research 5, 78 (1971);

(2)           F.J. McClure, Personal communication.

(3)           A. Sheiham, British Dental Journal 123, 144 (1967;

(4)           J.P. Quinn, NDRI-PR-68-03, (June 1968) 11pp. US Nat.Tech. Inf. Serv.

Reo. No. AD0839 129;

(5)           S.J. Barnaud Journal 2, Med. Trop. 29, 593 (1969);

(6)           J.A. Cran, Australian Dental Journal 2, 277 (1957);

(7)           F. Prader, Schweiz. Mschr. Zahnhk. 71 885 (1961);

(8)           R.S. Nanda, Indian Journal of Dental Research 60, 1470 (1972);

(9)           Y. Imai, Koku Eisei Gakkai Zasshi 22, 144 (1972);

(10)          P.H. Phillips, J. Biol. Chem. 100, (Proc. Am. Soc. Biol. Chem.

Lxxix (1933);

(11)          P.H. Phillips, F.J. Stare, C.A. Elvenhem, J. Biol. Chem. 106, 41 (1934);

(12)          N.A. Ivanova, Voprosy Okhrany Materinstva I Detstva 4, 29 (1959);

(13)          F.F.V. Atkinson, G.C. Hard, Nature 211, 429 (1966);

(14)          N.M. Stiles, National Institute Of Dental Research,

Personal Communication;

(15)          J.W. Suttie, P.H. Phillips, The Pharmacology and Toxicology of Fluorine,

J.C. Muhler, M.K. Hine, Ed.  (Bloomington, Indiana University Press,                            1959) pp 70-7;

(16)          V.S. Andreeva Voprosy Okhrany Materinstva I Detstva 4, 25 (1959);

(17)          R.D. Gabovich, P.N. Maistruck, Voprosy Pitaniya 22, 32 (1963);

(18)          D. J. Thompson, P. H. Phillips, J. Dent. Res. 45, 845 (1966);

(19)          D. Triers, C.G. Elliott, M.D. Smith, J. K. Dent. Res. 47, 1171 (1968);

(20)          W. Buttner, Advances in fluorine Research and Dental Caries Prevention,

J. L. Hardwick, H.R.Held, K.G. Konig, Ed.

(New York Pergamon Press, 1965) pp. 19-30;

VITAMIN C REDUCTION OF F. INDUCED

EMBRO-TOXICITY IN RATS

Department of Zoology,

University School of Sciences,

Gujarat University,

Ahmedabad 380 009, India

R J Verma, D M Guna Sherlin

Jai Research Foundation, Vapi, Valvada 396 108, India

Oral administration of sodium fluoride (40 mg/kg body weight)from day 6 to 19 of gestation caused, as comparedto control, significant reductions in body weight, feed consumption, absolute uterine weight and numberof implantations. Significantly higher incidenceof skeletal (wavy ribs, 14th rib, <6 sternal centre, dumbell-shaped second and fifth sternebrae, incompleteossification of skull and thickening of tibia)and visceral (subcutaneous haemorrhage) abnormalities were alsoobserved in NaF-treated dams than that of control.Oral administration of vitamin C (50 mg/kg bodyweight) and vitamin E (2 mg/0.2 ml olive oil/animal/day) fromday 6 to 19 of gestation along with NaF significantlyameliorates NaF-induced reductions in body weight,feed consumption, absolute uterine weight (only with vitaminE treatment) and number of implantations. Ascompared with NaF-treated alone, the total percentageof skeletal and visceral abnormalities were significantly loweredin fluoride plus vitamin C-treated animals.Vitamin E was less effective.

These findingssuggest that vitamin C significantly reduced the severity andincidence of fluoride-induced embryotoxicityin rats.

Key Words: fluoride • vitamins • embryotoxicity • amelioration

Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 20, No. 12, 619-623 (2001)

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FLUORIDE LINKED TO PRE-TERM

BIRTH &

ANEMIA IN PREGNANCY

Study Links Fluoride To Pre-term Birth

And Anemia In Pregnancy

Main Category: Pregnancy / Obstetrics

Also Included In: Blood / Hematology; Pediatrics / Children’s Health; Nutrition / Diet

Article Date: 03 Sep 2010 – 2:00 PDT

Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, decreased pre-term births and enhanced babies’ birth-weight, concludes leading fluoride expert, A K Susheela and colleagues, in a study published in Current Science (May 2010).

Susheela’s team explains that anemia in pregnancy, which can lead to maternal and infant mortality, continues to plague many countries despite nutritional counseling and maternal iron and folic acid supplementation. This is the first examination of fluoride as an additional risk factor for anemia and low-birth-weight babies.

Anemic pregnant women living in India, whose urine contained 1 mg/L fluoride or more, were separated into two groups. The experimental group avoided fluoride in water, food and other sources and ate a nutritious diet per instruction. The control group received no instructions. Both groups supplemented with iron and folic acid.

Results reveal that anemia was reduced and pre-term and low-birth-weight babies were considerably fewer in the fluoride-avoidance group as compared to the control. Two stillbirths occurred in the control group, none in the experimental group.

Susheela et al. writes, “Maternal and child under-nutrition and anemia is not necessarily due to insufficient food intake but because of the derangement of nutrient absorption due to damage caused to GI (gastrointestinal) mucosa by ingestion of undesired chemical substances, viz. fluoride through food, water and other sources.”

Fluoride avoidance regenerated the intestinal lining which enhanced the absorption of nutrients as evidenced by the reduction in urinary fluoride followed by rise in hemoglobin levels, they report.

Could the same thing be happening in the United States? State University of New York researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the 2009 American Public Health Association’s annual meeting.

Current Science reports that adverse reactions of fluoride consumption are known to occur including reducing red blood cells, reducing blood folic acid activity, inhibiting vitamin B12 production and the non-absorption of nutrients for hemoglobin biosynthesis.

“Citizens must demand that water fluoridation be stopped,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. “It’s disturbing that public-health officials and organized dentistry continue to ignore the overwhelming evidence revealing fluoride to be non-nutritive, unnecessary and unsafe,” says Beeber.

Source: NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.

Fluoride will undoubtedly continue to be ignored, because the masterminds behind its marketing

are still claiming after over a half a century of unproven experimentation that it is good for us.

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WESTENDORF’S RESEARCH ON

INCOMPLETE DISSOCIATION OF SILICOFLUORIDES

UNDER PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS

The Kinetics of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition and

the Influence of Fluoride and

Fluoride Complexes on the Permeability

of Erythrocyte Membranes

Dissertation to receive Ph.D. in Chemistry

from the University of Hamburg

By Johannes Westendorf

Hamburg, Germany – 1975

www.fluoridealert.org/westendorf-foreword.htm

Reviewer: Prof Dr. A. Knappwost

Co-Reviewers: Prof, Dr, Malomy Prof,  

DR, Strehlow Prof,  Dr. Hilz Prof  Dr. Gercken

The oral defense took place on 2/18/1975

A Foreword intended to place the Westendorf research in current context indicating why it is relevant to a wide range of contemporary health and behavioral problems has been prepared by Myron J. Coplan and Roger D. Masters whose credentials are also attached.

Mikecoplan@aol.com Roger.D.Masters@Dartmouth.edu

Foreword by

MJ Coplan and RD Masters, April 2001

Westendorf’s 30-year PhD research work is important for reasons beyond its specific scientific findings. First his work was motivated by the assumption that ingested fluoride was beneficial. Knappwost, his thesis supervisor, believed that fluoride in saliva afforded protection against tooth decay and was seeking a means of enhancing the output of fluoride-bearing saliva for that purpose. Therefore, it can hardly be said that Westendorf’s work was biased against water fluoridation.

Second, Westendorf’s research was based on knowledge that fluoride ion is an enzyme inhibitor. Indeed, that feature of ingested fluoride seemed to offer multiple benefits. Knappwost believed that ingested fluoride, by inhibiting cholinesterase, could achieve both greater expression of total saliva and an increase in its fluoride content. The research of his student quite logically examined different forms of ingestible fluoride for their effect on several variants of cholinesterase, Westendorf’s results showed that fluoride in the form of the silicofluoride complex (SiF), as well as several other complexes, was a substantially more powerful inhibitor of cholinesterases than the simple fluoride ion released by sodium fluoride (NaF). This was simply an objective finding.

Third, to account for the more powerful inhibition effect of SiF, Westendorf studied the course of its fluoride release in fine detail. He found that under physiological conditions, dissociation was no more than 66% in the concentration range considered “optimum” for fluoridated water by United States health authorities. If the released fluoride came uniformly from all of the initially injected SiF, the molar concentration of the residual non-dissociated species would be the same as that of the injected SiF. It would follow that dilution of fluosilicic acid to a nominal 1 part per million of free fluoride in water at pH 7.4 induces each [SiF6]2- to release 4 fluorides to be replaced by hydroxyls. The partially dissociated residue would be the ion [SiF2(OH)4]2- which would then be present in the water at the same concentration as the originally introduced SiF. The biological consequences of ingesting such a species are probably not innocuous, with enzyme inhibition being only one of several possibilities.

Westendorf’s visualized course of SiF dissociation, based on actual experimental evidence, is materially at odds with the dissociation route assumed by US EPA and CDC, based on theory. In judging the reliability of the theoretical approach and claims of health safety presented by these government agencies, one should be aware that both the nature of the complicated mixture called “fluosilicic acid” and the course of its dissociation upon dilution remain unresolved despite nearly a century of research. Two recent documents demonstrate this. In the first, an expert in the recovery of fluoride in phosphate rock processing, addressing a group of his peers at a 1999 International Fertilizer Association (a) meeting held in the former USSR, said:

“The chemical formula of fluosilicic acid is H2SiF6. However, things are not as simple as that due to the fact that rarely is fluosilicic acid present as pure H2SiF6. . . There are well reported references to the existence of H2SiF6 SiF4. . . Hereon in this presentation, FSA [fluosilicic acid] means a mixture of HF, H2SiF6 and H2SiF6 SiF4.”

This is a highly significant statement coming from someone who ought to know the subject under discussion. It means that a key intermediate dissociation product postulated by CDC and EPA theories to be transient species only fleetingly after SiF is introduced into the water at the water plant, may be present in concentrated fluosilicic acid before dissociation begins. Such a starting condition would cast serious doubt on the postulated theoretical equations predicting “virtually 100%” dissociation that supposedly “guarantee” no adverse health effects from undissociated SiF residues in drinking water treated with these compounds.

Equally important is a letter (b) dated March 15, 2001, written by the Director of the EPA Water Supply and Water Resources Division, which concludes with the statement:

“In January, representatives from the [EPA] Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the Office of Science and Technology and Ground Water and Drinking Water met to discuss a number of water related issues including Fluoridation. Several fluoride chemistry related research needs were identified including; (1) accurate and precise values for the stability constants of mixed fluorohydroxo complexes with aluminum (III), iron (III) and other metal cations likely to be found under drinking water conditions and (2) a kinetic model for the dissociation and hydrolysis of fluosilicates and stepwise equilibrium constants for the partial hydrolysis products.”

In plain English, senior EPA research staff now believe their staff needs to go back to the lab for at least another year or two to find out if the EPA’s longstanding confidence in the “virtually total” dissociation of SiFs may have been misplaced. Whatever the outcome may be of their new study of SiF dissociation, it is clear the EPA does not intend to perform animal tests to ascertain health effects of chronic ingestion of SiF treated water under controlled conditions.

Animal experiments according to accepted toxicology testing protocols would be the logical way to examine health effects of enzyme inhibition by SiF that Westendorf observed at the cellular level. Three published reports bearing directly on this matter should be noted. In the early 1930s, the Ohio agriculture department wanted to develop a replacement for bone meal as a source of calcium and phosphorus in the feed ration of farm animals. Natural “rock phosphate,” comprising largely calcium phosphate, was a candidate, but it was known to carry about 2 to 5% of fluoride bound in some chemical form. Thus it was necessary to study possible adverse health effects due to ingestion of fluoride from several sources.

A report (c) issued in 1935 compared health effects primarily from calcium fluoride, sodium fluoride, and rock phosphate. Highly significant for present purposes was one small experiment that included sodium fluosilicate. With equal dosage and equal amounts of fluoride retained, rats fed sodium fluosilicate excreted three times as much non-retained fluoride in urine as rats fed sodium fluoride, who eliminated more fluoride in feces. Apparently about three times as much fluoride had crossed the gut/blood membrane into the bloodstream from SiF than from NaF. A second report, this one by the US PHS, (d) was published about ten years after water fluoridation had begun. The study compared the time, starting from the date of fluoridation either with sodium fluosilicate or sodium fluoride, for urinary fluoride level to reach equilibrium with ingested fluoride from fluoridated water. The study populations were boys and men. There were two noteworthy results. First, for either fluoridating agent, urine fluoride levels in older males reached equilibrium with ingested fluoride levels sooner than in younger males. The longer time for young males can be accounted for by the fact that the weight of the older males was essentially constant, while the younger males were adding bone mass over the several years of the experiment. The bodies of younger males were therefore providing a time-related increase in storage compartment capacity for ingested fluoride.

A more important finding was that for the younger males it took longer for their urine level of fluoride to reach equilibrium with ingested water fluoride from SiF than from NaF. Apparently in growing boys SiF fluoride must have been metabolizing differently from NaF fluoride.

A third relevant study (e), conducted around the same time as Westendorf’s research, involved feeding water treated with the same fluosilicic acid used to fluoridate the local water supply to squirrel monkeys for up to 14 months. Morphological and cytochemical effects were reported for the liver, kidney, and nervous system due to ingestion of 1-5 ppm of fluoride in water. Although the study did not compare results from exposure to NaF, the report emphasizes the fact that the kidneys of monkeys ingesting SiF treated drinking water “Éshowed significant cytochemical changes, especially in the animals on 5 PPM fluoride intake in their drinking water.”

The report later observes that work by others in the 1940s and 1950s “Éshowed that fluoride has an inhibitive effect on the activity of succinate dehydrogenase. These studies indicate that under the effect of fluoride intake, a serious metabolic distress may develop in the kidneys.” In concluding, the report notes that “Earlier, some workers had also indicated that inorganic fluorides have a strongly adverse effect on the activity of some enzymes and of these, mitochondrial enzymes, acid and alkaline phosphatases and ATP-utilizing enzymes and aldolase may be the most affected (Batenburg & Van den Bergh, 1972; Katz & Tenenhouse, 1973).”

This study of squirrel monkeys is a rare (possibly singular) American experiment with SiF. If the research team had known that Westendorf was finding greater effects of silicofluoride than sodium fluoride on enzyme activity at virtually the same moment, the U.S. study might have taken a different turn. In any case, two of these three American experiments compared effects from NaF and SiF, and both found that SiF and NaF do not produce the same effect. Moreover, all three studies found the strongest adverse clinical effect of silicofluoride in the kidney. But damage to the kidney is hardly the only possible health effect of ingested SiF.

“Life” involves an incalculable number of chemically active molecules initiating, continuing and terminating a bewildering variety of chemical events. Throughout this panoply of events and in every organ where they occur, various enzymes play crucial roles. A particularly important example is the quenching by enzymes of muscle stimulation induced by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh), an ester comprising the acetyl moiety bound by an oxygen bridge to the choline molecule. The principal “quenching” enzyme, acetylycholinesterase (AChE), comes in several variations and the ACh/Ache dyads operate in numerous ways in many organs. Related enzymes called pseudocholinesterases are found in serum and include the butyrylcholinesterases.

At latest count over 7,000 enzymes have been detected and catalogued, (f) and there is no reason to suppose that the effect of SiF is limited only to a sub-class. In any event, one would be hard put to identify a more important enzyme subclass than “esterases,” which cleave molecules called “esters” at the right time and place in the healthy organism. While a great deal is known about many of the ways these enzymes function, there are still large knowledge gaps to be filled. To do just that, an extensive survey of contemporary knowledge about cholinesterases has recently been published (g) by an employee of the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances in EPA’s Health Effects Division. The published article carries this disclaimer:

“Although this article was written as part of the author’s official duties as an EPA scientist, the opinions and conclusions expressed in it are his alone, and do not reflect the position of the Environmental Protection Agency.”

Dementi’s review deserves a great deal of attention, so one wonders why it was not published as official work of the EPA. The EPA has acknowledged (h) that it has no data on health effects of the SiFs, shown by Westendorf to be a significant cholinesterase inhibitor and being added to the diets of 140 million people at the rate of 200,000 tons a year. The many different biochemical responses this dosage can be expected to elicit may well support a recently published (l) hypothesis proposing an explanation for Fibromyalgia, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. It is not at all unlikely that chronic ingestion of SiF treated water also bears on ADD/ADHD, teen violence, and even some of the ambiguities associated with Gulf War Syndrome.

Common sense suggests that wide-spread, albeit clinically vague, adverse health effects should be expected when a strong enzyme inhibitor is added to the daily diets of over half of US residents, as would be the case given the results of the research work described herein. With millions of people suffering from one or another poorly understood condition with likely roots in environmental toxins, it is time to re-examine entrenched governmental doctrines in the light of Westendorf’s research which, while 30 years old, has received little or no attention heretofore.

(Read Westendorf’s thesis)

Notes and Credits

NOTE 1. The following English language text, translated from the German in which it was written by Dr. Johannes Westendorf, (Toxicology Department, Eppendorf-Hamburg University Hospital) was submitted to him in March 2001 for his comments with a series of questions. This was his response.

“With respect to my thesis I finished this kind of work in 1976, when I changed to the Medical faculty, where I still am. After my thesis I continued the work on fluoride for another year and we especially worked on the stability of hexafluoro complexes of silicon and iron. We used radioactive isotopes, such as F-18 and Si-31 . . . when we analyzed the electrophoretic mobility. In the presence of silicon and iron, fluoride ions showed a different mobility compared to fluoride [ion] itself. Unfortunately I have no access to these old experiments and we did not publish it.

. . . During hydrolysis we got a continuous shifting of the mobility, indicating that the different forms of hydrolysis with 2-6 fluorine at the Si are present at the same time, ending up at the more stable form of Si(OH)4F2. If we increased the pH to 9 and higher, a total hydrolysis occurs.

…In answering your final paragraph I can say:

1) The English translation of my thesis is excellent.

2) I have no evidence from others that contradict to my old findings.

3) Your idea of the enzyme inhibition by the complex could be right, however slight changes in the pH, caused by the hydrolysis of hexafluorosilicate, would also result in an increased inhibition of acetylcholinesterase. Nevertheless, I agree with you that the toxicology of hexafluorosilicate should be investigated because it may be different from simple fluoride.

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance to you. Johannes Westendorf” Westendorf@uke.uni-hamburg.de

NOTE II. Although the main body of the Westendorf thesis was not published in a circulating journal as such, three short articles based on this work were. Copies of the two most relevant ones appear at the end of the English text of the full thesis.

CREDITS: The thesis was called to our attention and photocopied from the document on file in the archives at the University of Hamburg by Peter Meiers (Weissenburgerstr. 28, D-66113 Saarbrucken; the translation was prepared by Jakob von Moltke (Dartmouth College); final proof editing was done by Myron Coplan with the aid of Norman Mancuso.

References:

a) Smith, PA. “History of Fluorine Recovery Processes”: Paper delivered at the IFA Technical Sub-Committee and Committee Meeting in Novgorord, Russia; Sept 15-17, 1999 (http://www.fertilizer.org/ifa/publicat/techpprs/tech0999.asp)

b) Gutierrez, SB. (signed by Thurnau RC); Letter from the Director of the US EPA National Risk Management Laboratory to Roger D. Masters, dated March 15, 2001.

c) Kick CH, et al. “Fluorine in Animal Nutrition”; Bulletin 558, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station; Wooster, Ohio; November 1935; pp 1-77.

d) Zipkin, I et al. “Urinary Fluoride Levels Associated with Use of Fluoridated Water”; Pub Hlth Rpts 71 PP 767-772; 1956.

e) Manocha SL, et al. “Cytochemical response of kidney, liver and nervous system to fluoride ions in drinking water”; Histochemical Journal, 7 (1975); 343-355.

f) On February 7, 2001, the Brookhaven Registry of Enzymes listed 7,164 enzymes on their web-site, http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/enzymes/

g) Dementi, B. “Cholinesterase Literature Review and Comment”; Pesticides, People and Nature; 1 (2); 59-126; 1999.

h) Letter to the Honorable Ken Calvert, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, US House Committee on Science, from EPA Assistant Administrator J. Charles Fox, June 23, 1999.

i) Laylander, J. “A Nutrient/Toxin Interaction Theory of the Etiology and Pathogenesis of Chronic Pain-Fatigue Syndromes: Parts I & II,” Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; 5(1), 67-126, 1999.

Synopsis of Foreward Authors’ Relevant Professional History

Roger D. Masters, Ph.D., is President of the Foundation for Neuroscience and Society and Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government Emeritus at Dartmouth College. For the last 30 years, he has studied the implications of modern biological science in understanding human behavior. He serves as editor of the “Biology and Social Life” section of Social Science Information (an international journal published at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris) and member of the Council of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. He is a published expert in the history of Renaissance politics, especially the contribution of Niccolo Machiavelli.

After undergraduate studies at Harvard (where his instructors included Henry Kissinger), he served in the US Army before graduate studies at the University of Chicago. Despite his work in other areas, he retained a strong professional interest in military and international affairs. In addition to writing The Nation is Burdened: American Foreign Policy in a Changing World (Knopf, 1967), he served as US Cultural Attache to France. Among his many other books are The Political Philosophy of Rousseau (Princeton, 1968), The Nature of Politics (Yale, 1989), Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power (Notre Dame Press, 1996) and Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli’s Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History (Free Press, 1998). Before turning to issues of environmental pollution, health and behavior, he also published widely on the effectiveness of leaders’ nonverbal behavior on television (working with colleagues on experiments in France and Germany as well as in the US).

Among many other publications on biological factors in human behavior, he was co-editor (with Michael T McGuire) of The Neurotransmitter Revolution, Serotonin, Social Behavior and the Law (Southern Illinois University Press, 1994); senior author (with Brian Hone and Anil Doshi) of “Environmental Pollution, Neurotoxicity, and Criminal Violence,” in J. Rose, ed., Aspects of Environmental Toxicity (London: Gordon & Breach, 1998), pp. 13-45; and co-author (with MJ Coplan) of “Water Treatment with Silicofluorides and Lead Toxicity,” International Journal of Environmental Studies, 56: 435-449 (July-August 1999) as well as of other publications.

In addition to an earlier teaching position in political science at Yale, he served as US Cultural Attache to France, Fellow of the Hastings Center, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research (a foundation specialized in linking biology to the study and practice of law), a visiting professor at Yale Law School and Vermont Law School, and a consultant to Upjohn Corp, to the Commissioner of Corrections of Vermont, and to several agencies of the Federal Government. As a result of these varied professional activities, Dr. Masters has had extensive experience applying new scientific research in biology of human behavior to the establishment of successful government policies.

Myron J. Coplan, PE is a consultant in chemical engineering and chemical sciences, doing business at “Intellequity” after retirement in 1987 as Vice President and General Manager of the Albany International Co. Membrane Development Venture. The fruits of this latter activity include a product line of membranes now used by a major multi-national company to supply a market for industrial gases measured in the $ billions.

Coplan’s working career started during WWII first as a civilian employee of the US War Department and then as a production chemist for a firm supplying the military with two crucial commodities: DDT, without which the S. Pacific campaign might not have been successful, and a wire insulating chemical, without which the US Navy’s capacity to deal with disastrous convoy damage by Nazi mines might not have been achieved. He was one of the few civilians deferred throughout WWII for his critical occupation status.

Post WWII, while pursuing his own advanced degree studies, Coplan headed an academic chemical engineering department, supervising doctoral research of others. This was followed by a 37-year relationship with an independent consulting and r/d firm specializing in material sciences (chemistry, polymer systems, statistical analysis, physics, fluid dynamics, statistical mechanics, etc.) which eventually became the central research laboratory of a large multinational corporation.

Coplan is recognized in American Men of Science, holds 32 patents, is a member of several professional organizations and has published many technical papers. He authored a series of bench-mark articles on mathematical probability statistics and wrote a manual on statistical quality control for internal corporate use. He also personally carried out a wide range of laboratory research and engineering tasks and supervised the work of as many as 35 other professionals of many disciplines. He has been consulted by research staffs and corporate executives from some of the world’s largest corporations. To mention only one example, over about ten years he had 28 assignments from GE.

His services were also engaged by NASA, USDA, EPA, Interior Dept, Post Office Dept and several other government agencies, including virtually every branch of the DOD. In these assignments, Coplan was cleared on a “need-to-know” high level security basis several times for consulting and research work in such diverse fields as “decoy” chaff used to frustrate radar-tracked anti-aircraft fire to protective measures for ground-troops at risk of exposure to chemical, biological and nuclear attack.

In due course, Coplan’s activities became more focused on the interests of the large company which in 1972 had acquired the firm he had joined in 1951. After 1972, he took on the corporate mission of identifying and exploiting science-based new business opportunities, including direct management of scientific entrepreneurial r/d for new products and technologies. He became Senior Corporate Scientist and then Vice President and General Manager of a membrane development venture that eventually licensed his patented inventions to other large corporations. Membrane treatment of phosphate waste pond waters was among the applications studied. Coplan, therefore, has first-hand knowledge of the processes from which the principal water fluoridating agents (the silicofluorides) are derived.

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VITAMIN C REDUCTION OF F. INDUCED

EMBRO-TOXICITY IN RATS

Department of Zoology, University School of Sciences, Gujarat University,

Ahmedabad 380 009, India

R J Verma, D M Guna Sherlin

Jai Research Foundation, Vapi, Valvada 396 108, India

Oral administration of sodium fluoride (40 mg/kg body weight) from day 6 to 19 of gestation caused, as compared to control, significant reductions in body weight, feed consumption, absolute uterine weight and number of implantations. Significantly higher incidence of skeletal (wavy ribs, 14th rib, <6 sternal centre, dumbell-shaped second and fifth sternebrae, incomplete ossification of skull and thickening of tibia) and visceral (subcutaneous haemorrhage) abnormalities were also observed in NaF-treated dams than that of control. Oral administration of vitamin C (50 mg/kg body weight) and vitamin E (2 mg/0.2 ml olive oil/animal/day) from day 6 to 19 of gestation along with NaF significantly ameliorates NaF-induced reductions in body weight, feed consumption, absolute uterine weight (only with vitamin E treatment) and number of implantations. As compared with NaF-treated alone, the total percentageof skeletal and visceral abnormalities were significantly lowered in fluoride plus vitamin C-treated animals. Vitamin E was less effective.

These findings suggest that vitamin C significantly reduced the severity and incidence of fluoride-induced embryotoxicity in rats.

Key Words: fluoride • vitamins • embryotoxicity • amelioration

Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 20, No. 12, 619-623 (2001)

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— FLUOROSIS —

COAL BURNING  - CHINA

106 Fluoride Vol. 36 No. 2 106-112 2003 Research Report

For Correspondence: Prof Wuyi Wang, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. E-mail: wangwy@igsnrr.ac.cn

ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIC CHARACTERISTICS

OF COALBURNING ENDEMIC FLUOROSIS AND

THE SAFETY THRESHOLD OF COAL FLUORIDE IN CHINA

Yonghua Li, Wuyi Wang, a Linsheng Yang, Hairong Li

Beijing, China

SUMMARY:  Data on coal-burning endemic fluorosis throughout China and on the exposure-response relationship between concentrations of fluoride determined in coal samples and the prevalence of dental fluorosis reported from 17 representative surveillance stations in Southwest China were used to estimate the safety threshold for coal fluoride. Coal-burning endemic fluorosis occurs mainly in the mountainous areas of this part of China, where the prevalence of the disease is closely linked to geochemical parameters of the local environment. In these regions the incidence of dental fluorosis has a significant positive correlation with the concentration of fluoride in coal. The safety threshold of coal fluoride is estimated to be 190 mg/kg by the criterion of 0% incidence of dental fluorosis.

Keywords: China; Coal fluoride; Endemic fluorosis; Safety threshold.

INTRODUCTION

Fluorine (F), the most electronegative and reactive of the halogens, is a common chemical element in the earth’s crust in combined form. F concentrations in rocks and soils are well documented, but data on the F concentration in coal are relatively limited.

1-4 Swaine reported the total F concentration in coal ranges from 20 to 500 mg/kg.

5 Statistical data indicate that the mean concentration of F in coal worldwide is 80 mg/kg, but in China it is 200 mg/kg.

6 In the mountainous areas of Southwest China, it is even higher— up to 3106 mg/kg in local coal.

7 Fluoride in coal can be released into the ambient environment as atmospheric F, waterborne F, and residue F during mining, handling, and combustion.

6-8 In Southwest China, F

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“FLUORIDES, THE DEADLY TOXIN WITHIN”

By Professor Dzulkifli Abdul Razak

National Poison Centre

Universitiy Sains Malaysia -
2 September 2001

Following the recent withdrawal of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipobay, there is now a new perspective to the issue, the drug being a fluoride-containing compound. The drug, also known by its generic name, cerivastatin, is one of the many such compounds pulled off the shelves in the last few years.

Cerivastatin was taken off because of at least 40 deaths worldwide, 31 in the US alone. According to a recently released commentary by a Canadian group, Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children, a series of fluoride containing drugs or so-called fluorinated drugs have been withdrawn from the market in the last 10 years due to their toxic effects on human beings. One notable example is the combination “Fen-Phen” (a generic combination of fenfluramine and phentermine, the former being a fluorinated drug type) which was said to have weight-reducing effects. Others are dexfenfluramine (Redux) and fenfluramine (Pondimin).

There are at least eight other examples of fluorinated drugs withdrawn so far, because serious side effects on the heart, and for suspected adverse influence on thyroid hormone activity.

They include, last year, cisapride (Propulsid) because of its severe side-effects on the heart. In 1999, two drugs were withdrawn.

These were an anti-allergy drug, astemizole (Hismanal); and grepafloxacin (an antibiotic, Raxar) because they too were associated with similar adverse events.

In 1998, patients with congestive heart failure using the drug mibedrafil (Posicor) showed a trend to higher mortality, causing it to be withdrawn.

Alredase (Tolrestat, an anti-diabetic) was withdrawn in 1997 after the appearance of severe liver toxicity and deaths among several patients. In the same year too fenfluramine (part of Fen-Phen) and dexfenfluramine were withdrawn.

In 1993, flosequinan (Manoplax, a heart drug) was withdrawn when it was shown that the beneficial effects on the symptoms of heart failure did not last beyond the first three months of therapy. After that, patients had a higher rate of hospitalization than patients taking a placebo.

Of the many fluorinated drugs that remain in the market some carry warnings of serious cardiac toxicity, for instance halofantrine, a schizonticidal drug. More specifically, other fluorinated drugs, although they have not yet been withdrawn, are known to cause muscle wasting or rhabdomyolysis; like cerivastatin.

For instance, the PFPC commentary noted that the fluorinated antibiotic fluoroquinolone, used to treat infections, is reported to cause tendonitis and rhabdomyolysis. In fact product information for such antibiotics (enoxacin, fleroxacin, norfloxacin, sparfloxacin, and tosufloxacin) was amended in Japan in October 1994, to state that rhabdomyolysis may occur. Reportedly, the tragic story involving fluorinated drugs (the fluorophenyls in particular, initially limited to industrial use involving dyes and pesticides) can be traced way back to the 1930s when they were used to treat hyperthyroidism.

The use followed a discovery by IG Farben (Bayer) and Knoll’s scientists that all fluoride compounds can interfere with thyroid hormone activity.

In the liver especially, organic fluoride compounds undergo extensive transformation, mainly via oxidative demethylation, involving the thyroid hormone (T3) mediated P-450 enzyme system. And the resulting metabolites may have higher activity and/or greater toxicity than the original compound.

The activity of organic fluoride compounds on the P-450 enzyme system is critical as it relates to the elimination of many other drugs. Inhibition of these enzymes can cause other drugs to accumulate to dangerous levels in the body, leading to hazardous drug interactions. In many cases fluorinated drugs are being implicated as documented in hundreds of well-established studies.

Moreover, adds PFPC, the metabolites produced by organic fluoride compounds in the liver can be transferred to the fetus through various pathways, including circulatory via placental passage, gastrointestinal via fetal swallowing, and respiratory secondary to fetal lung absorption. This may lead to congenital abnormalities as in the case of fluconsazole (Diflucan).

In short, going by the above evidence, fluorinated drugs seem to pose a number of risks associated with the fluorine or fluoride contained in them. It raises even more concern when fluoride itself is present in many industries and products, including food and drinks, without any rigorous evaluation or monitoring.

Of late, we have managed to label all toothpastes containing fluoride in this country. But this is clearly a minuscule effort in the attempt to regulate the use of fluoride as an inherent poison. We need to do more now.

For more information, contact the National Poison Centre at Universiti Sains Malaysia, tel: 04-657 0099, fax: 04-656 8417,

Source: New Sunday Times (Focus) September 2, 2001

The ability of fluoride to reduce thyroid hormone levels has been know for over 100 years (Maumene 1855).

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The Social Implications of Neuroscience:

Linking Brain Biochemistry and Violent Crime

Roger D. Masters (Dartmouth College)·

THIS FILE IS A DRAFT OF THE CHAPTER WITH THIS TITLE IN:

Richard W. Bloom and Nancy Dess, eds., Evolutionary Psychology and Violence: A Primer for Policymakers and Public Policy Advocates (Westport: Praeger, 2003), pp. 23-56.

ABSTRACT:

It is impossible to deny that a revolution in neuroscience and other areas of biology has taken place over the last half-century.  The  estimates of 83 million Americans taking drugs like Prozac for depression and 11 million children on Ritalin for hyperactivity indicate it is time to reconsider the role of brain chemistry in social behavior and violent behavior.  Since it is obvious that loss of impulse control can contribute to violent outbursts – and evidence shows that some toxic chemicals (such as lead) can have this effect, it is time to consider neuroscientific evidence linking environmental toxins and rates of violent behavior.  To illustrate the implications of the new issues involved, I focus on a hitherto unexplored example.  Two chemicals (H₂SiF₆ and Na₂SiF₆, jointly called “silicofluorides” or SiFs) are used to treat public water supplies of 140 million Americans even though, as the EPA has admitted, they never been tested for safety.  To illustrate the interdisciplinary complexities entailed when linking brain chemistry to policy decisions concerning violent crime, our argument has four main stages: first, why might SiFs be dangerous? Second, what biochemical effects of SiF could have toxic consequences for humans?  Third, on this basis a research hypothesis is formulated to measure the types of harm.  In this case, we predict children in communities using SiF should have increased uptake of lead from environmental sources and higher rates of behavioral dysfunctions such as hyperactivity (ADHD) known to be caused by lead neurotoxicity.  Finally, the hypothesis is tested using multiple sources of data including rates of violent crime studied using a variety of multivariate statistical techniques (including analysis of variance, multiple regression, and stepwise regression).  As this outline should make clear, a combination of interdisciplinary perspectives and great prudence is needed to link research in neuroscience to policies concerning violent crime,  If confirmed, however, the potential benefits of hypotheses like the one tested below may be great, revealing the generally unsuspected value of including neuroscientific research in the analysis of human social behavior.

Requests for reprints and correspondence should be directed to:
Prof. Roger D. Masters, Department of Government, HB 6222,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755.
Email: Roger.D.Masters@Dartmouth.edu

The full version of the above is on the net,

and as the above suggests adding silicofluorides

to drinking water amounts to domestic terrorism.

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THE RELATIONSHIP OF A LOW-IODINE AND

HIGH-FLUORIDE ENVIRONMENT TO

SUBCLINICAL

CRETINISM* IN XINJIANG (China)

by

Lin Fa-Fu, Aihaiti, Zhao Hong-Xin,

Lin Jin, Jiang Ji-Yong, Maimaiti, and Aiken.

extract:

… Xinjiang Institute for Endemic Disease Control and Research;

Office of Leading Group for Endemic Disease Control

of Hetian Prefectural 

Committee of the Communist Party of China; and County Health

and Epidemic Prevention Station, Yutian, Xinjiang.

Cretinism in iodine-deficiency areas is well known, yet the milder forms of somatic and psychomotor maldevelopment and thyroid dysfunction caused by iodine deficiency may be more difficult to detect. DeQuervain, in 1936, called this milder form “semi-cretinism,” while in 1980 Laggasse used the term “cretinoidism.” It was formally named “subclinical endemic cretinism” at a symposium on subclinical cretinism held in Xinzhou, Shanxi province in 1985.

Currently, attention is being focused on these disorders in China and abroad. The Hetian prefecture in Xinjiang has reportedly been one of the Asian areas most severely affected by iodine deficiency disorders (IDD).

During the period 1987-1989, we made a systematic survey of subclinical endemic cretinism in this district under a UNICEF aid Project.

Materials and Methods

General conditions and selection of affected areas – The entire region of Xinjiang in central Eurasia is affected by iodine deficiency. The study area, located between the southern border of Tarim basin and the northern slope of Kunlun Mountains, is arid with sandy soil and an annual precipitation less than 50 mm. The cultivated alluvial plain extends from south to north with a steepening gradient. The geographical distributions of endemic goiter and endemic fluorosis are characterized by marked vertical zones. The inhabitants are of lower socioeconomic status, with an annual mean income of about 200 yuan (RMB) per person.

Area with high fluoride and low iodine levels (Area A) – In the township Xinyuan in the lower reaches of Kliya river in the county of Yutian, north of the highway, we examined 250 schoolchildren, aged 7-14 years. The goiter prevalence was 91% and dental fluorosis 20.80%. The average level of iodine in drinking water was 5.21 mg/l, and that of fluoride 0.88 mg/l.

Area with low iodine level (area B) – In the townships of Langan and Jiayi in the alluvial plain before the mountains and to the south of the highway, we examined 256 schoolchildren, aged 7-14 years. The goiter prevalence was 82% and dental fluorosis of 16.00%. The average water iodine level was 0.96 mg/l and that of fluoride 0.34 mg/l. …

* CRETINISM is the condition wherein the child has severely stunted physical growth due to untreated congenital iodine deficiency while myxedema is a form or cutaneous and dermal edema due to increased deposition of the connective tissue components. The subcutaneous tissues are seen in hypothyroidism and Grave’s disease.

Reports of this problem are surfacing in parts of Australia where

water fluoridation has been operating for many years!

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Evidence Shows Fluoridation Danger

by Paul Connett, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Environmental Chemistry,

St. Lawrence University, Canton, Director of Fluoride Action Network.

(See original article)

Currently, I am traveling in Italy giving presentations on waste management. I have been forwarded a copy of your editorial ridiculing any notion that fluoridation could possibly cause any health problem and that practice is extremely effective at reducing tooth decay.

I will leave your councilors to judge the quality of the evidence that I will share with them on March 14. I write now because I am upset with the bullying tone you have adopted with one of your councilors, Amy Valentine. It is well known that if people are unable to answer a disturbing message they begin by attacking the messenger. You have chosen to do so in this case using the authority of local dentists, the American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, on this particular issue all these sources are highly suspect because of their very aggressive and long-term promotion of this practice.

It is simply not enough to parrot the phrase that fluoridation is “safe and effective” to win the case. It is incumbent on those who support this most unusual practice (what other chemical is added to the public water supply to treat people rather than treat the water?), which has been rejected by most industrial countries, to provide the scientific evidence for their claims.

To offset the 23 studies from India, Iran, Mexico and China which have shown that high doses of fluoride are associated with lowered IQ in children, where are the studies of the IQ of children living in Plattsburgh or any other fluoridated community in the U.S.? I am not aware of any. Why have they not been done?

The key question, of course, is whether there is an adequate margin of safety between the levels which have caused this harm in other countries and the levels experienced by children in this country drinking uncontrolled amounts of fluoridated water. The lowest level estimated at which IQ was lowered in one of these studies was 1.8 ppm (Xiang et al., 2003). Can you find a single toxicologist or pharmacologist who will tell you that offers an adequate margin of safety for all children exposed to fluoridated water at 1 ppm? For that matter, will they also tell you that there is an adequate margin of safety for all the other health effects discussed in the 507-page report by the National Research Council, “Fluoride in Drinking Water” published in March 2006? Three of the authors of that report don’t think so and have stated so in public.

On the issue of effectiveness, where is the peer-reviewed, published, scientific evidence that the teeth of children in Plattsburgh are “sturdier” than children in non-fluoridated communities in the area? You have none — only anecdotal reports. In fact, a study commissioned by the N.Y. Department of Health, which examined tooth decay in third graders, found absolutely no relationship between tooth decay averaged by county and percentage of the county’s population drinking fluoridated water! Meanwhile, the data collected by the World Health Organization shows no difference in tooth decay in 12 year-olds between fluoridated and non-fluoridated countries .

In my view adding fluoride — a known toxic substance — to the public drinking water at 250 times the level naturally present in mother’s milk (0.004 ppm) is both reckless and foolish, especially now that even promoters of fluoridation like the CDC admit that fluoride works topically, not systemically, i.e. it works by acting on the surface of the tooth not from inside the body (CDC, 1999, 2001).

Not only did your editorial writer question my concerns about fluoride’s ability to damage the brain, but he or she also questioned my suggestion that fluoride also damages the teeth. That’s strange because the CDC has reported that 32 percent of American children have dental fluorosis, a mottling and discoloration of the teeth caused by ingesting fluoride before the permanent teeth have erupted.

While the largest proportion of children thus affected have the condition in its very mild form, over 3-4 percent of children have the condition in its moderate or severe forms, in which 100 percent of the enamel is affected. Moreover, while these enamel defects can be covered by expensive veneers (about $1,000 per tooth) the worrying aspect about this is that it is generally agreed that dental fluorosis is the first indication that the child’s developing body has been over-exposed to fluoride.

Thus, the key question then becomes, while the fluoride is damaging the growing tooth by some systemic mechanism, what other tissues might it be damaging without this obvious and visible telltale sign? This underlines the significance of the IQ studies from countries which do not have a fluoridation program to protect.

So let’s examine the science here, please, not just the reiteration of long-held beliefs.

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LETTER FROM –

PHYLLIS J. MULLENIX Ph.D

The Report That:

Brain Function Is Vulnerable

To Fluoride…

Phyllis J. Mullenix, Ph.D.

P.O. Box 753 Andover, Massachusetts 01810-3347

Tele. (978) 475-9196,

FAX (978) 749-9447,

5 May  1999

BSA Environmental Services
21403 Chagrin Boulevard
Suite 101
Beachwood, OH 44122

Re: Request for information on drinking water fluoridation

Dear Drs. Romoser-Breno and Beaver:

The April 15 request for comments regarding water fluoridation is vague in that no assurances are offered as to how my written opinion will be used. Thus, a copy of this letter will be sent to Mr. Gilbert Gonzales at Fort Detrick. Without the benefit of having read the “Environmental Assessment” report to which you referred to in your letter, I run the risk of being redundant with regard to the material already prepared. With these caveats, I offer the following comments about the advantages and disadvantages of water fluoridation.

To start, I must correct a statement you made in your letter regarding my being an “expert on drinking water fluoridation issues.” Prior to 1982, my knowledge of fluoride was limited to television commercials saying it was good for my teeth. Rather, my expertise was detection of neurotoxicity, which brought me to the Department of Psychiatry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital and Neuropathology at the Harvard Medical School. It was there that I met Dr. Jack Hein, Director of the Forsyth Dental Center and the scientist responsible for putting mono fluorophosphate (MFP) into toothpaste. Dr. Hein was a student of Dr. Harold Hodge, the chief pharmacologist on the Manhattan Project who conducted the world renowned studies on fluoride (1) and started water fluoridation. Dr. Hein invited me to Forsyth to study the neurotoxic potential of materials that dentists use, starting with fluoride, and we set up the first toxicology department in any dental research institution in the world. I was made Head of the department, and Dr. Hodge moved to Boston and became a member of my department where he stayed until his death in 1990. Another Manhattan Project scientist and fluoride researcher, Dr. Ben Amdur, also joined the department.

My investigations of the neurotoxicity of fluoride started in 1987. Using a new computer pattern recognition system capable of a sensitivity and objectivity other behavioral measures did not possess, we studied an animal model first developed for the study of dental fluorosis. Frankly, we expected to find nothing. The results from the first experiment we thought must be wrong, so we kept repeating the study with more animals, different doses, sexes, ages and methods of administration. Like quicksand, every effort we made sank us further into the realization that brain function was impacted by fluoride. Scientific integrity dictated that we publish our results (2,3), but employed at a dental research institution made us weak in the knees to do so.

In our 1995 paper (2), we reported that brain function was vulnerable to fluoride, that the effects on behavior depended on the age at exposure and that fluoride accumulated in brain tissues. Rats exposed as adults displayed behavior-specific changes typical of cognitive deficits, whereas rats exposed prenatally had dispersed behaviors typical of hyperactivity. Brain histology was not examined, but the behavioral changes were consistent with those seen when hippocampal development is interrupted and memory problems emerge. Overall, we concluded that the rat study flagged potential for motor dysfunction, IQ deficits and/or learning disabilities in humans.

Criticisms of our study by dentists say that our results in rats are not relevant to humans because the doses we used were too high (75-125 pprn NaF in drinking water). These criticisms are without merit because our doses in rats produce a level of fluoride in the plasma equivalent to that found in humans drinking 5- 10 ppm fluoride in water, or humans receiving some treatments for osteoporosis. This plasma level is exceeded ten times over one hour after children receive topical applications of some dental fluoride gels. Thus, humans are being exposed to levels of fluoride that we know alters behavior in rats. Perhaps dentists see no problem with this fact, but scientists involved with toxicity risk assessment will view it differently. The fluoride levels in the drinking water of our rats were not high, they were taken from the well known animal model developed for the study of dental fluorosis, a model used repeatedly by dental researchers for several years.

Other criticisms of equal absurdity have been expressed by dentists about our study. However, they are not important to dwell upon now because that first study was but one piece of an emerging picture. Soon after our study was published, we learned of two epidemiology studies from China showing IQ deficits in children over-exposed to fluoride via drinking water or soot from burning coal (4,5). Next, we found a literature review that assembled case reports spanning 60 years on neurological effects in humans exposed to fluoride (6). A common theme in these reports was that fluoride exposure impaired memory and concentration and that it caused lethargy, headache, depression and confusion. The depression is not something to ignore because suicide occurs more frequently than expected in populations of fluoride workers (7).

More recently, another laboratory investigation found that chronic exposure to fluoride (I ppm) in drinking water of rats compromised neuronal and cerebrovasculature integrity (blood brain barrier) and increased aluminum concentrations in brain tissues (8). Another study found that fluoride in drinking water of rats decreased membrane lipids important to proper brain function (9). Moreover, the latest studies have shown that fluoride accumulates in human and animal pineal glands where it impairs melatonin production (10, 11), a finding critical when it is considered that melatonin is an agent that protects the central nervous system from radiation by scavenging free radicals (12). Finally, there is a recent study published which reports that silicofluorides in fluoridated drinking water increase levels of lead in children’s blood, a risk factor that predicts higher crime rates, attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities (13).

Unfortunately, the link between fluoride and the brain does not end with the above mentioned studies. In 1993 while studying the neurotoxicity associated with the treatments of childhood leukemia, we demonstrated that the fluorinated steroid dexamethasone disrupted behavior in rats to a greater degree than did its non-fluorinated counterpart prednisolone (14,15). This finding prompted a clinical study of children treated for leukemia, where it was found that the fluorinated steroid was more detrimental to IQ than the non-fluorinated steroid, in particular reading comprehension, arithmetic calculation and short-term working memory deficits were greater (16). In short, this finding has fueled a growing concern about the contribution of fluorinated pharmaceuticals to the total body burden of fluoride.

As you decide whether or not to fluoridate the water supplies of Fort Detrick, it is imperative that you consider the impact on total body burden of fluoride. The soldier today is a different individual, facing a very different situation than that encountered fifty years ago when fluoridation was promoted as a “safe and effective” means to protect against tooth decay. The difference stems from the fact that 1) fluoride exposures today are out of control, well beyond the dose touted as optimum for caries prevention; and 2) people today, especially soldiers, are exposed to substances and conditions that will interact with fluoride exposure and magnify harmful effects (i.e., exposure to beryllium, lead, strontium, aluminum, cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides, uranium hexafluoride, stress, nutritional deficiencies, increased water consumption due to extreme exercises, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, and nerve gases including sarin).

In summary, my opinion is that there are no advantages to water fluoridation. The risks today far exceed the hoped for benefit. Dr. Hodge during the Manhattan Project requested funds from Col. Stafford L. Warren to do animal experimentation to determine central nervous system effects of fluoride (17). He did so because he had clinical evidence that the fluoride component of uranium hexafluoride caused “mental confusion, drowsiness and lassitude among the workmen. Yet, he never got to do those studies, and because this information was classified, he never discussed his findings with me. Perhaps, however, this explains why he was so intensely interested in my fluoride studies up to the time of his death.

Therefore, in good conscience I can only discourage the notion of fluoridating the water supply of Fort Detrick. The evidence against the safety of this public health policy will keep mounting and never disappear again. My ignorance of fluoride in the beginning was a matter of chance. If you ignore this evidence today, it will be a matter of choice.

Good luck with doing the right thing.

Sincerely,

Phyllis J. Mullenix, Ph.D.

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Fluoride is not simply an isolated problem for identified thyroid patients. As a widespread hormone disruptor it is very likely to be causing wider mischief, even at supposed safe levels. Fluoride is, of course, just one of a great many environmental hormone disruptors.

However, it is the only one we purposely put into our drinking water…

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

FLUORIDE: 


DAMNING NEW EVIDENCE

Excerpted from:

“What Doctors Don’t Tell You” 
March 1999

Researcher Doris Jones has unearthed startling new evidence

demonstrating that fluoride interferes with enzymes systems,

damaging many organs systems of the body.

Extract:

…. While much has been written about the effects of too much fluoride on teeth and bones, little is known about the effects of fluoride on the rest of the body. But new evidence has emerged demonstrating that it has devastating effects on just about every organ in the body, and may even be partly responsible for behavioral problems like hyperactivity and many puzzling illnesses like ME. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis /Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), The late fluoride critic George L Waldbott discovered that, besides teeth and bones, fluoride can damage soft tissue. According to his research, the small fluorine ion with a high-charge density can combine with other ions and penetrate every cell in the body. It interferes with the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus and the function of the parathyroid glands. It has a strong affinity to calcium, but will also readily combine with magnesium and manganese ions and so can interfere with many enzyme systems that require these minerals. The interruption of these enzyme systems, in turn, may disturb carbohydrate metabolism, bone formation and nerve-muscle physiology. Indeed, every vital function in the body depends on enzymes; because fluoride easily reaches every organ, many diverse toxic symptoms can result.

“Most diseases are results of disturbances of the enzyme systems,” says Professor Abderhalden. “Damage due to fluoride could be shown on 24 enzymes.” Enzyme systems react to fluoride in different ways; some are activated, others are inhibited. Lipase (essential for the digestion of fat) and phosphatases are very sensitive to fluoride. In patients with skeletal fluorosis, succinate dehydrogenase activity is inhibited. In chronic fluoride poisoning, this diminished enzyme activity accounts for muscular weakness and even muscle wasting. Human salivary acid phosphatase is diminished by half when exposed to 3.8 ppm of fluoride, while blood enzyme cholinesterase is inhibited by 61 per cent on exposure to 0.95 ppm fluoride-a level within recommended levels. So what does this do in the body? (Author, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, Springer Verlag, 1970: 48-97).

Alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme involved in bone growth and liver function, may also be poorly affected by low-level fluoride intake. According to scientists from the Department of Chemistry of the University of California at San Diego, fluoride switches off an enzyme by attacking its weakest links-the delicately balanced network of hydrogen bonds surrounding the enzyme’s active sites (J Biol Chem, 1984; 259: 12984-88).

Their particular studies concerned the enzyme cytochrome C oxidase, an oxygen-carrying respiratory enzyme; deficiencies of this vital enzyme have been linked to cancer, severe diseases and even cot death.

It’s also been shown by research at Kings College in London that fluoride forms very strong hydrogen bonds with amides, which are formed when amino acids join together to form a protein (J Am Chem Soc, 1981; 103: 24-8). This can also cause chromosomal damage. If the protein is greatly distorted, the body’s immune system no longer recognizes it, treats it as a foreign protein and will try to destroy it, which in turn triggers allergic skin or gastrointestinal reactions (J Yiamouyiannis, Fluoride: The Aging Factor,. Delaware, Ohio: Health Action Press, 1993: 94-9). 

Stomach and bowel disorders are the main features of fluoride intolerance. Even small amounts of fluoride can form hydrofluoric acid in the stomach to produce gastric pains, nausea and vomiting. Young children are particularly at risk. Fluoride tablets can even cause gastric hemorrhages; in one instance, a 9-year-old boy sustained such damage that he required the removal of large parts of his stomach (Fluoride, 1977; 10: 149-51).

The most readily identifiable feature of soft-tissue fluorosis is extraordinary general fatigue, which is frequently linked to thyroid deficiency. The thyroid gland requires iodine to produce the hormone thyroxine, which controls the rate of metabolism in the body. But when fluorine is present, it displaces iodine, which will cause a thyroid gland to stop working properly (K Roholm: Fluor and Fluorverbindungen, in: Handbuch Experimenteller Pharmakologie, Ergaenzungswerk, Vol.7, Springer, 1938: 20).

The parathyroid gland, which regulates the distribution of calcium and phosphorus in the body, is extremely sensitive to excessive amounts of fluoride. Over fifty years ago, Indian clinicians found a close relationship between skeletal fluorosis and hyperparathyroidism (J Hyg 1942; 42: 500-4).

Fluoride has even been shown to affect the pituitary gland, which controls growth rate by regulating the production of thyroid hormones (Seances Soc Biol Fil, 1930; 103: 981-2). In animals, less than normal amounts of thyroid hormones are produced when animals are given water containing a fluoride content equivalent to that of artificial water fluoridation (Bull Schweiz Akad Med Wiss, 1954; 10: 211-20). Using scanning electron-microscope photographs, Professor AK Susheela of the Fluoride and Fluorosis Research Foundation of India and Senior Consultant to the Indian government, who has published over 100 scientific papers on the hazards of fluoride, proved that when exposed to fluoride, red blood cells are killed prematurely, lowering haemoglobin and causing anaemia.

She also showed that calcium levels diminish as fluoride levels in the body rise; the gastrointestinal tract mucosa is damaged, causing irritable bowel syndrome; and blood fluoride levels rise continuously with prolonged use of fluoridated toothpaste.

When people are bombarded with fluoride, in the form of fluoridated water, toothpaste and mouth rinses, muscles and elements of connective tissue, particularly collagen fiber and bone tissue, undergo degenerative changes.

At the 1998 US Conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research in Bellingham, Washington, Dr Jennifer Luke from the University of Surrey, UK, presented evidence on the effects of low and high doses of fluoride on the pineal gland in gerbils. In both gerbils and humans this gland helps control the aging process and the production of melatonin, which regulates the sleep/wake cycle. Gerbils exposed to a high level of fluoride experienced a significant decrease in the production of melatonin, and earlier genital maturation. While animal studies may not always be applicable to humans, Dr Luke theorized that mass fluoridation may be behind the general decline in the age of puberty in the West (Fluoride, 1998; 31: 4: 175).

In areas where water is fluoridated, evidence shows that dangerously high fluoride concentrations accumulate in many soft tissues and organs of the population, including the heart, kidney and bladder; the highest level ever recorded-8400 ppm-was found in the aortas of people living in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where fluoride was first introduced in America.

The heart and blood vessels are affected by fluoride. Cardiac irregularities and low blood pressure have been noted in experimental poisoning using large doses (Publ Health Report, 1956;71:459-67). In 1950, five years after experimental introduction of fluoride into drinking water in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the number of deaths from heart disease nearly doubled (The Grand Rapid Herald, July 28, 1955). Death rates due to cancer, intracranial lesions, diabetes and arteriosclerosis were all markedly increased compared to death rates per 100,000 in the entire state.

In electrographic studies, Japanese researcher Taka Mori showed a direct link between damage to the heart and dental fluorosis in children who drank water with a fluoride content of 0.5-6.2 ppm. Fluoride also affects arteries, causing bruise-like skin lesions called “Chizzola maculae’”, showing inflammatory areas around capillary blood vessels. Because fluoride attracts calcium, it contributes to their hardening. Fluoride affects the brain and entire central nervous system. Neurological problems like headaches, vertigo, spasticity in extremities, visual disturbances and impaired mental acuity can all result. Tissue damage to anterior horn cells has been found (Fluoride,1975;8:61-85). Official annual statistics revealed that death rates among malnourished children in the Chilean town of Curico, fluoridated since 1953, were to 104 per cent higher than in comparable, non-fluoridated towns, and the general mortality was higher by 113 per cent, compared with the average for the country (Ziegelbecker R et al, Journal? 1995:47-48).

Fluoride, hyperactivity and violence.
- Several studies have shown that exposure to fluoride can cause behavioral changes (Int Clin Psychopharmacol, 1994;9:79-82; Neurotoxicol and Teratol, 1995;17:169-77; Fluoride, 1996;29:187-88) At a 1998 Conference on Fluoride, Professor Roger Masters reported a link between the blood lead levels of 280,000 children in Massachusetts and the use of silicofluorides for water fluoridation. Here and in Georgia, behaviors associated with lead toxicity, such as violent crime, are more frequent in communities using silicofluorides than in areas not using them. At the same conference Dr Phyllis Mullenix reported results of a study using two steroids to treat childhood leukemia, one of which had a fluorine atom in its structure. In the study, this steroid caused behavior patterns typical of hyperactivity. A follow-up study of children using this drug for two years showed a significant drop in average IQ scores, compared with children using the non-fluoride drug (Fluoride, Nov.1998;31;4:175).
In one family in Glasgow, every member is severely affected by fluoride-the mother experienced an anaphylactic shock to Prozac, which contains fluorine, and all four children exhibited erratic/violent behavior and suffered from immune system damage on exposure to fluoride (in their drinking water?

Fluoride And ME
 A[l]though few researchers have looked at the role of fluoride in the development of ME, there are conspicuous similarities between key features of ME/CFS and those seen in the very early stages of chronic fluoride intoxication (Fluoride,1998; 31:13-20)

Dr John McLaren Howard of Biolab in London offers a few important clues why. He discovered that ME patients experience reduced movement of white blood cells when exposed to quite low levels of fluoride (Inter Action 14, Autumn, 1994:53-54). This effect on white blood cells might render patients less able to fight infections efficiently, or lead to an exacerbation of their health problems.

Fluoride also interferes with phagocytosis, as well as causing the release of superoxide free radicals in resting white blood cells. This means that fluoride slows down and weakens the very cells which serve as the body’s defense system; bacteria, viruses, chemicals and the body’s own damaged or cancerous cells are then allowed to wreak havoc. Minor infections take longer to throw off and cause more serious illness (John Yiamouyiannis, The Aging Factor, Health Action Press, 1993:p32). This is precisely what appears to be happening in many cases of ME.

We do not know how many children or teenagers had topical high concentration fluoride dental treatment before succumbing to infections which led to ME/CFS. My son had fluoride treatment to prevent tooth decay in the autumn of 1979, after which his health dramatically deteriorated, commencing with gastric problems, various minor infections, then glandular fever, followed by atypical measles, more infections and eventually resulting in ME in 1980. In the end the fluoride treatment didn’t work in preventing tooth decay-he’s needed 15 fillings over the past nine years.

The American pathologist Majid Ali explains that chronic fatigue results due to “accelerated oxidative molecular injury”. Only a well functioning enzyme system can protect us from such injury and maintain normal energy levels. In chronic fatigue there is a high frequency of membrane deformities, due to increased oxidative stress on the cell membranes, which is why sufferers lack energy. Interestingly, Ali also highlights gastrointestinal disturbances, such as IBS, as playing a significant part in chronic fatigue (The Canary and Chronic Fatigue, Life Span Press, 1994).

Many ME patients have an under active thyroid (InterAction 27, Sept.1998:27). Chronic fatigue and exhaustion due to hypothyroidism is a cardinal feature in the Chronic Fluoride Toxicity Syndrome.

Experienced researchers who have studied ME for decades maintain that as with polio, it is damage to anterior horn colles caused by a gut virus, which explains why polio victims are paralyzed or suffer from impaired motor function (The Clin and Scientific Basis of ME/CFS). But fluoride has also been shown to damage anterior horn cells. Gastrointestinal disturbances, often referred to as IBS, are also known to play a significant part in ME, as they are in the Chronic Fluoride Toxicity Syndrome.

Severe sleep disturbances, or reversal of sleep rhythm, are a common feature in ME/CFS (Clin). Deposits of large quantities of fluoride in the pineal gland of animals have caused similar problems (J Luke, Bellingham Conference, 1998).

At this point, no one knows to what extend these syndromes overlap, or fluoride or fluorine facilitates the development of ME by various biological agents. The indications are that fluoride may act as a “facilitating co-factor” and exacerbate existing problems in such patients. Or it could be, as Dr H C Moolenburgh suggests, that ME is one of the end stages of a general chemical poisoning, with fluoride one of the worse offenders (personal communication, 7.1.1999). Although many unanswered questions remain, one thing can be said with certainty. Fluoride not only is not beneficial, but may turn out to be one of the major factors in the serious health problems besetting modern man.

Doris Jones 
© What Doctors Don’t Tell You Ltd. 1998

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The Social Implications of Neuroscience:

Linking Brain Biochemistry and Violent Crime

Roger D. Masters (Dartmouth College)·

THIS FILE IS A DRAFT OF THE CHAPTER WITH THIS TITLE IN:

Richard W. Bloom and Nancy Dess, eds., Evolutionary Psychology and Violence: A Primer for Policymakers and Public Policy Advocates (Westport: Praeger, 2003), pp. 23-56.

ABSTRACT

It is impossible to deny that a revolution in neuroscience and other areas of biology has taken place over the last half-century.  The  estimates of 83 million Americans taking drugs like Prozac for depression and 11 million children on Ritalin for hyperactivity indicate it is time to reconsider the role of brain chemistry in social behavior and violent behavior.  Since it is obvious that loss of impulse control can contribute to violent outbursts – and evidence shows that some toxic chemicals (such as lead) can have this effect, it is time to consider neuroscientific evidence linking environmental toxins and rates of violent behavior.  To illustrate the implications of the new issues involved, I focus on a hitherto unexplored example.  Two chemicals (H₂SiF₆ and Na₂SiF₆, jointly called “silicofluorides” or SiFs) are used to treat public water supplies of 140 million Americans even though, as the EPA has admitted, they never been tested for safety.  To illustrate the interdisciplinary complexities entailed when linking brain chemistry to policy decisions concerning violent crime, our argument has four main stages: first, why might SiFs be dangerous? Second, what biochemical effects of SiF could have toxic consequences for humans?  Third, on this basis a research hypothesis is formulated to measure the types of harm.  In this case, we predict children in communities using SiF should have increased uptake of lead from environmental sources and higher rates of behavioral dysfunctions such as hyperactivity (ADHD) known to be caused by lead neurotoxicity.  Finally, the hypothesis is tested using multiple sources of data including rates of violent crime studied using a variety of multivariate statistical techniques (including analysis of variance, multiple regression, and stepwise regression).  As this outline should make clear, a combination of interdisciplinary perspectives and great prudence is needed to link research in neuroscience to policies concerning violent crime,  If confirmed, however, the potential benefits of hypotheses like the one tested below may be great, revealing the generally unsuspected value of including neuroscientific research in the analysis of human social behavior.

Requests for reprints and correspondence should be directed to:
Prof. Roger D. Masters, Department of Government, HB 6222,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755.
Email: Roger.D.Masters@Dartmouth.edu

The full version of the above is on the net,

and as the above suggests adding silicofluorides

to drinking water amounts to domestic terrorism.

Joining_the_Dots_on_Australian_Fluoridation_Fraud

THE RELATIONSHIP OF A LOW-IODINE AND

HIGH-FLUORIDE ENVIRONMENT TO SUBCLINICAL

CRETINISM* IN XINJIANG (China)

by

Lin Fa-Fu, Aihaiti, Zhao Hong-Xin,

Lin Jin, Jiang Ji-Yong, Maimaiti, and Aiken.

extract:

… Xinjiang Institute for Endemic Disease Control and Research;

Office of Leading Group for Endemic Disease Control of Hetian Prefectural

Committee of the Communist Party of China; and County Health and

Epidemic Prevention Station, Yutian, Xinjiang.

Cretinism in iodine-deficiency areas is well known, yet the milder forms of somatic and psychomotor maldevelopment and thyroid dysfunction caused by iodine deficiency may be more difficult to detect. DeQuervain, in 1936, called this milder form “semi-cretinism,” while in 1980 Laggasse used the term “cretinoidism.” It was formally named “subclinical endemic cretinism” at a symposium on subclinical cretinism held in Xinzhou, Shanxi province in 1985.

Currently, attention is being focused on these disorders in China and abroad. The Hetian prefecture in Xinjiang has reportedly been one of the Asian areas most severely affected by iodine deficiency disorders (IDD).

During the period 1987-1989, we made a systematic survey of subclinical endemic cretinism in this district under a UNICEF aid Project.

Materials and Methods

General conditions and selection of affected areas – The entire region of Xinjiang in central Eurasia is affected by iodine deficiency. The study area, located between the southern border of Tarim basin and the northern slope of Kunlun Mountains, is arid with sandy soil and an annual precipitation less than 50 mm. The cultivated alluvial plain extends from south to north with a steepening gradient. The geographical distributions of endemic goiter and endemic fluorosis are characterized by marked vertical zones. The inhabitants are of lower socioeconomic status, with an annual mean income of about 200 yuan (RMB) per person.

Area with high fluoride and low iodine levels (Area A) – In the township Xinyuan in the lower reaches of Kliya river in the county of Yutian, north of the highway, we examined 250 schoolchildren, aged 7-14 years. The goiter prevalence was 91% and dental fluorosis 20.80%. The average level of iodine in drinking water was 5.21 mg/l, and that of fluoride 0.88 mg/l.

Area with low iodine level (area B) – In the townships of Langan and Jiayi in the alluvial plain before the mountains and to the south of the highway, we examined 256 schoolchildren, aged 7-14 years. The goiter prevalence was 82% and dental fluorosis of 16.00%. The average water iodine level was 0.96 mg/l and that of fluoride 0.34 mg/l. …

* CRETINISM is the condition wherein the child has severely stunted physical growth due to untreated congenital iodine deficiency while myxedema is a form or cutaneous and dermal edema due to increased deposition of the connective tissue components. The subcutaneous tissues are seen in hypothyroidism and Grave’s disease.

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— FLUORIDE TOOTHPASTES —

HEALTH WARNING:

On a tube of toothpaste that is supplied abroad,

there is the  following warning in bold faced capitals -

❝  WARNING:

KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN UNDER SIX YEARS OF AGE.  IN CASE OF ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE, SEEK PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE OR CONTACT A POISON CONTROL CENTER IMMEDIATELY. ❞  

Australian Toothpaste also

needs to be labeled!

Fluoride is toxic and is a major cause of disease

in the human body.

Fluoride for the prevention of cavities is a scam

on the American population.

Two Hundred and Forty children under 6 years old

died last year from ingesting fluoride toothpaste.

Read the warning label on fluoride toothpaste:

Toothpaste  contains 1000 to 1,450 parts

per million (ppm) of fluoride.

HOWEVER ‘Neutrafluor’ contains

5000 parts per million (ppm) of fluoride.

Read on …

COLGATE NEUTRAFLUOR TOOTHPASTE 5000 (56g)

❝ This product is a Pharmacist Only Medicine and requires pharmacist advice for us to send it to you. If you order this product, you will be required to call us within 48 hours on 1300 367 283 to complete the order. In the event that you do not do this, the product will be deleted from your order and the balance of your order will be dispatched.

This is not required if you have a doctor’s prescription.

Directions:

Adults and children 6 years or older, apply a thin ribbon of Neutrafluor 5000 Plus to a soft, small headed, multi-tufted toothbrush.

Brush thoroughly for two minutes preferably at bedtime, or use as recommended be your dental professional.

Adults should spit out after brushing.

Children aged 6-16 years, should brush under supervision, spit out after use and rinse mouth thoroughly.

For best results, avoid eating or drinking for 30 minutes.

Ingredients

Contains 1.1% w/w Neutral Sodium Fluoride.

Also contains: Sodium benzoate; Sodium saccharin.

Warnings

DO NOT SWALLOW.

As with all medications, keep out of reach of infants and children.

Neutral Sodium Fluoride Rinse Side Effects

Please note – some side effects for Neutral Sodium Fluoride Rinse may not be reported. Always consult your doctor or healthcare specialist for medical advice. You may also report side effects to the FDA at http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/ or 1-800-FDA-1088 (1-800-332-1088).

Read more: http://www.drugs.com/sfx/neutral-sodium-fluoride-rinse-side-effects.html#ixzz10cgldgBE

NeutraFluor 5000 Plus is a high concentration sodium fluoride toothpaste for use by patients who have a high risk of dental decay (caries). Scientific research concludes that when toothpaste containing a relatively high amount of fluoride is applied to the teeth it offers increased protection against acid attack from decay causing bacteria in the mouth.

What is in the product?

This toothpaste contains fluoride, and each treatment dose, i.e. a thin ribbon of paste on a toothbrush contains 2.5mg fluoride

(5,000ppm sodium fluoride). The toothpaste also contains a number of other ingredients. These are necessary to facilitate the consistency, flavour, foaming and cleaning actions of the toothpaste. These ingredients include silica, sorbitol, saccharin, polyethylene glycol, gum, flavour, sodium benzoate, sodium laurel sulphate, titanium dioxide, sodium hydroxide and brilliant blue colour.

NeutraFluor 5000 Plus is registered on the Australian Register of

Therapeutic Goods and its number is Aust R 67437.

NeutraFluor 5000 Plus comes in a 56g tube.

Before using this product

NeutraFluor 5000 Plus should only be used on the recommendation of your dentist or doctor, as part of a tooth decay prevention routine.

NeutraFluor 5000 Plus should not be used by any person with known allergic reactions to fluoride or the other ingredients stated above.

Children under 6 years should not use NeutraFluor 5000 Plus unless recommended by a dentist or doctor.

Pregnant or breastfeeding women should be cautious before using this product and discuss its use with their dentist or doctor.

Do not swallow the toothpaste.

The toothpaste acts on the surface of your teeth and does not need to be swallowed.

Dosage: Follow these instructions unless otherwise instructed by your dentist or doctor:

1. Adults and children 6 years and older:

Apply a thin ribbon of NeutraFluor 5000 Plus to a soft, small headed, multi-tufted toothbrush. Brush teeth thoroughly for two minutes.

2. After use: Adult spit out. Children aged 6 -16 years spit out after use and rinse mouth thoroughly. For best results, do not eat, drink or rinse your mouth for 30 minutes.

NeutraFluor 5000 Plus is easily applied on a toothbrush and should be used daily in place of regular fluoride toothpaste unless otherwise instructed by your dentist or doctor.

In the event of an overdose, contact your nearest Poisons Information Centre (or hospital accident and emergency department), or tell your doctor immediately.

Unwanted effects:

Allergic reactions have been rarely reported with the use of fluoride toothpastes.

Should you experience any unwanted effect from using the product you should stop using the product and consult your doctor or dentist.

How to store the product

You should keep your NeutraFluor 5000 Plus below 25°C and out of reach of children.

This product should not be used after the expiry date which is clearly marked at the crimp on the end of the tube.

NeutraFluor 5000 Plus is a product developed by Colgate-Palmolive.

Colgate Oral Care 345 George Street Sydney NSW 2000

For all enquiries regarding this product, please call Consumer

Information Service (Free Call) 1800802 307 (Australia) or

0800 441 740 (New Zealand)

This package leaflet was developed in January 1999.

Published by MIMS/myDr November 2000 ❞

Extract from another web site:

❝ Conclusions:  This review suggests that the training of staff in the form of a comprehensive practically oriented program addressing areas such as oral diseases, oral screening assessment, and hands-on demonstration of oral hygiene techniques and products is likely to have a positive impact on the management of oral hygiene care within residential aged care facilities. The review also identified that regular brushing with fluoride toothpaste, use of therapeutic fluoride products and application of therapeutic chlorhexidine gluconate products are validated by research as effective for the general population and some populations with special needs. ❞

❝ This toothpaste has a very high fluoride content for at risk patients ie elderly patients with dry mouths at risk of root caries, patients with teeth that are sensitive due to exposed dentine and institutionalised or otherwise people unable to look after their teeth. It should not be swallowed and is unsuitable for use by children under the age of 10. …❞

This toothpaste also contains a number of other ingredients:

“These are necessary to facilitate the consistency, flavour, foaming and cleaning actions of the toothpaste. These ingredients include silica, sorbitol, saccharin, polyethylene glycol, gum, flavour, sodium benzoate, sodium laurel sulphate, titanium dioxide, sodium hydroxide and brilliant blue colour.”

Not many safe ingredients here !

Coming to a nursing home near you…

Our Post Comment:

Given the lethal and allergic contents of one tube of this product, voluntary use

should inhibit sales however, this product may be of interest to:

Exit International (Assisted Suicide/ Voluntary Euthanasia)

Exit International is a leading End of Life Choices law reform

& information/ advocacy non-profit, founded by —

Dr Philip Nitschke PhD, MD. 

OUR COMMENT:

This product is legal, lethal, and cheaper than an

airline ticket to Mexico for phenobarbitone,

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LETTER FROM – PHYLLIS J. MULLENIX Ph.D

The Report That:

Brain Function Is Vulnerable To Fluoride…

Phyllis J. Mullenix, Ph.D.

P.O. Box 753 Andover, Massachusetts 01810-3347

Tele. (978) 475-9196,

FAX (978) 749-9447,

5 May  1999

BSA Environmental Services
21403 Chagrin Boulevard


Suite 101
Beachwood, OH 44122

Re: Request for information on drinking water fluoridation

Dear Drs. Romoser-Breno and Beaver:

The April 15 request for comments regarding water fluoridation is vague in that no assurances are offered as to how my written opinion will be used. Thus, a copy of this letter will be sent to Mr. Gilbert Gonzales at Fort Detrick. Without the benefit of having read the “Environmental Assessment” report to which you referred to in your letter, I run the risk of being redundant with regard to the material already prepared. With these caveats, I offer the following comments about the advantages and disadvantages of water fluoridation.

To start, I must correct a statement you made in your letter regarding my being an “expert on drinking water fluoridation issues.” Prior to 1982, my knowledge of fluoride was limited to television commercials saying it was good for my teeth. Rather, my expertise was detection of neurotoxicity, which brought me to the Department of Psychiatry at Boston’s Children’s Hospital and Neuropathology at the Harvard Medical School. It was there that I met Dr. Jack Hein, Director of the Forsyth Dental Center and the scientist responsible for putting mono fluorophosphate (MFP) into toothpaste. Dr. Hein was a student of Dr. Harold Hodge, the chief pharmacologist on the Manhattan Project who conducted the world renowned studies on fluoride (1) and started water fluoridation. Dr. Hein invited me to Forsyth to study the neurotoxic potential of materials that dentists use, starting with fluoride, and we set up the first toxicology department in any dental research institution in the world. I was made Head of the department, and Dr. Hodge moved to Boston and became a member of my department where he stayed until his death in 1990. Another Manhattan Project scientist and fluoride researcher, Dr. Ben Amdur, also joined the department.

My investigations of the neurotoxicity of fluoride started in 1987. Using a new computer pattern recognition system capable of a sensitivity and objectivity other behavioral measures did not possess, we studied an animal model first developed for the study of dental fluorosis. Frankly, we expected to find nothing. The results from the first experiment we thought must be wrong, so we kept repeating the study with more animals, different doses, sexes, ages and methods of administration. Like quicksand, every effort we made sank us further into the realization that brain function was impacted by fluoride. Scientific integrity dictated that we publish our results (2,3), but employed at a dental research institution made us weak in the knees to do so.

In our 1995 paper (2), we reported that brain function was vulnerable to fluoride, that the effects on behavior depended on the age at exposure and that fluoride accumulated in brain tissues. Rats exposed as adults displayed behavior-specific changes typical of cognitive deficits, whereas rats exposed prenatally had dispersed behaviors typical of hyperactivity. Brain histology was not examined, but the behavioral changes were consistent with those seen when hippocampal development is interrupted and memory problems emerge. Overall, we concluded that the rat study flagged potential for motor dysfunction, IQ deficits and/or learning disabilities in humans.

Criticisms of our study by dentists say that our results in rats are not relevant to humans because the doses we used were too high (75-125 pprn NaF in drinking water). These criticisms are without merit because our doses in rats produce a level of fluoride in the plasma equivalent to that found in humans drinking 5- 10 ppm fluoride in water, or humans receiving some treatments for osteoporosis. This plasma level is exceeded ten times over one hour after children receive topical applications of some dental fluoride gels. Thus, humans are being exposed to levels of fluoride that we know alters behavior in rats. Perhaps dentists see no problem with this fact, but scientists involved with toxicity risk assessment will view it differently. The fluoride levels in the drinking water of our rats were not high, they were taken from the well known animal model developed for the study of dental fluorosis, a model used repeatedly by dental researchers for several years.

Other criticisms of equal absurdity have been expressed by dentists about our study. However, they are not important to dwell upon now because that first study was but one piece of an emerging picture. Soon after our study was published, we learned of two epidemiology studies from China showing IQ deficits in children over-exposed to fluoride via drinking water or soot from burning coal (4,5). Next, we found a literature review that assembled case reports spanning 60 years on neurological effects in humans exposed to fluoride (6). A common theme in these reports was that fluoride exposure impaired memory and concentration and that it caused lethargy, headache, depression and confusion. The depression is not something to ignore because suicide occurs more frequently than expected in populations of fluoride workers (7).

More recently, another laboratory investigation found that chronic exposure to fluoride (I ppm) in drinking water of rats compromised neuronal and cerebrovasculature integrity (blood brain barrier) and increased aluminum concentrations in brain tissues (8). Another study found that fluoride in drinking water of rats decreased membrane lipids important to proper brain function (9). Moreover, the latest studies have shown that fluoride accumulates in human and animal pineal glands where it impairs melatonin production (10, 11), a finding critical when it is considered that melatonin is an agent that protects the central nervous system from radiation by scavenging free radicals (12). Finally, there is a recent study published which reports that silicofluorides in fluoridated drinking water increase levels of lead in children’s blood, a risk factor that predicts higher crime rates, attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities (13).

Unfortunately, the link between fluoride and the brain does not end with the above mentioned studies. In 1993 while studying the neurotoxicity associated with the treatments of childhood leukemia, we demonstrated that the fluorinated steroid dexamethasone disrupted behavior in rats to a greater degree than did its non-fluorinated counterpart prednisolone (14,15). This finding prompted a clinical study of children treated for leukemia, where it was found that the fluorinated steroid was more detrimental to IQ than the non-fluorinated steroid, in particular reading comprehension, arithmetic calculation and short-term working memory deficits were greater (16). In short, this finding has fueled a growing concern about the contribution of fluorinated pharmaceuticals to the total body burden of fluoride.

As you decide whether or not to fluoridate the water supplies of Fort Detrick, it is imperative that you consider the impact on total body burden of fluoride. The soldier today is a different individual, facing a very different situation than that encountered fifty years ago when fluoridation was promoted as a “safe and effective” means to protect against tooth decay. The difference stems from the fact that 1) fluoride exposures today are out of control, well beyond the dose touted as optimum for caries prevention; and 2) people today, especially soldiers, are exposed to substances and conditions that will interact with fluoride exposure and magnify harmful effects (i.e., exposure to beryllium, lead, strontium, aluminum, cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides, uranium hexafluoride, stress, nutritional deficiencies, increased water consumption due to extreme exercises, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, and nerve gases including sarin).

In summary, my opinion is that there are no advantages to water fluoridation. The risks today far exceed the hoped for benefit. Dr. Hodge during the Manhattan Project requested funds from Col. Stafford L. Warren to do animal experimentation to determine central nervous system effects of fluoride (17). He did so because he had clinical evidence that the fluoride component of uranium hexafluoride caused “mental confusion, drowsiness and lassitude among the workmen. Yet, he never got to do those studies, and because this information was classified, he never discussed his findings with me. Perhaps, however, this explains why he was so intensely interested in my fluoride studies up to the time of his death.

Therefore, in good conscience I can only discourage the notion of fluoridating the water supply of Fort Detrick. The evidence against the safety of this public health policy will keep mounting and never disappear again. My ignorance of fluoride in the beginning was a matter of chance. If you ignore this evidence today, it will be a matter of choice.

Good luck with doing the right thing.

Sincerely,

Phyllis J. Mullenix, Ph.D.

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Fluoride is not simply an isolated problem for identified thyroid patients. As a widespread hormone disruptor it is very likely to be causing wider mischief, even at supposed safe levels. Fluoride is, of course, just one of a great many environmental hormone disruptors.

However, it is the only one we purposely put into our drinking water

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