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New Fluoride Study; Dr Mercola 05/21/12
Topic Started: May 21 2012, 06:00 AM (275 Views)
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Government-Endorsed Fluoride Is the leading cause of death
By Dr. Mercola

It's no secret that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. But how many people realize that fluoride—which is still added to many municipal water supplies in the U.S.—is linked to heart disease? :twitch:

In a new study published in the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, researchers found that fluoride may be associated with an increased cardiovascular risk as it causes hardening of your arteries.

Reviewing the imaging data and cardiovascular history of patients who received whole-body sodium fluoride PET scans, the researchers found a significant correlation between a history of cardiovascular events and presence of fluoride uptake in coronary arteries.

While there are certainly many factors contributing to the rise in heart disease—poor diet likely being the most important—it certainly doesn't help to add a chemical to water supplies that will be consumed by everyone in the area regardless of health status, from toddlers to seniors, that might contribute to the problem.

The primary issue here is that there's a lack of evidence supporting the use of fluoride, and an awful lot of evidence stacked against the indiscriminate use of it, including these latest findings.

The practice of adding fluoride to tap water began in 1945. With more than 70 percent of U.S. public water supplies currently fluoridated, chances are you're one of the 170 million Americans who drink and bathe in fluoride on a daily basis.[ii]

Most likely, your dentist—along with countless government and public health officials—has praised and promoted the use of fluoride, both in toothpaste and drinking water, as one of your must-do regimens to promote strong and healthy teeth.

But let's make this point clear right from the start: fluoride is not an essential nutrient needed for your health—dental or otherwise. There is not one single process in your body that requires fluoride.

Fluoride is a Cumulative Poison

It's important to realize that fluoride is a cumulative poison. Approximately 98 percent of the fluoride you ingest in water is absorbed into your blood through your gastrointestinal tract. From there, it enters your body's cellular tissues. On average, about 50 percent of the fluoride you ingest each day gets excreted through your kidneys.

Whether this happens or not is highly dependent on the presence of calcium, magnesium, Vitamin C, and selenium in your bloodstream, to which the fluoride will bind so that it no longer is seeking calcium-rich tissues that make up so much of your body. The remainder accumulates in your teeth and bones,iii pineal gland,iv and other tissues, including your blood vessels.

According to the featured study:

"Fluoride uptake in vascular walls was demonstrated in 361 sites of 54 (96%) patients, whereas calcification was observed in 317 sites of 49 (88%) patients. Significant correlation between fluoride uptake and calcification was observed in most of the arterial walls, except in those of the abdominal aorta. Fluoride uptake in coronary arteries was demonstrated in 28 (46%) patients and coronary calcifications were observed in 34 (56%) patients."

The amount deposited into your bones and teeth varies depending on your age. In children, more than 50 percent of an ingested dose of fluoride is deposited in bone, but in adults only about 10 percent is stored there. As the number of research studies into the toxic effects of fluoride has increased, there is now support for a rather long list of potential health problems related to fluoride accumulation in your body.

Here's a list of 20 of the most commonly mentioned health hazards and diseases associated with fluoride exposure:v,vi

Lowers IQ Hyperactivity and/or lethargyviii Increases lead absorptionix Disrupts synthesis of collagen
Brain damage Dementia Muscle disorders Arthritis
Bone fracturesvii Bone cancer (osteosarcoma) Dental fluorosis (staining and pitting of teeth) Lowers thyroid function
Disrupts immune system Inhibits formation of antibodies Genetic damage and cell deathx Inactivates 62 enzymesxii
Increases tumor and cancer rate Increases aging process Reduces melatonin production and leads to earlier onset of pubertyxi Damages sperm, increases infertility
Fluoride—the Toxic Drug in Your Water Supply

Prior to 1945 when communal water fluoridation took effect, fluoride was a known toxin. For example, a 1936 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association stated that fluoride at the 1 ppm (part per million) concentration is as toxic as arsenic and lead. The Journal of the American Medical Association stated in their September 18, 1943 issue, that fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons that change the permeability of the cell membrane by certain enzymes.xiii And, an editorial published in the Journal of the American Dental Association, October 1, 1944, stated:

"Drinking water containing as little as 1.2 ppm fluoride will cause developmental disturbances. We cannot run the risk of producing such serious systemic disturbances. The potentialities for harm outweigh those for good."

How community water fluoridation ended up being so widely implemented, and eventually even became heralded as one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century, is explained in-depth in Christopher Bryson's book The Fluoride Deception.xiv In it, he describes the intertwined interests that existed in the 1940's and 50's between the aluminum industry, the U.S. nuclear weapons program, and the dental industry, which resulted in fluoride being declared not only safe, but beneficial to human health. Once you understand the historical context, it becomes easier to grasp why anyone would ever promote water fluoridation as "a good idea."

Due to the massive amounts of fluoride required to produce bomb-grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons, the Manhattan Project conducted various experiments to determine its toxic effects in 1946.

There were already several instances on record of fluoride being toxic to crops, livestock and people living downwind from the polluters, so the public concern over fluoride emissions needed to be quelled in order to avoid potentially crippling lawsuits.

Within the now declassified files of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Energy Commission, Christopher Bryson found that the toxicology department at the University of Rochester, under the direction of Harold Hodge, was asked to produce medical information about fluoride that could help defend the government against lawsuits where they were charged with fluoride pollution. Back in 1957, Harold Hodge was the nation's leading, most trusted scientist, and when he declared that fluoride was "absolutely safe" at 1 ppm, everyone believed him.

So, the endorsement of fluoride as a nutrient that will grace you with brilliant pearly whites, rather than the poison it really is, was born from the need to address increasingly debilitating political and industrial problems relating to fluoride pollution. The rest, as they say, is history.

What's Really Added to Your Water Supply?

It's important to understand that the "fluoride" added to your drinking water is NOT the natural mineral, nor a pharmaceutical grade fluoride. Instead, the product most commonly used is another chemical fluoride compound—a toxic waste product from phosphate fertilizer plants.

There are three basic compounds that can be used for fluoridating water supplies:xv

Sodium fluoride (NaF)
Sodium silicofluoride
Hydrofluorosilicic acid
The first one of these, sodium fluoride, was the first of the fluoride waste materials to be used for fluoridation, but now is rarely used. It's the most well known, as this is the compound used as pharmaceutical grade in toxicology studies and other research into the potential health dangers of fluoride. The other two, sodium silicofluoride and hydrofluorosilicic acid, are the compounds actually used for water fluoridation, with hydrofluorosilicic acid being the most commonly used additive, according to the CDC.xvi Sodium silicofluoride and hydrofluorosilicic acid are the waste products from the wet scrubbering systems of the fertilizer industry, and are classified as hazardous wastes. Contamination with various impurities such as arsenic is also common in these products.

Hydrofluorosilicic acid is one of the most reactive chemicals known to man. Its toxicity is well known in chemical circles. It will eat through metal and plastic pipes, and corrode stainless steel and other materials. It will dissolve rubber tires and melt concretexvii. This is what is added to your water—all in the name of saving children from cavities! But even the less reactive sodium fluoride is a deadly poison, even in small quantities, and in the form used for fluoridation also contains additional impurities. Other common uses for sodium fluoride include:

Rat and cockroach poisons
Anesthetics
Hypnotics and psychiatric drugs
The Way Forward: Shifting the Burden of Proof

Still despite all the evidence, getting fluoride out of American water supplies has been exceedingly difficult. And it's no wonder, really, when you factor in the considerable liability the U.S. government could face were they to suddenly admit that water fluoridation was a way to hide toxic pollution, and there are detrimental health effects associated with drinking these pollutants...

Fortunately, there is a way forward.

According to Jeff Green, National Director of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, a repeated theme in some of the recent cases where communities successfully removed fluoride from their water supply is the shifting of the burden of proof. Rather than citizens taking on the burden of proving that fluoride is harmful and shouldn't be added, a more successful strategy has been to hold those making claims and the elected officials who rely on them, accountable for delivering proof that the specific fluoridation chemical being used fulfills their health and safety claims, and is in compliance with all regulations, laws, and risk assessments already required for safe drinking water.

For example, a couple of years ago, a Tennessee town stopped adding the hydrofluosilicic acid fluoride product they had been using, while still keeping its resolution to fluoridate its water supplies intact (meaning they didn't make a decision on whether it might be harmful). They just haven't been able to find a replacement product that is compliant with existing laws, regulations and safe-water requirements, and they will not add any fluoride product that is not in compliance. To learn more, please see this previous article, which discusses these strategies more in-depth.

Are You Willing to Be a Champion for Your Community?

It's easy to get angry and passionately demand correction of injustices, and in doing so, we tend to take on the burden of proving our position and overwhelming the opposition with facts. Unfortunately, even with all the facts and evidence, change can remain elusive. As Jeff Green says:

"In this state we look angry, and are easily characterized as a zealot, probably because we are. Asking someone without our passion to join us may not be that inviting. Should we expect that this would be any different when speaking to authorities and asking them to act?"

He has a good point. If you can suspend your anger at injustice, and switch your focus from stating the problem to addressing solutions, new avenues become available. Seeing how effective this new stance can be, Jeff Green is asking people who are prepared to step up and become champions to do so. The Keepers–of-the-Well.org can help you in your mission, once you're prepared to act.

"If you would like to elevate your discussions from the argumentative "he said, she said" to letting the facts declare themselves, and you are in a position of authority from which you can champion the performance of due diligence, contact us for access to guidance and further information," Jeff says.

"And if you are capable of being an advocate of safe drinking water and would like to assist in identifying a champion for due diligence in your community, contact us for approaches and further information."

This is not a call to sign a petition or write your Congressman. No, the person being sought here is someone who has both an aptitude for diplomacy, and the willingness to go all the way; to invest the time required to achieve an unconditional agreement to adhere to principle of due diligence. Furthermore:

"A Champion is an individual member of the decision-making authority who possesses the individual authority, and I say duty, to perform due diligence -- to ask the probing question; but just as importantly possesses the authority and duty to declare, "That's not good enough" when answers to direct questions or requested data comes back askew, or as propaganda.

This due diligence process requires that the Champion abandon all advocacy for or against the public policy and commit themselves and their actions to an advocacy for due diligence and criteria that is and should be as important to those who support fluoridation as to those who oppose it. Through this due diligence process the rest of the individual Council members have the opportunity to put into perspective their own unique authority, and responsibilities, as the only body that can select the actual chemical that shows up in the truck and is injected into the public drinking water."

Are You a Consumer Advocate?

Few will fall into the category of being a community Champion, but anyone can be an advocate.

"An Advocate for Safe Drinking Water is a person who wishes to move beyond repeating the negative consequences of adding fluoride compounds to the water, and is ready to expand the ability for the public at large, as well as decision-makers, to come to their own conclusions rather than relying on what others are trying to shove down their throat, including our own assertions," Green says.



References:

i Nuclear Medicine Communications January 2012
ii CDC, Fluoridation Statistics 2002: Status of Water Fluoridation in the United States, December 31, 2002
iii Journal of Public Health Dentistry 52 (5), 288–291, September 1992, Dennis M. Eble BS, Thomas G. Deaton BS, Frank C. Wilson Jr. MD, James W. Bawden DDS, PhD, Fluoride Concentrations in Human and Rat Bone, (Accessed October 30, 2007)
iv Caries Research 2001;35:125-128, J. Luke, Fluoride Deposition in the Aged Human Pineal Gland, (Accessed October 30, 2007)
v Fluoride Action Network, Paul Connett PhD, 50 Reasons to oppose fluoridation, (Accessed October 26, 2007)
vi Chemical and Engineering News, August 1, 1988, pp 26-42, Hileman B., Fluoridation of water: Questions about health risks and benefits remain after more than 40 years,, (Accessed October 30, 2007)
vii THE IMPACT OF WATER-BORNE FLUORIDE ON BONE DENSITY, W Czarnowski,a J Krechniak,a B Urbańska,a K Stolarska,a M Taraszewska-Czarnowska,b A Muraszko-Klaudelb Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz, Poland, (Accessed October 30, 2007)
viii Fluoride Journal, Vol.35 Number 3 (2002) 204-211, Bhatnagar M. et al., Neurotoxicity of fluoride: neurodegeneration in hippocampus of female mice, (Accessed October 30, 2007)
ix Neurotoxicology 2000 Dec;21(6):1091-100, Masters et.al., Association of silicofluoride treated water with elevated blood lead, (Accessed October 30, 2007)
x Archives of Toxicology, Volume 74, Numbers 4-5, July 2000, Fluoride induces apoptosis by caspase-3 activation in human leukemia HL-60 cells, (Accessed October 30, 2007)
xi The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland, Luke J., Ph.D Dissertation, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, UK. 1997, (Accessed October 30, 2007)
xii Waldbott GL, et. Al., 1978, Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma. Coronado Press, Inc.
xiii LewRockwell.com, Donald W. Miller Jr., MD, Fluoride Follies, July 15, 2005,(Accessed October 27, 2007)
xiv Fluoride Action Network, The Fluoride Deception – an interview with Christopher Bryson, April, 2006, (Accessed October 27, 2007)
xv Fluoride Action Network, Paul Connett PhD, 50 Reasons to oppose fluoridation, (Accessed October 26, 2007)
xvi CDC fact sheet, Community Water Fluoridation, (Accessed October 29, 2007)
xvii Mercola.com, Dr. Ted Spence, The fluoride controversy, (Accessed October 26, 2007)
Sources:
Natural Society January 17, 2012
Nuclear Medicine Communications January 2012

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/21/fluoride-health-hazards.aspx?e_cid=20120521_DNL_art_1
Blessings,
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