Fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of
collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin,
cartilage, lungs, kidney and trachea.
A. K. Susheela and
Mohan Jha, "Effects of Fluoride on Cortical and Cancellous Bone
Composition", IRCS Medical Sciences: Library Compendium, Vol 9, No.11, pp
1021-1022 (1981)
"Fluorides are general protoplasmic
poisons, with the capacity to modify the metabolism of cells by inhibiting
certain enzymes. Sources of fluoride intoxication include drinking water
containing 1 ppm or more of fluorine."
Journal of the
American Medical Association, September 18, 1943
Fluoride stimulates granule formation and
oxygen consumption in white blood cells, but inhibits these processes when the
white blood cell is challenged by a foreign agent in the blood.
Robert A. Clark,
"Neutrophil Iodination Reaction Induced by Fluoride: Implications for
Degranulation and Metabolic Activation," Blood, Vol 57, pp. 913-921 (1981)
Fluoride depletes the energy reserves and
the ability of white blood cells to properly destroy foreign agents by the
process of phagocytosis. As little as 0.2-ppm fluoride stimulates superoxide
production in resting white blood cells, virtually abolishing phagocytosis. Even
micro-molar amounts of fluoride, below 1 ppm, may seriously depress the ability
of white blood cells to destroy pathogenic agents.
"Immune
Status of Children in Chemically Contaminated Environments",
Zdravookhranenie, Issue 3, pp 6-9 (1987)
Fluoride confuses the immune system and
causes it to attack the body's own tissues, and increases the tumour growth rate
in cancer prone individuals.
Alfred Taylor and
Nell C. Taylor, "Effect of Sodium Fluoride on Tumour Growth",
Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Vol 119,p
252(1965); Sheila Gibson, "Effects of Fluoride on Immune System
Function", Complementary Medical Research, Vol 6, pp 111-113 (1992)
Fluoride inhibits antibody formation in the
blood.
S. K. Jain and A.K.
Susheela, "Effect of Sodium Fluoride on Antibody Formation in
Rabbits", Environmental Research, Vol. 44, pp 117-125 (1987)
Fluoride depresses Thyroid activity.
Viktor Gorlitzer
Von Mundy, "Influence of Fluorine and Iodine on the Metabolism,
Particularly on the Thyroid Gland," Muenchener Medicische Wochenschrift,
Vol 105, pp 182-186 (1963); "Effect of Fluorine on Thyroid Iodine
Metabolism and Hyperthyroidism", Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and
Metabolism, Vol. 18, pp 1102-1110 (1958)
Fluorides have a disruptive effect on
various tissues in the body.
Vilber A.O. Bello
and Hillel J. Gitelman, "High Fluoride Exposure in Hemodialysis
Patients", American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Vol. 15, pp 320-324 (1990)
Fluoride promotes development of bone
cancer.
S.E. Hrudley et
al., "Drinking Water Fluoridation and Osteosarcoma" Canadian Journal
of Public Health, Vol 81, pp 415-416 (1990); Irwin Herskowitz and Isabel Norton,
"Increased Incidence of Melanotic Tumours Following Treatment with Sodium
Fluoride", Genetics Vol 48, pp 307-310 (1963)
Fluorides cause premature aging of the
human body.
Nicholas Leone,
"Medical Aspects of Excessive Fluoride in a Water Supply", Public
Health Reports, Vol 69, pp 925-936 (1954); "The Village Where People are
Old Before their Time", Stern Magazine, Vol 30, pp 107-108,111-112 (1978)
Fluoride ingestion from mouth rinses and
dentifrices in children is extremely hazardous to biological development, life
span and general health.
Yngve Ericsson and
Britta Forsman, "Fluoride retained from mouth rinses and dentifrices in
preschool children", Caries Research, Vol.3, pp 290-299 (1969); W.L.
Augenstein, et al., "Fluoride ingestion in children: a review of 87
cases", Paediatrics, Vol 88, pp 907-912, (1991); George Waldbott,
"Mass Intoxication from Over-Fluoridation in Drinking Water", Clinical
Toxicology, Vol 18, No 5, pp 531-541 (1981)
Fluorides diminish the intelligence
capability of the human brain.
Fluoride, Vol 26,
No.4, pp 189-192, 1995, "Effect of Fluoride Exposure on Intelligence In
Children". Presented to the 20th Conference of the International Society
for Fluoride Research, Beijing, China, September 5-9, 1994
Fluoride studies in rats can be indicative
of a potential for motor disruption, intelligence deficits and learning
disabilities in humans. Humans are exposed to plasma levels of fluoride as high
as those in rat studies. Fluoride involves interruption of normal brain
development. Fluoride affects the hippocampus in the brain, which integrates
inputs from the environment, memory, and motivational stimuli, to produce
behavioural decisions and modify memory. Experience with other developmental
neurotoxicants prompts expectations that changes in behavioural functions will
be comparable across species, especially humans and rats.
Neurotoxicology
and Teratology, Vol 17, No, 2, p 176, "Neurotoxicity of Sodium F
luoride", Muellenix, Denbesten, Schunior, Kernan,
1995
Fluorides accumulate in the brain over time
to reach neurologically harmful levels.
Neurotoxicology
and Teratology, Vol 17, No, 2, p 176, "Neurotoxicity of Sodium
Fluoride", Muellenix, Denbesten, Schunior, Kernan, 1995
"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."
Journal of the
American Dental Association, Editorial, October 1, 1944
The contents of a family-size tube of
fluoridated toothpaste is enough to kill a 12.5 kilo child.
In 1991, the Akron
(Ohio) Regional Poison Centre reported, "… death has been reported
following ingestion of 16 mg/kg of fluoride. Only 1/10 of an ounce of fluoride
could kill a 50 kilo adult. According to the Centre, "fluoride toothpaste
contains up to 1 mg/gram of fluoride." Even Proctor and Gamble, the makers
of Crest, acknowledge that a family-sized tube "theoretically contains
enough fluoride to kill a small child." (National Pure Water Association,
UK)
"Fluorides have been used to modify
behaviour and mood of human beings. It is a little known fact that fluoride
compounds were added to the drinking water of prisoners to keep them docile and
inhibit questioning of authority, both in Nazi prison camps in World War II and
in the Soviet gulags in Siberia."
National Pure
Water Association, UK
Fluorides are medically categorized as
protoplasmic poisons, which is why they are used to kill rodents.
The Journal of the
American Medical Association on September 18, 1943, states, "… fluorides
are general protoplasmic poisons, changing the permeability of the cell membrane
by inhibiting certain enzymes. The exact mechanisms of such actions are
obscure."
Fluoride consumption by human beings
increases the general cancer death rate.
In 1975 Dr John
Yiamouyiannis published a preliminary survey, which 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 (USA) 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)
Fluorides have little or no effect on decay
prevention in humans.
In 1990 Dr John
Colquhoun is forced into early requirement in New Zealand after he conducts a
study on 60,000 school children and finds no difference in tooth decay between
fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas. He additionally finds that a substantial
number of children in fluoridated areas suffered from dental fluorosis. He makes
the study public. There is no scientific data that shows that fluoride mouth
rinses and tablets are safe for human use.
A 1989 study by Hildebolt, on 6,000 school
children contradicts any alleged benefit from the use of sodium fluorides.
In 1990 a study by Dr John Yiamouyiannis on
39,000 school children contradicts any alleged benefits from the use of sodium
fluorides.
In 1992 Michael Perrone, a legislative
assistant in New Jersey, contacts the FDA requesting all information regarding
the safety and effectiveness of fluoride tablets and drops. After 6 months of
stalling, the FDA admitted they had no data to show that fluoride tablets or
drops were either safe or effective. They informed Perrone that they will
"probably have to pull the tablets and drops off the market."
In 1976, Dr D. W. Allman and co-workers
from Indiana University School of Medicine (USA) feed animals 1 part-per-million
(ppm) fluoride and found that in the presence of aluminium in a concentration as
small as 20 parts per billion, (like in a toothpaste tube, using aluminium pans
to boil water, or drinking beverages in aluminium cans), fluoride is able to
cause an even larger increase in cyclic AMP levels.
Cyclic AMP inhibits the migration rate of
white blood cells, as well as the ability of the white blood cell to destroy
pathogenic organisms.
Journal of Dental
Research, Vol 55, Sup B, p 523, 1976, "Effect of Inorganic Fluoride Salts
on Urine and Tissue Cyclic AMP Concentration in Vivo".
"Fluoridation is the greatest case of
scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time."
Robert Carlton,
Ph.D., former U.S. EPA scientist on "Marketplace" Canadian Broadcast
Company Nov 24, 1992
"Regarding fluoridation, the EPA
should act immediately to protect the public, not just on the cancer data, but
on the evidence of bone fractures, arthritis, mutagenicity and other
effects"
William Marcus, Ph.D.,
senior EPA toxicologist, Covert Action, 1992, p 66
