So I was chatting with some folks today...there are rumblings that our lovely valley might lose it's "rural" designation at some point and with that we would be forced to give up our wells & septics and have city water & sewer. I said something about not wanting fluoridated water and the response was "but fluoride is GOOD for you, it's good for your teeth!" and "my pedeiatrician gives us fluoride pills to give to our toddler!" I said "b-b-but...it's NOT, fluoride is POISON, it's BAD for your teeth, your bones, etc, etc...." I told them to check out
http://www.fluoridealert.org.
absolute lack of interest, in fact, one gal said "I don't want to know".

"I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!" !!!!! How COULD someone "not want to know"????? I just gently extricated myself from the NONconversation and am now consoling myself with the thought that perhaps a seed has been planted, although I must say that more often than not these days , I find that the soil is fallow.

Every once in a while(hell, all the time) I delude myself into thinking that the world-at-large is...i dunno...intelligent? caring? concerned? It ain't. That's when I come running back to CZ & all you enlightened ones:)

Anyway, FLUORIDE. That's one of the *evil* halogens we are displacing with our beloved iodine:)

"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century"

Robert Carlton, Ph. D., former U. S. EPA scientist on " Marketplace" Canadian Broadcast Company, Nov. 24, 1992

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Guy Abrahams, MD, on detoxifying the body from unwanted halides:


http://iodine4health.com/special/halogens/abraham_halogens.htm


"Is there a practical and simple way to lower the body's burden of fluoride and bromide? It has been known for sometime now that bromide competes with chloride in the extracellular space and that the total molar concentration of bromide plus chloride remains constant. (8) This concept has been used to decrease extracellular bromide levels by saline loading. However, the presence of bromide in the thyroid gland (9) and the central nervous system (10) suggests that there is another intracellular "pool" of bromide, not responding to chloride. In the thyroid gland, bromide competes with Iodide for uptake, oxydation and organification.

"Therefore, increasing Iodide intake should lower bromide levels in the thyroid, preventing and reversing its thyrotoxic and goitrogenic effects. The same applies to fluoride. Galletti and Joyet (12) evaluated the effect of 5-10 mg fluoride on thyroid functions in hyperthyroid patients. Although fluoride inhibited the iodide-concentrating mechanism of the thyroid, fluoride did not accumulate in the thyroid. Based on their radioactive tracer studies, they concluded "Fluorine does not impair the capacity of the gland to synthesize thyroid hormones when there is an abundance of Iodide in the blood." Therefore, fluoride toxicity depends on iodide supply."

"Following supplementation with the iodine/iodide preparation, there was a progressive increase in the excretion of fluoride and bromide. With 3 tablets, the 24h excretion of fluoride was 17.5 times baseline level; and for bromide, 18 times baseline level. These high levels persisted even after one month of supplementation at 3 tablets/day, being 15 times baseline level for fluoride, and 16 times for bromide. After one month, the estimated total amount of halide excreted was 24 mg fluoride and 8700mg bromide. It is unlikely that such large amounts of halides came from the thyroid gland. It would seem that the whole body is being detoxified. Orthoiodosupplementation could be used under medical supervision to detoxify the body from unwanted halides in a manner similar to the use of EDTA for the detoxification of heavy metals."

HA! " Orthoiodosupplementation could be used under medical supervision to detoxify the body from unwanted halides in a manner similar to the use of EDTA for the detoxification of heavy metals."

Guess what, Guy? We're doing it! :) THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!


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http://www.all-natural.com/fleffect.html


"Fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage, lungs, kidney and trachea. Fluoride confuses the immune system and causes it to attack the body's own tissues, and increases the tumor growth rate in cancer prone individuals. Fluoride inhibits antibody formation in the blood. Fluoride depresses thyroid activity. Fluorides have a disruptive effect on various tissues in the body. Fluoride promotes development of bone cancer. Fluorides cause premature aging of the human body. Fluoride ingestion from mouth rinses and dentifrices in children is extremely hazardous to biological development, life span and general health." (more at the link)

Can't cover it all here, let's just look at what it does to bones.....

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http://www.mercola.com/2002/feb/2/fluoride_safety.htm


"Collagen Is The Body's Glue and Fluoride Ruins It"

"That's not just a metaphor; 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.

DR Y gives a masterful explanation of fluoride's disruption of collagen. 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 mottling or dental fluorosis."





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http://econanotec.com/files/EQ419Fluoride_50.doc.



"Fluorides are cumulative toxins. The fact that fluorides accumulate in the body is the reason that US law requires the Surgeon General to set a Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for fluoride content in public water supplies as determined by the EPA. This requirement is specifically aimed at avoiding a condition known as Crippling Skeletal Fluorosis (CSF), a disease thought to progress through three stages. The MCL, designed to prevent only the third and crippling stage of this disease, is set at 4ppm or 4mg per liter. It is assumed that people will retain half of this amount (2mg), and therefore 4mg per liter is deemed "safe." Yet a daily dose of 2-8mg is known to cause the third crippling stage of CSF.10,11"





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http://www.medvarsity.com/.../fluorosis/Fluorosis.htm


"The uptake of fluoride by the skeleton is very rapid and depends upon the vascularity and the rate of its growth. The fluoride uptake of young bones is faster than that of mature bones."






http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride/000078.htm


"Fluoride is a worldwide menace. Last week, we reported how an estimated 60 million people in India suffer from fluorosis caused by drinking underground water, most of it brought to the surface by handpumps installed in the past two decades."

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http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride/s24.htm


ABSTRACT - National Library of Medicine

Prog Food Nutr Sci. 1986;10(3-4):279-314.

Skeletal fluorosis in humans: a review of recent progress in the understanding of the disease.

Krishnamachari KA.

Endemic skeletal fluorosis is a chronic metabolic bone and joint disease caused by ingesting large amounts of fluoride either through water or rarely from foods of endemic areas. Fluoride is a cumulative toxin which can alter accretion and resorption of bone tissue. It also affects the homeostasis of bone mineral metabolism. The total quantity of ingested fluoride is the single most important factor which determines the clinical course of the disease which is characterized by immobilization of joints of the axial skeleton and of the major joints of the extremities. A combination of osteosclerosis, osteomalacia and osteoporosis of varying degrees as well as exostosis formation characterizes the bone lesions. In a proportion of cases secondary hyperparathyroidism is observed with associated characteristic bone changes. Contrary to earlier thinking, severe crippling forms of skeletal fluorosis are seen in paediatric age group too. Increased metabolic turnover of the bone, impaired bone collagen synthesis and increased avidity for calcium are features in fluoride toxicity. Osteosclerotic picture is evident when small doses of fluoride are ingested over a long period of time during which calcium intakes are apparently normal while osteoporotic forms are common in paediatric age group and with higher body load of the element. Alterations in hormones concerned with bone mineral metabolism are seen in fluorosis. Kidney is the primary organ of excretion for fluorides. Age, sex, calcium intake in the diet, dose and duration of fluoride intake and renal efficiency in fluoride handling are the factors which influence the outcome. Serum parameters rarely help in the diagnosis. Elevated urinary fluoride and increased bone fluoride content are indicators of fluoride toxicity. Fluorosis is a preventable crippling disease. No effective therapeutic agent is available which can cure fluorosis. Industrial fluorosis is on the increase on a global basis. Bone density measurement is a tool for early diagnosis."









by all means, peeps, have a look at
http://www.fluoridealert.org


:)