Got kidney problems? Think fluoride....

BTW, folks, fluoride is NOT just in the water. ANY commercial beverage is most likely made with fluoridated water. Foodstuffs are fumigated with sulphuryl fluoride...PLEASE follow this link for more sources of fluoride exposure:


http://www.fluoridealert.org/f-sources.htm#I


~and, honestly, what's the point of supplementing Iodine if we are NOT avoiding fluoride?

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http://iodine4health.com/research/miller_2006_text_fluoride_talk.doc


"The average American living in a fluoridated community now ingests 8 mg of fluoride a day. But people who live in unfluoridated areas also consume a lot of fluoride, on average 4 mg/day. It is in toothpaste; in fruit juices, soda pop, tea, and processed foods; and, unfortunately, also in California wines, whose grapes are sprayed with the pesticide cyrolite (sodium aluminum fluoride)."

16) Water Fluoridation in U.S.

"Overall, 60 percent of Americans are forced to drink fluoridated water. The lowest percentage, less than 2 percent, is in Utah, which has the best dental health in the country, and the highest percentage, 100 percent, is in Illinois. The CDC, in its wisdom, ranks fluoridation of community drinking water as one of the ten most significant public health achievements of the 20th century, and the goal of the government’s Healthy People 2010 initiative is to have 75 percent of the population drinking fluoridated water."

~eek!~

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fluoride & kidneys.....


http://fluoridealert.org/health/kidney/


"Because the kidney accumulates more fluoride than all other soft tissues (with the exception of the pineal gland there is concern that excess fluoride exposure may contribute to kidney disease - thus initiating a "vicious cycle" where the damaged kidneys increase the accumulation of fluoride, causing in turn further damage to the kidney, bone, and other organs.
The possibility that fluoride exposure can cause direct damage to kidney tissue is supported by a long line of animal and human studies.
In studies on fluoride-exposed animals, kidney damage has been reported at levels as low as 1 ppm if the animals consume the water for long periods of time.

~HELLO! KIDNEY DAMAGE IN ANIMALS AT LEVELS OF 1PPM! and people living in UNfluoridated communities are ingesting 4ppm average. I know, we're not rats. But WHAT do you suppose LONG TERM ingestion of this poison is doing?


http://www.fluoridedebate.com/question31.html


"Many studies ... have indicated suspicious bio-chemical events, especially in the kidneys, when consuming 1 ppm or more (up to 5 ppm in our study) fluoride ion in drinking water." (Harold Warner, Professor Emeritus, Yerkes Regional Primate Center, Emory University, June 20, 1983.)"
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http://www.greaterthings.com/Lexicon/F/Fluoride.htm


"Do you have diabetes and/or kidney disease? There are reportedly more than 11 million Americans with diabetes. If it is true that diabetics drink more liquids than other people, then according to the Physicians Desk Reference these 11 million people are at much higher risk drinking fluoridated water because they will receive a much deadlier dose because of their need for higher than normal water consumption. Kidney disease, by definition, lowers the efficiency of the kidneys, which of course is the primary means in which fluoride (or any other toxic chemical) is eliminated from the body."

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http://ukagainstfluoride.blogspot.com/2007/07/srilanka-moves-to-check-polonna...


"COLOMBO: The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry will implement a special project to find out the reasons for the rapid increase in kidney patients in the Polonnaruwa district.
The number of kidney patients in the Polonnaruwa district has exceeded the national ratio, Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry sources said. The sources said medical examinations on 70,000 persons in the Polonnaruwa district revealed that 3,760 persons suffer from kidney ailments and 267 have already passed the curable stage and cannot be cured with medication or surgery.
Two of the main reasons for kidney failure are increasing fluoride density of drinking water and use of fertiliser, cement and pesticides when producing illicit liquor."
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http://www.manataka.org/page228.html


Kidney patients at risk of chronic fluoride poisoning

"It’s not just infants that should avoid fluoridated water. New research provides yet further evidence why people with kidney disease - particularly advanced kidney disease - should be advised to avoid fluoride as well.

Because kidney patients have a reduced ability to clear fluoride from their body, they have long been recognized to be at heightened risk of fluoride poisoning. In 2006, new research helped to further highlight this risk. Research from India confirmed that fluoride can cause a painful bone disease in kidney patients (5A), while research from Poland indicated that the health risks may extend well beyond the bones (5B). According to the Polish researchers, the heightened body burden of fluoride that kidney patients face (as measured by high levels of fluoride in their blood) may increase the rate of cell damage (oxidative stress) throughout the body - making them more vulnerable to a host of illnesses.

So, should people with kidney disease be concerned about drinking fluoridated water? According to two new reviews, the answer is yes (5C,D). According to one review, "Individuals with kidney disease have decreased ability to excrete fluoride in urine and are at risk of developing fluorosis even at normal recommended limit of 0.7 to 1.2 mg/l” (5C)."
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http://www.rense.com/general3/fluo.htm


"Kidney disease, by definition, lowers the efficiency of the kidneys, which is your main route of fluoride elimination. --So those people with kidney disease also shouldn`t drink fluoridated water. Cases are on record (Annapolis, Maryland, 1979) where kidney patients on dialysis machines died, due to a fluoride overdose in the city water supply."
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http://www.fluoridedebate.com/question31.html


Dr. Heyroth is a proponent for fluoridation yet, when testifying under oath at Congressional Hearings to the question: "Would you give fluoridated water to one with kidney trouble," he answered, "No, the advice would be that he drink fluoride-free spring water." (Dr. Francis Heyroth of Kettering Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio.)

" ... Since kidney damage can be caused by fluoride, there can be a vicious circle by which kidney damage causes more fluoride retention, which in turn causes further kidney damage." (Fredrick B. Exner, M.D., F.A.C.R.)

"Once renal function is severely impaired, the excretion of fluoride in the urine decreases and serum fluoride concentration increases." (K. Kono, et al, Industrial Health, 22:33-40, 1984.)

"Many studies ... have indicated suspicious bio-chemical events, especially in the kidneys, when consuming 1 ppm or more (up to 5 ppm in our study) fluoride ion in drinking water." (Harold Warner, Professor Emeritus, Yerkes Regional Primate Center, Emory University, June 20, 1983.)

" ... bear in mind that all elderly folk eventually have had one degree or another of 'diminished renal (kidney) function' and will accumulate higher tissue levels of fluoride at a time when their tolerance capacities are diminished." (John R. Lee, M.D.)

"It would also seem prudent to monitor the fluoride intake of patients with chronic renal impairment ... particularly those living in areas of high naturally occurring fluoride, children, those with excessive thirst, and those with prolonged disease." ("Position Paper on Fluoride," National Kidney Foundation, page 2, Aug. 16, 1980.)

"Sodium fluoride is a very toxic chemical. It reacts with growing tooth enamel and with bones to produce irreversible damage. It may injure the nervous system, kidneys and other tissues of susceptible individuals. Fluoride is not a necessary trace element for dental health. Uniform dosage of any drug dissolved in the water supply is obviously impossible. Some individuals may drink 10 times as much as others. Thirst has many variables." (Dr. Granville F. Knight, (M.D., F.A.C., F.I.A.A.) Santa Barbara, California.)

"Until recently, I favored fluoridation of the City Water supply in the proportion of 1 ppm, but information provided me by Dr. C. C. Bass, Dean Emeritus of Tulane Medical School for the past 15 years (who has pursued research and study pertaining to teeth) along with some research done by British scientists indicating possible bad effects on the kidneys from fluoridation, has caused me to reverse my opinion on the matter." (Dr. Alton Ochsner, President Ochsner Foundation Hospital and Head of Department of Surgery, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana.)

"You are absolutely correct in stating that many people have diabetes but don't know it. In the U. S., approximately half of the estimated 12 million people who have the disease don't realize it ... Diabetic care also depends on whether the individual suffers from complications associated with diabetes, such as kidney failure, coronary artery disease, etc. According to the National Institute of Dental Research, fluoride levels in water are set according to normal consumption of water. If an individual is consuming abnormally large quantities of water, he should drink bottled water." (See 31-1: Department of Health and Human Services letter, Jan. 4, 1991). Nearly all diabetics and many athletes drink abnormally large quantities of water-many drink over a gallon a day. Therefore the Public Health Service is saying these people should buy bottled water.
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The good news, once again, is that high doses of Iodine displace fluoride:

Guy Abraham, MD....on detoxifying the body of 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."