Re: Fluorides cause "zinc deficiency".

Perhaps another manifestation of fluoride poisoning?


http://www.iodine4health.com/special/nutrients/zinc/pfpc_zinc.htm


Zinc and the Thyroid

PFPC - Parents of Fluoride-Poisoned Children

"Abnormal zinc metabolism occurs commonly in thyroid disease. Zinc levels in red blood cells have become an important marker of peripheral tissue response to thyroid hormones, indicating duration of pre-existing thyroid disease (Tiran 1993, Vitoux et al, 1999). A hyperthyroid person will reveal highly elevated serum zinc levels, but a reduced zinc content in whole blood, while the reverse changes are observed in the hypothyroid patient. There a reduced serum zinc content is seen, with highly increased zinc content is in whole blood.



"After treatment for thyroid dysfunction, normalization of zinc in red blood cells naturally occurs, lagging about 2 months behind normalization of plasma T4 and T3 levels (Yoshida 1996; Varga, 1994), hence its importance in determining duration of pre-existing thyroid disease This is a clear sign that many cases of "zinc deficiency" are NOT caused by an actual nutritional lack of zinc, but by thyroid dysfunction. Incidentally. the symptoms of "zinc deficiency" are identical to the ones ascribed to hypothyroidism.



"Fluorides cause "zinc deficiency". Both organic and inorganic fluoride compounds have shown to inhibit zinc containing enzymes."