Re: Remove Fluoride Buildup

"Men suffering from skeletal fluorosis experienced 50 to 80% improvement after drinking solutions containing 300 to 1,100 mg of borax/L daily, 3 weeks a month for 3 months"

I thought the "safe" upper limit for boron was more like 10mg/day? While I could see a therapeutic dosage (especially if only cycled periodically) exceeding that perhaps, that's quite a jump! Would it really be safe or necessary to take that much to chelate out fluoride? Would smaller doses be safer, if take longer?


"Each subject consumed 10 g tamarind daily with lunch for 18 days at the social welfare boys' hostel. The nutrient composition of the daily diet was constant throughout the experimental period.

Results: Tamarind intake led to significant increase (P<0.001) in the excretion of fluoride in 24 h urine (4.8±0.22 mg/day) as compared to excretion on control diet (3.5±0.22 mg/day). However, excretion of magnesium and zinc decreased significantly (7.11±1.48 mg of Mg and 252.88±12.84 µg of Zn per day on tamarind diet as compared to 23.39±3.68 mg of Mg and 331.78±35.31 µg Zn per day on control diet). Excretion of calcium and phosphorous were not significantly different while creatinine excretion decreased with tamarind intake (225.66±81 mg creatinine/day with tamarind and 294.5±78.76 mg creatinine/day without tamarind)."

That's an interesting study. How many beans would 10g be, though? And would eating even more beans/day be even better? Tweet