Ah... i deemed this so interesting i mailed it to myself in 2003. Upon nosying at an old email addy I found it again, googled it and could only find one other instance of this existing! Hmmm!
THE UNITED NATIONS World Health Organization (WHO) actively promotes the use
of fluoride in water purification, beverages, toothpaste, mouthwash, topical
gels, dietary supplements and food. If the WHO advocates fluoride that is
reason enough to avoid any products containing fluoride. But the medical
journal, Neurotoxicology and Teratology Vol 17, No.2, 1995 provide urgent
compelling reasons.
Researchers Phyllis J. Mullenix, Department of Toxicology, Forsyth Research
Institute, Boston; Ann Schunior, also of Forsyth; Pamela K. Denbesten,
Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Eastman Dental Center, Rochester, New
York, and William J. Kernan, Veterinary Diagnosis Laboratory, Iowa State
University asserted that "There have been reports from Chinese investigators
that high levels of fluoride in drinking water (3 to 11 ppm -- parts per
million) affect the nervous system directly without first causing physical
deformations from skeletal fluorosis."
"One study of adult humans," states their report, "found attention affected
by sublingual drops containing 100 ppm of sodium fluoride [NaF], an exposure
level potentially relevant to humans, because toothpastes contain 1000 to
1500 ppm and mouth washes contain 230 to 900 ppm fluoride. Also," they
continue" effects on behavior were related to levels of fluoride found in
plasma and in different regions of the brain." The observers found that it
was fluoride levels in plasma, not fluoride levels of exposure, which best
predicted effects on behavior. They observed that "similar plasma fluoride
levels... have been found in humans ingesting 5 to 10 ppm fluoride in
drinking water...."
The authors point out that theirs is the first laboratory study to
demonstrate that the central nervous system's functional output is
vulnerable to fluoride and that fluoride accumulates in brain tissues.
Speaking of the conclusions drawn from their study of fluoride use and
toxicity levels the authors state, "A generic behavioral pattern disruption
as found in this study can be indicative of a potential for motor
dysfunction, IQ deficits and/or learning disabilities in humans."
Dr. Frank Bertrand of Stilfontein, South Africa, commenting on the
Neurotoxicology and Teratology study notes: "Fluoride is a very strong
oxidizing agent and wiII destroy vitamin E and other anti-oxidents... but
most dangerous of all is probably the fluoride gel used in dental surgery.
The WHO recommends a 2.72% NaF [also known as acidulated phosphate
fluoride]." That is 12,300 ppm! "Fluoride in an acid medium," continues Dr.
Stilfonrein, "tends to produce the very corrosive hydrofluoric acid, which
will attack and eat its way through glass.
Dental gel delivered to surgery in acid resistant plastic containers is left
in the mouth for four minutes. Some of this highly concentrated NaF is
swallowed. Dr. S. Gibson, Research Physician, Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital,
states that fluoride reacts with hydrogen bonds in biological molecules to
form HF (hydrofluoric acid) bonds, with adverse physiological effects at
very low concentrations, well below 1 ppm. Dr. Stilfonein further notes that
cancers usually attributable to cigarette use (i.e., lung and mouth) were,
for all practical purposes, absent before fluoridation of water in Britain
in the early 1950s, then increased exponentially several years after
fluoridation was introduced.
[Try this little experiment. Go to your local water purification plant and
inquire how to purchase, oh, say, one ounce of pure NaF (sodium fluoride.)
Tell them you have a well and wish to treat your water for your children's
"oral wellness." When you get out of the federal slammer after being
indicted under various nuclear non-proliferation treaty acts for soliciting
the sale of nuclear "byproducts" and one of the most toxic neurological
poisons known to man, write us a letter and let us know how it went.
Editor.]
Any thoughts?
Alistair Mad Scotsman
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