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"Alan" <alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message
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> By Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield MBBS LRCP MRCS
>
> Medical Advisor to Thyroid UK
>
> There is a daunting amount of research studies showing that the widely
> acclaimed
> benefits on fluoride dental health are more imagined than real. My main
> concern
> however, is the effect of sustained fluoride intake on general health.
> Again,
> there is a huge body of research literature on this subject, freely
> available
> and in the public domain.
>
>
> But this body of work was not considered by the York Review when their
> remit was
> changed from "Studies of the effects of fluoride on health" to "Studies on
> the
> effects of fluoridated water on health." It is clearly evident that it was
> not
> considered by the BMA (Britsh Medical Association), British Dental
> Association
> (BDA), BFS (British Fluoridation Society) and FPHM, (Faculty for Public
> Health
> and Medicine) since they all insist, as in the briefing paper to Members
> of
> Parliament - that fluoridation is safe and non-injurious to health.
>
> This is a public disgrace, I will now show by reviewing the damaging
> effects of
> fluoridation, with special reference to thyroid illness.
>
> It has been known since the latter part of the 19th century that certain
> communities, notably in Argentina, India and Turkey were chronically ill,
> with
> premature ageing, arthritis, mental retardation, and infertility; and high
> levels of natural fluorides in the water were responsible. Not only was it
> clear
> that the fluoride was having a general effect on the health of the
> community,
> but in the early 1920s Goldemberg, working in Argentina showed that
> fluoride was
> displacing iodine; thus compounding the damage and rendering the community
> also
> hypothyroid from iodine deficiency.
>
> Highly damaging to the thyroid gland
>
> This was the basis of the research in the 1930s of May, Litzka, Gorlitzer
> von
> Mundy, who used fluoride preparations to treat over-active thyroid
> illness.
> Their patients either drank fluoridated water, swallowed fluoride pills or
> were
> bathed in fluoridated bath water; and their thyroid function was as a
> result,
> greatly depressed. The use in 1937 of fluorotyrosine for this purpose
> showed how
> effective this treatment was; but the effectiveness was difficult to
> predict and
> many patients suffered total thyroid loss. So it was given a new role and
> received a new name, Pardinon. It was marketed not for over-active thyroid
> disease but as a pesticide. (Note the manufacturer of fluorotyrosine was
> IG
> Farben who also made sarin, a gas used in World War II).
>
>
> This bit of history illustrates the fact that fluorides are dangerous in
> general
> and in particular highly damaging to the thyroid gland, a matter to which
> I
> shall return shortly. While it is unlikely that it will be disputed that
> fluorides are toxic - let us be reminded that they are Schedule 2 Poisons
> under
> the Poisons Act 1972, the matter in dispute is the level of toxicity
> attributable to given amounts; in today's context the degree of damage
> caused by
> given concentrations in the water supply. While admitting its toxicity,
> proponents rely on the fact that it is diluted and therefore, it is
> claimed,
> unlikely to have deleterious effects.
>
> They could not be more mistaken
>
> It seems to me that we must be aware of how fluoride does its damage. It
> is an
> enzyme poison. Enzymes are complex protein compounds that vastly speed up
> biological chemical reactions while themselves remaining unchanged. As we
> speak,
> there occurs in all of us a vast multitude of these reactions to maintain
> life
> and produce the energy to sustain it. The chains of amino acids that make
> up
> these complex proteins are linked by simple compounds called amides; and
> it is
> with these that fluorine molecules react, splitting and distorting them,
> thus
> damaging the enzymes and their activity. Let it be said at once, this
> effect can
> occur at extraordinary low concentrations; even lower than the one part
> per
> million which is the dilution proposed for fluoridation in our water
> supply.
>
> The body can only eliminate half
>
> Moreover, fluorides are cumulative and build up steadily with ingestion of
> fluoride from all sources, which include not just water but the air we
> breathe
> and the food we eat. The use of fluoride toothpaste in dental hygiene and
> the
> coating of teeth are further sources of substantial levels of fluoride
> intake.
> The body can only eliminate half of the total intake, which means that the
> older
> you are the more fluoride will have accumulated in your body. Inevitably
> this
> means the ageing population is particularly targeted. And even worse for
> the
> very young there is a major element of risk in baby formula made with
> fluoridated water. The extreme sensitivity of the very young to fluoride
> toxicity makes this unacceptable. Since there are so many sources of
> fluoride in
> our everyday living, it will prove impossible to maintain an average level
> of
> 1ppm as is suggested.
>
> What is the result of these toxic effects?
>
> First the immune system. The distortion of protein structure causes the
> immune
> proteins to fail to recognise body proteins, and so instigate an attack on
> them,
> which is Autoimmune Disease. Autoimmune diseases constitute a body of
> disease
> processes troubling many thousands of people: Rheumatoid Arthritis,
> Systemic
> Lupus Erythematosis, Asthma and Systemic Sclerosis are examples; but in my
> particular context today, thyroid antibodies will be produced which will
> cause
> Thyroiditis resulting in the common hypothyroid disease, Hashimoto's
> Disease and
> the hyperthyroidism of Graves' Disease.
>
> Musculo Skeletal damage results further from the enzyme toxic effect; the
> collagen tissue of which muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones are made,
> is
> damaged. Rheumatoid illness, osteoporosis and deformation of bones
> inevitably
> follow. This toxic effect extends to the ameloblasts making tooth enamel,
> which
> is consequently weakened and then made brittle; and its visible appearance
> is,
> of course, dental fluorosis.
>
> The enzyme poison effect extends to our genes; DNA cannot repair itself,
> and
> chromosomes are damaged. Work at the university of Missouri showed genital
> damage, targeting ovaries and testes. Also affected is inter uterine
> growth and
> development of the foetus, especially the nervous system. Increased
> incidence of
> Down's Syndrome has been documented.
> Fluorides are mutagenic. That is, they can cause the uncontrolled
> proliferation
> of cells we call cancer. This applies to cancer anywhere in the body; but
> bones
> are particularly picked out. The incidence of osteosarcoma in a study
> reporting
> in 1991 showed an unbelievable 50% increase. A report in 1955 in the New
> England
> Journal of Medicine showed a 400% increase in cancer of the thyroid in San
> Francisco during the period their water was fluoridated.
>
> My particular concern is the effect of fluorides on the thyroid gland
>
> Perhaps I may remind you about thyroid disease. The thyroid gland produces
> hormones which control our metabolism - the rate at which we burn our
> fuel.
> Deficiency is relatively common, much more than is generally accepted by
> many
> medical authorities: a figure of 1:4 or 1:3 by mid life is more likely.
> The
> illness is insidious in its onset and progression. People become tired,
> cold,
> overweight, depressed, constipated; they suffer arthritis, hair loss,
> infertility, atherosclerosis and chronic illness. Sadly, it is poorly
> diagnosed
> and poorly managed by very many doctors in this country.
> What concerns me so deeply is that in concentrations as low as 1ppm,
> fluorides
> damage the thyroid system on 4 levels.
>
> 1. The enzyme manufacture of thyroid hormones within the thyroid gland
> itself.
> The process by which iodine is attached to the amino acid tyrosine and
> converted
> to the two significant thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and liothyronine
> (T3),
> is slowed.
>
> 2. The stimulation of certain G proteins from the toxic effect of fluoride
> (whose function is to govern uptake of substances into each of the cells
> of the
> body), has the effect of switching off the uptake into the cell of the
> active
> thyroid hormone.
>
> 3. The thyroid control mechanism is compromised. The thyroid stimulating
> hormone
> output from the pituitary gland is inhibited by fluoride, thus reducing
> thyroid
> output of thyroid hormones.
>
> 4. Fluoride competes for the receptor sites on the thyroid gland which
> respond
> to the thyroid stimulating hormone; so that less of this hormone reaches
> the
> thyroid gland and so less thyroid hormone is manufactured.
> These damaging effects, all of which occur with small concentrations of
> fluoride, have obvious and easily identifiable effects on thyroid status.
> The
> running down of thyroid hormone means a slow slide into hypothyroidism.
> Already
> the incidence of hypothyroidism is increasing as a result of other
> environmental
> toxins and pollutions together with wide spread nutritional deficiencies.
>
> 141 million Europeans are at risk
>
> One further factor should give us deep anxiety. Professor Hume of Dundee,
> in his
> paper given earlier this year to the Novartis Foundation, pointed out that
> iodine deficiency is growing worldwide. There are 141 million Europeans
> are at
> risk; only 5 European countries are iodine sufficient. UK now falls into
> the
> marginal and focal category. Professor Hume recently produced figures to
> show
> that 40% of pregnant women in the Tayside region of Scotland were
> deficient by
> at least half of the iodine required for a normal pregnancy. A relatively
> high
> level of missing, decayed, filled teeth was noted in this non-fluoridated
> area,
> suggesting that the iodine deficiency was causing early hypothyroidism
> which
> interferes with the health of teeth. Dare one speculate on the result of
> now
> fluoridating the water?...
>
> Displaces iodine in the body
>
>
> Do you think it should be marketed?
> Fluoridation of the nation's water supply will do little for our dental
> health;
> but will have catastrophic effects on our general health. We cannot, must
> not,
> dare not, subject our nation to this appalling risk....
>
> References:
> L Goldemberg - La Semana Med 28:628 (1921) - cited in Wilson RH, DeEds
> F -"The
> Synergistic Action Of Thyroid On Fluoride Toxicity" Endocrinology 26:851
> (1940).
>
> G Litzka - "Die experimentellen Grundlagen der Behandlung des Morbus
> Basedow und
> der Hyperthyreose mittels Fluortyrosin"
> Med Wochenschr 63:1037-1040 (1937) (discusses the basis of the use of
> fluorides
> in anti-thyroid medication, documents activity on liver, inhibition of
> glycolysis, etc.).
>
> W May - "Behandlung der Hypothyreosen einschlieblich des schweren genuinen
> Morbus Basedow mit Fluor" Klin Wochenschr 16: 562 - 564 (1937).
>
> Sarin: (GB: isopropyl methylphosono-fluoridate) is a colorless, odorless
> volatile liquid, soluble in water, first synthesized at IG Farben in 1938.
> It
> kills mainly through inhalation.
>
> Cyclosarin (GF) and Thiosarin are variants. Pennsylvania Department of
> Health
> http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/h...?a=171&q=233740
>
> Sarin: (GB: CH3-P(=O)(-F)(-OCH(CH3)2)
> Source: A FOA Briefing Book on Chemical Weapons
> http://www.opcw.org/resp/html/nerve.html Gerhard Schrader, a chemist at IG
> Farben, was given the task of developing a pesticide. Two years later a
> phosphorus compound with extremely high toxicity was produced for the
> first
> time.
> IG Farben: "...the board of American IG Farben had three directors from
> the
> Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most influential of the various
> Federal
> Reserve Banks. American IG Farben. also had interlocks with Standard Oil
> of New
> Jersey, Ford Motor Company, Bank of Manhattan (later to become the Chase
> Manhattan Bank), and AEG. (German General Electric) Source: Moody's Manual
> of
> Investments; 1930, page 2149."
> http://reformed-theology.org/html/b.../chapter_02.htm
>
> The full text of this article can be found in Namaste Magazine Vol.7 Issue
> 1
>
> http://www.namastepublishing.co.uk/...20on%20the%20Th
> yroid%20Gland.htm
>
>
>
> Alan
>
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