Dr. John Yiamouyiannis
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 In an attempt to verify or disprove the findings of Dr. Gibson, Dr. Peter Wilkinson, also of the University of Glasgow, conducted independent studies to determine the effects of fluoride on white blood cells. In contrast to Dr. Gibson, who looked at unobstructed migration of white blood cells, Dr. Wilkinson used a chemical (called a chemotactic agent) to attract the white blood cells but obstructed their movement by putting a filter in their way. This forced the white blood cells to squeeze their way through the filter in an attempt to reach the chemotactic agent. |
| The ability of fluoride to interfere with the normal shape and function of proteins has since been confirmed by Dr. Steven Edwards and co-workers from the University of California at San Diego and Drs. H.C. Froede and LB. Wilson from the University of Colorado at Boulder. By distorting the conformation of the body's own protein, the immune system attacks its own protein resulting in the autoimmune or allergic response described in Chapter 2. |
| In an attempt to verify or disprove the findings of Dr. Gibson, Dr. Peter Wilkinson, also of the University of Glasgow, conducted independent studies to determine the effects of fluoride on white blood cells. In contrast to Dr. Gibson, who looked at unobstructed migration of white blood cells, Dr. Wilkinson used a chemical (called a chemotactic agent) to attract the white blood cells but obstructed their movement by putting a filter in their way. This forced the white blood cells to squeeze their way through the filter in an attempt to reach the chemotactic agent. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Let's review the harmful effects of common toxins found in our water supply—arsenic, fluoride, chlorine, and others.
Most water contains Arsenic!
Arsenic is an extremely toxic heavy metal that damages the human nervous system, causes birth defects, and leads to several types of cancer. This substance is poisonous if inhaled but the primary mode of contamination worldwide is through the water supply. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| Fluoride's predominant effects are stimulation of osteoblastic activity and positive calcium balance. fluoride is incorporated into the crystalline structure of bone as fluoroapatite, but the bone matrix is poorly formed and weak, and long-term excessive exposure typically results in more fragile bones.
The therapeutic index for fluoride is quite narrow, and at the recommended daily dose of 60-75 mg, sodium fluoride causes side-effects in 33-50% of patients. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 When fluoride is incorporated into bones, it can form:
(a) Thyroxine.
(b) Fluorine.
(c) Hydroxyapatite.
(d) Fluoroapatite.
25. Trace minerals are found in the body in:
(a) Large amounts.
(b) Medium amounts.
(c) Small amounts.
(d) Trace amounts.
Final Exam
Do not refer to the text when taking this exam. A good score is at least 75 (out of 100 questions) correct. Answers are in the back of the book. It's best to have a friend check your score the first time, so that you won't memorize the answers if you want to take the test again.
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| CHAPTER 13
Minor Trace Minerals
Iodine, Selenium, Copper, Manganese, fluoride, Chromium, Molybdenum, Lead, and Mercury
Iodine
Iodine is needed to make thyroid hormones. Iodine is a non-metallic trace element that is essential for nutrition. The chemical symbol for iodine is the letter I. Iodine is the name of the element in food and iodide is the name of the ion form found in the body. Only tiny amounts of dietary iodine are needed.
Over geologic time, iodine has washed out of soils and into the ocean. |
| Zinc.
(b) fluoride.
(c) Manganese.
(d) Chromium.
9. Chromium enhances the effects of:
(a) Serotonin.
(b) Insulin.
(c) Adrenaline.
(d) Thyroxine.
10. The healthiest amount of mercury to intake daily in food is:
(a) 10 mg.
(b) 10 meg.
(c) 1 meg.
(d) 0 meg.
Test: Part Four
Do not refer to the text when taking this test. A good score is at least 18 (out of 25 questions) correct. Answers are in the back of the book. It's best to have a friend check your score the first time, so that you won't memorize the answers if you want to take the test again.
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Andreas Moritz
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 Ever since the 1950s when Aspartame, MSG, and fluoride were being pushed into our youth, along with the harmful immunization programs, the IQ of the average high school graduate has fallen 10 percent.
Sweetness at a Price
Aspartame, Sucralose (in Splenda ) and saccharin are the most commonly used artificial sweeteners and have gained huge popularity among people who are concerned about their weight. In the belief that they are doing something good for themselves, they are thrilled to have found the "ideal" sweetener that satisfies their sweet tooth yet doesn't make them fat. |
| Excessive fluoride intake can lead to hyperthyroidism. If you have been diagnosed with this disorder you should consult with a doctor of Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine or an ND (doctor of naturopathic medicine) who is knowledgeable about nutrition and its effects on the body's endocrine glands.
Gingko Biloba—Brain Food; And Coenzyme Q10
I also recommend Gingko Biloba, available at most health food stores. Guarana and Gingko seem to complement each other. Gingko is considered brain food. It apparently increases blood flow to the brain, thereby improving memory and brain function. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The connection is so strong that the government required grains to be fortified with folic acid much as drinking water is fortified with fluoride. And there's been a corresponding decrease in diseases, such as spina bifida, that are related to folic acid deficiency in pregnant women.
That's a wonderful thing—but it may not be the whole story. Our understanding of epigenetics is so immature we have to be wary about unintended consequences. We just don't know what other genes may be influenced by pumping methyl donors into the food supply, and we probably won't know for years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even if they say fluoride is good for your teeth, it’s not the same stuff dripping into the water supply. Naturally-occurring fluoride is not the stuff obtained by scraping the chemicals off the inside of industrial smoke stacks. That's where they're getting fluorosilicic acid, which is what most municipalities are actually dripping into their water supply. Seriously, if you take a look at modern dentistry, it's a house of horrors. Some of the most ignorant and unscientific procedures of all are practiced in dentistry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is all done with no regard for the level of natural fluoride children might already be ingesting from other sources. The situation is so crazy that it's difficult to find a more insane example of medical tyranny than the mass fluoridation of public water supplies. The fact that doctors and dentists so vehemently support it demonstrates just how crazy they really are.
10. Processed milk
Children as young as 10 years old are now being diagnosed with heart disease and clogged arteries. Ever wonder how it happened? |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Albumin, another plasma protein, is used to transport fluoride, zinc, and cobalt. Excesses of most of these trace minerals are eliminated by the kidneys. However, iron, zinc, copper, and molybdenum are eliminated in the bile.
Perfect health is not possible without the correct amounts of these trace minerals.
CHAPTER 11
Iron
The Blood Builder
Although iron is necessary for our bodies, it can be harmful in large amounts. The chemical symbol for iron is Fe from the Latinferrum, which means iron. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| The therapeutic index for fluoride is quite narrow, and at the recommended daily dose of 60-75 mg, sodium fluoride causes side-effects in 33-50% of patients. Joint pain is the most common, but stomach aches, nausea, and vomiting also occur, although they are less troublesome if the fluoride is taken with meals.
Newer sodium fluoride preparations, i.e. enteric-coated and timed-release to prevent digestion in the stomach, are showing better results in terms of both fewer side-effects and better clinical results. |
Erich Grotewold
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 Cleavage of the silyl ethers using tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF) on silica (Clark, 1978) gave 4-benzylsulfanyl-2'-hydroxyisoflavans 203-206, which were converted to the 6a,l la-c/s-pterocarpans 207-210 in yields of 39-82% using the thiophilic Lewis acids, dimethyl(methylthio)sulfonium tetra-fluoroborate (DMTSF) or silver trifluoromethanesulfonate (CF3S03Ag) (Trost and Murayama, 1981; Williams et al., 1984; Trost and Sato, 1985) (Scheme 1.14).
Isoflav-3-enes 215 and 216 were obtained via periodate oxidation of the cis-and ? |
| Drifluor reagents: non-hygroscopic sources of the fluoride ion, J Chem Soc, Chem Commun 789-91.
Close, W. J., 1950, The conformation of the ephedrines, J Org Chem 15: 1131-1134.
Coffey, P. E., Drauz, K-H., Roberts, S. M., Skidmore, J., and Smith, J. A., 2001, P-Peptides as catalysts: poly-P-leucine as a catalyst for the Julia-Colonna asymmetric epoxidation of enones, Chem Commun
2330-2331.
Colonna, S., Molinari, H., Banfi, S., Julia, S., Masana, J., and Alvarez, A., 1983, Synthetic enzymes - 4. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 In addition to a generous endowment of several compounds that work together to prevent tooth decay, tea also contains a considerable amount of tooth-preserving fluoride.
Green tea may contain more fluoride than black tea. To get potent decay-preventive action from just the fluoride in tea, you'd have to drink three to ten cups a day. But you actually need less because of all the other anti-cavity compounds in tea. (There's also a good chance that the water you use for your tea already contains fluoride.) If you sweeten your tea, try using licorice instead of decay-promoting sugar. |
Marshall Editions
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 Try to reduce your intake of sugary foods and drinks, brush your teeth regularly using a toothpaste containing fluoride, and make sure you floss as often as is practically possible. Visit your dentist regularly so that any problems that may be developing can be detected early.
• Swollen gums
• Earache and swelling on one side of the face
• Swelling in the neck
• Pain in the face
• Sinusitis (see p. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Information, links and articles about the dangers of fluoride in our environment.
Sweet Poison: How the World's Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us www.sweetpoison.com Dr. Janet Starr Hull ISBN: 0882821644
Book Description: Millions of dieters using chemical sweeteners will be shocked by firefighter Janet Starr Hull's story. Diagnosed with a deadly case of Grave's Disease after she collapsed on the job, Hull was told she would die. Searching for the cause of her illness, Hull discovered that the chemical sweetener aspartame found in Nutrasweet was to blame. |
| Were chlorine and fluoride the only chemicals we had to worry about, that would be bad enough. But as discussed, food manufacturers and the chemical companies have decided to add thousands of synthetic chemicals to our food and beverages in the form of preservatives, dyes, flavorings, flavor enhancers, stabilizers and artificial sweeteners. You truly do not know what you are eating.
Let's take a closer look at artificial sweeteners. They are of special interest to me based on the personal experience I've had with them over the years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now as a result we have fluorosis, and bone disorders that are related to the over-consumption of fluoride.
For some reason, dentists have decided that they now have medical degrees, and that they want to medicate the entire population with a drug, a biologically active drug, without first diagnosing any individual in that community. In other words, they want to medicate everyone across the board with the exact same dosage, regardless of that person's individual health needs, and regardless of how much other fluoride they may be exposed to on a regular basis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These are the same people, of course, who say that mass fluoridation of public water supplies with a toxic waste chemical misnamed "fluoride" is also perfectly safe. And mercury dental fillings are safe, too, if you can believe that. In fact, there's hardly a chemical or heavy metal being used in public health today that isn't safe enough to be injected into the bodies of children, if you believe these so-called health "experts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A food labeled "all natural" can contain pesticides, herbicides, toxic heavy metals, trace amounts of PCBs, toxic fluoride, hidden MSG, high-temperature cooking byproducts, synthetic chemical vitamins and dozens of other non-natural substances. This is all perfectly allowed and tolerated by the FDA as well as all virtually every media outlet in the world. Cable news stations, magazines, newspapers and other media giants are all too happy to take money from junk food manufacturers and run their advertisements claiming their foods are "all natural. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Oh yeah, and they also say aspartame and fluoride are completely safe to swallow in unlimited lifetime quantities, with zero negative health effects.
In fact, the pushers of conventional medicine still believe that the mind has no health impact on the body -- a belief that was considered modern in the 1870's, but today, in 2007, it's downright antiquated. Don't believe me? Just ask your doctor about "mind-body medicine" and watch the condemnations roll off his tongue. M.D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Well, let's just say that once you realize where the "fluoride" really comes from (it's a toxic waste chemical scraped off the emissions scrubbers of coal-fired power plants), you start to understand the magnitude of the fluoridation scam.
Any genuine health care reform should start with one simple principle: stop poisoning the people. Sorta simple, isn't it? Too simple for politicians to grasp, of course, especially when they're confused by all the special interest groups screaming at them. |
| Ban aspartame, water fluoridation and mercury fillings
You probably know the stories on aspartame, fluoride and mercury fillings by now. These are known toxic substances that are not only toxic to the humans who consume them but also to the environment. Mercury fillings, for example, currently release 34 metric tons of toxic mercury into the environment each year. That's about as much as all the coal plants in a sizeable nation, yet the EPA pretends mercury fillings have no environmental impact whatsoever.
Aspartame, too, is a known toxic substance that's well documented as a neurotoxin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That is, it only works if you rub it on your teeth, then spit it out, and even that only works if you're using natural fluoride, not the chemicals spit out as byproducts of the fertilizer industry, which is what city water departments are buying and dripping into the water supply.) Click here to see my CounterThink cartoon on this topic.
Whoever heard of drinking a topical medication in the first place? It's like swallowing sunscreen to prevent sunburn. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That is the primary reason they are trying to get fluoride into all the water supplies everywhere. I am very glad that I do not have fluoride in my own drinking water, and if I did, I would get a reverse osmosis filter or a distiller and I would get it removed.
The future of freedom
Mike: Where do you think this is all heading? Do you think the American people are capable of waking up to these issues, or are we head first into a downward spiral that will end with the complete obliteration of our health freedoms? |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Sources: Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and fluoride (1997); Dietary Reference Intakes for Thic Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline (1998); Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and Carotenoids (2000); Dietary Rel Chromium, Copper, Iodine, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silicon, Vanadium, and Zinc (2001); and Dietary Reference Intakes for Watei reports may be accessed via http://www.nap.edu.
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