Fluoride & the Brain

[libertybrewcity]

1) Fluoride's ability to damage the brain represents one of the most active areas of research on fluoride toxicity today.

2) The research on fluoride and the brain has been fueled by 18 human studies from China, India, Iran, and Mexico finding elevated levels of fluoride exposure to be associated with IQ deficits in children. Fluoride's impact on IQ is exacerbated among children with low-iodine exposure.

3) The impact of fluoride on children's IQ has been documented even after controlling for children's lead exposure, iodine exposure, parental education and income status, and other known factors that might impact the results (Rocha-Amador 2007; Xiang 2003 a,b).

4) In addition to IQ studies, 3 studies (Yu 1996; Du 1992; Han 1989) have found that fluoride accumulates in the brain of the fetus, causing damage to cells and neurotransmitters and 1 study (Li 2004) has found a correlation between exposure to fluoride during fetal development and behavioral deficits among neonates.

5) Several recent studies have found that even adult exposures to fluoride may result in central nervous system disturbances, particularly among industrial workers.

5) The findings of neurological effects in fluoride-exposed humans is consistent with, and strengthened by, recent findings from over 40 animal studies published since 1992. As with the studies on humans, the studies on animals have reported an impairment in learning and memory prorcesses among the fluoride-treated groups.

6) The animal studies have also documented considerable evidence of direct toxic effects of fluoride on brain tissue, even at levels as low as 1 ppm fluoride in water (Varner 1998). These effects include:

-- reduction in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors;
-- reduction in lipid content;
-- impaired anti-oxidant defense systems;
-- damage to the hippocampus;
-- damage to the purkinje cells;
-- increased uptake of aluminum;
-- formation of beta-amyloid plaques (the classic brain abnormality in Alzheimer's disease);
-- exacerbation of lesions induced by iodine deficiency; and
-- accumulation of fluoride in the pineal gland.


www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/

[sevin]

http://www.amazon.com/Reverse-Osmosis-Storage-Removes-Fluoride/dp/B002LHDL7E

[youngbuck]

It's important to note that fluoride is part of the halide group of elements, along with bromine, chlorine, and iodine. One halide will displace the other in the body. You don't want fluoride, chlorine (chloride is, of course, OK), or bromide in your body. However, these elements are very prevalent in our world, so it's quite easy for these to enter your body, displace iodine/iodide, which in turn causes you to suffer the deleterious effects of the bad halide(s), while at the same time the effects of iodine deficiency. Supplementation of iodine/iodide can help your body flush out unwanted halides and prevent deficiency. For more info, refer to: Iodine Why You Need it Why You Can't Live Without It by Dr. David Brownstein (easy read for the layman).

http://www.amazon.com/Iodine-Need-Cant-Live-Without/dp/0966088239

[Kotin]

It's important to note that flouride is part of the halide group of elements, along with bromine, chlorine, and iodine. One halide will displace the other in the body. You don't want flouride, chlorine (chloride is, of course, OK), or bromide in your body. However, these elements are very prevalent in our world, so it's quite easy for these to enter your body, displace iodine/iodide, which in turn causes you to suffer the deleterious effects of the bad halide(s), while at the same time the effects of iodine deficiency. Supplementation of iodine/iodide can help your body flush out unwanted halides and prevent deficiency. For more info, refer to: Iodine Why You Need it Why You Can't Live Without It by Dr. David Brownstein (easy read for the layman).

http://www.amazon.com/Iodine-Need-Cant-Live-Without/dp/0966088239

good to see some around here know a thing or two about REAL medicine..

good stuff man, +rep

iodine is sooooo important.. especially if you have thyroid problems either hereditary or acquired through deficiency in certain nutrients.

[CaliforniaMom]

So why is fluoride continually added to the tap water? Why does the government allow it, and how can it be stopped? Shouldn't we have the choice as to whether we want to ingest fluoride or not?

[Mach]

So why is fluoride continually added to the tap water? Why does the government allow it, and how can it be stopped? Shouldn't we have the choice as to whether we want to ingest fluoride or not?

I understand what you were asking but I have to slightly correct it.... the government does not allow it, they push it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqVrUSz62o).

This has probably been posted around here before but this makes me sick..... literally.





http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/fact_sheets/bottled_water.htm

Fact Sheet on Questions About Bottled Water and Fluoride
Some consumers use bottled water as a beverage for various reasons, including as a convenient means of hydration during their activities or as a taste preference. Besides having a cost that is between one-to-five thousand times more expensive than tap water, bottled water may not have a sufficient amount of fluoride, which is important for good oral health. Some bottled waters contain fluoride, and some do not. Fluoride can occur naturally in source waters used for bottling or be added. Most bottled waters contain fluoride at levels that are less than optimal for oral health. This fact sheet covers common questions about bottled water and fluoride.

[Kotin]

It's important to note that fluoride is part of the halide group of elements, along with bromine, chlorine, and iodine. One halide will displace the other in the body. You don't want fluoride, chlorine (chloride is, of course, OK), or bromide in your body. However, these elements are very prevalent in our world, so it's quite easy for these to enter your body, displace iodine/iodide, which in turn causes you to suffer the deleterious effects of the bad halide(s), while at the same time the effects of iodine deficiency. Supplementation of iodine/iodide can help your body flush out unwanted halides and prevent deficiency. For more info, refer to: Iodine Why You Need it Why You Can't Live Without It by Dr. David Brownstein (easy read for the layman).

http://www.amazon.com/Iodine-Need-Cant-Live-Without/dp/0966088239

once again.. everyone needs to know this!!

[Anti Federalist]

Lot's of good fluoride information in this thread.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?235581-Chinese-made-flouride-damages-Mass.-town-s-water-supply-machinery

[Cleaner44]

So why is fluoride continually added to the tap water? Why does the government allow it, and how can it be stopped? Shouldn't we have the choice as to whether we want to ingest fluoride or not?

Contact your water company and find out if they add flouride, that's what I did. Talk to them directly.

[Anti Federalist]

Contact your water company and find out if they add flouride, that's what I did. Talk to them directly.

CDC interactive map for fluoridated water

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/MWF/Index.asp

[CaliforniaMom]

My water company does add fluoride according to their website :(
I'll write them a letter, though I doubt it will change anything.

[dannno]

CDC interactive map for fluoridated water

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/MWF/Index.asp

Says "No data available" for me..

All the research I've done points back to a decision around 1999 or 2000 when our city vehemently opposed fluoridation, I haven't seen that there have been any reversals.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Iodine, Why You Need It and Why You Cant Live Without It
by David Brownstein MD is written for the lay reader, however, all health care professionals should find the information useful in clinical practice.

Brownstein says we are in the "Medical Dark Ages" concerning iodine supplementation, and his book attempts to invoke a Renaissance. David Bronstein MD has a clinical practice in the goiter belt of Michigan, and is involved with an ongoing iodine research project with Guy Abraham MD and George Flechas MD.

According to Brownstein, iodine is safe and beneficial, preventing not only goiter, but also preventing the many thyroid cysts, nodules and auto-immune thyroid disease rampant in the population. Iodine is anti-microbial, anti-parasitic, anti-cancer, important for hormone production, reverses fibrocystic breast disease, and shrinks ovarian and thyroid cysts. It may be our most important preventive measure against breast cancer.

The book dispels a number of myths about Iodine supplementation.

Myth number one: There is no iodine deficiency because of Iodized Salt.

The iodine in Iodized salt is not very bio-available, and government surveys show decreasing Iodine levels in the population. Brownstein found that 90% of his patients were iodine deficient based on a 24 urine test for excreted iodine after a 50 mg loading dose.

Myth Number two: Too much Iodine above the RDA of 150 mcg is not safe.

In reality Iodine supplementation is very safe. The average Japanese diet contains 12 mg per day which is 100 times the RDA in the US. In the event of a nuclear power plant accident, the government gives everyone 50 mg. of Iodine to prevent thyroid cancer.

A chapter is devoted to iodine deficiency and fibrocystic breast disease and breast cancer. Brownstein presents case reports of women with fibrocystic disease as well as breast cancer who benefit from iodine supplementation. Another chapter devoted to the thyroid describes patients with Graves' disease and Hashimoto's disease who benefit from iodine supplementation.

Iodine tablets are inexpensive and widely available as a nutritional supplement called Iodoral without a prescription. Another book, Breast Cancer and Iodine, by David Derry MD PhD, is also recommended.

Jeffrey Dach MD