Is There Poison in The Port Orange Water Supply System?
FLUORIDE & HEALTH
INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
Fluoride is a highly toxic substance. Consider, for example, the poison warning that the FDA now requires on all fluoride toothpastes sold in the U.S. or the tens of millions of people throughout China and India who now suffer serious crippling bone diseases from drinking water with elevated levels of fluoride.
In terms of acute toxicity (i.e., the dose that can cause immediate toxic consequences), fluoride is more toxic than lead, but slightly less toxic than arsenic. This is why fluoride has long been used in rodenticides and pesticides to kill pests like rats and insects. It is also why accidents involving over-ingestion of fluoridated dental products–includingfluoride gels, fluoride supplements, and fluoridated water–can cause serious poisoning incidents, including death.
The debate today, however, is not about fluoride’s acute toxicity, but its chronic toxicity (i.e., the dose of fluoride that if regularly consumed over an extended period of time can cause adverse effects).
Although fluoride advocates have claimed for years that the safety of fluoride in dentistry is exhaustively documented and “beyond debate,” the Chairman of the National Research Council’s (NRC) comprehensive fluoride review, Dr. John Doull, recently stated that: ”when we looked at the studies that have been done, we found that many of these questions are unsettled and we have much less information than we should, considering how long this [fluoridation] has been going on. I think that’s why fluoridation is still being challenged so many years after it began.”
In this section of the website, we provide overviews of the scientific and medical research that implicates fluoride exposure as a cause or contributor to various chronic health ailments. In 2001, the union of scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Headquarters Office in Washington D.C. stated: “we hold that water fluoridation is an unreasonable risk.” The research in this section helps to demonstrate why EPA’s own scientists reached this conclusion, and why a growing number of health professionals do so as well.
The primary concerns with fluoride’s impact on human health can be summarized as follows:
- Current safety standards only protect against the most obvious forms of harm: Current safety standards for fluoride are based on the premise that severe dental fluorosis and crippling skeletal fluorosis are the first adverse effects that fluoride can have on the body. These effects represent the crudest, most obvious harm caused by fluoride. In the words of American University chemistry professor, Dr. William Hirzy, it would be a “biological miracle” if fluoride did not cause other harm prior to producing these end-stage forms of toxicity. Research already shows, in fact, that fluoride can cause arthritic symptoms and bone fracture well before the onset of crippling fluorosis, and can affect many other tissues besides bone and teeth, including the brain and thyroid gland.
- The current “safe” daily dose for fluoride fails to withstand scrutiny: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) states that anyone over 8 years of age — irrespective of their health condition — can safely ingest 10 milligrams of fluoride each day for their entire life without developing symptomatic bone damage. Ten milligrams, however, is the same dose that the IOM concedes can cause clinical signs of skeletal fluorosis within just 10 to 20 years of exposure. People with clinical signs of fluorosis can suffer significant symptoms, including chronic joint pain and overt osteoarthritis. The IOM’s safety standard instills little confidence in the medical understanding that currently underlies fluoride policies in the U.S.
- Some people are particularly susceptible to fluoride toxicity: It is well known that individual susceptibility to fluoride varies greatly across the population, and yet, the National Research Council has recently found that breathtakingly large gaps still exist in the safety literature on the effects these populations may be experiencing as a result of current fluoride exposures. The bewildering degree of uncertaintiesidentified by the NRC stands in stark contrast to the IOM’s conclusion that 10 mg/day is so definitively safe that no “uncertainty factor” needs to be applied to protect vulnerable members of the population.
- The margin between the toxic and therapeutic dose is very narrow: The NRC concluded that the allegedly “safe” upper limit of fluoride in water (4 mg/l) istoxic to human health. While the NRC did not determine the safe level, their conclusion means that the safe level is less than 4 times the level added to water (0.7-1.2 mg/l) in community fluoridation programs. This is far too slim a margin to protect vulnerable members of the population, including those who consume high amounts of water.
Fluoridation Opposition is Scientific, Respectable & Growing
Over 4,600 professionals (including 365 dentists and 566 MD’s) urge that fluoridation be stopped because science shows fluoridation is ineffective and harmful. See statement: http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/professionals-statement/text/
Some dentists who oppose fluoridation:
Huntsville Mayor, a retired dentist, said
“I had always subscribed to the theory of fluoride being a good thing in the drinking water” But when he researched it for himself, he came to the conclusion that “fluoride’s best-before date had passed and it was time that it should come out of the drinking water.”
http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2014/01/30/the-great-fluoride-debate
Dentists: Lawrie Brett; John Jukes;Stann Litras and Russell McLean speak against fluoridation
http://andygreek1.websitetoolbox.com/post/dentists-speak-out-against-fluoride-6657810
Dr Hisham Abdalla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGI_CdVemyA
Jay Harris Levy DDS Corrects misinformation put out by Portland, Oregon Pediatrician Dr. Wu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6WrBmjsZ5A
NZ Dentist Blows Whistle on Fluoridation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZy-WsHSk58&feature=youtu.be
Dr. Anna Goodwin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vCgB_PGbTEDentist
Dr. Jane Beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnrO-2fMvNU&feature=youtu.be
Dr. Lawrie Brett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysa51lW1i1E
Dr. Andrew Harms, former President of the Australian Dental Association, once promoted fluoridation until he read the science.
Harms says, “I deeply regret this … when I did read the science about 10 years ago, I started to get serious concerns.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NEZY2iDoUI
Hardy Limeback BSc,PhD,DDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sRWgDff8zY
Dr Bill Osmunson, promoted fluoridation for 25 years until his patients persuaded him to read the science, “It [was] like a knee in the gut,” he says. “Science has turned against fluoridation and we must stop adding fluoride to water.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ys9q1cvKGk
Dr Caree Alexander, a former Navy practitioner, then a private practice dentist for 20 years, says fluoridation is “totally ineffective and actually damaging as well.” http://www.youtube.com/user/SapphireEyesDocos#g/c/CB9C521C7CDD5C4E
Dr. Alexander says, “When I graduated from University, we weren’t given any information about where [fluoride] came from. We all assumed it was [pharmaceutical-grade] calcium fluoride.”
Dr. Thomas Connelly, writes, “I do not see the good in fluoridating our drinking water … To me, the ‘bad’ it can (potentially) do outweighs the good.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-p-connelly-dds/mouth-health-fluoridated_b_641767.html
Dentist Hardy Limeback, Ph.D., University of Toronto Professor and Head, Preventive Dentistry, apologized for promoting fluoridation because toxicology research shows the purported benefits no longer outweigh the risks.(http://cof-cof.ca/dr-hardy-limebacks-blog-list-view/)
Dentist David Kennedy, International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT), past president and Fluoride Information Officer, says, “Water fluoridation delivers a drug to infants at a level which would be gross malpractice if prescribed by a physician or dentist.” ( http://www.fluoridegate.com ) IAOMT is a network of dental, medical and research professionals which supports the effort to inform consumers about health risks from water fluoridation.
Dentist Jennifer Luke, Ph.D., says, “My [published] work showed that fluoride accumulates in the human pineal gland and lowers melatonin production in animals. I find it extraordinary that no government promoting fluoridation has chosen to pursue these worrying findings.”
Dentist and Doctor of Medical Science, Elise Bassin, published scientifically unrefuted evidence showing that fluoride can increase the risk of osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer) in boys and young men.