A breaking
new study outright displays the unquestionable danger of fluoride
use. Safety officials often dismissed fluoride concerns with the
fact that water supplies contain on one part per million fluoride
but the study published in Neurologia warned that this amount is
dangerous.
Other severe
cautions in the results include fluoride’s extreme toxicity and
ability to cross the blood brain barrier, avoiding its use
altogether especially for children, evidence that it can take 20
years for the toxic accumulation to manifest its effects and more.
Fluoride effects biochemistry, neurological and mental development,
destruction of teeth, and pregnancies. “Animal studies show
fluoride’s toxic brain effects include classic brain abnormalities
found in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.”
~Health
Freedoms
New Study: Fluoride Can Damage
the Brain – Avoid Use in Children
NEW
YORK, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — “The
prolonged ingestion of fluoride may cause significant damage to
health and particularly to the nervous system,” concludes a review
of studies by researchers Valdez-Jimenez, et al. published in
Neurologia (June 2011), reports New York State Coalition
Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF).
The research
team reports, “It is important to be aware of this serious problem
and avoid the use of toothpaste and items that contain fluoride,
particularly in children as they are more susceptible to the toxic
effects of fluoride.” (1)
“Fluoride
can be toxic by ingesting one part per million (ppm), and the
effects are not immediate, as they can take 20 years or more to
become evident,” they write.
Most
fluoridating U.S. public drinking water suppliers add fluoride
chemicals to deliver 1 ppm fluoride (equal to about 1 milligram per
quart) intending to benefit teeth and not to purify the
water.
“Fluoridation clearly jeopardizes our children
and must be stopped,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President,
NYSCOF. ”We can actually see how fluoride has damaged
children’s teeth with dental fluorosis; but we can’t see the harm
it’s doing to their brains and other organs. No U.S. researcher is
even looking,” says Beeber.
Valdez-Jimenez, et al. describe studies that show
fluoride induces changes in the brain’s physical structure and
biochemistry which affects the neurological and mental
development of individuals including cognitive processes, such as
learning and memory.
“Fluoride is
capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, which may cause
biochemical and functional changes in the nervous system during
pregnancy, since the fluoride accumulates in brain tissue before
birth,” they write.*
Animal
studies show fluoride’s toxic brain effects include classic brain
abnormalities found in patients with Alzheimer’s disease,
Valdez-Jimenez’s team reports.
A different
research team (Tang et al.) reported in 2008 that “A qualitative
review of the studies found a consistent and strong association
between the exposure to fluoride and low IQ.” (Biological Trace
Element Research) (2)
In 2006, the
U.S. National Research Council’s (NRC) expert fluoride panel
reviewed fluoride toxicology and concluded, “It’s apparent that
fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the
brain.” And, “Fluorides also increase the production of free
radicals in the brain through several different biological pathways.
These changes have a bearing on the possibility that fluorides act
to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.”
(3)
On April 12, 2010, Time magazine listed
fluoride as one of the “Top Ten Common Household Toxins” and
described fluoride as both “neurotoxic and potentially tumorigenic
if swallowed.” (4)
Phyllis
Mullenix, Ph.D., was the first U.S. scientist to find evidence that
fluoride damages the brain. She published her animal study in a
respected peer-reviewed scientific journal in 1995 (5) and then was
fired for doing so.(6)
Vyvyan
Howard, M.D., Ph.D., a prominent fetal toxicologist and
past-President of the International Society of Doctors for the
Environment, said that current brain/fluoride research convinces him
that we should stop water fluoridation.
Many communities have stopped or rejected
fluoridation in the past several years – the most recent
is Fairbanks, Alaska. This year, seven New York City
Council Members co-sponsored legislation to stop fluoridation in
NYC.
*Translated
from Spanish using Google Translation
References:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/fluoridation-news-releases/rD7pCONMcLw/discussion
Contact:
Paul Beeber, JD, 516-433-8882 nyscof@aol.com
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
http://www.fluoridation.webs.com
SOURCE: NYS Coalition Opposed to
Fluoridation