Dear James,

 

Thanks for identifying yourself. I can imagine this must be new and preposterous information. Most people believe that fluoride is a nutrient and that drinking bottled water causes cavities because it has no fluoride (Aquafina and Dasani have .4 mg/L, about half the amount in municipal tap water). And that the FDA would be on top of things like fluoride poisoning from drugs and food additives. And that Public Health wouldn't do this to us if it was harmful.

 

Cipro (ciprofloxacin) and Prozac (fluoxetine) are drugs made much more powerful, and receptor-specific, by the incorporation of fluoride. When the body metabolizes the drug, you excrete some fluoride and keep the rest. This damages teeth and bones. The fluorinated metabolite builds up and can cause fluoride poisoning of thyroid, liver, bowel, muscles and brain. The longer you are on Cipro or Prozac, the more likely you are to develop a severe form of fluoride poisoning that targets your nervous and endocrine systems. Cipro is worse. The postal employees who were put on long term Cipro to protect them from the anthrax mail scare have developed it. If the fluoride targets your muscle mitochondria, you get Rhabdomyolysis which can be fatal. (Note that non-fluoride drugs also can cause this). Two of the earliest psych drugs, Haldol and Stelazine, caused fluoride poisoning in the form of fluoride-induced brain and kidney damage, in millions of psychiatric patients treated since the 1950s. One of the side effects of these drugs is that your teeth fall out. So much for the protective effect of fluoride huh.

 

Most new drugs patented are fluorinated. This allows them to deliver a bigger, longer lasting punch to specific enzymes and receptors initially but also makes them much more toxic the longer you take them, and some side effects are irreversible. For some, the fluoride drug metabolite build-up can be measured three years later in bone cells where it inhibits mineral turnover and bone repair. This is one reason why children who take Prozac have weak bones twenty years later.

 

Certain types of Himalayan black and red rock salt have sodium fluoride and calcium fluoride in amounts great enough to cause fluoride poisoning of the bones and kidneys if consumed regularly. In India this is a real problem especially among the poor who don't get enough calcium and protein in their diets. www.krassindia.org and Treatise on Fluorosis by Dr. A.K. Susheela, 2007 (3rd edition).

 

The iodine-fluoride connection was discovered very early on and fluoride was used to treat iodine poisoning of the thyroid gland and hyperthyroid disease at daily levels that we now get from fluoridated water and foods processed in that water. Most recently, Dr. Kathy Thiessen, one of the scientists on the National Research Council panel that produced the report showing current accepted intake levels of fluoride are harmful to public health especially infants, found that iodine-deficient infants are at risk of brain damage from hypothyroid status if they get the Institute of Medicine's or CDC's recommended intake of fluoride. Because perchlorates are now found in water and food everywhere, iodine deficiency is a critical problem in North America, as perchlorates and fluoride are synergistic toxins to the thyroid and iodine is protective.

 

Please go slow with gathering this information and corroborating what you read here, or you will have trouble coping with the cognitive dissonance that ensues. In my own case, the sense of betrayal and grief was rather severe. I have fluoride-poisoned children.

 

Sincerely,

Aliss Terpstra RNCP

Research Coordinator, Fluoride Toxicity Research Collaborative www.SLweb.org