--- In FluoridePoisoning@yahoogroups.com, "rge072754" <rge@...>
wrote:
>
> Likely Cause of Fibromyalgia
> I agree 100% with your postulations. I not only belive fluoride
is the causitive factor in fibromyalgia but other connective tissue
diseases. It was this Feb. when a chance reading of material in the
hand surgeon's waiting area which mentioned carpal tunnel disease
and fluoride exposure as linked that I began researching. I believe
fluoride is responsible for the rise of hypothyroidisim, diabetes,
obesity, CFS and much of the hormone related illness as well as
marked increase in hip fractures, ADD and Alzheimers to name just a
few. Sure they may be other resons is in some like familia
tendencies but there is just too many fingers pointing to this
toxin. I am sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.

I wonder if the big wigs who are in the know in these huge
pharmaceutical companies and those who sell the fluoride
toothpastes, or the engineers who ok the purchase and addition of
fluoride (slag) into drinking water let their kids take these meds,
brush their teeth with this paste or drink the water?
>
>
>
> Found at:
> http://co-cure.org/wwwboard/messages/2395.html
>
>
> Posted by Jason
>
> I believe that I have accidentally stumbled upon the cause of
> Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Syndrome, and a
> number of other so-called "mysterious ailments" in my personal
search
> to find an answer to my own health problems. It appears to me that
> the cause is in fact related to fluoride toxicity. Specifically in
> most cases fluoride toxicity related to the group of
fluoroquinolone
> antibiotics.
>
> Most people are not aware that there are in fact major health
> problems associated with fluoride. Most of us think that because
> fluoride is found in both toothpaste and drinking water that it is
a
> relatively safe substance. This unfortunately is far from the
truth.
> Of course in the drinking water fluoride is obviously incredibly
> diluted, and in toothpaste we normally absorb only trace amounts
at
> most every time we brush. This is far different then when we
actually
> take medications that contain fluoride.
>
> By ignoring fluoride's side effects as the FDA has done, because
it
> has long viewed fluoride as a necessary evil within our bacteria
rich
> water supplies, it would appear that the FDA has unintentionally
> given pharmaceutical companies, and in particular those companies
who
> produce the most popular antibiotics in the world, the license to
use
> one of the most dangerous and harmful substances that the medical
> community has available to it. Environmental groups state that
> fluoride is actually more toxic to the human body than lead, and
in
> fact nearly as toxic as arsenic. While personally I tend to ignore
> such groups most of the time, probably like most Americans do, the
> known side effects to fluoride appear match up very closely to an
> awful lot of diseases which have either sprung up, or become
> increasingly popular since these antibiotics began to become
widely
> distributed in the mid to late 80's.
>
> Fluoride apparently disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads
to
> the breakdown of collagen in the muscles, tendons, cartilage,
bones,
> kidneys, lungs, and skin. It also can cause permanent severe
> neurological, immune system, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal
> problems, as well as depressing thyroid activity.
>
> In the majority of people the breakdown of collagen appears to
cause
> the first symptoms. Joint pain, muscle stiffness, and tendon aches
> are generally among the very first symptoms that are noticed.
However
> in the majority of cases, such symptoms are usually so mild that
they
> are frequently not even noticed at the time the medication is
> actually taken. This is of course exactly why this problem has
gone
> undiagnosed for so long. Exceptions to this rule generally involve
> people who are under extreme amounts of stress at the time they
take
> such medications. In these cases, already tense muscles are make
even
> more tense as the breakdown of collagen begins. This is almost
> certainly why both Gulf War Veterans, and those people who the CDC
> monitored for possible anthrax exposure in 2001, tended to
experience
> noticeable side effects much more immediately than is typical. Of
> course neurological problems such as seizures, or gastrointestinal
> problems such as diarrhea or cramping can also be seen immediately
in
> some cases, either due to increased exposure or simply increased
> genetic susceptibility.
>
> In any case, it appears that symptoms for some reason seem to
> actually worsen over time. Those people who experience mild
reactions
> can over the course of many months or years begin to have more
severe
> related problems, while those people who may not have even noticed
> any symptoms at all may slowly begin to develop some of those
lesser
> symptoms. The reason for this maybe due to the fact that the
fluoride
> may actually remain in the body in some capacity, possibly become
> trapped when it crosses the blood-brain barrier which most toxins
> have difficulty penetrating.
>
> It appears obvious that the cholesterol-lowering drug Baycol, the
> weight-reducing drugs Fen-Phen, Redux, and Pondimin, and nearly a
> dozen of the members of the fluoroquinolone antibiotic group which
> are no longer on the market, or in some cases never even made it
to
> the market, because they were all even more noticeably toxic as a
> result of the fluoridation of those drugs combined with their
various
> other chemical elements. That of course still leaves many of the
much
> less noticeably toxic drugs, including some of the most widely
> prescribed antibiotics in the world, still on the market.
>
> Anyway, I firmly believe that fluoride has directly contributed to
> chronic health problems in tens of millions of Americans.
>
> Please do note that I am a doctor and that I have no scientific
> evidence to back up such claims. I am simply someone who has had
to
> educate myself because my doctors were at a loss to explain the
> source of my symptoms.
>