Hi Brian,

I tried borax powder in water for a while but now I take 3 to 9 mg of chelated boron as a supplement. I do think boron is helpful for the joint pain and bone health. Magnesium is essential! I think boron is one of several trace minerals like selenium and lithium that offsets fluoride toxicity. (I take those too.) I base this on the research from Deaf Smith County in Texas which had high natural fluoride levels in the water and an almost perfect balance of other minerals. The local farmers had excellent health and good teeth as long as they avoided flour and sugar.  I no longer have fibro or chronic fatigue but symptoms come back if I drink my tap water or shower in it. I take short baths with plenty of baking soda or epsom salts that blocks the fluoride from entering the skin. I have a very simple old fashioned diet based on the Weston A. Price Foundation research and my ancestry which is Dutch. I think I have the gene for gluten intolerance and that is one reason why I was so poisoned - gluten intolerance damages the bowel, fluoride damages the bowel, and that greatly reduces calcium and iodine uptake from foods.

 

Tamarind in small amounts may be tolerated (not by hypersensitives like me) and the antioxidants and minerals may be of benefit, just like in green and rooibos teas, despite the small dose of fluoride. I have clients with thyroid disease who don't get symptoms from their expensive organic green or white tea as long as it is made with spring or distilled water. So I think there may be brands of green tea out there (like the Matcha Japanese green tea powder) that are beneficial for those who are not hypersensitive.

 

Aliss Terpstra (one of the moderators of this group)