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"The form found in nature, fluoride (F-), is stable and is essential for humans in small amounts. Elemental fluorine was isolated (1886, France) by Henri Moissan; it is named after the Latin fluere ("to flow") because its mineral fluorspar (calcium fluoride) melts when heated. Fluorspar was used in preindustrial times in metallurgy and in glass etching. Today, fluoride is best known as an additive to water and toothpaste to prevent tooth decay. It is also an element in non-stick pan coatings, and has uses in the nuclear, electrical, and chemical industries." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Zinc. (b) fluoride. (c) Manganese. (d) Chromium. 9. Chromium enhances the effects of: (a) Serotonin. (b) Insulin. (c) Adrenaline. (d) Thyroxine. 10. The healthiest amount of mercury to intake daily in food is: (a) 10 mg. (b) 10 meg. (c) 1 meg. (d) 0 meg. Test: Part Four Do not refer to the text when taking this test. A good score is at least 18 (out of 25 questions) correct. Answers are in the back of the book. It's best to have a friend check your score the first time, so that you won't memorize the answers if you want to take the test again. 1." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Drifluor reagents: non-hygroscopic sources of the fluoride ion, J Chem Soc, Chem Commun 789-91. Close, W. J., 1950, The conformation of the ephedrines, J Org Chem 15: 1131-1134. Coffey, P. E., Drauz, K-H., Roberts, S. M., Skidmore, J., and Smith, J. A., 2001, P-Peptides as catalysts: poly-P-leucine as a catalyst for the Julia-Colonna asymmetric epoxidation of enones, Chem Commun 2330-2331. Colonna, S., Molinari, H., Banfi, S., Julia, S., Masana, J., and Alvarez, A., 1983, Synthetic enzymes - 4." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"When fluoride is incorporated into bones, it can form: (a) Thyroxine. (b) Fluorine. (c) Hydroxyapatite. (d) Fluoroapatite. 25. Trace minerals are found in the body in: (a) Large amounts. (b) Medium amounts. (c) Small amounts. (d) Trace amounts. Final Exam Do not refer to the text when taking this exam. A good score is at least 75 (out of 100 questions) correct. Answers are in the back of the book. It's best to have a friend check your score the first time, so that you won't memorize the answers if you want to take the test again. 1." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"So the purveyors of coxibs were busily conducting trials to see if their cash cows could become fixtures in the lives of our colons, like fluoride for our teeth. That's when the smoking gun blew up in the faces of Pfizer, Merck, and many of their fellow travelers. coxibs lead to a small dose-related increase in cardiovascular events. For example, Celebrex at a dose of 400 mg per day does not significantly increase the hazard for death or other cardiovascular events. But at 800 mg per day, the hazard increased threefold." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"We've been told that fluoride is good for our teeth. Not so. It is a known hazardous, poisonous, toxic waste by-product of the aluminum, phosphate fertilizer and other industries. This has been known for years, but we passively accept the big, fat lie about the benefits of fluoride, pumped into our water supply and mixed into our dental hygiene products. If fluoridation is such a great idea, why have so many developed countries such as Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Austria and France flatly rejected the concept?" - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Leo Spiro, who was awarded a degree in recognition for his research on fluoridation by London University, says that fluoride damages brain and nerve cells, is harmful to reproductive organs, affects the thyroid gland, damages the liver, and creates a high incidence of bone fracture. He adds that, "We cannot prophecy what would happen to the organs of the body if it were subjected to constant doses of fluoride for a lifetime." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"The authors of this study concluded that "because humans occasionally are exposed to high amounts of fluoride and plasma levels as high as those found in this rat study, neurotoxic risks deserve further evaluation. This is the first laboratory study to demonstrate that CNS functional output is vulnerable to fluoride, that the effects of behavior depend on the age at exposure, and that fluoride accumulates in brain tissues." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders (Get the book.)

"He adds that, "We cannot prophecy what would happen to the organs of the body if it were subjected to constant doses of fluoride for a lifetime." fluoride is one of those industrial waste products that someone decided would be of benefit, without having done any long-term tests on the effects it would have on the human body. It really is about profit, not health! There is not much you can do at the point of purification, but at least you can do something about the quality of the water in your own home." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"Fluoride's predominant effects are stimulation of osteoblastic activity and positive calcium balance. fluoride is incorporated into the crystalline structure of bone as fluoroapatite, but the bone matrix is poorly formed and weak, and long-term excessive exposure typically results in more fragile bones. The therapeutic index for fluoride is quite narrow, and at the recommended daily dose of 60-75 mg, sodium fluoride causes side-effects in 33-50% of patients." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2 (Get the book.)

"In addition to a generous endowment of several compounds that work together to prevent tooth decay, tea also contains a considerable amount of tooth-preserving fluoride. Green tea may contain more fluoride than black tea. To get potent decay-preventive action from just the fluoride in tea, you'd have to drink three to ten cups a day. But you actually need less because of all the other anti-cavity compounds in tea. (There's also a good chance that the water you use for your tea already contains fluoride.) If you sweeten your tea, try using licorice instead of decay-promoting sugar." - James A. Duke, Ph.D., The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the World's Foremost Authority on Healing Herbs (Get the book.)

"Albumin, another plasma protein, is used to transport fluoride, zinc, and cobalt. Excesses of most of these trace minerals are eliminated by the kidneys. However, iron, zinc, copper, and molybdenum are eliminated in the bile. Perfect health is not possible without the correct amounts of these trace minerals. CHAPTER 11 Iron The Blood Builder Although iron is necessary for our bodies, it can be harmful in large amounts. The chemical symbol for iron is Fe from the Latinferrum, which means iron." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D and fluoride." National Academies Press, Washington, DC; Hathcock, J. N., Shao, A., Vieth, R., and Heaney, R. P. (2007). Risk assessment for vitamin D. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 85, 6-18. "NOAEL is the no-observed-adverse-effect-level, an intake level that has been shown to pose no risk of adverse effects. UF is uncertainty factor. UL = NOAEL/UF. (approximately 30,000 to 2,600,000 IU), and durations were between days and decades [61]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Hair analysis, for a reasonable price, gives you 30 or more real facts about the levels of mercury, arsenic, cadmium, lead, nickel, aluminum, and fluoride that have built up in your body. Everyone should know what toxic substances and physiologic minerals—chromium, selenium, boron—they're accumulating or are deficient in. We have very few tools that give us this kind of perspective," Dr. Kunin concludes. "The contamination level can be minute and still show up on the test, whose accuracy is quite high." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"For ten years Rosenbaum and his students at the James Franck Institute had been asking that question of a small chunk of lithium holmium fluoride salt. Inside Rosenbaum's refrigerator lay a perfect chip of rose-colored crystal, no bigger than the head of a pencil, wrapped in two sets of copper coils. Over the years, after many experiments with spin glasses, Rosenbaum had grown very fond of these dazzling little specimens, one of the most naturally magnetic substances on Earth." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Distillation and reverse osmosis (R/O) are effective in removing the fluoride (along with contaminants). For more ideal filtering devices, you may need to contact your local dealer for water filters or check out my book Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation. The mineral boron removes fluoride from the body. The most absorbable form of boron is ionic boron, as made available by Eniva, for example (see the Appendix). A decongesting diet according to body type,11 regular sleeping and eating habits, and stress-free living conditions are essential for recovery." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.) "Almost all correlate with known symptoms of fluoride poisoning. The symptoms of hypothyroidism include depression, dizziness, fatigue, weight gain, muscle and joint pain, hair loss, headache, migraine, shortness of breath, GI problems, menstrual problems, unbalanced blood pressure, increased cholesterol levels, allergies, insomnia, panic attacks and moodiness, irregular heart beat, and congestive heart failure. A large number of children and adults in India and other developing countries are crippled and their teeth are destroyed because of fluoride poisoning from industry pollution." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"Some of these children are benefited by removing all sources of fluoride. Additionally, vitamin and mineral supplements, such as magnesium, may be quite helpful. "Homeopathy can also be extremely useful. I saw one little boy who suffered from recurrent ear infections and was hyperactive." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Halogens like chloride and fluoride, substances we are all regularly exposed to either in a simple compound or as part of a more complex, synthetic chemical, activate abnormal heart rhythms. Examples of halogen sources include gasoline, disinfectants and cleaning solutions, toothpaste, dyes, and medicines. Most drugs, in fact, are made with chlorine (you'll see the "CI" in drug labeling). It's been said that you absorb the vast majority of the sun's damage to your skin by the time you reach the ripe old age of eighteen." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Distillers can effectively get rid of heavy metals such as cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, and mercury, as well as arsenic, barium, fluoride, selenium, and sodium. A caveat: there may be significant energy costs associated with using a distillation system, which is why these systems are usually designed to produce enough water for drinking and cooking only. Reverse osmosis units: These are often combined with a carbon filter or UV disinfection unit (see following page). A semipermeable membrane separates impurities from the water." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Depending on your water source and the use of filters, you could be exposing yourself to chlorine, fluoride, lead, copper, alpha emitters (elements such as radon,uranium, and radium, all ofwhich are linked to cancer), and trihalomethanes, by-products produced from adding chlorine to disinfect the water. Trihalomethanes are linked to bladder and colorectal cancer, and exposure through drinking and skin absorption has been shown in studies to increase one's chance of miscarriages and other reproductive problems." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "To make matters worse, the form of fluoride used in water fluoridation programs is an industrial waste product. More than 90 percent of the fluoridated U.S. municipal water supplies use hydrofluorosilicic acid or its sodium salt as a fluoridating agent. These chemicals are highly toxic by-products of phosphate fertilizer production. Their presence in our drinking water supplies is more about the corporate bottom line than about the claimed benefit of preventing tooth decay." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"They do not, however, absorb inorganic mineral salts such as chloride, fluoride, sodium, nitrates, and soluble minerals. For this reason, they are best for city water systems but not for well water systems, which have a potential to be polluted with high amounts of nitrates from agricultural wastes. A concern regarding granular charcoal filters is their tendency to be a gathering ground for bacteria, yeasts, and molds, and their inability to remove pollutants found in some drinking water." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "FILTERING YOUR WATER Compressed, activated, charcoal block filters are an inexpensive way to get protection from the carbon-based organic pollution, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, PCBs, cysts, heavy metals, asbestos, VOCs (volatile organic chemicals), and THMs in our water. They also eliminate chlorine and foul odors. They do not, however, absorb inorganic mineral salts such as chloride, fluoride, sodium, nitrates, and soluble minerals." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Metals such as cadmium, mercury, arsenic, lead, fluoride,51 and possibly aluminum may play a role in the actual destruction of beta cells through stimulating an auto-immune reaction to them after they have bonded to these cells in the pancreas. It is because mercury52 and lead attach themselves at highly vulnerable junctures of proteins that they find their great capacity to provoke morphological changes in the body. Changes in pancreatic function are among the pathogenetic mechanisms observable during lead intoxication." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Toxins, including pesticides, mercury, fluoride, radiation, alcohol, caffeine, cigarette smoke, and phthalates (chemicals added to plastics, often emitted when heating or microwaving plastics). 6. Thyroid antibodies These are discussed below. Thyroid Antibodies Thyroid antibodies are also a common problem for perimenopausal and menopausal women, and you should know if you have any. Autoimmune thyroiditis, also known as Hashimoto's disease, is fifty times more common in women than in men, and tends to occur during perimenopause and menopause." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Similarly, tap water contains chemicals very harmful to the thyroid, including fluoride and chlorine. fluoride and chlorine have been shown to interfere with iodine uptake by the thyroid gland. The long-term ingestion of fluoride and chlorine, commonly found in tap water, is partially responsible for the increased incidence in hypothyroidism. Recommendations I recommend using a water filter that removes fluoride and chlorine as well as bacteria and parasites. There are many water filters that are worth investigating." - David Brownstein, Overcoming Thyroid Disorders (Get the book.)

"Cancer aside, if children get too much fluoride, they can get dental fluorosis, or mottled and discolored teeth. According to the EPA, assuming average dietary levels of fluoride, up to 1 ppm in water won't cause dental fluorosis. Be sure your children are getting enough fluoride, but not too much. Find out how much fluoride is in your tap water (see page 132) or bottled water (ask the manufacturer). Teach your children to rinse thoroughly after brushing their teeth, and not to swallow toothpaste." - Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland, Safe Food: Eating Wisely in a Risky World (Get the book.)

"Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D and fluoride." National Academies Press, Washington, DC; Heaney, R. P. (2007). The case for improving vitamin D status. J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. 103, 635-641; Bischoff-Ferrari, H. A, Giovannucci, E., Willett, W. C, Dietrich, T., and Dawson-Hughes, B. (2006). Estimation of optimal serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D for multiple health outcomes. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 84, 18-28; Hathcock, J. N., Shao, A., Vieth, R., and Heaney, R. P. (2007). Risk assessment for vitamin D. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 85, 6-18; Hollis, B. W." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

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