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"It is well established that excess fluoride can cause dental fluorosis. Mild dental fluorosis can result in mottled teeth. With higher levels of fluoride, pitting of the tooth enamel can occur. The Centers for Disease Control estimate that 23 percent of people in the United States aged 6 to 39 years of age have some degree of dental fluorosis. This may be due to the combined fluoride intake from fluoridated water, fluoridated toothpaste, and topical dental fluoride treatments. Summary for Fluoride Main functions: strengthens tooth enamel. Adequate Intakes: adult men, 3.8 mg; adult women, 3." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"X rays of children with dental fluorosis often show bone abnormalities (skeletal fluorosis) elsewhere in the body. Skeletal fluorosis weakens bones in a manner similar to osteoporosis. Early stages usually are misdiagnosed as arthritis, and advanced stages usually are misdiagnosed as osteoporosis. The minimum crippling fluoride dosage (the dosage that can cause skeletal fluorosis) is 5 milligrams per day for twenty to forty years, according to the National Academies for the Advancement of Science, yet Americans living in fluoridated areas average up to 6.6 milligrams per day!" - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"The Centers for Disease Control estimate that 23 percent of people in the United States aged 6 to 39 years of age have some degree of dental fluorosis. This may be due to the combined fluoride intake from fluoridated water, fluoridated toothpaste, and topical dental fluoride treatments. Summary for Fluoride Main functions: strengthens tooth enamel. Adequate Intakes: adult men, 3.8 mg; adult women, 3.1 mg. Toxicity: very toxic. Tolerable upper intake level is 10 mg for adults. Deficiency may increase risk of dental decay. Sources: fluoridated drinking water." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "High levels of fluoride are certainly toxic and can result in skeletal fluorosis, which can cause deformities. To summarize, current information indicates that growing children can greatly reduce their risk of dental decay by receiving periodic fluoride applications to the surface of their teeth. Fluoride is an interesting trace mineral because of the differing viewpoints on its toxicity. Chromium Chromium was named after the Greek word for color (chroma) because of the colorful compounds made from it. The chemical symbol for chromium is Cr." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"X rays of children with dental fluorosis often show bone abnormalities (skeletal fluorosis) elsewhere in the body. Skeletal fluorosis weakens bones in a manner similar to osteoporosis. Early stages usually are misdiagnosed as arthritis, and advanced stages usually are misdiagnosed as osteoporosis. The minimum crippling fluoride dosage (the dosage that can cause skeletal fluorosis) is 5 milligrams per day for twenty to forty years, according to the National Academies for the Advancement of Science, yet Americans living in fluoridated areas average up to 6.6 milligrams per day!" - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"Dental fluorosis, a brown staining of teeth due to fluoride exposure during childhood, is the best-documented adverse effect of fluoride. At a water fluoride level of 1 part per million (or 1 mg per liter), roughly 13% will have fluorosis to an aesthetically concerning degree.13 Some scientists have concluded that water fluoridation is associated with an increased risk of bone tumors,14 although most others disagree.15 FOLIC ACID What is it? Folic acid is a B vitamin needed for cell replication and growth." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"At high doses of fluoride, skeletal fluorosis can occur. Skeletal fluorosis is abnormal hardening of bones and is associated with arthritic pain, weakness, joint stiffness and occasionally nerve damage and paralysis. Intakes of 20-80 milligrams daily of fluoride for ten to twenty years are considered necessary for significant fluorosis to occur. This is equivalent to intakes of 72-285 milligrams daily of sodium fluoride. No evidence of skeletal fluorosis nor any other signs or symptoms of fluoride toxicity have been noted in about seven million adult U.S." - Sheldon Saul Hendler, The Doctor's Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia (Get the book.)

"Russian studies, both clinical and physiological, established that patients with dental fluorosis also suffered from disturbed nervous activity and brain dysfunction. Chinese scientists reported in 1995 that fluoride lowered the IQ. They compared children aged eight to 13 who had no fluorosis with those who had slight, medium and serious levels of it. Their findings revealed a five to 19 point decrease in IQ score for the children with severe fluorosis compared with those who had none. A second study of children aged seven to 14 consuming different levels of fluoride confirmed the findings." - David Icke, Icke David, Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion (Get the book.)

"Potential Results of Consuming Fluoridated Water • Bone and uterine cancer • Lowered IQ (especially in young children) • Birth defects • Perinatal death • Immune system suppression • Osteoarthritis • Skeletal fluorosis (leading to brittle teeth and bones) • Gastrointestinal disorders • Essential enzyme inhibition • Acute poisoning The practice of water fluoridation has been rejected or banned in several countries including: China, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Japan." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"Skeletal fluorosis is abnormal hardening of bones and is associated with arthritic pain, weakness, joint stiffness and occasionally nerve damage and paralysis. Intakes of 20-80 milligrams daily of fluoride for ten to twenty years are considered necessary for significant fluorosis to occur. This is equivalent to intakes of 72-285 milligrams daily of sodium fluoride. No evidence of skeletal fluorosis nor any other signs or symptoms of fluoride toxicity have been noted in about seven million adult U.S." - Sheldon Saul Hendler, The Doctor's Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia (Get the book.)

"Not only does public water fluoridation not protect teeth, it has now been officially linked to dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, increased hip fractures, increased infant mortalities, lowered IQ, increased hyperactivity in children, and cancer. Numerous studies have proven that fluoride can cause damage to chromosomes in concentrations as low as one part per million, and one part per million is the average target level used in fluoridating public water supplies." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"Gupta SK, Gupta RC, Seth AK et al: Reversal of fluorosis in children. Acta Paediatr Jpn; 38(5):513-519. 1996 Harvey JA, Kenny P, Poindexter J et al: Superior calcium absorption from calcium citrate than calcium carbonate using external forearm counting. J Am Coll Nutr; 9(6):583-587. 1990 Heaney RP, Smith KT, Recker RR et al: Meal effects on calcium absorption. Am J Clin Nutr; 49(2):372-376. 1989 Hofstad B, Almendingen K, Vatn M et al: Growth and recurrence of colorectal polyps: a double-blind 3-year intervention with calcium and antioxidants. Digestion; 59(2): 148-156." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"Repair of fluorosis is very expensive, even more so than cavities. EPA scientists were not convinced by the dog-and-pony act and refused to raise the toxic limits to 8 ppm. The vote was ten to two in favor of leaving the toxic limits at 1.4 and 2.4 ppm for children up to age nine. Unsurprisingly, given the government, industry, and forces embroiled in the debate, the report was later altered, officially raising toxic levels to 4 ppm—completely without the committee's knowledge or consent." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"At a water fluoride level of 1 part per million (or 1 mg per liter), roughly 13% will have fluorosis to an aesthetically concerning degree.13 Some scientists have concluded that water fluoridation is associated with an increased risk of bone tumors,14 although most others disagree.15 FOLIC ACID What is it? Folic acid is a B vitamin needed for cell replication and growth. Folic acid helps form building blocks of DNA, the body's genetic information, and building blocks of RNA, needed for protein synthesis in all cells." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"FDA-approved: ¦ Prophylaxis of Vitamin C deficiency ¦ Iron absorption Unproven Uses: Vitamin C has been used in the prevention of heart disease, pneumonia, sunburn, and hyperlipidemia, and for cancer prevention, muscle soreness, asthma, common cold, erythema (after C02 laser skin resurfacing), fluorosis, wound healing after severe trauma, and as an antioxidant. precautions and adverse reactions Avoid rapid intravenous injections. Adverse effects of parenteral vitamin C include faintness or dizziness, hemolysis, renal failure, and injection site pain." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.) "The results of this small study indicate that calcium, ascorbic acid, and vitamin D3 supplementation can reverse fluorosis in children (Gupta et al, 1996). Hypertension Oral ascorbic acid reduced blood pressure and arterial stiffness in patients with type 2 diabetes. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 30 patients (aged 45 to 70 years) with type 2 diabetes that was controlled with diet or hypoglycemic agents received either placebo or oral ascorbic acid 500 mg daily." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"In countries with naturally high fluoride levels, skeletal fluorosis is quite common and considered a major medical disaster. Some villages have been described wherein every single resident has been afflicted with a twisted, bent spine leading to severe crippling. Death rates in such villages begin to skyrocket at about age fifty. In very advanced cases, the spine is so contorted and overgrown that the nerves and spinal cord are gradually crushed, leading to severe neurological injury." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Studies show it may also reverse fluorosis in children (when combined with vitamins C and D), control age-related increases in parathyroid hormone, and reduce plasma bilirubin in patients with Crigler-Najjar syndrome (calcium phosphate only). Weaker evidence shows calcium supplementation may be helpful for leg cramps, pre-eclampsia, and prophylaxis of urinary crystallization of calcium oxalate in patients with nephrolithiasis (calcium citrate only). contraindications Calcium supplements are contraindicated in patients, with hypercalcemia (Gilman et al 2001)." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"Studies are showing that tooth decay is declining in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas, while dental fluorosis, a condition in children characterized by white spotted, yellow, brown-stained, or sometimes crumbly teeth, is on the rise, and more so in fluoridated areas. Intake of excess fluoride (through toothpaste, fluoridated water, and fluoride supplements) can cause dental fluorosis.20 ¦ Lead levels in children. The chemical most commonly used to fluoridate Americas drinking water is associated with an increase in children's blood lead levels." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"Occupational Fluorosis This study examined the effects of glutamic acid on occupational fluorosis in cryolite production workers. Results showed the treatment effective in preventing progression of metabolic disorders. —T.D. Grekhova, et al., [Effectiveness of Glutamate in the Treatment of Early Manifestations of Occupational Fluorosis], Med Tr Prom Ekol, (8), 1994, p. 20-23. Rhinitis This study examined the effects of Mg salt of N-acetyl-aspartyl- glutamic acid taken for 15 days in patients with allergic rhinitis. Results showed the drug to be effective and well tolerated. —A." - Gary Null, Ph.D., The Clinician's Handbook of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"Skeletal fluorosis is a debilitating condition that occurs when fluoride accumulates in bones, making them extremely weak and brittle. According to Dr. Limeback, the earliest symptoms of the condition are mottled and brittle teeth. "In Canada, we are now spending more money treating dental fluorosis than we do treating cavities," he says. Dr. Levy adds that dental fluorosis is the one toxic side effect of fluoride that even its proponents acknowledge as real. " - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Look in the mirror and notice the color variation in the enamel of your teeth. fluorosis occurs where white appears to be missing and may even be replaced by small brown spots. Dentists are well aware of this adverse effect of fluoride. However, they justify it by saying that the benefit of fluoride for cavity reduction is more important than the discoloration of teeth. They have formed the opinion, not based on any science, that brown teeth are a cosmetic issue, not a health issue." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Some children drinking fluoridated water develop an unsightly staining of their teeth called dental fluorosis, which leads to psychological problems in some of these children. One of the unfortunate problems with fluoride is that it accumulates in the body, with the body having no good mechanism for removal. Could The Daily Drinking Of Fluoride Be Contributing To The Rising Incidence Of Cancer In The United States? A population study in the U.S.A. compared the 10 largest cities fluoridating their water with the 10 largest cities that did not fluoridate their water." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Fluoride even at dosages of 1 part per million, found in artificially fluoridated water, can inhibit enzyme systems, damage the immune system, contribute to calcification of soft tissues, worsen arthritis and, of course, cause dental fluorosis in Children (http://www.mbschachter.com/danqers of fluoride and fluorida.htm). The Many Dangers Associated With Fluoride Exposure In her book Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? (1991/1994), Dr. Ann Blake Tracy refers to Dr. Craig N." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "In many of these areas the persons have frosty white teeth from dental fluorosis and many are disabled by age 40." Phelps also notes that "Fluoride's affinity toward beneficial trace metals [minerals] damages literally hundreds of enzyme processes that lead eventually toward poor health, illness, and death." Any drug (such as Prozac? that has the ability to drastically influence our perceptions, turning misconceptions into reality, and eventually leads to poor health, illness and death, is obviously a serious threat! What Else Do We Know About Fluoride?" - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Not only does public water fluoridation not protect teeth, it has now been officially linked to dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, increased hip fractures, increased infant mortalities, lowered IQ, increased hyperactivity in children, and cancer. Numerous studies have proven that fluoride can cause damage to chromosomes in concentrations as low as one part per million, and one part per million is the average target level used in fluoridating public water supplies." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"While consuming high levels of fluoride has been known to boost bone density, it also results in bone brittleness and can lead to skeletal fluorosis, resulting in: • Bone pain • Calcified ligaments • Bone spurs • Fused vertebrae • Difficulty moving joints Considering the above finding, and the fact that so many pregnant mothers and very young children continue to be placed on Prozac? helps explain why, according to Dr. David G." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Because they changed the status of fluorosis from an "opinion" to a scientifically based adverse health effect, the safety of adding fluoride to the drinking water for marginal cavity-fighting benefit can no longer be rationalized. In the context of available science, fluoride acts as a poison, not as a nutrient. Poisons that are used for human health are called drugs, requiring safety testing. In essence, the federal government and many local governments are actively administering a drug to 165 million Americans." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

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