Limit Fluoride to Prevent Lead Poisoning, study says

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Thursday December 05, 2013 10:39

by NYSCOF

Fuoride enhances lead uptake

This is just one of the hundreds of studies indicating that ingesting fluoride is deleterious to human health. Unnecessary and health-robbing fluoride chemicals are added to public water supplies because it satisfies the political will of powerful special interest groups. It's up to each of us to demand fluoridation be stopped.

Fluoride chemicals added to public water supplies, boosts lead absorption in lab animals' bones, teeth and blood, report Sawan, et al. (Toxicology 2/2010). Earlier studies already show children's blood-lead-levels are higher in fluoridated communities, reports Sawan's research team.

"…exposure to increased amounts of lead and fluoride occurs at about the same age (1-3 years)… Therefore, this is a critical time when systemic exposure to fluoride should be minimized since fluoride may increase lead accumulation," the researchers caution.

Low-level lead exposure is associated with lower IQ, ADHD and many health and behavior ailments.

Fluosilicic acid (fluoride) is added to water supplies ostensibly to reduce tooth decay in tap water drinkers.

Sawan's team put fluosilicic acid, with and without lead, into lab animals' drinking water. They found more lead in tooth enamel, surface bone, whole bone, and tooth dentine in rats co-exposed to fluoride and lead.

Possibly anticipating criticism that rats were fed higher fluoride-concentrated water than people drink, the authors write, "This concentration was chosen because it produces plasma fluoride levels that are comparable with those commonly found in humans…"

Increased prevalence and severity of fluoride-discolored teeth (fluorosis) proves U.S. children are already fluoride-overexposed, "which may cause their blood-lead levels to increase and produce more lead toxicity," they write.

"These findings suggest that a biological effect, not recognized so far, may underlie the epidemiological association between increased blood-lead levels in children and water fluoridation," concludes Sawan's research team.

"[O]ur findings may have serious implications for populations exposed to increased amounts of both lead and fluoride, particularly young children," the research team writes.

Fluoridation chemicals are allowed too contain lead and other toxics. http://www.nsf.org/newsroom_pdf/NSF_Fact_Sheet_on_Fluor...n.pdf

People need to lobby and petition their legislators to stop fluoridation in their towns, cities and states. Legislators are ignoring the science proving fluoridation is endangering our health, our water supplies and wasting tax dollars while denying freedom of choice

Masters and Coplan's landmark studies show higher blood-lead-levels in children living in silico-fluoridated communities (Neurotoxicology 2000, 2007). Macek's research shows children's higher blood-lead-levels are associated with water fluoridation when lead is already in the environment (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2006).

Some fluoridation chemicals originate in China, Mexico and Japan, reports the CDC.

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DCC vote against fluoride in the water supply

by fred

Tue Oct 14, 2014 04:12

dublin city council vote to remove fluoride
http://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-city-council-vote-fluor...2014/

Dead right! Sensible countries who respect the rights of their citizens to make their own choices
don't do this anymore. Put fluoride on your teeth if you want by brushing with a fluoride toothpaste.
But please don't force others to drink it in the water supply involuntarily.
or pay for putting it into the 49% of our treated water that currently leaks into the ground.

Mind you sadly most people in Ireland drink much higher concentrations of an equally bad chemical every night of the week in the pub voluntarily. Alcohol seriously damages brain cells, hence inevitably affects IQ and causes lots of other problems.
IMHO fluoride in the water is wrong, but there are probably worse things...

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