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The Effects Of Fluoride On The Thyroid Gland |
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by Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield Rense Entered into the database on Monday, September 26th, 2005 @ 10:47:14 MST |
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There is a daunting amount of research studies showing that the widely
acclaimed benefits on fluoride dental health are more imagined than real. My
main concern however, is the effect of sustained fluoride intake on general
health. Again, there is a huge body of research literature on this subject,
freely available and in the public domain. But this body of work was not considered by the York Review when their remit was
changed from "Studies of the effects of fluoride on health" to "Studies
on the effects of fluoridated water on health." It is clearly evident that
it was not considered by the BMA (Britsh Medical Association), British Dental
Association (BDA), BFS (British Fluoridation Society) and FPHM, (Faculty for Public
Health and Medicine) since they all insist, as in the briefing paper to Members
of Parliament - that fluoridation is safe and non-injurious to health. This is a public disgrace, I will now show by reviewing the damaging effects of
fluoridation, with special reference to thyroid illness. It has been known since the latter part of the 19th century that certain communities,
notably in Argentina, India and Turkey were chronically ill, with premature ageing,
arthritis, mental retardation, and infertility; and high levels of natural fluorides
in the water were responsible. Not only was it clear that the fluoride was having
a general effect on the health of the community, but in the early 1920s Goldemberg,
working in Argentina showed that fluoride was displacing iodine; thus compounding
the damage and rendering the community also hypothyroid from iodine deficiency. Highly Damaging To The Thyroid Gland This was the basis of the research in the 1930s of May, Litzka, Gorlitzer von
Mundy, who used fluoride preparations to treat over-active thyroid illness. Their
patients either drank fluoridated water, swallowed fluoride pills or were bathed
in fluoridated bath water; and their thyroid function was as a result, greatly
depressed. The use in 1937 of fluorotyrosine for this purpose showed how effective
this treatment was; but the effectiveness was difficult to predict and many patients
suffered total thyroid loss. So it was given a new role and received a new name,
Pardinon. It was marketed not for over-active thyroid disease but as a pesticide.
(Note the manufacturer of fluorotyrosine was IG Farben who also made sarin, a
gas used in World War II). This bit of history illustrates the fact that fluorides are dangerous in general
and in particular highly damaging to the thyroid gland, a matter to which I shall
return shortly. While it is unlikely that it will be disputed that fluorides are
toxic - let us be reminded that they are Schedule 2 Poisons under the Poisons
Act 1972, the matter in dispute is the level of toxicity attributable to given
amounts; in today's context the degree of damage caused by given concentrations
in the water supply. While admitting its toxicity, proponents rely on the fact
that it is diluted and therefore, it is claimed, unlikely to have deleterious
effects. They Could Not Be More Mistaken It seems to me that we must be aware of how fluoride does its damage. It is an
enzyme poison. Enzymes are complex protein compounds that vastly speed up biological
chemical reactions while themselves remaining unchanged. As we speak, there occurs
in all of us a vast multitude of these reactions to maintain life and produce
the energy to sustain it. The chains of amino acids that make up these complex
proteins are linked by simple compounds called amides; and it is with these that
fluorine molecules react, splitting and distorting them, thus damaging the enzymes
and their activity. Let it be said at once, this effect can occur at extraordinary
low concentrations; even lower than the one part per million which is the dilution
proposed for fluoridation in our water supply. The Body Can Only Eliminate Half Moreover, fluorides are cumulative and build up steadily with ingestion of fluoride
from all sources, which include not just water but the air we breathe and the
food we eat. The use of fluoride toothpaste in dental hygiene and the coating
of teeth are further sources of substantial levels of fluoride intake. The body
can only eliminate half of the total intake, which means that the older you are
the more fluoride will have accumulated in your body. Inevitably this means the
ageing population is particularly targeted. And even worse for the very young
there is a major element of risk in baby formula made with fluoridated water.
The extreme sensitivity of the very young to fluoride toxicity makes this unacceptable.
Since there are so many sources of fluoride in our everyday living, it will prove
impossible to maintain an average level of 1ppm as is suggested. What Is The Result Of These Toxic Effects? First the immune system. The distortion of protein structure causes the immune
proteins to fail to recognise body proteins, and so instigate an attack on them,
which is Autoimmune Disease. Autoimmune diseases constitute a body of disease
processes troubling many thousands of people: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Lupus
Erythematosis, Asthma and Systemic Sclerosis are examples; but in my particular
context today, thyroid antibodies will be produced which will cause Thyroiditis
resulting in the common hypothyroid disease, Hashimoto's Disease and the hyperthyroidism
of Graves' Disease. Musculo Skeletal damage results further from the enzyme toxic effect; the collagen
tissue of which muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones are made, is damaged. Rheumatoid
illness, osteoporosis and deformation of bones inevitably follow. This toxic effect
extends to the ameloblasts making tooth enamel, which is consequently weakened
and then made brittle; and its visible appearance is, of course, dental fluorosis. The enzyme poison effect extends to our genes; DNA cannot repair itself, and chromosomes
are damaged. Work at the University of Missouri showed genital damage, targeting
ovaries and testes. Also affected is inter uterine growth and development of the
foetus, especially the nervous system. Increased incidence of Down's Syndrome
has been documented. Fluorides are mutagenic. That is, they can cause the uncontrolled proliferation
of cells we call cancer. This applies to cancer anywhere in the body; but bones
are particularly picked out. The incidence of osteosarcoma in a study reporting
in 1991 showed an unbelievable 50% increase. A report in 1955 in the New England
Journal of Medicine showed a 400% increase in cancer of the thyroid in San Francisco
during the period their water was fluoridated. My Particular Concern Is The Effect Of Fluorides On The Thyroid Gland
Perhaps I may remind you about thyroid disease. The thyroid gland produces hormones
which control our metabolism - the rate at which we burn our fuel. Deficiency
is relatively common, much more than is generally accepted by many medical authorities:
a figure of 1:4 or 1:3 by mid life is more likely. The illness is insidious in
its onset and progression. People become tired, cold, overweight, depressed, constipated;
they suffer arthritis, hair loss, infertility, atherosclerosis and chronic illness.
Sadly, it is poorly diagnosed and poorly managed by very many doctors in this
country. What concerns me so deeply is that in concentrations as low as 1ppm, fluorides
damage the thyroid system on 4 levels. 1. The enzyme manufacture of thyroid hormones within the thyroid gland
itself. The process by which iodine is attached to the amino acid tyrosine and
converted to the two significant thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and liothyronine
(T3), is slowed. 2. The stimulation of certain G proteins from the toxic effect of fluoride
(whose function is to govern uptake of substances into each of the cells of
the body), has the effect of switching off the uptake into the cell of the active
thyroid hormone. 3. The thyroid control mechanism is compromised. The thyroid stimulating
hormone output from the pituitary gland is inhibited by fluoride, thus reducing
thyroid output of thyroid hormones. 4. Fluoride competes for the receptor sites on the thyroid gland which
respond to the thyroid stimulating hormone; so that less of this hormone reaches
the thyroid gland and so less thyroid hormone is manufactured. These damaging
effects, all of which occur with small concentrations of fluoride, have obvious
and easily identifiable effects on thyroid status. The running down of thyroid
hormone means a slow slide into hypothyroidism. Already the incidence of hypothyroidism
is increasing as a result of other environmental toxins and pollutions together
with wide spread nutritional deficiencies. 141 Million Europeans Are At Risk One further factor should give us deep anxiety. Professor Hume of Dundee, in his
paper given earlier this year to the Novartis Foundation, pointed out that iodine
deficiency is growing worldwide. There are 141 million Europeans are at risk;
only 5 European countries are iodine sufficient. UK now falls into the marginal
and focal category. Professor Hume recently produced figures to show that 40%
of pregnant women in the Tayside region of Scotland were deficient by at least
half of the iodine required for a normal pregnancy. A relatively high level of
missing, decayed, filled teeth was noted in this non-fluoridated area, suggesting
that the iodine deficiency was causing early hypothyroidism which interferes with
the health of teeth. Dare one speculate on the result of now fluoridating the
water?... Displaces Iodine In The Body Do you think it should be marketed? Fluoridation of the nation's water supply will do little for our dental health;
but will have catastrophic effects on our general health. We cannot, must not,
dare not, subject our nation to this appalling risk.... References L Goldemberg - La Semana Med 28:628 (1921) - cited in Wilson RH, DeEds F -"The
Synergistic Action Of Thyroid On Fluoride Toxicity" Endocrinology 26:851
(1940). G Litzka - "Die experimentellen Grundlagen der Behandlung des Morbus Basedow
und der Hyperthyreose mittels Fluortyrosin" Med Wochenschr 63:1037-1040 (1937)
(discusses the basis of the use of fluorides in anti-thyroid medication, documents
activity on liver, inhibition of glycolysis, etc.). W May - "Behandlung der Hypothyreosen einschlieblich des schweren genuinen
Morbus Basedow mit Fluor" Klin Wochenschr 16: 562 - 564 (1937). Sarin: (GB: isopropyl methylphosono-fluoridate) is a colorless, odorless volatile
liquid, soluble in water, first synthesized at IG Farben in 1938. It kills mainly
through inhalation. Cyclosarin (GF) and Thiosarin are variants. Pennsylvania Department of Health Sarin: (GB: CH3-P(=O)(-F)(-OCH(CH3)2) Source: A FOA Briefing Book
on Chemical Weapons http://reformed-theology.org/html/
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