What is fluoride?
The fluoride ion comes from the element fluorine. Fluoride, either applied topically to erupted teeth, or ingested orally (called systemic fluoride) during tooth development, helps to prevent tooth decay, strengthen tooth enamel, and reduce the harmful effects of plaque. Fluoride also makes the entire tooth structure more resistant to decay and promotes remineralization, which aids in repairing early decay before the damage is even visible.
Health Minister decided: will be discontinued fluoridation of drinking water
Yael German Health Minister signed a new water regulations – negate the fluoridation of drinking water in Israel. German opposed fluoridation even a mayor role. Cancel fluoridation: in a year
Yael German Health Minister announced today (Thursday) that it has signed regulations that negate the duty of water fluoridation in Israel. Regulations pending legal officials at the Ministry of Health and take effect starting in 2014. The decision to put the end of a long debate about the various health agencies in Israel.
When she was mayor of Herzliya, strongly opposed adding fluoride German drinking Israel and those who petitioned the High Court against the Ministry of Health. While in office, just a few weeks ago, has announced that it intends to examine the issue. Today announced that it has signed a new water regulations – that eliminate the requirement fluoridation of drinking water in the country. regulations take effect in about a year.
Since 2002, the Ministry of Health requires all water suppliers in the country, led by the “Mekorot”, add fluoride to drinking water coming from the taps every locality numbering Over 5,000 people, ie most of the territory of Israel. According to the Ministry of Health, the material prevents tooth decay, is valid and tested all the time.
In 2006 the expert commission of the National Research Council in the United States (NRC), a review of a thousand studies have concluded that clear: fluoride put into the water to prevent tooth decay can cause serious health damage. It accumulates in bones and teeth hindering, skeletal bones, joints and spine. Also, different hormonal damage caused, including decreased insulin resistance.
More detailed report hazards such as behavior problems, a decrease in IQ in children and increased absorption of aluminum may cause damage to the central nervous system.
I’ve pored over dozens and dozens of research articles from India, Mexico, China, and Iran that address this issue of mental clarity, that talk about fluoride affecting people’s drive and reducing their actual IQ by as much as 10%. But not just the IQ. Studies also show that fluoride can fuzz up mental acuity, fog up memory and cause motor dysfunctions, learning disabilities and possibly even brain damage in children.
Actual Studies on the Dumbing Effects of Fluoride
I read these studies and wonder if it could be true, if we really might be “dumbing down” our own children in the name of (or guise of) dental health. Then I read the most recent study about fluoride decreasing IQ in children, released in December 2010. By eliminating other possible causes of lowered IQ’s (including brick tea consumption), this Chinese study presents undeniable findings.
The study compares children in two areas of China, one with a low level of natural fluoride averaging 0.36mg/liter water to an area of higher natural fluoride averaging 2.5mg/liter water. In the low fluoride area, there were 3½ times more bright children as in the high fluoride area. That’s enough to make a person pause for a moment.
And if the last statistic isn’t dramatic enough, digest this one: the high fluoride area had 2 ½ times more mentally retarded children than the low fluoride area. I’m hoping for essentially this same study redone by comparing a NO fluoride area to a high fluoride area.
Fluoride Carries Aluminum Into The Brain
This should be enough. This obviously IS more than enough – but unfortunately this isn’t all that fluoride does to the brain. Fluoride has a frequent companion: aluminum – and when the two of these guys hang out together (which they commonly do), all hell breaks lose. Aluminum in the brain is a possible causative factor in Alzheimer’s Disease. Fluoride is the key that allows aluminum to pass the blood brain barrier and set the stage for dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease through the formation of beta-amyloid plaques.
I avoid aluminum based deodorants and don’t cook in aluminum pans because of the Alzheimer- aluminum connection. But I never realized that fluoridated water promotes aluminum getting lodged in the brain.