Fluoride Accumulates in Pineal Gland
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Fluoride, added to the water supply of many cities and counties and sold by
WalMart in its nursery water, has a tendency to accumulate not only in
developing teeth causing discoloration, and in bones making them brittle. The
mineral is associated with cancer and it also accumulates in the pineal gland,
an important hormone control center, where it wreaks considerable havoc. Paul
Connett of Fluoride Action Network comments on Jennifer Luke's research which
was part of her PhD thesis and had just been published in Caries Research under
the title: Fluoride Deposition in the Aged Human Pineal Gland.
Fluoride is a poison, yet we add it to our water and toothpaste and even call it
a supplement, although it has no nutritional value. Its medicinal value - the
prevention of tooth decay - is the official explanation for adding the toxic
mineral to the water supply. But that value is far outweighed by its toxic side
effects - amply documented by Paul Connett in his Statement of Concern.
Recent European Union legislation on food supplements lists fluoride as an
essential element to offer for supplementation. This is somewhat ironic when
contrasted with the European legislators' feigned concern over the putative
toxicity of vitamins and their efforts to limit dosages of these vital nutrients
in order to "protect public health".
We also use fluoride in many household items, such as non-stick frying pans,
high-tech water repellent fabrics and others. Recently, at least some timid
attempts to start assessing the disease burden caused by fluoride are under way.
The Journal of Water Health carries an article on this research. Meanwhile in
the US, the FDA has decided that fluoride should be allowed in bottled water,
perhaps in deference to WalMart's offerings.
The use of fluoride for "health" reasons is one of the great insanities of our
times. Could it be just by chance that the Germans and Russians both used
fluoride to make prisoners stupid and docile or that the US government faced
legal action over the toxic effects in the environment of this nuclear waste
by-product?
Perhaps the push for 'enriching' our water and our foods with fluoride has some
ulterior motive that has little to do with health. Be that as it may, the
campaign for fluoridation is stil in full swing and health authorities are
pushing the poison as if their monthly paychecks depended on it.
Jennifer Luke's PhD thesis on fluoride and its accumulation in the pineal gland
- Paul Connett says that research might just be the scientific straw that breaks
the camel's back:
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Fluoride & the Pineal Gland: Study Published in Caries Research
The wheels of science grind very slowly. Finally, the first half of the work
that was the subject of Jennifer Luke's Ph.D. thesis; presentation in
Bellingham, Washington (ISFR conference) in 1998 and a videotaped interview I
had with her (see www.fluoridealert.org/videos.htm), has been published in
Caries Research. In my view this work is of enormous importance and could
be (or should be) the scientific straw that breaks the camel's back of
fluoridation. When Luke found out that the pineal gland - a little gland in the
center of the brain, responsible for a very large range of regulating activities
(it produces serotonin and melatonin) - was also a calcifying tissue, like the
teeth and the bones, she hypothesized it would concentrate fluoride to very high
levels. The gland is not protected by the blood brain barrier and has a very
high perfusion rate of blood, second only to the kidney.
Luke had 11 cadavers analyzed in the UK. As she predicted she found
astronomically high levels of fluoride in the calcium hydroxy apatite crystals
produced by the gland. The average was 9000 ppm and went as high as 21,000 in
one case. These levels are at, or higher, than fluoride levels in the bones of
people suffering from skeletal fluorosis. It is these findings which have just
been published.
It is the ramifications of these findings which have yet to be published. In the
second half of her work she treated animals (Mongolian gerbils) with fluoride at
a crack pineal gland research unit at the University of Surrey, UK (so there is
no question about the quality of this work). She found that melatonin production
(as measured by the concentration of a melatonin metabolite in the urine) was
lower in the animals treated with high fluoride levels compared with those
treated with low levels.
Luke hypothesizes that one of the four enzymes needed to convert the amino acid
tryptophan (from the diet) into melatonin is being inhibited by fluoride. It
could be one of the two enzymes which convert tryptophan to serotonin or one of
the two which convert serotonin to melatonin.
Significance? Huge. Melatonin is reponsible for regulating all kinds of
activities and there is a vast amount of work investigating its possible roles
in aging, cancer and many other life processes. The one activity that Luke is
particularly interested in is the onset of puberty. The highest levels of
melatonin ( produced only at night) is generated in young children. It is
thought that it is the fall of these melatonin levels which acts like a
biological clock and triggers the onset of puberty. In her gerbil study she
found that the high fluoride treated animals were reaching puberty earlier than
the low fluoride ones.
We know from recent studies - and considerable press coverage - that young girls
are reaching puberty earlier and earlier in the US. Luke is not saying that
fluoride (or fluoridation) is the cause but her work waves a very worrying red
flag. Fluoride's role in earlier puberty needs more thorough investigation. Of
an interesting historical note, in the Newburgh versus Kingston fluoridation
trial (1945-1955), it was found that the girls in fluoridated Newburgh were
reaching menstruation, on average, five months earlier than the girls in
unfluoridated Kingston, but the result was not thought to be significant at the
time (Schlessinger et al, 1956).
When one considers the seriousness of a possible interference by fluoride on
a growing child's pineal gland (and for that matter, elderly pineal glands) it
underlines the recklessness of fluoridation. The precautionary principle
would say, as would basic common sense, that you don't take these kind of risks
with our children for a benefit which, at best, amounts to 0.6 tooth surfaces
out of 128 tooth surfaces in a child's mouth (Brunelle and Carlos, 1990, Table
6). I have a copy of Luke's Ph.D. thesis and would be willing to share it
with those who have a serious scientific interest in this issue. The other
references cited above can be found in my Statement of Concern which is
published on the FAN webpage:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-statement.htm
Paul Connett
Related:
Please check out this link and sign the petition asking Walmart to stop selling
fluoride "Nursery Water" for infants.
Fluoride: Friend or Foe?
by David De Santo
GERMANS & RUSSIANS USED FLUORIDE TO MAKE PRISONERS 'STUPID & DOCILE
The Fluoride Deception: How a Nuclear Waste Byproduct Made Its Way Into the
Nation's Drinking Water
Toxic Teflon: Compounds from Household Products Found in Human Blood DuPont and
other companies use those synthetic compounds to make an extraordinarily wide
range of products, including nonstick cookware (e.g, Teflon), grease-resistant
food packaging (e.g., microwave popcorn and pizza boxes), stain-resistant
fabrics and carpets (e.g., Stainmaster), shampoos, conditioners, cleaning
products, electronic components, paints, firefighting foams, and a host of other
artifacts of modern life. But like many "better things" produced by industrial
chemistry, these products can have disastrous
side effects.
Fluoridation of drinking water - the UK Soil Association's position h. We
consider that the practice of adding fluoride to drinking water is prophylactic
treatment and is therefore in opposition to organic principles. As a result the
Soil Association is opposed to the artificial fluoridation of water by water
companies and also the legislation allowing this practice. We support the
campaign by the National Pure Water Association for water companies to have the
right not to fluoridate their water.
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Saturday December 30 2006
updated on Thursday January 4 2007
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