There is more and more evidence that fluoride is just a bad idea, the effects are so damaging that its harder for authorities to continue to disregard this chemical as harmful to our health.
Here, you will find more information about the impact of fluoride on our body.
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Researchers from Harvard and Mount Sinai have added fluoride
to a list of industrial chemicals known to cause developmental disorders including
autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia
and other cognitive
impairments which are affecting millions
of children worldwide, and which seem to be increasing in frequency.
Here, you will find more information about the impact of fluoride on our body.
Richard Sauerheber, Ph.D.
(B.A. Biology, Ph.D. Chemistry,
University of California, San Diego) Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
March 28, 2014
U.S.
Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Rockville,
MD 20857
Dear Reviewers,
This information supports the petition to ban the addition of industrial synthetic fluoride compounds, sodium fluoride, fluorosilicic acid, and sodium fluorosilicate, into U.S. public drinking
water supplies that are added for the purpose of whole body fluoridation to treat dental caries (petition #FDA2007-P-0346).Of
course no request is made to remove natural
calcium fluoride from public water supplies that contain it below the EPA MCL and SMCL of 2- 4
ppm.
The U.S. CDC has reported
over the last few years that the incidence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in U.S. children now
ranges anywhere from 1
in 88 to 1 in 68 children, from 1.1%
to 1.5% of children in the entire country.
The specific causes
of ASD remain unclear in spite of this astounding substantial number of cases, totaling 1.2 million American
children (1).
Scores of published
studies have confirmed that consumption of water containing fluoride causes decreased mental IQ. Published animals research proved that fluoridated water consumption causes brain degeneration and functional abnormality in newborn mammals (see previous
letters describing published studies by Reddy, by Mullenix, and by Varner). Detailed epidemiologic published studies indicate that fluoridated water consumption correlates with increased incidence of Down’s syndrome with its substantial mental abnormality aspects. Several instances of intolerance in autism cases have been reported
specifically to water fluoridated to desired
levels (approx. 1 ppm) (2; and personal
communication with mother of autistic
child). A recent
study from Harvard
University listed neurotic agents that promote
autism (see attached news report).
Fluoride is the only one
intentionally ingested to treat humans. All fluoride compounds intended to be taken internally through ingestion are not FDA approved.
Whether industrial fluoride consumption can directly cause
autism or not is uncertain. What is most certain
however is that symptoms extant in autism are worsened
by systemic fluoride.
Fluoride incorporates into brain, as in other organs after assimilation, where it is a contaminant. This ion disrupts
normal hydrogen bonds between H and oxygen and between
H and nitrogen, whether
in water, proteins, DNA or other macromolecules,
and also forms abnormal hydrogen
bonds to fluoride ion instead (5).
There is now a very incidence
of mental disorders
in the U.S. without a proven,
certain cause. Mental derangements are caused by fluoridated water consumption (3,4). The use of fluoridated water in the U.S. is widespread (4,5). The EPA recently ruled that fluoride is a neurotoxin in man. Taken together
these facts now compel
the FDA to halt the infusion of industrial fluoride compounds into public water supplies.
It is imperative that the CDC halt any further recommendations to “fluoridate” public water supplies. The FDA must aid the CDC in this effort. Citizens demand action, not mere paper-pushing, statements of concern,
calls for further research or for proof of harm, or other decisions
that do not produce a halt to industrial fluoride consumption from water supplies. Only a halt of the insidious, ineffective, expensive, illegal practice is acceptable. The argument, that we should not halt fluoridation until proof of harm is absolute,
is false. The Food Drug and Cosmetic
Act requires that any chemical
substance, intended
to be administered for ingestion to treat humans,
be tested and verified
for safety.
Thank you,
Richard Sauerheber, Ph.D. Chemistry
1.
Autism Estimate Rises to 1 in 68 Children, Associated Press, Union Tribune San Diego, page A4, 2014.
2.
Rookard, C., Fluoride and Autism, is There a Connection? Fluoride 33,
2000, p.99; available at: http://www.fluorideresearch.org/332/files/FJ2000_v33_n2_p99-100.pdf
3.
National Research Council 2006 Report on Fluoride in Drinking
Water, A Scientific review of EPA’s Standards,
Washington, D.C.
4.
Connett, P., et.al.,
The Case Against Fluoride, Chelsea Green Publishing,White River Junction, Vermont, 2010.
5.
Sauerheber, R., Physiologic Conditions Affect the Toxicity of Ingested Industrial Fluoride, Jour. Envir. Pub. Health, article 439490, 2013.
Published On: Fri, Feb 21st, 2014
Harvard and Mount Sinai Scientists Link Fluoride to Autism
Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Researchers from Harvard and Mount Sinai have added fluoride
to a list of industrial chemicals known to cause developmental disorders including
autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia
and other cognitive
impairments which are affecting millions
of children worldwide, and which seem to be increasing in frequency.
In an article, published in The Lancet, Philippe Grandjean MD from the
Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard
School of Public Health,
and Philip
Landrigan MD, from the
Icahn School of Medicine
at
Mt Sinai, New York, state
that industrial chemicals that injure the developing brain
are among the known
causes for the rise in prevalence.
Grandjean and Landrigan had previously identified five industrial chemicals,
lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated
biphenyls, arsenic, and toluene,
as environmental neurotoxicants.
Since 2006, however, epidemiological studies have
documented six additional developmental neurotoxicants, wrote the two researchers. These six additional
toxins are manganese, fluoride,
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene,
and polybromated diphenyl
ethers.
Grandjean and Landrigan postulate that there are
even more neurotoxicants which remain
undiscovered, and propose a global prevention strategy to control what they describe as the
pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity.
The two scientists warn that untested
chemicals should not be presumed to be safe to brain development and
that chemicals in existing use and
all
new chemicals must therefore
be tested for
developmental
neurotoxicity. Grandjean
and Landrigan suggest to
coordinate these efforts
and to accelerate the translation
of
science into
prevention, and propose the urgent formation
of a
new international clearinghouse.
Grandjean and Landrigan’s study supports
previous scientific studies which have
correlated fluoride with developmental and cognitive impairment.
Autism Society
of WA A Chapter of the Autism Society
Fluoride and Autism
March 6, 2014
By Member Audrey Adams,
Washington Action for
Safe Water Board Member
They say, “It takes one to know one”, and that is certainly true of we parents of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. We are a special group, and while I don’t feel special, I do feel that I especially need other ASD parents. We know stuff that other parents just don’t know because we have been forced to learn it, studying and understanding “biomedical” this or that often with little more than a high school education, because we have to.
We
are a special group, not because we’re smarter, but because we can’t survive—and our children can’t thrive—on
the “norm” that the rest of the world takes
for granted. So every day we go the extra 100 miles that it takes to try to reduce the hell that our children
endure daily. They are so brave, so strong,
but the pain is often just too much
for them and then
they are labeled a “behavior problem”. The medical care and health advice we parents get from “professionals” is usually well-meaning, but often completely useless, and sometimes
is downright dangerous.
One of the more dangerous bits of “professional advice” is about fluoride, a chemical identified by the EPA as a developmental neurotoxin, yet pushed by pediatric dentists, pediatricians and virtually
all in public health to protect
teeth. We ASD parents would trade teeth for brains
any day, every day.
When
my son (now 28) was 14, he had been suffering
horribly with chronic intense
pain, headaches and a multitude of other symptoms. Eight specialists had already given up on him, having exhausted their series of
tests (for their particular part of the body). They couldn’t figure it out, couldn’t
help him.
A
mom I had met at an autism conference was the one who finally
offered the critically-needed
advice: Stop giving him fluoridated water. We
had tried everything else, with some success,
but his
pain
and resulting symptoms
persisted. But when I began to use reverse
osmosis water for drinking and cooking,
which takes out the fluoride,
my
son’s pain melted away in 3 days.
Three
days. I had been
giving my son pain-producing tap water for 14 years and
didn’t know it. Both relief and guilt
filled me. Now, 14 years later, I
erase that old guilt by trying
to spare other kids the pain my son endured…and so I share my knowledge
through Washington Action for Safe Water. Safe
water. How were we parents to know it wasn’t? We’ve been lied to for decades—fluoride is not safe.
Ironically,
it was
yet
another ASD mom, years after switching
to fluoride-free water for drinking
and cooking, who helped
me to recognize that my son was also reacting
to fluoridation chemicals in the shower.
What a shock. That was hard to believe, but it doesn’t
take long to
uncover the truth by doing several in-home, mom-conducted “clinical trials”.
Audrey Adams
Mom to Kyle, 28, with autism and severe
reactions to fluoride in water