The Effects of Fluoride on the Thyroid Gland
Ilena Rose
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dangers of fluoride (prozac ingredient) ...
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The Effects of Fluoride on the Thyroid Gland
By Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield MBBS LRCP MRCS
Medical Advisor to Thyroid UK
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
http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=171&q=233740
Sarin: (GB: CH3-P(=O)(-F)(-OCH(CH3)2)
Source: A FOA Briefing Book on Chemical Weapons
http://www.opcw.org/resp/html/nerve.html Gerhard Schrader, a chemist
at IG Farben, was given the task of developing a pesticide. Two years
later a phosphorus compound with extremely high toxicity was produced
for the first time.
IG Farben: �...the board of American IG Farben had three directors
from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most influential of the
various Federal Reserve Banks. American IG Farben. also had interlocks
with Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford Motor Company, Bank of Manhattan
(later to become the Chase Manhattan Bank), and AEG. (German General
Electric) Source: Moody�s Manual of Investments; 1930, page 2149.�
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_02.htm
The full text of this article can be found in Namaste Magazine Vol.7
Issue 1