Fluoride and your Thyroid — a dangerous connection

The follo­wing article is writ­ten by Mr. Bill Buc­kel of Utah, who has dis­co­ve­red and com­pi­led sobe­ring infor­ma­tion about Fluo­ride on our health…

Before wri­ting of my own dif­fi­cul­ties with Fluo­ride, which cau­sed my sup­ple­men­ta­tion of Armour Thy­roid to be attac­ked and dimi­nished, it is impor­tant that we unders­tand just what the che­mi­cals “Fluo­rine”, the com­pound “hydro­flo­ric acid”, and the ele­ment “Fluo­ride” really are. The­re­fore, a quote from Dr. Joseph Mer­cola is in order:

“Fluo­rine is an ele­ment. It is a gas, never occu­rring in its free state. In mic­ros­co­pic amounts com­ple­xed with other mine­rals, it is often lis­ted as a trace mine­ral, a nutrient for human nutri­tion. This has nothing to do with “fluo­ride or fluo­ri­da­tion.” Yet the fluo­ride added to 90% of drin­king water is hydro­fluo­ric acid, which is a com­pound of fluo­rine that is a che­mi­cal bypro­duct of alu­mi­num, steel, cement, phosphate, and nuc­lear wea­pons manu­fac­tu­ring.

Such fluo­ride is man­made. In this form, fluo­ride has no nutrient value wha­tsoe­ver. It is one of the most caus­tic of indus­trial che­mi­cals. Fluo­ride is the active toxin in rat poi­sons and coc­kroach pow­der. Hydro­fluo­ric acid is used to refine high octane gaso­line, to make fluo­ro­car­bons and chlo­ro­fluo­ro­car­bons for free­zers and air con­di­tio­ners, (think “FREON”) and to manu­fac­ture com­pu­ter screens, fluo­res­cent light bulbs, semi­con­duc­tors, plas­tics, herbicides, — and tooth­paste. It also has the abi­lity to burn flesh to the bone, des­troy eyes, and sear lungs so that vic­tims drown in their own body fluid.

Once in the body, fluo­ride is a des­tro­yer of human enzy­mes. It does this by chan­ging their sha­pes. You’ll remem­ber from the Enzy­mes chap­ter that in human bioche­mistry, thou­sands of enzy­mes are neces­sary for various essen­tial cell reac­tions that take place every second we’re alive. (Howell) Without enzy­mes, we’d die ins­tan­ta­neously. Enzy­mes trig­ger spe­ci­fic reac­tions in the body. One way they do this is by having the exact shape neces­sary, like a key in a lock.

Fluo­ride Chan­ges The Shape Of The Enzy­mes So That They No Lon­ger Fit. Since enzy­mes are pro­teins, once they’ve been chan­ged, they’re now foreign-looking. The body now treats them as inva­ders, even though they’re part of that body. This is known as an autoim­mune situa­tion — the body attacks itself. Another way to look at it: enzy­mes are long-chain pro­teins held in cer­tain sha­pes. Hydro­gen bonds are the Velcro strips that hold the enzyme in a cer­tain shape. Fluo­ride comes along and hydroly­zes the enzyme: cuts the Velcro strips away. The shape collap­ses. No more enzyme; now just a foreign protein.”

Only after researching and fin­ding fluo­ride infor­ma­tion like the above did this sub­ject become one near-and-dear to not only to myself, but to my wife and chil­dren as well.

My STORY:

In 2003, I began expe­rien­cing a nag­ging mor­ning brain fog — a con­fu­sed, “what-am-I-to-do-next?” kind of thing, when I first addres­sed the mirror for sha­ving in the mor­ning. Soon, at the sug­ges­tion of my wife, a regi­men of one grain Armour natu­ral desic­ca­ted Thy­roid was begun (one grain = 60 mg.). And within a very short time, I had no more low body tem­pe­ra­tu­res, no uncon­tro­lled shi­vers and another big plus – no more symp­toms of asthma! No lon­ger nee­ded are those various inha­lers that had become the norm for more than ten years! Addi­tio­nally, I now had a fuller eye­brow, which had never been more than half there. (With sub­se­quent inc­rea­ses, my dose is now 3 gr.)

At the end of that first year, on Octo­ber 1, 2003 while using thy­roid and fee­ling GREAT like I hadn’t felt for years, our County began adding “Hydro­fluo­si­li­cic Acid”, the chea­pest (and most dan­ge­rous form of) Fluo­ride avai­la­ble to our water dis­trict. Within the next few weeks, both my wife and I dis­co­ve­red a rever­sal of the good health we had dis­co­ve­red after star­ting the use of thy­roid sup­ple­men­ta­tion. When we visi­ted the Water Dis­trict Plant and com­plai­ned of the horri­ble effects of that fluo­ri­da­tion, the mana­ger said: “Hold it, you are preaching to the choir! We must add it, since it has been man­da­ted by the county, and I need my job.” The mana­ger was actually (pri­va­tely) very agreea­ble to our posi­tion, admit­ting know­ledge of toxi­city and the effects of fluo­ride on human health.

Inside of those three weeks, both my wife and myself felt that our thy­roid sup­ple­ment was no lon­ger doing anything for us. With much Inter­net searching and watching the dif­fe­rence in how our health was going downhill, we became aware of many artic­les writ­ten by doc­tors world­wide that were war­ning of the very pro­blems and dan­gers we were currently expe­rien­cing. We sub­se­quently bought and ins­ta­lled a 5-stage reverse-osmosis fil­tra­tion sys­tem, which takes out the fluo­ride by fil­te­ring to about .0001 to .0003 mic­rons, and in a very short time we were back to our good health and our thy­roid levels were once more at a good level. (But, a dili­gent awa­re­ness tells us that we should inc­rease our daily-dose when those nig­gling hints of hypothy­roi­dism pre­sent them­sel­ves.) Since that time we avoid the use of any tooth­paste! Rather – we use baking soda and fil­te­red water and avoid “most jui­ces and soft drinks.” We even tote our fil­te­red water along to sto­res, movies and restaurants.

Our research had led us to such artic­les as this excerpt from the following:

“The Effects of Fluo­ride On The Thy­roid Gland” — By Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, Medi­cal Advi­sor to Thy­roid UK 9 – 9-4

It has been known since the lat­ter of the 19^th 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.

They all insist, as in the brie­fing paper to Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment — that fluo­ri­da­tion is safe and non-injurious to health.

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. 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).

It is a little known fact that fluo­ride com­pounds were added to the drin­king water of pri­so­ners to keep them docile and inhi­bit ques­tio­ning of autho­rity, both in Nazi pri­son camps in World War II and in the Soviet gulags in Sibe­ria”. This bit of his­tory illus­tra­tes the fact that fluo­ri­des are dan­ge­rous in gene­ral and in par­ti­cu­lar highly dama­ging to the thy­roid gland. 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.”

It is dif­fi­cult NOT to inc­lude Dr. Peatfield’s entire article. His web­site is http://www.drpeatfield.com for your further, highly recom­men­ded research possibilities.

In my hum­ble opi­nion, not only has our health been com­pro­mi­sed by the inges­tion of Fluo­ri­da­ted water, but the ear­lier and ongoing policy of adding fluo­ri­des into so many pro­ces­sed foods and beve­ra­ges, such as soft drinks, beer and tea, bott­led water and recons­ti­tu­ted jui­ces has added sig­ni­fi­cant levels of dama­ging fluo­ride “pro­ducts” to our daily diet and to the detri­ment of our thy­roid health. It mat­ters not that any cer­tain County might NOT add fluo­ride to their water supply, because those pro­ducts used in any county will, by neces­sity, be from a cen­tral dis­tri­bu­ting sys­tem and will con­tain wha­te­ver that county has in their water. You get it, no mat­ter what!

Recently, we took our grand­daugh­ter to the den­tist to have a filling ins­ta­lled. She has had the “bene­fits” of fluo­ri­da­tion and still gets cavi­ties, while I, on the other hand, having never inges­ted fluo­ri­da­ted water before 2003, had abso­lu­tely per­fect teeth until I had spent two years in the Army, (1952 to 1954) get­ting those addi­ti­ves in our food (fluo­ri­des?) that were desig­ned to keep us from being “horny,” or to make us “docile and obedient.”

By doing a sim­ple search on: www.zerowasteamerica.org/Fluoride.htm you will find that big money inte­rests – insu­rance com­pa­nies, steel com­pa­nies, alu­mi­num manu­fac­tu­ring enti­ties, as well as the “Manhat­tan Pro­ject” that crea­ted the ato­mic bomb — have all been making tre­men­dous amounts of fluo­ride pollu­tion “fallout” over the years. Kee­ping the truth from the public made billions of dollars in pro­fits at the expense of thou­sands of hapless wor­kers who died outright from fluo­ride poi­so­ning or from the effects of fluo­ride on the thy­roid gland. That same fluo­ride was later pro­mo­ted as being “a boon to the den­tal health of our chil­dren.” Ins­tead, it has become a bane, not only to those chil­dren, but to the collec­tive health of all of our thy­roid glands as well!

“Ame­ri­cans, even in unfluo­ri­da­ted com­mu­ni­ties, are suf­fe­ring serious harm­ful health effects from ove­rex­po­sure to fluo­ride due to its wides­pread and uncon­tro­lled use. Fluo­ride can be found in any food or beve­rage made with fluo­ri­da­ted muni­ci­pal water. Less than 2% of Wes­tern Europe’s popu­la­tion drinks fluo­ri­da­ted water com­pa­red to over 60% of the Uni­ted Sta­tes popu­la­tion.” from “Ame­rica Over­do­sed on Fluo­ride” by Lynn Lan­des & Maria Bechis. www.zerowasteamerica.org/Fluoride.htm

The uncoun­ted for, and unre­cor­ded relea­ses of fluo­rine and the resul­tant “fluoride-compounds” from indus­trial sites such as: mining, sand and gra­vel pit ope­ra­tions, as well as enti­ties like super-phosphate fer­ti­li­zer plants have cer­tainly added to the mise­ries of us all. Those “relea­ses” could have, and still can be pre­ven­ted, or at least con­tro­lled, if it were not for the pro­fi­ta­bi­lity of the “pro­ducts” in ques­tion. “It’s all about the money for our huge, and now, nearly tax-exempt corporations!”

In sum­mary: Fluo­ride has become the “life­blood of the modern indus­trial eco­nomy.” So you can see why “industry” is so reluc­tant to admit to its part in the cover-up of the long and ongoing dan­ge­rous roles that fluo­ride plays. Because of fluoride’s rather hid­den, broad indus­trial appli­ca­tions, the gene­ral public is only just now beco­ming aware of its air­borne emis­sions, and its toxic by-products. Our awa­re­ness of fluo­ride comes pri­ma­rily from its uses in drin­king water and tooth­paste, as well as prea­do­les­cent fluo­ride treat­ments as a hedge against future den­tal cavi­ties. While I per­so­nally doubt most of those claims, this insi­dious poi­son has been sub­jec­ting our collec­tive thy­roid glands to a near total annihilation!

I feel that we must keep up with our own health eva­lua­tion by making sure we get enough, but mode­rate amounts, of iodi­zed sea salt in our diets nee­ded for thy­roid pro­duc­tion. (Though “most” doc­tors will cau­tion you against it, fea­ring hyper­ten­sion and heart-problems.) Also, and this is most impor­tant — tes­ting, not with the “TSH” test that is nor­mally fois­ted upon us, but by asking — - nay  — - deman­ding the Free T3 and the Free T4 thy­roid eva­lua­tions, and trea­ting the defi­cien­cies with Armour “natu­ral, desic­ca­ted” thy­roid! IT WORKS!!

***THINK THE FLUORIDE IN YOUR WATER IS SAFE FOR YOU??? Look what it did to these hor­ses!

***The Effects of Fluo­ride on the Thy­roid Gland by Dr. Barry Durrant-Peatfield

***Check out this web­site page on the his­tory of Fluo­ride as a poison.

***Fluo­ride Action Net­work web­site with good infor­ma­tion on how fluo­ride affects the thyroid.

And last: Scien­ti­fic Facts on the Bio­lo­gi­cal Effects of Fluorides

1. Fluo­ride expo­sure dis­rupts the synthe­sis of colla­gen and leads to the break­down of colla­gen in bone, ten­don, muscle, skin, car­ti­lage, lungs, kid­ney and trachea. A.K. Susheela and Mohan Jha, ” Effects of Fluo­ride on Cor­ti­cal and Can­ce­llous Bone Com­po­si­tion,” IRCS Medi­cal Scien­ces: Library Com­pen­dium, Vol. 9, No.11, pp. 1021 – 1022 (1981); Y. D. Sharma, ” Effect of Sodium Fluo­ride on Colla­gen Cross-Link Pre­cur­sors,” Toxi­co­lo­gi­cal Let­ters, Vol. 10, pp. 97 – 100 (1982); A. K. Susheela and D. Muker­jee, ” Fluo­ride poi­so­ning and the Effect of Colla­gen Biosynthe­sis of Osseous and Nonos­seous Tis­sue,” Toxi­co­lo­gi­cal Euro­pean Research, Vol. 3, No.2, pp. 99 – 104 (1981); Y.D. Sharma, ” Varia­tions in the Meta­bo­lism and Matu­ra­tion of Colla­gen after Fluo­ride Inges­tion,” Bioche­mica et Biophy­sica Acta, Vol. 715, pp. 137 – 141 (1982); Marian Drozdz et al., ” Stu­dies on the Influence of Fluo­ride Com­pounds upon Con­nec­tive Tis­sue Meta­bo­lism in Gro­wing Rats” and “Effect of Sodium Fluo­ride With and Without Simul­ta­neous Expo­sure to Hydro­gen Fluo­ride on Colla­gen Meta­bo­lism,” Jour­nal of Toxi­co­lo­gi­cal Medi­cine, Vol. 4, pp. 151 – 157 (1984).
2. Fluo­ride sti­mu­la­tes gra­nule for­ma­tion and oxy­gen con­sump­tion in white blood cells, but inhi­bits these pro­ces­ses when the white blood cell is cha­llen­ged by a foreign agent in the blood. Robert A. Clark, “Neu­trophil Iodin­tion Reac­tion Indu­ced by Fluo­ride: Impli­ca­tions for Degra­nu­la­tion and Meta­bo­lic Acti­va­tion,” Blood, Vol. 57, pp. 913 – 921 (1981).
3. Fluo­ride deple­tes the energy reser­ves and the abi­lity of white blood cells to pro­perly des­troy foreign agents by the pro­cess of pha­gocy­to­sis. As little as 0.2 ppm fluo­ride sti­mu­la­tes supe­ro­xide pro­duc­tion in res­ting white blood cells, vir­tually abo­lishing pha­gocy­to­sis. Even micro-molar amounts of fluo­ride, below 1 ppm, may seriously depress the abi­lity of white blood cells to des­troy patho­ge­nic agents. John Cur­nette, et al, ” Fluoride-mediated Acti­va­tion of the Res­pi­ra­tory Burst in Human Neu­trophils,” Jour­nal of Cli­ni­cal Inves­ti­ga­tion, Vol. 63, pp. 637 – 647 (1979); W. L. Gabler and P. A. Leong, ., ” Fluo­ride Inhi­bi­tion of Poly­morpho­numc­lear Leu­kocy­tes,” Jour­nal of Den­tal Research, Vol. 48, No. 9, pp. 1933 – 1939 (1979); W. L. Gabler, et al., ” Effect of Fluo­ride on the Kine­tics of Supe­ro­xide Gene­ra­tion by Fluo­ride,” Jour­nal of Den­tal Research, Vol. 64, p. 281 (1985); A. S. Kozl­yuk, et al., ” Immune Sta­tus of Chil­dren in Che­mi­cally Con­ta­mi­na­ted Envi­ron­ments,” Zdra­vookh­ra­ne­nie, Issue 3, pp. 6 – 9 (1987)
4. Fluo­ride con­fu­ses the immune sys­tem and cau­ses it to attack the body’s own tis­sues, and inc­rea­ses the tumor growth rate in can­cer prone indi­vi­duals. Alfred Tay­lor and Nell C. Tay­lor, ” Effect of Sodium Fluo­ride on Tumor Growth,” Pro­cee­dings of the Society for Expe­ri­men­tal Bio­logy and Medi­cine, Vol. 119, p. 252 (1965); Shiela Gib­son, ” Effects of Fluo­ride on Immune Sys­tem Func­tion,” Com­ple­men­tary Medi­cal Research, Vol. 6, pp. 111 – 113 (1992); Peter Wil­kin­son, ” Inhi­bi­tion of the Immune Sys­tem With Low Levels of Fluo­ri­des,” Tes­ti­mony before the Scot­tish High Court in Edin­burgh in the Case of McColl vs. Strathclyde Regio­nal Coun­cil, pp. 17723 – 18150, 19328 – 19492, and Exhi­bit 636, (1982); D. W. All­man and M. Benac, ” Effect of Inor­ga­nic Fluo­ride Salts on Urine and Cyc­lic AMP Con­cen­tra­tion in Vivo,” Jour­nal of Den­tal Research, Vol. 55 (Sup­ple­ment B), p. 523 (1976); S. Jaouni and D. W. All­man, ” Effect of Sodium Fluo­ride and Alu­mi­num on Adeny­late Cyc­lase and Phospho­dies­te­rase Acti­vity,” Jour­nal of Den­tal Research, Vol. 64, p. 201 (1985)
5. Fluo­ride inhi­bits anti­body for­ma­tion in the blood. S. K. Jain and A. K. Susheela, ” Effect of Sodium Fluo­ride on Anti­body For­ma­tion in Rab­bits,” Envi­ron­men­tal Research, Vol. 44, pp. 117 – 125 (1987)
6. Fluo­ride depres­ses thy­roid acti­vity. Vik­tor Gor­li­tzer Von Mundy, ” Influence of Fluo­rine and Iodine on the Meta­bo­lism, Par­ti­cu­larly on the Thy­roid Gland,” Muenche­ner Medi­cische Wochensch­rift, Vol. 105, pp. 182 – 186 (1963); A. Benagiano,