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----- I sent the abstracts posted on this list to my friend in Canada who
has studied fluoride for several years. Here is her answer - copied to this
list with permission. Unfortunately, she didn't reference any of her
statements. Still....
Kath
> Thanks Kath. I do have these abstracts. I believe they are also on the
> Fluoride Action Network and Second Look sites.
>
> High doses of fluoride poison everyone.
> Medium doses of fluoride poison a large minority.
> Low doses of fluoride poison a small minority.
>
> Tea if strongly brewed can give a dose between low and medium, doubling or
> tripling total daily intake from all sources including toothpaste. Heavy
> tea drinkers develop a number of fluoride-related health problems
> including skeletal fluorosis and infertility. People like us conceived on
> fluoride in Grand Rapids are at greater risk because prenatal fluoride
> exposure becomes part of the developing skeleton and affects how the bone
> cells function, accelerating the osteoblasts and inhibiting the
> resorption. The result is bones that can not hold calcium, phosphorus and
> magnesium after adulthood, and elevated serum fluoride that interferes
> with thyroid function.
>
> So tea can be a problem. It definitely gives me fluoride illness and
> affects my thyroid. I used to think it was the caffeine, but it turned out
> to be the fluoride. Rooibos also has fluoride in it, grown in similar
> high-fluoride soils near volcanoes just like camellia sinensis. I get
> something called diabetes insipidus with torturing thirst and excessive
> urination if I drink tea now. It's not diabetes but actually a kidney
> problem from fluoride.
>
> Too bad, because the antioxidants in green tea and rooibos are valuable
> but destroyed if you put milk (which has calcium that offsets the
> fluoride) in it.
>
> And the aluminum in tea that is considered safe, is not. Aluminum combines
> with fluoride ion to make a complex that binds to cell receptor proteins
> and mimics Thyroid Stimulating Hormone at only a few parts per billion.
> There are thousands of Canadian Indians with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
> because it is common in their culture to boil up a big aluminum kettle of
> tea and drink it all day with a lot of sugar in every cup. Fries the
> thyroid within a few years.
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