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December 18, 2003
By: Dustin Cyril
Website: http://www.water-purification-filters.com
US Government agencies say that fluoride in drinking water increases the toxicity of aluminum
In 1994, the New York Times reported a scientific study which revealed that aluminium and
fluoride in water could be responsible for the alarming increase in Alzheimer's Disease and pre-senile dementia.
This confirmed the long-held suspicion of environmental writer George Glasser that fluoride has
the ability to act synergistically with other toxic minerals in drinking water. Glasser, currently on
speaking engagements in England, said: "For years I badgered various US government agencies
to investigate this specific activity between fluoride and other substances, which is commonly
seen in medicines. Aluminium sulphate is used to clarify drinking water and I could see the
possible relationship with Alzheimer's-like dementia.".
Said Glasser, "In 1999, the US Environmental Protection Agency finally reviewed three studies
carried out by scientists at Binghamton University. The scientists reported 80% death rates,
kidney damage and brain damage in rats exposed to half of one milligramme of aluminium
fluoride complexes in a litre of drinking water. This is less than half of the fluoride which is
added in fluoridation schemes. Finally, the National Toxicology Program was asked to
commission studies to determine the extent of neurotoxic damage from aluminium in drinking
water, particularly stressing the fluoride interaction."
Last October, a Report by the National Institutes of Environmental Heath Sciences (NIEHS)
acknowledged that fluoride has been observed to have synergistic effects on the toxicity of
aluminium.
"I was particularly pleased when the US Environmental Protection Agency report by Urbansky
and Schock on the toxicity of lead and fluoride in drinking water confirmed that fluoride
complexes with other substances in the water. They also acknowledged that most drinking water
contains a substantial amount of fluoro-aluminium complexes. This should be a warning to
dentists who hold with the simplistic notion that fluoride only affects teeth and is perfectly safe
in drinking water."
According to the NIEHS Report, most water treatment processes result in increased levels of
aluminium in the finished drinking water. It stated that fluoridation will result in aluminium
fluoride complexes which will enhance neurotoxicity, or that fluoride itself will enhance uptake
and synergise the toxicity of the aluminium.
Other studies have shown that in the presence of fluoride, aluminium leaches out of cookware.
Boiling fluoridated tap water in an aluminium pan leached almost 200 parts per million (ppm) of
aluminium into the water in 10 minutes. Leaching of up to 600 ppm occurred with prolonged
boiling. Different releases of aluminium depend upon the composition of the pan and the type
of food being cooked. Using non-fluoridated water showed almost no leaching from aluminium
pans.
Glasser is frustrated that the Report recommended further studies. "There are more than 40,000
studies on fluoride in the scientific literature. How many more do they need? The recent York
review examined less than 300 - and they never bothered to review the Binghamton University
studies. The incidence of Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's-like dementia is hitting people at
much younger ages. The average age used to be 65 -- now, it affects people in their forties in
ever-increasing numbers. With these revelations, health authorities have a moral obligation to
employ the precautionary principle and cease the practice of artificial fluoridation forthwith. In
the meantime, six million people in England and about 160 million in the United States drink
artificially fluoridated water. "
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Author Notes:
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