USA - Get The Lead Out– Fluoride and Lead

by truthfarmer
Below is an excellent article from my friend, Marie Lasater. She is not only a medical professional, but an excellent researcher and talented communicator. Please share the article with others and for Missourians, pay particular attention to the last paragraph:
Get The Lead Out
By: Marie Lasater
There is a lead crisis looming in our country, and it is being fueled by the increase in water
fluoridation. I was born in Flint, Michigan and lived there until age 6. My father was from the
Appalachian Mountains of east Tennessee, and was kind of dropped off there when he got out
of the Navy. He met my mom in the boarding house grandma ran after grandfather’s death. The
problem with being born in Flint is the fact that in 1945 Grand Rapids was the first US city to add
fluoride, followed by Flint, just in time to fully fluoridate a young kid like me, and I have the
tooth fractures to prove it.
Fluoride is not naturally found in the body, and whenever you introduce an unknown quantity to
any living system, there are going to be problems. Fluoride, like lead, is a calcium imitator,
therein lays the problem. Both substances replace healthy calcium, and in the case of teeth,
fluoride causes a frequently occurring problem caused dental fluorosis. Simply put, dental
fluorosis is the replacement of calcium in your teeth by fluoride, causing cosmetic mottling, but
more importantly fluoride fracture lines. When fluoride replaces calcium, it can cause teeth to
break off, often at the gum line, and almost always on the inner aspect of the tooth that comes
in contact with fluoridated beverages.
But fluoride is much more hazardous than broken teeth. The relation of fluoride and lead is
coming to the forefront. Both fluoride and lead can cross the blood-brain barrier and produce
toxic effects on the central neural system, resulting in low learning and memory abilities,
especially in children because of their rapidly developing nervous systems. In 2012, the Harvard
School of Public Health issued a statement on “The impact of fluoridation on neurological
development in children.” Researchers found an average loss of 7 IQ points in children exposed
to fluoride from drinking water.
Water fluoridation has always been unpopular. From the very start water fluoridation has been
an unwanted intervention, and the overwhelming majority of the communities actually able to
vote against fluoridation have rejected it. Fluoridation was not established through public
referenda, but rather through executive actions by government bodies, including city councils.
And city councils have the ability to stop fluoridating your water overnight, but that is about to
change.
Fluoride is classified as a pharmaceutical because it is has no nutritive qualities, and is added to
the water to treat a disease (cavities). Over 97% of Western Europe has rejected fluoride as it is
considered unethical to mass medicate an entire population without the required informed
consent. While topical applications of fluoride to the teeth through toothpaste and mouthwash
have been shown to prevent tooth decay, keep in mind that these products contain
pharmaceutical grade fluoride, as opposed to industrial grade fluoride, fluorosilicic acid, that is
added to our water. Fluorosilic acid has been proven to be contaminated with arsenic, lead, and
other toxins. There is no need to ever swallow fluoride in any form, and even your tube of
toothpaste cautions you to immediately contact Poison Control if you do so. An aanalysis of
phone calls Regarding Fluoride Exposure made to New Jersey Poison Control Center from 2010
to 2012 documented 2,476 reports of excessive fluoride exposure, with the majority of phone
calls made by mothers whose children had swallowed a fluoridated dental product. Initial
toxicity was treated by the administration of calcium as an antidote, but the long-term effects
are still not known.
The relationship between fluoride and lead has been recognized for decades. A study published
in Neurotoxicology in Dec. 2000 found that for every age and race group there was a
consistently significant elevation of fluoride-treated community water and elevated blood lead.
As far back as 1964, a pediatrics textbook noted that the incidence of lead poisoning was rising
in certain fluoridated metropolitan areas in the eastern United States. Blame was placed on
children eating lead paint, but children had been eating paint chips long before the crisis arose
in 1964. In the interim, a new source of lead was provided to children – lead contaminated
fluoridated water, also capable of leaching lead from pipes. There is also lead in brass fittings on
water supply lines, added to increase flexibility. Data collected by the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) show that children drinking water treated with FSA and other fluorosilicate
chemicals are 20 percent more likely to have dangerous levels of lead in their blood. The CDC
has yet to warn the public about the fluoridation/lead risk, but continues to promote water
fluoridation.
Several recent studies are examining the relation of fluoridated water and lead levels. A 2010
study in the journal Toxicology examined the fact that higher blood levels of lead have been
reported in children living in communities with fluoride-treated water. Researchers found that
fluoride consistently increases lead levels in both blood and calcified tissues, showing an
association between increased blood levels in children living in water-fluoridated areas.
In a manuscript entitles “how does fluorosilicic acid leach lead?” by Dr. Sauerhaber, he describes
the process as follows; ‘When diluted in water, fluorosilicic acid breaks down in drinking water
into fluoride ion, hydrogen fluoride, and orthosilicic acid, H4SiO4. Orthosilicic acid is classed as a
weak acid and is often dismissed as relatively harmless. Unfortunately for our health, it is able to
dissolve – slowly but surely – lead salts out of lead based pipes and fittings, especially brass.”

Call to Action

There is a very important bill currently in Senate Committee, HB1717 that requires the public
water system to notify the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Health and
Senior Services 90 days prior to any vote to cease fluoridation. You can consider this a fluoride
protection bill, as there is no requirement to notify these entities prior to ADDING fluoride to
the drinking water, which on the face of it would be of greater concern to the DNR as
fluorosilicic acid is considered a pollutant, and companies are fined if they dump it in rivers or
streams. Somehow it is okay to add it to our drinking water, which eventually ends up in the
rivers and streams. This bill will make it almost impossible for your city council to remove
fluoride from your drinking water. I have experienced firsthand the huge resources put forth by
the government to keep fluoride in place. In order to kill this bill in the Senate Committee,
contact your State Senator, or send them a copy of this article.