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[b]Fluoride is a known endocrine disrupter
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fluoride preparations were used in the 1930s to treat overactive thyroid illnesses. 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.
Fluoride is an enzyme poison. Enzymes are complex protein compounds that vastly speed up biological chemical reactions. Their optimal function is what maintains our health at the cellular level. More than 75 million Americans use some form of thyroid medication.
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Fluoride also causes the breakdown of collagen which results in wrinkling of the skin and the weakening of ligaments, tendons and muscles
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When fluoride was left in the phosphate that was sold to farmers, it killed their crops and livestock
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[a] lawsuit won by farmers [in New Jersey] did not stop industry from giving fluoride to humans –only livestock
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At the cellular level, fluoride has been shown to release superoxide free radicals… In the 1970s fluoride was linked to an increase in cancer
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Taylor and Taylor from the University of Texas published a study in 1965 that was based on millions of subjects and showed a 5 to 10 percent increase in cancer death rate within 3 to 5 years after fluoridation was put into the water”…
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