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The effects of fluoride on the thyroid gland.

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It has been known since the latter part of the 19th century that certain communities, notably in Argentina, India and Turkey, were chronically ill with premature aging, 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 hypothyroid from iodine deficiency.

This was the basis of the research in the 1930s of May, Litzka, Gorlitzer and others, who used fluoride preparations to treat overactive thyroid illness.

Their 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. 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 overactive thyroid disease but as a pesticide.

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...

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