There are many ways in which water can help your body maintain a healthy weight system. Unfortunately, what many of us are drinking these days is NOT just water. Many healthful water laws are just ignored and our water can often qualify for entry on lists of toxic sludge.
While toxic chemicals and bacteria are usually just inadvertently not cleaned from our water before it is piped into our homes, there are some additives dumped into our water purposely, and even in the name of “health benefits”. Fluoride is one of these toxins, and fat retention is just one of the many health disasters that can result from the addition of this substance to water.
The use of fluoride in water began many decades ago when tests showed that fluoride could be good for teeth. While natural fluoride can be beneficial in small doses such as the .04 ppm that you find in mother’s milk. There are many facts about fluoride, though, which have been kept from public knowledge for the many decades we have been encouraged to faithfully drink our toxic waste. The most devastating of these facts is that the fluoride being dumped in your water is not natural, that is calcium/magnesium fluoride, but rather is a by-product of industry and is in the form of silica/sodium fluoride – which is poison at all concentrations. It has been recently revealed that tests done on fluoride used natural fluoride, yet that there is a difference between natural and industrial fluoride seemed to be left out of the material used to seduce many officials to approve water fluoridation programs. After all, silica/sodium fluoride was too toxic for the EPA to approve to be dumped, so industries had to find a way to dispose of it. It seems that they found one.
Another fact about fluoride, both natural and industrial, which is urgent for people to understand, especially considering the ever increasing obesity problem in the US, is that fluoride was used for a long time in Europe as a sedative. Fluoride is known to be an endocrine disruptor. The NRC has warned that doses of fluoride as low as 0.01-0.03 mg/kg/day can adversely effect thyroid functions – especially in those with reduced iodine intake. Without proper functioning of the thyroid, the metabolism will slow, the person will feel less energy and it will become more difficult to burn calories, which will be stored as fat instead of used for energy. Since fluoride is hard for the system to remove, as you continue to drink it, it builds in your body causing increased metabolism dysfunction, increased inability to burn fat, and increased disability to lose weight. Because of the recent popularity of foods which block iodine from the thyroid, such as soy and peanut butter, these risks are even more pronounced since the soy craze became popular in the US.
There are many effects of fluoride that is being dumped into our water besides increasing the weight of our population. Earlier I posted an article which tells about how fluoride can quickly make you look years older. These two problems with our poisoned water supply are just the tip of the fluoride scandal but are two great beginning reasons that you need to get rid of fluoride in your water immediately.
Now is a very good time to call your local water supplier and ask about the amount and source of fluoride in your water. Be sure to ask the source, as natural fluoride does occur in water in some locations. and even if your municipality does not actively medicate your water you will be exposed. You might need filters even if you can convince your water suppliers not to actively poison your water.
Not all water filters will remove this toxic substance from your water. Reverse osmosis is the best of these filters. Be sure to make it very clear when you buy a filter that you are interested only in filters which remove fluoride, and check the statistices on the amount of fluoride you can count on each to remove. Remember that when you bathe, fluoride can be absorbed through the skin where it will go around your filtering organs to cause even more havoc to your health.
If you find that your water is being polluted with industrial fluoride in your area, there is now an organization that can help you organize and fight to have this toxin dumped into your water. You will find more information at http://www.fluoridealert.org/ about the health effects of fluoride and about fighting fluoridation in your own water supply.
Yes, fluoride is bad news. There is also perchlorate in the water and chlorine. Berkey makes a series of gravity fed filters that can remove all the bad stuff. Taking iodine (Lugol’s or Iodoral) can get the iodine into the body’s cells, at least 25mg a day is needed. I take 100mg and I can smell the stuff (bromine and fluorine) whenever I pee. Google “dr brownstein and iodine” for more info. Drs. Flechas and Abraham are also highly knowledgeable about iodine. Iodine is extremely important to every cell, not just the thyroid. The brain, breasts, prostate, uterus, liver, pancreas, etc., all need iodine to function well. The immune system too. The RDA of 150mcg for iodine is merely to prevent goiter and is nowhere the amount needed for proper functioning of the body, which is likely to be between 25 — 50 mg. The bromine, chlorine, and fluorine in the environment coupled with the widespread ignorance of the extreme importance of iodine is a major cause of the widespread and deep levels of sickness found in the USA.
Deenie – just one more issue in the many with fluoride.
As far as the iodine situation – it’s not just fluoride taking us down on that one. Soy is an iodine blocker – and it is in everything now. Americans were led to believe that they can get their iodine in salt, but salt is not enough and not predictable.
And milk bottles used to be washed out with iodine so there was residual in the milk. Now they use toxic chemicals (chlorine mostly) to clean out jugs. Gee go figure. So that source is gone.
Now food prices are rising so people are going to be buying peanut butter to supplement their protein when they can’t afford meat. Peanut is another iodine blocker.
Are we having fun yet? Every time I see news about our health situation in this country – toxic chemicals, GMOs, pharmaceuticals, the word “cull” comes to mind. Is this the way the FDA and American Gov are going to handle the overpopulation crisis in this country? Find a field that’s not near any croplands and GMO plants and graze. It’s the safest food left in the US.