Most people don’t realise that 50% of fluoride ingested is stored in the bones and soft tissue. Accumulation of fluoride can cause a disease called skeletal fluorosis. The first symptoms of skeletal fluorosis are identical to osteoarthritis.
“Long-term accumulative exposures to fluoride even at low levels carries a risk of sub-clinical or stage-1 musculo-skeletal fluorosis presenting as joint pain or arthritis. Notably, arthritis is a leading cause of disability with 647,000 now affected in this country and annual costs exceeding $3 billion.” Dr Mike Godfrey, Journal New Zealand Medical Association.
It
is completely unknown how many people in New Zealand are suffering from
skeletal fluorosis, rather than arthritis, because doctors are not
aware this could happen here so testing is never done.
What
we do know is that the U.S. Government’s Institute of Medicine, Dietary
Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and
Fluoride.(1997), have estimated “The development of skeletal fluorosis
and its severity is directly related to the level and duration of
exposure. Most epidemiological research has indicated that an intake of
at least 10 mg/day for 10 or more years is needed to produce clinical
signs of the milder forms of the condition”.
In 2013,
the Hamilton City Council held a Tribunal Hearing on Fluoridation. One
of the expert speakers promoting fluoridation was former chief oral
health advisor, and now Medical Director for Health New Zealand, Dr
Robin Whyman.
Dr Whyman explained to the councillors
“You then swallow the fluoride and it comes down into the blood supply.
Some of it is actually moves across to bone, we don’t disagree with that
at all, and some of it will go to soft tissue.” But rather than
stopping there and discussing what this means for bone health, and the
health of our entire bodies, Dr Whyman, a dentist, moved on to talk
about dental health.
Because fluoride accumulates,
less exposure over longer periods can achieve the same result as high
exposure over a shorter period. The intake established by the Institute
of Medicine, 10 mg a day for 10 years, may be roughly the same as 5mg a
day for 20 years or 2.5 mg a day for 40 years and so on. The Institute
of Medicine say “Stage 1 skeletal fluorosis is characterized by
occasional stiffness or pain in joints and some osteosclerosis of the
pelvis and vertebra.”
Could your bone or joint pain be
caused by fluoride accumulating in your bones? Try avoiding all forms
of fluoride. See Sources of Fluoride and New Zealand study on Fluoride
and Tea.
“If I was an arthritic individual, I would be
eliminating every source of fluoride exposure I could think of”. Phyllis
Mullinex, PhD.
Watch short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwLAcR85iG4
https://fluoridefree.org.nz/bone-pain-joint-pain.../
