What Is Fluoride
A fluoride is a compound composed of the highly reactive element fluorine plus another element or elements . For example, when fluorine combines with hydrogen the compound, hydrogen fluoride, is formed. Fluorine also combines readily with elemental metals, such as calcium and sodium, and the new compound then exhibits metallic properties it is these compounds and their potential to accumulate in human tissues with which we will be most concerned. The halogen fluorine is a yellowish, poisonous,...
Strengthening the Heart Muscle
Most patient studies used at least 100 mg of the extract. For those with congestive heart failure, the dose begins at 300 mg a day and goes up to 600 mg a day in three divided doses, that is take 200 mg three times a day. CoQIO is a fat-soluble substance and will require that you either take it with a meal containing fats extra virgin olive oil or take it with your DHA supplement. Cholesterol-lowering drugs all deplete CoQIO. This is because the enzyme that generates cholesterol, HMG CoA...
Binds to cell membranes
demethylation to form inorganic mercury. We have also seen that inorganic mercury can be more toxic to the brain than the organic form methylmercury . The concentration necessary to produce abnormal development of the brain has not yet been accurately determined nevertheless, we know from the Iraq incident that mercury levels as low as 10 ppm can adversely affect neural development. The problem with trying to determine toxicity levels during development is a problem of measurement and of time....
Connection to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
In ALS the motor neuron cells in the spinal cord and motor neuron cells of the brain stem are primarily affected. The mystery has always been why these cells are singled out in this disease and why the disease suddenly appears later in life after so many years of normal function. The answer may be an environmental toxin, or even a combination of toxins. Several studies have shown, for instance, that mercury is selectively taken up by motor neurons in the spinal cord. In one study, Wister rats...
Monosodium Glutamate
Those of you who have not read my previous book probably have never even heard the word excitotoxin, so I will provide a brief overview of the substance. Monosodium glutamate is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, a form of glutamate, the under normal circumstances carefully regulated neurotransmitter I have already discussed. Glutamic acid is an amino acid that occurs naturally in many foods. In nature, it is bound by peptide linkages, which are broken down slowly during the digestive process,...
Special Coverage for HighRisk Individuals
Take two capsules twice a day. Keep refrigerated. CoQIO 100 mg Take one twice to three times a day. Take with DHA. N-acetyl L-cysteine NAC 500 mg-750 mg Take one two to three times a day with meals. Take one three times a day with meals. Take two capsules twice a day. Keep refrigerated. Take one twice a day. Mix with one tablespoon extra virgin olive oil or Omega-3 oil. Quercetin 250 mg Dissolve in oil or take a water-soluble form, twice a day 25-50 mg a day under medical supervision only....
Skeletal Fluorosis Making Us All Cripples
One of the most devastating effects of long-term, low-level fluoride exposure is skeletal damage, a condition referred to as skeletal fluorosis. In general, this condition is classified in stages, phase one presenting as arthritis-type pains and stage three as debilitating crippling. In countries with naturally high fluoride levels, skeletal fluorosis is quite common and considered a major medical disaster. Some villages have been described wherein every single resident has been afflicted with...
Aluminum ALS Parkinsons Disease and Alzheimers Dementia
One of the most-discussed environmental connections to disease is the relationship between aluminum exposure and Alzheimer's disease. In truth, the connection applies to most neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson's and ALS. While no absolute proof of causation currently exists, there is a lot of compelling circumstantial evidence, as well as laboratory evidence, for such a connection. The epidemiological evidence comes from studies that looked at drinking water levels of aluminum and...
How Does Mercury Harm You
Mercury harms biological systems in many ways. Like its cousins, cadmium and lead, mercury greatly increases free-radical production within the cell and lipid peroxidation in the cell membrane. In fact, much of the damage done by mercury results from free-radical injury, which involves all of a cell's components. Once absorbed, mercury is distributed to all parts of a cell with a set distribution 48 percent resides in the mitochondria, 38 percent in the nucleus, 8 percent in the cytoplasm, and...
Juvenile Diabetes and MSG Intake
One of the most devastating things that can happen to a child is to develop diabetes early in life. These children are insulin-dependent, and often spend much of their lives in an emergency room or hospital bed. Numerous complications are associated with juvenile diabetes, including frequent infections, early onset atherosclerosis, hypertension, brain atrophy, and early onset heart attack. It is known that these children are genetically susceptible, but that the disease develops only when an...
The Role of Exercise in Protecting Your Skeleton
The skeleton undergoes a lifelong process of constant restructuring, a process determined mainly by stress forces at the attachment points of ligaments and tendons. When increased force is applied to a stress point, the bone responds by depositing more calcium-containing matrix at that site. Otherwise, the bone might snap. This principle may explain why heavier women are less likely to suffer from osteoporosis than skinny women heavier women's bones are always under stress. Because of the...
Can Mercury Enter Breast Milk
This question should be of paramount importance to those readers contemplating parenthood or for those who already have a baby on the way. One study, in which mercury levels were examined in Swedish women on a diet high in seafood known to have a high mercury content, found that breast milk mercury levels were 20-30 percent higher than the mother's blood mercury levels.50 A second part of the study found that inorganic mercury from dental fillings existed in the milk in concentrations 40-80...
Relative Sources of Mercury Exposure
gious of its time, had no restrictions for use by pregnant women before their sixth month of pregnancy. The use of mercurial medications to treat syphilis became so common throughout the industrialized world that millions of people already tormented by the debilitating effects of syphilis were also forced to endure acute mercury poisoning. It is interesting to note that one of the most common diagnoses for admission to mental hospitals during this period was neurosyphilis called general paresis...
So What Can I Do
Step One Stop Ingesting Excitotoxins Obviously, the first step is to stop consuming foods containing excitotoxic additives, which basically means you have to stop eating all processed foods canned, bagged, boxed and foods prepared in restaurants. Our obsession with taste has become so consuming that no one in the food processing or restaurant business wants to lose out by not adding these substances to our food. As a society, we have become so used to the overwhelming, artificial tastes of our...
The ADA Struggles to Cover Up Fluoride Dangers
The passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 1974 presented a terrible dilemma for the ADA. The EPA set the maximum allowable concentration of fluoride at 1.4 ppm for warmer climates and 2.4 ppm for cooler climates. The reason for this disparity is related to the issue of total body accumulations of toxic substances in body tissues, which as I showed with mercury remain in the body for a very long time after exposure. With fluoride, the concern is with potentially dangerous accumulations in...
Appearances Can Be Deceiving
When a blood vessel feeding the brain is closed off, the cells fed by that artery begin to lower their metabolism. On the border zone between the territory of the blocked artery and the normal brain, changes begin to take place. Here the brain cells have not been denied blood, but their supply is less than optimal. In response, these neurons and astrocytes begin to release glutamate. As you will recall, glutamate is a powerful brain toxin when released in higher concentrations than the brain...
How Does the Body Protect Itself Against These Nasty Free Radicals
In His divine wisdom, God equipped our bodies with a very efficient system to protect us against destructive free radicals. This system, or network, is composed of many parts that work more efficiently together than alone. In fact, most antioxidants when used alone can actually become free radicals themselves. First, let us see how antioxidants work to neutralize these damaging particles. Chemically, a free radical is a particle possessing an unpaired electron in its outer orbital. To the...
Program for Vascular Health Fruits and Vegetables
Numerous studies have shown that people whose diets consist of the greatest quantity of fruits and vegetables have the lowest incidence of heart attacks and strokes. In fact, many earlier studies reporting significant benefits from high intakes of vitamin C or beta-carotene concentrated on people who maintained diets high in a variety of fruits and vegetables. Researchers just assumed that because fruits and vegetables were high in beta-carotene or vitamin C, these particular vitamins were...
Methods of Lowering Homocysteine
Do not smoke. Smoking dramatically increases homocysteine levels as well as increasing free-radical generation in all organs of the body. It also lowers vitamin C levels dramatically. Do not consume foods or drinks that contain caffeine. Caffeine not only increases homocysteine levels, it also increases the irritability of the heart. Take twice a day. This enzyme cofactor plays a major role in converting homocysteine to methionine. Elevated homocysteine levels are also associated with...
Vitamin B Pyridoxine Toxicity
Over a decade ago, reports began to surface concerning a neuritis following the use of vitamin B lt , in very large doses. The dose used in the report was massive 2,000 mg Most of the affected people recovered once they stopped taking the vitamin, but a few did experience persistent neurological deficits. Doses below 500 mg a day rarely cause nerve problems and, except in very special instances, there are very few indications for such a huge dose. For example, doses up to 500 mg a day, when...
The ADA Fights Back the Grand White Paper on Fluoridation
After his forced resignation, Dr. Yiamouyiannis was appointed director of the National Health Federation, where he continued his battle against fluoridation. In 1978 his pivotal testimony before a Pennsylvania court convinced the presiding judge to ban fluoridation of all public water supplies in the region. Terrified their pet project was in jeopardy, the ADA hurriedly put together a White Paper on Fluoridation, which set the tone for future dealings with its enemies. Opponents of fluoridation...
How the Brain Protects Itself Against Excitotoxicity
Glutamate only causes toxicity when it is found floating free outside a neuron, and the brain possesses several safety measures to protect itself. One is based on quickly removing glutamate once it is secreted from a synaptic terminal, whisking it away to be stored safely in a nearby cell called an astrocyte. The whisking away process is carried out by special carrier proteins, which can be thought of as escorts.213 A second safety measure is to protect the brain from glutamate floating free in...
How the ADA Is Covering Up a Medical Disaster
Dentists began using mercury amalgams to fill cavities over 150 years ago. Amalgams are, in fact, mixtures of various substances used to fill cavities, and include 45-52 percent mercury, 30 percent silver, and small amounts of zinc, tin, and copper. Mercury amalgams began to be used because they were so much cheaper than gold and true silver fillings. Use of amalgams eventually became so widespread that the American Society of Dental Surgeons, the first dental society in the United States,...
Stroke Prevention and Treatment
Vinpocetine is an indole alkaloid derived from the periwinkle plant. It has been shown to increase blood supply, oxygen utilization, and energy production in the brain. It also increases serotonin levels in the brain decreased serotonin also plays a role in depression and violence . The recommended dose is two 5 mg tablets three times a day 30 mg total for one month and then switch to one tablet three times a day 15 mg total . On rare occasions, people have experienced a brief drop in blood...
Other Effects of Fluoride
Because of its ability to poison enzymes and react with many biological components, fluoride can cause mischief in many parts of the body. Another important property of fluoride is its intense affinity for hydrogen. Hydrogen bonds are found throughout the biological system, but normally have considerably less binding strength than we see with fluoride. The reason this is important is that healthy biological molecules depend on a particular shape or conformation to work properly. Even minor...
Does Fluoridation of Drinking Water Actually Reduce Cavities
This, obviously, is the most important question, since it is the sole justification for adding fluoride to the public water system. According to conventional academic wisdom, the basis for fluoridating water to prevent cavities hinges on a study conducted in 1933-1934 by the United States Health Service, led by Dr. H. Trendley Dean, in which communities with naturally fluoridated water were compared to communities having low levels of fluoride in their water. Bauxite, Arkansas, was chosen as...
Protecting the Pump Heart Failure
The heart works extremely hard. Normally it beats about 100,000 times a day, pumping over 2,000 gallons of blood over tens of thousands of miles of blood vessels throughout the body. This is equal to going around the world twice. When large volumes of heart muscle are damaged by a heart attack, or even a series of smaller heart attacks, the ability of the heart to pump blood is impaired. The heart as a pump may fail for other reasons as well, such as is seen in viral infections of the heart...
Lyme Disease and Rickettsia
Rickettsia are bacterial intracellular parasites, considered a separate group of bacteria because they have the common feature of being spread by ticks, fleas, mites, and lice. Perhaps the most familiar rickettsial disease is Lyme disease, a bacterial infection spread by ticks. The causative bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, is a corkscrew shaped microorganism called a spriochete that resembles the syphilis organism. More than 100,000 cases of Lyme disease have been reported to the CDC since...
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idants. When the body is severely deficient in antioxidants, white blood cells can no longer protect themselves from their own free radicals and, as a result, die in large numbers. This results in an impaired immune system, leading to a worsening of the infection. Most of us think of stress in terms of psychological stress being overworked or worried about bills and our future. In fact, stress is defined as anything that upsets our normal state of well-being, and can include extreme physical...
Excitotoxicity and Illegal Drugs
Recent studies indicate that many of the damaging effects produced by illegal drugs is caused by excitotoxicity within specific brain circuits. Most teenagers and adults using these drugs think that the only harmful effect is the risk of being punished by the law. Unfortunately, it's more serious than that. For example, cocaine and methamphetamine stimulate the release of excess glutamate in the same part of the brain responsible for Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. Both drugs are also...
Mercury and Alzheimers Disease
Autopsy studies of Alzheimer's patients have consistently demonstrated elevated mercury levels in the affected areas of the brain.85 Likewise, there is a direct correlation between brain levels of mercury and the number of amalgam fillings.86 To better understand the relationship between mercury toxicity and degenerative diseases of the brain, it is necessary to examine the cellular events that occur with these disorders and relate them to the mechanism of toxicity of mercury. Hippocrates...
Minerals Supplements and Immunity
Several studies have shown that supplementation with vitamins and minerals in combination can correct age-related immune suppression.524 For example, one double-blind, placebo-controlled study using eighty-one elderly hospitalized people over sixty-five years old found that in those given a supplement mixture containing zinc, selenium, vitamins C and E, and beta-carotene showed a significant improvement in antioxidant defense, including antioxidant enzymes, as well as a significant reduction in...
Pesticides and Herbicides
The most commonly used pesticides are organophosphates, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and carbamates, and include products like Malathion, Diazinon, Sevin, and DDT. All of these pesticides employ a neurotoxic mechanism to kill insects. Furthermore, most pesticides and herbicides are easily absorbed through the skin and lungs. This is why you see warnings on the label to wash all spills off your skin with copious amounts of soap and water IMMEDIATELY The EPA estimates that sixty-nine million...
Do All Degenerative Diseases Have A Common Cause
Most of us are certain that we cannot change what has happened in the past, and many nutritionists in the past would tell their patients that all that they could do was to change their diets and hope for the best. When I lecture on the subject of nutrition I am always asked, usually by someone in their seventies is it too late for me to start these nutritional changes This is a good question and one that has intrigued many nutritional scientists. My response is unequivocal it is never too late....