Sodium Flouride
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
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Written By Laurel Sherer
Sodium fluoride is found in most toothpastes, treated water, Diet Coke, and many ready-to-drink fruit juices. As discussed in the previous section, Types Of Water, this chemical is highly toxic. I would like to tell you a little more about this noxious ingredient that is so often added to our food and water sources.
Sodium fluoride is a rat and cockroach poison according to the Merck Index found in Gabriel Cousens’ book Spiritual Nutrition (2005). It is one of the basic ingredients in several types of nerve gas. Sodium fluoride was first used in water by the Nazis, who consciously put it in the water that people at concentrations camps drank. This was to destroy their wills to escape and their mental capacities, for sodium chloride can cause mental sluggishness.
Sodium fluoride is put in much of the water that people drink in the United States supposedly because it helps our teeth. Yet sodium fluoride “is so deadly that in 1979 a dentist was sued for the death of a three-year-old child who swallowed a fluoride rinse.” (Spiritual Nutrition, 2005:433) In government and scientific reports fluoride has been shown to be linked with “a wide range of harmful health effects including: bone and tooth decay (including dental and skeletal fluorosis, bone pathology, arthritis, and osteoporosis) Alzheimer's, memory loss and other neurological impairment, kidney damage, cancer, genetic damage, and gastrointestinal problems.” (http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Fluoride.htm)
Fluoride has also been linked with thyroid conditions. People who suffer from thyroid conditions can benefit from eliminating fluoride consumption. According to Dr. Shames, M.D. on http://www.nspforum.com, it is important for these people to stop drinking fluoridated water as soon as possible. They should additionally begin making their lives as chemically free as possible. This includes reading labels for foods, medications, and household cleaners to see if they contain fluoride. Dr. Shames recommends that people with thyroid problems refrain from receiving fluoride treatments from dentist visits or using fluoride toothpaste.
On the back of the children’s toothpaste called Kids Crest, there is a warning label stating “WARNINGS: Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, seek PROFESSIONAL HELP or contact a POISON CONTROL center immediately.” (http://www.aroma-essence.com/research-reports/fluoride.html) The Federal Drug Administration has mandated that in the United States products with fluoride contain a warning label. If the amount of fluoride in toothpaste is above 1000 ppm (parts per million) for adults or 500 ppm for children, the fluoride is considered to be a poison. However, at the lower levels it is still used in toothpastes.
Other options to using fluorinated toothpaste certainly exist. For one, there are “all natural” toothpastes that do not use fluoride. Secondly, there are home remedies for alternative toothpastes. One of these is to use food grade hydrogen peroxide and sea salt. Food grade hydrogen peroxide kills the bacteria, while the sea salt exfoliates the teeth.
Sodium fluoride can be removed from water by reverse osmosis or distillation. Also, since calcium will combine with sodium fluoride to form calcium fluoride, you can stir a teaspoon of calcium powder into water, let it settle at the bottom, and use the water on top. As for calcium fluoride, the stuff that strengthens teeth and bones and protects us from germs and viruses, it is the 13th most distributed element on earth and you can get it from the food you eat, also from herbs. However, calcium fluoride in food is volatile so cooking it will make it evaporate. Some good sources of calcium fluoride are goat’s milk, seafood, seaweed, rice, meat, rye, avocados, cabbage, and black-eyed peas. Also the herbs licorice, parsley, lemon grass, juniper berries, and various teas include calcium fluoride.