by Mary Sparrowdancer
4-3-2005
from Rense Website

The United States is in the wake of yet another horrific school shooting - another shooting carried out by another boy reportedly taking a fluorinated pharmaceutical, Prozac. Another fluorinated drug, Luvox, was reportedly taken by one of the shooters in the Columbine tragedy. Similarly, there have been reports from US troops that bizarre, psychotic, aggressive behavior has been observed in individuals after taking Lariam, which is a fluorinated antimalarial.

According to a January 2004 article in the Archives of Internal Medicine, cholesterol-lowering statins have now also been linked to aggressive, violent behavior. Lescol, Lipitor, Baycol and Crestor are all fluorinated. Baycol was removed from the market, following at least 31 known deaths from adverse symptoms. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Quite the opposite from America's ongoing lack of awareness pertaining to fluorides, fluoride toxicity has been well-known, studied and well-documented in other countries for almost a century.

Andreas Schuld, who is the founder of Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children headquartered in Canada, is considered by many at this time to be among the world's leading experts on fluorides. He states, "IG Farben chemists discovered that fluorides were potent anti-thyroid substances back in the 1930s." (6)

Following this discovery in Germany, thousands of patients in one clinic alone had their thyroid activity decreased through the administration of minute doses of fluoride compounds. One proven, effective method of administering this anti-thyroid medical treatment was by having the patients bathe in water dosed with minute amounts of fluoride compounds. (6)

While weight gain and obesity are perhaps among the more well-known and visible signs of thyroid dysfunction, there are other signs of thyroid crisis that are not as visible, and may not become apparent until the affected person reaches a "breaking point." The "silent" signs of thyroid crisis can include profound behavioral changes, neurological problems, sleep and memory disturbances, dementia, psychoses, depression, lethargy or loss of initiative, increased cholesterol levels, and according to the Thyroid Foundation of Canada, "general intellectual deterioration." (7)

In addition, violent and uncharacteristic episodes of rage are reported with enough frequency that those suffering from one thyroid disorder, "Graves' disease," refer to this disturbing symptom as "Graves' rage." Sometimes accompanying the depression are feelings of emotional detachment and emotional numbness, both of which have been repeatedly described by, or attributed to the boys involved in the school shootings.

The number of citizens now suffering from thyroid problems in the US is unknown because many are thought to be undiagnosed at this time. In addition, most people do not realize that the above emotional and psychological symptoms might actually be signaling a thyroid malfunction.

According to information found on the website of the National Institutes of Health, two-thirds of US adults are now struggling with their weight. On the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a report stating that approximately two-thirds of the people in the US are being fluorinated via their drinking water. Also indicative of a national thyroid epidemic is the fact that Synthroid, a drug used to treat thyroid malfunction, is one of the most-prescribed drugs in the US. (8, 9, 10)

While many try to avoid drinking fluoridated water by purchasing bottled water, two-thirds of the population have no choice but to bathe in "water dosed with minute amounts of fluoride compounds" - the same method of delivery once used in Germany to decrease thyroid functioning.

The full effects of fluoride's dark side are not yet known in the United States, nor is it known yet if fluoride affects people differently according to their race and, therefore, skin color. Schuld states that research indicates tooth mottling or "dental fluorosis" is actually a sign of thyroid disorder, and that in at least one test conducted by the Bureau of Dental Health in New York, it was noted that the risk for fluorosis was greater in African-American children than in whites. (11)

Perhaps the ongoing occurrences of rage and other unexplained, bizarre behaviors in the US, as well as the numerous epidemics now plaguing us, are, in fact, all related to the fact that two-thirds of our population is being dosed on a daily basis with a known thyroid toxin, at an unknown dose. Poison the thyroid, and the entire body as well as the mind will be affected.

The continued dosing of US waters as well as pharmaceutical products with fluoride compounds without full inquiry into fluoride's effects on mental capacity - especially in children - amounts to reckless endangerment.



References

1. CBS/AP - "Friend: School Shooter on Prozac" March, 2005. (4/2/2005) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/26/

2. Denver Post - "Drug Taken by Columbine Killer Linked to Increased Mania" September, 2004. (4/2/2005) http://www.denverpost.com/Stories

3. Consumer Reports - "Lariam's Legacy" March 2002. (4/2/2005) http://www.consumerreports.org/main/content/display_report.jsp?
 

4. Archives of Internal Medicine - "A Randomized Control Trial Assessing the Impact of Statins on Cognition, Behavior, and Biochemistry" January 2004. (4/2/2005) http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/164/2/153

5. Molecular Formulas, on RxList. http://www.rxlist.com/

6. Schuld, Andreas. Personal Correspondence. Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children. 4/2/2005. http://www.bruha.com/pfpc/

7. Thyroid Foundation of Canada. http://www.thyroid.ca/

8. National Institutes of Health - "Nearly two-thirds adults overweight.") 1999-2000. (4/2/2005) http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/

9. CDC, Press Release, "Community water fluoridation now reaches nearly two-thirds of US population." February 2002. (4.2.2005)
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r020222.htm

10. RxList Top 200 Prescriptions for 2003. "Synthroid," #3. (4/2/2005) http://www.rxlist.com/top200.htm

11. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Bureau of Dental Health Report, "higher prevalence of dental fluorosis among African-American children." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/