Sat, 09/01/2012 - 8:50am

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Dr Jim Kennedy DDS

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Frequently

Joined: Sep 14 2011

Posts: 22

Fluoride's Interference with Thyroid Hormones at Hand

Some of fluoride's affect on lowering IQ can be because it interferes with the thyroid gland's use of iodine by blocking receptor sites for iodine in the formation of thyroid hormones T3 and T4. This results in lowered thyroid function - hypothyroidism.

If a pregnant woman is hypothyroid, then the child can be born with cretinism, which is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to an untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones (congenital hypothyroidism), usually due to maternal hypothyroidism.

It can then be concluded that acquired hypothyroidism early in life can interfere with mental and physical development.

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Dr Kennedy moved to Grand Junction in 2003 with his wife, Liz, a registered nurse. Previously, he had practices in Detroit and Denver. He has limited his dental practice to the treatment of TMJ dysfunction, dental orthopedics and orthodontics, and the fabrication of dental appliances for snoring and sleep apnea. Office phone: 970/242-1900; Website: www.dentocranial.net [18]

His pieces on Lumigrate can be found in the forum related to things of the head in the section related to chronic pain, fatigue and fibromyalgia at http://www.lumigrate.com/forums/health-issuesdis-eases/head/... [19]. Please also refer to The Cranial Academy for providers in your area who have similar treatment approaches at: http://www.cranialacademy.com/ [20]

Mon, 09/17/2012 - 8:00pm

#2 [24]

Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

Joined: Feb 16 2009

Posts: 2032

Documentary now out: The Great Culling: Our Water

I received this today from Dr Jim Kennedy/above, with a simple note on the email saying "I just received this email". And I was SO thrilled to see that there is a documentary coming out about this topic, as part of a trilogy about air, food, water quality. I thought I'd share it here and suggest everyone go and watch the YouTube video (it is just over 9 minutes) and check out their website. I'll also bring my favorite part of their website forward for you to see a sample, below. (Or maybe NOT, I reviewed their website and found really good information to cite and link to and when I went back to bring it this way, their site was 404-ing and then today I got more of a message like there's not a website at that location SO keep that in mind. And that I'd not known any more about it than you do as I've shared 100% of what I knew about it here!)

Please join us for the world premiere of "The Great Culling: Our Water"
A new film from the director and producer of "What in the World are they Spraying?", Paul Wittenberger.

At:

Denver Film Center/Colfax
2510 E. Colfax Ave.
Denver CO, 80206
Thursday, October 4th, 2012 at 6:45pm

A second showing is also scheduled at:
First Universalist Church
4101 East Hampden Avenue
Denver CO, 80222
Friday, October 5th, 2012 at 7:00pm

We are lucky enough to have introductions by Dr. David Kennedy, Gary Pittman and local Denver fluoride activist Lisa Brumfiel. Following the film, we will have a Q&A with members of the cast and crew including Director and producer Paul Wittenberger and producer Chris Maple. Members of We are Change Colorado will also be on hand.

View The Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-uzSf1tDE [25]

Website:
http://www.thegreatculling.org/index2.php#/home/ [26]

The Great Culling our Water includes interviews with past president of International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology Dr. David C. Kennedy DDS, injured phosphate mining supervisor and author of "Phosphate Fluorides Toxic Torts" Gary O. Pittman. We have Natural News editor in chief Mike Adams "The Health Ranger", also Former Senator and Congresswoman Karen Johnson will be making an appearance in our WATER film.

We have co-founder of the Fluoride Action Network Dr. Paul Connett PhD along with co-founder of PureRain bottled water Dr. Laura Pressley PhD. Our good friend Dr. Charlie Goetschel PhD organic chemistry, New York Times best selling author Dr. Doris Rapp M.D. and National Director of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water Jeff Green with Holistic and Mercury Free dentist Dr. James E. Rota DDS.

Last but not least our very good friends and activist Luca Zanna and Mary E. Moore rounding out the cast for this explosive Part 1 of The Great Culling series, our WATER.

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Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [16] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!

Sat, 02/02/2013 - 2:24pm

#3 [27]

Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

Joined: Feb 16 2009

Posts: 2032

It Keeps Getting BETTER! NIH-Funded Harvard Study Finds Same

Another study! Dr Mercola... The Huffington Post, are covering this topic too! www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/fluoride_b_2479833.html [28] (Posted: 01/28/2013 11:20 am)

Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ

A recently-published Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water [29]have "significantly lower" IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas.

In a 32-page report [30] that can be downloaded free of charge from Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers said:

A recent report from the U.S. National Research Council (NRC 2006) concluded that adverse effects of high fluoride concentrations in drinking water may be of concern and that additional research is warranted. Fluoride may cause neurotoxicity in laboratory animals, including effects on learning and memory ...

To summarize the available literature, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies on increased fluoride exposure in drinking water and neurodevelopmental delays. We specifically targeted studies carried out in rural China that have not been widely disseminated, thus complementing the studies that have been included in previous reviews and risk assessment reports ...

Findings from our meta-analyses of 27 studies published over 22 years suggest an inverse association between high fluoride exposure and children's intelligence ... The results suggest that fluoride may be a developmental neurotoxicant that affects brain development at exposures much below those that can cause toxicity in adults ...

Serum-fluoride concentrations associated with high intakes from drinking-water may exceed 1 mg/L, or 50 Smol/L, thus more than 1000-times the levels of some other neurotoxicants that cause neurodevelopmental damage. Supporting the plausibility of our findings, rats exposed to 1 ppm (50 Smol/L) of water-fluoride for one year showed morphological alterations in the brain and increased levels of aluminum in brain tissue compared with controls ...

In conclusion, our results support the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children's neurodevelopment. Future research should formally evaluate dose-response relations based on individual-level measures of exposure over time, including more precise prenatal exposure assessment and more extensive standardized measures of neurobehavioral performance, in addition to improving assessment and control of potential confounders.

Studies Have Repeatedly Linked Fluoride to Reduced IQ and Brain Damage

There are so many scientific studies showing the direct, toxic effects of fluoride [31] on your body, it's truly remarkable that it's NOT considered a scientific consensus by now. Despite the evidence against it, fluoride is still added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking [32] water supplies.

It amazes me that the medical (and dental) communities are so stubbornly resistant to connect the dots when it comes to the skyrocketing increase of cognitive decline in adults and behavioral issues in children (ADD, ADHD, depression and learning disabilities of all kinds). In fact, there have been more than 23 human studies and 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage [33]. Fluoride can also increasemanganese [34] absorption, compounding problems, since manganese in drinking water has also been linked to lower IQ in children.

Reported effects of fluoride on your brain include:

• Reduction in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
• Damage to your hippocampus
• Formation of beta-amyloid plaques (the classic brain abnormality in Alzheimer's disease)
• Reduction in lipid content
• Damage to purkinje cells
• Exacerbation of lesions induced by iodine deficiency
• Impaired antioxidant defense systems
• Increased uptake of aluminum
• Accumulation of fluoride in your pineal gland

Six Facts You Need to Know About Water Fluoridation .... Mardy here, breaking in to say "please go to the blog at www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/fluoride_b_2479833.html [28]

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Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [16] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!

Fri, 06/27/2014 - 7:18pm

#4 [35]

Mardy Ross

Title: LumiGRATE Poster - Top of the Totem Pole

Joined: Feb 16 2009

Posts: 2032

The Lancet Neurol. Includes Fluoride as Neurotoxin. ACC responds

Fluoride was one chemical specifically addressed in this early 2014 publication in The Lancet Neurology which reports on a review performed by well established researchers. I'm ALSO providing a response / followup which has some criticality about this review. This is a distilled version of what you will find if you go to the link in order to allow YOUsers to see what you'll be getting if you take the trip to 'see the sites', so to speak:

This is from The Lancet Neurology, Volume 13, Issue 3 [36], Pages 330 - 338, March 2014, by Phillippe Grandjean, MD and Philip J. Landrigan, MD.

Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity

Summary

Neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments, affect millions of children worldwide, and some diagnoses seem to be increasing in frequency. Industrial chemicals that injure the developing brain are among the known causes for this rise in prevalence. In 2006, we did a systematic review and identified five industrial chemicals as developmental neurotoxicants: lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic, and toluene. Since 2006, epidemiological studies have documented six additional developmental neurotoxicants—manganese, fluoride, chlorpyrifos, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, and the polybrominated diphenyl ethers. We postulate that even more neurotoxicants remain undiscovered. To control the pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity, we propose a global prevention strategy. Untested chemicals should not be presumed to be safe to brain development, and chemicals in existing use and all new chemicals must therefore be tested for developmental neurotoxicity. To coordinate these efforts and to accelerate translation of science into prevention, we propose the urgent formation of a new international clearinghouse.

Find this and the links for the whole article at: www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(13)70278-3/abstract [37]

The American Chemistry Council's response (ACC) stats that the authors ignore fundamental principles of science, and it's 'alarmism'. I suggest you go and see what is at this link because it's an interesting 'read' what they said. I wanted to provide the link to that but provide the About information here so you can get a sense here what the ACC is and what their function is in the scheme of things. (Remember always think about what their motivations are, and that includes 'follow the money', etc.)

This is what you find at their About link (and the link to what they have to say about The Lancet information, above: http://blog.americanchemistry.com/2014/02/authors-ignore-fundamental-principles-of-science-in-lancet-paper-opt-for-alarmism/ [38]

About ACC

The American Chemistry Council's (ACC's) mission is to deliver business value through exceptional advocacy using best-in-class member performance, political engagement, communications and scientific research. We are committed to sustainable development by fostering progress in our economy, environment and society.

ACC is America’s oldest trade association of its kind, representing companies engaged in the business of chemistry—an innovative, $812 billion enterprise that is helping solve the biggest challenges facing our nation and the world.

The business of chemistry:

Drives innovations [39] that enable a more sustainable future.
Creates nearly 800,000 manufacturing and high-tech jobs [40]—plus nearly seven million related jobs—that support families and communities.
Enhances safety [41] through the products of chemistry and investment in research.

The products of chemistry will make it possible to satisfy a growing world population by providing a healthy and plentiful food supply, clean air and water, safe living conditions, efficient and affordable energy sources and lifesaving medical treatments in communities around the globe.

To enable these ongoing innovations, ACC supports public policies [42] that will drive creation of groundbreaking products that improve lives and our environment, enhance the economic vitality of communities and protect public health.

AGAIN, please go to the link to see what they've stated there, and more about the ACC in general, or other information they're providing. Always good to be reminded that it's to our benefit to have an idea what the opposition might say, or hopefully an objective, neutral organization. Knowing what the ACC 'is', would you think this was objective? YOUsers will benefit from forming the opinion that is right for YOU.

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Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [16] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!

IQ Lowered in Children with High Fluoride Intake: Neurotoxin Studies x2 for YOU

Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

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Fluoride and Children's Intelligence: A Meta-Analysis.

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