I received this today in a newsletter from Go Beyond Organic:

–Fluoride slowly accumulates in our bodies as well as in the environment. It doesn’t just blow away in the wind, nor get easily expelled in the urine. It first goes to the soft tissue, cartilage, tendons, and blood vessel walls, various organs, then the harder tissues such as bone, then to the teeth, and finally what’s left over gets excreted via the kidneys, hopefully. But remember, most of it is cummulative. Approximately 50% of the fluorine ingested, remains and accumulates in the body.

–Fluoride cannot be removed from drinking water with a charcoal filter; and reverse-osmosis filters only remove 40-60% of the fluoride because of the infinitely soluble form of hydrofluorosilicic acid. Steam distilling process will remove most of the fluoride. Boiling water for soup, coffee, tea or other drink, only concentrates fluoride.

–Approximately 1,200 mg (1.2 grams) of sodium fluoride (“just a pinch”) will kill an adult human being. That was the low estimate that Dominic Smith ingested when he died from an overdose of fluoridated water at Hooper Bay, Alaska on 23 May 1992. (Approximately 200 mg will kill a small child.)

–In the fluoridation process at the water treatment plant, fluoride is added to our water supply at the rate of one part per million, or 1 milligram per liter. One milligram is the daily intended “target dose” of this medicine, for each child under 14 years of age whose teeth haven’t yet fully formed. (Adults and pets supposedly don’t count in this equation, even though they also receive their own fluoride in extremely unreliable and varying dosages.) Therefore, for every 400 liters of water supplied to us, a full 400 milligrams of fluoride is added to the water supply. However, since only 1 milligram of that amount (one liter of water) is swallowed, 399 milligrams of excess fluoride literally gets flushed down into the sewer or sprayed out onto the ground as a fully legal toxic waste dumping ground. (And we pay $400.00 for just $1.00 worth of medicine.) Since we even bought the toxic waste, that’s quite profitable for whomever manufactured and sold it, but not very healthy for Mother Earth.