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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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Because it wrecked my thyroid.  

Do you know how many other things, present in more dangerous concentrations that might effect your thyroid function, you are exposed to?

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ORIGINAL: allthatjaz

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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Because it wrecked my thyroid.  

Do you know how many other things, present in more dangerous concentrations that might effect your thyroid function, you are exposed to?

Fluoride is highly damaging to the thyroid gland and there are many medical papers available on the net for people to peruse, so it could very well of been too much fluoride that was responsible for his damaged thyroid.
Way back in the 30s they discovered that fluoride depresses the thyroid gland and too much fluoride will stop the thyroid working at all.
You may well mock but those of you that don't take the dangers of fluoride seriously should start doing your own research. If you can be bothered that is.
I don't think its a case of becoming paranoid, its a case of reading available and well documented information. We now have world wide access to research papers that were not once available to us without a huge amount of hassle. Instead of wandering round in ignorant bliss we can make an informed choice of what we eat, drink and put on our skin.
People who make informed choice not to put too much fluoride, pesticides and artificial hormones into their bodies have done their research and come to their own conclusion. Personally I have a lot of respect for people like this. Some may call them paranoid freaks and others may listen, hear what they have to say and go off and research it themselves.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

No one is debating the symptoms. No one is saying you dont have an underactice thyroid. What I AM saying is that if it could be definitively linked to fluoride, the class action lawsuit would be astronomical.

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I have a friend that fine tunes her childrens diets. Absolutely no junk. Her home is all about healthy eating. Both her children are very small for their age and the eldest one has some bone deformities.
Now I wouldn't suggest that we feed our children too much junk but just how good is a natural healthy diet really?

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And don't forget to summarily dismiss Document 264. It's rubbish. The essential minerals to life simply appear out of nowhere. That is true, and you are stupid for buying silver, because it just materializes out of nowhere, like all the other minerals.

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And peoples' thyroids dont just quit because of too much fluoride, as pahunks link explains.

Robert Carton, PhD, an environmental scientist who worked for over 30 years for the U.S. government including managing risk assessments on high priority toxic chemicals, says “fluoride has detrimental effects on the thyroid gland of healthy males at 3.5 mg a day. With iodine deficiency, the effect level drops to 0.7 milligrams/day for an average male.”(E) (1.0 mg/L fluoride is in most water supplies)

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

And peoples' thyroids dont just quit because of too much fluoride, as pahunks link explains.

Robert Carton, PhD, an environmental scientist who worked for over 30 years for the U.S. government including managing risk assessments on high priority toxic chemicals, says “fluoride has detrimental effects on the thyroid gland of healthy males at 3.5 mg a day. With iodine deficiency, the effect level drops to 0.7 milligrams/day for an average male.”(E) (1.0 mg/L fluoride is in most water supplies)

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“Many Americans are exposed to fluoride in the ranges associated with thyroid effects, especially for people with iodine deficiency,” says Kathleen Thiessen, PhD, co-author of the government-sponsored NRC report. “The recent decline in iodine intake in the U.S could contribute to increased toxicity of fluoride for some individuals,” says Thiessen.

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And peoples' thyroids dont just quit because of too much fluoride, as pahunks link explains.

Robert Carton, PhD, an environmental scientist who worked for over 30 years for the U.S. government including managing risk assessments on high priority toxic chemicals, says “fluoride has detrimental effects on the thyroid gland of healthy males at 3.5 mg a day. With iodine deficiency, the effect level drops to 0.7 milligrams/day for an average male.”(E) (1.0 mg/L fluoride is in most water supplies)

So to even have minor effects on the thyroid you need to consume 3.5 liters of water a day. And that is the claim by a guy who quit working for the government to get rich telling conspiracy nuts what they want to hear.

in reality people have long lived in areas where natural flouride levels in the drinking water far exceed 1ml/l with only minor health effects. For instance there is a county in Northern Mexico where the well water runs over 5ml/l and people aren't keeling over dead there.