Tag: Arthritis
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Fluoride & Arthritis
Current evidence strongly indicates that some people diagnosed with “arthritis” are in fact suffering from low-grade fluoride poisoning. Joint pain and stiffness are well known symptoms of excessive fluoride intake. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, too much fluoride causes “chronic joint pain” and “arthritic symptoms.” (DHHS 1991). U.S. health authorities have […]
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Fluoride & Arthritis: New Data Highlights Hazards of Current Safety Standards
The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has obtained data showing that the risk of fluoride to bone and joints is far worse than U.S. health authorities have thus far acknowledged. The data shows that, under current U.S. safety standards, people can suffer chronic joint pain and stiffness, including the degenerative joint disease osteoarthritis.
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Tea Intake Is a Risk Factor for Skeletal Fluorosis
A number of recent studies have found that heavy tea drinkers can develop skeletal fluorosis – a bone disease caused by excessive intake of fluoride.
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Repetititive Strain Injury (RSI) and Magnesium and Fluoride Intake
Through adjustment of dietary intake of 12 patients with Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI), which included more Magnesium and less Fluoride, eight of the subjects experienced marked relief from previously painful RSI symptoms after a six week test period.
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Clinico-hygiene assessment of the combined effect on the body of vibration and fluorine.
In the X-ray examination of vibration disease patients in fluorite mines, we observed a greater frequency of deforming osteoarthroses (DOA) of the elbow joints and osteochondrosis and spondylitis of the cervical section and of the lumbar section of the spine. The terms of development of vibration disease under the conditions in the fluorite mines were significantly shorter than those in the iron ore mines.
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Fluoride & Arthritis
The doses that American adults now routinely ingest overlap the doses that may cause chronic joint pain.
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Fluoride & Osteoarthritis
While the osteoarthritic effects that occurred from fluoride exposure were once considered to be limited to those with skeletal fluorosis, recent research shows that fluoride can cause osteoarthritis in the absence of traditionally defined fluorosis. Conventional methods used for detecting skeletal fluorosis, therefore, will fail to detect the full range of people suffering from fluoride-induced osteoarthritis.
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Exposure Pathways Linked to Skeletal Fluorosis
Excessive fluoride exposure from any source — and from all sources combined — can cause skeletal fluorosis. Some exposure pathways , however, have been specifically identified as placing individuals at risk of skeletal fluorosis. These exposure pathways include: Fluoridated Water for Kidney Patients Excessive Tea Consumption High-Fluoride Well Water Industrial Fluoride Exposure Fluorinated Pharmaceuticals (Voriconazole […]
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Industrial Fluorosis
A highly significant relationship of exposure to fluoride was established with the frequency of back and neck surgery, fractures, symptoms of musculoskeletal disease and past history of diseases of bones and joints in the absence of the typical findings of skeletal fluorosis. Monitoring exposed workers for the early manifestations of “musculoskeletal fluorosis” is recommended prior to the development of destructive and degenerative changes of the skeleton.
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Skeletal Fluorosis in India & its Relevance to the West
While the elevated consumption of water in warm climates such as India along with the increased incidence of malnutrition make direct comparisons of the Indian experience to the “West” difficult, it is striking to observe how narrow the margin is between the doses which cause advanced fluorosis in India and the doses that people are now regularly receiving in fluoridated communities.