Phil Robertson - 11:05pm Oct 25, 2002 PST
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SORTING OUT THE DEBATE WITH GENUINE CLINICAL EVIDENCE
Like Dean German, The Surgeon General and Elwood Mogengator, twenty
years ago I also thought fluoridation was just a safe form of dental
health treatment.
After graduating in natural medicine in 1979 I began my practice in
Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne was fluoridated in 1977. I started
treating a woman in her early 30's for joint and muscle pain. Over
the previous two years she saw many doctors for these symptoms and
they had diagnosed her with early onset arthritis.
Treatments provided her with temporary relief only. She then asked me
if her troublesome symptoms could be coming from the recently added
fluoride in Melbourne tap water as she felt unwell after drinking it.
At the time I suppose I knew as much about sensitivity to fluoride in
tap water as any dentist or surgeon general might, so I couldn't help
but disregard her question as it made no sense to me.
But my patient found she could drink fluoride free mineral water or
tap water in unfluoridated cities without any problems. Upon
returning to Melbourne, tap water once again caused burning in her
throat and arthritic pain in her joints. Again she asked could it be
the fluoride.
I rang the government health department, the dental advisor told me
such effects were not possible. I made the mistake of accepting his
authority and passing his information on to the patient as fact. But
by now I was becoming unsure about those 'facts'. So medical tests
were carried out.
After conducting the tests her medical doctor found it was fluoride
that was causing her symptoms. After purchasing an expensive filter
that removed fluoride from tap water, a very happy patient let me
know she could now drink the water again without getting symptoms.
I was now both astonished and embarrassed by my previous and the
health department's current mistaken belief that fluoride was
perfectly safe for everyone.
How many other patients could be also diagnosed with "arthritis" by
their doctors when they may only be suffering from fluoride toxicity?
Since then I have seen patients suffering from other fluoride related
symptoms. Asthma is another symptom that medical testing has
demonstrated can be triggered by fluoride.
Isn't that interesting? What symptoms are found in one of the
industries that used to advertise their fluoride for water
fluoridation? Asthma is widespread in this aluminum smelting industry
and scientific research now links the increased asthma deaths with
fluoride exposures in these workers.(see Scand J Work Environ Health
2000 Dec;26(6):470-5) @website:
www.fluoridealert.org/aluminum-respiratory.htm
Why does fluoride have to be removed from the superphosphate before
it is spread onto pastures? No, it is not because it then provides
the fluoride for water fluoridation!
It is because it has been found to cause joint problems in grazing animals.
Interesting again! Just how does the Surgeon General imagine the
toxic effects of this same chemical suddenly become healthy
therapeutic ones by putting it into drinking water? If he has found
out how to do that could he please show us his or the dental
profession's magic wand?
I once asked a dentist I knew how on earth could they have got it so
wrong about the toxic effects of fluoride. He told me that was was
easy to explain.
His profession specialized in being "expert tooth mechanics" with
little training in toxicology. So it was not surprising that things
had gone wrong with their advice on fluoride.
Perhaps the dental profession may need that magic wand to help talk
their way out of the terrible mistake they have made with
fluoridation.
I trust that readers will not fall for the same unbelievably mistaken
advice the dental advisor gave me in Melbourne about the safety of
fluoridation just because dentists may still be naively handing it
out today in Redding.
Phil Robertson
Elwood Mogengator - 08:35am Oct 26, 2002 PST
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Another quack heard from
Mr. Robertson says that he is a graduate in natural medicine. Well,
isn't that special? What the hell, pray tell, is that? I notice that
he "practiced" in Australia, not this country. See, I told you
they've run out of American quacks and are now scouring the world for
them.
Talk about equivocal evidence. Mr. Robertson cites the case of one
woman who seems to have been suffering from fluoride hysteria. Now is
that a small study, or what?
Stay tuned. The next foreign quack the antifluorides bring you is
going to be Dr. Mbongo from the Congo! I can hardly wait.
The Editor,
Redding.com
Dear Sir or Madam,
Elwood Mogengator's rabid response [Oct. 26, 2002] to Philip
Robertson's report [Oct. 25, 2002] of adverse health effects from the
consumption of fluoridated water is puzzling: particularly as he
attacked the messenger instead of the message. The vitriolic attack
seems to be a red herring to divert people from the truth - that
fluoride CAN and DOES have detrimental effects.
It appears that Elwood Mogengator is unaware that Holland's medical
doctor Hans Moolenburg proved, by way of double-blind placebo trials,
that some of his patients DID suffer adverse effects from
consuming fluoridated water. Dr Moolenburg was in the unique
position whereby approximately half of his patients lived in a
fluoridated area and the rest lived in a non-fluoridated area so he
was able to witness the increasing trend toward poorer health in a
percentage of his fluoridated patients.
"Fluoridation - The Freedom Fight" tells of Dr Moolenburg's
successful struggle to help free Holland from the tyranny of
fluoridation and also details his fluoridation trials.
Elwood Mogengator's fluoridation education might be well served if
he/she were to read the above-mentioned book and also Dr George
Waldbott's collaborative effort "Fluoridation - The Great Dilemma" in
which great detail is given to adverse health findings as a result of
fluoride consumption.
As the former President John F. Kennedy said, "Many enjoy the comfort
of opinion without the discomfort of thought." Yes, thinking can
sometimes be uncomfortable, especially when truthful conclusions
arrived at are diametrically opposed to those one prefers to believe!"
Yours sincerely,
Ailsa Boyden
Australia.
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