Artificial fluoridation began in 1945,
aimed at teeth, without considering how unnatural fluoride chemicals could
affect other body functions or population subsets, such as kidney
patients.
CDC says, “The safety and effectiveness
of fluoride at levels used in community water fluoridation has been thoroughly
documented…”
But, William Maas, (former CDC Oral
Health Division Director) admits “There is a lot of uncertainty,” regarding
fluoride’s effects to kidney patients in a May 2011 email to ADA Director of
Congressional Affairs, Judith Sherman, (a registered ADA lobbyist).
Cc’d is William Bailey, then acting
Director of CDC’s Oral Health Division, who responds: “End stage renal disease
may be another issue. Since the body excretes fluoride through the kidneys, it
is reasonable to assume that people with end stage [renal] disease may
experience a buildup of fluoride.”
Bailey also mislead the Fairbanks, Alaska,city council in 2008 claiming studies he listed
proved fluoridation’s safety and effectiveness when they didn't.
Now working with the PEW-funded Campaign for Dental Health, formed
to protect and promote fluoridation, Bailey told the Loveland (Colorado) Utility
Commission on November 19, 2014: “I believe that
fluoridation is a healthy practice...It is not associated with any negative
health effects,” according a Loveland
newspaper.
In 2012, the National Kidney Foundation withdrew its support of water fluoridation citing the 2006 National Research Council (NRC) report indicating that kidney patients are more susceptible to fluoride’s bone and teeth-damaging effects.
The NRC reports that the kidney-impaired retain more fluoride and risk skeletal fluorosis (an arthritic-type bone disease), fractures and severe enamel fluorosis, which may increase the risk of dental decay. More specifically:
“Human kidneys… concentrate fluoride as much as 50-fold
from plasma to urine. Portions of the renal system may therefore be at higher
risk of fluoride toxicity than most soft tissues.” p.280
“Early water fluoridation studies did not carefully assess
changes in renal function.” p.280
“future studies should be directed toward determining
whether kidney stone formation is the most sensitive end point on which to base the MCLG
[EPA’s maximum contaminant level goal allowed in water].” p.281
“The effect of low doses of fluoride on kidney and liver
enzyme functions in humans needs to be carefully documented in communities exposed to
different concentrations of fluoride in drinking water.” p.303
“Thus, more studies are needed on fluoride concentrations
in soft tissues (e.g., brain, thyroid, kidney) following chronic exposure.”
p.102
In 1980, a toxicologist,
Brian Dementi, with the Virginia Department of Health wrote in his ignored
report, “where
the kidney is concerned persons with impaired kidney function may suffer from
acute fluoride toxicity when consuming water containing as little as 2 ppm
fluoride.”
Dementi writes, "In discussing the effects of fluoride upon the kidney, it seems
appropriate at this point to indicate that whereas the kidney fulfills the
important task of removing toxic substances, such as fluoride, from the system.
There is the consequent danger of fluoride intoxication in those individuals
with impaired renal function who ingest fluoride...It is evident that
fluoridated water poses an enhanced threat to those among the populace who have
impaired kidney function."
In 1990, the New York State Department of Health published
a study, “Fluoride: Benefits and Risks of Exposure,” alerting officials that fluoride can be harmful to
kidney patients, diabetics and those with fluoride hypersensitivity
even at “optimal” levels. More study was advised; but ignored. Without this
vital information, government bureaucrats continue to claim fluoridation is
safe.
The National Kidney Foundation’s (NKF) former fluoridation position statement also carried surprising cautions. The NKF advised
monitoring children’s fluoride intake along with patients with chronic kidney impairment, those with excessive fluoride intake, and those
with prolonged disease. But NKF now admits, “exposure from food and beverages is difficult to monitor, since FDA food labels do not
quantify fluoride content.” The USDA lists fluoride content of common foods here.
The NKF’s April 15, 2008 statement goes further: “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.”
“More than 20 million Americans have CKD, and most don’t even know it. More than 20 million others are at increased risk for developing CKD,” NKF reports.
The American Dental Association, in its Fluoridation Facts Booklet,reports that “decreased fluoride removal may occur among persons with severely impaired kidney function who may not be on kidney dialysis.”
According to Schiffi in the Journal Nephrology
Dialysis Transplantation, “a
fairly substantial body of research indicates that patients with chronic renal
insufficiency are at an increased risk of chronic fluoride
toxicity.”
Ibarra-Santana, et al. report
“patients with renal disease presented more
severe dental fluorosis [white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth] than
children without renal
disease, in the Journal
of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry
Bansal, et al. in Nephrology Dialysis
Transplantation reports: “Individuals with kidney disease have
decreased ability to excrete fluoride in urine and are at risk of developing
fluorosis even at normal recommended limit of 0.7 to 1.2mg/l of fluoride in
drinking water.”
Ng, et al, report in the journal, Bone, their research
suggest that “in ROD [renal
osteodystrophy], bone
fluoride may diminish bone microhardness by interfering with
mineralization.”
Researchers report “that drinking water fluoride levels over 2.0 mg/L can
cause damage to liver and kidney functions in children and that the dental
fluorosis was independent of damage to the liver but not the kidney, published
in Environmental
Research.
According to a 1975 editorial in Kidney International,
“Trace doses of fluoride
leave the blood within minutes, concentrating principally In
bone and kidney...”
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