B. A. Biology and Ph. D. Chemistry, University of California, San Diego (1966-1976).
Scripps Clinic Research Flow (1976-1980).
National I stories of Health Principal Investigator in diabetes research, and Supervisor of Rees Stealy Clinic Research Foundation (1981-1991).
Instructor of Physiology, Staff Tutor in Math, Chemistry, Physics, Biology,
Palomar College (1991-present).
(published 40 research articles in scientific journals on topics ranging from insulin action, membrane structure, features of Calculus, errors in relativity, the nature of gravity, and fluoride toxicology in man and animals.
Richard D.Sauerheber, Ph.D
Fluoride at 3 ppm in blood causes heart block and death. Fluoride at 1 ppm in blood causes heart muscle cell degeneration and heart failure and death. Fluoride at 0.1 ppm in blood accumulates in atherosclerotic plaque and bone where it causes formation of bone of poor quality, elevating both parathyroid hormone and calcitonin hormone at the same time to exert their opposite effects on bone. It elevates thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) in an attempt to keep thyroxine levels normal. Iodine in thyroid hormones is necessary for bone, teeth, immune health, and proper growth for tissues in general.
Look at the Merck medical reference manual or any nursing textbook that lists all ingredients of normal blood from A-Z, and there will be no entry for fluoride because fluoride does not belong in blood. It is a contaminant! And fluoride in fluoridated water doesn’t even achieve its stated purpose of preventing dental caries because fluoride use in this way does not incorporate into the enamel matrix. There is no caries reduction of any significance due to eating or drinking fluoride!
Applying acidulated phosphate fluoride, that contains high levels of hydrofluoric acid (HF), to teeth can cause fluoride to enter the teeth, but this is because HF dissolves glass and many metals. It is not something to desire, it is something to oppose.
Dr. Andrew A. Benson, who discovered how plants fix carbon dioxide in the Calvin-Benson photosynthesis cycle, offered me my first job in science. As a mentor there I learned what industrial fluoride (unnatural fluorides like NaF, H2SiF6, etc.) is—it is a calcium chelator and poisonous substance. The Marine Biology lab was not allowed to have any such fluoride substance inside the room because the fish species samples were so expensive and hard to get—from expeditions on ships to the far reaches of the ocean, etc. There was no chance allowed to expose those organisms to industrial calcium chelators like fluoride. This has nothing to do with natural ocean fluoride with massive protective levels of calcium.
Benson was appalled that anyone would even think of actually giving industrial fluoride calcium chelators intentionally to a human, including through public drinking water. Benson was correct. He passed away at 96 still working in his office and is sorely missed.
See Dr. Sauerheber’s article “On the Toxicity of Fluoridated Water” and his 95 Letters to the FDA and video links on pages 88-89 in the July issue of Masters of Health http://mastersofhealthmag.com
How Can Any Scientist Support Fluoridation???