It seems that these days just about anything you touch can give you cancer and when everything is being put out there it can sometimes be hard to sift through the trash to find the jewels.

There have been many studies done on the symptoms of prolonged fluoride exposure; the neurological effects should have the attention of us all. Alzheimer’s rates are plummeting, our IQ’s are becoming lower, and overall the effects on our brains are phenomenal. Phenomenal being bad! In 2006 researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health did a review that shows five industrial chemicals as developmental neurotoxins. Poisons like lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated iphenyls, arsenic, and toluene. And since the study was conducted six more have been identified.

“Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain… The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.”

A study done in 2012 suggested that children in areas with more fluoridation had lower IQ’s than those who lived in less fluoridated areas. This is one of the many studies that suggests this, and in fact fluoride has been confirmed to be a neurotoxin by many professionals in the medical industry.

What can you do to help with this? A new study has found that curcumin and active ingredient in turmeric that is known to have antioxidant properties, and it helps to treat neurological disease.

“Our study thus demonstrate that daily single dose of 120 ppm F result in highly significant increases in the LPO as well as neurodegenerative changes in neuron cell bodies of selected hippocampal regions. Supplementation with curcumin significantly reduce the toxic effect of F to near normal level by augmenting the antioxidant defense through its scavenging property and provide an evidence of having therapeutic role against oxidative stress mediated neurodegeneration.”

You can also use holy basil to extract the fluoride from your drinking water, and there are also many chemical free toothpaste recipes that will be beneficial.

Sources:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/07/01/water-supply-fluoridation.aspx

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/spice-prevents-fluoride-destroying-your-brain

http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/brain/

http://naturalsociety.com/turmeric-can-save-brain-fluoride-poisoning/