Is Fluoride Really Safe?

Let me start by guiding people to the forum on Lumigrate.com which you and others have contributed to directly or indirectly related to thyroid: www.lumigrate.com/forums/health-issuesdis-eases/chronic-disease-management-chronic-wellness/hormones/thyroid-dysfuncti.  I encourage people to go and read there and follow the information around at Lumigrate.com if they're realizing this is something that applies to them or interests them for any reason. 

I have noticed that myself in my work consulting as an occupational therapist in a clinic in Grand Junction, Colorado prior to shifting to a functional advisor/consultant and establishing Lumigrate.com as a health education platform, Dr Spurlock.  Particularly the increased incidence of teens with these types of chronic illnesses, I have seen that also in my networking through Facebook and social media related to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. I had symptoms of adrenal fatigue when I was a child but at least my life did not become 'medically complex' until I was out of my 'young adulthood' and into middle adulthood.  It is always hard to see people suffering with medical conditions, or anything, but it is just particularly heart wrenching when it is our youth.

I know you, Dr Spurlock, use the concept of an elevator getting increasingly burdened with weight and then crashing to the bottom of the shaft.  Dr Christopher Lepisto, the local ND who generously provided his time to record a few videos for Lumigrate.com's launch in the past and answering questions in the past about these types of topics for my own understanding and to be used as education as well, uses the full barrel syndrome analogy: that video is currently on the video tab at Lumigrate.com but things might be changing around over the summer at Lumigrate.com so 'search on it' at Lumigrate if you cannot find it if reading this in the future.  

I like 'the slippery slope' analogy, as I keep making headway and making it back up toward the top of the hill to wellness and then slip and end up somewhere, thankfully not yet again at the bottom like I was in 1989 when I had my onset of chronic fatigue syndrome and couldn't walk a block or climb a flight of stairs or work at my desk for the now infamous CSU/NPS Air Quality Division visibility research program administration liaison/assisting job for more than 7 hours a day. My life has never been the same since, though I did make, I thought, a full recovery and surpassed my previous health level, which was never 'perfect', despite growing up in the 'pristine mountains of Colorado'.  

In the mid 1990s, due, again, to a number of factors but tripped off by as my initial CFS was by a reaction to an immunization for mumps as I had not had them and would be quaranteened from campus if one of the 20,000 students had mumps, impeding my schooling in the program by a whole year, potentially, and also chemicals from cadavaer anatomy to become an occupational therapist, I developed what appeared to be MS-like symptoms.  Fortunately it was not and I became proactive once again and solving the problems.  However, I did not have anyone at that time educating me about what was in the tap water I was drinking a LOT OF because I worked out a lot and was outdoors extensively mountain biking, in-line skating and hiking. In retrospect, I wonder how much could have been prevented in my extremely expensive, ongoing, health challenges by not having had flouride in the water and having had guidance on supporting my thyroid to detox with adding pharmaceutical iodine supplementally.  

I wish it were completely due to what is in municipal/tap water, which it is naturally not, as it is so multi-faceted and has to do with as much about the mind and spirit having wellness as it does the body and the periodic table, naturally, but to me, this is the EASIEST of things for our society to change and it saves money for the water businesses and for the consumers related to their health, so it just makes sense to put some efforts in on this information and hope it makes an impact.  Thank you for your input!  ~~ Mardy

PS -- I'm adding the link to Dr Spurlock's vitae in our forum 'About Lumigrate's Forum Writers', since many people reading this in W. Colorado will not be aware of his name like the broader, national fibromyalgia/chronic illness community is.  www.lumigrate.com/forum/my-vitae-wm-marcus-spurlock-md. There is a biographical and more 'vitae-like' topic by/about me as well, and others, you might find helpful in understanding our backgrounds and qualifications to be contributing as concerned citizens for ourselves and others.

 I've had someone ask me this question and thought I'd defer to you to answer, Dr Spurlock.  Thank you in advance.  ~~ Mardy

Fluoride is not associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. But it is possible to have more than one thyroid problem at a time. So it is possible to have Hashimoto's thyroiditis and have a thyroid deficiency due to fluoride displacement of iodide concurrently.

The goal of treatment is always to bring FULL health to the area we are working on, not just focusing on one obvious problem, while neglecting the others.  Thanks for asking the question! 

My new topic "Are You Loaded?" begs to ask the question "are your thyroid (and other tissues) loaded with fluoride?" as one of the MANY things that are discussed generally at this brief new topic I invite you to go read at: www.lumigrate.com/forum/are-you-loaded-what-i-see-causing-illnesses-soar-children-through-elderly