I received this email from Richard Sauerheber today. It's a great speech he is giving in Everett Washington.



Bill,

I was asked to provide a speech over the telephone on water fluoridation to the city council in Everett, Washington. Here is a transcript of the planned speech.



Dr. Richard Sauerheber


(B.A. Biology, Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, San Diego)


Palomar College, 1140 W. Mission Rd., San Marcos, CA 92069


E-mail: richsauerheb@hotmail.com Phone: 760-744-1150 xt 2448






Prepared by request for the city of Everett, WA


1.Over the last 20 years, 250 cities have halted the industrial fluoridation of public water supplies after learning what the procedure actually is and does. There is no need for any city to conduct it.


2.Fluoridation is harmful, expensive, illegal, doesn’t work and in fact can’t work. Ingested fluoride from1 ppm fluoridated water produces only 0.02 ppm fluoride in saliva that bathes teeth topically as reported by the National Research Council, 2006 on p. 71. This is 75,000 times less fluoride concentration than in toothpaste. A question was posed to the Oral Health Division of Federal dental officials at the U.S. CDC recently why we spend 300 million yearly for industrial fluoride in U.S. water supplies that yields only 0.02 in saliva when 1,500 is deemed effective in fighting caries, and the CDC has no answer; the response was that they will forward the question to others to obtain an answer. Incredible.


3.Blood levels are typically 0.2 ppm fluoride from 1 ppm water, but in the Northwest where water is soft, calcium is not present to minimize assimilation and blood levels can be up to 4 times higher.


4. Industrial fluorides lack calcium and thus are all toxic calcium chelators and exhibit either chronic effects at low levels present for scores of years, or acute effects more quickly at higher blood concentrations. At 0.2 ppm, long-term harm is done to brain, bone and blood vessels. 100 animal studies now exist that demonstrate this level of blood fluoride causes brain cellular organelle damage. Indeed, 30 human studies demonstrate lowered IQ as fluoride in blood progressively increases. The VA Hospital, Los Angeles published Jan., 2012 that fluoride from blood incorporates into atherosclerotic plaque in coronary arteries of cardiovascular disease victims, the leading lethal disease entity in the U.S. To claim that fluoridation of the blood and organs of U.S. citizens is totally uninvolved in the large numbers of heart disease deaths daily is simpleton talk without supporting data to prove it (at one time the fluoridated soft water city of Seattle led the Nation in lethal heart disease incidence). Bone accumulates fluoride permanently over lifetime consumption. Above 3,000 ppm bone is weakened and more subject to fracture with a lesser amount of force. We have 1/3 million elderly in the U.S. with hip fractures according to CDC reports, many perishing from pneumonia while waiting for bone to heal. But how can bone heal normally with thousands of ppm fluoride where it does not naturally belong? Some victims have been found with 12,000 ppm fluoride in bone in this country which causes immobilization, inability to walk. The bone is hideous in appearance, twice as thick as normal with spicules of fluoride compounds protruding from the surfaces.


5. Acute fluoride poisoning is now well-documented in the U.S. from accidental water fluoridation overfeeds such as in AK, ILL and MD. When the fluoride level in blood reaches only 5 ppm this causes instant heart stoppage by preventing calcium from coupling electrical excitation with mechanical pumping of the heart. Lawsuits over theses deaths are still being fought where the cities blame the States for making them fluoridate, and the States blame the cities for doing the fluoridating. 5 ppm is reached more easily in kidney disease victims who cannot eliminate quickly enough a large ingested amount.


6. At only 2 ppm in blood, fluoride exerts chronic effects on heart muscle with heart failure occurring within months at this level of continuous exposure, as proven in well-controlled research studies with mammals.


7. No ionic fluoride compound has been approved by the U.S. FDA to be taken internally by ingestion in the U.S. for any purpose. This includes Luride tablets that can still be prescribed as unapproved drugs for which dosage instructions state not to be given in fluoridated cities. From 1963-1993 the FDA decreed that fluoride is not a mineral nutrient, it doesn’t strengthen bone after incorporation as fluoride promoters had hoped, and added into water is an uncontrolled use of an unapproved drug. We have a petition that was accepted for review in 2007 by the FDA to ban all industrial fluoride infusions into public water supplies in the U.S. The petition remains pending.






Richard