Fluoride Controversies: A Physician's Perspective on the Devastating Health Consequences of Fluoride

Since the 1970’s, no physician-authored book regarding fluoride exposure has been written for the general public’s benefit. This book provides a much-needed up-date on both the ubiquity of fluorides in everyday life and more importantly, an assessment of all the recent scientific literature which clearly shows there are devastating neurological, skeletal and endocrine risks associated with fluoride based compounds. This book is the first to fully explore the interactions of fluoride and the brain.
As a practicing physician of 25 years, I provide an authoritative and current perspective regarding all the dangers of excessive fluoride exposure. Such exposure is very common today as a result of fluoride’s usefulness in a variety of industrial and household applications. A widespread misunderstanding began long ago when actions were taken by both the corporate world and U.S. health agencies to promote the image of fluorides - while down-playing known or suspected health and environmental risks. Regrettably, these attitudes still persist. We must look beyond fluoride’s effect on our teeth.
My expertise in the matter began in 2008 following an inadvertent workplace exposure to harmful fluorides as a practicing anesthesiologist. This set the stage for my multi-year review of the available scientific and medical literature regarding fluorides. Concern with fluoride safety is essentially non-existent in both the medical and dental professions. While acute toxicity from fluorides is a relatively rare event, chronic fluoride toxicity is real, subtle, and devastatingly costly in terms of quality of life and cost of treatment.
This book is written specifically with the medically unsophisticated reader in mind. It is simplistic in style yet intended to really raise eyebrows. It begins with the proposition that fluoride, in the doses we now all receive, is like lead and mercury, a potent chronic biological toxin. I follow with a brief history of fluoride development and an overview of the many modern-day products and applications that utilize fluoride and result in exposures that are not routinely appreciated. The reader is presented with a diverse representation of medical case reports to emphasize how toxic fluoride can be. In addition, I summarize the most recent scientific research which demonstrates the neurological toxicity of fluoride, particularly in children. I make a compelling case that fluoride plays a causative role in the development of a variety of chronic illnesses – particularly the autism spectrum disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, the auto-immune diseases, and other endocrine disorders – all of which are rapidly rising in frequency.
Further attention is given to the dangers in adopting or continuing with water fluoridation programs - as they ensure that average citizens (and children in particular) are receiving excessive (toxic) doses of fluoride. Such exposures all but guarantee ill health. It is imperative that fluoride exposure be minimized, and I discuss how to do so.