Posted by Ian Kemp on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Himalayan-Salt-alert-tp1540925p1540951.html

Before we get too carried away on the anti-big business stuff, let's just
remember the history of fluorides. It was observed nearly 100 years back by
dentists in certain communities that a lot of the local population had
mottled teeth, which was perceived as being unsightly. Then they did a few
statistics and found that these people's teeth were a lot stronger and they
had much fewer cavities and fillings. Investigations showed that the key
factor was high natural levels of fluoride in the water. The push to get
fluorides in toothpaste came jointly from the dental profession (with the
laudable aim of reducing the number of fillings they had to do) and
consumers. Fluoridation of water was proposed in quite a lot of communities
in the UK and Europe as well as the US/Canada. I don't think many adopted
it; there was some uncertainty, but also more of a feeling on cost grounds
that it was wasteful to fluoridate a whole water supply when most of it
would go down baths, sinks, toilets, hosepipes etc. Fluoride toothpaste
seemed a more sensible way to go as it was directed at the specific area
that needed it.

The composition of "salt" is always going to vary depending on its source.
Any salt from anywhere (rock or sea) will contain mainly chloride, but also
greater or lesser amounts of fluoride, bromide and iodide, besides countless
other things. They are all very closely chemically related (halides,
compounds of halogens) and can't easily be separated from each other. The
chemical similarity would also the reason why high levels of fluoride have
been reported to give "goitre" effects (low thyroid due to iodine
deficiency). Normally the levels required are far beyond those which one
could ingest in salt in food - but I guess salt baths and salt lamps could
give you a higher dose. Difficult to know without actually measuring it,
and testing the individual impact it has on your body. For anyone with
hypothyroidism, though, (and this seems to be the case with quite a lot of
ME/MCS/ES people), it does seem to be something to consider. Incidentally,
brine baths, Dead Sea baths/mudpacks, and sea bathing will all give similar
effects of exposure to a wide range of halides but evidently most people do
not suffer any problems from them.

Ian

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Sent: 13 March 2006 05:10
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Subject: [eSens] Re: Himalayan Salt alert


Andrew...I think the jist of the article is that salt is salt. No mountain
makes it magical or
any better, as for efficacy. It would stand to reason this salt would be
higher in fluoride
since the water table source is supposed to be exposed to fluorines in the
earth.

Similar to the fluorines found in tea. It is a wise eye to watch for
fluoridation in all food
processing. There are fluoridated water drinks for kids...Flo Go....a little
dinasaur on the
package with articial flavours....thankfully...LOLOLOL...no colour
added...LMAO...

No colour just fluoride so you can watch your kids glow in the dark....or
bones melt...or
thyroid...or ADD or ADHD or sterility or depression, teeth malformation,
sterility.

BUT.....it is good for you. The United States and Canada (we are the
lemmings/sheep here)
are the only countries that fluoridate water. Money talks. Need to dispose
of a few
thousand pounds of toxic...radioactive...fluoric acid (byproduct of smelting
industrly)

Oh...Oh...here is a good idea....let's put it up for sale...tell everyone it
is good for them.
Viola' we will teach these North Americans how to digest radiation...

Go team go.

Karen



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