How to Combat the
Common Cold and the Flu!
Well, the "Cold and Flu Season" is here--what should we do? Well, there's plenty we can do to NOT get sick and plenty to do if we "happen to get sick." To learn how you CAN prevent the winter doldrums OR to help you feel better more quickly if you do "come down with something," this informative lecture will give you the twenty steps you should follow whether you're sick yet or not.
This casual lecture will be a lot of fun and you'll learn how many factors can come into play to assist your immune system in fighting what ails you. It all depends upon how serious you are about prevention OR getting better quickly, if you get sick. And since "time is money" one would think getting better fast would be a good thing, right?
You'll learn how various vitamins and herbs strengthen the immune system and yet, how sugar and refined carbohydrates, weakens the immune system. You'll learn how various chemicals, such as some chemicals and fluoride compounds, weakens the immune system and so much more!
Details:
Thursday, February 16th, 7-8:00 pm,
38 Teneyck Street
Stony Point, NY 10980
Cost: $10.00
R.S.V.P. Please e-mail me or call 845-290-9416 to reserve your spot.
Fluoride and Immune System Disruption!
(bet you didn't know this!)
Depressed Immune Function is one of the most pronounced effects of fluoride on the human body, yet, because ‘everyone gets sick,’ and so many people are ‘used’ to getting or being sick, no one questions fluoride as a partial or contributing factor. They should. Fluoride inhibits the immune system at levels found in fluoridated drinking water.
For example, Dr. Gibson at the University of Glasgow found that fluoride at 0.5 ppm decreased the ‘migration rate’ of white blood cells by 74 percent! Other experimenters have confirmed her results.
Dr. Robert Clark from Boston University Medical Center showed that fluoride stimulated granule formation and increased Oxygen consumption in white blood cells when they were NOT challenged by a foreign agent but inhibited these processes when the white blood cells needed them to fight off foreign agents! Granules are what are utilized within white blood cells to attack and neutralize foreign invaders like viruses and bacteria. Oxygen consumption inside the cells increases since this is necessary for the immune response. Fluoride can ‘confuse’ the process.[Robert A. Clark, “Neutrophil Iodination Reaction Induced by Fluoride: Implications for Degranulation and Metabolic Activation,” Blood, Vol. 57, pp. 913-921, 1981.]
Dr. J. Gabrovsek, a research dentist at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recognized the significance of increased levels of cAMP and how it could adversely effect the immune system. He wrote: “Because of the inhibitory effects of NaF on phagocytosis and leukotaxis, which are basic defense mechanisms, I have doubts about the absolute safety of water fluoridation on a long-term basis.” [Dr. J. Gabrovsek, “The Role of the Host in Dental Caries Infection,” Hexagon, (Roche), Vol. 3, pp. 17-24, 1980.]
Gabler and co-workers at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center found that while as little as 0.2 ppm fluoride stimulated superoxide production in resting white blood cells, this same fluoride concentration inhibited superoxide production when the WBC’s were challenged by a foreign agent. Superoxide is an oxygen molecule with an extra electron. It is normally a dangerous free radical however, it becomes useful within a cell when foreign invaders arrive! In a more recent study, Gabler and co-workers found that at low levels of fluoride, there was a delay in the capacity of WBC’s to respond to challenges from foreign agents and that when a response occurred, it was less vigorous when fluoride was present. The authors of this latter report remarked as follows: “Since fluoride inhibits O2- synthesis, the practice of introducing millimolar amounts of fluoride into areas harboring potential pathogens should be questioned.”
As if this were not enough, at least twenty other investigators have written on how fluoride depresses the immune system. For example, Gerald Weissman, from the New York University School of Medicine, showed that the ability of WBC’s to destroy enemy agents was significantly adversely affected by fluoride. [Gerald Weissman, et al., “Leukocytic Proteases and the Immunologic Release of Lysosomal Enzymes,” Amer. J. of Pathology, Vol, 68, pp. 539-559, 1972.]
In the body, fluoride increases the urinary output and the soft tissue levels of a chemical called cAMP. This is significant because this chemical decreases the migration rate of WBC’s! Allman and his co-workers found that when they fed rats water containing 1 ppm fluoride, there was a corresponding increase the urinary output and the soft tissue concentrations of cAMP. In a later study, they looked at fluoride in the water in the presence of aluminum. This time, the concentration of fluoride needed only to be 20 to 100 parts per billion in order for there to be a significant increase in urinary and soft tissue concentrations of cAMP~! [D.W. Allman & M. Benac, “Effect of Inorganic Fluoride Salts on Urine and Tissue 3,5, Cyclic-AMP, in Vivo,” Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 55 (Supp. B), p. 523, 1976.; D.W. Allman, et. al., “The Effects of Fluoridated Water on Rat Urine and Tissue cAMP levels,” Archives of Oral Biology, Vol. 27, pp. 107-112, 1982.]
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