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*** Let me introduce myself. I am Cathy Justus from Pagosa Springs, Colorado. I have the sad distinction of owning the first horses to ever be diagnosed with “chronic fluoride poisoning” from artificially fluoridated municipal water. I have this distinction not because it hasn’t been happening for years all over this world, but because vets, like doctors and dentists, are not taught in their schooling the science, toxicology, and biochemistry of fluoride and what it does to the body. I know of this lack of training of proven science because I have made it a point, over the last 25 plus years, to talk to hundreds of these professionals. We have now lost 8 horses and 4 dogs to this virulent cumulative toxin. This was scientifically proven by the world’s authority on fluoride poisoning in animals at Cornell University in New York, Dr. Lennart Krook, DVM, PhD I come from a whole different perspective than you have heard from those speaking about fluoride. I watched and lived the hell of my beloved animals getting progressively sicker and ultimately dying as others (human and animal) were doing in our town, and as others are doing with their animals, their friends and their family without these so called experts knowing why. The difference is that I have a background in knowing the science behind this toxin. Despite the huge amount of science, and truth revealing fluoride poisoning, I could not get our water municipality to acknowledge the growing amount of proven, damning science against fluoride consumption from 1985 until 2005. It was at that point that they knew, from the scientific proof I provided about our horses, that either they stop this mass medication without consent, or there would be a class action lawsuit. There have been many lives lost, both animal and human, and are being lost to the very same ills, and others, our animals succumbed to. Vets, like doctors, just diagnose the symptoms and then treat these symptoms instead of looking for the cause. Until the cause is addressed, the symptoms will progress .The ills caused by fluoride consumption is a very lucrative business practice and when approached with the truth, like I did with the 8 vets that were consulted, these medical professionals get bent out of shape and say, “We are the experts”, period. How can a person be an expert when the truth about a subject was never taught to them nor have they ever done their due diligence to find the truth? A perfect quote that fits this situation is “It is hard to convince someone of something when their income depends on them not believing it”. To add to that quote, ”And when their job standings depends on them not believing it” which is the case with the Public Health Authorities, CDC and EPA. Both these quotes are, I have found, is the case with not only most dentists, doctors and veterinarians but also the ADA, AMA, CDC, U.S. Public Health Service, and the EPA lawmakers. They promote whatever will benefit them, whether or not it is scientific or ethical. Look at the science. The facts plainly reveal this. In fact between 2003 and 2006 the EPA commissioned the National Research Council (NRC), the highest scientific group in the U.S., to review the recent science on fluoride. There were 12 scientists on this distinguished panel, 3 of which I have personally talked to and have corresponded with quite a bit. The amount of recent peer reviewed damning science this panel of scientists found against fluoride was unbelievable including recent studies showing fluoride consumption reduces I.Q. (A very recent meta-analysis from Harvard revealed the same). This NRC review found that fluoride consumption also causes detrimental effects on the teeth, musculoskeletal effects, reproductive and developmental effects, neurological and neurobehavioral effects, effects on the endocrine system including severe harm to the thyroid gland, effects on the gastrointestinal, renal, and hepatic systems, and genotoxicity and carcinogenicity (cancer causing). This review has been published into a 507 page book called “Fluoride In Drinking Water, A Scientific Review Of EPA’s Standards” available through The National Academy Press www.nap.edu in Washington, D.C. This review was done and paid for by our tax dollars yet the EPA lawmakers drag their feet to do anything with this information to inform and protect the public. A published Abstract of the NRC Review of Fluoride in the (Results) said: “Fluoride is the extreme electron scavenger, the most corrosive of all elements, as well as the most- reactive. Fluoride appears to attach living tissues, via several mechanisms. Fluoride renders strong evidence that it is a non-biological chemical, demonstrating no observed beneficial function or role in organic chemistry, beyond use as a pesticide or insecticide.” In the (Conclusion) it says: “Due to its insatiable appetite for calcium, fluorine and fluorides likely represent a form of chemistry that is incompatible with biological tissues and organ system functions. Based on an analysis of the affects of fluoride demonstrated consistently in the literature, safe levels have not been determined nor standardized. Mounting evidence presents conflicting value to its presence in biological settings and applications. Evidence examined in this review of the literature, and specifically the recent report by the National Research Council (NRC), offer strong support for an immediate reconsideration concerning risk verses benefit.” The EPA lawmakers have pretty much ignored the recent science this NRC review produced and it’s recommendations. Why? Because it didn’t reveal what the EPA lawmakers wanted. The results didn’t support their many years of promotion of fluoridation, which puts them squarely in line for litigation along with the whole chain of command down the line directly to commissioners and the water municipalities who purposely put this cumulative poison into municipal water. This litigation will make the cigarette lawsuit pay-outs look like peanuts. Not everyone smokes, but everyone drinks water in some form or the other. Just recently the EPA added fluoride to their list of Chemicals with SUBSTANTIAL Evidence of Developmental Neurotoxicity. These are chemicals that interfere with normal brain development in utero and in children. One wonders if this admission of fluoride’s neurotoxicity is a way of diverting legal blame. Why was this very critical health information not widely spread to those who put this poison into the water and media, and for sure those who consume it? There have now been over 100 recent studies that have found that fluoride can enter the brain and alter brain function. As of Dec 2012, there have been 42 recent studies on intelligence and fluoride. Of these, 36 of the 42 were associated with lowered I.Q. in humans consuming fluoride. 17 of the 42 were on learning and memory, and 16 of these 17 found lowered learning and memory in animals. 30 of the I.Q. studies involved communities where the primary source of fluoride was the water. The National Research Council Review and the recent Harvard studies have deemed fluoride to be “A High Research Priority”, yet no independent studies in the U.S. have ensued. WHY? Follow the money. Proponents usually offer only one recent study that did not show brain effects from fluoride by Broadbent, et al from New Zealand. It has been criticized by real fluoride researchers, and others, for not clearly identifying a control group. Recently there was a study published in the journal Environmental Health titled, “Exposure to Fluoridated Water and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Among Children And Adolescents In The United States: An Ecological Association.” It noted that a “1% increase in artificial fluoridation prevalence in 1992 was associated with approximately 67,000 to 131,000 additional ADHD diagnosis from 2003 to 2011.” Going back to 1992 reveals the ongoing usage of this chemical, even in just one year’s time, can cause it to linger in the body for years. The study further reported, “Parents reported higher rates of medically-diagnosed ADHD in their children in states in which a greater proportion of people receive fluoridated water from public water supplies.” The study concludes its aim was to delve deeper into the “epidemiology and animal-based studies (which) have suggested that prenatal and postnatal fluoride exposure has adverse effects on neurodevelopment.” Dr. Masters, et al, from Dartmouth University did a study, that was published in the March 2001 issue of the journal Neuro Toxicology, that found that fluorosislicic acid leaches lead from pipes, meter fittings, and solder joints, etc. and was linked to higher levels of lead in children. It is well known fact that lead lowers IQ. In 2015, according to Dr. Richard P. Mass and Dr. Steven C. Patch, both researchers and who are co- directors of the Environmental Quality Institute, at the University of North Carolina, found that fluoride chemicals, combined with other water additives, pull health damaging lead from plumbing systems into drinking water. A critical point that is never mentioned by those promoting water fluoridation, since they denounce any systemic bodily harm by fluoride, is that children’s health has declined significantly since 1950 when fluoridation began to be widely practiced. According to the National Health Interview Survey conducted annually, a shocking 31% of US children in 2014 had chronic health problems. In June 2015 the results of the Cochrane Review was released. This review was commissioned by the CDC to review the positive science on fluoride’s effectiveness and to put an end to the debate of good verses bad of fluoridation. You can see it at: http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jspv=2&c=aDTCxJJzB7wlUtak6KMFuCLqC4wqU9l The Cochran Collaboration is considered the gold standard in evidence-based reviews of health science by doctors and researchers.

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