Water Fluoridation: Details

Thyroid hormone is the crucial regulator of all the tissue-specific differentiation programmes during development and appropriate levels are critically important for the coordination of developmental processes.

When fluoride reduces the level of thyroid hormone during tooth development, by activating a calcium-transducing G-protein receptor G q/11, there is delayed tooth eruption, delayed removal of enamel matrix proteins, and delayed enamel maturation. The evidence of the deficiency is seen later with mottled teeth. While the teeth are developing so also is the brain.

There is a growing concern about the effect of fluoride on the developing brain b and a possible connection between fluoride and autism has been queried.”d This is from the booklet “Fluoride Fatigue,” by Bruce Spittle. The entire 78 pages can be accessed here: https://www.fluorideresearch.org/ISFR/files/ISFR.htm If you go to the booklet you can also read the footnotes, which are indicated in the excerpt by the letters a,b,c,d.
--Marlene, in Care2.org