The Spice That Prevents Fluoride From Destroying Your Brain
In Brief
- The Facts:This article was written by Sayer Ji, Founder of Greenmedinfo.com where this article was originally published.
- Reflect On:Fluoride
is found everywhere today, from antibiotics to drinking water, no stick
pans to toothpaste, making exposure inevitable. All the more reason why
research proving Turmeric can prevent fluoride damage is so promising.
Fluoride’s
neurotoxicity has been the subject of academic debate for decades, and
now a matter of increasingly impassioned controversy among the general
public, as well. From ‘conspiracy theories’ about it being first used in
drinking water in Russian and Nazi concentration camps to chemically
lobotomize captives, to its now well-known IQ lowering properties, to its ability to enhance the calcification of the pineal gland — the traditional ‘seat of the soul’ — many around the world, and increasingly in the heavily fluoridated regions of the United States, are starting to organize at the local and statewide level to oust this ubiquitous toxicant from municipal drinking water.
A compelling study published in the Pharmacognosy Magazine titled, “Curcumin attenuates neurotoxicity induced by fluoride: An in vivo evidence,”
adds experimental support to the suspicion that fluoride is indeed a
brain-damaging substance, also revealing that a natural spice-derived
protective agent against the various health effects associated with this
compound is available.
The study was authored by researchers
from the Department of Zoology, University College of Science, M.L.
Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India, who have spent the past decade
investigating the mechanisms through which fluoride induces severe
neurodegenerative changes in the mammalian brain, particularly in cells
of the hippocampus and cerebral cortex.[i] [ii]
The study opens by describing the historical backdrop for concern about fluoride’s significant and wide ranging toxicity:
Fluoride (F) is probably the first inorganic ion which drew attention of the scientific world for its toxic effects and now the F toxicity through drinking water is well-recognized as a global problem. Health effect reports on F exposure also include various cancers, adverse reproductive activities, cardiovascular, and neurological diseases.[1,2]
The study focused on fluoride induced neurotoxicity,
identifying excitoxicity (stimulation of the neuron to the point of
death) and oxidative stress as the two main drivers of
neurodegeneration. It has been observed that subjects with the
condition known as fluorosis,
a mottling of tooth enamel caused by excessive exposure to fluoride
during tooth development, also have neurodegenerative changes associated
with a form of oxidative stress known as lipid peroxidation
(rancidity). Excess lipid peroxidation in the brain can lead to a
decrease in total brain phospholipid content. Owing to these well-known
mechanisms of fluoride associated neurotoxicity and neurodegeneration,
the researchers identified the primary polyphenol in the spice turmeric —
known as curcumin — as an ideal agent worth testing as a neuroprotective substance.
Previous research on curcumin indicates that it is capable of activing
as an antioxidant in 3 distinct ways by protecting against: 1) singlet
oxygen 2) hyrodxyl radicals and 3) superoxide radical damage. Also,
curcumin appears to raise endogenous glutathione production in the
brain, a major antioxidant defense system.
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In order to assess the neurotoxic
effects of fluoride and prove curcumin’s protective role against it,
researchers randomly divided up mice into four groups, for 30 days:
- Control (no fluoride)
- Fluoride (120 ppm): fluoride was given in distilled water drinking water without restriction.
- Fluoride (120 ppm/30 mg/kg body weight) + Curcumin: Oral dose of curcumin dissolved in olive oil along with fluoride in drinking water
- Curcumin: (30 mg/kg body weight)
In order to ascertain the effect of
treatment, the researchers measured the malondialdehyde (MDA) content in
the brains of the different treated mice. MDA is a well-known marker of
oxidative stress/damage.
As was expected, the fluoride (F) only
treatment group showed significantly elevated MDA levels vs. the
non-fluoride treated control. The F + Curcumin group saw reduced MDA
levels vs. the fluoride only group, demonstrating curcumin’s
neuroprotective activity against fluoride associated neurotoxicity.
The study concluded,
Our study thus demonstrate that daily single dose of 120 ppm F result in highly significant increases in the LPO [lipid peroxidation, i.e. brain rancidity] as well as neurodegenerative changes in neuron cell bodies of selected hippocampal regions. Supplementation with curcumin significantly reduce the toxic effect of F to near normal level by augmenting the antioxidant defense through its scavenging property and provide an evidence of having therapeutic role against oxidative stress mediated neurodegeneration.
Discussion
This is far from the first study to
demonstrate curcumin’s remarkable brain-saving properties. From the
perspective of the primary research alone, there are over two hundred peer-reviewed published studies indicating that curcumin is a neuroprotective agent. On our own turmeric database we have 115 articles proving this statement: Turmeric Protects The Brain. We have also featured studies on turmeric’s ability to protect and restore the brain:
- How Turmeric Can Save the Aging Brain From Dementia and Premature Death
- Turmeric Produces ‘Remarkable’ Recovery in Alzheimer’s Patients
Considering the many chemical insults we
face on a daily basis in the post-industrial world, turmeric may very
well be the world’s most important herb, with over 800 evidence-based health applications. Visit our Turmeric Research database — the world’s largest, open access turmeric resource of its kind — to view the first hand published research on the topi.
For more information, please review the following content:
- The Turmeric Drink that Can Revolutionize Your Health
- Research: Curcumin Is A Triple Negative Breast Killer
- Science Confirms Turmeric As Effective As 14 Drugs
References
[i] Bhatnagar
M, Rao P, Saxena A, Bhatnagar R, Meena P, Barbar S. Biochemical changes
in brain and other tissues of young adult female mice from fluoride in
their drinking water. Fluoride. 2006;39:280–4. [Ref list]
[ii] Bhatnagar
M, Sukhwal P, Suhalka P, Jain A, Joshi C, Sharma D. Effects of fluoride
in drinking water on NADPH-diaphorase neurons in the forebrain of mice:
A possible mechanism of fluoride neurotoxicity. Fluoride. 2011;44:195–9. [Ref list]
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