Reversing Skeletal Fluorosis Caused by Fluoridated Water

This is my story about how I reversed a mild form of skeletal fluorosis.

How many people do you know that have a hunched back and/or rounded shoulders? To what extent can this be attributed to fluoride levels in the water? Are these symptoms we see in society actually a reflection of the lower end of the spectrum for skeletal fluorosis?

I am currently in the process of a decade long process to remove fluoride from my body. Even low amounts of fluoride can seemingly affect some people more than others. I happen to unluckily to be one of those people that are more sensitive to this chemical.

I do not know how long it will take to fully recover but the normal process of your body growing means it replaces your skeleton every 10 or so years. The fluoride in your bones is broken down and some of it is ultimately reprocessed into your new bones. What I wanted do was replace the fluoride in my bones with stronger minerals such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorous and so far I have been quite successful. These days I am pretty much standing upright and there is only a slight rounding of my shoulders.

When I was younger, I always wondered why I had a hunched back and I never really spent that much time behind a computer. In fact I would hear friends tell me that they would stay up all night playing Age of Empires 2, Doom, Diablo and other games for hours. I never did that and I was jealous because they sit with the weirdest lazy posture without having back problems!!! I could never explain why I looked the way I did until my science teacher at High School asked me what I brushed my teeth with, which was Colgate at the time, whilst also mentioning water fluoridation. At this point in time I didn't put all the information together.

At university when I was studying CHEM1901 and CHEM1902 at USYD was when everything finally clicked as a tutor that was working with me in the laboratory mentioned it to me. I also noticed I was very sensitive to the chemicals in the lab as ventilation was limited to the fume cupboard and the doors.

I don't know if there is a correlation to being sensitive to chemicals used in common science experiments in general, and sensitivity to fluoride. I suspect there is some correlation but I haven't been able to conduct any actual surveys or do research myself as pretty much not many people in the public are even aware of skeletal fluorosis. For one, the physiotherapists and chiropractors thought it was something to do with my posture but it wasn't.

Maybe this is a wake up call for those others who have been unsuccessful with correcting their posture. It could be a form of mild skeletal fluorosis caused by fluoridated water.

I still have vivid memories of rolling a towel along its shorter edge to create a long towel roll to place where my spine was, elevating a pillow to lie down on for multiple 10 minute sessions a day. It was not only painful but useless because it didn't bloody work and demoralised me in many ways I cannot explain.

Fluoride basically displaces other essential minerals from your bones and teeth. What I never understood was why there is this push for fluoridation. Fluoridated teeth and bones are more fragile because it displaces other minerals from your teeth and bones which is basic science. You want to assist the tooth to remineralise but if you understand the science you don't want to be remineralising with fluoride. Fluoride compounds are much less robust than the calcium, magnesium, phosphorous which it ultimately ends up displacing, leading to more brittle bones and teeth which is why the structure of the bones for those with skeletal fluorosis is much weakened leading to the "hunchback effect".

This is the real science which is hidden from the Australian public.

Skeletal fluorosis is actually more common than we think and I bet you have gone to someone at school who has a hunched back. It isn't genetic in most circumstances. It is an environmental problem caused by fluoride. At its early stages it can even be reversed by removing fluoride from the water you drink. Ultimately you are going to be consuming some amount of fluoride in grains, fruits and vegetables, and meat. You only need trace amounts of fluoride.

If you still think there is some usefulness of topical fluoride, then you could continue doing that but there is some science that topical fluoride displaces minerals and even prevents remineralisation. Either way, you should not be ingesting it in the concentration that it exists in our current water supply where it can end up in the rest of your skeleton. It's crazy how Australia is in the position it is, when many scandinavian countries don't fluoridate their water and have seen the same decrease in dental cavities because of modern dental interventions and education regarding brushing.

The history behind why we had fluoride added to water is because it was an industrial byproduct that was costly to dispose of. That's the real history.

Journal of Biomed Research

Due to fluorosis, people's teeth become weak and discoloured (dental fluorosis) and their bones become hollow and weak (skeletal fluorosis).

Fluoride is a known neurotoxin and is linked to lower IQ.

Maternal Urinary Fluoride and Child Neurobehavior at Age 36 Months

Systematic review of water fluoridation

We estimate that six people (95% confidence interval 4 to 21) would have to be exposed to water fluoride concentrations of 1.0 ppm for one additional person to develop fluorosis of any degree, compared with a theoretical low fluoride concentration of 0.4 ppm.

A lot of people are affected by fluorosis and probably don't know about it. This comes from the statistical inference that 1 in 6 people are affected by fluorosis at 1ppm which is gleamed from the systematic review journal article above and is the level that is targeted by Sydney Water and other Australian water authorities. What is a safe level? Obviously they should just remove it altogether to simplify the health framework because likely other parts of your diet already contain some amount of trace fluoride. You can add fluoride topically to your teeth if you need it. For me, I had a very low fluoride diet and I was still a victim. That shows you show sinister the current health status quo is.

I could point to hundreds of different snippets of information, but in essence this post is just a FYI if you are suffering some sort of hunched back which has not been able to be corrected through physiotherapy or chiropractic care. Try removing fluoride from your drinking water. You won't avoid fluoride altogether because trace amounts exist in our food supply, but I would not deem 1ppm to be trace amounts in Sydney's water supply since there are plenty of other articles about 1.5ppm causing skeletal fluorosis. Plainly 1ppm is much higher than it should naturally be. For those who want to claim "Gotcha, India has high natural levels of fluoride", and yep guess what, they have higher incidence of skeletal fluorosis. It is not cool.

To re-emphasise from above: These days I am pretty much standing upright and there is only a slight rounding of my shoulders. I basically look normal again! Removing fluoridated water from your diet works.