Re: kombucha tea & fluoride

[Guest guest]

Hello,

My husband makes his own kombucha and I would like to start drinking 4-8 ounces

per day.

Can you please explain why kombucha contains " increasing amounts of flouride " ?

Thanks,

April

>

> Be aware of the problem of tea containing increasing amounts of

> fluoride. You can partially minimize the effect by taking natural

> iodine with the tea, like kelp pills or lugol's; as well as making

> sure your calcium and vitamin C levels are good since they are

> protective of fluoride poisoning. The iodine protects the thyroid

> because the thyroid will pull in the fluoride if it is iodine

> deficient, then it cannot make the hormones it needs to because it

> still has the fluoride instead of having the iodine. Fluoride used to

> be used medicinally to suppress overactive thyroid.

>

[Guest guest]

April-

>My husband makes his own kombucha and I would like to start drinking

>4-8 ounces per day.

>Can you please explain why kombucha contains " increasing amounts of flouride " ?

Tea plants are unfortunately very effective concentrators of

fluoride. Fluoride is distributed into the environment through

irrigation water, pesticides, herbicides and other chemical soil

amendments, so most tea plants have lots of fluoride to

concentrate. Some organic teas, though, have little or virtually no

fluoride. I don't know which ones, offhand, since I don't drink tea,

but it shouldn't be too hard to find out online.

Tea, BTW, isn't the only food and drink source of fluoride. It can

show up in high concentrations in all sorts of things, including milk.

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[Guest guest]

Try to use organic tea. In regular tea it is loaded with fluoride. I have

read that is because of the water they use and it gets into the soil.

Allyn

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Subject: Re: kombucha tea & fluoride

Hello,

My husband makes his own kombucha and I would like to start drinking 4-8

ounces per day.

Can you please explain why kombucha contains " increasing amounts of

flouride " ?

Thanks,

April

>

> Be aware of the problem of tea containing increasing amounts of

> fluoride. You can partially minimize the effect by taking natural

> iodine with the tea, like kelp pills or lugol's; as well as making

> sure your calcium and vitamin C levels are good since they are

> protective of fluoride poisoning. The iodine protects the thyroid

> because the thyroid will pull in the fluoride if it is iodine

> deficient, then it cannot make the hormones it needs to because it

> still has the fluoride instead of having the iodine. Fluoride used to

> be used medicinally to suppress overactive thyroid.

>

[Guest guest]

Yes, a lot of vegetable plants bioaccumulate fluoride and from what

I've read, often in more harmful forms than it was in the soil, but

tea is one of the worst. A lot of the livestock with damage from

fluoride from nearby metals or fertilizer plants are actually

getting it from the plants they eat on pasture, though it can be

airborne as well. A study of lichens near a metal plant found that

they had really high levels of fluoride for over a mile from the

plant; and animals trapped in the area that would have eaten the

lichens were found to have really high fluoride levels in their

bones.

Another big source of fluoride in the human diet is bone meal and

bone dust that is in mechanically separated meats, there has even

been a warning not to give young children chicken nuggets because

there is bone meal in them and it can lead to fluorosis stains on

their teeth.

Adding bone meal to vegetable gardens is a good source of calcium

and some other important plant nutrients but unfortunately the

limits of fluoride residue on animal foods is quite high and the

bones absorb 50% of the fluoride the animal eats so the bone meal

can have a lot of fluoride in it. You put it in your garden and the

vegetables you grow contain higher amounts of fluoride.

It is on a lot of foods now because of it's use in pesticides and

it's presence in fertilizers, but a new threat is ProFume, which

Connett www.fluorideaction.net is working to fight; it's

allowing up to 900 ppm fluoride in powdered eggs and high levels in

grains and flours as well.

Sorry about the soap box, I just met with a chemist yesterday about

PA's water fluoridation bill that I'm not sure we'll be able to

beat, so I've got fluoride on the brain!

--- In , Idol <Idol@...>

wrote:

>

> April-

>

> >My husband makes his own kombucha and I would like to start

drinking

> >4-8 ounces per day.

> >Can you please explain why kombucha contains " increasing amounts

of flouride " ?

>

> Tea plants are unfortunately very effective concentrators of

> fluoride. Fluoride is distributed into the environment through

> irrigation water, pesticides, herbicides and other chemical soil

> amendments, so most tea plants have lots of fluoride to

> concentrate. Some organic teas, though, have little or virtually

no

> fluoride. I don't know which ones, offhand, since I don't drink

tea,

> but it shouldn't be too hard to find out online.

>

> Tea, BTW, isn't the only food and drink source of fluoride. It

can

> show up in high concentrations in all sorts of things, including

milk.

>

>

>

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