Accumulated toxic substances such as fluoride, MSG, aspartame, heavy metals, petroleum products, MTBE, xenoestrogens, pesticides, rBST, fabric softeners, perfumes, solvents, toxic additives in food, vaccination toxicity, microwave effects, or other harmful environmental exposures can affect hormone feedback systems, causing unpredictable behavior, brain-fogging, and incorrect neurotransmission.

Fluoride is an industrial waste product. Some comes from the effluent of aluminum

............Severe fluoride damage...................................Moderate damage..................................Healthy non-fluroidated teeth

processing plants, and toxic residue from fertilizer processing. Having no inexpensive way to dispose of it, some aluminum processing companies have cleverly persuaded people that fluoride prevents cavities. The "studies," funded by the people who want to sell it, sound convincing. On this basis they have persuaded the public, many dentists, and city officials to medicate our drinking water.

Even if fluoride were beneficial, we should still be allowed to have a choice about taking medication. We should be able to decide for ourselves to take fluoride pills if we believe that what was once rat-poison has now suddenly become a nutritional requirement.

Another source of fluoride, as fluorosilicate, that is commonly added to the municipal water supply, comes from waste effluent of chemical fertilizer plants. It contains many other toxic metals as well as the fluoride. People in artificially fluoridated communities who are aware of this hazard must now buy bottled water, or install a costly reverse-osmosis system to restore their water to the purity that it had in the first place.

Fluorosilicates ionize and separate out in a fluid medium into fluorine and the silicate fraction. They accumulating in the tissues, over time, creating connective tissue disorders that eventually contribute to osteoarthritis and bone spurs, brittle breakable bones, and in some cases, bone cancer. Upon reviewing the research by Roger Masters, at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, we have found that his assertion is correct, that the silicates are retained more fully in the cells than the fluorine, and they actually present more of a hazard than what we are observing about the fluorine itself. Upon his suggestion we have made more inquiries about the separate action of the silicates and the fluorine.

So far what we have found is that it is the silicates that are really lowering the white cell count, diminishing the immune response, slowing neurotransmission in the brain, and creating clinical depression and mental fogging. Unless these are looked at a separate fractions of the fluorosilicate molecule, it would appear that "fluoride," the common nomenclature that encompasses all the fluoridated combinations that are used to contaminate water, does all the above and also significantly interferes with thyroid hormones, causing hypothyroidism and weight gain. Nazis gave it to their prisoners to keep them docile and confused.

It is important to know that ionized fluorine must inevitably combine with other atoms in the body, and may be creating hydrogen fluoride and other very dangerous compounds that may have effects that we haven't even tracked, so far. And, on the other hand, it appears that much of the free fluorine and/or secondary compounds may be more readily rejected and released, whereas the silicates seem more likely to be retained. In asking about this with clients, it is essential to differentiate between these two aspects of fluorosilicate contamination, since the remedies might be different. More work needs to be done on this. Roger Masters has introduced a very important aspect of this complex subject that we need to explore.

In the following books that we recommend, this distinction has not been made. But we are recommending two gripping and well-written books that will give you an idea of the depth of the scam that created popular trust in the "virtues" of fluoride. The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson, and Fluoride, the Aging Factor by Dr. John Yamouyannis.

MSG is now being added to almost every canned, frozen, and processed food, and it is allowed to be concealed, on the package labels, as "natural flavors," and various other euphemisms. MSG is a common source of migraine headaches, and asthma. It tends to accumulate in nerve tissue, collecting in the receptor sites of acetylcholine, and diminishes the transmission of this vital neurotransmitter that keeps us thinking clearly. Acetylcholine is required for long-term memory and word-retrieval, and it keeps muscles responsive and strong. MSG also overwhelms the glutamate transmitters in the hippocampus within limbic brain, interfering significantly with short term memory. In this way it can, over time, contribute to cognitive dementia.

In our clinical practice we have found that MSG not only creates cognitive loss, asthma and migraine headaches, it also clogs specific pores in the prostate gland so that oxytocin, a hormone from the pituitary, can't access the prostate tissues where it is needed. We have observed that a shortage of oxytocin in these specific areas contributes to BPH. (BPH is Benign Prostate Hypertrophy, a non-infectious, non-cancerous, and as yet unexplained prostate enlargement.)

Oxytocin synthesis requires iodine, manganese, zinc, and vitamin C. This occurs in the hypothalamus, and is stored in the pituitary gland and in the prostate.

Aspartame, an artifical sweetener that appears in "diet" drinks and "diet" foods, is a neurological toxin. It contains wood alcohol, which turns into formaldehyde in the liver, ovaries, and other places. This is a fairly serious poison. Oddly enough, rather than helping with weight loss, it causes weight gain. The FDA has linked aspartame to 92 symptoms including paralysis, blindness, neuroses, sexual dysfunction, asthma, diabetes, chronic fatigue, epileptic siezures, and death by heart failure. According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 500,000 Americans each year are dropping dead from cardiac arrest. A growing coalition of physicians and researchers believe aspartame is behind many of these, and may account for other unexplained deaths.

Interesting to note that in 1978 Donald Rumsfeld became CEO of the G.W Searle Pharmaceutical Corporation, and by 1981 was able to force the approval of aspartame through the FDA. Even though the FDA acknowledges incredible health hazards, aspartame continues to be approved, and is used without restraint.

MTBE is a gasoline additive. It is a petroleum ether, and mixes freely with undeerground water

aquafers, and so seeps through the ground water and can pollute drinking water insidiously, as well as floating in the atmosphere with fuel exhaust, and exuding fumes from the pump when we pump our gas.

The health effects we have observed here, at the Balancing Center, are that MTBE inhibits the amino acid cascade of valine, causing itching, skin difficulties and hair loss. MTBE also blocks the synthesis of glycine. Glycine is required as a neuroinhibitor in the spinal cord, to regulate the acetylcholine, the transmitter that powers muscle movement. Without enough glycine to modulate the acetylcholine, muscles can become chronically tense, and tend to cramp spontaneously.

Since glycine is the major source of serine synthesis, a shortage of glycine produces a shortage of serine. Serine is the amino acid that protects the blood from accumulating excessive homocysteine, a transient metabolite that becomes toxic when it reaches high concentrations. High homocysteine can injure the linings of the arteries, and this invites cholesterol and calcium to form arterial blockages of plaque.

One other important thing that we have observed is that for some people, MTBE derails the enzyme that shifts tryptophan to 5-hydroxytryptophan. If a certain percentage of 5HTP can't be synthesized, then that fraction can't proceed to serotonin, and depending on how much of the 5HTP is affected, it would contribute to a shortage of serotonin, and create depression.

Vaccination damage often shows up as neurological distortions and deficits. In some cases

vaccination appears to be the cause of crib death. The breathing apparatus is not fully established at the age of eight weeks when the DPT vaccine is usually given, and the vaccine inhibits the immature neurological circuits involved in breathing, for some babies. The breathing reflex is well-established by the time the child is one and a half or two, so crib-death due to vaccination would not be a hazard if these shots were postponed.

The other major hazard of vaccinations is that they are laced with mercury in a very easily absorbed form, ethylmercury, known as thimerosal. Autism has been observed repeatedly as a result of vaccination, and the symptoms are virtually identical to mercury poisoning. Now it is believed by many observers that mercury is creating this, along with the pertussis fraction of the DPT that had been identified earlier. Measles vaccine in the MMR shot, one that does not contain mercury, has also been specifically implicated. In 1978, autism occurred in about one in 10,000 children. Now the figure has been placed at about one in 150 children.

The amping up of the mandatory vaccination programs is relatively new. As a result of the accumulation of mercury, and correlary vaccine effects, it is inevitable that many infants will gradually become mentally and physically disabled. Many autistic children do eventually have to be institutionalized, causing tremendous grief for the families, and at tremendous cost to society.

After reading the book The Sanctity of Human Blood:Vaccination is not Immunization by Tim O'Shea, you may decide to decline the currently accelerated vaccination program. You need to know that no matter what the authorities say, you do have the legal right to refuse, in behalf of your child. You can also request mercury-free vaccines, even though these will not be presented as an option. You have to ask.

Xenoestrogens can be released from some commonly used plastic materials. The most pliable forms of plastic contain an xenoestrogenic toxin called Bis-phenol-A, which has received recent attention, and it is also contained to some extent even within the harder plastics that we have been considering "safe" for use as water containers. We need to revise this assessment, and say that they are "safer," but unless they have a label stating that they do not contain Bis-phenol-A, we need to be very careful not to let them get overheated.

These soft bottles can outgas toxins............................................................................These bottles are safer, as they will not outgas as much

The water that was placed in these plastic bottles may have been impeccable and perfect in the beginning, but the bottles outgas into the water, accumulating xenoestrongens particularly in the heat. Their effect is to trick the pituitary into thinking that there are high estrogens present in the blood. Then the pituitary's hormone, FSH, follicle stimulating hormone, doesn't request the required supply of estrogens, as it otherwise would have done.

The pituitary's signaling system reads xenoestrogens as real estrogens. They are not estrogens, and they can not serve as a substitute. Therefore, the body becomes deprived of the healthy estrogens that the pituitary would otherwise have been able to request for release. This may account, in part, for the rising infertility and miscarriages we are seeing, and perhaps also for the early menopause so many young women are experiencing. Many times estrogen shortage can be alleviated by natural progesterone cream.

Estrogens are synthesized from progesterone, which in turn has been synthesized from cholesterol, just as the adrenal hormones are. Progesterone, in its own right, prevents estrogen dominance, and not only protects bones from calcium depletion, it will replenish bone-density that shows up as osteoporosis, by recruiting calcitonin, the hormone that picks up blood calcium, and delivers it to the bones where needed.

The effect of xenoestrogens on men also appears to be less than favorable. Follicle stimulating hormone regulates the level of Leydig cells in the testicles. Leydig cells are the resource for nurturing and developing sperm. If the follicle stimulating hormone receives the message that there enough Leydig cells, it will stop requesting them. "Xeno-leydig cells" should be suggested as another possible hazard. Our testing at the Balancing Center indicates that plastic outgassing contributes to fertility loss for men. More progesterone would be helpful here, as natural progesterone cream.

It is also true that low adrenal hormones, low estrogen or testosterone, and low progesterone can all be caused by very low cholesterol, since all these hormones are derived from "bad" cholesterol. (LDL needs to be acknowledged as a pretty good resource!) Low cholesterol is often a contributing factor in poor memory and word-retrieval problems. If you are experiencing shortages, it would be useful to check with your health professional, to find out what factors may be contributing to cholesterol insufficiency. Sometimes just verbally asking your liver to make the appropriate amounts of cholesterol is enough to raise it to the required level. Don't let it get much below 170, total. We have found that 180 to 210 is optimal, even though this differs somewhat from the medical model.

If you use plastic bottles that show a little triangle at the bottom that says 1, 2, or 3, your bottle could be outgassing significantly, in warm weather. If your bottle has the number 4, 5, 6, 7, or more in the little triangle on the bottom, it will not outgas as much. High-resistance plastic containers without Bis-phenol-A can be found in sport shops and health-oriented water stores.

Chloramine is the latest toxic additive that has been put into the water, in many communities. It kills fish in

the fishtank, and there are warnings that it must never be used in a dialysis machine, apparently it is quite toxic, and must not enter the blood. It is a purification agent that has superceded chlorine. Unlike chlorine, it cannot be boiled off, nor can it be distilled out. The Reverse Osmosis filtration is the only filtration system that will delete it, that we know of. However, there are other energy-field enhancing devices that will also nullify it. If you go to www.spiritofmaat, check out the Russian water cards and the Slim Spurling rings, as either of these will purify tap water, removing the vibration of both the fluoride and chloramine, and structuring the water molecules in a way that enhances the biofield. If the biofield is clear and well-integrated, it sets the pattern for the healing of the physical body.

The health hazards that we are observing have not been substantiated by any scientific inquiry, as far as I know, but I can report what we have been seeing here, at the Balancing Center. We have been told by the City that it is absolutely safe, because when we drink water with chloramine, it is always detoxified in the body. But perhaps there are some people who can't detoxify it completely. What about chloramine in infant formulas? What about ill or elderly people? These issues were not addressed, in the enthusiastic flyer we received, and very possibly this information has not been fully tested, or perhaps not even considered.

The hazard that we have observed consistently in our clients at the Balancing Center is that chloramine appears to either capture or disable the action of the trace mineral manganese. The result is that the Urea Cycle is compromised, vitamin D availability is so diminished that calcium can't enter the blood easily, and the kidney, deprived of adequate Vitamin D, can't release enough bicarbonate to regulate the blood pH. One of the many tasks of the kidney is to neutralize blood acidity. When the blood turns slightly acidic, oxygen uptake and transport are diminished. This causes fatigue, and allows susceptibility to illnesses that flourish in an acidic low-oxygen medium, such as various blood disorders, skin tags, muscle dysfunction, and ultimately it may surface as cancer.

Another hazard of a manganese shortage is that it will allow a shortage of oxytocin, not only a significant factor in prostate enlargement, but perhaps we may also begin to notice a general loss of connection to nurturing or protective impulses, which the hormone oxytocin produces. With diminished oxytocin, we would expect that women would experience less powerful contractions during the birthing process, and consequently long labor that eventually would require painful Ptocin injections to bring about the delivery.

Without adequate oxytocin, breast milk is less available, and this is very disheartening to young mothers who looked forward to breastfeeding, and being able to protect their babies in that way. These are all quite significant effects that may be observed, but most likely ascribed to various other causes. Not very many medical people, or even many alternative health practitioners, will trace these difficulties to the presence of chloramine, unless more studies are made and the information is more widely publicized.

In General

Many toxins create inaccurate enzyme and hormone synthesis, disrupt the connective tissue, and derail the immune system. Fortunately, if you ask your body-consciousness to vibrationally identify the toxins that it is trying to cope with, it will. Then, if it is presented with a choice of various samples, it can select the detoxifier that it prefers.

The association of specific toxins with specific remedies shown in the chart below is not intended to suggest a treatment. This list is simply a description of what we have observed, based upon what our clients usually resonate with. Some people select different remedies, depending upon their unique biochemical individuality.

In the chart shown below, the names of the companies have been included in order to give you a way to locate the products you may need. Jarrow, Source Naturals, Twinlabs are available publicly, but Molecular Biologics, now called MBi, and NutriWest may be obtained through your health professional. If you want to know more specifically how to find these professionally available detoxification products, call the Balancing Center at 650-327-8333

The FDA has not evaluated these suggestions, nor has any other scientific forum in the field of health or nutrition. This information is not intended to heal, cure, or prevent any illness or condition. If you experience any illness or symptom described in the above discussions about toxic health effects, we suggest that you seek medical care.