I do not believe in the municipal water program. I think fluoride helps strengthen teeth, but I am sure the form of fluoride they put in the water systems, does far more damage than good. Curcumin is an amazing spice.
Here is an interesting article:

Sayer Ji
Activist Post
Fluoride is found everywhere today, from antibiotics to drinking water,
no-stick pans to toothpaste, making exposure inevitable. All the more
reason why new research proving this common spice 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.
Now, a new 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 induce 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.
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:
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
600 evidence-based health applications.
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Notes:
[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. [
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[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. [
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