Dr. Barry Durrant-Peatfield MD:

Some fluoride compounds actually prevent the TRH - from the hypothalamus - binding to the pituitary cells which make the TSH. Consequently, the circulating TSH drops even though (due to low thyroid levels) it should be high. This of course means the TSH blood test may be quite wrong. So we have two really awful problems to worry about. One is that the Gq/11 proteins in our modern polluted environment may overwork and shut down thyroid activity -thus reducing metabolism - and the other is that if this does happen, blood tests may not show it, especially the widely used TSH test.

Unfortunately, we cannot even leave it there. We noted that these Gq/11 proteins are over-activated by the presence of fluoride, and that fluoride can also work to reduce TSH output; but fluoride has not finished its evil work yet. Fluoride can actually diplace the iodine in thyroid compounds, which means those with fluoride in their makeup don't work, although blood tests will show no sign of this, since being halogens the chemical respons is the same. And if that wasn't enough, the conversion of T4 -> T3 can also be interfered with. What happens here is that the 5'-deiodinase enzymes are targeted and reverse T3 is manufactured at the expense of normal T3, which as you will recall is biologically inactive, promoting a hypothyroid state.

Source: Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy: The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Survive it by Barry Durrant-Peatfield MD


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