Hi Tipsters:
Note: cross posted to the other list as well. I had a student who asked me about the use of fluoride resulting in pineal gland calcification. I know nothing about that connection. As soon as I heard that the pineal gland was being implicated in anything that has government sponsored things like fluoridation of water supplies a red flag went up for me. So I did a google search (BTW my kids tell me google is "old-fashioned") and found TONS of blogs on conspiracy type websites that the government is fluoridating the water in order to kill us and make us less functional and evidence of that is the calcification of the pineal gland. Sigh. So then I tried google scholar, academic search premier and even psychinfo and what I found was this: Yes, there is calcification with old age. This seems to be pretty normal. Then I found a very large amount of studies with rats and hamsters and other small mammals that tested the effects of large amounts of fluoride--most of them finding that melatonin levels and sleep were disrupted when given excessively large doses over a prolonged part of their (relatively short) lifetimes. However, nothing that said that the melatonin disruption was because of calcification of the pineal gland. Does anyone know anything credible about this? I really could not find anything credible. Yes, some people on the blogs cited studies in "scientific journals" but since they did not cite the journals it's hard to know how legitimate the journals are. It also says nothing about replications. There is a tendency to cite the same ONE study. Any help out there? Thanks Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 tay...@sandiego.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=46103 or send a blank email to leave-46103-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
