by BJ ANDREWS ON THE LINE
I s your stud dog having fertil- ity problems? Low libido or low conception rate? Sperm check reveals chronically low sperm count but your reproduction veterinar- ian is stumped? Today there’s “fake news” and every- one’s an expert on social media but print publications are held to a higher standard of credibility. I recalled Dr. Williams’ 2007 report about the aver- age human testosterone level dropping at a rate of one percent per year and I projected that to purebred dogs. He postulated that the astounding decrease in human testosterone was linked to estrogen-like compounds in our water supply, namely fluoridated water. Dr. David Williams is considered “the doctor’s doctor” in human medi- cine and I saved that article even though we had been on well water for over 30 years and our dogs had no fertility prob- lems. That’s significant because today many of my dog friends are confiding in me, asking for help as their breeding program shrinks. So I started rummaging through old paper files instead of Google and I found the article, learned that for decades, most people have been consuming on average, over 5 mg of fluoride daily
“...WE HAD BEEN ON WELL WATER FOR OVER 30 YEARS AND OUR DOGS HAD NO FERTILITY PROBLEMS .”
Water fluoridation in 1992 versus 2006
instead of the 1 mg of 50 years ago. According to Dr. Williams, fluoridated drinking water is only supposed to be from 0.7 to a maximum of 1.2 mg per liter. So we are consuming five times that much fluoride! Think about it. If you’re on municipal water, you are drinking a chemical that was used for
building the atomic bomb! Okay, so that was then, but today fluorocarbons are used in the production of plastics, pesti- cides and even pharmaceuticals. Sure, fluoride is “natural” because it’s in the soil and water but the amount we would consume from well-water and unprocessed food is only 0.02 to 2.00 parts per million. Instead we are getting an average of 5 parts per million from fluoridated tap-water, soft drinks and food that’s processed using fluori- dated water. Obviously that includes pet food. You may be beyond child-bearing age or consider your family complete but if you are reading this, you probably plan to breed your super-dog or beauti- ful bitch. Now that you think about it, there have been whispers about several top studs “missing” bitches. Well, keep reading because excess fluoride does more than cause sterility.
STERILE STUDS & FLUORIDE
82 • S how S ight M agazine , J anuary 2017
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