Re: Chlorine/Cancer/Supplements

February 1, 2005

I am unable to verify any of the following information and hope that someone

with expertise or experience can comment on this very troubling information:

Joe C.

Cancer fighting nutrients become deadly when combined with chlorinated

water. http://www.fulvic.com/healthalert/chlorine.htm Some of nature's most

valuable and essential anti-cancer and anti-disease phytochemical nutrients

which are commonly found in food have been discovered to form deadly cancer

causing substances when consumed or combined with chlorinated tap water.

This discovery includes familiar foods including soy, fruits, vegetables,

tea, many health products, and even some vitamins. Research has proven that

these essential nutrients are the exact same families of compounds, that

even in infinitesimal amounts have been tormenting the water treatment and

chlorine industries for years.

Recently, a joint study was undertaken in Japan by research scientists at

the National Institute of Health Sciences and Shizuoka Prefectural

University. They determined that natural organic substances originating from

foods, including fruits, soy, and green or black tea, react when tap water

is chlorinated, forming dangerous cancer causing compounds. These deadly

compounds have been named MX, which stands for " unknown mutagen " , and are

similar to the already well-known and more easily detected cancer causing

THMs (trihalomethanes).

The Japanese scientists specifically mentioned that their studies showed

that MX is created by the reaction of chlorine with natural organic plant

phytochemicals such as catechins, which are contained in tea, and flavonoids

which are found in fruit. Since Japan has an extremely high consumption of

tea, fruits, and soy products, it is easy to see how high amounts of

residues from these foods would end up in their wastewater treatment and

water recycling systems. Earlier studies by scientists in Finland in 1997

determined that MX is 170 times more deadly than other known toxic

byproducts of chlorination, and was shown in laboratory studies to damage

the thyroid gland as well as cause cancerous tumors.

THMs are known to be created by the reaction of chlorine with humic and

fulvic acids, which are the final breakdown products of vegetation,

including decayed leaves and organic matter. Humic substances are the same

as soil humus, of which the fulvic fraction is water soluble and readily

transported into streams and waterways, as well as utilized nutritionally by

plants. Very recent scientific discoveries have identified and clarified the

composition of fulvic and humic acids as containing a significant amount of

nutritional phytochemical groups including hormones, sterols, fatty acids,

polyphenols, and ketones, which subgroups include but are not limited to:

flavins, flavonoids, flavones, tannins, catechins, quinones, isoflavones,

tocopherols, etc. These compounds are some of the most valuable and

promising anti-cancer nutrients found in our foods and health supplements.

Coenzyme Q10 is a quinone, vitamin B-2 is a flavin, vitamin E is a

tocopherol, citrus bioflavonoids including hesperidin, quercetin, and rutin

are all flavonoids, green tea contains catechins, phenols, tannins, and

isoflavones. Potentially all of these substances, and many more, are

implicated by chlorination.

Amazingly, it has been discovered that these phytochemicals remain intact,

concentrated, and intricately combined within humic substances; which are

valuable remnants of nature's protective substances contained within fruits,

flowers, pollen, nuts and seeds, as well as vegetative parts including

roots, stems, bark, and leaves. Even the plant nucleic acids, RNA and DNA

remain intact.

To comply with EPA rulings, water treatment plants have had to develop

special techniques to scrub the seemingly dubious organic residues from

water prior to treatment with chlorine. There is nothing wrong with the

organic substances themselves, it is chlorine that is at fault for turning

them into the deadly THM and MX cancer cocktail. Reality is that the organic

substances have been shown to be highly beneficial combined with pure

drinking water in trace amounts.

The bottom line is this: when water treatment facilities remove these

substances, they are throwing the precious baby out with the bath water, and

the remnants that remain are turned into cancer causing agents by

chlorination. To make things worse, it is certain that the fresh plant foods

we eat similarly react with the chlorinated tap water we drink with our

meals, creating toxins. This means that fresh fruits and vegetables, green

salads, green tea, black tea, herb teas, soy products, vitamin pills and

various health supplements, and even some pharmaceutical drugs, all can be

implicated in combination with chlorinated water.

The deadly cancer causing agents which are produced are extremely toxic in

infinitesimal amounts, so small and obscure that they are extremely

difficult to detect. Very little chlorine is required. When the

concentrations of phytochemicals are high, such as in concentrated health

supplements, or even fruits and vegetables coming from more fertile soils,

the deadly combination with chlorination intensifies. It has been known by

the water treatment and chemical industries for many years that chlorine

reacts negatively with natural organic compounds.

These industries call these compounds DBPs (disinfection by-products) which

are known to cause cancer in populations whose drinking water contains them.

THM, the most commonly known DBP, is known to cause a high incidence of

bladder cancer and also to cause spontaneous abortion of fetuses. The

Environmental Protection Agency has continually tightened their restrictions

on THMs in drinking water, and even tighter restrictions are just around the

bend. Yet it is interesting to note that the many government agencies and

chlorine industries have conveniently neglected to take a serious look at

food, health supplement, and pharmaceutical drug consumption, preparation,

and production relating to use of chlorinated tap water.

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February 2, 2005

The article complete with references is available at the following URL:

http://www.fulvic.com/healthalert/chlorine.htm

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