Editor’s Word: This text is a reprint. It was initially revealed October 14, 2017.

Right now, 74% of People on neighborhood water programs obtain fluoridated water.¹ Since 1945, it has been extensively accepted within the U.S. that fluoride is “protected and efficient” to stop tooth decay. However is it actually?

The 2015 documentary, “Fluoride: Poison on Tap,” seeks to reveal what could also be one of many longest-running and most profitable deceptions identified to mankind — including industrial waste, within the type of fluoride, to public consuming water. It’s possible you’ll be shocked on the lengths to which companies, business and authorities have gone to make this industrial waste product seem useful to your well being.

Fluoride = Well being: How Did We Get Right here?

It’s possible you’ll be stunned to know the primary American industrial use of fluoride, within the type of sodium fluoride, was to kill bugs, lice, mice and different vermin. It was fairly efficient.

Within the 1930s, aluminum business big Alcoa was the biggest producer of fluoride, releasing vapors into the ambiance that crippled or killed livestock and scorched crops and different vegetation. In these early years, many lawsuits had been introduced in opposition to Alcoa to recuperate damages from misplaced animals and crops.

Rising considerations concerning the seemingly adverse results of fluoride gasoline on human beings motivated the corporate to plot a way of recycling this potent industrial byproduct. The brainchild of water fluoridation was Gerald Cox, a researcher with the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. He acquired a request to take a look at fluoride’s results on tooth from Alcoa lab director Francis Frary, who was involved about mounting lawsuits associated to the fluoride air pollution his plant produced.

One other motivation was the fact that disposing of fluoride waste from its aluminum vegetation was turning into more and more expensive for Alcoa. Beforehand, the Mellon Institute had been the main defender of the asbestos business, producing analysis displaying asbestos was innocent and employee well being issues had been purportedly because of different causes. Utilizing “science” as a smokescreen, the Mellon Institute was in a position to save the asbestos business from monetary disaster.

On account of their success in utilizing science to prop up the asbestos business at the moment, it is sensible Alcoa selected Cox and the Mellon Institute to craft a narrative across the perceived well being advantages of fluoride. To make sure their success, Alcoa executives realized public opinion about fluoride needed to be rigorously and constantly manipulated.

In a daring transfer, they employed public relations pioneer Edward Bernays, who later grew to become generally known as the “father of spin,” to go the U.S. water fluoridation marketing campaign. Utilizing psychological ideas focused at what he known as, the “mass thoughts,” Bernays was fairly profitable in attracting public help for the widespread client use of fluoride.²

The Starting of Water Fluoridation

By the 1950s and ’60s, when the observe of releasing fluoride vapors into the air was reined in as a result of introduction of air air pollution know-how, fluoride had already been added to U.S. consuming water. In January 1945, town of Grand Rapids, Michigan, grew to become the primary of 1000’s of U.S. municipalities to proudly add fluoride to its neighborhood water supply, beneath the guise of stopping tooth decay.

As know-how has superior, fluoride acid, also called hydrofluorosilicic acid, is now caught in moist scrubbers, which curtails air emissions. As such, firms like Cargill, Mosaic and Pencco are in a position to barrel up and promote fluoride to cities throughout the U.S. which, in flip, add this unrefined hazardous materials to their neighborhood water provides.³ It’s possible you’ll be shocked to be taught that the fluoride added to your water shouldn’t be pharmaceutical grade.

Certainly, many of the fluoride added to municipal consuming water is solely an unrefined, extremely poisonous, industrial waste product. A number of the contaminants that accompany the fluoride added to your consuming water probably embrace aluminum, arsenic, lead and radionucleotide, amongst others.

As famous within the movie, water fluoridation was invented as a worthwhile recycling venue for poisonous waste. As a substitute of getting to pay for correct disposal, this industrial waste is bought for revenue, and “disposed of” by being dispersed into consuming water.

Fluoride Could Be in Extra Than Simply Your Consuming Water

Must you be lucky to dwell removed from industrial vegetation the place fluoride is dealt with and fortunate sufficient to reside in a neighborhood the place fluoride has not been added to your water, you should still get dosed with fluoride. How? As a result of it is in drinks and processed meals equivalent to cereal, beer, juice and soda. In truth, something manufactured with fluoridated water will add to your physique’s fluoride toxicity burden.

In keeping with the late Jeff Inexperienced, former nationwide director of Residents for Protected Consuming Water, fluoride will also be present in selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medicines, such because the antidepressant Prozac. Moreover, it appeared within the banned food regimen drug Fen-Phen. Rohypnol, the so-called date-rape drug, additionally incorporates fluoride.

Inexperienced famous the youngsters accountable for the shootings at Columbine Excessive College, in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999 had been utilizing SSRI medicine on the time, which he suspects might have impacted their temper and habits. Should you dwell within the U.S., almost 95% of all toothpaste bought on this nation additionally incorporates fluoride. More and more, dentists are including fluoride to their cement and filling supplies, and fluoride-containing varnishes are sometimes added to kids’s tooth.

Frequent Misconceptions About Water Fluoridation

It is a frequent false impression that fluoride is added to consuming water worldwide. Nothing may very well be farther from the reality. Says Paul Connett, Ph.D., retired chemistry professor and govt director of the Fluoride Motion Community (FAN):⁴

“Water fluoridation is a peculiarly American phenomenon. It began at a time when asbestos lined our pipes, lead was added to gasoline, PCBs stuffed our transformers, and DDT was deemed so ‘protected and efficient’ that officers felt no qualms spraying children at school lecture rooms and seated at picnic tables. One after the other all of these chemical substances have been banned, however fluoridation stays untouched.”

As said by Connett, the U.S. is considered one of simply eight international locations worldwide through which greater than half of its inhabitants is uncovered to fluoride by way of their consuming water. The opposite seven international locations that fluoridate consuming water are Australia, Colombia, Eire, Israel, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand.

Water fluoridation has truly been banned in most European international locations, together with Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, simply to call a number of. In keeping with organic dentist Dr. James Rota, these international locations, in addition to China and Japan, have concluded the observe of including fluoride to consuming water is “ineffective, poisonous and shouldn’t be used.” FAN underscores the restricted scope and worth of including fluoride to consuming water, noting:⁵

• Practically 378 million folks, representing simply 5% of the world’s inhabitants, drink artificially fluoridated water
• Extra folks drink fluoridated water within the U.S. than in the remainder of the world mixed
• Western nations that fluoridate their water have charges of tooth decay comparable to people who don’t add fluoride to their water⁶

The Results of Fluoride on Your Physique

Provided that fluoride is dealt with as a hazardous materials and labeled accordingly, the shortage of transparency about its well being results is a real public well being travesty. In keeping with Rota, a number of of the scientifically confirmed well being results of fluoride are already identified. He asserts fluoride has been proven to:

• Speed up the getting older course of
• Trigger genetic injury
• Contribute to arthritis and joint ache
• Enhance the incidence of most cancers and tumor development
• Interrupt DNA restore

With respect to fluoride’s presumed hyperlink to arthritis and joint ache, Connett said:

“The primary signal fluoride has poisoned your bones is that you’ve got ache in your joints, stiffness in your joints and ache in your bones … And the physician will merely let you know that you’ve got joint ache …

We’ve got thousands and thousands of individuals within the U.S. and in different fluoridated international locations who’ve joint ache — 1 in Three adults on common. However no person’s ever conclusively regarded to see if these arthritis circumstances have notably been brought on by or exacerbated by fluoride. They simply do not wish to look.”

The spike within the variety of circumstances of hypothyroidism within the U.S. has additionally been loosely linked to fluoride. FAN famous that research investigating fluoride’s impression on thyroid hormone ranges help the idea that fluoride has an “antithyroid” impact beneath sure circumstances.⁷

Significantly in cases the place your iodine ranges are low, fluoride will probably have a larger adverse impression on your thyroid. Concerning the possible hyperlink between fluoride and hypothyroidism, Dr. Spyros Mezitis, endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York Metropolis, stated:

“Clinicians … ought to emphasize to sufferers this affiliation and will check sufferers for underactive thyroid. Sufferers ought to most likely be suggested to drink much less fluoridated water and devour much less fluoridated merchandise, together with toothpaste. … [S]tudies have additionally proven that iodine deficiency, which may be brought on by additional ingestion of fluoride, is said to hypothyroidism.”

Fluorosis: Are Your Kids Affected?

Analysis⁸ offered on the 2017 Nationwide Oral Well being Convention highlighted the fact that more and more extra younger folks between the ages of 6 and 19 undergo from dental fluorosis. Information from 2011 to 2012 point out that 57% of youth are affected by fluorosis, whereas based on recorded knowledge, simply 37% had been impacted from 1999 to 2004.

Fluorosis outcomes when tooth enamel turns into progressively weakened and discolored. It’s typically characterised by white spots and yellow or brown discoloration. About fluorosis, FAN states:⁹

“Fluorosis is a defect of tooth enamel brought on by an excessive amount of fluoride consumption through the first eight years of life. Though fluorosis could be cosmetically handled, the injury to the enamel is everlasting. Frequent causes of fluorosis embrace: fluoridated consuming water (notably throughout infancy), ingestion of fluoride toothpaste, use of fluoride tablets and consumption of processed meals made with fluoridated water.”

Typically, dentists and public well being officers brush off fluorosis as a purely aesthetic problem, one they consider is a worthy trade-off for the supposed advantages of fluoride. In actuality, fluorosis is an outward signal that fluoride is damaging not solely your tooth, but additionally most actually, to some extent, the remainder of your physique.

Warning: Fluoride Is Extraordinarily Dangerous for Infants

Fluorosis can also be an enormous concern for infants as a result of it’s a situation that may progress properly earlier than your child’s tooth are seen. Situations of kids creating fluorosis as a result of consumption of fluoridated “nursery water” are properly documented. Breast-feeding is the perfect alternative in your child for a lot of causes, considered one of which is that it incorporates little or no, if any, fluoride.

That is by design as a result of infants are extraordinarily susceptible to neurotoxins. If, nevertheless, breast-feeding shouldn’t be an choice for you, and you have to use formulation, make sure you put together it utilizing non-fluoridated water. Within the ebook, “The Case Towards Fluoride,” Connett explains:

“Within the view of many critics of fluoridation … it’s reckless to reveal infants to ranges of fluoride in orders of magnitude larger than that present in breast milk. Within the U.S., infants who’re fed formulation reconstituted with fluoridated faucet water obtain the very best ranges of fluoride (per kilogram body weight) within the human inhabitants.

Particularly, infants who’re fed formulation made with fluoridated water on the present stage of 1 part-per-million fluoride will obtain a dose as much as 250 occasions greater than the breastfed toddler.”

The Backside Line About Fluoride in Your Consuming Water

Of their closing remarks, a few of the consultants featured within the documentary didn’t mince phrases about their dislike and mistrust of fluoridated water. As famous by Connett:

“As soon as you set a medication within the consuming water, you’ll be able to’t management the dose as a result of you’ll be able to’t management how a lot water folks drink. You’ll be able to’t management who will get it as a result of it goes to all people. Should you ask your pharmacist if there’s any drug in his retailer that’s protected sufficient to offer to everybody — younger folks, outdated folks, sick folks, properly folks — at any dose, he’d chortle at you.”

Mentioned Phyllis Mullenix, Ph.D., a pharmacologist and toxicologist: “There’s completely no drug on the market that’s given as ‘one dose matches all.'” In his earlier writings, Connett shared 5 causes he believes fluoridation of neighborhood water programs is unethical:¹⁰

1. It violates your proper to knowledgeable consent to medicine
2. The municipality can not management the dose of fluoride you personally obtain
3. The municipality can not observe the consequences of fluoride on you individually
4. It ignores the truth that some persons are extra susceptible to fluoride’s poisonous results than others; it’s possible you’ll undergo whereas others might profit from its addition to the water provide
5. It violates the Nuremberg code for human experimentation

It is Simple to Safeguard Your Oral Well being With out Fluoride

In the case of good oral hygiene and stopping cavities, consuming fluoridated water and brushing your tooth with poisonous toothpaste, which incorporates fluoride, is certainly not the reply. Your toothbrush and pure fluoride-free toothpaste are necessary, however do not be misled by considering they’re the one choices for dental well being.

Many pure substances, such because the meals you eat, even have the facility to drastically enhance not solely the well being of your tooth and gums, however the remainder of your physique too. The important thing to sustaining or bettering your oral well being hinges on the eye you give to your food regimen and correct dental care. Areas it’s possible you’ll wish to think about embrace:

Consuming uncooked, natural meals

Avoiding sugary meals and processed meals, a lot of which include fluoride

Brushing and flossing your tooth day by day, ideally twice a day

Rinsing your mouth after meals and, at night time, with an answer of baking soda and water to alkalize the pH in your mouth

Oil pulling with coconut oil, which reduces bacterial development in your mouth, strengthens your tooth, reduces irritation in your gums and naturally whitens your tooth

Receiving common dental checkups, ideally from a mercury-free, organic dentist

Landmark Lawsuit Towards EPA Seeks to Finish Fluoridation in US

FAN, together with a coalition of environmental and public well being teams, has filed a criticism within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Northern District of California in opposition to the Environmental Safety Company (EPA). This landmark lawsuit is one thing many people have anticipated for many years! It is available in response to the EPA’s denial of a petition beneath Part 21 of the Poisonous Substances Management Act (TSCA) that seeks a ban on water fluoridation.

In November 2016, a coalition together with FAN, American Academy of Environmental Drugs, Meals & Water Watch, Worldwide Academy of Oral Drugs and Toxicology, Mothers Towards Fluoridation and the Natural Customers Affiliation, amongst others, petitioned the EPA to ban the deliberate addition of fluoridating chemical substances to American consuming water beneath the provisions of TCSA.

The petition, which included greater than 2,500 pages of scientific documentation detailing the dangers of water fluoridation to human and animal well being, was denied in February 2017. At the moment, Michael Connett, an lawyer with FAN and writer of the petition, issued the next assertion:

“Sadly, the EPA’s choice to disclaim our petition demonstrates that the Company shouldn’t be but ready to let go of the outdated assumptions it has lengthy held about fluoride … We consider that an neutral choose reviewing this proof will agree that fluoridation poses an unreasonable danger.”

As a result of the TSCA statute offers a possibility for residents to problem an EPA denial in federal court docket, FAN is now suing the company as a way of acquiring an impartial authorized evaluation of the proof. Keep tuned for additional developments! For now, you’ll be able to assist the coalition proceed its momentum by supporting the efforts of FAN, and by becoming a member of or initiating an area marketing campaign to finish water fluoridation.

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