By Dr. Mercola
The U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) has declared water fluoridation one in every of the highest 10 best public well being achievements of the twentieth century. However is it actually?
It could really be extra correct to say that fluoride is likely one of the most pernicious toxins in your water provide. To kick off our annual Fluoride Consciousness Week, Dr. Invoice Osmunson, a dentist within the Seattle space, highlights a few of the risks related to this apply.
Fluoride — A Doubtful Anticaries Resolution
Osmunson, who has been a dentist for over 40 years, was a longtime proponent of water fluoridation, as are most dentists. That each one modified after he listened to a presentation by Dr. Hardy Limeback, a dentist, Ph.D., researcher and professor emeritus of the College of Toronto Dental Faculty.
“[He’s] very credible,” Osmunson says. “He [gave] a presentation that confirmed fluoridation didn’t enhance or decrease dental caries. It was an actual shock to me … I began taking a look at extra of the fluoride [research] as a result of I’ve a grasp’s in public well being (MPH). As a practising dentist, fluoride is a part of each of my professions.
I felt it was my accountability to actually look into this in additional element. That is how I began in on the fluoridation. I bought concerned with the Fluoride Motion Community (FAN) and some different teams in attempting to cut back the quantity of fluoride that persons are ingesting.”
Does Fluoridated Toothpaste Cut back Caries?
In accordance to Osmunson, analysis reveals topical fluoride helps scale back radiation caries (caries ensuing from extreme head X-rays for most cancers) and rampant dental caries (ensuing from extreme sugar and junk meals consumption mixed with a scarcity of dental hygiene). As famous by Osmunson:
“Folks use fluoride of their toothpaste as a result of they suppose it may actually have a nice profit. It is going to some, however not a lot. The issue is we swallow an excessive amount of of it, particularly infants.”
Nonetheless, whereas it could scale back cavities a bit, topical fluoride is not going to stop caries or cease it in its tracks. True prevention requires addressing your weight-reduction plan, as a result of caries develops in response to an abnormality in your oral microbiome. Furthermore, since your mouth is a part of your intestine, it is also a intestine microbiome subject.
Fluoride Is a Toxin
Whereas water fluoridation is presupposed to lower your threat of dental cavities, the proof supporting this apply is flimsy at finest, since fluoride must be utilized topically for this to work. It would not profit your enamel when ingested and absorbed systemically.
A serious draw back of consuming fluoridated water is that it displaces iodine out of your thyroid, as iodine and fluoride are each halogens. With out iodine, you can’t make lively thyroid hormones. Girls are already at excessive threat for hypothyroidism, and consuming fluoridated water will additional improve this threat.
Fluoride is additionally a mitochondrial poison that sabotages your mitochondria’s capacity to create mobile vitality within the type of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and an enzymatic reactor, which means it reacts with enzymes in your physique.
When fluoride is added to the water system it additionally leaches lead out of outdated pipes, growing the neurotoxic results of fluoride. A 12 months and a half in the past, the Nationwide Toxicology Program, Workplace of Well being Evaluation and Translation started evaluating fluoride after FAN nominated it for analysis.
At current, they’re doing animal research to fill in a few of the gaps. After that, they’re going to transfer on to judge research on people. Thus far, they’ve confirmed that animal analysis suggests neurotoxic results. That is no shock, contemplating 50 research have linked fluoride with decreased IQ in kids.
Individuals Are Overexposed to Fluoride
A part of the issue with water fluoridation specifically is the truth that this technique medicates individuals with out regard for age, weight or medical standing. Infants consuming fluoridated water can get a dose 100 instances increased than most really helpful limits, even by conservative U.S. Environmental Safety Company (EPA) suggestions.
The EPA has completed each a dose-response evaluation and a relative supply contribution evaluation, and this information reveals that on the ninetieth percentile, a 3rd of youngsters between the ages of 6 months and 4 years are getting considerably extra fluoride than what they need to.
Bear in thoughts that the EPA doesn’t even purpose to guard 100% of the inhabitants, solely 90 p.c. Infants are excluded altogether as a result of they find yourself getting such a poisonous dose. Infants receiving formulation made with fluoridated water are getting lots of of instances extra fluoride than breastfed infants.
“The newest analysis now we have that was put out by Dr. William Hirzy [a former risk assessment scientist at the EPA] reveals a secure dose to guard towards a 5 IQ level loss is 0.045 mg F/day and plenty of ought to solely be getting about 0.001 milligrams (mg) per kilogram per day. That is the identical as mom’s milk. We ought to be decreasing the quantity of fluoride that we’re getting. [That’s] essential,” Osmunson says.
“Sadly, the EPA, when the Nationwide Analysis Council in 2006 stated the utmost contaminant stage was too excessive … as a substitute of reducing it … they raised it as a result of they realized that [water] fluoridation would cease [as] there are too many sources of fluoride …
The newest analysis reveals there is a 5 IQ level drop in the USA with fluoridated water and the fluoride sources that we’re getting. We’re getting far an excessive amount of and it’s harming our brains.”
Standing Replace on Petition to Finish Water Fluoridation within the US
Final 12 months, FAN filed a petition with the EPA to cease water fluoridation nationwide. It was denied. One of many causes given for the denial was that FAN had not completed a complete evaluation of all of the makes use of of fluoride.
“That is setting the bar so excessive it is not possible to abide by the legislation or file a criticism by the legislation … [Fluoride is] utilized in so many areas, like pesticides, post-harvest fumigants, drugs, dental merchandise, water, toothpastes — all these completely different sources.
To do a complete evaluation of all sources is just about not possible,” Osmunson says. “The EPA has by no means completed it. They’re saying, ‘Nicely, we’re not going to agree with you as a result of you have not completed it.'”
FAN has now filed a lawsuit and the courtroom will consider the knowledge de novo. This means FAN and EPA will stand on equal footing, and the courtroom is not going to need to give deference to the federal government, which is often the case. Osmunson is hopeful the courtroom will see motive.
Within the case of water fluoridation, it is fairly clear the EPA has not solely did not defend public well being, however is actively sabotaging the well being of bottle-fed infants all over the place there’s water fluoridation.
Practically 6 in 10 Adolescents Have Indicators of Fluoride Overexposure
Considered one of probably the most seen penalties of fluoride overexposure is dental fluorosis, these white specks and mottling of enamel that now have an effect on 58 p.c of youngsters and adolescents. Dental fluorosis, whereas thought of a mere beauty subject, is a warning signal that extra dangerous, invisible metabolic results are going down. As famous by Osmunson:
“We’re getting an excessive amount of fluoride. When fluoridation first began, we have been assured by public well being authorities that solely 10, perhaps 15 p.c, of the general public would get dental fluorosis … A couple of years in the past, the federal authorities got here on out with a survey. They discovered 41 p.c of youngsters and adolescents had dental fluorosis. The latest one that we all know of … [shows] 58 p.c have some extent [of dental fluorosis].
[W]hat we’re much more involved about is that 20 p.c have reasonable dental fluorosis, which is an indication of method an excessive amount of [fluoride], and a couple of p.c have extreme dental fluorosis in the USA. [Water] fluoridation is contributing to that.
The EPA says, ‘Nicely, , we’re solely fearful about 90 percentile.’ There are 2 p.c which can be having extreme dental fluorosis. That is an enormous quantity. That’s one thing we should cease. One of the best [way] of stopping it’s to cease fluoridation of public water.”
Water Fluoridation Is Unregulated
Curiously, there is no federal company in command of regulating water fluoridation. The EPA merely permits fluoridation. EPA is prohibited by Congress from including something to water for the therapy of people, so they do not add fluoride to water. They simply permit it to be completed, they usually preserve the utmost allowable contaminant ranges excessive sufficient in order that it is attainable to do it.
The U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) actually ought to regulate fluoride, seeing how it is a drug, but the company has constantly deferred regulatory motion. The final determination so as to add fluoride to water is made on the native stage by your metropolis’s water district.
“[I]t’s the native people who find themselves alleged to do all of the scientific analysis,” Osmunson says. “Now, take into consideration that for only a second. You might have individuals within the water districts who’re — perhaps they run a retailer, perhaps they run a enterprise, perhaps they seem to be a lawyer, perhaps they seem to be a scientist …
They do not sometimes have a science background, and but we’re asking them to consider the science on one thing that is given to everybody with out freedom of alternative. They’re making this determination for you of whether or not that drug is secure and efficient. The truth is, they’re doing the FDA’s job …
However who are they counting on? The CDC, to a big extent. Who does the CDC depend on? The American Dental Affiliation. What’s the American Dental Affiliation supposed to do? Shield dentists. Now, dentists make a major sum of money on fluoride.
When this was introduced as much as me at first, I used to be relatively defensive, saying, ‘Nicely, I do not actually make any cash on fluoridation. It prevents decay.’ It in all probability would not stop decay, No. 1. No. 2, for those who add up all the cash used on fluoride in the dental workplace, it is a vital sum of money.
Your fluoride topical functions are vital. After all, then, the water fluoridation corporations need to eliminate that poisonous substance in some way — by placing it into the water. Air pollution is the answer. It is probably not the fitting solution to go, however that is what’s occurring …
[Fluoride in water] is taken and given to us with out particular person consent. No physician might do this. As a dentist, I can prescribe fluoride for my sufferers on document, however I can not do it for everyone. But the water districts, who will not be legally in a position to prescribe, do this.”
Fluoride Is an Unapproved Drug
Curiously, whereas fluoride dietary supplements within the type of drops, tablets and lozenges have been in the marketplace because the Nineteen Fifties, they’ve by no means obtained approval by the FDA, as the scientific proof for security and effectiveness was discovered missing. This outstanding scenario got here to gentle in 1992, when John Kelly, a New Jersey Common Assemblyman, began wanting into the fluoride subject after studying a examine exhibiting increased charges of bone most cancers in fluoridated communities in comparison with nonfluoridated areas.
Since solely 17 p.c of New Jersey communities had fluoridated water on the time, dentists often prescribed fluoride dietary supplements as a substitute. In gentle of the examine’s findings, Kelly “felt it was prudent to acquire the research supporting the claims of security and effectiveness for these prescription fluoride merchandise.”
First, he contacted the American Dental Affiliation, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Dental Pediatrics. All initially stated they’d present him with research, however after checking their information, they confessed they did not have any.
He was then directed to the Nationwide Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Analysis (NIDCR), which promised to have the research promptly despatched out. None got here. After six weeks, NIDCR confessed no research might be discovered of their information and advised he contact the FDA, because it had permitted the medicine. To cite Kelly:1
“Six months later I used to be shocked once I was knowledgeable by the FDA that they’d no such research and that the merchandise in query, which had been prescribed to tens of millions of infants and kids because the Nineteen Fifties, weren’t permitted by the FDA.”
Kelly petitioned the FDA to take away these unapproved fluoride merchandise in 1993. No motion was ever taken. Final 12 months, FAN and the Worldwide Academy of Oral Drugs & Toxicology once more petitioned the FDA to take away them from the market.2
The petition was filed after the FDA issued a warning letter to Kirkman Laboratories, a fluoride complement producer, to right away discontinue advertising of fluoride merchandise as they have by no means been permitted as secure and efficient. How is it an unapproved drug, for which warning letters are despatched out to producers, is being added to consuming water?
Fluoride Is Very Tough to Filter Out As soon as Added
Fluoride is a really small molecule, making it tremendously tough to filter out as soon as added to your water provide. Any easy countertop carbon filter, like Brita, is not going to take away it.
When you have a home water carbon filtration system that has a big quantity of carbon, then it could scale back the fluoride as fluoride removing is in direct proportion to the quantity of fluoride and the time it is in touch with the media. It is simply not going to get all of it. Among the many more practical filtering methods for fluoride removing are:
- Reverse osmosis (RO). The disadvantage is that it’ll take away many precious minerals and hint components as effectively. RO methods additionally want frequent cleansing to keep away from bacterial progress. So, use a tankless RO system with a compressor
- Water distillation which, like RO, will get every thing out, together with useful minerals. You then must restructure the water
- Bone char filters and biochar. We’re presently within the technique of creating a filter that mixes biochar with activated charcoal
Clearly, the only, best, most cost-effective technique is to not put it in to start with.
2017 Fluoride Convention
Since 2010, 220 communities have rejected water fluoridation. If you wish to be taught extra about how one can get entangled to stop or finish water fluoridation in your group, be part of FAN’s fluoride convention in Washington D.C. September 16 and 17, 2017. It is open to anybody who’s . Bookmark FAN’s web site, FluorideAlert.org and examine again for extra details about this convention.
“My greatest concern is freedom of alternative. Fluoridation of water provides an excessive amount of fluoride to many people, most of us, all of us. It is completed with out freedom of alternative … America stands for freedom. We have to have freedom and permit individuals to not have fluoride.
Some persons are being harmed they usually don’t desire the fluoride. I’ve one girl whose son has actual issues with fluoride. He cannot even take a bathe or a shower in fluoridated water as a result of he is so chemically delicate. He is autistic. What do you do for this younger man?
For a whereas, they tried to search out out if he was having issues with the fluoridated water. She would take bottled water and warmth the bottled water on the range to give him a shower. He is about 6 foot tall. He is 230 kilos. He is 25 years of age and she or he’s having to warmth water on the range. Why?
As a result of we aren’t giving freedom of alternative … That is ridiculous. It is insane. It is a poisonous crime towards humanity. We’re getting an excessive amount of fluoride. It is in all probability not useful. It is inflicting severe issues to the creating mind … We all know that it is reducing IQ. It is a large expense once you begin reducing IQ …
Two hundred million individuals in the USA are on fluoridated water. At about $1,000 per IQ at 5 IQ factors misplaced, that is $1 trillion a 12 months unfavourable financial influence on our nation. We will not afford it. We have to cease fluoridation,” Osmunson says.
Fluoride Is a Mitochondrial Poison That Sabotages Well being
When you perceive that fluoride is a mitochondrial poison, you may understand that not solely is it contributing to lowered IQ and thyroid issues, it is also contributing to most cancers, coronary heart illness, diabetes, weight problems and neurodegenerative illness. We have now a tsunami of Alzheimer’s coming, and fluoride is a matter though there are not any research presently connecting it to Alzheimer’s. Few perceive the molecular biology concerned and due to this fact have not made that connection but.
Within the future, that may in all probability come to go, however we merely shouldn’t have the time to wait. The excellent news is you are able to do one thing about this downside. When you are obsessed with this, as I’m, then please assist FAN. Throughout Fluoride Consciousness Week, I’ll match your donations greenback for greenback, so please, get on board and assist assist this essential mission, as a result of it is one thing that will assist all Individuals.
