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Fluoride Risks
Although many people have believed for a long time that fluoride in our drinking water was good for our dental health, there have now been many studies that demonstrate that drinking fluoride is dangerous to our health. Our kids have fewer cavities than we did, and we imagine the reason is fluoride. However, Europe outlawed fluoride in drinking water decades ago and their dental health has improved as much as in the US. In some areas European dental health has increased more than in the US. To ascribe our dental health improvements to fluoride on this basis is not credible.
Frequently the argument for adding fluoride to drinking water is that it is in a dosage that is safe and even good for us. But drinking water is not the only way we ingest fluoride – so isolating one source and saying the level is okay is fallacious. More and more the original untested assumption that fluoride in water would help with dental health is being confronted.
Another issue is do you really want ‘medicine’ delivered through your drinking water? Our view is that we should each have the right to determine what medicines we intake - or don't.
Fluoride doesn't break down and disappear. It accumulates over time. People today ingest 4 times as much as they were when they started putting fluoride in our drinking water! This is pretty evenly spread across intake from water, other drinks, food and dental products. If you did everything you could think of to avoid fluoride, you couldn't eliminate it! Cut back on fluoride when you can. You'll still get lots!
There are many risks that have been identified from the intake of fluoride.
Children’s brain development came to the forefront as a concern after three 2007 medical studies suggested that fluoride may have a detrimental effect on childhood IQ. Several studies published in 2007 showed shortcomings in previous research studies. A Mexican study linked high-fluoride (5 ppm) in water to reduced IQ by controlling other key factors by multiple regression analysis. The study also eliminated bias by assuring that the psychologist conducting the IQ tests did not know which of the children had high fluoride exposure. According to the authors, exposure to fluoride was associated with reduced Performance, Verbal and Full IQ scores. The individual effect of fluoride in urine indicated that for each mg increase, a decrease of 1.7 points in Full IQ might be expected.
While the levels at which problems were identified will lead some pro-fluoride folks to conclude this and similar studies should be ignored, remember the point made earlier in this article. Water is by no means the only source of fluoride; we are ingesting 4 times what we did when fluoride was first introduced into the US water supply. (Municipalities add in the area of 1ppm.) Add to that that individual sensitivities vary. There are serious risks to drinking fluoride from our water supply.
Proponents of fluoride in the water supply frequently say that there is no science to prove fluoride in the water supply is dangerous. While the use of the word ‘prove’ may make that statement narrowly correct, the fact is there are many many scientific studies indicating serious risk. Every year there are more studies showing fluoride risks, some of them from very low dosages. Common sense suggests we should stop drinking fluoride.
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