Get On Your Tin Foil Hats: The Dark Truth About Fluoride

Go into your bathroom and grab any tube of toothpaste within reach. If it is a tube of fluoride toothpaste (as the vast majority are) it will, by law, have this warning printed somewhere on the tube: “If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, seek professional help or contact a poison control center immediately.” In this case, “professional help” likely means a physician or a local ER, and “poison control center” essentially means start praying because you (or your child) just swallowed a bunch of poison.

Wait a minute? If fluoride were poison why would it remain a key ingredient in toothpaste, a dental hygiene product we put in our mouth every day? And isn’t our municipal water supply teeming with fluoride?

Yes, fluoride remains in our water supply and despite the risk of fluoride poisoning; it remains a key ingredient in toothpaste, as well as an inert ingredient in soda, tea, diet pills and bottled water (basically, anything with water in it likely has fluoride). While fluoride has been proven to benefit teeth (preventing cavities) and strengthen bones (as has been endorsed by the American Dental Association), the potential dangers of fluoride may far outweigh its benefits. To be clear, lets get down to the elements.

Fluoride is a molecule containing the element fluorine, and is achieved by combining fluorine with another element. It is naturally occurring in water with a high mineral content, and in small doses (one part per million), it does what it is touted to do: strengthen developing teeth and bones. In larger doses that exceed this amount it can decrease IQ, damage teeth and cause arthritis, and in excessive amounts, it can even cause death. Sure, it’s put in toothpaste and mouthwash to prevent tooth decay, but it’s also added to rat poison and insecticides to kill stuff.

Prolonged and excessive exposure to fluoride results in something fairly grave called fluorosis, which exists in dental form (spots on the teeth as well as degradation of the tooth) and the skeletal form (gradual weakening of bones). Now, I have no interest in causing a panic, and I am not implying that a mouthful of fluoride toothpaste will make you a dumb, rubber-boned victim (providing you don’t swallow that mouthful), but the fact that our toothpaste, as well as our municipal water supply (currently 67 percent of the country has fluoridated water) is rich with fluoride, does strengthen our chances of falling victim to fluorosis, as well as weakening our teeth and bones, which were supposed to be fortified by this additive–ironic, isn’t it?

Individuals who are sensitive to fluoride could fairly easily opt out of the fluoride toothpaste market and go for a product without this ubiquitous additive (people with chronic thyroid issues are often encouraged to do without fluoride toothpaste). However, for most of us, we still unwittingly receive our daily dose of fluoride every time we turn on the tap, open a soda, or pretty much drink anything.

If fluoride is such a borderline product holding numerous untold risks (see part two for the truly shady part of the story), then why is it still being used in consumer products and dumped liberally into our water supply?

Stay tuned for part two of this posting where I take a look at the use of fluoride in our water supply, as well as the shadow side of the fluoride issue.

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Lois E.

3:42PM PST on Dec 16, 2011

I know fluoride is extremely bad in any form or amount. It'll ruin your teeth!

send a green star

Susan H.

8:23PM PDT on Sep 11, 2011

This is also mentioned in the movie (1963) "Dr. STRANGELOVE" (won OSCARS for Stanley Kubrick - BEST Dir., Peter Sellers - in 3 separate roles as BEST ACTOR, and BEST SCREENPLAY). Also called "Dr Strangelove, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT SEEN IT (made during the height of the cold war), it is not only funny, but serious re: nuclear bombs and Sterlyng Hayden triggers the "war" against Russia based on Flourdation.
In it, he goes into how it was added to water in 1946, that Russia does not use it (at least not then), and HE ONLY DRINKS PURE "stuff", i.e. grain alchohol, rain water, etc.).
ANYWAY - it is not only a funny movie - but it got me thinkning about it - Hayden't arguments are not enough to send over nuclear bombs, but why did Kubrick have fluordation as the source for maing us (as Hayden stated in the film - felt weak, especially when givine up his "essence").
NOT A COINCIDENCE???? Just wondering. (and, if you have not seen the movie - it is well worth it!).

Emily D.

9:07PM PDT on Sep 6, 2011

I ONLY use flouride free toothpaste. And have never had a cavity :)

Deborah C.

9:51AM PDT on Jun 21, 2011

thanks

9:47AM PDT on Jun 21, 2011

John S.

12:05PM PDT on Jun 5, 2011

Thanks.

Masha S.

5:37AM PDT on May 31, 2011

thank you for information

George P.

10:50AM PDT on Apr 28, 2011

Why should we pay our water bills if we are being deliberately being poisoned against our will? Time to stop paying now, until our rights are respected. The government shirks its responsibilities by failing to compensate victims of this imposed form of mass medication. Around 50% of children in fluoridated areas now suffer from dental fluorosis - the first sign of chronic fluoride poisoning. In a quarter of these cases it is a severe form - meaning the teeth are pitted and stained brown. HARDLY A DENTAL BENEFIT! Treatment amounts to masking the effects by use of dental veneers. This can cost in EXCESS OF $500, PER TOOTH and may need to be REPEATED EVERY 10 YEARS. How can fluoridation possibly be claimed to be cost effective? You may also be further out of pocket because the fluoride also accelerates the corrosion process. This therefore substantially reduces the life of metal water tanks, water heaters, boilers etcetra. Act now to put the RID in fluoRIDation.
Check out the following websites:-
http://wn.com/Fluoride_Action_Network
http://www.npwa.org.uk/ - see their leaflet on Cathy's horses and
http://www.ukcaf.org/
Medication without consent amounts to assault and it is your responsibility to defend yourself, for the sake of your health, that of your family and your fellow citizens.

Scott P.

10:36AM PDT on Apr 24, 2011

No, it's added...I keep posting this and it will answers your questions....About the Poison Fluoride!!!

The Fluoride Deception = http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=42652E035A1B1BAAAE1F340B54694975

colleen p.

9:13AM PDT on Apr 18, 2011

it is natural in tea or bottled tea>