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What is Fluoride?
When I was at Wal-mart I was looking through their dental care and hygiene section and noticed a lot of toothpastes (Colgate, Arm and Hammer, Aquafresh, Crest, etc.) have something called fluoride in them. Can you tell me what fluoride is and what it does for us? Why do we need it in toothpaste?
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if you brush your teeth with it once a week or something like that, it supposedly makes your teeth stronger and healthier.
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Fluoride seems to be promoted to us in unhealthy ways. It is usually in our toothpastes, mouthwashes, and most tap water. Fluoride is actually a hazardous waste product (actually it’s referred to as a Nuclear Waste Byproduct) that can be very harmful to us, causing us serious illnesses such as bone cancer. The fluoride added to public drinking water is actually fluorosilic acid, just as a note.
Florida phosphate fertilizer smokestacks actually happens to be where fluoride comes from in the end. It was found that cattle and crops nearby where dying in insane amounts from being so close to the wastes from these smokestacks so filters were enforced to lessen those issues. People now are hired to go and scrap off these filters and use that byproduct for what we know as fluoride--yes, the same thing that was causing the death of plants and animals!
This link shows you the dangers of fluoride usage and how it’s caused some serious illnesses:
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So…that is some things like:
Joint Pain
Brain Damage (lowered IQ impairment of learning and memory)
Skeletal Fluorosis
Bone Cancer
Osteosarcoma
Kidney Disease
Infertility
Hypothyroidism
Fluoridation was first advanced in the US at the end of World War II. There was claim that fluoride in water and toothpaste would help to protect teeth and prevent decay. Over the following decades, fluoride was added to public water supplies across the country, and now only a handful of places in the United States are un-fluorinated.
It turns out that fluoride may have serious adverse health effects, including infant mortality, congenital defects and IQ as well. It is a fact that it’s more toxic than lead and marginally less so than arsenic.
On a less serious note (apart from the cancer and overall destruction of your body) it is the leading cause of fluorosis. Dental fluorosis is characterized by black and brown stains, as well as cracking and pitting of the teeth. It’s caused by an OVERDOSE of fluoride, according to wikipedia:
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Usually a person ends up needing their teeth removed and dentures made because the process cannot really be reversed. It also usually happens only to adult teeth, but sometimes younger children develop it very early on. Here are some photos of people suffering from fluorosis:
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Here is a link to a short documentary called The Fluoride Deception:
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Which was based on the book The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson. According to him, “Fluoride is an essential component of atomic bomb production and was declared a 'strategic and critical' material by the government after World War II, With fluospar, the usual fluoride source, in short supply, they turned to Florida's phosphate industry to recover the industry's captured fluoride. Florida held the world's largest geological deposits of natural phosphate which contain 3 - 4% fluoride.
In a sweetheart deal these phosphate companies are spared the expense of disposing of this 'fluosilicic acid' in a toxic waste dump. Instead, the acid is sold to municipalities, shipped in rubber-lined tanker trucks to reservoirs across North America and injected into drinking water for the reduction of cavities in children. (So toxic are the contents of the fluoride trucks that, in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, authorities were alerted to keep a watchful eye on road shipments of the children's tooth-decay reducer.)
There was yet another potential cold-war reason for disposing of fluosilicic acid in public water supplies. The Florida phosphate beds were also an important source of uranium, harvested for the Atomic Energy Commission. Because uranium is only a trace mineral in the phosphate deposits, enormous quantities had to be processed to glean worthwhile amounts of uranium. So, large amounts of waste fluoride were also produced. Permitting that fluoride to be dumped into public water supplies - rather than being disposed of as toxic waste - reduced the cost of such uranium extraction and provided a supply of fluoride.”
Fluoride is being added to our waters, despite the fact that is not beneficial in any way. It’s even being added to a bottled water especially for infants called Nursery Water. It was once said that fluoride causes less tooth decay, but it’s a fact that: “New York City children have more tooth decay than the national average, despite fluoridation,” and, “Second-graders who live in non-fluoridated Long Island, New York, are more likely to be cavity-free than second graders nationally.”
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Fluoride keeps dentists in business with fluorosis and products being marketed with fluoride in it. We’re told that fluoride treatments are only to help our health, but, in reality, it ends up causing us to seek dentistry more often.
It’s really scary when you think of the warnings on products contain fluoride:
"Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age."
"If you swallow more than used for brushing, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away."
"If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Centre right away."
"Never give fluoridated mouthwash or mouth rinses to children under six years of age, as they may swallow it."
"Use non-fluoridated toothpaste or no toothpaste for young children."
There are some really nice toothpastes (and other products, obviously) that are fluoride-free. Tom’s of Maine seems especially popular. I like to use a product called Dr. Ken’s maximum care toothpaste:
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…but when searching for products you must read the labels to see if it specifies “fluoride free.”
So, try to purchase products that do not contain fluoride for your own safety.
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