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04/04/2007: "Isn't Fluoride a Good Thing?"
Here is something I didn’t know. Fluoride is a neurotoxin industrial waste and doesn’t stop tooth decay at all. There are more than 500 peer reviewed studies showing adverse effects of fluoride ranging from cancer to brain damage. It damages the immune, digestive, and respiratory systems as well as the kidneys, liver and thyroid. There are numerous studies that have shown that fluoride causes genetic damage at concentrations as low as one part per million (1 PPM). That is exactly the concentration added to our drinking water. Former president of the AMA, Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd puts it this way, “I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable.” For this reason, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Denmark, and Holland have all banned fluoridation of their water supplies.
So why is it still a practice in the United States and why are we all so convinced that it is a benefit? I begin to sound like a broken record but big business rules again. The fluoride that actually is good for your teeth is calcium fluoride, which is found naturally in plants and water. The fluoride added to our water is one of the industrial wastes, sodium fluoride, fluorosilicic acid, or silicofluorides. 90% of municipalities use fluorosilicic acid in their drinking water. Regulated by the EPA, when produced in the smokestacks of various chemical producers, it must be disposed of as toxic waste. The history of its use dates back 80 years when aluminum manufacturing was booming. Since fluoride was a toxic byproduct, disposal was a problem. At that time, the U.S. Public Health Service was run by Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon who was the founder and major stockholder of ALCOA. Can you guess what ALCOA’s major product was at that time?
With no real evidence, scientist Gerald Cox was funded by ALCOA in 1939 when he proposed that this fluoride byproduct might reduce cavities in children. Declaring it good for your teeth, he proposed that the U.S. should fluoridate its water supply. At that time, the aluminum industry was already selling fluoride as an insecticide and rat poison but this could be a much larger market. By 1947, Oscar R. Ewing, a long-time ALCOA lawyer, was appointed head of the Federal Security Agency and thus in charge of the Public Health Services. He began a national water fluoridation campaign and marketing effort. The Journal of American Dental Association’s warning that “the potentialities for harm (from fluoridation) far outweigh those for the good” was not enough to stop the process.
Adding fluoride to the dangers of chlorine and the only safe solution is to drink and use natural spring water. You can bet I am also switching toothpastes as well.
Mia I learned in at my last dental visit that the stuff they use to polish your teeth also contains fluoride and if you swallow too much fluoride it can cause diarrhea and or vomiting.