Rabbit Hole: Public Health Hazard Assessment: FLUORIDE

Ever heard of it? It is added to the drinking water of virtually every town in America. In Europe and the rest of the world, year after year, governments will not permit the stuff. Companies keep trying to persuade the public to add it to their water, but only in America have they had much success--ever hear anything about this? As I often say, you can tell a topic is important by how little it is in the news.
Fluoride is an industrial by-product, a toxic waste sometimes used as a poison. Disposing of toxic waste is expensive, so back in the forties, industries persuaded Congress that Fluoride is good for teeth. Congress passed laws, and now we all drink it.
So, next question: Have you ever seen a dentist starve to death? No. They have more business than ever. If Fluoride is so great, why didn't dental health increase? Our dental health is about the same as the rest of the world--and they absolutely will not permit that stuff in their drinking water.
Seems to me there is a possible topic here for an important research project...

Fluoride as an Industrial Pollutant

Due to highly successful PR campaigns by industry (and government on behalf of industry) over the past half century+, many people mistakenly view fluoride as an essential nutrient. It is not. Fluoride, as it occurs naturally in water (as calcium fluoride), can cause many problems at high levels and is even more toxic when it is added to water supplies in the form of fluorosilicic acid, a waste product of the phosphate fertilizer industry that is part of a pollution concentrate that is heavily contaminated with toxins and heavy metals, such as arsenic, lead and cadmium (all carcinogens) and radioactive materials.3 This form of fluoride is by far the most widely used today to fluoridate public water supplies.

Adverse Effects of Fluoride

No safety tests have ever been conducted on industrial fluorosilicic acid (complexed with other toxins) used today in 90% of our nation’s fluoridated water supplies. The many animal studies done over the years have used a pharmaceutical grade of the less toxic sodium or calcium fluorides in distilled water. These animal studies, as well as epidemiological (population) studies, have shown many adverse effects, including:

• Hyperactivity
• Lowered IQ
• Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia
• Cancers (especially osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, in young males)
• Genetic mutations · Increased rates of hip fractures in older persons
• Birth defects, such as Down’s syndrome
• Immune system impairment
• Skeletal fluorosis (which is deforming and crippling in the later stages and may cause joint pain, muscle weakness and arthritis in early stages)
• Dental fluorosis (white or brown spots on the teeth, the result of weakened enamel – a sign of systemic toxicity)
• Hypothyroidism (Fluoride was once used medically to suppress thyroid function.)
• Infertility
• Early onset of puberty (due to interference with pineal gland, which produces melatonin)
• Kidney damage
• Gastrointestinal problems