Remove Fluoride from our drinking waters!

Fluoridated water is a subject that is still debated to this day, it seems to miss the depth of the probable health concerns. Does the positive outweigh the negative? Why are we still sitting, when we should be researching and questioning?

According to The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 293019. “About 50% of ingested fluoride is absorbed in the bones and teeth while the rest is excreted in urine. Most of the ingested fluorides reach the teeth via saliva, whose fluoride content varies from less than 0.01 to 0.05 ppm.

Fluoride absorption in bones and teeth decreases with increasing age…” Vitamins can be argued are similar, many may argue that vitamins are best taken at an early age to help in the future when we have aged. Fluoride on the other hand is a chemical waste. A chemical waste that is absorbed by your bones when ingested. That should raise a red flag to anyone, regardless of your area of study.

The fluoride in our water came about when 2 dentists decided to start their research in 1909. Later, “Further multisite studies commenced in 1945 to determine impacts of fluoridated water on dental caries prevention and health also appeared to demonstrate a positive effect of water fluoridation—with claims of a reduction of dental caries by up to 60% among almost 30,000 schoolchildren in Grand Rapids, MI, USA [5]. However, these findings have been criticized for major methodological flaws, including data cherry-picking and selection bias [6, 7]. Notwithstanding this and before the final results of these studies were known, the US Public Health Service adopted the 1 ppm dose and supported the widespread introduction of community water fluoridation schemes in 1950” (The Scientific World Journal).

Why should these individuals that failed to wait for final results depict what goes in our waters without knowing all the known possible critical factors and how they affect us as a society? Why did they allow to “cherry pick” and have the “selection bias” on something that affects so many?

The scientific world Journal shows that “among young individuals with low calcium and magnesium in teeth enamel (usually due to undernutrition), fluoride ingestion and contact with teeth present histologically as hypo-calcification and/or hypoplasia, which may paradoxically make such individuals more vulnerable to dental caries”(The scientific World Journal). What this shows is these individuals did not care if they were damaging those that had prior health/nutritional issues, they were concerned with those that where healthy and how to conserve their teeth. Do the lives of those that are healthy outweigh the life of the unhealthy to where we make rash decisions, without a second thought, over something so easily remedied?

“It is widely accepted that fluoride only helps prevent dental decay by topical means—by direct action on the tooth enamel predominantly after eruption and dental plaque [16, 17].”(The Scientific Journal)

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