Fluoride: Dental Hygiene Additive or Lethal Poison?

The same question gets asked almost every time someone takes a trip to the dentist: “Do you use toothpaste with fluoride?” According to Dr. William Bowen its purpose is, “to promote remineralization of early caries, and prevent demineralization”. He claims fluoride also appears to have the effect of slowing down decay rates of plaque; aka nasty, cavity-causing bacteria. While most modern dentists praise fluoride as being the savior of our mouths, many health specialists have opposing viewpoints.
 

For starters, sodium fluoride is one of the most popular treatment compounds and can be found anywhere and everywhere; coincidentally in rat poison as it is in toothpaste and water. Let’s get one thing straight; this stuff is toxic waste—Literally. Sodium fluoride is a byproduct of manufacturing and industry. Waste isn’t just purely this compound, of course, so this more than often is a mixture with lead and arsenic. If that isn’t enough to scare someone, lets move onto the multitude of damage it does to the human body.

4 ppm (parts per million) is the established amount allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency for sodium fluoride in water. There has been Austrian Research done stating 1 ppm can damage DNA repair enzymes by 50%. Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, a neurotoxicologist, experimented with sodium fluoride nineteen years ago, found buildup in animal brain tissue and could immediately link it to disrupted functions similar to Attention Deficit Disorder. It’s only natural to assume that since fluoride is toxic in all ways, shapes and forms it is cancer causing as well; which is absolutely true. Also, fluoride can cause calcium deficiencies because it dissolves it in a solution. Is it coincidental that we are one of the only countries who are allowed to treat our water with it and have approximately 62 million people who suffer from bone issues and disorders? This short list alone doesn’t even begin to cover the actual amount of problems this compound causes.

 

Why is it in our water supply? It is a very cheap compound for water sanitation. Since it’s a manufacturing byproduct the government doesn’t even have to pay for it to be produced! Scientists have easily manipulated and skewed data in order to prove to the Environmental Protection Agency as well as senators and representatives that this stuff is okay to put into the national water supply—and most buy into it because it is literally “too good to be true”. 

Sources:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1295327/?page=1

http://www.holisticmed.com/fluoride/

http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/basicinformation/fluoride.cfm

http://preventdisease.com/home/tips79.shtml

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/israel-joins-most-of-the-world-in-banning-water-fluoridation.html

http://www.aaos.org/about/papers/position/1113.asp

http://consciouslifenews.com/fluoride-toxic-poison-learn-differences-between-natural-synthetic-fluoride/#