Is the Fluoride in Drinking Water Causing Brain Drain?

The debate over fluoridated water is about to change, and fast, as more and more people become aware of the well-known health risks of adding fluoride to drinking water. City councils across America are starting to give their residents a voice when it comes to fluoridating their drinking water. In fact on many local ballots, the removal of fluoridation from municipal water supplies is a hot topic.

More and more, Americans are using their voting power to keep this very toxic byproduct of the fertilizer industry out of their drinking water. It’s true; a rarely discussed fact is that the fluoride which is added to the municipal water supplies is nothing more than a toxic byproduct of the fertilizer industry. Sounds delicious, doesn’t it? Read more about fluoridation facts you need to know.

Dallas is among one of the latest US cities considering not renewing their three year contract with the company that puts fluoride in their drinking water. If Dallas allows their contract to expire in January of 2015, they will be the largest city in America to stop the fluoridation of its water.

Like many other American cities, the decision to end the fluoridation of water in Dallas may depend on events happening elsewhere. Canada, for example, is possibly facing a legal challenge over the fluoridation of their water, as well as the end to the mandatory fluoridation of water in Israel. Although no one denies that fluoride can help protect teeth from cavities, many believe that this type of work belongs in the dental office, not via the water supply.

A study done in 2012 looked at 27 other studies that were focused on the IQs of children in areas where water was fluoridated. This study, reported by the Harvard School of Public Health, compared more than 8,000 measurements of IQ by children up to 14 years of age. In all studies except for one, there was a significant link between those children with lower IQ scores and the fluoridation of their water. Those who had been exposed to fluoride had between a 7 and 15 point lower score than those who did not drink fluoridated water. Find out a link between fluoridated water and ADHD.

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Take a look at the 13 reasons why the fluoridation of water supplies must be challenged, if not stopped:

1. Fluoride is not a nutrient

There are no biochemical processes in the human body that need fluoride. The human body will function just fine without it.

2. There is no way to control the dose

Fluoride can accumulate in the bone and other calcified tissue in the body over a person’s lifetime. There is no way to know exactly how much someone is receiving. Are they drinking two glasses? 6 glasses? 8 glasses of fluoridated water?

3. It violates the individual’s right to informed consent

You must consent to be treated at a hospital or to have a doctor give you medicine, but you have to right to say what is going into the water you drink. Fluoride is known to have toxic properties.

4. Dental fluorosis is becoming common

In countries where children are being over-exposed to fluoride, they are having very high rates of dental fluorosis. Even the CDC admits that an estimated 41 percent of children between the ages of 12-12 have some form of dental fluorosis.

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5. Little evidence that swallowing fluoride reduces tooth decay

Fluoridation is designed to treat cavities but it’s never been approved by the FDA. Direct application helps to prevent cavities but there is very little proof that drinking it provides any benefit.

6. Fluoride can cause chemical brain drain

Studies seem to show that fluoride fits right in with lead, mercury, and other metals that cause damage to the brain. The effect might seem small, but the combined damage can be serious. Numerous studies confirm that fluoride is a dangerous, toxic poison that accumulates in your body, as well as in your brain.

7. Reduces intelligence

There have been 37 studies involving humans which links even modest fluoride exposure to lower intelligence levels. There are also three human studies which link fluoride exposure to impaired brain development in fetuses.

8. Causes damage to the hippocampus

9. Causes the formation of beta-amyloid plaques

This is the classic brain abnormality seen in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

10. Impairs the antioxidant defense system in the body

11. Fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland

12. Fluoride increases the uptake and accumulation of aluminum in the body

13. Fluoride affects almost every part of the body

It can damage the kidneys, suppress thyroid activity, leads to skeletal fluorosis of the bones, and can lead to serious damage of the intestines as well as lead to irritable bowel syndrome.

Even if you want to ignore the evidence that fluoride is poisonous to the body, why would you still want to drink it if it doesn’t even protect your teeth? The truth is it probably won’t. Advocates state that the gradual reduction in tooth decay that has been happening since the 1950’s is due to the fluoridation of water, but the facts don’t really add up. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim that dental cavities have drastically declined during the past 50 years. But what they don’t mention is the fact that the rates of tooth decay have dramatically declined in ALL Western countries, whether or not their water had added fluoride, so it can’t be the fluoride that is making the difference. In fact, rates of tooth decay are higher in some countries who add fluoride to their water such as Belgium, Sweden, and Denmark.

Dental cavities are mainly caused by the demineralization of the teeth by acids that are formed on the teeth during the fermentation of bacteria. Think of it this way, dental cavities are not caused from a lack of fluoride no more than depression is caused by a lack of Prozac.

Numerous towns and countries around the world are removing fluoride from their water supplies, including parts of Germany, a few towns in the Netherlands, and in Finland as well. The Canadian government has recently stated that the prevalence of cavities actually decreased over time after fluoridation was stopped in certain communities, while the cities that continued fluoridation had virtually unchanged levels of dental cavities. It’s fairly obvious that fluoride has nothing to do with the underlying causes of dental cavities, its diet and lack of good oral hygiene practices.

We need to stop the archaic practice of water fluoridation in this country. There is a grass roots organization called the Fluoride Action Network with plans to do exactly that; they hope to end water fluoridation in both Canada and the United States. Clean, pure water is an absolute necessity to optimal health. Chemicals, drugs, and other toxic additives have no place in drinking water. Support the anti-fluoride movement today!

Sources:

Articles.mercola.com

Ultraculture.org

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