Are you aware of the health dangers of fluoride? Did you know that fluoride can damage fertility, destroy bones and cause early puberty in children?
Water fluoridation has been banned in many countries including: China, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Japan. Nearly all of Europe’s water supply is fluoride-free.
And yet, fluoride is omnipresent in the American food supply. It’s in our water, in juice, soda, wine and coffee, in soups and processed food, and in baby formula. The majority of American cities have fluoridated water.
Sources of Fluoride
Many people think they can avoid fluoride by just using fluoride-free toothpaste. However, fluoride isn’t just in toothpaste. Almost all of the beverages sold in stores and restaurants are made with tap water. People who drink those beverages ingest a fair amount of added fluoride.
We consume fluoride from the following sources:
Toothpaste with fluoride
Baby formula
Foods cooked in fluoride
Canned soup, or soup in restaurants
Mechanically deboned chicken (i.e. chicken nuggets)
Food cooked in Teflon cookware
Soda pop and soft drinks
Fruit juice (unless it is fresh-squeezed at home)
Beer and wine (unless they are imported from Europe or other areas that don’t fluoridate the water)
Coffee and tea (if made with fluoridated water)
Packaged and processed foods
Anesthetics
Fluoridated salt
Cigarettes
Top 10 Dangers of Fluoride
1. Accumulation of Fluoride in the Body
Fluoride accumulates in the body. Healthy adult kidneys excrete 50 to 60% of the fluoride ingested each day (Marier & Rose 1971). Any remaining fluoride accumulates in the body, typically in the bones and pineal gland (Luke 1997, 2001). Babies and children excrete less fluoride from their kidneys and absorb up to 80% of ingested fluoride into their bones (Ekstrand 1994). The concentration of fluoride in the bones increases over a lifetime (NRC 2006).
2. Fluoride and Bottle-fed Babies
Bottle-fed babies receive the highest doses of fluoride. Since they have a liquid diet, formula-fed babies have the highest exposure to fluoride. Infant exposure to fluoridated water has been repeatedly found to be a major risk factor for developing dental fluorosis later in life (Marshall 2004; Hong 2006; Levy 2010). As a result, dental researchers have recommended that parents of newborns not use fluoridated water when reconstituting formula (Ekstrand 1996; Pendrys 1998; Fomon 2000; Brothwell 2003; Marshall 2004).
The American Dental Association (ADA), the biggest advocates of fluoridation, sent a November 6, 2006 email alert to its members advising that parents should make baby formula with “low or no-fluoride water.”
3. Fluoride and Reproductive Problems
Fluoride given to animals at high doses destroys the male reproductive system. Fluoride damages sperm and increases the rate of infertility in a number of species (Kour 1980; Chinoy 1989; Chinoy 1991; Susheela 1991; Chinoy 1994; Kumar 1994; Narayana 1994a,b; Zhao 1995; Elbetieha 2000; Ghosh 2002; Zakrzewska 2002).
A U.S. epidemiological study showed increased rates of infertility among couples living in areas with 3 ppm or more fluoride in the water (Freni 1994). Two studies showed reduced level of circulating testosterone in males living in high fluoride areas (Susheela 1996; Barot 1998). A study of fluoride-exposed workers reported a “subclinical reproductive effect” (Ortiz-Perez 2003).
4. Fluoride and Brain Damage
“It is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain.” — the National Research Council (2006)
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lists fluoride among about 100 chemicals for which there is “substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.” Experiments on animals reveal that fluoride accumulates in the brain and alters mental behavior (Mullenix 1995). There have been over 100 animal experiments showing that fluoride damages the brain and impacts learning and behavior.
Advocates of fluoridation counter that these animal studies are invalid because high doses of fluoride were used. However, it takes 5-20 times more fluoride to reach the same plasma levels in rats as in humans (Sawan 2010). One animal experiment found effects at very low doses of fluoride (Varner 1998). In this study, rats were fed for one year with 1 ppm fluoride in their water (the same amount used in tap water fluoridation), using either sodium fluoride or aluminum fluoride. These rats had changes to their kidneys and brains, an increased uptake of aluminum in the brain, and the formation of beta-amyloid deposits which are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
5. Fluoride and Lowered IQ
There have been 24 studies from China, Iran, India and Mexico that show an association between fluoride exposure and reduced IQ. One research team (Xiang 2003a,b) estimated that fluoride may lower IQ at 1.9 ppm (parts per million), while a recent preliminary study (Ding 2011) found a lowering of IQ in children drinking water at levels ranging from 0.3 to 3 ppm. The authors of this latter study reported that for each increase of 1 ppm fluoride measured in the urine there was a loss of 0.59 IQ points. According to the National Research Council (2006), “the consistency of the results [in fluoride/IQ studies] appears significant enough to warrant additional research on the effects of fluoride on intelligence.”
6. Fluoride and Early Puberty
Reduced IQ is not the only neurotoxic effect of fluoride. Studies have shown an association between fluoride exposure and impaired visual-spatial organization (Calderon 2000; Li 2004; Rocha-Amador 2009); while three other studies have found an association between prenatal fluoride exposure and fetal brain damage (Han 1989; Du 1992; Yu 1996).
Fluoride also affects the pineal gland. Studies by Jennifer Luke (2001) show that fluoride accumulates in the human pineal gland to very high levels. In her Ph.D. thesis, Luke has also shown in animal studies that fluoride reduces melatonin production and leads to an earlier onset of puberty (Luke 1997).
Consistent with Luke’s findings, one of the earliest fluoridation trials in the U.S. (Schlesinger 1956) reported that on average young girls in the fluoridated community reached menstruation 5 months earlier than girls in the non-fluoridated community.
7. Fluoride and Thyroid Function
Fluoride negatively impacts thyroid function. In the Ukraine, Bachinskii (1985) found a lowering of thyroid function, among otherwise healthy people, at 2.3 ppm fluoride in water. In the mid-20th century, fluoride was prescribed by a number of European doctors to reduce the activity of the thyroid gland for patients with hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid) (Stecher 1960; Waldbott 1978).
According to a clinical study by Galletti and Joyet (1958), the thyroid function of hyperthyroid patients was reduced at just 2.3-4.5 mg per day of fluoride. To put this finding in perspective, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS, 1991) has estimated that total fluoride exposure in fluoridated communities ranges from 1.6 to 6.6 mg/day. This is a remarkable fact, particularly considering the rampant and increasing problem of hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) in the United States and other fluoridated countries. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include depression, fatigue, weight gain, muscle and joint pains, increased cholesterol levels, and heart disease. In 2010, the second most prescribed drug of the year was Synthroid (sodium levothyroxine) which is a hormone replacement drug used to treat an underactive thyroid.
8. Fluoride and Arthritis
Fluoride causes symptoms of arthritis. Skeletal fluorosis (a fluoride-induced bone and joint disease) mimic the symptoms of arthritis (Singh 1963; Franke 1975; Teotia 1976; Carnow 1981; Czerwinski 1988; DHHS 1991). According to an article published in Chemical & Engineering News, “Because some of the clinical symptoms mimic arthritis, the first two clinical phases of skeletal fluorosis could be easily misdiagnosed” (Hileman 1988). According to the CDC (2002), 1 in 3 Americans have some form of arthritis. Few studies have been done to determine whether the high prevalence of arthritis in America and other fluoridated countries could be related to growing fluoride exposure.
9. Fluoride Damages Bone
Fluoride damages bone. An early fluoridation trial (Newburgh-Kingston 1945-55) revealed a two-fold increase in bone defects among children in the fluoridated community (Schlesinger 1956). In 2001, Alarcon-Herrera reported a correlation between the severity of dental fluorosis and the frequency of bone fractures in children and adults in a high fluoride area in Mexico.
10. Fluoride and Hip Fractures in the Elderly
Fluoride may increase hip fractures in the elderly. High doses of fluoride (average 26 mg per day) were used in trials to treat patients with osteoporosis in an effort to harden their bones and reduce fracture rates. This treatment actually led to a higher number of fractures, particularly hip fractures (Inkovaara 1975; Gerster 1983; Dambacher 1986; O’Duffy 1986; Hedlund 1989; Bayley 1990; Gutteridge 1990. 2002; Orcel 1990; Riggs 1990 and Schnitzler 1990).
One Chinese study looked at hip fractures in six Chinese villages, and found an increase in hip fractures as the concentration of fluoride rose from 1 ppm to 8 ppm (Li 2001).
How to Avoid Fluoride
Avoid processed and packaged food
Buy fluoride-free toothpaste
Avoid fluoride treatments at the dentist
Filter your tap water
Don’t drink soda pop, or coffee or iced tea at restaurants
Don’t drink bottled water (with the exception of European water) as it is usually fluoridated
Order European mineral water in restaurants
Drink wine and beer imported from Europe
Don’t use tap water if feeding your baby formula (of course, I don’t recommend using baby formula anyway — if you can’t breastfeed, it’s best to make homemade baby formula)
Don’t smoke
Don’t use Teflon (non-stick) cookware
Where to Buy Water Filters
See my resources page for where to buy water filters that remove fluoride.
Support the Fluoride Action Network
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Share Your Thoughts
Do you go out of your way to avoid fluoride? If so, how do you limit your exposure? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Fluoride Action Network
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How important do you think it is to filter tap water if you don’t have city water? We have a well….does that need to be filtered?
You should have your water tested to find out what you need to filter out
Janelle. Test your water for Aluminium or Barium, two metals that are sprayed in chemtrails.
“Chemtrails” are not backed up by any scientific basis whatsoever. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory) CONtrails, the water vapor that aircraft leave behind, however, are a scientific fact, and if you possess even the most basic scientific understanding, you would laugh at the idea of “chemtrails.”
Fluoride, however, has been extensively studied and repeatedly proven harmful. As sodium fluoride is a product of the aluminum industry (as well as fertilizer and nuclear) that’s why there’s aluminum and they add metals and minerals to the water supply.
When trying to help people, at least give advice that has some scientific basis! People that want to avoid fluoride are not just conspiracy theorists. Fluoride is actually dangerous.
al12
I think you need to do some more research, Farmers in the us will confirm chem trails on a regular basis .Planes going back and forth with spray not coming from the engines but from nozzles on the wing tips.
The farmers crops will not grow well outside anymore due to extremely high aluminum levels .However if grown in a glass house the plants were green and quite healthy. Same paddock.
Quite ironic that bill gates is selling GMO Genetically Modified seeds That ere resistant to Aluminum……….
I guess you never look up at the sky. I noticed a number of years ago that the “contrails” of some airplanes did not disappear as they normally do. In fact they spread over a short period of time all over the sky. Also some agencies have admitted to this as a fact’
What kind of toothpaste do you recommend for a one year old since they swallow so much of it too?
Just look for toothpaste that clearly says on the label NO FLUORIDE.
My daughter rarely brushes her teeth. She’s 4 now and is just starting to brush more. I don’t think 1-year-olds need to brush their teeth that often. It is not the lack of brushing that causes cavities. It’s inadequate nutrition.
With all due respect, I have to disagree with this statement. My son is 4 years old, and has been in my care and custody for all of his life except for a 3-month period with his mother when he was almost 2 years old. He has always had a varied and healthy diet, he actually likes greens and fresh fruits, and he prefers white milk to any other drink.
During the time his mother had him (and on her alternating weekends at other times), she let him sleep with a bottle or sippy cup of juice or milk, and he never brushed his teeth. I’ve always brushed his teeth twice a day, since he cut his first tooth, but she has never brushed them once. Suddenly, after that 3-month stay with her, his teeth all had cavities and two of his molars ended up being pulled because they weren’t worth saving.
So, I disagree that proper nutrition alone will equal healthy teeth. Regular brushing and common sense like not allowing food or drink (especially with sugar) to remain in their mouth overnight are also important.
Dude- You’ve obvioulsy never read Weston Price’s book. It wasn’t until I read it that I realized what I thought was healthy was no where near what we really should be eating. I was shopping the perimeter of the grocery store. I thought I was doing everything right. After reading his book, I don’t even shop at the regular grocery store. They have nothing of real value or nutrition.
@Mike Yes, read Dr. Weston Price’s book “Nutrition & Physical Degeneration”.
Veggies, fruits and regular milk won’t help your teeth. You need whole milk and butter from grass-fed cows and other foods with fat soluble vitamins A, D & K2, plus lots of minerals which you can get from homemade chicken, beef of fish stock, sea salt, etc.
http://www.westonaprice.org/
Also check out Rami Nagel’s book Cure Tooth Decay.
Dear Mike,
With all respect youre wrong. Of course some general dental hygiene is required but teeth, like any other part of the human body also have the ability to heal themselves if given the right environment.
Cavities form primarily because of diet and that situation is then exasperated by sugary things, NOT the other way around.
The old saying: ‘Dont look a gift horse in the mouth’ – applies equally to humans. I good set of teeth and gums is generally indicative of good health.
If your mouth is even slightly acidic, which almost 100% of western people’s saliva will be because of our diet, the smooth out enamel of the tooth becomes pitted very quickly and it is in these circumstances that a tooth then starts to decay.
Additionally, the dentine inside the tooth starts to shows of ill-health. in a healthy person with good diet the dentine is white. the enamel over the dentine is clear, though for those who smoke and/or who drink lots of tannin teas etc the outer surface of the tooth becomes stained.
People then buy enamel whitener which is really bad stuff because in addition to removing the surface staining it also eats into the smooth enamel and as stated in my previous message causes the enamel to become porous and pitted and fill with more staining and so this ‘cat and mouse’ game never ends. Meanwhile the dentine starts to darken in response to the damaged enamel.
The medical and dental professions know very well of course that such treatments are ultimately degenerative to the tooth.
Its called commercialism – make money no matter what…
Its all good man, mistakes happen. I bet you won’t let him go back over to his moms for a while. It takes time to wear the enamel off teeth but teeth rot quick once enamel is gone. I remember growing up when the Doctor would tell you to use bottle water w/ fluoride. Kinda messed up, it wasn’t even Obama care yet
Emily, I’m a dental hygienist. For your 1 y.o., I suggest brushing the teeth with a small soft-bristled brush or wiping the gums and teeth with a damp cloth after meals or at least once a day. Also, avoid sending the child to bed with anything but water, and only if necessary. The sugars and simple carbohydrates in milk and formulas lower the pH in their mouths, increasing acid wear and erosion and decreasing the protective properties of their saliva. The best thing you can do is to see your hygienist and/or dentist for a caries risk assessment and other tips for oral care.
Ann Marie,
Are you sure that only European bottled water doesn’t have much fluoride in it? I know that Poland Springs has only 0.1 ppm for fluoride.
It depends on the brand. There are some American bottled waters that have low levels of fluoride.
I was just thinking of when you are at a restaurant. Typically your choices are: soft drinks, milk, coffee or tea, soda, tap water or sparkling mineral water. I always choose sparkling mineral water.
Many restaurants carry S. Pellegrino (fluoride found at 0.37 ppm).
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/521352.html
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/appa.asp
I looked it up and Schweppes club soda or seltzer water are also pretty low in fluoride. However, you’d have to ask for it by brand name. Usually if you order club soda or seltzer water at a restaurant, they will give you carbonated water, which I believe is just carbonated tap water.
What about the carbonation in sparkling waters?
That’s not really good for you. But it’s a better choice than caffeine or sugar.
You mentioned that you can get fluoride exposure from Teflon – Please explain further – We have Teflon right now and are trying to phase it out…
You can read about it on this page: http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-dangers/sources-of-fluoride.aspx
I have a love/hate relationship with posts like this: I love them because they are so necessary! We must get people to understand that we are being poisoned!
But, I hate them because I wish I would have known this stuff years ago. I had my daughter 16 years ago and not a day goes by now where I don’t wish that I had all this info then. I would have done everything so differently. I get a lump in my throat when I think about the many ways I have been poisoning my daughter all these years with the stupid misconception that the government wouldn’t allow us to have or consume anything so dangerous….right? UGH!
When she was a baby, my FIL (at the time) was a physician. He came to my house one day with a bottle of fluoride and told me to put it in my daughter’s water because it was necessary for her to have it. I wish I would have dumped it down the drain instead!
I apprecaite you posting this Ann Marie. I can’t tell you how many people I have tried to warn, only to be told it couldn’t be true because their dentist uses it. But in Suzanne Somers’ book, “Breakthrough” where she is interviewing the amazing Russell Blaylock, he explained that fluoride is one of the most toxic substances on earth. So toxic that it is illegal for them to dump it in the ground, yet ironically it is okay to give it to humans, livestock and water our fields with it. According to him the American Dental Association has admitted it has no benefit for teeth, but because they don’t know what to do with it if it is not put in dental products, that nothing has changed.
Its maddening and just down right disgusting!!
This is my struggle: I am the consummate skeptic, so when I hear one “side” wholeheartedly advocating one stance and the other “side” just as wholeheartedly promoting the exact opposite, I tend to be suspicious of both. I am well aware that statistics can be presented to reflect whatever the researcher wants them to reflect. In an issue where people take such vehement stances, emotion becomes involved and everyone in both camps loses credibility. I feel the same way about the vaccine debate and was quite dismayed at some of the very hateful responses posted on both sides. I need evidence to be presented in a neutral manner so I can make a decision for myself after examining all the facts.
After reading this post, I went to the ADA website and read this: http://www.ada.org/fluoride.aspx. How am I supposed to reconcile the completely conflicting information?
Brenda,
Please read The Fluoride Deception: http://www.amazon.com/Fluoride-Deception-Christopher-Bryson/dp/1583225269
This was the book that really convinced me.
You can watch an interview with the author of the book, Christopher Bryson, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3y8uwtxrHo
I couldn’t get the YouTube link to load but did put a hold on the book at my local library. Thanks!
Hi Brenda and Ann Marie,
I listened to the podcast last summer that first introduced me to the idea that fluoride might be something I might want to avoid. Here is the link to a podcast interview with Dr. Paul Connet on Our Natural LIfe.
http://ournaturallife.com/blog/2011/05/the-case-against-flouride-with-dr-paul-connett-podcast-onl076/
Thanks also Ann Marie, for the links to find filters that remove fluoride. That has been on my to do list, and I was having trouble sourcing the right information. Hopefully I can narrow my search down so I can purchase a filter.
This book was incredible and came recommended by my dentist! It is very long but very thorough and it will certainly make anyone a believer about the deception of flouride.
Nickole
Brenda, I can really appreciate your skepticism because often times there is a middle ground between two sides of controversial issues like fluoride. Having spent nearly 40 years in the dental field as a hygienist I have been exposed to all of the negative and positive arguments for fluoride and I have also seen some very convincing results from topically applied fluoride in specific cases (i.e. post radiation decay in adults, etc). However, my position on fluoride has changed away from being as pro-fluoride as I was in my early dental years before reading any of Russell Blaylock’s work. I strongly encourage my patients to eat a nutrient dense diet that does not include any industrialized foods, but sadly I realize many of them won’t comply. As a dental professional, it’s frustrating. It is so great when a patient tells me they don’t want fluoride but they are willing to do whatever else it takes to have healthy teeth.
One word of caution though. The idea of curing dental decay can be overly simplistic. If the decay has progressed through the enamel into the dentin it is very unlikely (but not entirely impossible) to reverse it. A better option than fluoride, in addition to a nutrient dense diet, is a bio-available calcium/phosphate paste (available from your dentist, but request the fluoride free formula). Bear in mind also that not all dentists agree on when to call a lesion a “cavity,” either. And toothpaste is not essential to good oral hygiene. A dry toothbrush will remove plaque just as effectively without any added toxins (the toothpaste companies don’t like me much).
We don’t use toothpaste with flouride in it. We also make all of our meals at home, so I think that helps. I naturally avoid coffee now, for my GAPS diet and just overall feeling better
This is a good article. thanks for the supporting references, too 
Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather 
Say you eliminate all further fluoride intake. Will your body then be able to eliminate any/all of the fluoride your body previously stored in your bones and pineal gland?
That’s a great question.
You can detox heavy metals.
Dr. Andrew Cutler is an expert on detoxing from heavy metals and I’ve heard him speak before. I can’t remember if he specifically addressed fluoride.
http://www.noamalgam.com/
Here’s an article I found:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026605_fluoride_fluorides_detox.html
Diane, you may want to take a look at this blog: http://www.celluliteinvestigation.com/blog
The author had severe fluoridosis for years and has been detoxing (she suspects it caused her cellulite, hence the name). She’s been using iodine, boron and other things to detox the fluoride.
Oh, good call, Amy!
I read that blog and I love it. Don’t know why I didn’t think of it.
Thanks to you both!
Ok, so…my 4.5 yr old has used fluoride free toothpaste since forever, and we have also always filtered our water. Now, however, I took her to the dentist for the first time, and she’s developed some ‘spots’ between her 4 back teeth that the dentist says are precursors to cavities. He gave me a special fluoride toothpaste and is having me brush her teeth with her regular toothpaste, then this fluoride toothpaste – which she spits out and doesn’t rinse, and then we floss those back teeth to get the fluoride in there. Ugh. He eats a super healthy diet, and the candy is kept to a minimum. The cavities I believe are genetic – her daddy and his fam have bad teeth.
so, is it ok now that she’s old enough not to swallow it, and she was breastfed and generally kep away from the fluoride containing foods that you listed? What do you think?
You might want to read Ramiel Nagel’s excellent book on curing tooth decay. He explains all about this problem. The Weston A. Price Foundation’s website also has a TON of information for you. Your child needs to avoid ALL refined sugars and ALL processed carbs (cold cereals, factory made breads with few exceptions, storebought crackers and cookies, etc.). It’s DEFINITELY not okay to be shoving fluoride in your child’s gums! And that lame mainstream dentist line “avoid sugar” is just that–lame. Nowhere near enough. Your child needs optimal nutrition–high quality foods like raw dairy, grassfed meats, and eggs from pastured hens (NOT battery farm eggs) to heal. I’m doing this right now with my own 5yo. The teeth are an indicator of something not right in the body itself, and proper nutrition will heal him from the inside out–the only way to really heal. Hope this helps!
Hi, Shelby,
What is a “super healthy diet”?
Cavities are not genetic. They are caused by inadequate nutrition.
Here are two articles I’ve written on this topic:
http://www.cheeseslave.com/do-bread-cereal-cause-cavities-reversing-dental-decay-with-food/
http://www.cheeseslave.com/how-to-cure-tooth-decay-with-rami-nagel/
Inadequate nutrition can also be caused by a “leaky gut” — or abnormal gut flora. Does she have gut problems or food allergies?
Personally, I would definitely not ever give my child fluoride of any kind. It’s poison.
We do eat eggs from pastured hens, grassfed beef, but not raw dairy bc I’m allergic to cows milk, Zoe doesn’t like cows milk, and she’s had lots of phlegm since moving to TN so we avoid cheese/milk for her mostly anyway. She has organic plain yogurt every morning tho. We eat Ezekiel bread when we have bread, and whole wheat tortillas. She does not eat cereal, we rarely eat processed foods, no juice, and plenty of fruits and veggies. We eat a lot of homemade soups and stews, Mexican food (rice and beans for example), and she’s a fairly adventurous eater. She tested allergic to peanuts, eggs and tree nuts at 18 mos old, but we’ve never had to use an epi pen. I agree that cavities themselves are not genetic, but the strength of her teeth and their enamel I felt cld be genetic in nature. Her father and his mothers side of the family have horrible teeth that always require attention, but my family can avoid the dentist for years and have just fine reports when we finally do go. We have grown up eating similar diets, and have similar dental hygiene habits.
Hi, Shelby
It certainly sounds like her diet is very healthy.
Do you think she might have an allergy to gluten? I ask because if she is eating gluten and she is allergic, it would cause malabsorption, and that might cause cavities.
Is she on a good probiotic? Is she eating liver and/or shellfish at least weekly? Is she getting cod liver oil? Does she get homemade broth?
I pray to God that she does not have an allergy to gluten, lol. Ugh! I suspect so many of us have a sensitivity to it, though, it is in everything store bought. I try to keep from overloading her – like so many on an American diet – so that she she doesn’t develop a sensitivity. I should probably try cutting it out to see what would happen.
She has had probiotics at different points in her life, but I haven’t kept up with it recently. She has a good (sugar free, uses xylitol) multi vitamin and a Chinese herbal allergy med that she takes every day. She’s not eating liver/shellfish every week because…ew, liver (lol), and I’ve been reticent to give her shellfish bc of her other food allergies. I’m not giving her cod liver oil but should, and she does get homemade broth. Maybe I’ll add in the probiotics, fish oil, and try some shellfish.
I should also mention that, although her diet was *very* clean when we lived in SF until a year ago, it has been *much* harder to maintain her diet now that we live in the South. Yes, yes it has.
But that’s it for me for the fluoride treatments. I can’t do it in good conscience. We’ll try other things first and I’ll also talk to our acupuncturist about it to see if he has any Ayurvedic or Chinese fortifying solutions for her.
Thanks for the eye-opening post! I had read stuff like this when Zoe was younger and she was starting to get teeth, but had gotten a bit lax since we’re not surrounded by tons of like-minded families here (although there is a great community of holistic mamas out here in East TN, believe it or not) and I’m a few weeks away from the birth of my second.
Try the US Wellness Meats liverwurst or Braunschweiger. Most kids like it.
Either that or give her dessicated liver caps. You can find them on my resources page.
I’d definitely cut out the gluten for a few weeks then reintroduce it and see how she reacts. That could be what is causing the malabsorption. If you guys have gluten intolerance, your next baby will likely have it too so it’s better to know now.
Fermented cod liver oil and butter oil is really a must if you want to prevent and heal cavities.
And yes I would definitely add the probiotics — I like BIokult or ThreeLac. There is also one called GutHealth which is supposed to be good but I haven’t personally tried it. These you have to order online. I have never found any storebought brands that actually work.
Best of luck to you!
AnnMarie, is there anything to the idea that toothpaste with fluoride is ok if you don’t swallow it? I thought topical application was the one time it was actually helpful, instead of ingesting it. I always buy or make toothpaste without it, just in case, but I’ve been wondering about this.
We absorb a lot via the mucus membranes (mouth, nose, private parts) so I don’t think it’s a good idea to put anything in your mouth that is toxic.
I do not believe there is anything helpful about fluoride.
Good point about mucous membranes!
I listened to this podcast last summer that first introduced me to the idea that fluoride might be something I might want to avoid. Here is the link to a podcast interview with Dr. Paul Connet on Our Natural LIfe.
http://ournaturallife.com/blog/2011/05/the-case-against-flouride-with-dr-paul-connett-podcast-onl076/
Thanks also Ann Marie, for the links to find filters that remove fluoride. That has been on my to do list, and I was having trouble sourcing the right information. Hopefully I can narrow my search down so I can purchase a filter.
I’m so grateful to be living in a city that doesn’t fluoridate! One of the few left, it seems. I also wanted to ask if you’d heard the rumor that some of the popular anti-depressant drugs are fluoride based? I’ve heard that Fluoxetine (prozac) has a fluoride component, but am not sure of the truth of that. Do you happen to know either way? I don’t take them myself, but I know so many people who do.
Here is some interesting information that the TEA industry would rather you not know. ECGC is one of the main therapeutic compounds in tea. You get a decent amount in average brewed tea. If you make your “white” tea very strong like I do you probably get around 10 times that amount. Not satisfied with that I bought some tea extract, a brown powder that is basically dried liquid tea. I would take perhaps 500 milligrams to 1 gram per day. After around 6 months of that my left hip started to ache to the point where I had to life my leg to get it into the car. Then I had remembered that Tea extracts fluoride from the ground and concentrates it into the leaves especially the leaves used to make junk teas like Lipton. I stopped the powdered tea extract and reduced the concentration of my liquid tea. The pain in my hip dropped around 95% in the first week! Fast forward 2 years. Now occasionally I will get pain in both hips if I drink a large strong cup of “white” tea.
Obviously Tea contains a lot of fluoride. It will accumulate over years and probably is an unknown cause/initiator of bone diseases. In my case I produced in 1 year what will happen to people drinking “too” much tea in 30 years. Fortunately I was able to prove cause and affect and will be extremely wary now about all fluoride sources. The slow insidious accumulation in bones and joints will prevent people and doctors from making that easy association. I wonder what percentage of hip replacements are related to fluoride buildup in hip bone sockets? This fluoride buildup can be very small and still have major effects like throwing a small amount of powdered glass into a car engine. I am sure a doctor would have diagnosed my hip pain as early onset arthritis and given me cortisone! So if you want to experience quickly the pain of fluoridosis buy some powdered tea extract high in ECGC and take if for 6 months or so. If you want to experience it in 30 years, drink more than two cups a day of typically brewed tea. I also grant that perhaps the fluoride merely increases inflammation of an arthritic joint and might not be causal however scientists are “just now” finding out that low, imperceptible levels of joint inflammation “cause” arthritis!!!!!!
Dear Cheeseslave,
Fluoride in our water is harmful to our health, in fact it is poisoning us! Education is the key to getting this poison out of our water supplies! Thank you for the part you are doing in this! Just wanted to let you know that filmmakers Chris Maple and Paul Wittenberger have just released their film “The Great Culling: Our Water”! Both Alex Jones and G. Edward Griffin are selling and promoting this film which we thank God, but millions of innocent people are sick and completely unaware of what is happening! The reason I am writing this email is to reach out to the people who are trying to make a difference and ask them to help us spread this new film. We need your help! Chris and Paul would really appreciate your checking out their film “The Great Culling: Our Water” and would love to have you promote their film on your website.
This is a link to the first 33 min of the movie for you to watch “The Great Culling: Our Water”.
http://thegreatculling.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/the-great-culling-our-water-official-movie-first-33-min/
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Thank you for checking out “The Great Culling: Our Water”!
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Beth
ourwater@riverview.net
FLUORIDE plain and simple is TOXIC and MOST LIKELY the cause of so many
health issues….I’ve been fighting this battle for too long…
Wake up people and do your fight. Join FAN (Fluoride Action Network) and help the cause they are battling all over the world.
Okay so I read this article and then I read all the comments. You people are all just sad, if I was your child I’d kill myself. It’s not natural or healthy, any if these comments. This argument on Fluoride is almost the same as on Vaccines. Guess what, I almost died last year because my mother refused to vaccinate me. For every person who blames vaccines on awful mental problems, i understand your pain and need too blame it on something. but it is no reason to ‘educate’ a mother on lies and then have her daughter almost die at 17. And if your all so worried that you and your children will topple over dead from Fluoride then why don’t you move to Europe? Go deal with the more colorful water problems there. Try Italy. Or, be like me and end up in an Italian hospital. The radiation from your cell phones and your computers are more likely to get you before Fluoride ever does. Just a thought.
Not vaccinating people is wrong because it endangers the unvaccinated child AND all the other children they come into contact with. So I agree with you on that point. Unsubstantiated claims are dumb.
BUT, the claims that fluoride is toxic is not unsubstantiated! Fluoride has been proven to be harmful again and again. It is not a nutrient, and it is a by-product of the aluminum, fertilizer, and nuclear industries. Not a natural mineral. It causes hypothyroidism, in every scientific study done. Hypothyroidism is an epidemic in the US.
Being skeptical is fine, but before you lump all ideas into one thing, at least do a little research and decide for yourself if there’s a scientific basis or not!
Sandra Felippo, I’m sorry but you don’t know what you’re talking about. There is abundant evidence that water fluoridation and other sources of fluoride are harmful to human health. If you are not prepared to spend the time researching the issue, consider that 14 Nobel prize winners in either Medicine or Chemistry have opposed fluoridation. I have an education in science, and concluded that fluoride was causing me major health problems because the evidence for it eventually became overwhelming. You are obviously confused, because vaccines and fluoride are completely separate issues.
Why just give up fluoride? What about Vitamin A. If vitamin A builds up in our system, it can lead to increased pressure in the brain, dizziness, nausea, headaches, skin irritation, pain in joints and bones, coma, and even death. It can cause congenital birth defects, including malformations of the eye, skull, lungs, and heart. Who can stand that! We have to eliminate Vitamin A from our diets. What about calcium. We don’t need it. Excessively high levels of calcium can cause kidney failure, hardening of blood vessels and muscle, high levels of calcium in the urine, kidney stones, constipation and prostate cancer. Why end there? Why not give up iron, after all it is used in all the metals, construction of machinery and machine tools, automobiles, the hulls of large ships, and structural components for buildings, for making graphite, wrought iron, for production of ammonia, to produce fuels, lubricants, water purification, sewage treatment, dyeing process, and to make cement to list some industrial uses. All these use iron, so therefore iron cannot be good for you since it has industrial uses as well. Why not give up zinc too. After all it is used in making brass, in pipe organs, die castings, building facades, roofs, in paints, cosmetics, in making rubber, to protect from UV radiation, as a fire retardant, wood preservative, in clocks, TV screens,as a propellant, in making nuclear weapons, and as a fungicide to name a few. I am sure zinc and iron cannot be good for humans since they have such terrible unhealthy industrial uses. Let’s eliminate them from our foods!
Johanna, your argument is ridiculous. Vitamin A, calcium, iron, and zinc are essential nutrients, but fluoride is not. The nutrients you mentioned are also not dumped into water supplies, which is the most primitive method imaginable of administering anything which is supposed to benefit health, and which does not allow for individual choice. Furthermore, double-blind studies have shown that a significant proportion of the population are sensitive to fluoride, and suffer symptoms at doses to which people living in fluoridated areas are routinely exposed. Then there is the fact that the countries with high rates of fluoridation also have high and increasing rates of health conditions which have been linked to fluoride, such as obesity, diabetes, and musculoskeletal disorders. Try educating yourself, instead of talking rubbish.
Check out what the Institute of Medicine recommendations are for various nutrients. .
There have been several statements indicating that fluoride is not an essential nutrient. No symptoms of fluoride “deficiency” have ever been identified. Breastmilk is extremely low fluoride, thanks to a biological mechanism which keeps it out. The first words in the abstract of the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks 2011 report titled “Critical review of any new evidence on the hazard profile, health effects, and human exposure to fluoride and the fluoridating agents of drinking water” are: “Fluoride is not an essential element for human growth and development”.
http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/environmental_risks/docs/scher_o_139.pdf
http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/essential-nutrient/
Partically everything is bad for us in the U.S. …We got GMO food now the grass fed cows are being fed with GMO Alfafa…thanks Monsato!!! (Sarcastic ) We got fluoride in our water.We got planes spraying chemicals. We got Vaccines that have mercury in them. Theres more kids with autism and other learning disabilities. Childrem with cancer and the rise of Alzheimer’s. What bad world!!!
More like a bad country you have!!
The Problem with Chem Trails is some maybe all of the Particles contained within are so small they cannot be Filtered out
This includes nano particles which lodge in the Brain and become Transponders to Low Frequency Radio Mind Control
More disturbing is because like mentioned,these particles are actually so small thet are being absorbed and are finding their way into the food chain
In all actuality everyone is suseptible and is going to be effected to a more or lesser degree
It is all about control
seriously, “chemtrails” are water vapor.
I believe the chemtrails issue….it’s all so SICKENING what these fluoride pushers are getting away with… Personally, I support Dr. Paul Connett and his work in this issue…FAN (Fluoride Action Network)…. If we all at least supported Dr. Connett that is a lot…
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