Fluoride Fact Sheet

Here is a fact sheet complied by David C. Kennedy, D.D.S.

FACT #1 Fluoride is more toxic than lead, and just like lead, even in minute doses, accumulates in and is damaging to brain/mind development of children, i.e. produces abnormal behavior in animals and reduces IQ in humans.

FACT #2 Fluoridation is cancer-causing, cancer promoting, and is linked to increased cancer rates in rats, mice, and humans. Dr. William Marcus, Senior Science Advisor at the Office of Drinking Water stated unequivocally in his May Day Memo that fluoride is a carcinogen. Full text of the memo available 800-728-3833

FACT #3 Numerous studies, including four published in the Journal of the American Medical Association since 1990, have found that hip fracture rates are substantially higher in people residing in fluoridated communities

FACT #4 Dental fluorosis, the first visible sign of fluoride poisoning, affects from 8% to 51% of the children drinking fluoridated water and has substantially increased over the last 40 years. Dental fluorosis is more than cosmetic damage with psychological harm. It is also indicative of neurological impairment (See ref. C 3 Dr. Li)

FACT #5 All of the recent large-scale studies on fluoridation and tooth decay show that fluoridation does not reduce tooth decay. Studies from New Zealand, Canada, Europe, and the US have confirmed no difference in decay rates for permanent teeth of residents of fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated communities.

FACT #6 Fluoride drops and tablets are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as safe or effective. Ingested fluoride has no detectable effect on decay rates. Fluoride tablets and drops have been shown to be ineffective in reducing tooth decay and to cause skin eruptions, gastric distress, headache, and weakness - which disappear when fluoride use is discontinued - as well as dental fluorosis, a permanent disfigurement.

FACT #7 Fluoride causes iodine deficiency, which can result in hypothyroidism and frequently in hyperthyroidism. Fluorides were prescribed to patients suffering from hyperthyroidism as anti-thyroid medication prior to 1950. Fluoride exposure may exacerbate iodine deficiency. During pregnancy, when iodine requirements are at their peak, the fetus is especially vulnerable. Even a slightly under functioning thyroid gland can result in loss of IQ in the newborn. The following warning is required an all fluoridated toothpaste by the FDA since April of 1997 due to the large number of calls to the Poison Control Centers for children who became acutely ill from ingested fluoride. There is approximately 1 milligram of fluoride in a pea-sized drop of toothpaste. "WARNING: Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. In case of accidental overdose, seek professional assistance or contact a poison control center immediately."

The main problem with fluoride doesn’t lie with any philosophy as to whether it is good or bad or beneficial to teeth etc. The main problem is that it is in everything, not just the water and toothpaste. It is in all processed foods, all food and beverages made with water, it is in plants and animal tissues that drink fluoridated water. So the EPA’s guideline of 1ppm to 4ppm doesn’t take into account how much water people drink or ANY of the other multitudes of sources for fluoride in their diets. We are consuming toxic doses of fluoride everyday, is this the picture of Health that you want for your life? So, what can we do? The fluoridation of the water is a local government issue. Many communities have passed resolutions to stop adding fluoride to the water by starting petitions and getting the issue on the ballot. It is about education and freedom of choice. Learn more at http://www.fluoridealert.org or just google “fluoride”. You will be amazed.

Dangerous Waters

I have been sitting with this article for the entire month. I don’t even know where to begin…
Here we go. Before about 1945, Fluoride was considered so toxic that it was on the governments’ most toxic list, right between arsenic and lead. You couldn’t buy it anywhere; it was impossible to get your hands on for any price. Then in the 40’s our government decided that it needed to make the atomic bomb; massive quantities of fluorine were necessary to separate and concentrate the uranium isotopes. All of the sudden, we had close to 1 million tons of fluorine with no place or use for it….They then began doing research looking into other possible uses for this substance. They found many.

After World War II, huge quantities of fluorine have been used to produce organofluorine compounds (compounds where fluorine is attached to carbon). These include chlorinated fluorocarbons (CFCs); Teflon® (polytetrafluoroethylene), an extremely stable plastic resistant to the vast majority of chemicals including fluorine gas; and many pharmaceuticals, pesticides and insecticides. Sodium fluoride is used as a rodenticide and insecticide (mainly for roaches and ants), as a disinfectant for fermentation apparatus in breweries and distilleries, in wood preservation, and in rimmed steel manufacture. It is also the form of fluoride that they put in our water.

Now you may say “but my dentist says that it is safe and that it protects my teeth, why should I believe you?” Well, you can believe whomever you want, I just want everyone to start questioning the whole water fluoridation issue and stop accepting it as a good thing based on basically nothing. There is really no evidence to support fluoridation of our water and the studies they do have are short runs with faulty information that has been misinterpreted. I am not saying that your dentist is trying to hurt you, they have all been fed the same faulty information, and it just keeps getting passed down the line like bad DNA.

We all make choices every day regarding our health and we like to feel that we have some amount of control over what we put into our bodies and the bodies of our children. So what choice do we have with fluoride if it is in the water supply? Yeah, we can buy a reverse osmosis filter or buy bottled water, but that has a heavy impact on the environment and that is not even the worst part. Think about everything you eat and drink in a day, how much of it contains water? Let’s see, there is juice/lemonade, soup/stocks. Jams/jellies, sports drinks, tea/coffee, lunch meats, rice and soy milks, soft drinks, anything processed…they all contain water and if the product is cooked, like a soup or broth, then the fluoride in the water used gets concentrated because it does not evaporate. So it is not just an issue with tap water, fluoride is in everything because it is in our water supply! You cannot get away from it. It is even in our fruits and vegetables because they are watered with fluoridated water. And don’t think that organic products are safer; they only use a carbon filter for the water leaving all of the fluoride intact.

Did you know that the employee union at the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has filed a grievance on behalf of the employees to protect them from the toxic effects of the fluoridated water? Here is a quote from the brief: “The implication for the general public of these calculations is clear. Recent, peer-reviewed toxicity data, when applied to EPA's standard method for controlling risks from toxic chemicals, require an immediate halt to the use of the nation's drinking water reservoirs as disposal sites for the toxic waste of the phosphate fertilizer industry (24).
We have also taken a direct step to protect the employees we represent from the risks of drinking fluoridated water. We applied EPA's risk control methodology, the Reference Dose, to the recent neurotoxicity data. The Reference Dose is the daily dose, expressed in milligrams of chemical per kilogram of body weight that a person can receive over the long term with reasonable assurance of safety from adverse effects. Application of this methodology to the Varner et al. (4) data leads to a Reference Dose for fluoride of 0.000007 mg/kg-day. Persons who drink about one quart of fluoridated water from the public drinking water supply of the District of Columbia while at work receive about 0.01mg/kg-day from that source alone. This amount of fluoride is more than 100 times the Reference Dose. On the basis of these results the union filed a grievance, asking that EPA provide un-fluoridated drinking water to its employees.” Interesting, don’t you think? Especially since it is recommended that we drink close to a gallon of water a day. What is worse, is that the data is based on an adult, how many times the reference dose are our small children consuming on a daily basis?

Fluoride is not the beneficial additive that is purported to be. At least in the US we have the warnings on all tubes of toothpaste that have fluoride.
Oh, you did not know that?
Well if you have a tube of toothpaste in your house check it out and you will find the warning. There is enough fluoride in a typical tube of toothpaste to kill two small children if they consumed the entire tube at once. This really isn't rocket science. If it kills you in large doses, doesn't it stand to reason that in smaller doses it probably is not a wise choice?