What is Fluoride?

Have you ever wondered about fluoride before? Really thought about it and wanted to know what it was and what it did? I started to wonder when I needed to by toothpaste for my daughter when she turned 1 year. The dentist said I should be sure and get a toothpaste without fluoride until she was between 2-4 and would not swallow it. This got me wondering about toothpaste, water, fluoride treatments and more...

The dentist explained to me that it was 'not good' for children to swallow toothpaste. I have since learned that it can be FATAL if your children swallow too much toothpaste, so the minor 'not good' that the dentist emphasized seems to be quite an inadequate warning. I simply read the tube of toothpaste:

Use a pea sized amount, DO NOT swallow. If more than a pea sized amount is swallowed contact Poison Control immediately. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN 6 AND UNDER.

It is toothpaste!?! What do you mean do not swallow it? I am not going to use it like whip cream but how can you not swallow it? Why would they make it taste like bubble gum if they did not want your children to try and eat it? Who's idea was it to put Oswald on the tube and make it taste like ice cream? Alas, it is that kind of thinking that keeps me from getting invited back to parties...

Okay, so we are not supposed to eat toothpaste, why?
Because it can kill you. Literally kill you, maybe not you - but your 2 year old - YES. Stone dead after an agonizing period of acute poisoning due to: F L U O R I D E.

Don't believe me? Go read your toothpaste.

Another good way to check on the deadly nature of fluoride is to check out the tank that the dentist has in his office... There is a rather large skull and cross bones on it over the word POISON. Yeppers, there is.

But What About The Water?
Yes, you in the back, speak up... What about the WATER? Yes, we fluoridate the water supply in the United States so heavily that there are more areas with fluoridated water than without... but if I cannot swallow the toothpaste then surly my water has less fluoride than the toothpaste, DUH.

You would be wrong about that.

If you live in a fluoridated community an 8oz glass of water has the same amount of fluoride that a pea sized amount of toothpaste does (and by the way when was the last time you saw any commercial, ad or person use a "pea" sized amount?) But seriously folks... Think about that for a minute... if my child eats 2 pea sized servings of fresh, whitening, bubble gum princess pink toothpaste (for a healthy smile) I need to call Poison Control and if I give her a 12oz glass of water I do not? Can someone help me through the thinking process that was used in this public health statute?

After getting confused about this I decided to ask my dentist. I mean seriously, right, he would totally know. Um, right? The dentist told me that the only problem I need to worry about is if the kids swallow toothpaste regularly, they could get brown spots on their teeth from too much ingested fluoride. But also that water fluoridation was a sound practice that helped millions battle tooth decay... he sounded a bit like a public service announcement really. And I do not give a fuck about millions, I care about me and mine, just like everyone else.

Where does a person turn when they have a question not adequately answered by a professional? Probably the internet, or an encyclopedia, maybe a medical journal? I did all three and more. I found out some amazing information, after I removed the categories concerning mind control and alien landing strips.

There is a large portion of information out there on mind control and, as always, the alien groups (the just like to get their hands in everywhere, maybe it is the aluminum foil?)... there is a LARGE portion of information on mind control and subduing populations et cetera... You cannot help but laugh at some of it. Funny and a little scary when you realize that people like that exist and are largely well armed. In fact the only reason I even bring it up at all is because there is so little factual medical information on fluoride out there. There are far more sites that offer explanations on why the US adopted the Nazi Fluoride Mind Control Plan than why fluoride turns your teeth brown. I searched and searched and searched some more. It took me months and I am still finding more.

I have learned that the fluoride they put in the water supply is a by-product of the aluminum foundry and fertilizer (weapon) making industries. It is called hydrofluosilicic acid and contains large amounts of other undesirable elements you associate with toxic waste... such as: aluminum, mercury, lead and arsenic. In fact if the companies that supply government agencies with fluoride were to dump it in the water themselves they would be fined heavily for dumping toxic wastes illegally. If they did not sell it to our water companies they would be charged by law to dispose of it in an approved toxic waste removal method... (I love modern corporate language, you can almost forget what you are talking about if you just tack on more words)

But what does the EPA say?
Interesting question... Thanks for bringing that up. The EPA states that the 2PPM of fluoride is so safe that they are increasing it to 4PPM... However there is an organization (not the mind control people...) made up of EPA scientists, researchers and workers called the EPA Union. The union was founded in response to the new trend of the officials at the EPA generally ignoring the recommendations and findings of its own workers, researchers and scientists.

The EPA Union petitioned congress to begin and immediate nationwide ban on all fluoridation programs because of new science and research that showed clear evidence of harm. More harm from fluoridation that good. Harm including: Hyperactivity in children, Dental fluorosis, Skeletal Fluorosis and Ostioscarcoma (a bone cancer). They also demanded that the EPA provide fluoride free drinking water for all employees...

Curious, isn't it?

I am going to continue this topic for a while. The amount of information is hard to include in one post. So I will continue more on the topic later, in additional posts.

Links:
A dentist talks about fluoride:

Professional Perspectives: Dr. Bill Osmunson from kevin on Vimeo.

In August of 2007 a group of 600
professionals petitioned Congress to end fluoridation because of the new
science showing health problems nationwide related to public water
fluoridation. You will find a copy of an article about the session at:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/341865/congress_will_hear_protests_
from_health.html

There is also a short video on YouTube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLVtO1VkNzQ which has a portion of the hearing/petition and an EPA representative named Dr. J. William Hirzy who is the Senior VP of the EPA Union, this union was established as a
whistle blower organization due to the EPA's refusal to accept their own scientists recommendations on many issues.

Finally a vimeo interview with Dr. Hirzy on the fluoride issue and where it stands today.

William Hirzy - Part 1 (EPA Union VP) Washington DC from kevin on Vimeo.