The Fluoride Conspiracy... Yes, I Said Conspiracy

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I can write a lot of articles about fluoride toxicity in drinking water, and most likely will. However, I think the readers of Bluebonnet Natural Healing Therapy are highly intelligent and can handle a lot of information at once. I highly recommend that you watch this documentary in its entirety. It's a hard-hitting look at the fluoride battle from the perspective of award-winning and former BBC investigative journalist Christopher Bryson, based on over ten years of research.

Highlights include facts such as:

• Fluoride in drinking water is based on fraudulent science
• The original source for adding fluoride to the drinking water supply was the aluminum industry, which was looking for a way to get rid of it due to potential law suits from its employees
• The USDA connected air-borne fluoride to bone disease in livestock in 1970
• The leading scientist who promoted the safety of fluoride for drinking water was involved in the Manhattan Project, which developed the nuclear bomb during the 1940's
• Information which showed the toxicity of fluoride was destroyed, by order of the U.S. government
• In the 1950's corporate lawyers representing ALCOA (Aluminum Corporation of America), Dupont, Monsanto, and other corporate giants pressured scientists to only publish research showing fluoride to be safe
• Industry giants hired top advertisers to get doctors and dentists to say fluoride was safe
• A leading scientist with the EPA was fired after he blew the whistle on fluoride when a connection was found to bone cancer
• Fluoride has been found to cause ADHD and reduces the IQ in children, but the scientist who made this connection was fired instantly after going public

Fluoride in our drinking water supply is a result of aluminum and fertilizer companies dumping fluoride into the water in order to dispose of it. Livestock and wild animals who drink fluoridated water get sick and die. Sodium fluoride is the main ingredient in rat poison and some insecticides. 

image by Above Top Secret

image by The Wellington, New Zealand chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation 

Fluoride builds up in the body over time and does not come out on its own. There are ways to chelate fluoride and other heavy metals and toxins out of the body by using certain herbs and activated charcoal. As the blog grows, I will teach the readers of Bluebonnet Natural Healing Therapy how to do this. But for now, quit drinking fluoridated water.

Just How Bad is Fluoride in Drinking Water?: Fluorosis in Teeth

Before I get into the body of this post, I want to give a warm welcome to all of my new subscribers! I am thrilled and honored to have you aboard and hope I can provide you with meaty content that you can take home and use in your real lives.

I got a wonderful response to my post called "Water, Water Everywhere, But Nary a Drop to Drink... From Your Tap, That Is!" People from all over the U.S. made comments on Facebook and Google+ telling me all the "gross stuff" they were finding in their city's tap water. I got into an insightful discussion with an environmental scientist in Iowa who told me how the EPA slaps nasty fines and legal action against cities who do not comply with the federal guidelines for safe drinking water. Then he said, "... but their idea of safe and our idea of safe may not be the same thing."  He said clean water doesn't come cheap, and it is up to the voters within each city to bring pressure to bear on their city officials to ensure the cleanest tap water possible. They can and will do it, if the voters are willing to pay for it. I'd like to challenge the readers of Bluebonnet Natural Healing Therapy to lead in taking civic action to clean up our water supply.

On to today's post...

One of the ways many of us can lobby for clean water is to get our city leaders to take the fluoride out of our drinking water supply. Today I want to give you just one reason to remove fluoride from your drinking water: fluorosis in teeth.

Dental fluorosis has become a widespread problem in children due to consuming too much fluoride- image by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Haven't we all been taught to believe that fluoride reduces or prevents tooth decay? Good parents who are concerned about their children's dental health dutifully purchase toothpastes which contain fluoride, dental rinses and gels containing fluoride, and even prescription fluoride tablets which are supposed to help prevent tooth decay and cavities (caries). On top of this, fluoride is added to city drinking water because it was once believed that doing so reduced the risk of dental caries and tooth decay. The practice of over-using fluoride products has lead to an alarming occurrence of dental fluorosis in children under eight years old.

When children consume too much fluoride while their permanent teeth are developing under their gums, the fluoride actually eats away at the enamel of the teeth. Very mild fluorosis looks like this:

It may be hard to detect very mild cases of fluorosis, but the vertical ridges and the white spots near the edge of the teeth are there. It may be easier to see fluorosis when it looks like this, which is still considered a mild case:

Here the mottled, white edges are quite visible, along with a small amount of enamel erosion. Have you seen children with teeth like this?

While most people would believe that fluorosis is caused by fluoride toothpaste and rinses, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that 75% of fluoride comes from tap water consumption. To quote the CDC: "In the United States, water and processed beverages (e.g., soft drinks and [commercially prepared] fruit juices) can provide approximately 75% of a person's fluoride intake."

Here I must ask a question: If fluoride can dissolve children's teeth while the teeth are inside the gums, what is it doing to other tissues, such as bones? The Fluoride Action Network certainly thinks fluoride is dissolving bone tissue, in a fascinating article called "Fluoride and Bone Fracture." In the article, the author gives clear evidence, supported by both animal and human clinical studies, that long-term consumption of fluoridated water causes an increase in bone fractures in all populations.

Do you agree that we need not only to get fluoride out of our drinking water, we also need to stop drinking soft drinks and commercially-prepared juices, energy drinks, and even vitamin waters, because they may contain fluoridated water?