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Should America rethink the use of Fluoride in drinking water?
The Hill ^ | 11/15/2024 | Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz and Jeffrey D. Klausner

Posted on 11/15/2024 9:41:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Recently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. affirmed his plans to advise water systems in the United States to remove fluoride from public water. As an individual expected to influence public health policy during the next administration, his comments created substantial controversy around the risks and benefits of fluoride in drinking water.

The story of fluoride begins in 1901 when a dentist noticed that his patients from Colorado Springs, Colo., frequently had brown stains on their teeth but were also less likely to suffer tooth decay — findings he and colleagues later understood to be due to high levels of fluoride naturally entering the water from rocks and soil. Over the next 40 years, research into the subject demonstrated that adding fluoride to drinking water prevents many cavities and is good for dental health.

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Thoughts? Concerns? When I was at the gym last night Noah O'Donnell had some guy on complaining that RFK Jr is not a expert on fluoride and BLAH BLAH BLAHA
1 posted on 11/15/2024 9:41:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

a review is always good.

There will be no clear answer, shift the decision back to state and local with good scientific information.


2 posted on 11/15/2024 9:43:32 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think flouride in toothpaste and flouride treatments at the dentist office are fine. Using tax dollars to add it to the water is probably a form of graft.


3 posted on 11/15/2024 9:44:00 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just what makes up a socalled “expert” anyway? Half of them are nutbags given their credentials by liberal nutbag media types!~


4 posted on 11/15/2024 9:44:18 AM PST by princess leah ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes, we should. We spend all this morning putting the bloody stuff into the water supply and then all this money buying Berkeys and PURs and Britas to remove it.


5 posted on 11/15/2024 9:44:27 AM PST by Dahoser (The Harris campaign and media allies are not using JOY and FORWARD accidentally. Look them up.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

6 posted on 11/15/2024 9:45:30 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Duh.

Oh, wait a minute.


7 posted on 11/15/2024 9:46:46 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You only have to look at the publication named “Book of British Smiles” to see the need for fluoride!
Lol
😂 🤣🦷


8 posted on 11/15/2024 9:46:48 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am a fan of pure water.

although I am always up for some added toxins.

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9 posted on 11/15/2024 9:48:26 AM PST by algore
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes without a doubt, fluoride needs to be removed from our water supply, in particular. Fluoride is known as a toxic halide that mimics iodine by attaching to your iodine receptors (mainly in the thyroid) and blocks your absorption of iodine. This is one of the main reasons there is such a problem with thyroid disease. We don’t get very much iodine in our diets here (unfortunately) and the little we get is blocked from absorption.

Get rid of fluoride, chlorine and bromine to a great extent and we’ll be MUCH healthier


10 posted on 11/15/2024 9:49:10 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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Adding things to the water should be avoided because if you are adding enough to be effective you can add enough to be a health problem.

It is the same reason you should check out your supplements. Anything you are taking enough to make a difference is no different from medicine. It needs to be treated as such.

11 posted on 11/15/2024 9:49:51 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fluoride was in every tube of toothpaste I’ve ever bought.

Given that fluoride is in most toothpaste, I don’t think it is necessary to add it to drinking water.


12 posted on 11/15/2024 9:52:19 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: spacejunkie2001

Iodine is typically added to table salt.


13 posted on 11/15/2024 9:55:27 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27
If you know the history of the science, you would say "no" to fluoride in your water. Post mortem analysis of a town in Texas where most died from long term fluoride consumption out of contaminated wells found that despite the folks being dead, they had perfect teeth. Thus the idea was launched that if we poison them just a little bit, we can get the benefit of dental health without killing folks.

No.

14 posted on 11/15/2024 9:55:52 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We need to regain control of our Precious Bodily Fluids.


15 posted on 11/15/2024 9:57:20 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Brian Griffin

just enough to keep you out of the grave. table salt is total garbage. every good thing has been stripped from it then they add anti caking and bleach (real salt is NOT white).

Supplementing iodine is critical to good health, particularly the right ratio of iodine to iodide (Iodoral or Lugol’s as 2 examples)


16 posted on 11/15/2024 9:57:20 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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My thought is that fluoride should be legal and anyone who wants to take it in pill form or whatever should be free to do so.

My elementary school friend used to take a little red fluoride pill every day.

It doesn’t need to be in the water supply. It’s not something that cleans or purifies the water. It’s medication.


17 posted on 11/15/2024 9:59:30 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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But people are not using table salt. They are going with Kosher and Sea salt because they want to avoid the anti-caking agents that can make your food taste off.

Which means they are missing out on the iodine as well.

Also even if you are taking iodine if the iodine receptors are blocked by iodine imitators you will not absorb the iodine it will just wash out of your body as excess.

18 posted on 11/15/2024 9:59:49 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I know my city does not fluoridate the water, which I’m grateful for.


19 posted on 11/15/2024 10:01:16 AM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What happens to the chemical compounds containing fluorine after they are consumed by humans and animals?

Are they excreted, and then go into the sewer, and then into the rivers and oceans? What is the concentration in ocean water, and is it increasing? What is the effect on ocean wildlife? (I’m glad the whales don’t have cavities, but what other effects are there?)

When they started fluoridating the water supply, did they even think for a moment about the consequences? Did they realize that the consequences were irreversible? Were their minds capable of thinking that there were consequences?


20 posted on 11/15/2024 10:01:18 AM PST by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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