Author: Ian McAllister
Water Fluoride Lie: Fluoride in your water is good for you, especially for your teeth.
If you believe that the government should do something about the population explosion then you will approve of having fluoride in our drinking water. Decreased testosterone, lower sperm counts and lowered birth rates all result from fluoride intake.
My Biochemistry lecturer at the University of Aberdeen told us in 1960 that Fluoride is bad for your teeth. It makes them yellow and brittle. So knowledge about the bad effects of fluoride is not new.
So why is it in our water supply?
Fluoride is a by-product of bauxite mining. As long as we use aluminium we will have to find a way to get rid of this toxic by-product. At first it was sold as rat poison, but the rats were too clever. They learned to recognize the smell of the fluoride that was killing other rats, and wouldn't eat fluoride from then on.
It would have been very expensive to create toxic waste dumps, so someone had the brilliant idea that if they lied convincingly enough to the public, they could persuade us that it was good for us. Even though we are more intelligent than rats our sense of smell is inferior.
You are drinking poison
The trouble was that fluoride rat poison killed too fast, so the rats could associate the smell with the deaths. So Warfarin was invented. It takes several weeks to kill rats by internal bleeding, so other rats don't realize that it is killing them. The additives to our water supplies are silicofluorides which are 85 times as toxic as calcium fluoride which occurs naturally.
Silicofluorides are more toxic than lead, and, like lead build up in the body until they damage the mind and body. Your IQ goes down. You don't absorb vitamins and minerals as well so even if you are eating enough calcium to avoid osteoporosis you won't be digesting it.
Even the FDA, the drug-companies' pet watchdog, classifies fluoride as a prescription drug that could never react the legal requirements for safety and effectiveness. You can't control how much you take once it is in your water.
Do we need fluoride?
During pregnancy a baby absorbs fluoride from its mother. After birth the mother successfully prevents most of the fluoride from reaching her milk. So for a time the baby is excreting more fluoride than it gets from the milk. So if fluoride is necessary, it must be in amounts too small to measure.
Does it help your teeth?
The publicity campaign assured us that bad teeth would be a thing of the past. As a result bits keep breaking off of my teeth, and they are yellow instead of white.
There is no difference in the amount of tooth decay in fluoridated and unfluoridated areas but fluorosis makes dental treatment more expensive in fluoridated areas.
Most children in fluoridated areas now suffer from dental fluorosis. After the age of 5 fluoride doesn't cause fluorosis, which is recognized by scientists world-wide as the first clinical sign of fluoride poisoning, but of course the poisoning is still there. Fluorosis is unsightly damage to tooth enamel that makes children unwilling to smile.
Fluoride damages your skeleton
It can cause bone cancer, but even if you don't get cancer think of these figures.
According to research young adults store about half of the fluorine that they ingest in their bones. If that amounts to 1.8 grams per year it would come to over 50gm by the age of 30. Raj Roholm recorded debilitating skeletal fluorosis at that level. Hip fractures become common in the elderly because fluoride fights calcium digestion.
Mind damage
You may be the intellectual type. You don't much care what happens to your body because it is your mind that you use all day. Recent population studies found that humans become less intelligent when they get fluoride, and this was backed up by a study with rats.
In November 1995 some research was done in China that concluded that children with dental fluorosis are likely to be more stupid. It seems that the horrible appearance of teeth affected by fluorosis is only the least of your worries - fluoride causes neurotoxicity.
Most developed countries reject fluoridation
Belgian dentists agreed that fluoride is ineffective when ingested, though it might work if applied directly as toothpaste. So Belgium banned fluoride supplements to avoid nervous system damage and increased risk of osteoporosis.
In the USA you get fluoride from the water supply, dental products, and foods watered with fluoride and processed with fluoridated water. That means that problems caused by fluoride are becoming widespread. Most developed countries have rejected or banned fluoride because it can not be controlled.
Uncontrolled amounts
The American Dental Association Supplement Schedule says that fluoride drugs must not be prescribed to babies younger than 6 months. But they get it in their drinking water. From 6 months to 3 years there are strict limits which are exceeded every time a child drinks a glass of fluoridated water.
What is more, I drink more than the 8 eight-ounce (237ml) glasses of water each day which means that I am getting possibly two or three times as much fluoride as members of the general public.
That isn't all, there is so much chlorine in my water that I can sometimes smell it. That level means that I am exposed to toxic chlorine gas every time I have a hot shower.
Chlorine in water supplies
You probably remember when organochlorine agricultural chemicals were banned because they were too toxic. Chlorine reacts with organic matter in your water supply to make organochlorine compounds.
Historically it was successful in preventing epidemics of cholera, typhoid, dysentery and hepatitis. If you know anything at all about Chinese agriculture you will recognise these as diseases that can be spread by using human excrement as fertilizer.
So the Chinese race must be dieing out...mustn't it? Well, that's what the theory says!
It has been shown that chlorine vapour in showers causes cancer
How can you avoid it?
Well, once more it is a rich man's privilege. You can buy very expensive water filters that will remove a lot of the impurities. Or better still you can build rainwater tanks and pass the water through filters to remove the pollution absorbed by the rain.
A better solution
A better idea would be to stop adding chemicals to the water supply and warn people that the water might carry bacteria. On many occasions I have drunk water from swamps, and from a river that was downstream from villages that used the river as a toilet. If it ever happened that an infection started to spread from the water, we could be warned to boil the water until the problem had passed. Our immune systems are truly vicious if we eat a healthy diet, and your white blood cells will soon gobble down the few bugs that make it to your blood stream.
If municipalities stopped treating the water supply there would be a few deaths before we adapted to the bacteria. The people of Bali don't get Bali Belly because they are used to the bugs in their water supplies.
If you eat out very often you are probably immune to these bugs already. Tests show that most foods at restaurants is infected with salmonella, and other food-poisoning organisms, but out of the millions of meals eaten, only a few cause food-poisoning because people are already immune to them.
But removing more than 40 chemical additives from our water wouldn't fight the population explosion as well as the water fluoride lie...would it?
If you still haven't read about the diet lies that are the biggest killers, read my earlier articles in this series. 
Next in this series (which ends by telling you how to avoid the lies for a healthy diet) you can find out about the lie that resulted in 14 times more people catching tuberculosis. 
