Fluoride is Poisoning Our Drinking Water

10 Facts About Fluoride

1. Most Developed Countries Do Not Fluoridate Their Water

More people drink fluoridated water in the US alone than in the rest of the world combined. In Western Europe, for instance, 97 percent of the population drinks non-fluoridated water.

2. Fluoridated Countries Do Not Have Less Tooth Decay Than Non-Fluoridated Countries

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is no discernible difference in tooth decay between developed countries that fluoridate their water and those that do not. The decline in tooth decay the US has experienced over the last 60 years, which is often attributed to fluoridated water, has likewise occurred in all developed countries (most of which do not fluoridate their water).

3. Fluoride Affects Many Tissues in Your Body Besides Your Teeth

Many assume that consuming fluoride is only an issue that involves your dental health. But according to a 500-page scientific review, fluoride is an endocrine disruptor that can affect your bones, brain, thyroid gland, pineal gland and even your blood sugar levels.2

There have been over 34 human studies and 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage,3 including lower IQ in children, and studies have shown that fluoride toxicity can lead to a wide variety of health problems, including:

Increased lead absorption Disrupts synthesis of collagen Hyperactivity and/or lethargy Muscle disorders
Thyroid disease Arthritis Dementia Bone fractures
Lowered thyroid function Bone cancer (osteosarcoma) Inactivates 62 enzymes and inhibits more than 100 Inhibited formation of antibodies
Genetic damage and cell death Increased tumor and cancer rate Disrupted immune system Damaged sperm and increased infertility
4. Fluoridation is Not a "Natural" Process

Fluoride is naturally occurring in some areas, leading to high levels in certain water supplies "naturally." Fluoridation advocates often use this to support its safety, however naturally occurring substances are not automatically safe (think of arsenic, for instance).

Further, the fluoride added to most water supplies is not the naturally occurring variety but rather fluorosilicic acid, which is captured in air pollution control devices of the phosphate fertilizer industry. As FAN reported:

"This captured fluoride acid is the most contaminated chemical added to public water supplies, and may impose additional risks to those presented by natural fluorides. These risks include a possible cancer hazard from the acid's elevated arsenic content, and a possible neurotoxic hazard from the acid's ability--under some conditions--to increase the erosion of lead from old pipes."

5. 40% of American Teenagers Show Visible Signs of Fluoride Overexposure

About 40 percent of American teens have dental fluorosis,4 a condition that refers to changes in the appearance of tooth enamel that are caused by long-term ingestion of fluoride during the time teeth are forming. In some areas, fluorosis rates are as high as 70-80 percent, with some children suffering from advanced forms.

It's likely this is a sign that children are receiving large amounts of fluoride from multiple sources, including not only drinking water but also fluoride toothpaste, processed beverages/foods, fluoride pesticides, tea, non-stick pans and some fluorinated drugs. So not only do we need to address the issue of water fluoridation, but how this exposure is magnified by other sources of fluoride that are now common.

It's also important to realize that dental fluorosis is NOT "just cosmetic." It can also be an indication that the rest of your body, such as your bones and internal organs, including your brain, have been overexposed to fluoride as well. In other words, if fluoride is having a visually detrimental effect on the surface of your teeth, you can be virtually guaranteed that it's also damaging other parts of your body, such as your bones.

6. For Infants, Fluoridated Water Provides No Benefits, Only Risks

Infants who consume formula made with fluoridated tap water may consume up to 1,200 micrograms of fluoride, or about 100 times more than the recommended amounts. Such "spikes" of fluoride exposure during infancy provide no known advantage to teeth, but they do have plenty of known harmful effects.

Babies given fluoridated water in their formula are not only more likely to develop dental fluorosis, but may also have reduced IQ scores. In fact, a Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water have "significantly lower" IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas.5 A number of prominent dental researchers now advise that parents should not add fluoridated water to baby formula.

7. Fluoride Supplements Have Never Been Approved by the FDA

The fluoride supplements sometimes prescribed to those who are not drinking fluoridated water have not been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention of tooth decay. In fact, the fluoride supplements that the FDA has reviewed have been rejected.

"So with fluoridation, we are adding to the water a prescription-strength dose of a drug that has never been approved by the FDA," FAN noted.

8. Fluoride is the Only Medicine Added to Public Water

Fluoride is added to drinking water to prevent a disease (tooth decay), and as such becomes a medicine by FDA definition. While proponents claim this is no different than adding vitamin D to milk, fluoride is not an essential nutrient. Many European nations have rejected fluoride for the very reason that delivering medication via the water supply would be inappropriate. Water fluoridation is a form of mass medication that denies you the right to informed consent.

9. Swallowing Fluoride Provides Little Benefit to Teeth

It is now widely recognized that fluoride's only justifiable benefit comes from topical contact with teeth, which even the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged. Adding it to water and pills, which are swallowed, offers little, if any, benefit to your teeth.

10. Disadvantaged Communities are the Most Disadvantaged by Fluoride

Fluoride toxicity is exacerbated by conditions that occur much more frequently in low-income areas. This includes:

Nutrient deficiencies
Infant formula consumption
Kidney disease
Diabetes
African American and Mexican American children have significantly higher rates of dental fluorosis, and many low-income urban communities also have severe oral health crises, despite decades of water fluoridation. FAN continues:

"The simple fact is that poor populations need dental care, not fluoridation chemicals in their water. The millions of dollars spent each year promoting fluoridation would be better spent advocating for policies that provide real dental care: like allowing dental therapists to provide affordable care to populations with little access to dentists. In short, fluoridation provides good PR for dental trade associations, but bad medicine for those it's supposedly meant to serve."

"The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by
future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present
by the reduction of numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary."

Initiative for the United Nations ECO-92 Earth Charter

"One America burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangledeshes. This is a terrible thing to say in order to stabilize world population,
we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."

Jacques Cousteau, UNESCO Courier

"A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion.
At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."

United Nations, Global Biodiversity Assessment

"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline would be ideal."

Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major United Nations contributor

"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer.
No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation."

(David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations).

"War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die
if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow.
My favorite candidate for eliminating 90% of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal,
and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90% mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that.
You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine."

Dr. Eric Planka, University of Texas, speaking on the topic
of reducing the world's population to an audience on population control


A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells. The population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people.
We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many
apparently brutal and heartless decisions."

Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb

"We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy
as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind."

Francis Crick, the discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA

"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Leader of the World Wildlife Fund

Malthus has been vindicated; reality is finally catching up with Malthus. The Third World is overpopulated,
it's an economic mess, and there's no way they could get out of it with this fast-growing population. Our philosophy is: back to the village."

Dr. Arne Schiotz, World Wildlife Fund Director of Conservation

"There is a single theme behind all our work -- we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through
nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador or in Iran or in Beiruit.
Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it ..."
"Our program in El Salvador didn't work. The infrastructure was not there to support it. There were just too g*d*m many people...."
To really reduce population, quickly, you have to pull all of the males into the fighting and you have to kill significant numbers of
fertile age females...." The quickest way to reduce population is through famine, like in Africa, or through disease like the Black Death...."

Thomas Ferguson, State Department, Office of Population Affairs

"Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large
and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries."

Dr. Henry Kissinger

"The world's population needs to be reduced by 50%." "The elderly are useless eaters."

Dr. Henry Kissinger

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly
growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region
and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of
each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits."

Obama's Science Czar John P. Holdren: From EcoScience

"It is easier to kill a million people rather than trying to control a million people... people are fighting back ...
our capacity to impose control over humanity is at an historical all time low ..."

Zbignew Brzezinski