Who says we’re getting too much fluoride? None other than HHS

It’s not often you hear the government say less and fluoride in the same sentence.

And that’s why I couldn’t believe what I was hearing!

The Department of Health and Human Services has just recommended that communities lower — that’s right – lower, the amount of fluoride added to our drinking water.

And that’s been a long time in coming, because they haven’t touched these recommended levels since 1962.

But now they’re being cut almost in half.

So what could be behind this dramatic proposal? After all, fluoride is the most sacred of sacred cows grazing in the fed’s farmyard of fairy tales.

Could it be that they’ve finally seen the light and realize just how dangerous it is?

Not exactly.

The feds are saying they did it to keep children safe from getting “barely visible” little white marks on their teeth. It’s nothing much, HHS says, just an insignificant cosmetic thing.

But that “little” thing, called dental fluorosis, is actually a really big deal.

Dental fluorosis was almost unheard of before the widespread use of fluoride. Now, over 40 percent of kids have some form of it. And it’s not just tiny, faint white spots on teeth, either.

Fluorosis can range from white streaks to pitting, dark staining and even the actual crumbling of teeth. And then there’s the danger of excessive fluoride accumulation in places you can’t see, such as the bones, pineal gland and arteries.

All from our daily glass of fluoridated tap water.

Fluorosis is just the (visible) tip of the fluoride iceberg.

Fluoride can zap your thyroid function, causing weight gain, high cholesterol, memory problems, depression and exhaustion. Imported fluoride from China (yes, China!) added to our drinking water has been found to contain lead, arsenic and aluminum.

And numerous studies have uncovered that fluoride can lower a child’s IQ.

When Dr. Philippe Grandjean from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health heard about these new fluoride recommendations, his comment was that to have “the best possible brains in the future” we needed to be awfully careful about how much fluoride is put in the water.

He ranks it right up there with the damaging effects of lead and mercury.

So maybe in another 53 years we’ll hear back from the feds again about fluoride. Of course, if you don’t feel like being a guinea pig for even one more day, it’s time to take matters into your own hands.

If you live in a community that adds fluoride to your drinking water, get a water purification system – such as a reverse osmosis filter — that can take the fluoride out.

Because the only safe amount of fluoride added to drinking water is none – as in zero.

Sources:

“Feds say it’s time to cut back on fluoride in drinking water” Rob Stein, April 27, 2015, NPR, npr.org