An Introduction to Fluoride

I would like to start this anti-water fluoridation blog by talking about the supposed reasons for fluoridation. Health Canada would have us believe that fluoridating our water supply helps to prevent dental decay. They used to claim that swallowed fluoride became part of a child’s tooth enamel even before the tooth erupted in its mouth. This incorporated fluoride was supposed to make teeth more resistant to decay.  The authorities have now rejected this idea, because there was no evidence it was true, and have concocted three new explanations for how fluoride is beneficial.

• Fluoride defends the teeth by slowing down the demineralization of calcium and phosphate from the tooth enamel.

• Fluoride “remineralizes” enamel by adding a fresh crystal layer of calcium and a durable fluoride compound known as fluorapetite.

• Fluoride combines with acid from fermenting foods and forms hydrogen fluoride (HF). This destructive chemical then enters cell membranes, interfering with enzyme activity, making the “bad bacteria” impotent.

(You will notice that even if these claims were true, none of them require drinking the fluoride. You would only need to swish it around in your mouth.)

They defend these claims by producing data that shows how the rates of dental decay have fallen slowly since they began water fluoridation in the 1940’s. They don’t show the data demonstrating the same decline in other non-fluoridating developed countries. They clearly can’t or choose not to discern between cause and correlation.

The truth is that fluoride destroys teeth, and every other bone and joint in your body.

Fluoride does provide a temporary defensive “crust” over your tooth, all the while eating away at it from the inside out. Once the decay penetrates the “crust” it is soon over. The decay quickly and easily destroys the tooth.

These smiles are not what they promise us.

Skeletal Fluorosis: A continuation of dental fluorosis whereby excessive amounts of fluoride are ingested. Here is the result in severe cases: 

 They promise us white smiles, but instead our bodies are saturated with the most dangerously reactive element known to man, cursing our society with an endless number of chronic ailments including:

• Arthritis
• Sluggish metabolism
• Impaired thyroid function
• Depression
• Nervous system disorders
• Skeletal fluorosis
• Irritable bowel syndrome and indigestion
• Heartburn
• Psoriasis
• Exhaustion
• Headaches 

I don’t know about you, but I really don’t think the side effects are worth the non-existent benefits. The last time I checked, chemicals that don’t help you, but really harm you instead are called poison (which incidentally, is a common use for fluoride). 

Possibly the least reassuring part of the fluoridation agenda is where the authorities are sourcing the fluoride. The fluoride, in the water I drink, is scrubbed out of the inside of a smokestack. A superphosphate fertilizer factory in California is required by law to limit the belching of fluoride waste into the atmosphere because of its toxic effect on the local citizens and their environment. So, rather than safely disposing of their own toxic waste, they sell it to public water treatment plants, like ours in Lethbridge, so that we can be poisoned instead. That sounds like a sweet deal for everyone but us.

This has to stop. The Lethbridge City Council and the Mayor have a responsibility to protect us. They have no business forcefully poisoning us. We do not have to grin and bear it.

Learn more at FluorideFreeLethbridge.com.