We've been told a lie, a lie that has led to the degredation of our health. What we're told is that fluoridation or the addition of fluoride to our water supply is healthy when in actuality it is a neurotoxin that can have some severe side effects upon consumption. We've been lied to that fluoride is harmless and is beneficial to our health and I will go into detail how it is in fact dangerous and should be removed from our water supplies.

A study conducted by Harvard in 2012 went into the details of the effects of fluoride among children when it came to cognitive and neurological functions. The report pooled data from over 27 studies, many of them from China, carried out over the course of 22 years. The results were published in a journal by the Enviromental Health Sciences and showed that there was a strong connection between exposure to fluoride in drinking water and decreased IQ scores in children. The results suggest that fluoride may be a developmental neurotoxicant that affects brain development at exposures much below those that can cause toxicity in adults.

A more recent study conducted in 2013 by the journal of Archives of Toxicology showed that fluoride and male infertility in mice were a link. The study’s findings suggest that sodium fluoride impairs the ability of sperm cells in mice to normally fertilize the egg through a process known as chemotaxis. This is the latest in a multitude of studies done that have all identified a link between infertility and fluoride consumption. Chinese plants that distribute fluoride for our water supply display warnings of drinking water with fluoride. One Chinese manufacturer, Shanghai Polymet Commodities Ltd,. which produces fluoride destined for municipal water reserves in the United States, notes on their website that their fluoride is “highly corrosive to human skin and harmful to people’s respiratory organs”.

When fluoride is ingested, approximately 93% of it is absorbed into the bloodstream. A good part of the material is excreted, but the rest is deposited in the bones and teeth, and is capable of causing a crippling skeletal fluorosis. This is a condition that can damage the musculoskeletal and nervous systems and result in muscle wasting, limited joint motion, spine deformities, and calcification of the ligaments, as well as neurological deficits. Large numbers of people in Japan, China, India, the Middle East, and Africa have been diagnosed with skeletal fluorosis from drinking naturally fluoridated water. In India alone, nearly a million people suffer from the affliction. While only a dozen cases of skeletal fluorosis have been reported in the United States, Chemical and Engineering News states that “critics of the EPA standard speculate that there probably have been many more cases of fluorosis – even crippling fluorosis – than the few reported in the literature because most doctors in the U.S. have not studied the disease and do not know how to diagnose it.

In 1988 the ADA claimed that fluoride can reduce cavaties by up to 60%. In their most recent studies that number plummeted to around 18-20% while other studies have shown to have it's ability to reduce cavaties as low as 12%. To introduce a poison to our water supplies with more negative effects than positive effects one has to ask the question. Why are we still poisoning ourselves?