as a result of our children will be healthier and is the practice of adding fluoride compounds to the public water supplies for the purpose of reducing tooth decay the policy which began in the united states in the one nine hundred forty s has been hailed by the oral health division of the united states centers for disease control as one of the top ten public health achievements of the twentieth century however a growing body of science indicates the fluoridation is neither safe nor effective in this video examine why over two thousand health scientific medical dental and environmental professionals are calling for an end to fluoridation worldwide is the dispensing of a drug this is a way of delivering a medicine were i use a drug is a medicine fluoride being put in specifically daughter you physically to make a physical change in you this is not chlorine this is not any number of the other  chemicals that are used to treat the water make the water safe and drink up all it's not like chlorine use to make the water supply safe and kill the bugs in the was why this is the only thing anywhere in the world that gets added to the municipal drinking water is to actually treat the human to treat the body there is absolutely no drug on the market that's given in a one dose fits all situation  now in this case you have it in the water and people are drinking different amounts of water so you have huge variations in the consumption you can have an athlete a laborer who drinking many many times the amount of water you can have some diabetic who's drinking a ton of water compared to the have reached the whole aim of the game and pharmacology is to deliver the right dose to the right person at the right time and that's not what  what i would prefer an individual use approach i would have no problem with a doctor or dentist prescribing fluoride for a patient that he was keeping in touch with in monitoring for possible side effects and for for the efficacy of the drug that's essentially what's done with any other drug in a swathe should be done for florida we don't put other things in the water to try to keep everybody's blood pressure down or everybody's stroke risk down and there's no reason why we should be trying a one size fits all approach for this either the problem with adding meds into water is an obvious one of consent that people can't give their informed consent which is a basic of medical ethics we are allowing communities to do to everybody in the community what individual doctor cannot do to an individual patient and that is prescribe medication regardless of the informed consent of the patient what physician material in his right mind would treat help somebody else's teeth voters medicaid each other whether they want to or not and if fifty one percent of the voters say we're going to medicaid everybody in town and they all get medicaid whatever benefit there is from florida teeth is topical rather than systemic it's been shown that it's really a topical effect principly rather than a systemic effect it's affective topically not when it swallowed there's no reason for people be exposing themselves all their internal organs to fluoride when if it works you can you can do something topical if you want to prevent sunburn you don't drink suntan lotion you put it on your skin and so if you want to have the benefits of justification for going the whole population to take it systemically to swallow it internalize it for that benefit because it's available in toothpastes it's available in dental treatments of the dentist  o i don't think you can justify the fluoridation of drinking water on the lines of a topical treatment it's illogical one of the recommendations i've made is because we we now know that it doesn't need to be swallowed that the public has to be informed again informed consent they should be told that it doesn't work by swallowing many of the countries in the world the developed countries no longer flirty never did florida most european countries do not florida austria belgium the netherlands france germany sweden norway denmark iceland italy greece portugal the overwhelming number of countries in the world do not for a date and guess what the teeth just as good if not better than  world of very interesting if you look at the world health organization database for twelve year olds that tooth decay has been coming down as rapidly in these known for dated european countries as it's been coming down in the united states and  where water is florida hated from those in countries where it isn't far dated actually you can't pick them out so i found that very surprising against the background of as i say having been a what you really need to look at and what matters at the end is what's your total body load so are getting a lot of heart from a lot of different sources we've had a tremendous increase in florida from many sources water is one source when we drink that water and when it's made into soda pop or is meeting beverages made into soups made into other products we get fluoride from that source also and we also have a lot of pesticides that have come on the market that we fluoride r on fruits and vegetables fluoride is a very common component in pesticides and so you know if you drink a glass a grape juice that not organic grape juice and it's got skins on it you're going to get a very high level for i just from your grape juice and they're also getting it from toothpaste studies have shown that you swallow quite an honor to air the children's all quite a bit toothpaste even if they're in are told not to swallow it it just happens by accident and they don't rinse as well as adults and sometimes they don't have a smaller actions and therefore they're getting a lot of fluoride from that so who's monitoring this exposure of when are we getting too much known ones monitoring that nobody's looking at the total exposure to ensure that we're not getting too much that certain sub groups aren't getting too much the reality is we need to reduce our florid intake two thousand and five the center of disease control admitted that thirty two percent of children in the united states including children known for areas have dental cirrhosis about a third of the children in this country have some form of dental ferocious meaning that they had too much fluoride exposure during their early childhood dental floros this is damage to the tooth because if too much florid exposure we swallow too much fluoride and it shows up as white spots brown spots on the teeth you see these white spots or splotches or lines in more severe furrows as you actually see the surface layer flaking off you see brown spots and in severe cases there's actual chipping pitting and erosion of the tooth dental for roe versus is a biomarker that your child has been over exposed to fluoride during the development of that we now believe that there are several mechanisms involved fluoride could be inhibiting impacting those the enamel cells in the teeth means that it can also impacts cells elsewhere in the body the promoters of always had this fight that you could damage the growing tooth ename the enzymes the g proteins or however that happens without damaging any of the tissue in the body at the same time and i think that's very unlikely not only does it is it an effect on teeth what's happening in the teeth is is very likely happening in the bone as well because that would have a similar kind of structure of hydroxy appetite a mineral structure in the bone in the tooth your teeth are sort of a window into the bone a window into your skeleton so if there's this adverse effects going on in the teeth there are very likely to be adverse effects going on in the bone it's a a sign of toxicity it is not just to be taken or dismissed as as merely a cosmetic effect this whole debate has been captured for over fifty years by the dental lobby by dentists whose preoccupation is teeth where teeth are not the only issue in the body as dentists we diagnose pathology of the mouth diseases of the mouth and we tend to disregard or not involve ourselves with the diseases of the rest of the body because it's not within our purview it's not within our license to diagnose other parts of the body flows definitely the dental community has had a monopoly if you will on the study of fluoride and they have absolutely put use tunnel vision to look at fluoride as a dental concern however it is not just a a dental concern it's a toxicity concern the national research council has a report that just came out in two thousand and six which is one of the best sources of finding out what florida is doing to the rest of the body one of the most interesting things in the report is that a diversity of the number of organs that are being affected by the fluoride beyond either the teeth or the bones we'd we do need to get away from looking only at fluoride in connection with teeth we need to be considering it's effect on a whole bunch of other systems in the body on on people's general health in a whole lot of respect i think the a d a s recent statement on warning against any florida aboard a baby formula is a watershed decision the american dental association has finally done what it should have done infants just and to drink one of the messages which i think is extraordinary in this whole issue is that the level of fluoride in mother's milk is so extremely low it's point zero zero four parts per million which is two hundred  fifty times less than we put in the drinking water there been a couple men who has said well maybe mothers milk is flawed but most scientists don't go that route they say mothers milk seems to be the best we have the best we of and if it's low in florida maybe that's what we should have for infants is low fluoride nature has devised a system for keeping through right away from the infant and we're circumventing that by putting thought into drink water and i think there are consequences i think parents should know that fluoride is an extremely active chemical when it gets into our body it can interfere with the pineal gland it can interfere with the fire oig line the thyroid gland and the gland both intimately involved with brain development mental develop a real concern with with with young kids especially with with newborn infants is that the the blood brain barrier is not fully developed at that point and when  children are drinking formula made with florida drinking water there they're getting a high huge and inappropriate dose of florida in the developing brain this may be part of the reason for instance of the depression of i q that we've seen in these chinese studies you do not want to create a floride exposure during a period of brain vulnerability all of these things indicate serious indicators that you shouldn't expose young babies to fluoride and of course that's exactly what happens when you put floyd in the water how are low income kids supposed to or low income families supposed to avoid giving their kids florida  water they can't afford to avoid it they can afford to seek sources of of drinking water that has no fluoride in it i think the low income communities could be at higher risk for adverse effects from fluoride exposure or from water as far as i can see there is no doubt that the intake of fluorinated water is going to interrupt basic functions of nerve be more study of several areas there certainly seem to be effects on the developing brain but there may also be affects on on the brain in older individuals as well the research on the brain since our study was published has  absolutely confirmed what we we predicted and what we reported in like in ninety five there are now thirty animal studies which indicate the four i could damage the brain and this comes on top of a number of early seventy's in the early seventy's scientists knew that high levels of lead could cause brain damage in children and other health effects but they felt that subclinical levels of lead ok i think the same thing is happening now with fluoride that it's only a function of getting more and more sensitive tests to show that even lower levels of fluoride can cause lowering of i q and other subtle effects you know while these bits of further research are going on to elucidate what the absolute truth is we should be taking more precautionary starts and saying ok for the time being we don't have heard i the concern about fluoride and effect on the fire ojt is multifold fluoride was used to suppress hyperactive thyroid especially in europe back in the forty's and fifty's and the doses that were used to suppress fire activity are now in the range that people are getting in the in the u s from this vast overexposure fluorite there is a consistent body of literature that indicates that florida exposure does reduce thyroid function in humans in an experimental animals and that the exposures in humans associated with these folks or in the range of exposures they expected with people who drink florida needed water a large percentage of the population united states does have some problem with the thyroid gland the marge number of people who have hypo thyroid underactive thyroid now may very well be related to the fact that there's so much for eye in the environment the ingestion of fluoride does affect the actions of the thoroughbred gland a hypothyroid individual should definitely be concerned about drinking floor dated water because it would take a very serious clinical condition and it could make it even worse the effects of hypothyroidism even probably borderline hypothyroidism things like depression lethargy when a person just doesn't feel like getting up and doing anything there are obviously a lot of things that can cause that but low thyroid function is among them in low thyroid function is a contributor contributor to depression and in some perhaps many people we have several studies as a matter of fact in the united states that have shown that fluoride can increase fracture rates in peer reviewed studies and in prestigious journal such as the journal of the american medical association that showing increased risk of bone fracture based on the amount of fluoride that a person consumes and consuming it in the level that people get from drinking for drinking water we do know from animal studies that the strength of the bone actually starts to decline the more foreign you have in the bone the fluoride makes the bone more brittle sufficient accumulation of fluoride in the bone seems to make them weaker it makes to more dense on x ray film but this is associated with a more brittle structure and of course we're concerned about hip fractures because that's a huge cost to the health care system hip fracture in the elderly in all too many cases means that  that the person is not going to walk again or or will even d has yet looked carefully at florida and its cities or florida populations and looked at the symptoms of arthritis to determine whether or not fluoride as is contributing to this  make or possibly epidemic of arthritis that we have in north america i think there's every reason to be concerned that today fluoride is one of the factors contributing to the epidemic of arthritis in this country according to the c one in three american adults have off some form of arthritis that's sixty eight million americans supposedly the four out exposures in this country not usually high enough to get to but again it's an area that really has not been studied well i think it's likely it's not a given but i think it's likely that a lot of of early stage skeletal fluorosis does show up as bone and joint pain in but it's never recognized as fluorosis if i was an arthritic individual i would be eliminating every possible source of florida exposure that i could think  if you asked most dentists and ask them what they're putting in the water most dentists would say so tim floyd pharmaceutical sodium floyd the same stuff that is in toothpaste they have absolutely no idea that it's a night out of gases into the environment hides in florida and silicon tetra for right eventually they were required to capture those and they did it with the wit spray water and that water converts these two very toxic gases into supply if they would take that scrub or liquor and dump it into the the local river it's a water pollutant but if they put it into a tank wakin and sell it to somebody and water authority like magic it's not a pollutant and they can take that and do your drinking water supply and that discharge it into your river they just charge it directly into your drinking water supply slowly bleed it in and as magic it's no longer a toxic pollutant it's now what's called  product it's never purified is not a pharmaco pharmaceutical grade compound it's a mixture of whatever the collects in the stack yes and it contains lots of contaminants a lot of heavy metals when you're talking about out in florida drinking water you're not just talking about adding fluoridation chemicals you're talking about adding all of the industrialized by products that come along with it in oregon where we've got one hundred thirty five communities that are already exceed  the drinking water standards for arsenic the idea of having a more arsenic in drinking water even if it's small a all amount just doesn't make a lot of sense i find very few people who actually with an open mind read through the science understand the significance of the questions and what the direction that all the new science is pointing in terms of the risks of fluoride who still go on to say we are a force and everybody is tricky we have better ways of improving dental