When it comes to fluoridated water, we have been sold on the idea hook, line and sinker. But Donald Trump’s appointment of RFK Jr. may turn the tides on how we view fluoridated water. Until now, any criticism of fluoridated drinking water has been lambasted by the medical establishment as baseless conspiracy and paranoia. Nevertheless, the case against drinking fluoridated water is strong, and Trump’s appointment of RFK Jr. may revolutionize the future of human health.
An outspoken critic of drinking fluoridated water, RFK has claimed fluoridated water is linked to, “industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.”
Fluoride was first introduced into the U.S. in 1953 after Doctor Frederick Mackay, a dentist, began to investigate reasons behind the discoloration of children’s teeth; he discovered that high concentrations of fluoride in drinking water had caused this discoloration. But he was also startled to learn that it prevented tooth decay.
Today, ¾ of Americans have fluoride in their drinking water supply.
According to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, “Today, just about every toothpaste on the market contains fluoride as its active ingredient; water fluoridation projects currently benefit over 200 million Americans, and 13 million schoolchildren now participate in school-based fluoride mouth rinse programs.” As the figures indicate, McKay, Dean, and the others helped to transform dentistry into a prevention-oriented profession. Their drive, in the face of overwhelming adversity, is no less than a remarkable feat of science—an achievement ranking with the other great preventive health measures of our century.
Australia quickly followed suit by fluoridating its water supply in 1953.By 1977 most states had it and according to a 2017 study, just under 90% of the Australian population has fluoride in the drinking water supply.
Today the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) claims:
“In Australia, community water fluoridation programmes are considered a safe and effective way of reducing tooth decay across the population. Tooth decay is one of the most common health problems in Australia. It can cause pain, difficulty eating and sleeping, and may make people feel unhappy about their appearance. In Australia, dental health has improved since water fluoridation began in the 1950s. Compared to their parents’ generation, Australians born after 1970 (when the majority of water fluoridation programmes commenced in Australia) have about half the level of tooth decay.”
Objections against fluoridated water have been aptly dismissed again and again. In 2016, the National Institute of Health in Australia reviewed all the evidence and claimed that “there is no reliable evidence that water fluoridation at current Australian levels causes health problems.”
For the pro-fluoridated water camp, the benefits to oral health far outweigh the potential risks associated with ingesting fluoride. Typing this position, Misha Ketchell argued ‘ Fluoride in drinking water is in the spotlight again. Let’s not forget how it transformed our oral health. In it, he systematically attempted to deconstruct any objections to drinking water containing fluoride.
Ketchell claimed “It’s reasonable to want to know what’s in our drinking water and to ensure it is safe. But discussions about toxicity are meaningless without context.
Excessive fluoride intake can have harmful effects, such as weakened bones (skeletal fluroisis). But the key word is “excessive.”
Anything can be toxic to humans if the dose is too high, even water itself. The amount of fluoride needed to cause harm is much higher than you get from drinking water.
In Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council states and territories fluoridate their drinking water supplies within a range of 0.6 to 1.1 mg/L.”
The risks of adding fluoride to water are extremely low. But several recent cases demonstrate the very real health risks of not fluoridating water.”
Very conveniently, Ketchell misses the key point. The real issue is not that anything in high amounts can be toxic to humans; the issue is that fluoride accumulates in the body over a lifetime. Over 70% of the human body is made up of water, we need to drink water to survive and we also shower in water. So what happens over a lifetime of drinking and showering in fluoridated water? The shocking truth is that it accumulates in the body and brain. For instance, in her 1997 PhD dissertation, Jennifer Luke of the University of Surrey argued that fluoride accumulates over time in the body’s pineal gland.
In 2006 the National Academy of Sciences attested to Luke’s initial findings. It reported.“ Fluoride has been shown to be present in the pineal glands of older people (14-875 mg of fluoride per kg of gland in persons aged 72-100 years), with the fluoride concentrations being positively related to the calcium concentrations in the pineal gland, but not to the bone fluoride, suggesting that pineal fluoride is not necessarily a function of cumulative fluoride exposure of the individual (Luke 1997, 2001). Fluoride has not been measured in the pineal glands of children or young adults, nor has there been any investigation of the relationship between pineal fluoride concentrations and either recent or cumulative fluoride intakes.”
Cardiac Professor of Surgery Donald Miller also argued, “Fluoride inhibits the enzyme acetylcholinesterase in the brain, which is involved in transmitting signals along nerve cells.
Fluoride also damages the brain, both directly and indirectly. Rats given fluoridated water at a dose of 4 ppm develop symptoms resembling attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. High concentrations of fluoride accumulate in the pineal gland, which produces serotonin and melatonin.”
Fluoride’s impact on IQ is also startling. In 2008, Dr. Vyvan Howard, a fetal pathologist and professor of toxico-pathology asserted that studies demonstrate children’s IQs are lower in highly fluoridated areas. Explaining that fluoride is a neurotoxin and adversely affects the thyroid hormone, which impacts intelligence.
While the findings do not prove causation, at the very least it does establish a correlation between fluoridated water and lower IQ.
Another 2012 Harvard University study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives, the analysis found that children who lived in fluoridated areas had a profoundly lower IQ than children who lived in low-level fluoride areas.
Harvard went on to state. “Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain.”
“The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.”
The International Business Times also raised the findings of a Chinese study on fluoridated water. It said, “Exposure to fluoride may lower children’s intelligence, says a study published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Fluoride is added to 70 % of U.S. public drinking water supplies.“ About 28% of the children in the low-fluoride area scored as bright, normal, or higher intelligence compared to only 8 percent in the “high” fluoride area of Wamaio. In the high-fluoride city, 15% had scores indicating mental retardation, and only 6 percent in the low-fluoride city. The authors of the study eliminated both lead exposure and iodine deficiency as possible causes for the lowered IQs.”
Yet, the medical establishment suffers from an Orwellian doublethink. It can hold to the notion at fluoride is completely safe to drink in water and deny any evidence that suggests it may not be so safe after all. Ask most dentists, and they will tell you that both the topical application of fluoride during dental treatments and fluoridated drinking water are safe. But the claims go unchallenged in spite of evidence to the contrary. Almost every mainstream medical organisation and body in dentistry holds to a blind faith in drinking fluoridated water. Notwithstanding, Dentistry’s desire to become a ‘prevention-oriented profession’ is driven by a nanny state mentality and the public pays for it. Governments do not always know best, and it is much easier for the population to hand over responsibility for their own health to the government and its medical bureaucracy. Fortunately, we live in a time where research and studies are available to the general public, so when politicians and medical bodies swear by the traditions and customs of questionable practices, people ought to question why. When there is contradictory findings within medical science, there is a dire need for further investigation. When medical body’s perpetuate the narrative that fluoridated water is completely safe to drink despite a growing body of evidence to the contrary, the public is entitled to question the validity of the medical establishments claims.
While many claim that the fluoride debate is settled, RFK’s appointment into Trump’s cabinet has the chance to threaten the status quo. RFK indicated on X: “The Trump White House will advise all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water.” People have the right to drink water that is free of neurotoxins, and RFK’s bold move would shine a light on the research into fluoride that has been conveniently ignored for decades.