Check out this video on fluoride in the water and toothpaste.  We found it disturbing, enlightening and another example of why we must use a water filtering system in our homes.

In the video, Dr. Osmunson is introduced to us as a leader in the opposition for fluoride in the water.  His creditability includes being a full-time dentist for over 30 years in Pacific Northwest.  He also has an MPH or Masters in Public Health and brings a unique perceptive because of his growing up in Africa the son of missionaries.

The interview focuses on some of the recent research Dr. Osmunson has been doing on fluoride in toothpaste and fluoride in the water.  He provides information on why fluoride should be removed from our drinking water.  This plays into why we at Pure Elements have for years believed in filtering fluoride using some type of water treatment or water purification like reverse osmosis.

Fluoride was believed to be good as far as dental health was concerned.  The doctor himself promoted fluoridation for over 25 years.  However, during the last 5 to 8 years some of the doctor’s patients encouraged him to take a closer look at fluoride.

Like most dentists, he has given out free toothpaste samples.  However, when he started looking at the labels, some inconsistencies troubled him.  One of the instructions commonly found on toothpaste tube labels show an age preference or limit for younger kids.  In addition, it says right on the label that a very small portion of toothpaste should be used.  A much smaller amount than you will ever see in television and marketing ads.  Those ads portray putting fluoridated toothpaste the entire length of the brush and back with a swirl.  According to the tube’s label, that is way too much.  In fact that amount could make up more than a month’s worth of fluoride laced toothpaste! The fluoride toothpaste manufacturer’s label recommends using about the size of a small pea.  Plus, on the same label it notes that if you ingest too much toothpaste you should contact the poison control people.  The FDA it seems allows some variable wording.  That seemed frightening to us considering that if you did not know already, fluoride is considered a poison.  That gets explained further later in the interview.

The doctor then holds up a glass of Chicago tap water, which is said to contain around a quarter milligram of fluoride in the water, which is about what you are told in toothpaste not to use.  Therefore, the perplexing thing is that we are being told to not swallow a quarter milligram of fluoride in our toothpaste but it is okay to drink a quarter milligram of fluoride in the water.  This does not make any sense to anyone.

Why is there so much controversy surrounding fluoride in the water?

The doctor felt like he should know this because he did not.  Dr. Osmunson than tells us about an experiment that was done where a drop of fluoride was put under the tongue of a mouse.  That drop was 10 parts per million less than is in the glass water which is about 100 times more.  The experiment was able to measure the attention deficit reduction of the mouse.  Although Dr. Osmunson does not come out directly and say it here, we believe he means to say the fluoride caused the mouse to be unable to concentrate well.

Therefore, we know we are getting some neurological damage from the fluoride.  The latest research is finding an eight-point IQ drop when the serum blood level goes from .04 to .08.  So when the fluoride level doubles in the blood serum is where the eight point IQ drop occurs.  Fluoride is very toxic in fact more toxic than lead.  Of course, we do not want lead in us either because that causes brain damage too.  Installing a water purifier is the only way presently to raise water quality and reduce the threat of these types of contaminants.

So one of the big concerns Dr. Osmunson has is about the brain.  He feels that for every IQ point that is dropped there is also a correlation between the amounts of money that a person could potentially make during a year.  He gives the example of $1000 less a year a person will earn per drop in IQ point.  This is fascinating and frightening to us!  First thing we thought of was the overall drop of quality education in this country.  Combine this with water fluoridation and we will have a serious lack of brainpower developing in the US.

The doctor makes a great point about dentists fix teeth but no one fixes IQ.  Irreparable damage is happening to our country.  If you compare states on which ones have the most fluoride in their water Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Hawaii and several other states have the lowest percentage of water with fluoride.  Then the graph goes up to a certain point where almost all states are fluoridated.  Findings show there is a tripling of mental retardation in the more fluoridated states.  Illinois is a prime example of this tripling effect.

The American Dental Association recommends that a woman have about 3 mg per kilogram of fluoride a day.  Men should have about 4 mg.  Our question is according to what reasoning are these seemingly arbitrary amounts suggested if fluoride is considered a poison?  Why would anyone want to take in a known poison?  That same suggested recommended amount causes a level of fluoride in the blood consistent with an eight-point IQ drop.  What is going on here with water and fluoride?  While not one for conspiracy theories, this seems to us like the kind of thing were someone is lining their pockets at the health expense of millions of Americans.  The perplexing nature of the fluoridation of water gets more crazy as the interview continues.

In the United States, we do not do many studies on the adverse effects of fluoride.  Fluoride is always being promoted so it has been deemed counterproductive to show it in a negative light we guess.  It seems like people do not want to find out that we are having problems with it.  However, a study was done by the Center of disease control in China.  China does not allow fluoride to be put in the water at all.  They know it is too toxic and it causes damage.  Therefore, what China does is they take their waste products of phosphate fertilizer, which is fluoride, and ship it to us here in America.  China is where most of the fluoride comes from.  We actually drink what the Chinese will not allow in their water.  Does that make any sense to you because it sure does not to us!

We use all the fluoride we make here in the United States but it has been viewed to not be enough.  Therefore, we actually have it imported from China.  To clarify, we import industrial waste from China so we can put in our water.  How do you feel now?  And of course the waste is contaminated with lead, arsenic, radium, aluminum and a host of other contaminants.  It is not a cleaned up pharmaceutical grade that is put in our water but rather a lesser grade.  Do you think the idea of water filters and a fluoride filter is starting to look a little more appealing?

The thought of brain damage from fluoride in the water is so staggering to the doctor that it is hard for him to grasp.

In other words, he is in shock over it.  We know the feeling.  In addition, the latest research has published by the National Institute of Health, which is about as prestigious as you can get in certifying authority and publishing research.  The doctor assures us that the research is very good quality.  US studies on fluoride, blood serum levels and how that relates to IQ loss have rarely been done here.  He is saying that in this particular area, China has done research that the US has failed to do for whatever reason.

If you really want fluoride, just swallow a pea-sized piece of toothpaste and you will have plenty, the doctor infers.  It is not as if you cannot get it somewhere else.  However, it does not need to be in the water.  Dr. Osmunson’s feeling is he is highly opposed to fluoridation of water and we at Pure Elements agree.  There are so many health inconsistencies that it can relate to it to do with bones, fractures, the pineal gland in the brain, and the health of teeth.

The risk to teeth health has not been looked at.  He agrees with almost everyone that he has spoken with knows that too much fluoride creates dental fluorosis.  No one he knows disputes this.  Moreover, skeletal fluorosis is a risk too.  White or brown spots formed on the teeth identify dental fluorosis.  If it is just on one tooth and not on the other teeth, it may not be the fluoride.  If several teeth show the spots, developing at the same time than that it is fluoride.  You only get this condition when you are younger and the teeth are still developing.  It happens when teeth are developing inside the bone.  The National Research Council states that fluoride does not show any beneficial effects after the age of eight.  This is because the teeth are finished forming after eight.

The only reason it seems fluoride is in the community water is the hope it will reach children between the ages of one and eight.  For the rest of us there is no benefit but rather detriment.  The National Research Council, which is the highest scientific body in the United States, says there is no benefit for anyone over the age of eight with fluoride.  Yet it is in two thirds of our water supply.  It is a markedly stupid situation.  Also, we only drink less than 1% of the water that is fluoridated.

It should be the patient or the parent’s choice as to whether they want a fluoride treatment or not.  It should not be forced on the entire community.  We should be allowed to choose.

The doctor goes on to talk about how little fluoride affects even preventing tooth decay.

Therefore, while fluoride is forced on us now in our tap water, filtering it and reducing its presence can be achieved.  It is the only solution available to us consumers right now since most municipalities will not be removing fluoride from the water anytime soon.  There are two ways of reducing fluoride in your home and Pure Elements can explain them both to you if you are interested.  Call or email us today to discuss your options  to get fluoride in the water reduced.