Fluoride Is Not an Essential Nutrient
In the 1950s, dentists believed that fluoride was a “nutrient.” A nutrient is a vitamin or mineral that is necessary for good health. Dentists believed that fluoride ingestion during childhood was necessary for strong, healthy teeth. A “fluoride deficiency” was thus believed to cause cavities, just like a deficiency of calcium can cause osteoporosis, or a deficiency of vitamin-D can cause rickets. It is now known, however, that fluoride is not a nutrient. As acknowledged by the CDC, the fluoride content of a tooth has little bearing on whether or not the tooth will develop a cavity. According to the CDC:
“The prevalence of dental caries in a population is
not inversely related to the concentration of fluoride in enamel, and a
higher concentration of enamel fluoride is not necessarily more
efficacious in preventing dental caries.”
SOURCE: CDC. 2001. Recommendations for using fluoride to prevent and control dental caries in the United States. Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Review 50(RR14):1-42.
SOURCE: CDC. 2001. Recommendations for using fluoride to prevent and control dental caries in the United States. Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Review 50(RR14):1-42.
Excerpts from the Scientific Literature:
“Safe, responsible, and sustainable use of fluorides
is dependent on decision makers (whether they be politicians or parents)
having a firm grasp on three key principles: (i) fluorine is not so
much ‘essential’ as it is ‘everywhere,’ (ii) recent human activities
have significantly increased fluorine exposures to the biosphere, and
(iii) fluorine has biogeochemical effects beyond bones and teeth.”
SOURCE: Finkelman RB, et al. 2011. Medical geology issues in North America in O. Selinus, et al. (eds). Medical Geology. Springer Publishing.
SOURCE: Finkelman RB, et al. 2011. Medical geology issues in North America in O. Selinus, et al. (eds). Medical Geology. Springer Publishing.
“Fluoride is not essential for human growth and development.”
SOURCE: European Commission. 2011. Critical review of any new evidence on the hazard profile, health effects, and human exposure to fluoride and the fluoridating agents of drinking water. Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER), page 4.
SOURCE: European Commission. 2011. Critical review of any new evidence on the hazard profile, health effects, and human exposure to fluoride and the fluoridating agents of drinking water. Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER), page 4.
“Fluoride is not in any natural human metabolic pathway.”
SOURCE: Cheng KK, et al. 2007. Adding fluoride to water supplies. British Medical Journal 335:699-702.
SOURCE: Cheng KK, et al. 2007. Adding fluoride to water supplies. British Medical Journal 335:699-702.
“[F]luoride is no longer considered an essential factor for human growth and development…”
SOURCE: National Research Council. 1993. Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride. National Academy Press, Washington DC. p. 30.
SOURCE: National Research Council. 1993. Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride. National Academy Press, Washington DC. p. 30.
“These contradictory results do not justify a
classification of fluorine as an essential element, according to
accepted standards.”
SOURCE: National Academy of Sciences. 1989. Recommended Dietary Allowances: 10th Edition. Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy Press. p. 235.
SOURCE: National Academy of Sciences. 1989. Recommended Dietary Allowances: 10th Edition. Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy Press. p. 235.
Statements from U.S. Government Agencies:
“In summary, FDA does not list fluorine as an essential nutrient.”
SOURCE: Food & Drug Administration, October 1990. [See letter]
“The United States Public Health Service does not say that sodium fluoride is an essential mineral nutrient.”
SOURCE: U.S. Public Health Service, May 10, 1966. [See letter]
SOURCE: U.S. Public Health Service, May 10, 1966. [See letter]
“Sodium fluoride used for therapeutic effect would be
a drug, not a mineral nutrient. Fluoride has not been determined
essential to human health. A minimum daily requirement for sodium
fluoride has not been established.”
SOURCE: Food & Drug Administration, August 15, 1963. [See letter]
SOURCE: Food & Drug Administration, August 15, 1963. [See letter]
The Institute of Medicine Report (1997)
Some commentators have cited a 1997 report from the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) as demonstrating that fluoride is an essential nutrient.
The IOM report, however, does not do so — a fact confirmed by both the
President of the Institute of Medicine (Kenneth Shine), as well as the
President of the National Academy of Sciences (Bruce Alberts). In a
jointly authored letter on November 18, 1998, Alberts and Shine unequivocally stated:
“Nowhere in the report is it stated that fluoride is
an essential nutrient. If any speaker or panel member at the September
23rd workshop referred to fluoride as such, they misspoke. As was stated
in Recommended Dietary Allowances 10th Edition, which we published in
1989: ‘These contradictory results do not justify a classification of
fluoride as an essential element, according to accepted standards.’” [See letter]
Censorship is real....:
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Dear Julie:
Over the past several years there have been growing concerns about the increased power of internet companies and social media giants to restrict and censor certain types of online content that run counter to prevailing orthodoxies, including issues surrounding health freedoms. New algorithms rolled out in Goggle Search and in social media timelines have made obtaining and sharing vital information about health topics such as fluoride increasingly difficult. Organizations like the Organic Consumer’s Union, Dr. Mercola, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, and other groups have seen their web traffic, social media engagement, and even email delivery rates sharply decline. While FAN has yet to experience the more extreme measures of censorship other groups have suffered, FAN is taking steps to meet the challenges of a changing internet landscape in which censorship is becoming more and more commonplace.
One of the steps that FAN has taken is to diversify our social media presence.
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Now more than ever, we must work together to share vital information with others by word of mouth, by text and email, and by sidestepping increasing censorship on the internet and on social media platforms. If you are interested in learning more about internet censorship and what you can do to navigate the new online landscape, visit our webpage on censorship.
Jay Sanders
Education & Outreach Director
Fluoride Action Network
Fluoride is a poison. Fluoride was poison yesterday. Fluoride is poison today. Fluoride will be poison tomorrow. Does anyone remember our BOH representative saying fluoride is a nutrient? I believe she has said this more than once, this is another big fib from our BOH. H. Trendley Dean the father of fluoridation had his data manipulated so fluoride the poison could be sold to us the sheep. Even though you may be the pillar of health and your sister is ill most of the time, in the largest study ever done fluoride made no difference. We are living in a house of lies. When in doubt get it out.
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