I don’t want to alarm you, but – FLOURIDE IS NOT NECESSARILY
A GOOD THING! Okay, for years I’ve kind of dismissed the crazy-hippie people
who harp about the dangers of fluoride. Every now and again I’d catch a whiff
of legitimacy to their arguments and I’d buy a tube or two of non-fluoridated
toothpaste. But the kids grumbled about the taste of the natural toothpastes
and after weighing the brushing-with-fluoride vs not-brushing-at-all dilemma,
I’d throw a tube of Colgate in my cart.
When our doctor discovered we were on well-water, he
immediately said we should fill a fluoride prescription for the kids. I filled
the prescription, but the following week we visited the dentist. When I asked
him if the kids should be on fluoride pills since we had well water, he rattled
on about how there might be fluoride naturally occurring in our well water and
the supplements weren’t critical. He didn’t say there was any danger in taking
them, but he did say, “They probably don’t need to take them every day.” For
the past ten years, he has been noncommittal, neither telling us to take them
nor warning us against them. In fact, he never brings up fluoride pills unless
I do. I think MDs have a phobia of contradicting each other. I never did give
the kids those fluoride pills (and none of them have a cavity yet, (KNOCK ON
WOOD).
But today I read a study from Harvard (HARVARD!) that says
that yes, indeedy, fluoride has been identified as one of the neurotoxins that
are causing the rise in autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other cognitive disorders.
Neurotoxins are chemicals that are dangerous to the developing brain. The
Harvard study named twelve culprits. A few of the chemicals on the list seemed
vaguely familiar, but FLOURIDE I know. If you want to read the summary in the
Lancet, here
it is.
