Sodium fluoride

[technoextreme]

Fluoride overdose is bad for tendons. I seem to have a bad-tendon syndrome, so I've been avoiding it. That state law mandates putting it into the water supply "when funds become available". Not anytime soon.

You do realize that fluoride occurs naturally and that a large number of fluoride treatment faciliteis are actually designed to ensure that it is taken out of the water.

 

[GreenLines]

There's controversy about it for some, but most people, I guess, are fine with it. My grandmother-in-law was talking to me about it a few weeks back. When I looked into it there didn't seem much reason to have it around. Her and her husband use well water at their home, and I don't think she liked it much when I said that fluoride was naturally occurring and that their water probably has four times the fluoride levels as the city water does.

Then again, the people who think that there's "controversy" over it are probably the same ones that have been inundated with crap like "All your health problems are from a backed-up colon," or "These LED lights can reduce your pain," or "Use this magnetic bracelet to get rid of your arthritis."

 

[jhutchins11]

You do realize that fluoride occurs naturally and that a large number of fluoride treatment faciliteis are actually designed to ensure that it is taken out of the water.

"Fluoride research had its beginnings in 1901, when a young dental school graduate named Frederick McKay left the East Coast to open a dental practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. When he arrived, McKay was astounded to find scores of Colorado Springs natives with grotesque brown stains on their teeth. So severe could these permanent stains be, in fact, sometimes entire teeth were splotched the color of chocolate candy. McKay searched in vain for information on this bizarre disorder. He found no mention of the brown-stained teeth in any of the dental literature of the day."

http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/oralhealth/topics/fluoride/thestoryoffluoridation.htm

The teeth discoloration was caused from fluoride ingestion within the water, causing them to have excessive fluoride deposits making them strong.

The breakdown of the enamel is caused from bacterial growth within micro-structures of the teeth, as the cells divide they push outward and cause fractures and cavities as the roots of a tree growing through and into asphalt and cement.