[21] Fluoride in Drinking Water Part 1 of 3

Do you avoid drinking tap water because of the presence of fluoride in your local water supply?

 

Are you unsure whether or not fluoride in drinking water is good or bad for your health?

 

Do you want to avoid drinking water that contains fluoride but aren’t sure how you can you can best protect you, and your children’s teeth, without using fluoride?

 

If that’s you, you’re in the right place!

 

In this three-part series on fluoride in drinking water, I’m chatting to both an acclaimed dentist and toxicologist in an effort to uncover the facts and find the information so you can make an informed choice about your drinking water that best suits you and your family.

 

In this first interview, where I’m chatting with Dr Agim Hymer from First Bite Dental, we discuss:

• When are why fluoride was first added to drinking water.
• How tooth decay issues have changed over time (from ancient times to the early 1900s and beyond) and how decay rates decreased by 60% after the addition of fluoride to drinking water.
• Why the caries (i.e. cavities or tooth decay) rate in the general population is currently increasing.
• The extreme difference in issues in patients presenting to dental surgeries in towns where the water is not fluoridated compared to those where the water is fluoridated.
• The portion of the population where tooth decay issues are most concentrated.
• How our hospital system is struggling at its current capacity and could not cope with an influx of tooth decay issues in children if fluoride is removed from drinking water.
• The links between mouth infections and heart disease and other conditions including pneumonia, low birth weight babies and premature babies (that our medical system is struggling to address)
• Just why the World Health Organisation has listed water fluoridation as one of the top ten health initiatives that benefits the general population.
• Why people who floss, brush and who eat a good wholefoods, low-sugar diet are not immune to tooth decay (hint: it’s got something to do with genetics!).
• Why the mass medication argument against fluoride in drinking water is invalid (because you CAN choose to filter it from your supply)
• The fluoride concentrations in drinking water, toothpaste, mouth rinse, gels and dental fluoride treatments.
• And more!

 

 

In this three-part series on fluoride in drinking water I’ll be chatting to both an acclaimed dentist and toxicologist on the issue.

 

There will be a fabulous freebie on fluoride in drinking water available, where I’ve summarized all the findings, both for and against, including the best ways you can remove fluoride from your drinking water should you choose to do this, and this will be available for you to download here after Part 3 of this investigation goes live in mid March 2016. If you’re reading this before that date you can still enter your details and it will be emailed to you as soon as part 3 is LIVE!

 

I’m all about presenting balanced information to you so you can make up your own mind so without any more chatter from me, make sure you listen to Part 1 of this series on Fluoride in Drinking water where I’m chatting to a man who runs a widely acclaimed naturopathic dental practice 'First Bite Dental' in Melbourne, Dr Agim Hymer.

 

This issue is definitely a complex one and it’s about to get more complex because in the next episode, Part 2 of the feature on fluoride in drinking water, I’m chatting with toxicologist, and former Associate Professor and leading researcher in Health and the Environment at Murdoch University, Dr Peter Dingle, who will share all his reasonings why fluoride should be removed from our drinking water supply.

 

Stay tuned!