Toxic Teeth
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out
Human teeth overall have a mildly negative electric charge, especially when the dentin is exposed where the enamel has eroded away. This charge potential is most evident when you bite a piece of foil or eat acidic foods and get that electric tingle sensation in your mouth. This is important to remember as we go forward.
Sodium fluoride is a highly toxic chemical that is the by-product of manufacturing phosphoric acid for fertilizers and refining aluminum. These processes create barrels of the toxin, which requires an entire list of safety precautions when handling it. Safely handling and disposing of sodium fluoride is a costly process that eats into profits.
In the 1940s and 1950s, a series of studies were conducted that found certain communities had very few dental problems, especially cavities, or caries for our British readers. The seminal paper was Dean, Jay, Arnold & Elvove — Chicago-area domestic water studies, published in 1942. This led to a long series of papers on the topic that found natural levels of calcium fluoride in the local water supply was strongly associated with good dental and bone health.
Similar studies were carried out across dozens of communities across the US. In nearly every case, natural calcium fluoride in the water supply was associated with strong tooth enamel and bones, which are made of calcium phosphate. Thus, the studies concluded that fluoride was good for humans.
Wait, what?!
Calcium fluoride disassociates as CaF2(s)→Ca2+(aq)+2F−(aq). If you took high school chemistry, then you’ll have noticed that the calcium forms a positive ion, and the fluoride forms a negative ion. If you remember basic electro-magnetism, opposite charges attract.
If you remember the first paragraph, exposed dentin has a slightly negative electrical potential, which means that the calcium ions would be attracted to places where the enamel had eroded and exposed the dentin. If conditions are right, the calcium ions would bind to the eroded enamel and rebuild the tooth. Thus, fewer cavities. The remaining ions would enter the body as dietary calcium to be absorbed by the bones.
To recap what we have, calcium fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral found in many community water supplies and associated with strong teeth and bones. It is considered minimally toxic because it is not easily dissolved in water, and any toxicity would be from the fluoride ions, not the calcium.
On the other hand, we have sodium fluoride—a bioactive inorganic salt, which if swallowed can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, salivation, thirst, sweating, weakness, tremors, convulsions, shock, and potentially death at extreme dose. NIOSH lists gastrointestinal symptoms and systemic effects for sodium fluoride exposure. Acute poisoning may cause hypocalcaemia, muscle spasms, seizures, dangerous heart rhythm disturbances, cardiovascular collapse, and death. ATSDR notes that large one-time sodium fluoride ingestion can cause stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, and that extremely large amounts can be fatal.
Long-term excessive fluoride intake, such as lifelong drinking water, toothpaste and dental treatment exposure, can cause bone and joint problems, including osteosclerosis, calcification of tendons and ligaments, stiffness, pain, deformities, and in severe cases crippling skeletal fluorosis.
Instead of building teeth and bones, sodium fluoride blocks calcium and phosphate from teeth and bones, causing brittleness and joint damage, as well as a host of muscular and neurological problems. Sodium fluoride can also release very toxic gas when in contact with acids, such as in the mouth and stomach. A recent European SDS lists H301: Toxic if swallowed and EUH032: Contact with acids liberates very toxic gas.
There is credible evidence that high fluoride exposure can be associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, especially lower IQ scores in children. But the strength of the claim depends heavily on dose, timing, and source of exposure.
The most important recent source is the U.S. National Toxicology Program’s 2024 monograph. After reviewing studies through October 2023, NTP concluded there is moderate confidence in an association between higher fluoride exposure and lower IQ in children. But it also stated that there were insufficient data to determine whether the U.S. recommended community-water level of 0.7 mg/L has a negative effect on children’s IQ. NTP also found no evidence of adverse effects on adult cognition.
It’s very difficult to get clear information on the effects of sodium fluoride. Sources are filled with enough hemming, hawing and weasel words that the language ties itself in a knot. Can’t imagine why. Should such a thing be conclusively proven, it would make every city council, dentist, and half the US water companies directly liable for generations of health issues, and not just brain function.
Globally, the International Association for Dental Research states that over 400 million people in 25 countries are routinely poisoned with community water fluoridation. Every one of those 400 million have a potential legal claim for mass poisoning and lifetime of physical and mental disabilities. The basids will never admit anything, much less culpability.
I grew up drinking Texas hill country well water, which is full of calcium carbonate. My kids all drank city water filtered specifically for sodium fluoride, or bottled spring water. Unfortunately, we all used fluoridated toothpaste and had fluoride dental treatments, but I would say our overall intake was quite a bit less than many folks.
All of this makes you wonder, though, how many of our old age issues—stiff joints, fragile bones, heart and kidney issues, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, cognitive fog—isn’t caused by a lifetime of sodium fluoride exposure and vaccines from birth.
it also makes you wonder, was water fluoridation just a convenient way of dumping tons of toxic industrial waste, using deliberately misinterpretted “studies” that focused on fluorine instead of calcium.
I’d hate to think that the “authorities” began an intentional, insidious and on-going program to poison human beings, to at least create lifelong demand for “health” services, and at worst a global population control system. The more I read, though, the likelier this seems to be.
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The glaringly obvious film choice for today’s topic is Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), with commies under every stone attacking our precious bodily fluids. Not nearly as brilliant, but watchable is Dark Water (2019), about a crusading lawyer fighting corporate corruption, blah blah blah. It’s not too bad and Tim Robbins gives a great performance. Eats up a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon.
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Even paranoid people have real enemies, as the old saying goes. My guess is that, yes, there are evil doers who just wanted to make money and didn't care about the damage they were doing to others. You know, like the pharmaceutical executives and their lacky running dogs in all our various institutions who knew mRNA injections were dangerous and didn't work as they claimed. Then, you have the people who are just dumb and can't figure anything out on their own. Then, there are those who know something or some policy is dangerous but go along because they're sold their souls for cash/career growth, etc. Think of most all the msm and academics. Then there are those who are servile and believe anything anyone in authority tells them and never question them. This group is made up of socialists of various types. (The Party is never wrong and The Leaders are benevolent and high-minded defenders of the proletariat/working class/poor, etc.).
The eugenicists having been saying for centuries (since Malthus) that are too many people on earth and there needs to be a "culling" to reduce populations to 4 billion, or 2 billion, or 1 billion or 500 million, ..... or something. My guess is this, which you so accurately explain, is just another tool in the box to eliminate excess populations through war, pestilence, disease, or infertility.
If I remember correctly (it was around 50 years ago that I read this information) the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) was a sponsor of some of the studies that showed the addition of flouride in municipal water supplies would reduce cavities. As luck would have it a great problem for Alcoa was what to do with all of the excess sodium flouride that they were unable to dispose of. Out of the goodness of their corporate heart they agreed to sell it to municipal water supplies all over the United States. The same water departments that had recently received the recommendation to add flouride to their drinking water to improve the health of their customers. A very fortunate set of circumstances for them and the government. A toxic substance turned into a public health benefit! If your congressman and the NIH say it's good for you then that should be good enough. I wonder why the silly people in Utah and Florida banned it from their drinking water.