- Former President Donald Trump said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposal to remove fluoride from the U.S. water systems “sounds okay” to him.
- Kennedy, who is poised to play a health policy role in a potential Trump administration, recently wrote, “The Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.”
- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “the safety and benefits of fluoride are well documented and have been reviewed comprehensively by several scientific and public health organizations.”
The Obama-appointed US judge Edward Chen found fluoridation could cause developmental damage and lower IQ in children at levels to which the public is generally exposed in drinking water. Though the ruling did not state the level at which fluoridation would damage brains, the levels in US water present an unreasonable risk, the court found.
The EPA now must perform a risk assessment that is among the first steps in setting new limits under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Armed with a growing body of scientific evidence pointing toward fluoride’s neurotoxicity, public health advocates say the legal win shows they are overcoming “institutional inertia” and the unwillingness of federal public health agencies to admit they may have been wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/fluoridation-water-epa-risk-assessement
I think this is not among the most important things to be talking about.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluoridated-drinking-water/
https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/fluoride/
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=fluoride+site%3A.edu&ia=web
fluoride in water doesnt do much for teeth but we will notice if they replace it because the alternatives taste gross.
What’s the big deal with Fluoride in drinking water in the US? Like most European, I don’t get fluoride enriched drinking water and it’s never been a big deal.
Don’t you guys use toothpaste with Fluoride?
I’m from Germany and they usually put it in the salt.
You can just use salt without Fluorid if you want to believe in conspiracies.
It specifically helps kids who haven’t gotten in the habit of brushing properly yet. We have non-fluoride parts of the country that show higher cases of child dental work needed. We also eat a lot of high fructose corn syrup.
Overall for the whole population it is a net gain.
Flouride is better at preventing damage because it actually chemically alters your tooth enamel to a more stable form but it does nothing to repair existing damage. Nano-HAP can very very slowly reverse existing damage but it doesn’t do much to harden the teeth against future damage. They’re both better at their own thing. I’m pretty sure current studies don’t show one being overall better than the other.
what does white house “advice” actually mean for this? sounds pretty toothless luckily.
