Fluoridation: A Protected Pollutant

 

“By 1950, U.S. public health authorities officially endorsed the practice of fluoridation, framing it as a public‑health success, despite the fluoride compound’s industrial origins and trace heavy-metal contaminants.”

 

Did you know that the city of Calgary just reintroduced fluoride into their drinking water? One might think it is a good idea but if we examine the situation closely, it is easy to understand why you should not want fluoride in your drinking water.

We have written about fluoridation twice before, and the mounting evidence against it is overwhelming. The city of Calgary finally managed to remove fluoride from their drinking water in 2011 and yet through a deceptive method of presenting twisted evidence and the slippery wording of a plebiscite vote, they managed to reintroduce fluoride into the drinking water of 1.4 million people. They argue that it helps prevent cavities, in spite of most toothpastes with fluoride, but they downplayed that fluoride could lower the children’s IQ—so they may become a bit dumber but their teeth will have less cavities—isn’t this something that makes you want to scream? There are now debates and protests. I am sure most people never thought fluoride would ever be reapproved but the thing is you can never assume, you must always keep an open mind that it will pass. To reintroduce this neurotoxin into Calgary’s drinking water, it will cost 28 million dollars. I wonder how much pays off getting fluoride approved and how much goes into pouring it into the drinking water.

Meanwhile, in other American cities, a different approach has been introduced. By the end of March 2025, Utah became the first U.S. state to prohibit fluoride in its public water supply. In early May, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation banning “certain additives” in the state’s water system — a move that effectively ends water fluoridation in Florida, a practice in place since 1949. Meanwhile, in April, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that, if elected, he would instruct the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to advise against water fluoridation.[1] Yet, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) thinks otherwise despite the fact that “a federal judge ruled against the EPA, concluding that water fluoridation at current levels poses an unreasonable risk to children’s health and ordering the EPA to address the issue.”[2] Now the EPA, with the support from The American Chemistry Council and the American Fluoridation Society, is planning to appeal. “Rather than use the court’s decision as an opportunity to finally end water fluoridation (as most of Europe has already done), the EPA will spend its time legally challenging the court’s order.”[3]

Indeed, a large portion of Europe, particularly Western Europe, has rejected water fluoridation. This includes countries like Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain but neither China, Russia, Japan or Korea have eliminated fluoridation instead they have limited its use. Some European countries, such as Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands, have discontinued water fluoridation programs after initially adopting them. “The rhetoric supporting fluoridation is increasingly centered around the notion that fluoridation benefits the poorest in society the most. This claim flies in the face of the experience of most US inner cities over the past 50 years. Despite the fact that nearly all large US cities have been fluoridated for decades, dental decay is currently rampant in virtually all poor urban areas.”[4]

What is the problem with fluoride?

Fluoride exposure has significantly increased due to multiple sources like food, dental products, and air pollution, contributing to a rise in dental fluorosis among children. Beyond dental concerns, fluoride has been linked to skeletal fluorosis, thyroid dysfunction, neurotoxicity, lowered IQ in children, early puberty, increased hip fractures, and even possible links to cancer and infertility. Why? Because chronic low-level fluoride exposure may pose serious health risks, especially for vulnerable populations.

“A 1995 study in the journal Neurtoxicology and Teratology, found that fluoride accumulated in the brain of rats and produced age-specific behavioral deficits typical of most neurotoxic agents. In the study, fluoride induced damage to the hippocampal region of the brain. Damage to the hippocampal region has been linked to hyperactivity and cognitive deficits. Based on the results, the lead author of the study, Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, has come out and advised against water fluoridation.”[5] Similar results have been shown in multiple Chinese studies[6] as well, linking elevated fluoride exposure and decreased IQ in children based on the fact that fluoridated water may have adverse impacts on the developing brain.

Our glands are also affected by fluoride accumulation. The pineal gland is part of the endocrine system and is responsible for monitoring our natural day-night cycles, our circadian rhythms. Unfortunately, this gland has the highest calcification (i.e. accumulated calcium deposit) rate among all organs and tissues of the human body, which is the results of accumulated calcium, fluoride, and phosphorus deposits. “In the late 1990s, a British scientist discovered that fluoride accumulates to very high levels (avg = 9000 ppm) in the crystallized tissue of the human pineal gland. A subsequent animal study found that fluoride interferes with the pineal gland’s production of melatonin, a hormone which helps regulate the onset of puberty. In the study, animals dosed with fluoride had reduced levels of melatonin metabolites in their urine and had earlier onsets of puberty than the controls.”[7]

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Other than the pineal gland, the thyroid is also affected. According to the article Fluoride vs. Iodine: The Correlation with Hashimoto’s Syndrome, “[s]tudies show that there is a correlation between high exposure to fluoride and thyroid problems, through evidence that leads to the understanding that fluoride disrupts iodine metabolism, affecting the functioning of the thyroid gland.”[8] It is interesting to note that hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid) is a common medical problem in the United States and levothyroxine (commonly known by its brand name Synthroid, which is the drug prescribed to treat hypothyroidism) is the third most prescribed drug in the U.S.[9]

No wonder fluoride is causing such damage and if we look at its history, everything becomes clear. So how did fluoride get into our drinking water? As industrial pollution escalated during fertilizer and aluminum manufacturing—especially in Florida’s phosphate-rich “Bone Valley”—toxic fluorine gases were scrubbed from factory emissions and captured as fluorosilicic acid, a hazardous industrial byproduct. Instead of treating it as waste, mid-century public health policy repurposed this fluorosilicic acid—basically wastewater—as a low-cost fluoride additive to municipal water. By 1950, U.S. public health authorities officially endorsed the practice, framing fluoridation as a public‑health success, despite the fluoride compound’s industrial origins and trace heavy-metal contaminants. “Many are surprised to learn that unlike the pharmaceutical grade fluoride in their toothpaste, the fluoride in their water is an untreated industrial waste product, one that contains trace elements of arsenic and lead.”[10]

Since then, water fluoridation has remained a widespread public‑health measure in the U.S., supported by the American Dental Association and federal health agencies, and claimed to be efficient in reducing dental decay. Nevertheless, its legacy is controversial as fluoridation continues to rely on industrial waste. Many Western European countries have since rejected the practice yet still saw similar declines in dental cavities, suggesting that alternative oral‑health strategies may be equally effective.

If you examine the detailed history of how fluoride was first used, you will find that it is very similar to many toxins that we are using today: in the past, DDT was openly used, now it is replaced by glyphosate in Roundup; it does not seem to matter if it is a known carcinogen, as long as it kills weeds, it should be fine. Here in Canada we still put amalgam and mercury for filling cavities. Do you want a killer combination? Cavities filled with mercury and brushing your teeth with fluoride. We need to do much better than that.

References:

 

[1] Ruggeri, Amanda. 2025.

[2] Baletti, Brenda. 2025.

[3] Ibid.

[4] Fluoride Action Network. 2002.

[5] Ibid.

[6] One of the studies: Lu, Y. et al. 2000.

[7] Fluoride Action Network. 2002.

[8] Dos Santos, Pedro Guimarães Sampaio Trajano et al. 2024.

[9] Definitive Healthcare. 2025.

[10] Zelko, Frank. 2018.