Fluoride in water: dental cavities vs. Intelligence development. An easy choice? Evidently not.

Fluoride in water: dental cavities vs. Intelligence development. An easy choice? Evidently not.

I remember many ago I was strolling through the streets of Honolulu when I encountered a sit in in front of a government building. The remnants of my old activist flare kicked in and I decided to stop and inquire about the reason so many people are gathering in anger.

Low and behold I found out they gathered to protest the fluoridation of their drinking water suuply. After speaking to few protestors, I concluded two things,
1- none of them had a phd in anything or understood the science behind fluoride.
2- they were indignant at such an act on purely instinctual and historical basis.

Having accepted the public policy that fluoride can prevent tooth decay without questioning, the protestors passion had me intrigued. Once I got back home I was on a quest to figure out any holes in the government argument and whether I holds to scientific scrutiny.

The first thing that struck me was that many western european countries not only don't recommend fluoride but they ban it outright from public use. This was the kick i needed to go on. Later, what I found out is that the fluoride recommendation that dentists make and the presence of fluoride in drinking water are based on a laser focus on one known benefit of fluoride, prevention of tooth decay. In the usual reductive way, fluoride was recommended nationally based on this truncated fact. A look into the whole body notwithstanding.

The reductive method of breaking everything down into it's smallest component and neglecting to put it back together afterwards is nothing less than a curse on our scientific community and policy makers. They make conclusions based on tiny pieces of the puzzle and they consistently ignore the big picture. This is how the neurotypical mind works. There is no integration, no focus on the whole just the parts. ONE CAUSE LEADING TO ONE PROBLEM AND THE SOLUTION IS ONE SOLITARY INTERVENTION. This monolithic approach is a plague on our lives.

The human body is a lot more complex than this. There are always multiple causes behind any problem and multiple interventions and changes are needed to correct the problem. The fluoride case is no different. In this case they ignored the effects of this imposed fluoride on the rest of the body. And there are many effects of fluoride on each and every part of the body, not just the teeth as the policy makers would have us believe.

I will mention two ares of great importance, brain development and hormone function. And the two are not unrelated. Fluoride is o e of the biggest elements present in nature. The human literally does not know what to do with it when it is given these historically unprecedented levels.

What the body does is store it in it's dump, the fatty parts of the system. These fatty parts include many parts that influence proper hormone function, that are crucial for growth and development in children. The fatty parts also include the bed that brain cells lie in called myelin. This myelin is important for proper message transmission in the brain and is essential for language, reasoning and just about every aspect of intelligence development.

Fluoride is simply sitting in the way, preventing hormones from doing their job and preventing the brain from having the room it needs to grow and flourish.

These are two good reasons in my opinion to reject the dentist recommendation, use fluoride-water for drinking and to condemn the whole reductive means of thinking that plagues society.

I am sure you heard a lot about fluoride from conspiracy theorists but I assure you I am not one of them. I don't think the government is somehow secretly contributing to the "dumbing down of america". But I do think they use bad science, incomplete science at best to make their recommendations.


Rami Serhan, MD
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