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Speaker: Doctor, you mentioned there are some countries that have high
level of natural fluoride.
Dr. Paul Connett: Yes.
Interviewer: Where does that come from. And even in the United States we
can get exposed to fluoride in a lot of other places other than water and
oral health products.
Dr. Connett: Yes, there are some high pockets even in the United States. I
mentioned Texas and Colorado. So, yes, there are a few million people that
are drinking high levels of fluoride in the water in the United States.
But, literally, this is coming from the rocks. I mean there's some parts
where the fluoride ores, minerals are close to the surface and the water
coming from their wells contains a lot of fluoride.
There's no fluoride in the rain. So if you're drinking surface water, it's
going to be low. But your ground water may or may not contain fluoride
depending on how much fluoride is deposited in your local rocks, and so on.
But, then, you can... you're right in the sense there are other sources of
fluoride. Some natural foods have a lot of fluoride like tea, any food with
bones in it, fish bones high fluoride, mechanically deboned meat, that's
where the fluoride concentrates in animals and in humans.
And, then, you have pesticides. A lot of pesticides contain fluoride, and
fertilizers. The chemical that we use for fluoridation actually comes from
the phosphate fertilizer industry. So when they take the phosphate rock and
treat it with sulfuric acid to make soluble phosphate, in the process they
drive off two very toxic gases, hydrogen fluoride and silicon tetraflouride
because there's a lot of calcium fluoride with the calcium phosphate. For
years, those two very toxic gases decimated the vegetation, the citrus
groves in Florida, and crippled cattle. Eventually they had to put
scrubbers on and a spray of water converts these gases into hexoflourocylic
[SP] acid and that's the chemical either in its pure form or it's sodium
salt which is used in 90 percent of the fluoridation schemes in the United
States.
Now, the irony is this stuff is very toxic and is contaminated. It has all
kinds of things; arsenic, lead, even radioactive isotopes. They can't dump
this into the sea by international law. They can't dump it locally because
it's too concentrated. To get rid of it as a hazardous waste, which is what
it is, would cost an arm and leg. But if someone buys a hazardous waste
from industry, it becomes a product. The very fact that the public water
departments are willing to buy this stuff makes it into a product and they
use it. It's incredible, absolutely incredible.
One of the things I should say before we get into the toxicity of the
fluoride chemicals themselves, one of the contaminants is arsenic. There is
no safe level for arsenic as far as the EPA is concerned because it is a
human carcinogen. Any level can cause cancer. So one of the things we can
say is, inevitably, by using these industrial grade chemicals instead of
pharmaceutical grade as they use in toothpaste, etc., you are increasing
the cancer rates in the United States. We can argue about how big or small
the increase is going to be, but you can't argue against the fact that you
are knowingly adding arsenic, knowingly increasing cancer rates. And we do
have some evidence that fluoride itself is carcinogenic.
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Dr. Paul Connett describes how fluoride goes from being a hazardous waste to something you ingest in your public water or put in oral health products for health benefits. Dr. Connett also mentions some of the many ways you may be getting fluoride into your system without even knowing it.
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