Earlier quoted context omitted.
When did you first become aware of this?
He's quoting Dr. Strangelove.
So is the person you replied to.
Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
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Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
#122What is it about this report that no one is calling it a conspiracy theory anymore? Edit: why am I being downvoted for this?
> Edit: why am I being downvoted for this?
I think because you presumed that everybody was calling it a conspiracy before, which is patently untrue? (Correct would be: some people were, and some people still are)
Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
They irony of all this is that if you want to buy good quality toothpaste you are forced to import it from overseas, due to the FDA limiting ingredients in toothpaste. I never heard such a thing. Can you be more specific? Plus you can buy Darlie toothpaste in most Chinatown's around the world, even if unapproved by local dental orgs.
International versions of Sensodyne contain Novamin, which is a teeth-material-like compound that layers over your teeth to protect it. It has been proven in many clinical trials to not only reduce sensitivity, but also protect against tooth decay and cavities.
Why isn’t it in the US?
Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
#124Twenty years ago, I moved from Michigan (a state that uses fluoride) to Mississippi (a state that doesn't use fluoride). My dentist at the time told me that I was going to end up with tooth decay if I stayed down there for more than a few years. Sure enough, five years later I moved back to Michigan and ended up with a cavity in an unusual place. My (new) dentist in Michigan was completely unsurprised. He said there…
That is funny. However Ill postulate this: Why wouldn't someone go to where the most interesting work is to be found though? You don't become a military doctor if you don't find it interesting stitching up bullet holes. And vice versa, you don't become a military doctor if you're not interested in working on the same.
Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
#125I don’t brush my teeth because I don’t want the residual fluoride there. It’s healthier to just slosh some vodka around to kill the germs (this wouldn’t work with kids, but hey they’ll lose their first teeth so who cares).
This can also double as a sleep aid if you don’t spit it out.
Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
#126Twenty years ago, I moved from Michigan (a state that uses fluoride) to Mississippi (a state that doesn't use fluoride). My dentist at the time told me that I was going to end up with tooth decay if I stayed down there for more than a few years. Sure enough, five years later I moved back to Michigan and ended up with a cavity in an unusual place. My (new) dentist in Michigan was completely unsurprised. He said there…
That is funny. However Ill postulate this: Why wouldn't someone go to where the most interesting work is to be found though? You don't become a military doctor if you don't find it interesting stitching up bullet holes. And vice versa, you don't become a military doctor if you're not interested in working on the same.
Because if you're educated, you generally don't want to move to Mississippi. I grew up there!
Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
#127There are significant lobbies now trying to put both statins and lithium into the tap water.
Statins on a wide scale could make for the single greatest life expectancy increase we could get anywhere...that would be awesome.
The effect of statins is incredibly modest at best: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl... . Anyone telling you otherwise is doing so because of financial incentive, not from following the actual science.
Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
#128I don’t brush my teeth because I don’t want the residual fluoride there. It’s healthier to just slosh some vodka around to kill the germs (this wouldn’t work with kids, but hey they’ll lose their first teeth so who cares).
That will just dehydrate your mouth and kill all the bacteria which is supposed to be there. I joke about it with my neighbors when we have a boil water advisory, do not actually do it in real life.
Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
>recommends flouridating salt That is a scary recommendation. Would be very hard to avoid fluoride if restaurants, packaged food etc all used fluoridated salt
It’s not particularly scary. In fact almost all salt has added iodine for public health reasons.
Iodine and fluoride aren’t really the same thing.
Iodine is essential, you cannot survive without it, and it is added to supplement a deficiency.
Fluoride is not essential, you can survive without it, and its addition is purely therapeutic, not due to some deficiency
Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
International versions of Sensodyne contain Novamin, which is a teeth-material-like compound that layers over your teeth to protect it. It has been proven in many clinical trials to not only reduce sensitivity, but also protect against tooth decay and cavities.
Why isn’t it in the US?
See here: https://medium.com/@ravenstine/the-curious-history-of-novami...
Basically FDA won't let them label it without studies. Other countries consider toothpaste a cosmetic and don't requite studies.