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Fluoride may be good for teeth, but bad for quite a few other things - here's just one of many studies related to that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article

Fluoride may be good for teeth, but bad for quite a few other things - here's just one of many studies related to that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6923889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6923889/ Many countries across the world refuse to add fluoride. It's mainly a US and Australia thing. The fact that NPR is on board without even reporting the other side of the coin is just pure state propaganda.

thsksbd 3y ago
Americans' teeth have been described as unsettlingly perfect. As unsettling as our mental health
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woodruffw 3y ago
Many countries around the world have natural fluoride in their groundwater (much of Europe), use other dietary sources for fluoride (salt), or have a significant dietary component that naturally contains fluoride (tea). What makes water fluoridation good public health policy isn’t that we do it blindly; it’s that it gets balanced against demographic and geographic factors that don’t necessary apply everywhere else in the world.
- ekianjo 3y ago
  > Many countries around the world have natural fluoride in their groundwater (much of Europe) This seems to refute your claim about Europe: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31940-x/figures/1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31940-x/figures/1 However, another study seems to indicate Germany is particularly at risk in Europe of high fluoride concentrations: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987123002013 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S167498712...
  - woodruffw 3y ago
    That map shows regions exceeding 1.5mg/L, i.e. over twice the amount that the US and other countries place in their municipal water supplies. It’s not a map of places with suitable concentrations of fluoride in groundwater; it shows excess amounts. To my understanding, both Switzerland and Germany have around 1.0mg/L fluoride in much of their groundwater. This puts them firmly above municipal levels in the US, but below what your map shows.

thsksbd 3y ago

Americans' teeth have been described as unsettlingly perfect. As unsettling as our mental health

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woodruffw 3y ago

Many countries around the world have natural fluoride in their groundwater (much of Europe), use other dietary sources for fluoride (salt), or have a significant dietary component that naturally contains fluoride (tea). What makes water fluoridation good public health policy isn’t that we do it blindly; it’s that it gets balanced against demographic and geographic factors that don’t necessary apply everywhere else in the world.

ekianjo 3y ago
> Many countries around the world have natural fluoride in their groundwater (much of Europe) This seems to refute your claim about Europe: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31940-x/figures/1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31940-x/figures/1 However, another study seems to indicate Germany is particularly at risk in Europe of high fluoride concentrations: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987123002013 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S167498712...
- woodruffw 3y ago
  That map shows regions exceeding 1.5mg/L, i.e. over twice the amount that the US and other countries place in their municipal water supplies. It’s not a map of places with suitable concentrations of fluoride in groundwater; it shows excess amounts. To my understanding, both Switzerland and Germany have around 1.0mg/L fluoride in much of their groundwater. This puts them firmly above municipal levels in the US, but below what your map shows.