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This is probably the single best thing I've read on the fluoride debate https://undark.org/2024/03/06/fluoride-drinking-water/ Fluoride is absolutely harmful in large doses, but it's unclear that the levels present in the US water supply are as neurotoxic as critics would have you believe. However: "Most of those studies look at fluoride exposures higher than 1.5 mg/L — in other words, more than double the levels founds in most Americans’ drinking water. Bucher stressed that the report is not — and was never intended to be — an evaluation of the safety of adding fluoride to water. “We don’t have enough data to make any statement with any certainty about it at the lower levels,” he said. (1/2, continued in reply)
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Still, even the findings at higher levels of fluoride may be relevant to some Americans. Individual fluoride exposure can vary a lot, depending on what a person drinks. And according to one recent estimate, more than 2.9 million Americans are served by water utilities that deliver tap water with levels of fluoride at or above 1.5 mg/L. According to CDC data, that includes utilities in Troy, Missouri (12,116 people served; 2.31 mg/L); Seminole, Texas (8,549 people served; 4.40 mg/L); and Abercrombie, North Dakota (258 people served; 2.29 mg/L)." BUT Extensive evidence has shown that fluoridation dramatically improves dental health. And many of the most ardent complainers are ultimately those wealthy enough to manage their own intake and remove fluoride via filtration; it's not like getting rid of it is illegal and there's no choice. (shoot, 2/3)
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A right wing Mayor in Anchorage AK toured the water treatment facility in the first week of his term and one of his staff members was caught by the facility trying to change the mixing valves for treatment Crazy times!
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Spoke with a public health investigator once that was investigating a case of teeth malformation in children due to huge concentrations of naturally occurring fluoride in their well water. Environmental mineral exposure like that (and heavy metals and chemicals) are so much spookier than the tiny public health measures
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/microsub tip: 619 $DEGEN note: now that allowances have stabilized, we've returned to our normal 3-day tipping rotation. happy Halloween, degens! 🎃
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