Sentences with phrase «by adding fluoride»

By adding fluoride to water, it may be lowering thyroid function in people with normal or underactive thyroid, leading to hypothyroidism or subclinical hypothyroidism, which carries a range of significant health effects, including obesity, heart disease and depression.

If that's the case, then why are we still jeopardizing our children's long - term thyroid and brain health by adding fluoride to drinking water?

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Iron supplements are typically added by four to six months of age, and depending on your water supply, the doctor may recommend a fluoride supplement at six months.

C) The vast majority of fluoride added to water supplies is wasted, since over 99 % of tap water is not actually consumed by a human being.

She added: «By showing sound economic reasons for increasing the use of preventative measures, such as tooth brushing and fluoride varnishing, I hope that they can now compete for resource against other less cost - effective interventions.»

Periodontitis is often found in Hashimoto's patients and can be worsened by fluoride, the very substance added to our waters and toothpaste to prevent tooth decay.

By 1951, water fluoridisation, the process of adding fluoride to water to improve the nation's dental health, was an official plank of US Public Health Service policy.

Our municipal water contains chlorine and fluoride, two carcinogenic compounds that are important to remove by the way of adding a filtration system to the entire house's water supply.

Today fluoride is still added to about 74 % of U.S public drinking water supplies despite it being classified 2 years ago, along with mercury and lead, as a neurotoxin «that injures the developing brain» by The Lancet — one of the world's oldest and best peer - reviewed medical journals.

If moving is out of the question, you could start by contacting your local water company and asking them to stop adding fluoride to the water.