Comment on flouride

RQG@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, by this argument lead in the water isn’t a concern.

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  • Hylactor@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You just made me mad by helping me realize that the Trump bros are going to break water by removing fluoride long before they fix water by removing lead.

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Removing fluoride won’t break the water. However, it may break our teeth.

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    • winterayars@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They like the lead, though!

      (Probably. I mean, they did in Flint, MI…)

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  • 5oap10116@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah but lead bioaccumulates where as fluoride/ine doesn’t

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you sure fluoride doesn’t? It does accumulate in the soil, building up in crops. Considering fluoride exposure from all sources, many people are above upper safe limits, even from tea drinking alone

      I don’t think fluoride should be added to water as it just pollutes the environment, where 99.99% of water isn’n coming in contact with teeth

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It doesn’t. This is high-school chemistry.

        Fluoride only “accumulates” up to the peak concentration of the environment (no further) on places where it is removed from contact with that environment.

        You can only accumulate fluoride in the soil if you keep adding it and there is almost no rain to wash it away.

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  • Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup, same with PFAS and forever chemicals. Maybe I’m ignorant because I’m not a doctor, but I don’t know if this line of thinking holds water - pun not intended.

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  • reptar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lead poisoning becomes evident pretty early though doesn’t it? (With respect to kids)

    I would think that the ratio of persistent exposure to unsafe level has got to be easily higher in cases like Flint than any fluoride-in-the-water usage. Just speculation on my part.

    What measures are taken to avoid screwing up the dosage, anyone know? Maybe predilute so that an oops requires multiple buckets instead of vials?

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• NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s so funny I was just having a similar conversation about neurotoxic venomous animals in another thread. Lethality is an obviously concerning threshold, but there are substances out there that can easily destroy your quality of life and livelihood that never reach the concern of being lethal.

  I think for mostly rational people concerned about fluoride in their water is that it was a public health decision made with little to no actual science proving it’s safety or efficacy when it was first decided that they were going to add it to the public water supply. The proposed benefits of it weren’t even supported by scientific evidence, it was just supposed that exposure to sodium fluoride could potentially reduce tooth decay for some.

  Personally, I’ve suffered from the cosmetic damage of dental fluorosis, and I’m not necessarily thrilled about fluoride. But I have way more issues with public mandates founded on pseudoscience than I am with sodium fluoride. Especially now that we can see evidence that for some people fluoride can be especially beneficial.

  So what was wrong with giving people the option of using fluoride toothpaste or mouthwashes… Why did it have to go into the public water supply?

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mate, your entire second paragraph is completely false. Like, you need to just read this: www.nidcr.nih.gov/…/the-story-of-fluoridation

    It’s considered by the CDC as one of the greatest Public Health Achievements of the last Century. There have been dozens, if not hundreds of studies about fluoride affects in the water supply.

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    • NeverNudeNo13@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah that proves my point entirely.

      In 1945 they fluoridated the first public water supply.

      In 1979 the first published research began to appear to show how fluoride might be able to remineralize dental enamel.

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      • winterayars@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In 1945, Grand Rapids became the first city in the world to fluoridate its drinking water.The Grand Rapids water fluoridation study was originally sponsored by the U.S. Surgeon General, but was taken over by the NIDR shortly after the Institute’s inception in 1948. During the 15-year project, researchers monitored the rate of tooth decay among Grand Rapids’ almost 30,000 schoolchildren. After just 11 years, Dean- who was now director of the NIDR-announced an amazing finding. The caries rate among Grand Rapids children born after fluoride was added to the water supply dropped more than 60 percent. This finding, considering the thousands of participants in the study, amounted to a giant scientific breakthrough that promised to revolutionize dental care, making tooth decay for the first time in history a preventable disease for most people.

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  • jrubal1462@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In our area, the only water supply WITH Fluoride serves an area with a median HOUSEHOLD income of less than $40k with more than 25% living below the poverty line. For communities like these the fluoride is critical because there will be a lot of children that don’t have access to fluoride supplements, or regular care from a pediatric (or regular) dentist.

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fluoride does have long term effects though once you consider fluoride exposure through all sources like diet, which is mostly due to fluoride from water ending up in farmland

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  • we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Citation needed

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To which? These are all pulled from research, just need to know which so I don’t waste my time pulling up something you’re not questioning

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      • we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ideally both.

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• refalo@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  never the concern

  It is when you’re responding to people who think 5G is turning the frogs gay and activating hidden vaccine microchips.

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We probably have enough A/B data now to make some inferences yeah? Compare countries with fluoridated water to countries without.

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  • jrubal1462@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can get even more granular than that. CDC maintains a list of water systems and whether or not they add fluoride. CDC My Water System. To give you an idea of how granular that is, there are 78 different water systems in my county alone. For most of my life I assumed we had fluoridated water but apparently only 1/78 of our water systems are. I only checked when we had kids and I needed to know whether or not I needed to give them Fluoride Drops.

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  • refalo@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yes and some of that data is already in other comments here

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• observes_depths@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This. How can we be completely certain that something isn’t damaging over the long term. I’m not anti fluoride, but healthy debate and scepticism is a good thing, especially when we’re all forced to consume a substance with the only alternative being dehydration and death. People need to be free to make their own choices.

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• FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, it seems to me like he got the right idea and wanted to convince people by making an extreme statement…

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  • RQG@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That might well be the case. I’m not sure if it is helpful to use those half truths which are simpler to convince certain people. Or if it weakens the point because it is in the end not really correct.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also “because I’m an expert and I say so” is a good way to convince someone to let you poison them.

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• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also, isn’t it recommended to not give infants fluorided water, hence why you can buy it in virtually every grocery store?

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  • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pretty much anything you can think of is recommended by someone, because different people have conflicting views. The key is to choose whose recommendations are based on the best reasoning & evidence aligning with your goals.

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