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Over tooth decay. Procter & Gamble announces
Crest toothpaste with Florestan.

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Its exclusive fluoride compound. World's
greatest weapon against decay.

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Look mom, no cavities.

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Former employees of Occidental Chemical
Corporation have filed a lawsuit against t...

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They say they have life-threatening diseases
like leukemia, emphysema, and toxic brain...

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For years, doctors struggled to diagnose
them, but finally they found a common link...

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It's a byproduct that they can't do anything
with. It's a poison, so they sell it.

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You allow industry to use your water supply
to dispose of their hazardous waste.

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It was a scam from the get-go. It is a means
of getting rid of fluoride. It's a disposa...

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It's bizarre.

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Fluoridation is the worst recycling practice
in the world.

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So, you're Alcoa in the 1930s, a giant
corporation that makes products out of...

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And honestly, you've created some pretty
amazing things. Tea kettles, foil, airplan...

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But one thing that sucks about manufacturing
aluminum is that it's a super messy process.

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Because, guess what? Raw aluminum doesn't
come all perfect and soft and ready to be

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molded into a frying pan. It needs to be
chemically processed and broken down.

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And this chemical process produces a lot of
highly toxic chemicals like ammonia, methane,

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and fluoride. And we're not talking about the
natural fluoride that occurs in caves and...

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We're talking about an artificial man-made
fluoride compound that is way more toxic.

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Like, really, really toxic.

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Hydrofluorosilic acid does not occur in
nature. It's a man-made molecule.

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And it eats through concrete, glass,
stainless steel, fiberglass, plastic.

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You name it, it'll eat it.

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The problem is, it would be super expensive
to dispose of this toxic fluoride in a safe

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and responsible way. So, it's a 1930s factory
owner to do.

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Why not pipe it into the air or dump it in
the river?

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I mean, come on, it's the 1930s. This is the
dawn of the industrial age.

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No one cares that factories are dumping toxic
chemicals into the river.

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No one even knows what the long-term effects
of these industrial waste chemicals are.

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They're too busy making up for prohibition or
whatever people did in the 30s.

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So, as the years went by, you continued to
flood the rivers with this fluoride waste.

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And everything was going fine and dandy for
decades.

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Until things started to go south.

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See, you've been dumping fluoride into the
air and water for over 30 years now.

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And people were starting to notice.

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Alcoa factory workers were showing symptoms
of poisoning from the fluoride gases.

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Cows from nearby farms were getting really
weak.

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They couldn't even stand on their own
anymore.

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And local dentists were starting to notice
strange brown stains and chipping

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on the teeth of children who live nearby.

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Fluoride is starting to get bad press.

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And if that bad press continued, everyone
would start connecting the dots to you

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and your fluoride river dumping frenzy.

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If that happens, you're going to be buried
with expensive lawsuits.

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It would be the end of you.

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So, if you want to survive this and thrive,
then you've got to do something drastic.

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You've got to find a way to change the
public's perception of fluoride from this

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toxic, poisonous chemical to something that's
good for you.

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And this, this effort to rebrand fluoride
into a healthy chemical would be one of the

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greatest propaganda efforts known to mankind.

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It's why today, fluoride has seeped into
everything.

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It's in your toothpaste.

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Chemical? You're going to put some chemical
in my mouth?

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Tap water. Table salt. Bottled water.

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Yes, Crest can really reduce cavities because
only Crest has Fluoristan,

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an exclusive stannous fluoride formula that
protects your whole family.

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Chemical leak this afternoon in Rock Island.

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The chemical was so strong, it was burning
through the concrete there.

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It was just before one o'clock Thursday
afternoon when Hazmat crews were called to...

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water treatment plant for a chemical spill
coming from this tanker truck.

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The chemical hydrofluoroacetic acid is used
to add fluoride to the plant's water.

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After several hours, crews were able to clean
up the leak,

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allowing operations to return to normal.

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The treatment of the water and the amount of
water,

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you know, being used by the public, there was
no effect on that at all.

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So why are we putting that in the water?

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The United States, Canada, Australia,
Ireland, and New Zealand

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generously provide you with the fluoride in
your tap water free of charge.

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Why? Because it's good for you, they say.

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It's good for teeth. It prevents cavities.

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To say things like tobacco is harmless,
fluoride is harmless.

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Agent Orange is harmless, they say. DDT was
harmless.

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Vestus, right?

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Yeah. GMOs now, they say, are harmless.

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It's a long history of science selling out to
corporate interests

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while the people are systematically poisoned.

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And to this day, people still believe
fluoride is safe in the drinking water,

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and the majority of dentists still believe
it's safe to put in toothpaste

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and to put in different types of compounds.

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When in reality, too much fluoride has been
connected to brain damage,

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skeletal fluorosis, bone cancer, and lower IQ
in children.

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What we did was we exposed them, let them
drink the fluoride in the water

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for six to 20 weeks.

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The pattern that we saw, it typically is what
we see with other neurotoxic agents

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that are well known to cause a hypoactivity
or a memory problem or an IQ problem.

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When I first presented the results of these
studies,

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one of the individuals sitting and listening
to the results, he says,

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do you have any idea what you're saying?

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And he says, you're telling us that we're
reducing the IQ of children.

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And yet, the government won't let you escape
it even if you wanted to.

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It's acidic, it'll kill you.

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And it all started because Alcoa didn't want
to get sued.

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Welcome to Evil Food Supply, where we expose
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And this is the evil history of fluoride.

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If it's such a simple issue, how is it that
it's still going on after half the centroid?

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Fluoride is safe and effective, and it's one
of the most inexpensive ways

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to really cut down on dental decay.

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Fluoridation of community water is extremely
safe and extremely effective in preventing...

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Science is on the side of fluoride being safe
and effective.

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There is no controversy about this in the
scientific community.

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The newest beer can tops have ring tabs made
of aluminum from Alcoa.

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["The Star-Spangled Banner"]

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America prepares.

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All America alters its pattern of life and
work to meet the demand for protection.

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Industry is a double step to supply the
sinews of safety.

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The armaments of war that an embattled world
must have if democracy is to survive.

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In the early 1940s, the U.S. launched a
little something called the Manhattan...

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["The Star-Spangled Banner"]

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But to make an atomic bomb, the U.S. would
need uranium and fluoride.

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But not just a little bit of fluoride.

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We're talking tons of fluoride.

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Hundreds of tons, actually.

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Luckily, the U.S. knew just the affordable
place to get all this fluoride from.

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American manufacturing factories like yours.

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As the head of Alcoa, you're all in,
obviously.

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So you sign on the dotted line, turn your
engines to max,

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and start producing as much fluoride as you
possibly can.

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And other factories across America do the
same.

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And at first, this seemed like a really good
idea.

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I mean, hello?

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This is the stuff you would normally dump in
the river,

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and now you're getting money for it?

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Plus, Uncle Sam needs us.

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America needs us.

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We're being patriots.

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But shortly into your war effort, things
start to go downhill.

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The toxic gases from all this fluoride
production was making your factory workers...

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sometimes even killing them.

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Chemical burns were showing up all over their
bodies,

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including their eyes, throats, and esophagus.

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Fair-skinned men were leaving the factory
with burnt red faces,

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which is why you made sure to only employ
African Americans inside.

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Constant gas leaks and explosions would
literally burn workers to death.

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One woman named Gloria Porter said that she
saw a man get,

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quote, eaten alive, end quote,

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when a tank of hydrogen fluoride gas exploded
in a factory in Cleveland.

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Another man reported that the fluoride dust
would land on cars outside

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and dissolve the paint on contact.

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And even though they were working with highly
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all you gave these factory workers for safety
equipment was a rag to put over their mouths.

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You gotta love the industrial age.

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Between June 1945 and October 1946,

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477 factory workers were either injured or
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in these fluoride factories.

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And word was getting out.

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These factory workers lost their lives
because of the poor working conditions you...

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Their families could sue you.

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In fact, they're probably talking to lawyers
as we speak.

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And if they do sue you, your whole business
and your life's work could go down the...

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But luckily, there's one convenient benefit
to fluoride

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that you can use to turn all this fluoride
panic around.

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Surprise!

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Surprise!

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No cavity!

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That is a decay fighter dentist news.

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A decay fighter dentist put on teeth to
prevent cavities.

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There's no such thing.

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Preventive medicine for teeth?

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For fewer cavities?

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Can't be done.

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It has. Now Glean's done it.

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New Glean's put preventive medicine in a
toothpaste for fewer cavities.

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What preventive medicine?

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It's Stannis fluoride plus Stannis
pyrophosphate.

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Glean tastes great.

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No toothpaste fights cavities better.

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Preventive medicine for fewer cavities and
new Glean.

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I said it could be done.

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Back in 1901, a scientist named Frederick
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his patient's teeth.

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This brown staining came out of nowhere and
was only happening in his town.

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No other towns in the area had it, and this
was pretty weird.

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So Frederick did some investigating and
discovered that the tap water in his Color...

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absurdly high levels of fluoride in it.

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I wonder how that happened.

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His patients were walking in with these ugly
brown stains, but they also had no cavities

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and rock-hard teeth.

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And this wasn't a typical thing at the time.

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In the early 1900s, tooth decay was a really
big problem.

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Teenagers were getting fitted for dentures.

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Soldiers were failing their health exams.

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There was even a lucrative black market for
false teeth.

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But this fluoride thing, this fluoride thing
was great for making your teeth stronger.

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It prevented cavities.

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Now that is something that we can work with.

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Now all you have to do is propagate this
message to the masses.

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You know, honey, I think it just could be the
crest.

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Of the five leading toothpastes, only one has
fluoride.

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Only crest, the cavity fighter.

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The great thing about this fluoride disaster
is that you're not fighting this alone.

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The government also had their head on the
chopping block for encouraging

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factories to pump out even more fluoride.

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So you and the government were on the same
side.

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And with the government in your corner,
anything was possible.

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So here's what you did.

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First, you hunted down that dentist,
Frederick McKay,

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the guy who discovered that fluoride hardens
teeth.

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And then you use his research to back your
case.

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And you even give him better technology so he
can finish his study faster.

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Might as well support the guy, right?

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And then you present his study to cities all
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saying that if these cities added fluoride to
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it would prevent cavities.

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And guess what?

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They drank it up.

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Wanting to put a random chemical into
everyone's water supply

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may sound crazy today from our point of view.

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But remember, this was around the end of
World War II.

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Americans had just defeated Hitler.

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They defeated Japan.

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They saved the world.

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And after winning such a vicious war, back
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they naturally became overprotective.

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They wanted to protect the masses from
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to prevent bad stuff from happening ever
again.

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So adding fluoride into the water supply to
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Why not?

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We can't trust them to take care of
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So it was no surprise that in 1945,

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Grand Rapids, Michigan, signed up to be the
first trial city,

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the first city in the world to have
fluoridated water.

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And after just six years, you found out that
the fluoride actually worked.

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Tooth decay did, in fact, go down.

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Pretty soon, other cities start getting
excited about fluoridation.

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Because who doesn't want clean, white, shiny
teeth?

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Fluoride was successfully a positive thing
right in front of your eyes.

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However, the true genius of this master plan

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was that the more cities you get to dump
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the less of a chance you'll get sued.

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After all, fluoride is good for you.

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We've actually been doing America a favor.

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And when scientists come forward and question
you on the safety of fluoride,

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like Kai Roholm and later on, Frederick McKay
himself,

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you simply pump out more studies that refute
them.

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You open a lab at the University of Rochester

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that's dedicated to the study of fluoride,

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and you fill it with the researchers from the
Manhattan Project,

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just to keep it in the family.

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You even start your own academic journal on
tooth decay called Dental Carries

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and make fluoride the star.

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The naysayers were no match for your expert
propaganda.

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And by 1955, Crest releases a new product

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that would be the last nail in the coffin for
fluoride's new positive public image.

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Crest toothpaste with florestan,

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its exclusive fluoride compound that's far
superior to fluoride alone.

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The world's first fluoride toothpaste.

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They actually started working with the
fluoride

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and did the original toxicology studies.

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And they described what happened to some of
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when they were accidentally overexposed to
fluoride.

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Mendick, have you never wondered why

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I drink only distilled water or rainwater?

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By the 1970s, fluoride had become a beloved
household name.

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And sure, there were a few fringe conspiracy
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who would say that fluoridation is part of a
communist plot

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to turn us into brain-dead atheist slaves,

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but luckily you have almost every dentist in
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to back up your fluoride claims.

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I mean, it does prevent dental decay, doesn't
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And do we really want to go back to wearing
dentures made from donkey teeth?

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Ew, no.

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Of course not.

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So pretty much everyone in America was on
Team Fluoride.

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But you're still not totally in the clear.

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Because there's one little scientist, one
little rat,

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who's doing everything she can to dismantle
your fluoride lies.

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And her name was Phyllis Mulleniks.

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Dr. Phyllis Mulleniks started her career at
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with a PhD in pharmacology with a specialty
in neurotoxicology.

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It was 1982, and Phyllis had just started her
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at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston.

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Her mission?

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Testing the toxicity levels of different
chemicals, including fluoride.

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And so she went through the usual motions.

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She fed fluoride-laced water to rats and
observed their behavior.

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And what she saw was kind of terrifying.

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The pregnant rats who were fed fluoridated
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were giving birth to hyperactive babies.

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They were also mentally slower than the rats,
whose mothers weren't fed the water.

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Phyllis also noted that male rats were more
easily affected by fluoride in the womb,

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whereas females were more affected when they
drank the water later as young adults.

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And what's interesting about this study is
that it aligns with another study

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that was published in Canada in 2019,

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where the male babies of human mothers that
drank fluoridated water

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showed signs of lowered IQ and hyperactivity,
while the females did not.

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Phyllis got pretty excited about this.

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So excited that she typed out a whole paper

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and submitted it to the Journal of
Neurotoxicology and Teratology.

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What she didn't know was that she was being
watched by none other than Harold Hodge,

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the head researcher of the Manhattan Project.

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Yeah, he was still alive at the time,

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and Hodge was really not happy about this
nonsense on the toxicity of fluoride.

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Sure, he was super old now, but he still
didn't want anything to ruin the sparkling...

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of fluoride that he worked tirelessly to
build.

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Plus, if people find out that fluoride really
was toxic,

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then he would definitely get sued or go to
jail.

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And so would all the other companies who
poisoned those workers

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during the days of the Manhattan Project.

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To top all this off, the Dental Center also
didn't want this paper published

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because they're being funded by pro-fluoride
organizations,

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and that would be a huge conflict of
interest.

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So yeah, this meddling lady needs to go.

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So what do you do?

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You corner the rat and threaten to fire her
if she publishes the paper.

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And what did Phyllis do in response?

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She published it anyway.

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After Phyllis turned in her lab coat,

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she found out the truth on who this Hodge guy
really was,

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and why he was always hovering over her
experiments at the Dental Center.

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It can reduce decay, and 5,000 kids like
these help prove it.

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No toothpaste fights cavities better than new
glean.

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And glean tastes good.

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What do you know about fluoride in the water?

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It's in the water to prevent tooth decay.

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It's a good thing, Rhett.

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That's what they want you to believe.

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Dude, the fact that you can't drink water out
of a river anywhere.

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Stop right there.

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You know what?

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Fluoride protects your teeth and is perfectly
healthy for you.

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Well, if Jam says that, then he is a lying
idiot.

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And if you believe it, then so are you.

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Fast forward to today, and fluoride is still
a really big household name.

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And anyone who questions it is instantly
labeled

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as a conspiracy theorist of Alex Jones
standards.

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And anyone who brings up fluoride to Congress
gets questioned.

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You cited several studies, which were very
interesting.

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Are these basically independent studies with
no peer review,

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or has there been sufficient peer review to
give these studies more credibility or not?

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But the reality is, fluoride is a
double-edged sword.

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On one side, it is a miracle for your teeth.

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But on the other hand, too much of it can
cause a whole bunch of disorders and...

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And the scientific community has been
fighting over this for decades.

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Phyllis's study was criticized for using too
much fluoride in her water at 5 parts per...

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whereas the US government's recommendation at
the time was 1 part per million.

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But think about this.

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Just because you mix fluoride into the water
supply at 1 parts per million,

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doesn't mean that's what people are actually
consuming.

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What about all the food products that are
made with fluoridated water?

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Raisins contain fluoride at 2.34 parts per
million,

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wine at 2.02 parts per million,

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and black tea at 3.73.

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And let's not forget the undisclosed dumping
of fluoride by factories into the water an...

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So that 1 part per million turns to 2 parts,
3 parts, 4 parts pretty fast.

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With fluoridated water, fluoride is a
double-edged sword.

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And it's not just fluoride.

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It's fluoride that's used in the water.

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And fluoride is used in the water.

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And fluoride is used in the water.

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And fluoride is used in the water.

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And fluoride is used in the water.

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And it's pretty fast.

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With fluoridated water at 4 ppm being found
to cause bone fractures and skeletal...

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It all depends on how much fluoride you
actually consume.

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Not how much the government dumps in the
water supply.

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Which is next to impossible for the average
person to calculate.

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And I'm sure you're wondering,

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why aren't we all passing out from fluoride
poisoning every time we brush our teeth or...

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Well, it's because we're consuming fluoride
in super small doses.

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Like a poison drip.

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And every time we drink it, our system
filters some of it out, but not all of it.

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One study showed that only 50% of fluoride
gets filtered out of the body.

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So where does the rest go?

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It gets absorbed into your bones.

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And according to Phyllis, it also absorbs
into your brain one drop at a time.

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Grass bites calories, so I'm gonna bite
grass.

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Now, grass got fluoride in it.

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And fluoride is far from the only
questionable thing in our modern diet.

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