The fluoride studies were definitely tainted in my eyes. They say all dentists believe it is a good thing. That's false. The biggest problem I see is they never asked MD's. The US EPA limit is 4 mg/l. But only 2 mg/L for children under the age of 2. Most water plants dosed for 1.0-1.2 mg/L and many have dropped that to 0.8 mg/L, simply to save a bit of money and since there is no actual scientific studies that the additional dose would help anything. There is no way anyone could ever figure out the actual dose people are getting. That would depend on how much water they drink and cook with and how much showering they do. There is no MD who would honestly recommend dosing people with an unknown amount of a chemical that has been proven to lower IQ's in children. Yes, nearly all groundwater contains some fluoride. Here we have about 0.2 mg/L natural fluoride. Another water plant I worked at about 30 miles from here had about 0.4 mg/L. There is one water plant in southern Missouri I know of that natural water exceeds the 4.0 limit, so they have to dilute it with other water that is lower than that.

• You are correct, fluoride has been used as rat and cockroach poison. It is a byproduct of certain manufacturing. Rather than have the added expense of getting rid of their toxic waste, somehow they convinced people it would be good to put it in drinking water. ???!!!???

They probably switched to chloramine disinfection. Which is simply adding ammonia to the water. It's not quite as good a disinfectant as free chlorine, but it does last longer. People who are on dialysis have to be aware when they switch to this. The main push to switch is because of disinfection byproducts created from the reaction of chlorine to organics. These disinfection byproducts have proven to cause cancer. But, before you through the baby out with the bathwater (haha I think I made a pun), chlorine does way more good than harm. People's health is improved because disease and parasites are nearly non-existent after disinfection. They are now talking about regulating the disinfection byproducts from chloramines, because 1 in a trillion people might get cancer from it. That's just ridiculous odds and the huge cost of regulations would not be worth it.

• Usually if you smell chlorine in the shower, that does not mean there is too much chlorine. It actually means it is running a bit low.