But they were wrong. The fluoride added to our water is a waste product of aluminum and phosphate fertilizer processing. It’s not calcium fluoride that appears naturally in water, but sodium fluoride, which is a whole different thing–and loaded with bad news.

Sodium fluoride has no good news. Except for a few suspect reports by the people selling the stuff, study after research study proves that sodium fluoride does not protect our teeth, and it does a number on our bones. And on other body parts, too, especially our thyroid.

Unfortunately for us, fluoride does its work in secret. Oh, we have health issues. Maybe even a lot of issues, but we never connect them to fluoride.

So let’s connect a few dots here.

Your thyroid gland produces the hormone that controls your metabolism. Thyroid hormone gets its power and glory from its iodine content.

Enter fluoride. Fluoride and iodine look a lot alike chemically, but fluoride’s a bully while iodine, unfortunately, gives up too easily. So fluoride knocks iodine out of your thyroid hormone and takes over.

Big problem. Fluoride may look like iodine, but it can’t do iodine’s job. Your thyroid hormone no longer has the oomph to get the job done, and you’re hypothyroid.

But blood tests, which are not sophisticated enough to distinguish between useless fluoride and the potent iodine you had before fluoride showed up, will say you don’t have a problem. To the tests, thyroid hormone is thyroid hormone, whether it works or not.

You’ll hear the doctor’s famous phrase, “You’re fine.” And you’ll know that’s not true, but you probably won’t know what to do about it.

Well, one thing you should do for sure is get rid of ALL the fluoride in your life.

Not convinced yet? Well, then let me tell you even more reasons to ditch fluoride.

• Fluoride also attacks your pineal (PIN ee uhl) gland. Deep in your brain, called your third eye by seers, the pineal controls your inner clock, provides good sleep and works with your adrenal glands to handle stress. Fluoride calcifies it into a rock–nonfunctioning, of course.

• Like the rest of the body, our bones constantly renew themselves, adding new bone cells and removing dying cells. Fluoride interferes with the ‘adding new bone cells’ part.

• Sodium fluoride contains heavy metals, including aluminum, which throw a monkey wrench into most of what our body needs to do. Adding to the mess, if aluminum can find some magnesium–one of the really good guys–it latches onto it and heads for your brain.

• The American Dental Association finally came out with an advisory telling parents not to give their babies fluoridated water–because it can cause brain damage. But they still back fluoride.

• The government classifies sodium fluoride as environmentally hazardous waste. Anybody handling it must wear HazMat protective gear. Dumping it into rivers is a crime.

Why then is it okay to put it in the water we drink, bathe in and swim in?

• Consider this: Putting sodium fluoride into the water supply forces people to involuntarily take a medication they don’t need, for no reason, with no controls. A doctor who did this with a medication would lose his/her medical license in short order.

• Fluoridated toothpaste requires a warning to alert parents to call poison control if a child eats a pea-sized glob of the stuff. Which contains the same amount of fluoride as one glass of water.

Most of Europe enacted laws to stop the use of fluoride in the water–and report great benefits from doing so. It looks as if Canada will follow. Only eight countries in the world now fluoridate more than 50% of its water.

Unfortunately, the United States is one of them–and the politics run deep. We’re on our own.