"The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany's Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride's supposed effect on children's teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people into their concentration camps into calm submission.
Source: The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin.
"Both the Germans and the Russians added fluoride to the drinking water of prisoners of war to make them stupid and docile."
Source: Mr. Harley Rivers Dickinson, Liberal Party Member of the Victorian Parliament for South Barwon, Australia.
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In the 1990s, a British scientist, Jennifer Luke, discovered that fluoride accumulates to strikingly high levels in the pineal gland. (Luke 2001).
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[–] Norseman 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
Fluoride is hard to get out, but you have two choices. They make special fluoride filters for about $50 for under sink setups and you have to replace the filters kinda often. It can get expensive but it works well.
The other option is a zerowater filter and this is the route I went. Users have sent in water filtered with the zerowater to independent labs and the test showed zero fluoride. You can find these results online.
One filter lasts me about 6-8 months normally but I get much more out of them. The trick is to save the old filter when it starts reading some TDS on the meter. Then first you filter your water through it and then pour that water through a new filter. The new filter will last years because it's barely filtering anything.
The only down side to zerowater is you have to keep it refrigerated. I kept mine in the fridge for about a year and all was great, but then I decided to keep it on the counter. Within a couple of weeks the water developed a fishy taste and by a month I found mold growing in it. I cleaned everything and put in new filters and it's been fine in the fridge since.
Whatever you do, never use a brita, pur, etc. They are scams. They actually ADD aluminum to the water, so much that it's beyond safe ppm amounts.
[–] Wyknot ago
A countertop distiller gets everything out of your tap water. It costs me about 25 cents per gallon in electricity. Been drinking it exclusively for 3 years.
[–] Norseman ago
which also means you're robbing your body of some essential minerals. I hope you're eating your veggies or taking supplements too.