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Fluoride in your tap water

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I have just read that Mr Hancock is proposing legislation for the flouridation of tap water. Have I read somewhere that it causes Hypothyroidism and is in some part to blame for the obesity epidemic in the USA?

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Miffie

Not altogether certain but I think we had a thread on this recently. Hopefully one of our very savvy admins will be along and post a link if my thinking is correct.

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Miffie in reply to SeasideSusie

Thank you, what a star.

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Milynda

I grew up in the USA with fluoridated tap water and didn’t start having any problems until 15 years after I was here in the UK. I have Graves Disease.

Hancock probably has shares in a water filter company and is hoping that many more people will buy filters to avoid the added fluoride - or a mate has a failing company that has never added fluoride to water but would really like to

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Minimol in reply to Angel_of_the_North

Sadly I think you’re probably right Angel. Maybe he’s invested in a bottled water company?

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humanbean in reply to Angel_of_the_North

I didn't think that there were any water filters that removed fluoride.

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Angel_of_the_North in reply to humanbean

Apparently, Berkey do and so does an RO system. Others may also work but haven't looked into it

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jsy_girl in reply to humanbean

Zerowater does. I was looking at them this morning but you then run the gauntlet of taking out any good stuff in the water along with it

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katyfow

I just posted this paper on the other fluoride thread but might be of interest jech.bmj.com/content/69/7/619

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