Spilling The Green Tea

Per the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, men need about 15.5 cups of water daily and women need about 11.5 cups of water daily.

Water, in many ways, is a life source; its responsibilities include:

• maintain a normal body temperature
• lubricate and cushion joints
• hydrate skin
• cushion the brain and spinal cord
• rid our bodies of waste
• form saliva and mucus
• deliver oxygen to the body
• maintain blood pressure
• keep kidneys functioning
• help with weight loss
• aid the digestion system

Around 60% of our bodies are made up of water. Our bones are 20% water. Our muscles are 76% water. Our blood is 83% water. Our lungs are 90% water. Our brains are 95% water.

It is vital to our life. The human body can go without water for a maximum of three days before organs start to fail. Compare that with food and how we can survive without food for thirty days, shows just how important water is to the body and for our survival.

Way back in colonial days, water was drawn from digging a well or by visiting rivers and streams. Fast forward to modern times, we have options of tap water, well water, bottled water (spring, purified or distilled), filtered water, alkaline water, mineral water, sparkling water and reverse osmosis water just to name a few.

With so many options, is it true to say our water is better today? Or are we worse off? And what about fluoride? It is purposely put into our water supposedly for our benefit. Many say it is a form of “cavity protection”, but is it necessary? Or are we merely lab rats at the hands of a more sinister plot?

Let’s take a look at tap water….

Americans drink more than one billion glasses of tap water per day. It is used for drinking, cooking, bathing, laundry and toilets. Tap water is water supplied through a water dispenser valve. The water comes from either a ground or source and is then put through a water treatment process which includes utility companies using chemicals to combat contaminants. The CDC has depicted a diagram of this process:

The water treatment process may sound, to most, something noble and safe, but it has its downside. The Coagulation Process and the Disinfectant Process raise some concerns. Regarding the Coagulation Process, FloWater states:

“In a process known as coagulation, large amounts of chemicals with positively charged ions are introduced to the water being treated.  As a result, dirt and other contaminants with negatively charged ions find and bind themselves to these chemicals to create larger coagulated particles that can then be sifted out.  The larger particles referred to as sediment, sink to the bottom of the water. Because of coagulation, the dirt that was once free-floating debris takes on a higher density that allows it to fall to the bottom of the tank where it can be sifted out of the water. This process of sifting debris out of the water is known as filtration, though it is not the same filtration you are familiar with.  This filtration process only gets rid of the dirt and contaminants that bound themselves together in the coagulation process. There is no doubt that residual chemicals remain in the water even after filtration, and as such another step is taken to manipulate the water further.”

Regarding the Disinfectant Process, FloWater states:

“Disinfectant is added to the water in large doses to combat the other chemicals previously added along with any bacteria left over from coagulation.  I want you to think about the chemicals you would use to disinfect your pool. Those same chemicals are what is being added to tap water during the treatment process. Chlorine and chloramine are added during the disinfection process to kill any free radical contaminants that may be lurking in the water. The obvious flaw with this process is that these chemicals stay in the water without going through another filtration process. After the water goes through the disinfection process, it is stored in a water tower or other storage container where the public can tap their water from. To keep the water “fresh,” these chemicals have to be in the water to prevent abundant bacteria overgrowth. Water companies also add fluoride to water to mask the chemical taste of all the other previous chemical manipulations your water has undergone. And even with all of this chemical treatment when most tap water is tested, it is found that there are large amounts of various bacteria living in the water that comes straight from the tap. The most common chemicals found in tap water when it is tested fluoride, chlorine, nitrates, pesticides, and salts of mercury, arsenic, and lead.”

Take a look at that last sentence….

Fluoride, chlorine, nitrates, pesticides, mercury, arsenic and lead found in our tap water. Kind of ironic that chemicals are used to “clean” our drinking water for consumption, but can also harm us.

CNN published an article in March 2024 stating that nearly half of the tap water in the U.S. is contaminated with “forever chemicals” such as PFAS, known to cause cancer, thyroid issues, liver damage, elevated cholesterol, hormone imbalance and fertility issues.

So why isn’t more being done to keep us from drinking contaminated water?

EWG listed possible reasons include:

• not enough funding to help replace lead pipelines 
• federal water safety standards aren’t keeping pace with the latest science on contaminants
• the Environmental Protection Agency is not moving fast enough on new drinking water rule
• a lack of political will

However, there is a chemical used in our drinking water that is praised for its cavity prevention and ability to re-mineralize tooth enamel. It is not only found in our drinking water but also toothpastes, mouth washes, teeth whitening products, conditioners and hair gels.

Fluoride is a naturally-occurring mineral released from rocks into soil and then into water and the air. Foods that naturally contain fluoride include:

• coffee
• tea
• seafood
• fruits
• vegetables
• white rice
• wine
• gelatin
• oatmeal
• water

However, there is a difference between the fluoride naturally occurring and the fluoride used in our water and hygiene products.

The natural version of fluoride is called calcium fluoride and is usually found in soil. The synthetic version of fluoride is called sodium fluoride and because it is manufactured (not by nature), this is the dangerous type of fluoride as it has many cancer-causing properties.

In fact, sodium fluoride, in its purest form, is capable of eating through concrete! And if that didn’t shock you, the three chemicals used to fluoridate our water (sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate and fluorosilicic acid) are by-products of industrial fertilizer production.

The CDC’s chief fluoridation engineer even admitted that as well as the National Academy of Sciences.

Studies long ago have previously shown that moderate fluoridation does help to slow the process of tooth decay; therefore, in 1945, sodium fluoride was added into our tap water as a preventative measure. However, the quality of evidence supporting fluoridation and tooth decay has been poor and water fluoridation is looking more and more as unnecessary. In fact, 97% of western Europe uses non-fluorinated water and their tooth decay has declined in the past 50 years.

Want more facts?

• 50% of ingested fluoride is deposited in the bones of children; 10% is stored in adults
• per the CDC, 41% of American children have “dental fluorosis” caused by excessive fluoride
• 23+ human studies and 100+ animal studies link fluoride to brain damage

What other dangers are there associated with sodium fluoride?

Per CleanWaterOregon.org: “In 2014, Harvard researchers named fluoride as one of the top developmental neurotoxins impacting children’s brain development in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. The report followed another large-scale meta-study showing that elevated fluoride levels in drinking water were correlated with decreased childhood IQ. Even the CDC openly cites to data from the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) which admits that 43% of fluoridation chemicals test positive for arsenic.”

Now you may be asking if fluoride is unnecessary and causes health concerns, why are we still using it in 2024?

Well, since fluoridation is a form of mass medication that has no limits on its “dosing”, I would say Big Pharma.

Think about it….

The dental/medical community and media promote fluoride use and tell the American public its benefits such as cavity and tooth decay prevention and its ability to strengthen enamel. That’s what has been fed to us for years and years and that is what is still taught in medical training.

Now knowing that this synthetic fluoride is linked to a host of health issues, who and what would be benefitting from our health issues?

In my opinion it is the medical community and big pharma; two enormous entities that run on greed and benefit (profit) from our illnesses.

Makes sense doesn’t it?

James Beck, Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, says, “Fluoridating public water supplies is now demonstrated to be ineffective at preventing dental caries, to be toxic for various body systems and damaging to the development of the central nervous system. Furthermore, it is medically unethical because it is being approved by unqualified authorities, delivers an uncontrolled dose, without medical monitoring. All of this without the informed consent of recipients and without their ability to easily or cheaply avoid exposure once the fluoride is added to their drinking water.”

Dr. Stephanie Cave was quoted, “Fluoride is a potent poison for enzymes. I cannot reconcile putting it into the water source or children’s mouths. Money has to be the motivation because it makes no sense otherwise.”

Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry at St. Lawrence University agreed, “In my view, the three most telling arguments against fluoridation are:
1) governments shouldn’t do to everyone what a doctor cannot do to anyone, i.e. force an individual to take medication without their consent.”
2) The level of fluoride in mothers milk is so low (0.004 ppm), i.e. 250 times lower than the typical level added to water (1 ppm). If you believe in fluoridation you are essentially saying that nature screwed up on what a baby needs for healthy nutrition.
3) The concession by the CDC that fluoride’s predominant action is topical.
If it works on the outside of the tooth why on earth expose the whole body to this known toxic substance by putting it into the drinking water? Thus, when one learns that there is little decent science demonstrating that ingested fluoride is reducing tooth decay and there is a growing body of evidence that there are many health concerns, it not only adds scientific weight to these three very basic common sense and ethical arguments, but makes this practice even more preposterous.”

So what ways can you avoid fluoride?

• use a reverse osmosis, deionizer or activated alumina water filter on your tap; these filters will remove about 90% of the fluoride; do NOT use activated carbon filters like Brita or Pur as they do not remove fluoride
• drink spring water, but make sure the fluoride content is less than 0.2 ppm
• purchase a water distiller
• eat more fresh foods and less processed foods as processed foods can have high levels of fluoride
• avoid non-stick pots and pans; use stainless steel instead
• do not get fluoride treatments at the dentist
• make your own toothpaste using baking soda, charcoal or bentonite clay, coconut oil and essential oils

Again, this is a clear reminder that we all need to stay educated and that what God has already provided us here on Earth, has and always will be the very best. Stay away from synthetic, artificial, industrialized, lab-grown….etc items and embrace His nature. Your body will thank you for it!

I will drink to that!