Fluoride, one of the most pernicious toxins in your water supply.

What can you do about it?

Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping take control of your health,

and today we are joined by Dr. Bill Osminson who is a

dentist in the Seattle area and he is going to enlighten us on the details to

answer that question and we're doing this because this is part of our fluoride

Action Week.

And we want to create awareness about this issue

because it is a problem. And let me just give you a little

preface before we dive in with Dr. Osminson but fluoride is a problem for a

number of reasons it's purported to decrease the risk of dental cavities but there's a big

question mark which we'll discuss whether it even does that especially systemically in the

water supply but But what are the downsides? Well it

displaces iodine from your thyroid and if you're a woman you're already at high risk

for hypotheritism and this is going to make it even worse.

So it's a really serious issue and it could also interfere.

It's a metabolic mitochondrial toxin.

So it will sabotage your mitochondro's ability to create cellular energy in the form of ATP.

So with all that background, we're going to dive in and talk to Dr. Osminson who's joining us from Seattle,

and he's going to help us understand this in a deeper

way so why don't you enlighten us Dr. Osminson is how you first became interested in this

issue because as a dentist you know there are a number of

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