119: Unmasking Fluoride: Are Its Health Risks Greater Than Its Benefits?

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• 0:00 The Fluoride Controversy
• 12:40 The Truth About Fluoride Risks

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Speaker 1: 0:00

Imagine a seemingly helpful chemical praised for decades quietly undermining your health. Today, we reveal the hidden story of fluoride, how it impacts your body and practical solutions for a safer, healthier future. Stay tuned, hello. I'm Jeffrey Mort. If you're like most entrepreneurs, you're busy taking care of business, yet who's taking care of you? You're busy taking care of business, yet who's taking care of you? If you're ready to take your energy and performance to the next level in your life and your business, then this podcast is for you, because today you're going to start breaking boundaries of your mind, body and business with integrative health, and when you do that, your possibilities are limitless. I'm grateful you're here. Yes, always grateful for you joining me. Welcome to Breaking Boundaries for Entrepreneurs. I'm your personal high-performance health coach, jeffrey Mort, and I trust that this episode finds you well wherever you're listening from today and before we begin, I'd love your support. If you enjoy the podcast, please subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform and also sign up for your From the Heart newsletter for exclusive insights delivered directly to your inbox every Sunday. The link is in the show notes or over at loveenergywellnesscom to get signed up for that From the Heart newsletter right now. Wellnesscom to get signed up for that from the heart newsletter right now.

Speaker 1: 1:28

So today we're talking about the fluoride controversy and I really I'm doing this episode to share what you really need to know. Uh, there's so much misinformation out there and I recently finished watching, uh, season four, the final season of gooliath, on Prime Video. It's a legal thriller series starring Billy Bob Thornton. I love Billy Bob Thornton, he's such a great actor Playing the lead role as attorney Billy McBride, and that show delves into corruption and cover-ups, specifically in season four, in the pharmaceutical industry. Corruption and cover-ups, specifically in season four, in the pharmaceutical industry. It was a gripping reminder of how big business often prioritizes profit over public health, and the story had me reflecting on another real-life controversy which, as you could probably guess, is fluoride in our water and in our dental products. So picture this as a Hollywood plot dental products. So picture, picture this as a Hollywood plot. A well-meaning innovation turns sinister as studies reveal toxic effects, regulatory bodies clash with independent scientists, a grassroots movement rises to demand change and, in the final act, a landmark ruling shakes public health policy. Now that's not really fiction. This is is reality, and we'll get to the shaking of the public health policy a little bit further down in today's episode.

Speaker 1: 2:56

But fluoride is a halogen and if we go back to our chemistry class, we have the periodic table of elements and there's a group it's group 17, which is the halogen group, and fluoride resides over there, or fluorine actually, and so we're going to talk a little bit about a battle going on here inside the body with the thyroid gland. So the thyroid gland is actually the battleground. So the thyroid gland relies on iodine, which is also in the halogen group, and it relies on iodine to produce essential hormones that regulate metabolism and energy, to produce essential hormones that regulate metabolism and energy. And here's where halogens, including fluoride, chlorine and bromine, come into play. So fluoride and halogens these chemicals are very chemically similar to iodine and they compete for the same receptor sites in your thyroid. So there's these receptor sites in your thyroid gland. Your thyroid gland is the governor for your metabolism and it's relying on iodine to come into these receptor sites like a docking station, and some of the other halogens have that same shape. It's like a lock and key and the other halogens have a similar key profile that they can actually fit in there and block the iodine from coming in. So the impact on thyroid function.

Speaker 1: 4:22

When fluoride displaces iodine or chlorine displaces iodine, your thyroid struggles to produce hormones efficiently, leading to potential hypothyroidism, which is low thyroid. So if you hear hypo, that means low. If you hear hyper, that means high. So hypothyroidism is low thyroid function. And before I speak on the symptoms here of low thyroid function, I have to give you my disclaimer I'm not providing any medical advice on the podcast. I'm not claiming to treat, diagnose or cure any diseases here. So now that that's out of the way advice on the podcast. I'm not claiming to treat, diagnose or cure any diseases here. So now that that's out of the way.

Speaker 1: 5:00

Low thyroid activity can affect entrepreneurs like yourself, executives or anybody relying on sharp focus or energy Could be athletes, high performers, we'll say. And some symptoms to watch out for include fatigue and low energy, which, as you know, at love energy wellness that is our specialty over there brain fog and poor concentration. We work on that every 90 days as a, as a group over at love energy wellness. Weight gain despite healthy eating, you could be eating the healthiest food but still gaining weight beyond where you want to be. Hair thinning or hair loss, cold hands and cold feet that's a sign of low thyroid and dry skin as well. Dry, itchy, flaky skin could also be synonymous with having low thyroid. So recognizing these signs early is key to restoring balance and avoiding burnout in your entrepreneurial journey. So it goes actually deeper.

Speaker 1: 6:01

It's not just the thyroid that fluoride affects. Fluoride's neurotoxicity. This is the brain's silent saboteur. Neurotoxicity refers to chemically induced damage to the nervous system and, of course, the brain is part of the nervous system. So here's why fluoride is particularly concerning. It has effects on brain health, negative effects. Research demonstrates that fluoride exposure to cognitive decline, memory issues and developmental neurotoxicity, especially in children. So here are some symptoms of neurotoxicity If you're the kind of person that's getting chronic headaches all the time, or maybe your child's complaining of headaches all the time.

Speaker 1: 6:45

Cognitive dysfunction, difficulty thinking clearly, maybe mood disturbances such as anxiety and depression. Joint pain chronic joint pain that's linked to nerve inflammation. You may or may not know that yet, that that might be what your nerve pain is linked to, but I get a lot of clients that are complaining of joint pain and have done all the things. They've been to the doctor, they've been to the chiropractor, they've taken the anti-inflammatories and they just can't figure this out. Another symptom of neurotoxicity is insomnia or poor sleep quality. You know, it may not just be that you're sleep deprived or over caffeinated. It could be a sign of fluoride toxicity. So if you're experiencing any of these symptoms, it may be time to evaluate your fluoride exposure or do some at-home functional lab testing, which we can look at fluoride with an environmental toxicity lab, but there's usually a few labs we run prior to that and a few things that we do to take action. So that's what we're going to talk about.

Speaker 1: 7:52

Next is how to protect yourself from fluoride. Water filtration this is the first line of defense and let me tell you, not all water filters remove fluoride. So you want to look for systems and filters specifically designed for this purpose, and usually the ones that filter out fluoride also filter out chlorine, and I should probably do another show on chlorine because it's a similar topic but a completely different conversation. So reverse osmosis, also known as RO filters. These are highly effective, but the downside to RO filters I'll clarify here. They strip minerals from water. So if you're using an RO system, you want to make sure that you're remineralizing your reverse osmosis water, and some RO filters actually have a third cartridge, a final cartridge that helps to remineralize your water, which is critical to restore essential nutrients like calcium, magnesium, sodium, sodium, potassium. Those are absolutely critical, and if you want to know if your electrolytes are balanced in your body, we could run what's called a minerals and metals lab. A simple hair sample about a teaspoon of hair would accurately depict your body's metabolism, your metabolic blueprint, over the course of the last three months, to see if your calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium and 11 other uh or nine other minerals are in balance. And it also looks at heavy metals too, which is amazing information. So you know.

Speaker 1: 9:28

You might think that well, I, jeff, I can't afford a reverse osmosis filter or a whole house water filter system. What else do you got? Well? It's funny that you asked. There are several affordable fluoride removing pitchers. Now, I myself have well water and that doesn't mean that I'm not susceptible to fluoride, because fluoride is naturally occurring in the earth. It's an element, but I use a fluoride removing pitcher. So modern options are available that remove fluoride, chlorine and other environmental toxins at a fraction of the cost of large systems. These pitchers provide a very budget-friendly entry point into safer hydration. I think I paid maybe in the $60 range for this pitcher and then I replace a $15 filter every two to three months. Whenever it starts filtering slowly, I always have an extra filter on hand, really easy to change and I always keep it on my countertop or in the refrigerator during the summertime, and really easy to get some filtered water that way. Now next, where else do you get fluoride? We talked about your water system, no-transcript.

Speaker 1: 11:08

When you're swishing with mouthwash, you're probably doing it for a minute or two and that's it. Um, oil pulling you would preferably do that for 15 or 20 minutes, but if you only have two minutes, it's better than nothing, and it's certainly better than using a fluoride-based mouthwash with alcohol in it. And what the oil does is it draws out toxins from the mouth. This is especially helpful in the morning, first thing in the morning. This helps to support oral health as well, and it reduces harmful bacteria naturally. If you wanted to take that a step further, you could use a copper tongue scraper first thing in the morning.

Speaker 1: 11:42

This is exactly my routine. I wake up in the morning, I use a copper tongue scraper, I brush my teeth with something we're going to talk about next and then I do some oil pulling. I don't do the 20 minutes. I'm being honest with you here, I don't have that kind of time in my schedule in the morning, but I do it for as long as I can Uh the weekends. I actually do uh the longer uh oil pulling and then.

Speaker 1: 12:04

So next is uh brushing my teeth with nano hydroxy appetite toothpaste. This might say on the tooth, uh, the toothpaste tube N-HA. But a lot of times when toothpaste is fluoride-free, it has nano-hydroxyapatite in it and this is a safer alternative. Unlike fluoride, nha remineralizes teeth without toxicity. This alternative it's scientifically proven to strengthen enamel and prevent cavities. Naturally. My kids use it. I use it. Don't use the fluoride toothpaste. That's my public service announcement for you.

Speaker 1: 12:40

So, wrapping things up here, fluoride may have been introduced with good intentions, but mounting evidence shows risks. Other countries have known about this for decades and have banned this forever. Even in the 1930s, german medicine was actually using fluoride to lower people with hypothyroid, high thyroid. They would soak them in a fluoride bath to get their thyroid levels to come down. So they've known this since the 1930s, and I'm here to help you protect your health by making informed choices and adopting simple habits that align with long-term wellness, health, longevity that's what we're here for. So for more insights like this, check out our learning center at loveenergywellnesscom. Click on the learn tab. You go loveenergywellnesscom forward, slash, learn and while you're there, be sure to join our free Love Energy Wellness community for ongoing guidance. Until next time, stay healthy and keep breaking those boundaries.