Colin Varian states that Its only redeeming feature is that it is supposed to prevent dental decay, and even that doesn't stack up. You'll be stunned when you learn about the many proven downsides of fluoride being added to water supplies in Australia.
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Colin Varian:
It is only a little thing, but it is the only human treatment added to the water supply. No other human treatment is added to the water supply to treat human beings. So where do we start? Yeah. Fluoride free Australia was started about three or four years ago. We're trying to possibly be a central organisation for all the different groups around Australia, mainly an educational organisation.
Politicians are the weak link in this fraud scam, and the only way to get politicians to change their tune is for the people to demand it. Possibly. There are court cases overseas and around at the moment in Australia. Okay. And here tonight we've got the basic facts history.
It's not safe, not effective, it's not ethical. The global trend is de-fluoridation. People don't want it. There are alternatives to fix your teeth. You don't have to swallow this little item. There we are. It's the deliberate it's water fluoridation, deliberate edition of a chemical compound to release fluoride ions into the water and it's claimed it reduces tooth decay. In Australia. They reduced, they changed the concentration in the water to allow for thirst due to climate. You live up top end, it's hot. Theoretically you'll drink more water. You live in Tasmania. Theoretically you'll drink less,
But they only change the concentration in the water for thirst due to climate, not for any other reason. You might work out in the sun all day, drink a lot more, but there's many other sources, not just in water. It's in your food, your beverages, toothpaste, drugs. It's in the dirt, it's in the air. And many other sources. Yeah, so there's concentration in the water is completely different to the dose every single person takes. You go to a doctor, they'll give you a dose of paracetamol or whatever and you don't have any more or any less, and then they monitor how you're going here. It's just put a concentration in the water and you're on your own drink as much as you eat, as much as you like it when it's in the food and all the other sources. So yeah, some people might drink two litres a day, which is the requirement. Miners, people who work outside might have 10 litres a day, but that's just the water.
Basic facts about fluoride. Yeah, this was produced a few years ago in West Australia. Most of the chemical is hydrofluoric acid, which is produced from the chemical fertiliser processing areas.
Half of Australia has a derivative of that hydrofluoric acid that comes in the form of a powder, which mainly comes from China. Industrial toxic waste from China is what's put in the water with many metal and metallo contaminants such as arsenic.
There is no human biological function that needs fluoride to be processed. They pretend it's a nutrient because it may help the outside surface of your teeth. That's the only reason they call it a nutrient. It is not a nutrient, it's a contaminant. So therefore there's no such thing as a fluoride deficiency.
I just said that no biological process, and it interferes with almost all our biological functions. It's a proven protoplasmic poison. It's a proven endocrine and hormone disruptor. It's a proven mineral and vitamin inhibitor. More likely carcinogenic. Yes.
So the history is a scandal of pollution actually, and the original studies in America were flawed to say the least, and very poor quality. They actually started an experiment in 1945, a 10 year experiment it was supposed to go for and halfway through they declared it a winner. Whoa, we don't have to wait full 10 years. So started in 45 in about 1950 A DA, the AMA and the WHO endorsed fluoride as safe and effective. You heard that before anyway. Yes.
Yes. It's based on poor science. About the time they promoted DDT time, they promoted dentists and doctors promoted cigarettes. It's like tobacco science and we all know about how tobacco industry liked to corrupt the science until they got caught out and endorsements. Many, many medical organisations endorse fluoridation. You might even have a few political parties endorse it. Endorsements aren't science.
Okay, why is it not safe? One of the very big studies came from America 2006, and it can damage teeth when the adult teeth are forming. If the child ingests too much fluoride, it can get dental fluorosis, which is from mild through to moderate and severe. Moderate and severe is ugly. It also accumulates in your skeleton as well as a few soft tissues, tendons, ligaments, and it's the same thing over your lifetime. If you accumulate too much, you can have moderate severe skeletals, which gives you arthritic like symptoms. You noticed a lot of old people walking around like this. I do that first few minutes when I get out in the morning could be due to the basketball I hope. And it's also anticholinergic, which means it's no good for the central nervous system, proven so it can damage the brain. As we said before, it's a proven endocrine disruptor.
And the thyroid is a very important part of the endocrine system and it controls most of the hormones used inside the body for exchanging energy and all sorts of other processes in the body because it collects in the bones. It can trap in the cancer in your bones, especially in teenage boys. It's been few studies have proven this.
As you said earlier, as the adult teeth are forming in the gums, too much fluoride will interfere with the enamel. And there's no, you don't know how much fluoride is being ingested by young children. Some little tackers run around all day and need to drink a lot more water and other food and beverages.
Audience Member:
Colin, what does that look like? When someone has fluorosis,
Colin Varian:
When it's mild, it gives a little white flecks on the teeth. As it goes to moderate, it can turn to yellow flex and then it starts to eat into the enamel. Severe fluorosis, it'll come out brown. And as you age, the enamel just crumbles and eventually the teeth fall to bits. Dentists can make a lot of money fixing this fluorosis, and that's what it's all about. Dentists love it because they make money fixing fluorosis and they also, every six months they'll give you a fluoride treatment, whether you want it or not, probably about 10 cents worth of fluoride. And I'll charge you 50, 60 bucks, pay to the Mercedes every year possibly. Cochrane collaboration is the best gold standard reviewing organisation in the world. And they did a great study a few years ago and found up to 12% of people around the fluoridated countries have dental fluorosis of aesthetic concern, which means it's ugly. And again, dentists will make money
And as we said, it accumulates in the bones and other soft tissues. Your aortic aneurysms can also be caused brittle blood vessels because of the calcification caused by too much fluoride accumulating. And as in all things, America leads the world in too much fluoride in water, food, beverages and other sources. And this is over the years, their dental fluorosis just keeps increasing. I think it's even higher than that now. It's up to 50% of all children have dental fluorosis of some kind, and I think it's up to 20 to 30% moderate or severe.
It's become so bad that they decided not to keep measuring.
So it disappears that you stop measuring it. And here we have, as the concentration of fluoride in the water goes up, the dental cirrhosis, which is the blue will go up as well. Plus this is just in the water. You've got other sources, but as the dental fluoride concentration in the water goes up, the amount of dental decay doesn't change very much at all. So it might indicate that fluoride doesn't have much to do with dental decay or fluoride in the water. Doesn't have much to do with dental dec.
And there we've covered that. It does accumulate in the bones and they'll try and tell you it makes your bones more dense, but it might do that, but it also makes your bones more brittle. And as we get older, we certainly don't want to fall down and break a hip, a leg because you got a greater chance of dying within 12 months. Elderly people with a broken hip or leg.
Audience Member:
Christopher Plummer being the case last week.
Colin Varian:
Oh really?
Audience Member:
He had a fall two weeks before he died.
Colin Varian:
Okay, well there you go. Although he's, there was a town in Switzerland that had fluoridation or was he Austrian?
Audience Member:
Canadian.
Colin Varian:
Canadian. Ah, Canadia! They are fluoridated around 30%. The thyroid function is interfered with because in the periodic table, fluoride is at the top and it can substitute for any other halogen in that vertical part of the periodic table. So it will interfere with the iodine, which is what the thyroid it uses. And then yes, 2015 every general GP practice in the UK or England because only England is Fluoridated, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not Fluoridated. In the UK only about 10 or 11% of England is Fluoridated. Our mother country we're about 89% fluoridated in Australia. Anyway, they did a survey of all these GPs and they found that when the fluoride levels succeeded, just 0.3, most of England has either 0.7 or 1.0 parts per million or milligrammes per litre. The risk of an underactive of thyroid rose by 30% in fluoridated areas. And once you have a low underactive thyroid, you need to be on medication for the rest of your life. And our Australian National Health Medical Research Council in 2017 just dismissed that evidence and said, we can't see that. That's reliable.
Audience Member:
We lose money.
Colin Varian:
Yes, I think they've been taken hostage by the dentists, our National Health and Medical Research Council. It's also been proven it is a developmental neurotoxin, which means as south child's brains are being developed either as a foetus or in the childhood can be interfered with. It's like lead. It's a neurotoxin like alcohol neurotoxin. I think we're up to more than 600 studies now. And recently human studies have increased too.
Two, there's last two or three years there's been studies in Mexico, Canada, America, and elsewhere, which have shown association between more fluoride in urine or bloodstream reduced IQ in the offspring. They already knew in 2004 it was a neurotoxin. There's actually a court case in America at the moment where community groups are taking the regulator of fluoridation to court. The regulator is the EPA Environmental Protection Agency in America. As we're going on for three years now, it's still ongoing. The judge keeps denying the EPA to shut it down and they're at the stage now where everybody says it is a risk to the developing brain. Now the judge is just trying to determine whether that risk is an unreasonable risk. I don't know about you, but if it's a risk, I should decide for my kids or grandkids, not one judge. But anyway, that's still ongoing and next few months might tell.
This is one of the early, the Basher study was about pregnant women in Mexico and associated with a loss of IQ points of around five to six on average. You might not think that's very much, but it could mean the difference between a number of geniuses in a full population, which could approximately be halved, number of geniuses might be halved. And on the other side of the bell curve, it could mean the people with under 70 or disabilities could be doubled. Just that small shift of the IQ curve. Now it's a developmental neurotoxin. So babies, not everybody can be breastfed. The mammal mammalian species keeps fluoride out of the mammal's milk or breast milk for humans. So when they're bottle fed, they might have up to 250 times the level of fluoride that is in mother's milk. It's a neurotoxin. And the dentist just say, ah, don't worry about that.
Audience Member:
Didn't you say it can't be removed by boiling the water either.
Colin Varian:
That's right. When the water is boiled, the fluoride stays in the water and a bit of water boils off. So the concentration is increased. And when they make formula, that's what they do with the tap water. So tap water should not be used for formula. They actually issued a warning in America about 10, 15 years ago, but they kept it very quiet. I dunno what that means. They don want people to know not to dumb down their kids. They want dumb kids in America. Now, is it effective in reducing tooth dec coat?
Now there's many, many Western nations that do not fluoridate. In fact, in the world, only 5% of the population is fluoridated. Now if you listen to our media and our doctors and dentists, they'll say everybody in the world fluoridated their water. It's only 5% of the world in Western countries, whether you're fluoridated or non fluoridated. I think there's a chart coming up shortly. Both sets have countries have decreased their tooth decay in the last decades or many decades. But that would prove that when it's in the non fluoride country, it is not. There's not the fluoride in the water that has decreased the tooth decay.
So if it's not the fluoride in the water, then what was it? Maybe just people brushing their teeth. There's toothpaste of any different. There's the charts there, fluoridated countries, the yellows reds, and they've cut down in all countries, whether fluoridated or not fluoridated, which seems to indicate it's not the fluoride in the water that's bringing it down. And this one shows how the decayed teeth have followed that trend down. Fluoride was introduced, fluoridation was introduced, and not much of a difference in the downtrend. The curve fluoride toothpaste was introduced.
Not much of a downturn change happened. It just kept coming down. This is a very interesting one, little complicated, but along the bottom, there's 50 states in America and they all have different rates of fluoridation for the population. I think Hawaii's on that side, very, very little fluoridation. I think it's Kentucky, almost a hundred percent on this side. Now the purple is the high income percentage of high income children reporting good teeth. So it doesn't really matter how much fluoride's in the water. It stays about the same for all 50 states. And then there's the lower income, the blue squiggly line
Reporting good or excellent teeth. It doesn't seem to matter too much about the fluoride in the water. It stays around the same within a range, but it's lower than the high income people. So if you're rich, it might indicate you might have a better nutrition or you might afford toothpaste and toothbrushes. So just eat properly and brush your teeth. You'll probably have better teeth. Forget about what's fluorides in the water. You don't need to swallow it. Now the ethics of forced fluoridation, as I said, it's the only drug delivered in the drinking water to treat a human condition. The dose is not controlled. Drink as much water as you like.
And has anyone ever informed you that there are risks from drinking fluoridated water? The people responsible for Brisbane are the 27th councillors. They don't even mention fluoridation on their website. In fact, the 21 Fluoridated councils in Queensland, not one of them tells the people, the counsellors are responsible for the decision to keep it in or take it out. Not one of them tells you. And very few of them tell you about any risks. Very few. And has anyone ever asked you if you wanted it?
Informed consent means they tell you the risks and the benefits. They tell you how much it costs and then they ask you, do you want it? That's informed consent for any medical treatment and nobody gets a personal prescription. The dose is all up to how much you drink, how much you eat, and how much toothpaste you swallow, et cetera, et cetera. From other sources, the US Federal Drug Agency, FDA, food and Drug Agency, thank you. Our equivalent of the TGA Therapeutic Goods Administration have never approved swallowing flora.
Our TGA has made it exempt from being a therapeutic good. So is it therapeutic or is it not? It's exempt from being a therapeutic good in Australia and New Zealand Supreme Court actually ruled two or three years ago, and they come out with its compulsory mass medication. It's in breach of human rights. It's a medical treatment. It is not a supplement just topping up natural levels. WO DAM has 0.05 parts per million and we get topped up 15 times to 0.8 parts per million. It's not supplementary. Not fortification. The judges also said it's impractical to avoid it, so therefore it makes it compulsory. And then in their ruling said, oh, it's good teeth. So we'll keep it.
Thank you. Judges, as we said earlier, only 5% of the world is fluoridated. Most developed nations do not. Fluoridated 97%, probably 98%. Now that England's left Europe. Do not. Yes, many people are getting rid of it. In fact, in Queensland from 2013 till now, 29 councils have rejected it. Either stopped putting it in or rejected putting it in. There are only about six or seven or eight countries in the world that have more than 50% of their population drinking fluoridated water or having access to fluoridated water.
And you mentioned the five eyes earlier, Canada is down to about 30%. Fluoridation America is about 70%. Fluoridation New Zealand, about 47%. Fluoridation Australia, about 89%. Fluoridation I miss out there. Oh, mother England, about 11% fluoridation. The five eyes all brought in after World War 2.
And more and more people are getting rid of it. They don't want it. Once they become educated, they don't want this put in the water. Now we may be against water fluoridation, but it's like everything. Free choice on all medications, drugs. If you want to have flu toothpaste, go for it. You want to swallow fluoride, go for it. Just don't put it in my water. Or the other water that people don't, where people don't want it.
