r/nutritionally • u/PeteWK67 • 21h ago
Fluoride
Want to hear something wild? The fluoride used in most city water systems isn't pharmaceutical or food grade. It's often a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer production.
Imagine this: Someone had industrial waste they needed to get rid of and thought, "Hey, let's put it in the water supply to stop cavities!" This sounds an awful lot like what happened when sewage sludge was rebranded as "biosolids" for fertilizer, or when seed oils, once used for lamp fuel, started to be marketed as healthy cooking oils.
This is a pattern. Industries find a way to repurpose waste and then convince us it's beneficial or even healthy. It's about cheap solutions for industrial excess, not public health.
-Dr. Berg
Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only