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Recently an Oregon town came in the news about the flouride debate in our water. I always filter my tap water anyway. Do those PUR filters take out flouride? I have no idea how bad or good this stuff REALLY is.
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Definitely not an expert on this subject however it seems there is a lot of conspiracy theory around fluoride because it is a component in making an atomic bomb that the defense department was studying during the Manhattan Project. If that doesn't get the theorists attention right there I don't know what will.
What I do know is that fluoride has a number of different solutions and that certain compounds are fatal poison while others are completely inert.
Critics say it is a powerful CNS (Central Nervous System) toxin that can diminish IQ and have other affects to the brain. The U.S. National Institutes of Health is adamant that fluoride has no affect on the central nervous system.
As to fluoride in water: Fluoride occurs naturally in small doses in any fresh water (especially underground sources) and in higher concentrations in sea water. The government says what goes into the water and such is not harmful. Most dentists say it isn't a problem in low doses and helps them immeasurably.
There are some doctors who wonder if it isn't related to the increase in stress fractures in young adults and the elderly (fluoride accumulates in the bones as well as the teeth) but I don't know that there are any reputable studies that have linked the two together.
Your Brita or PUR filter does NOT remove Fluoride from the water though it may reduce the ppm.
To removed fluoride from water you need either reverse osmosis filtration, activated alumina defluoridation filtration, or distillation filtration. Most commercial filters are an activated carbon type of filtration.
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