183: Fluoride: The Hidden Cause of Acne (& What to Do About It) PODCAST
Katie: Okay. Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama Podcast. I'm Katie from wellnessmama.com. And
today's episode is going to answer a question I get a lot from you guys and have not even made time to write
about specifically yet. And that is Fluoride and what it does to our bodies. And I am here with Melissa Gallico
who's the author of "The Hidden Cause of Acne" and "F is for Fluorite: A Feasible Fairytale for Free Thinkers 15
and up." She's also no rookie when it comes to research. She's a former military intelligence officer, a Fulbright
Scholar, an FBI Intelligence Analyst, and she has instructed classes for the FBI Intelligence analyst at Quantico,
and provided intelligence support for National Security Investigations. She graduated with honors from
Georgetown and has a masters from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
She's obviously well-educated, well-traveled and well-researched and I cannot wait to jump in. So, Melissa welcome and thanks for being here. Melissa: Thanks so much for having me, Katie. Katie: Like I said, I cannot wait to jump in, and I also should say I have had a lot of people on this podcast, and I think your bio may be one of the most-impressive. That is a lot of things in one bio, and I love that you have obviously a very analytical and research-based background. I think that could be really important since we're gonna go deep on a topic that is pretty controversial which is, fluoride. So, to start off, I love to just talk about fluoride in general.
Like I said, it's a controversial topic, but I'd love if you could start with just explaining what it is and when and why it's used. Melissa: Sure. So, most of us know fluoride as a dental treatment. And that's always how I look at it as well. I Copyright © 2018 Wellness Mama · All Rights Reserved 3 use fluoride in my toothpaste, and I would get fluoride at dental treatments when I saw the dentist twice a year. And I didn't really think much about it. I didn't learn until later when I discovered my sensitivity to it that the controversy really does go very deep. And the other side of the story is that fluoride is also a common air pollutant.
We don't realize this now because there are a lot of restrictions about fluoride and how it can be emitted into the atmosphere. But back in the 1930s and the 40s when they first started studying fluoride as a potential dental treatment, that is when they were having a lot of trouble with fluoride as an air pollutant. And they were getting lawsuits from coast to coast, and it's very common with aluminum smelter, and brick and tile manufacturers, anything that deals with mining operations. So, fluoride is a common element in the earth's crust and whenever you're mining and tearing apart rock, you're basically going to have fluoride as a byproduct. So, not only did they have this byproduct because they didn't have anything to do with it, but they were also liable for lawsuits from people that were noticing problems not just with their personal health, but with agriculture. Tens of thousands of acres were ruined, because of fluoride pollution in the early 20th Century. So, that's the other side of the story is the pollution story that you don't often hear when you just think of fluoride as a dental treatment.......
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She's obviously well-educated, well-traveled and well-researched and I cannot wait to jump in. So, Melissa welcome and thanks for being here. Melissa: Thanks so much for having me, Katie. Katie: Like I said, I cannot wait to jump in, and I also should say I have had a lot of people on this podcast, and I think your bio may be one of the most-impressive. That is a lot of things in one bio, and I love that you have obviously a very analytical and research-based background. I think that could be really important since we're gonna go deep on a topic that is pretty controversial which is, fluoride. So, to start off, I love to just talk about fluoride in general.
Like I said, it's a controversial topic, but I'd love if you could start with just explaining what it is and when and why it's used. Melissa: Sure. So, most of us know fluoride as a dental treatment. And that's always how I look at it as well. I Copyright © 2018 Wellness Mama · All Rights Reserved 3 use fluoride in my toothpaste, and I would get fluoride at dental treatments when I saw the dentist twice a year. And I didn't really think much about it. I didn't learn until later when I discovered my sensitivity to it that the controversy really does go very deep. And the other side of the story is that fluoride is also a common air pollutant.
We don't realize this now because there are a lot of restrictions about fluoride and how it can be emitted into the atmosphere. But back in the 1930s and the 40s when they first started studying fluoride as a potential dental treatment, that is when they were having a lot of trouble with fluoride as an air pollutant. And they were getting lawsuits from coast to coast, and it's very common with aluminum smelter, and brick and tile manufacturers, anything that deals with mining operations. So, fluoride is a common element in the earth's crust and whenever you're mining and tearing apart rock, you're basically going to have fluoride as a byproduct. So, not only did they have this byproduct because they didn't have anything to do with it, but they were also liable for lawsuits from people that were noticing problems not just with their personal health, but with agriculture. Tens of thousands of acres were ruined, because of fluoride pollution in the early 20th Century. So, that's the other side of the story is the pollution story that you don't often hear when you just think of fluoride as a dental treatment.......
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