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  1. blank PatriciaTursi, Ph.D. says:

    Excellent article…gives succinct info, references, amounts, etc..thanks!

  2. Thanks for doing the footwork to bring that good news to us who are still in fluoride territory.

  3. Very good article… In regards to the dry sauna method… It would kind of defeat the purpose if the water you're drinking to replenish your fluids contain fluoride though. I am also wondering if the body's natural defences in the form of the master anti-oxidant: Glutathione will also help flush out fluoride… as one of Glutathione's functions is to flush toxins out of the body…

  4. blank flutetramp says:

    nothing about borax?

  5. what about borax Flutetramp?

  6. blank Aqiyl Henry says:

    Nice article. I have used tamarind to remove sodium fluoride from my system. I stopped using toothpaste and brush my teeth with baking soda, and I filter my water to remove fluoride.

    1. i buy fluoride free toothpastes at my healthfood stores/co-op's too theres a ton of good ones they usually contain baking soda/clay the one i buy is sls free free of about 7 thing labled and it tastes yummy no fake sweateners either!! just to give you more options that plain ole b/s. 🙂

  7. blank patt colten says:

    Thanks for the helpful advice.

  8. Borax is a very potent detoxifier/inhibitor of fluoride. Sprinkle some in your water and the fluoride passes right through your system. Boron binds to the fluoride ion and makes it unabsorbable. It also prevents fluoride from binding to calcium.

  9. I thought fluoride would build up on your bones ..

    1. read the Cancer Control Society paper on fluoride!
      it is more than you can stomach !!

  10. Borax is a simple and cheap way of removing fluoride as well.
    Make sure that you buy genuine borax, not the chemical borax equivalent and also research the correct dosage.

  11. Can anyone suggest a good fluoride removal system to purchase? Thanks.

  12. blank qandamamma says:

    I also heard that Holy Basil works.

  13. blank Anonymous says:

    Potassium iodide & EDTA work well too!!

  14. blank Joy Warren says:

    Useful to know about the various ways in which one can remove fluoride from our bodies. However, because Indian and China tea contain fluoride surely one should not drink tamarind and tea together since this would defeat the whole purpose of drinking tamarind.

    Borax: you can buy decahydrate tetraborate from off the Internet. It's sold as a cosmetic additive and not as a food supplement. 5-6 gm is added to 1 litre of water. Add 1 teaspoon of this diluted solution to a glass of water. That's the maximum daily dose. I once overdosed on borax and it gave me restless leg syndrome throughout the night. I still don't know if this has detoxified my pineal gland. How does one know when the pineal gland has been detoxified? Is there any research on how long it will take to detoxify the pineal gland of fluoride by following the detoxifying protocols?

  15. How can I test my home water? I am beginning to think the once-trusted ‘Brita’ filter is probably a waste of my money and time… Any recommendations on good systems?

    1. blank freedomdove says:

      Brita filters do NOT filter out fluoride so if you’re using it for that then it’s indeed a waste of money and time. Reverse Osmosis and distilling are the best at removing fluoride. There are filter systems that use aluminum media to remove fluoride but I didn’t like mine. It was inexpensive but I don’t think it worked very well and I was always nervous about using aluminum to remove fluoride. Bone char filters supposedly work well but those systems are hard to find.

      After a few years of using the aluminum-media system, I finally got sick of it and bought an RO system. It works really well (and it was made in America) but it wastes a lot of water, like any normal RO system. I capture and reuse the waste water because I don’t like the idea of wasting such a precious resource and having my water bill go up dramatically. I have two 5-gallon buckets in the house and I put the drain tube from the RO system down into one bucket before I dispense water out of the little tap on the sink. I dispense the RO water into clear glass gallon jugs so that I always have good water sitting around when I need it. I fill half of a gallon at a time and the system wastes almost 5 gallons of water to replace it. So when the first bucket is almost full (about 20 minutes after I first dispense), I switch the drain hose over to the second bucket which I set right outside the cabinet in front of the first bucket (which is under the sink in the cabinet). I use this waste water to flush the toilet, and also I warm up some of it on the stove in a big pot to use for washing dishes.

      I bought a dozen glass gallon moonshine-looking jugs several years ago from Freund, but I also reuse the glass gallon jugs that hold the organic apple juice I buy for my kid. I probably have 25 glass jugs now, which enables me to easily store drinking/cooking water.

      1. We do the same, RO into used apple juice gallon jugs. I carry a jug in my truck for drinking water at work. We don’t recover the waste water though and that’s a valid concern I haven’t figured out what to do??

        1. blank freedomdove says:

          Did you install the system yourself, or are you familiar with the different hoses coming off the unit? If so, locate the hose that goes to the drain pipe. If it’s like mine, there should be a saddle valve installed somewhere along one of the drain pipes under the sink. The drain tube from the RO system should be connected to this saddle valve. Mine has a quick-connect on it so when I want to dispense the water into my gallon jug I can easily take the drain hose out of the saddle valve and stick it into a 5-gallon bucket sitting next to the system under the sink. I then fill the jug half full. Very soon after you turn the tap on, the system will start regenerating water. I’ve found this isn’t true if someone just turns the tap on for a few seconds. But I don’t let anyone use the tap. Lol. They know by now to take their drinking/cooking water from the glass jugs sitting on my seed-starting shelf in the kitchen.

          I manage all the water coming out of that system, though it is hooked up to the refrigerator water/ice maker system. That’s why I leave the drain hose in the saddle valve for most of the day–just in case the ice machine takes water. I’ve finally figured out, though, that even when it takes some water, it’s not enough to trigger the RO system to start regenerating. What happens is the next time I draw a half gallon of water from the tap, the waste water level is much higher because it’s right then that it regenerates the water for the small amounts used by the ice machine or someone getting water from the fridge. I actually was caught off guard the first time until I figured out what happened. The bucket almost overflowed!

          I’ve had a few accidents with overflow of the 5-gallon buckets, but that was just in the beginning when I was learning how much waste water was produced, and how long it took to produce it. I now have the amounts and timing down pat and there aren’t any overflows, unless by accident because of the ice machine. For my system, it takes 20 minutes to almost fill the first 5-gallon bucket, so I just set my timer as I’m dispensing the half gallon of water (I don’t do a full gallon at a time because I don’t have enough buckets sitting around to accept all that waste water). After 20 minutes I switch the hose to the other bucket and let it finish out. It’s usually about a gallon there in the second bucket; it really depends on how much water I drew. Every system will be different but one can always just observe and experiment as I did.

          I keep a 5-gallon bucket under the sink at all times, along with a 4-cup measuring cup which I use to transfer water from the first bucket to the second when the first bucket is too full to move. I keep the second 5-gallon bucket in the bathroom with enough water in it to do one flush (I even figured out how much that requires). It gets used as needed then comes back into the kitchen to be refilled from the first bucket. When all of the waste water is gone, I dispense half gallon of RO water and start all over again.

          In the beginning when I got the RO unit, I wasn’t able to go through enough waste water to meet my filtered-water needs (I was also using RO water for my seedlings this winter). Now that I’m ahead of the game and my seedlings have gone outside, I find that I can play catch-up and start filling the extra water jugs I have sitting around. I find that I’m actually needing the waste water before I have a need to fill a jug because we’ve become accustomed to using it for flushing the toilet. It all took some time to get used to (including using a bucket of water to flush), but I’m totally okay with it now, and everyone in the house is educated on the water usage system I have set up.

          Let me know if you have any questions. 🙂

  16. My excellent naturopath, who follows up her work with stringent blood and other tests to see if what she’s doing actually works, is adamant that saunas are not effective for fluoride toxicity, although selenium an iodine are. (She is a fan of saunas for other forms of detox – again based on before and after tests on her patients). Can you cite anything that actually proves that fluoride is removed from the body through sweat?

    1. Calcium is lost through perspiration, so if fluoride is attached to calcium, it is logical that perspiration excretes fluoride along with the calcium.

  17. is 20 mule borax the chemical equivalent??

  18. blank Laillistakaa se says:

    Fluoride in water? Oh, I forgot that in the internet, if it’s not mentioned separately everyone are from USA. Or at least they think that everyone are. 😉

    Fluoride is not added to water world widely -from which I am very happy about.
    Still, I used tooth paste with added fluoride to the age of 38 so I guess I should detox myself aswell… and I also have amalgam in my teeths. 🙁

  19. blank Bo Jangles says:

    Borax does much better than iodine.

  20. blank freedomdove says:

    I don’t see what all the hype is about concerning Nascent Iodine, other than good marketing. It doesn’t contain a combination of iodine and potassium iodide, both of which are needed by the body for different organs. Lugol’s Solution contains both iodine and KI, as does Iodoral (the pill form). They both have quite a bit more iodine than the nascent stuff, too, so they are more helpful for deficiencies.

    When I first started supplementing with Lugol’s I had severe acne-like breakouts for 2 or 3 months on the upper portion of my body. That was a detox effect as the bromide and fluoride were being displaced. This is normal and should just be tolerated until the worst detox is over. {An allergy to iodine is very rare, but it can occur, so make sure you’re not having an allergic reaction.} Just drink plenty of non-fluoridated water in the meantime and try to do general detox methods such as sea-salt and/or baking-soda baths (also epsom salt or magnesium chloride baths).

  21. blank freedomdove says:

    See my reply above to Alikat since she asked the same question.

  22. blank Billy Bee says:

    agreed, google borax and fluoride, lots of info

    1. When detoxing from fluoride, I used to get headaches at night. I found out that by supplementing magnesium at night, when fluoride is most active in the body, is a big help. Fluoride blocks the absorption of magnesium so fluoride toxicity often has the same effects as magnesium deficiency.

      1. Almost forgot, when detoxing from fluoride DO NOT DRINK GREEN TEA. It is poisonous. Loaded with calcium fluoride, although not as toxic as sodium fluoride it WILL calcify the soft tissue. Creatine, magnesium, and working out can remove calcium fluoride from the muscles, but be careful, as this can place a huge load on the kidneys.

  23. blank Cynthia Schoenbauer says:

    Hello, Does anyone know if a dry sauna also includes a far-infared sauna? I just got a new far-infared sauna and I wonder if it also works on flouride as well as the mercury I am trying to eliminate from my body. Thank you for any responses. Cynthia

    1. clary sage essential oil can remove mercury lodged in the brain, I would take 7 drops a day it will disappear quickly it only gets stuck in the one place in the brain the corpus callosum.

  24. blank Free People says:

    Great article however borax was not mentioned. I take a tsp in one liter of distilled water in glass jar, for the entire day. That’s 20 Mule Team borax. Cheap at WM. Also add an ounce of Food Grade H202 to the mix. See at Earth Clinic website.

  25. blank Nick Veritas says:

    I have also heard boron rids the body of fluoride in a similar fashion as chelation. EDIT: after reading the other comments, i see many people agree. Sorry for the redundancy!

  26. blank anthony-chris: hallman says:

    makes bones brittle, and easier to break.

  27. blank Timothy Egoroff says:

    Thank you very much. Also, a major and possibly the second worst source of exposure can be from showering with town water, i am sorry to those of you out there that this will scare if it does but when you have the chemical on your skin it can leach through directly into the bloodstream. This must be addressed with

    1: an activated alumina or specialised fluoride removal ion exchange resin

    2: shower only in rainwater from tank.

    3: if it is wirth the extra 💵 then have a well drilled and pump water from there into your tank (‘if you are rich enough’)

    Oh abd as for the water source you should feed all water through a reverse osmosis system then an extra activated alumina filter after the ro, then into a Glass distiller. (if you are so verry weiry (and rightfully so) this is the purest water science allows (for now)

  28. blank Timothy Egoroff says:

    When you find answers to problems without having to put much if any effort into thinking, it is functioning at it’s highest, it should be everyones goal to achieve a healthy pineal gland.

  29. It’s funny you mention putting tamarind in tea, considering tea has some of the highest flouride content. That’s a bit counter-intuitive, don’t you think?

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