Anyone here about this before?

http://bruha.com/pfpc/html/symptoms.html

Jrojas, it wouldn't help me. I was born in the era when I drank unfluoridated water and did not take fluoride supplements. Dentists did not use fluoride for cavity prevention then.

I too, was born with ADD before the days of floride, when we had b/w TV, no computers, microwaves, pushbutton phones, cell phones, internet, and gas was .27/gal in Texas.

It has been blamed for so much and all found to be unsupported. If it does then why there a much higher rate of ADD in the general population.

Google ADD genetic defect and will find much better info on possible causes. It runs in families-making the genetic link highly probable, and they may be close to identifying the gene.

Becky

thanks all!!

My parents were born and raised on opposite sides of the world (USA and Philipines/Japan...though not of Asian descent), and yet both were ADHD.

Besides, the first recorded use of stimulant medication to treat ADHD was in 1937, which I believe would have been before widespread fluoridation, and of course ADHD was first described in a medical context around the turn of the century, well before fluoridation.

Part of the thing with fluoridation is that it's one of the few massive, large-scale public health programs that has been a smashing success (the other main one that comes to mind is mandatory vaccinations, another favorite of the altie-woo crowd), and as such, people tend to overlook its benefits specifically because it has worked. In other words, people notice a problem when it exists, but they tend not to notice the problem when it's been solved, and since they don't notice the problem, they don't really consider the solution to be useful. So they assume that it must do something bad.

Most of the anti-fluoridation screeds you'll find on the internet usually confuse the fluorine molecule, which is a poisonous, corrosive halogen, with the fluoride ion, which is far more stable and fairly unreactive. I'd rather not get into a novel-length post about valence electrons and ionic and covalent bonding, but fluoride and fluorine are two very different substances from an electrochemical standpoint, and are only identical if you're looking at the strong-force interactions within the nucleus (and if I'm not going to discuss valence electrons, there's no way in hell that I'm getting into a discussion of quantum chromodynamics), and these have absolutely no effect at distances or energy densities which are comprehensible to human beings, for a number of reasons that are even more complicated.

Until the age of 8 I lived in a part of the country that did have flouride in the water. But after that I have lived in other places where there was no flouride. Even so I'm pretty sure that my ADD is geneticly related and environmentaly aggrivated. My father shows signs of ADD (He was alive before fluorinated water) and my older brother is dianosed with severe ADHD himself.

Seeing the benefits of flouride I"d much rather have it in my water then not.

I too, was born with ADD before the days of floride, when we had b/w TV, no computers, microwaves, pushbutton phones, cell phones, internet, and gas was .27/gal in Texas.y me too :faint: