Fluoride in water

There are a number of water filters out there - at the tap, from a line to a reservoir, "pitcher" styles - that will remove fluoride. Pure water freedom, pure-earth.com, pelican water, and gonegreenstore.com all sell them. Not all fluoride filters will remove all heavy metals. Pelican makes a whole-house filter. You can also get less expensive brand name "Reverse Osmosis System" filters for specific sinks if you'd prefer. I have a friend with the six-stage for skin/hypersensitivity reasons. She liked it as the option for her. In an emergency, you could distill it and reaerate the water. Distilling removes ALL minerals, so you'll require a supplement. Make sure it removes both the sodium and carbonate versions if you buy a filter, and double-triple check the replacement filters meet the same standards.

If you're really worried about fluoride sensitivity for yourself or a nursing infant, you also have to watch black tea and red tea. Flouride is in the dental stuff, and also mechanically deboned chicken, processed nuggets and hot dogs, canned fish that include the bones, some prescription drugs, salt blocks like the ones used in some restaurants or to make ceviche or on the grill, U.S.-grown grapes, lettuce, berries and citrus fruits (non-organic; pesticide "cryolite") to include the non-organic juices from them and cereals or trail mix or canned fruit containing them (and in some cases containing water), soda and water, and low-sodium pickles and regularly the low-sodium pickling salts for doing your own.

Good luck, man.

Wow I'm never eating again lol

Yeah, it's worth asking yourself how much water, tea and coffee you make at home and how much you cook at home before you plunk down several hundred USD on a sink unit or several K on a house unit. If a well or city source is super high, or there's a sensitivity, sure. In some cases, though, it might be easier to cut down with a water pitcher unit to use on the coffee maker and one in the fridge (super green, too - no more plastic bottles of water!) and one or two for work if there's an office situation.

If it's just a desire to cut down, water can be a primary source, but if you're a worker and commuter of the type where you make 2 cups or a thermos in the morning and are eating food and coffee and drinks out the rest of the day (to include most bottled water), it's not going to have a huge impact. On the other hand, I drink enough coffee and water from home, use enough water in cooking, a sink unit would be worthwhile for me if I was worried about F, even though I don't grow everything and don't buy only organic produce.

But I drive regularly (in MD and D.C. no less) and smoke, and I'm not shy about telling people to pick up their dog crap and wrappers and cig butts, so I kind of figure something else will get me before all the chemicals do. 🙂

I'm gonna have to look into this more but thank you mrsprepwpets

Duff,

I thought you moved to Calgary? They don't use fluoride as an additive to the water there.

Antsy

We get our city water from Lake Ontario. It's been an industrial dumping ground for 100 years plus the inflow from all the other lakes. There are hundreds (maybe more)of potential pollution sites along the Great Lakes. Anyone remember Love Canal? Who the hell knows what is in it by now- you only find what you test for.
I bring spring water from the BOL for consumption and have a Berkey as a last resort. If it comes to it I think you're better off filtering rainwater, creek water or melting snow than using Lake Ontario water.

Alberta is risking much with the oil sands projects. Ground water may be contaminated for decades, maybe longer. By the time the gov admits a problem it will already be too late for the consumers.

Not till April when baby comes