Arguments Against Fluoride

Fluoride and male fertility

The majority of all water supplies contain a certain amount of fluoride and approximately half a million people in the UK alone receive naturally occurring fluoridated water. Add to this this 5.5 million of the UK population that receive water with an unnatural and manufactured fluoride concentration and you’ll no doubt agree that’s a lot of people receiving a daily dose of fluoride. It isn’t just the UK that’s affected however, with Europe and the U.S both adding fluoride to their water. In the U.S alone a whopping two thirds of the drinking water is fluoridated. What’s now becoming an ever-increasing concern however, is the fact that men’s fertility is at risk with fluoridated tap water. Research has linked fluoride in drinking water and sperm damage for a number of years but the threat to sperm, along with a number of other reproductive health threats, has remained in the dark. The reason for this was the fact that the majority of studies centred around sodium fluoride, which although happens to be highly toxic is still a pharmaceutical grade fluoride and isn’t the fluoride that’s usually added to water. In an effort to uncover the threat we face every day, researchers set about

The fluoride action network or FAN as it’s otherwise known reported exposing semen to fluoride for five hours, at a dose of 0.38 parts per million, significantly decreased the motility of the spermatozoa. It also caused a number of other changes that could, without doubt, affect the physiological function of the sperm. They also found that by infusing the testes, with a dose of roughly 4.75 parts per million of fluoride, that the synthesis of testosterone was actually inhibited as a result. The tests have found these results to occur consistently within sixty different animal studies. The impact upon the male reproductive system