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I'm not going to hold your hand if you want to choose to be ignorant. I've chosen to eliminate fluoride to the best of my ability after a point in my own personal research, after doing some critical thinking and discerning fact from fiction with my own cognitive abilities. As I said, the wiki links were a baby step, I never endorsed wiki to be the end all be all fact bearer, quite the contrary. I was just offering what would be considered an "acceptable" form of information that wouldn't get shot down because apparently there is nobody else on the internet capable of doing accurate independent research outside of CNN and Huffingtonpost.
Any intelligent use of your cognitive abilities would have understood that any chemical (
minerals are just a subset of chemicals defined by arbitrary parameters for use of study by geology) might have beneficial affects at one dosage, and detrimental affects at another. If I had a kid that needed antibiotics, I'm not going to give them all 12 doses at once. And while I'm more than willing to take am aspirin when I have a bad headache, I'm also aware that taking twenty of them is a very poor idea.
When I have heartburn, I chew on antacids. I'm aware that they're still a mineral I'm taking for a specific reason - to relieve hearburn - and are not a food. Too many of them can and will lead to health defects. At the low end, constipation, at the mid-range calcium growths, and at the high end, death.
I had major surgery 3 years ago, part of which was to remove a calcium growth from within my colon. Does that mean I overreacted and cut out all calcium from my diet? Obviously not. Because that's absurd.
Logic says not to pour liquid flouride down your child's throat in the name of healthy teeth. You're terrified of flouridated water, because you have this sneaking suspicion that one day you're going to get a glass of water that's like 20% flouride or something. Which you won't. Ever. Because that's not how it works.
Yet you're appalled by the idea of flouride pills with set dosages? As in, the most control you could possibly have over your child's flouride intake?
Protip: "poison" doesn't mean anything except that a substance will kill you in sufficient quantities, and that the sufficient level is low enough to be noteworthy. It can be naturally occurring ******** or fugu fish, or tetrodotoxin. You can also create synthetic toxins.
But just because something is poisonous at sufficient doses doesn't make it a
poison, like you are using it. Plenty of poisons have valid medical uses at lower dosages. And all medicines, as a substance designed to alter body chemistry, will be lethal at higher dosages.
I'm perfectly willing to put a "poison" into my body, if I'm putting it into my body in safe doses, for a specific purpose, and it is scientifically proven to assist in that area with minimal side effects.
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Edit: Idiggory managed to type 20x more stuff in the same time it took me to type mine
Edited, May 25th 2013 10:15am by Jophiel I'm guessing Idigg has a flouride cheat sheet taped on his monitor.
I'm a role model, always prepared.
Too bad the boy scouts think I'm icky.
Not anymore I thought? At least for membership.
I'm a big boy now, which apparently means I want to molest all the little boys.