Comment on flouride

• Hylactor@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You just made me mad by helping me realize that the Trump bros are going to break water by removing fluoride long before they fix water by removing lead.

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  • winterayars@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    They like the lead, though!

    (Probably. I mean, they did in Flint, MI…)

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• 5oap10116@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah but lead bioaccumulates where as fluoride/ine doesn’t

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you sure fluoride doesn’t? It does accumulate in the soil, building up in crops. Considering fluoride exposure from all sources, many people are above upper safe limits, even from tea drinking alone

    I don’t think fluoride should be added to water as it just pollutes the environment, where 99.99% of water isn’n coming in contact with teeth

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It doesn’t. This is high-school chemistry.

      Fluoride only “accumulates” up to the peak concentration of the environment (no further) on places where it is removed from contact with that environment.

      You can only accumulate fluoride in the soil if you keep adding it and there is almost no rain to wash it away.

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Like how grops are irrigated with town water, and in many areas with lowering rainfall?

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• Ferrous@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yup, same with PFAS and forever chemicals. Maybe I’m ignorant because I’m not a doctor, but I don’t know if this line of thinking holds water - pun not intended.

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