Well, Beginning of February and I am back in Brisbane to the disappointing news that there is now fluoride in the drinking water. Very sad, since many countries in Europe that have tried the experiment have now discontinued the practice.  It seems that there is not enough change in dental health to support the practise. Well I guess the american companies had to market their poison somewhere.

At least my Pimag water system will remove some of the fluoride. I will investigate the amount that it removes and post it here.  The filter is not rated to remove fluoride, so the company canot make any claims about that, but my own test have shown that it removes a percentage.

I am also going to write them and see if they can produce a filter that is rated to remove flouride from the water.  This push is not really something I understand as a health professional. I have seen little independent evidence that there is a long term positive effect from the flouride addition to water.

Healthy water, the kind that is fresh and full of electrolytes does often have a small amount of flouride in it.  The ocean has up to 1.5Mg/L depending on where you live. So it is everywhere, but to add it to our drinking water seems a little crazy.

One of the really sad things is that very few filter systems can actually remove fluoride from our water. Only an activated alumina filter can be rated to remove fluoride from our drinking water. Otherwise you will need to invest in a reverse osmosis filter or distillation unit.  Both are very expensive and have a small supply so are out of the reach of most people.  An activated carbon filter will remove some fluoride but they fail to remove all fluoride and it shortens their working life by an unspecifiable amount.

So In the meantime I will continue to drink water from my Nikken Pimag system and change the filter more rigularly that I was doing.

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