Mercola.com is a reference point for guiding healthcare professionals and consumers through the information resources of the Internet.
- The Fluoride Debate: A response to the American Dental Association’s booklet, “Fluoridation Facts”
- Fluoride Action Network (Excellent Resource, Very Up-to-Date)
- Fluoride: Protected Pollutant or Panacea? (Elkie Babiuk’s site)
- New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
- Fluoride Controversy, the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- More Scientific Facts on Fluoride
- Fluoride Research Journal
- America Overdosed on Fluoride – Lynn Landes (Includes e-mail correspondence inwhich an ADA spokesperson refutes news reports that non-fluoridated bottled water causes cavities, and what you can do to ban fluoride and educate others.)
- The Toxic Effects of Fluoride (Be aware that they are selling a fluoride removal system.)
- Fluoridation Debate (Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 105, Number 11, November 1997)
- Fluoridation: The Overdosing of America – Fact or Fiction? (Slides by Gerald H. Smith, D.D.S.)
- Darryl W. Roundy, D.C. – Fluoride Research
- Fluoridation Fluoride Toxic Chemicals In Your Water
- Does water fluoridation have negative side effects?
- More Results from Mercola.com
Up until the 1990s, no research had ever been conducted to determine the impact of fluoride on the pineal gland — a small gland located between the two hemispheres of the brain that regulates the production of the hormone melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone that helps regulate the onset of puberty and helps protect the body from cell damage caused by free radicals.


