The Hidden Cause of Acne: How Toxic Water Is Affecting Your Health and What You Can Do about It

Melissa Shows How Fluoride in Water is a Health Harming Failed Concept. Like the little boy who shouted the obvious to the naked emperor, Melissa Gallico exposes community water fluoridation as unscientific. It’s more like a religion created and promoted by believers, PR, money and powerful special interest groups.After 73 years, the addition of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies attempting to reduce tooth decay in tap water drinkers has been proven neither safe or effectiveUsing her FBI Intelligence Analyst skills, Melissa explains how fluoride CAN cause acne and how to avoid fluoride. She also describes fluoridation as a brand protected and promoted by strategies big corporations use to influence consumers as described in the book “ Primalbranding: Create Zealots for Your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future ,” by expert, Patrick Hanlon He identifies seven primal branding elements that inspire fans to rabid addiction: the creation story, the leader, the creed, rituals, icons, sacred words, and pagans.Melissa explains that believers serve both as evangelists and defenders. When the brand is threatened they protest as if they are the ones under attack. Believers who express doubt are excommunicated and exiled to the opposing camp.A current example of that – an internet public health dentist listserv exists to facilitate group discussions on dental issues. When a prominent public health dentist who is also a published fluoride researcher and university professor brought up doubts about fluoridation, he was banished from the listserv along with anyone else who dared question fluoride in any way. The same fate awaits the respectful science-savvy who get blocked on twitter, facebook and uninvited or escorted out of meetings if they dare doubt fluoride.After all, as Melissa shows the reader, fluoride is the whole foundation upon which modern dentistry is built. If the cornerstone is pulled out, the whole system may crumble. Americans’ health is not organized dentistry’s priority.Fluoridation began with zealotry and little, if any, valid science.After attending a 1941 meeting where fluoridation was suggested, Dentist John Frisch became “a man possessed.” “Fluoridation became practically a religion with him.” ( The fight for fluoridation , McNeill)Frisch wouldn’t let science shake his belief in fluoride. For example, university biochemists reported in 1947, in a series of experiments, that whole milk prevented more tooth decay than 1 part per million (ppm) fluoridated water.Frisch exploded with wrath and called the conclusions ‘’hogwash from the biochemistry department.” Frisch accused the biochemists of fudging the data so they could keep their dairy grants coming in. Of course, now we know for sure that calcium-rich foods, such as milk, help prevent tooth decay. In fact, calcium is an essential nutrient while fluoride is not. And calcium is the antidote for fluoride poisoning. And naturally occurring fluoride, upon which the fluoridation program is based upon, is generally calcium fluoride.Fluoridation came about in the early 1900’s when it was discovered that healthier wealthier residents living where the water was naturally fluoridated had discolored or mottled but decay-resistant teeth. Dentists pinpointed fluoride as the tooth discoloring culprit. They assumed fluoride was also the cavity preventive. They ignored that residents grew and ate their own nutritious foods, drank calcium rich water and could afford dental care. Just like now, dentists settle where people can afford them.So, Frisch, to prove his belief that sodium fluoride worked the same as natural calcium fluoride, experimented on his own 7- and 9-year-old serving them 1.5 ppm sodium fluoridated drinking water. When the 7-year-old displayed faint mottled enamel that was all the proof he needed. Early fluoridationists concurred. He went on to influence many cities to start fluoridation on his non-scientific say-so.Frisch used “satire, ridicule and tartness” while criticizing those opposed to fluoridation for denying children the “benefit” of fluoride just like today’s fluoridationists. In fact, you might see examples of this in replies to this review.Another early fluoridationist, appropriately named Dr. Bull, put a positive spin on fluoridation and provided talking points for sticky questions – years before the first experimental fluoridation trials were planned to be completed – at the Fourth Annual Conference of State Dental Directors with the Public Health Service and the Children’s Bureau in 1951.Bull said: “Now, in regard to toxicity, I noticed that Dr. Bain used the term ‘adding sodium fluoride,’ we never do that. That is rat poison. You add fluoride…”The first fluoridation experiments conducted on entire city popluations starting in 1945 were cut short prematurely – before the permanent teeth of those born into the experiments had even erupted. The belief in fluoridation was so deep, early fluoridationists couldn’t wait for the science to catch up with their misguided but well-intended theories.Modern day “Dr Bull’s” are paid PR-trained individuals and companies who teach pro-fluoridation spokesperson training to “cultish” followers who are instructed to avoid talking about fluoridation’s risks because that battle can’t be won.Even Edward Bernays, the father of public relations got into the act, Melissa explains. In 1960, he counseled the NYS Health Commissioner to write to television executives to influence them to avoid fluoridation debates. Bernays’ campaign advice included sending government letters to influential newspaper editors and even dictionary and encyclopedia editors to leverage government influence to dominate the fluoridation narrative and marginalize opposition. In this way, pro fluoridationists manipulated the human tendency to defer to authority sources, such as doctors, dictionaries and the daily news.It worked. In 1965 New York City began fluoridation over the objections of Arthur Ford, New York City’s water commissioner.Melissa writes: “Believers serve both as brand evangelists and defenders. When the brand is threatened, they protect it as if they are the ones under attack. Believers who express doubts are excommunicated and exiled to the opposing camp.Fluoridationists appear to be an army protecting themselves, first and foremost. They claim fluoride science is settled, repeating the cult mantra, “safe and effective” even though, because of tooth toxicity, fluoride levels had to be lowered over the years in infant formula, twice in supplements, water supplies and amounts of toothpaste placed on brushes. Also, advice is given to avoid routine mixing of fluoridated water into infant formula. Fluoridation protectionists will rarely share this with the public preferring, instead, to protect fluoride.Fluoride is regulated by the EPA as a water contaminant and classified as an unapproved drug by the FDA.There is no dispute that too much fluoride is bad for teeth and bones. There’s also no dispute that large fluoride overdoses cause serious side effects. But consumers are rarely informed to tally daily fluoride intake, what’s too much and where it comes from. Fluoride isn’t revealed on food and beverage labels, unknown amounts are absorbed from dental products and consumed via the water supplies.Melissa has written a very informative and interesting book which is different from most on this subject. She engages the reader and has evidence to back up her conclusions. If you or your child has acne and nothing has worked for you, you must read this book. It took Melissa 20 years to figure out for herself that fluoride caused her severe acne. Doctors are ill-informed on this subject. You don’t have to suffer that long.If you live in an area with fluoridated water, you should do all you can to get your local or state legislators and/or water departments to stop.The scientifically reference book, ” The Case against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There ” , by Paul Connett PhD, et al., is another source to learn specifically how fluoride may be affecting your health.

This is the real thing. All right. First of all, 5 stars. This book is well-researched (with cited studies), humorous, and the author’s brilliant mind shines through with her every argument and conclusion.When I first looked at this book, I thought it’s just like all the others. If you’ve been suffering from adult acne, you know how desperate you can sometimes get – desperate enough to read through pages upon pages of new agey books that tell you to cut out milk and sugar, eat kale, and live clean. I’ve tried it, it didn’t help, and so when I first saw this book, I thought it was just another hoax.But the reviews convinced me to check out the sample, and after reading a few pages, I bought this book, because I already knew.This is the real thing.For years, I’ve been searching because I was convinced there must be a reason why some people have acne and others don’t. An underlying reason and not just – your sebum is a bit too thick and it clogs your pores etc. I mean, fine, maybe it does – but WHY?Melissa Gallico figured out why (and what to do with it). This book is an exciting journey through the 20th century science and medicine, and the history of evolution of our kind, among other things. It’s the story of pollution, fluoride, iodine, and water – inside and outside our bodies. I already know I’ll reread it, because the amount of information in such a compact book is breathtaking.If you’ve been looking for an explanation for you acne, this book will give you answers. Well-researched, well-analyzed answers uncovered by someone who doesn’t want to keep you hooked on cosmetics, medication, expensive dermatology treatments etc. You will gasp, laugh, and want to tell everyone about this book. So if you’re on the fence, just have a look at the Look inside. Read a few pages. You will know then.My only beef with this book is its packaging. It looks like one of those hoaxy books that will tell you to cut out dairy and go bio without any substance to the advice. Even the title sounds a bit out there. The packaging does not fit what is inside, that is a ton of research put together by a brilliant FBI analyst. So please, if anyone with any influence over this book is reading this review, please reconsider your marketing strategy, because the cover doesn’t fit what’s inside! And more people deserve to know about Melissa Gallico’s findings.