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You can easily remove fluoride from your drinking and bathing water with a point of use or whole house Fluoride Removal System.
Why Remove Fluoride? |
Types of Filtration
We offer three types of filtration systems that effectively remove fluoride from your drinking water. They are:
Bone Char |
Reverse Osmosis |
Steam Distillation
1. Bone Char
Bone char is made of charred animal bone. It works very effectively as a mechanical type of filter because fluoride has a natural attraction to bone. Bone char will remove up to 95% or more of the fluoride using the following protocol. Bone Char is a black, granular solid obtained by calcining cattle bones. Through the calcining process, crushed bone is stripped clean, leaving carbon and tricalcium phosphate. Bone char has proven to be a valuable filtering media in the purification of sugar syrups, removing dissolved contaminants from aquarium water and removing fluoride from water. Bone char also has a high absorptive capacity for lead, mercury and arsenic.
To remove fluoride using Bone Char, the water needs to have contact with the media for as long as possible. The more filters installed in tandem, the slower the water flows through each filter and the more fluoride is removed. This is determined by the number of filters your system has. For example, a two stage filter removes approximately 50%, a three stage removes 75% and a four stage removes approximately 95%.
This also applies for Whole House Units. In a whole house system you will need a minimum of four 4"x20" Big Blue Filters or you can install a large tank system. Typical water flow for a residential home is 6-10 gpm. If your water flow is in this range it will require four 20" Big Blue Filters to remove 95% or more of the fluoride
OR a 1 cu ft tank system that is similar to a water softening unit.
Bone Char also effectively removes chlorine, heavy metals, pesticides and most other harmful chemicals. Bone Char filters for point of use systems can filter approximately 5,000 gallons of water while whole house filters can clean up to approximately 100,000 gallons. This may vary based on the amount of fluoride in your water. It is recommended that you change filters every calendar year under normal use of a family of four.
2. Reverse Osmosis/Deionizers
These systems will remove 100% of the fluoride from your water and give you pharmaceutical quality water. The combination of
reverse osmosis and
deionization also removes natural minerals, resulting in a lower pH or slightly acidic water. We offer remineralization cartridges to bring this water back into balance and raise the pH level. This is a point of use system only. Filters last approximately one year under normal use.
3. Steam Distillation
Steam distillation will remove 100% of the fluoride from water. This also removes minerals and lowers the pH and is the only system that requires electricity. It is a point of use only system.
Why Remove Fluoride?
Water fluoridation is very controversial and Fluoride is considered to be a poison in all but one European country. Therefore, we do not recommend drinking nor bathing in Fluoride-ladened water. Grand Rapids, Michigan was the first municipality in the United States to add fluoride to its water. It is currently considering the removal of fluoride due to the negative side effects.
The type of fluoride added to public water (Hydrofluosilicic Acid) is a raw untreated waste from the phosphate fertilizer mining industry. The waste is straight from the pollution scrubber systems of the phosphate mines and is highly contaminated with arsenic, lead and a potpourri of other heavy metals. With this in mind, it is important to remove the toxin.
Hydrofluorosilicic acid, also known as fluorosilicic acid or fluosilicic acid, is what is commonly added to public drinking water. It comes as a liquid and so it is easier to add to water than crystalline sodium fluoride and fluorosilicate. All of these chemicals are derived from pollution scrubbing operations. A common source is the processing of phosphate rock to make phosphate fertilizers. The rock also contains fluoride, silica and traces of heavy metals such as uranium, radium, radon and lead. When the phosphate rock is treated with sulfuric acid, silicon tetrafluoride and hydrogen fluoride gases are given off. These gases pass through scrubbers and react with water to form hydrofluosilicic acid (H.F. Denziger, H.J. Konig and G.E.W. Kruger, "Fluorine Recovery in the Fertilizer Industry: A Review," Phosphorous and Potassium #103, Sept/Oct, 1979, pp.33-39).
Fluoride (F-) is a common constituent of many minerals. Municipal water treatment plants commonly add fluoride to the water for prevention of tooth decay, and they try to maintain a level of 1.5 - 2.5 mg/l. Concentrations above 5 mg/l are detrimental to tooth structure. High concentrations are contained in waste water from the manufacture of glass and steel, as well as from foundry operations. Organic fluorine is present in vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Inorganic fluorine, under the name of sodium fluoride, is a waste product of aluminum and is used in some rat poisons. The MCL (Maximum Contaminant Level) established for drinking water by the US EPA is 4 mg/l.
Great reading about the dangers of fluoride are located at the links below:
The Blaylock Wellness Report - Why Fluoride Is Toxic by Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
Fluoride and Water
Fluoride action network, Health Effects
Toxic chemicals in your water
World Health Organization, Water Related Diseases
For help determining the type of filter you need, please call us at
1-888-742-3404.
