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Speaker 1: Brace yourself because we're going from one controversial thing to

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Speaker 1: the other. We're about to talk about the F word, fluoride.

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Speaker 1: I know you've got someone in your life who this

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Speaker 1: is going to freak out. There is a long term

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Speaker 1: US study which has been published that shows that fluoridated

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Speaker 1: water does not negatively impact your brain. The researchers followed

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Speaker 1: a cohort of people who were in high school in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty all the way through to their sixties. Those

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Speaker 1: who had grown up with fluoridated water did not have

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Speaker 1: more cognitive decline than the others. Doctor Justin Waller is

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Speaker 1: a practicing dentist and with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hi, Justin got.

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Speaker 1: A right, So the settles it, right. It's not bad

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Speaker 1: for your brains drink the fluoridated water.

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. What it's great, it's good news.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, yes, so it does settle it. It is

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Speaker 1: it is not bad for your brain.

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Speaker 2: It is not bad for your brain whatsoever. No, but

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Speaker 2: does that and it's good for.

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Speaker 1: Your cheese yep, obviously, But doesn't settle it justin because.

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Speaker 2: Well you know, well that is the thing. Someone will

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Speaker 2: come up with something. Fluoride is blamed for absolutely everything.

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Speaker 2: People would probably blame fluoride for mullet haircuts and not

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Speaker 2: getting the lotto numbers right if they could. But at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, fluoride is very highly researched

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Speaker 2: and in every endeavor is to make sure that we

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Speaker 2: understand fully how it operates.

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Speaker 1: Listen, I've grown up in a family where my mum

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Speaker 1: used to buy me. Did you ever get those when

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Speaker 1: you were a kid, those little white pills that were

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Speaker 1: were have fluoride pills and they were supposed to make

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Speaker 1: your teeth stronger.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and d yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I have been munching fluoride my entire life, which

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Speaker 1: probably explains a lot about me to the anti fluorod brigade.

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Speaker 1: So I have and this is without a word of

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Speaker 1: a lie, even in my forties. I have no idea.

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Speaker 1: What the what is their problem with fluoride?

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Speaker 2: It is it's a political philosophy. It's it's nothing to

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Speaker 2: do with the fluoride per se. Is a group of

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Speaker 2: people who do not like to be dictated to by

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Speaker 2: somebody somebody else, particularly governments or health authorities.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do they think it's affecting their brains?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Definitely, absolutely. This was an argument that was put

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Speaker 2: up at the appeal against the Hamilton City Council fluoridating

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Speaker 2: the water supply. There was a tribunal and this information

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Speaker 2: was put in front of that about some spurious information

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Speaker 2: or data that came out of China and Iran that

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Speaker 2: suggested that this was the case. But it's not the case.

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Speaker 2: And you know, this has been put to bed. The

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Speaker 2: cognitive a cline and floridation has been put to bed.

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Speaker 2: But there'll be something else will come up. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you can be guaranteed there'll be something else.

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Speaker 1: Oh, shifting of the goalposts.

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Speaker 2: Well, just the continuation of a pushback and without people

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Speaker 2: actually saying that they don't like it, because that's the

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Speaker 2: political ideology. They try and invent scientific reasons for saying

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Speaker 2: that we shouldn't have fluoridation.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, question for you, why do we need it

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Speaker 1: in our water though, if we've already got it in

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Speaker 1: our toothpaste?

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Speaker 2: Because some people don't brush the teeth. Okay, that's the

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Speaker 2: plain and simple. Some people don't brush their teeth as

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Speaker 2: well as they should. They you know, it's either in

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Speaker 2: frequent or it's too quick. And it's because it's it's

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Speaker 2: simple and easy. It is as I said, there's no

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Speaker 2: negative health impacts to you at all, but it is

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Speaker 2: going to protect you from dental decay. So why wouldn't you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, listen while I've got you ten month old baby

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Speaker 1: time to start brushing teeth.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, get them familiar with with the toothbrush. Stick the

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Speaker 2: toothbrush in their mouths, but you shouldn't let them, you know,

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Speaker 2: play with the toothpaste and gobble toothpaste. Well not really.

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Speaker 2: I mean, babies like some things, but I don't think

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Speaker 2: I mean, but Brussels sprouts are probably better than toothpaste.

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Speaker 1: Well you know that one did just gobble down the toothpaste. Actually, listen,

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Speaker 1: Justin thanks very much appreciated, doctor Justin Wall practicing dentists. Actually, incidentally,

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Speaker 1: it's not that hard to brush the teeth of a

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Speaker 1: ten month old day. I don't know if you've found this.

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Speaker 1: If you've got two kids, but the first one bloody

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Speaker 1: hard to get them to do it, But the second

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Speaker 1: one they see the first one doing it, so they

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Speaker 1: want to do it too, So breeze, shove the toothbrush

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Speaker 1: and they go for it.

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