Why This Common Product Says ‘Call Poison Control’

Name: Why This Common Product Says ‘Call Poison Control’
Uploaded: 2025-04-04T17:00:03+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that fluoride is a neurotoxin and a poison that can impair thyroid function and lower children's IQ. The speaker…

4 Apr 2025 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:59

In this monologue, the speaker argues that fluoride is a neurotoxin and a poison that can impair thyroid function and lower children's IQ. The speaker references a U.S. National Toxicology Program paper that reports up to a 7‑point IQ reduction in children exposed to fluoride. The discussion moves to the prevalence of fluoride in drinking water and toothpaste, highlighting that a pea‑sized amount of fluoridated toothpaste contains about 0.5 mg of fluoride, yet many people use ten to twenty times that amount. The speaker emphasizes that fluoride is absorbed through the oral mucosa and can have systemic toxic effects without being swallowed, noting that toothpaste labels in the U.S. include a “call poison control” warning and a poison‑control phone number.

Chapters

The big problem is fluoride. Fluoride is a neurotoxin. It's a poison. It's an antiseptic, and it completely shuts down your thyroid function. There was a paper published in the US by the National Toxicology Program, and fluoride has been shown to lower IQ in kids by sometimes 7 points. It's wild. I heard something— yet they put fluoride in our drinking water. There's fluoride in our toothpaste. And if you look at the back and Companies sell toothpaste all around the globe, but if you're using a fluorinated toothpaste, look at the back of your Crest or Aquafresh or Colgate, and it'll say only use a pea-sized toothpaste, because that little pea-sized bit of toothpaste contains about 0.5 milligrams of fluoride, but most people put 10 times that, sometimes 20 times that. You don't have to swallow it for it to have toxic effects. It's absorbed immediately in the mucosa, and it goes systemic. But if you look at the back of your toothpaste, it goes, "If you swallow this, call poison control," and it gives you, at least in the US, a poison control number.