The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 3: Fluoride Fearmongering and Measles Lies
Thu, 10 Apr 2025
In this rapid response episode of Meidas Health, Dr. Vin Gupta slams the dangerous misinformation coming from RFK Jr., who’s pushing to ban fluoride despite decades of science proving its safety. Plus, Dr. Gupta warns of a worsening measles outbreak fueled by anti-vaccine rhetoric and false “treatments” being peddled by our very own health secretary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is the controversy surrounding fluoride in the water supply?
Mighty Smarty, great to see you again. I want to do a rapid response, just given the news cycle and all the issues on health that continue to pop. I don't want to wait too long, and I'm going to keep this brief. Number one, fluoride. You've heard probably in the news that RFK is saying that we're going to ban fluoride in water sources across the country. Turns out that doesn't make any sense.
This is a solution that he's offering in search of a problem, which, by the way, doesn't exist in the United States. This is what he does. He draws fringe science and he draws sort of half-truths from science that has not been proven to actually be what he thinks it to be and then starts to generalize and make these grandiose statements. And that's exactly what he's doing here with fluoride.
Turns out in the United States, we put fluoride into the water supply for a reason. It prevents dental cavities and tooth decay. And when monitored and within a certain level, it's very safe. It doesn't cause any issues with accelerating any problems in the body, harm to the bones, really no issues whatsoever. And that's been proven time and time again. Here's the other piece.
We monitor our water supply for its fluoride levels very, very closely. 99.9% of tests for fluoride in the water supply across the United States, greater than 99.9% of tests across the country, frankly, have shown that fluoride levels are at the target goal, 0.7 milligrams per liter. That's where we want it to be.
Those numbers may not mean a lot to you, but it's to say that we're monitoring the situation extremely closely. The EPA, the U.S. Public Health Service is doing that. It's been doing that for decades. That's why these issues or these suggestions that there's some harm coming from fluoride in the drinking water supply across the United States have no merit to it.
This is, again, a solution he's offering in search of a problem that does not exist in the United States. Fluoride has benefits when within safe levels. Again, it prevents tooth decay, cavities, and frankly, it keeps kids in school. If kids have cavities, they're likely to be absent from school for a day or two as they deal with it.
So fluoride supplementation has been shown to actually keep kids in school, learning, and doing the things that they should be doing. So that's number one. Number two, Utah's movement towards banning fluoride is completely just genuflecting to no signs of evidence, no evidence-based science, nothing really legitimate coming from the HHS agency right now under Kennedy.
There's no evidence, again, that what Utah has done at the state level to ban fluoride now in the shrinking water supply is based on any new evidence or new insights. They're simply genuflecting and trying to curry favor, it seems. So important to keep that in mind. We monitor the water supply extremely closely for fluoride. There's never been any issues in the United States.
And when fluoride, for example, is outside what we recommend it to be, at very high levels, can it cause problems? Sure, of course. And that's what RFK is pointing to. Some studies suggesting that when fluoride is at excessive levels, potentially it can cause issues with bone development, potentially even brain development.
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