Grape farmers use cryolite, a potent pesticide that is a mix of aluminum and fluoride and which seems to affect animals much more so than humans. That pesticide is the reason why you should wash produce before using it (or peel the outer layers, like potatoes and the outer layer of lettuce).

huh have you ever had more tests done? I’m all for not having periods,I hate mine too and would like for them to die forever, but I think when our periods are screwy even off of birth control, that is an important indicator of something being not quite right, like thyroid, blood sugar stuff, being too stressed, not…

the important thing is to use a fluoride rinse (i.e. rinse and spit) before bed. During the night is when fluoride plays a significant role in catalyzing the formation of calcium complexes in the teeth.

But some of the people at the CDC are sheep and some of the ways that medication is sold from the pharmaceutical industry to the government and public are shady as hell. I know CDC and Merck employees who are very nice, and I think they are smart people, and I can’t believe they can also say such dumb things so I look…

This girl from my high school works for the CDC. In high school English class, after ONE MONTH of our class reading The Red Badge of Courage, she exclaims “Oh!!!! wait, so this isn’t about the Vietnam War?” I think she has a PhD in immunology or something.

Mom told me, “Don’t ever smile.” I was a happy kid who continuously did so, and she told me, by age 11, ‘Just...always keep your mouth shut. She simultaneously refused to pay for braces (t00 much $ except...no, not really, she just didn’t want to pay.) I love my fucked up teeth.