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0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday Morning with us is doctor Mark Siegel, a big Fox News contributor and one smart guy. And uh, doctor Siegel. Uh, there’s been a recent stories that fluoride in our water systems may not be good and it might cause a loss of intelligence to children. Uh So what’s more important loss of intelligence of children or having a cavity or two?

0:29 Doctor Siegel? What do you say for?

0:31 Speaker 2 Both are important? John? And by the way, what’s prompting this as a federal judge in California is bordering the e PA to further regulate or better regular fluoride. Here’s what the debate is. Fluoride definitely decreases cavities and damage to your to your jaw, to your teeth, to your gums that is caught causing something we call chronic inflammation.

0:55 Inflammation itself is bad for your brain. So to what extent people with cavities or breakdown in their teeth like your Your producer that we love is out there getting root canal today and he gave me permission to say it, though I won’t say his name. So the question is if you took fluorite out of the equation, how many

1:18 of us would have broken down inflamed teeth. That also can cause problems with the brain, because we know inflammation in the body closes problems with the brain. Versus the point you’re making now, which I also agree with, that florid’s been overlooked. Oh it’s helping us there. It can’t be harmed, therefore it can’t be harmful. That’s the whole

1:36 problem in the country right now. That and what we need to address, which is we look at instant fixes rather than long term consequences. And it’s clear that fluorite is associated with that. Note it did not reach John Cassimatiti’s brain. I’m hoping it didn’t reach Mark Siegel’s brain.

1:55 But we may be outliers here, and we don’t want to see anything impact the intellectual development of our children and grandchildren, which I don’t have any yet by the way, but I’m on the road, but I don’t have any grandchildren yet.

2:10 Speaker 1 Well, I hope you have them soon. But you feel that we should continue with the flooride, is it’s worth the risk.

2:21 Speaker 2 I think that what’s happening now is there’s pressure on the EPA to get a standard in place where this last flooride and I think that that’s the best compromise here, while we also look at something else, which is what we are eroding our teeth with. It’s like everything else.

2:39 You know, you gain a million pounds, you take ozembic or do you figure out how to keep your weight down to begin with? Do you exercise more? Maybe we need standards, Maybe we need incentives in the workplace for more exercise, better diet. Maybe you’re not eating enough vegetables.

2:53 Maybe if you eat more vegetables you need less fluoride. All of this goes together. But the one point I’m adding to this is we need a head to head study between what fluoride does to protect our teeth while putting maybe some cognition at risk, versus what cavities do.

3:12 Because I think cavity is also are a problem with cognition. I think I think cavities causing inflammation that affects our brain. Both being true, I think there’s evidence that we should we should create a regulatory standard to decrease the amount of fluoride we have in the water. For sure, that’s why all of us are drinking bottled water, isn’t it Well?

3:32 Speaker 1 I drink a lot of bottled water, and not only that drink bottled water out of bottle, not out of plastic.

3:41 Speaker 2 Yeah, well that’s also really smart, and I’m glad you put that that pitch in therefore for actually, I mean because plastic is something that we’re over using like no tomorrow and ruining the environment. So you should carry around some kind of container like John does with cool water in it. I agree with you, bottled water or water

4:03 that’s not out of the tap while we figure out this floride problem. I think, you know, remember, cavities are bad too, but floride has a big risk and I think that that evidence is growing. And yeah, I don’t think a judge in California should have to push the EPA on this. I think the EPA ought to be

4:21 all over this to the in the beginning. We’re not looking again. We’re a society of instant fixes. All we got cavities, let’s give florid. That’s not the right answer, understood.

4:32 Speaker 1 Anything else you want to tell you American people on a Sunday morning.

4:36 Speaker 2 Yeah, I want to talk actually about in a larger sense about what I just said. You know, RFK Junior is coming out now talking about make America healthy again, and the whole issue is and I like this. The entire society John is based on way till you’re sick, wait till you’re in the last few years of life.

4:54 Put a ton of money into care. High tech care. That’s phenomenal. Let’s keep people going for the last few years. High tech care. That’s phenomenal. But I think real prevention occurs not in the doctor’s office, but before you ever get there, and your doctor can be about a guide on that. I like to say that my peloton, by

5:14 the way, is a doctor’s tool. It’s prevention that everybody can afford a peloton. But everybody can walk ten miles a day or five miles a day. They can walk wherever they go, they can take less cabs, they can eat more vegetables. You know, if the government wants to get into subsidizing food, they shouldn’t be subsidizing corn pops.

5:32 You know, they should be subsidizing vegetables, much healthier fruit and vegetables. So that direction that RFK Junior is talking about, I’m all in on and ultra processed foods in this country are the worst in the world and they lead to weight gain, obesity, high blood pressure, heart diseasing cancer. John, I want to eat my pasta in Italy and I

5:53 want to eat my Mediterranean diet in Greece. Can you and I go over there in that boat?

5:59 Speaker 1 Well, I mean I look forward to it again, to do that together.

6:04 Speaker 2 I would love that.

6:05 Speaker 1 Well, thank you so much, doctor Siegel, and let’s catch up again real soon.

6:09 Speaker 2 I really love you, John. You’re great and you’re doing a lot of great things in the world. And by the way, your entire how many rooms do you have filled with humanitarian awards? I mean, I think you can run out of space.

6:19 Speaker 1 We need an extra floor. Thank you so much, and we’ll catch up.

6:24 Speaker 2 Thank you, joh