What the Research Actually Says About Fluoride in Drinking Water

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Fluoride has been all over the news lately and people with PhDs can’t agree on if it should be in water or not. We wanted to get to the bottom of this controversy. Alex went on a mission to find out once and for all what the research actually says and what the off-camera experts have to say.

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