The pineal gland regulates the endocrine system and nothing else. The endocrine glands occur throughout the body in various places like your nuts, kidneys and in the case of the pineal, brain... where you'd expect a control element to be that tells the other endocrine glands to turn on or turn off. Just because it sits in a place where a third eye might be doesn't mean it can see any more than the ones on your nuts could boink a room full of cheerleaders by itself.
Even eyes don't have rods and cones that's just how we explain it to the lay press dorks. The pineal does not have rods, cones or magic. The ancient Greeks thought this and this 3000 year old superstition really needs to die.
So should fluoride be removed from city water. Yup. I thought you said it was safe. It is. We should use that.
Chemically pure NaF like you get in toothpaste or THAT OCCURS IN VERY HIGH CONCENTRATIONS IN ALL TEA is fine, you can drink 100 tea bags with a day for 10 years and look like cancer on an x-ray, be remediate and you're fine with zero mental effects. If it doesn't do a damn thing in this case why would you think one one thousandth of a dose is unbelievably harmful? It just makes no sense. Remember tea really is good for you and the fluoride it takes these important molecules for a ride through the calcium channels to distribute antioxidants and other valuable physiochemical throughout the components of the body. That is it doesn't "do" anything in the body so much as acts like a taxi to other molecules. If it carries good molecules health improves because of fluoride but if it carries toxic waste even in trace amounts then fluoride will harm health. The realty is fluoride just transports the chemicals you ingest throughout cell which is why it's important to get this right.
The problem with fluoride is as usual institutional corruption and the reason we don't have pure fluoride in the water is that would be too expensive so we use industrial waste from the fucking scrubbers we had them put on smokestacks so they don't dump toxic chemicals into the air. Instead they put them in our drinking water in response and let's hear it for the fucking epa, nice job guys, you'll go far.
So they take this toxic crap, pull the NaF out and put it in the water. Problem is the impurities. Very very bad ones and while they're only in tiny amounts not enough appreciation is given to the fact tiny changes in biological systems can have profound physical real world effects: look what happens if you have one extra chromosome for example. Why you'd end up making shitty looking posters with nothing but gibberish on them, like this one.
We need food grade Naf in the water where it doesn't exist naturally. It helps dental and mental health, it's an aluminum antagonist so i you regularly drink fluoridated water you shouldn't have any aluminum in you. These is no safe amount of aluminum in the body it is incompatible with the biomechanics of carbon based life for very good reason and its association with Alzheimer's is not a coincidence.
Foster's paper on Fluoride and public health is still my gold standard, I tend to ignore medical advice with no references and in cartoon form.
Refs:
1)"Skeletal Fluorosis Due to Excessive Tea Drinking"
Naveen Kakumanu, M.D., and Sudhaker D. Rao, M.B., B.S.
N Engl J Med 2013; 368:1140March 21, 2013DOI: 10.1056/NEJMicm1200995"
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http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1200995
2)"Fluoride and its Antagonists:Implications for Human Health
Harold D. Foster, Ph.D, 1993-v08n03JOM"
http://www.orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1993/pdf/1993-v08n03-p149.pdf