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Quote by: Hostile55  The fact that a flourine atom is part of the fluoxetine molecule is a red herring. Fluoxetine has completely different properties from elemental flourine or flouride for that matter. Fluoxetine is a key that fits a lock resulting in increased serotonin levels. The effects of it rely on the shape of the molecule. The shape of the molecule relys on what atoms it is made from and how they are arranged. Flourine or flouride may have some psycotropic effects or even be detrimental to brain tissue(although I strongly doubt both), but those effects would have to rely on the shape of a flourine molecule (ie. Fl2) or the reactivity of flourine or flouride. The flourine atom in fluoxetine is not available to do what elemental flourine would do. As for sodium pottasium and all the other minerals and their various salts; yes too much of anything is going to kill you but how much of a given mineral does it take to adversly effect the body. Ok pottasium chloride may have the ability to shortcircuit a persons heart if enough is ingested but pottasium is an essential mineral (by the way is you don't like milk or are allergic, bananas have pottasium in them. Enjoy) and we need to ingest it in some form. The key is balance. How much flouride are we consuming in our tap water? Is it more than we can piss out? If not whats the problem. If so, your going to fucking tast it in the water. Our bodies are designed (have evolved) that way.
And the best kind of salt is sea salt. Natures finest. Contains a mix of minerals. |
I don't mean to sound harsh but do you realise that you've spelt Fluoride, Fluorine and Potassium incorrectly on every instance?