Big Bash: Cricket WAG and wife of Ben Laughlin makes shock claims about tap water and skin cancer

Cricket WAG Laura Laughlin raised eyebrows this week after making a string of false alternative health claims on Instagram.

The 37-year-old, who is married to Big Bash League player Ben Laughlin, shared conspiratorial posts about geoengineering and claimed the Australian sun doesn’t cause skin cancer.

On Tuesday, Laura shared a post from Vienna-based nutrition scientist Rubio Fuerte in which he claimed that ’60 per cent of bottled water in the U.S. is overpriced tap water in endocrine-disrupting plastic bottles.’

Adding her own commentary, the WAG wrote that ‘our tap water is loaded with fluoride which binds to iodine and draws it out of your body making you iodine deficient.

‘The Australian sun didn’t cause your skin cancer – it’s your lack of iodine and you have too much fluoride in our system.’

Cricket WAG Laura Laughlin, who is married to Big Bash League player Ben Laughlin, raised eyebrows after making a string of false alternative health claims on Instagram this week. Pictured together

The couple are currently based in Noosa and have three children together

According to cancer.org.au, ‘there is no clear evidence that fluoridated drinking water increases cancer risk’.

The Skin Cancer Foundation says that UVB rays can cause sunburn and play a role in the development of skin cancer, while UVA ones lead to skin damage along with aging and wrinkles.

In Australia melanoma is the most common cancer for people aged 20 to 39, with one Australian dying from it every six hours.

Australians are recommended to wear a broad-spectrum SPF sunscreen of 30 or higher, and then to reapply it every two hours if outside.

In separate social media posts, Laughlin also slammed the supplement industry.

‘My mother went away recently for a few months around Europe and dad recorded that she took over 900 tablets,’ Laughlin wrote.

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‘I am lost for words. This supplement industry has gone bonkers.’

In another post, she shared her own health advice, encouraging her followers to get ‘sunlight’ and to practice ‘grounding’.

The WAG shared a controversial and unsubstantiated claim that tap water can lead to skin cancer

In another post, she shared her own health advice, encouraging her followers to get ‘sunlight’ and to practice ‘grounding’

Advocates claim walking barefoot outside, known as ‘grounding’, means negatively charged electrons in the ground can neutralise positive particles in our bodies that threaten our health. This has little scientific support, however.

She then claimed that the sun was purposely being blocked out due to geoengineering, also known as climate engineering, which is a term used for both carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management.

‘I just ran into a decentralised doctor down at the beach, and he said to me that the rain today is because of geoengineering and that they are purposely blocking out the sun so that we cannot absorb vitamin D,’ she wrote.

Solar geoengineering is a type of climate engineering in which sunlight is reflected back to outer space to limit or offset human-caused climate change.

While geoengineering isn’t currently taking place, scientists are advocating for comprehensive research into its potential, reports Axios.

Laughlin also urged her followers not to consume greens powders, calling them ‘harmful’ and urging people to stick to local whole foods instead. 

Daily Mail Australia has contacted NSW Health for comment. 

Laura’s husband Ben is best known for his time playing in the Big Bash League and for the Australia men’s national cricket team.

The happy couple married in 2016 at Spicers Clovelly Estate, and now reside in Noosa with their three children.

Laura’s husband Ben (pictured) is best known for his time playing in the Big Bash League and for the Australia men’s national cricket team