Dallas For Safer Water

***** See LINKS upper left, near the ADHD Study

The September 2017 Study demonstrates that when pregnant mothers drink fluoridated waters at 0.7 mg/L fluoride, many are expected to give birth to children who will have meaningfully lowered cognitive function, perhaps 3 – 6 IQ points.

This means that Dallas which fluoridates the water (0.7 mg/L) falls into that category.

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The credibility of the study is beyond reproach…

……a huge 12 year study, part of the Early Life Exposures in Mexico to Environmental Toxicants (ELEMENT) project.

……it was funded with $3 million in U.S. government grants from the NIH, NIEHS and EPA.

……this was one of the largest studies of fluoride and IQ to date with meticulous individual data sets on all participants for 12 years, controlling for many factors. It was as large as many of the studies that have been used to show that childhood lead exposure causes loss of IQ.

……it was published in the leading peer-reviewed journal of environmental health (Environmental Health Perspectives), which is published by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a division of NIH.

……prestigious institutions conducted the study (University of Toronto, University of Michigan, Indiana-Purdue University School of Dentistry, McGill University Montreal, Harvard University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico.)

……starting with almost 1,000 mothers, the study rigidly qualified participants down to nearly 300 sets of mothers and children (testing the children twice). Children were tested on “verbal, perceptual-performance, quantitative, memory and motor abilities.”

Urinary Analysis was used.

This ensured that no matter what the source of fluoride was, the fluoride measurement comparison would not be compromised. (There are many sources of fluoride, such as water, food, supplements, pesticides, drugs, non-organic raisins, tea, etc.)

The Urine Levels measured in this study correlate with Urine Levels of people in the United States & Canada who drink Fluoridated Water at 0.7 mg/L.

Researchers in this study took great care to ensure that no other neurotoxin (such Lead, arsenic, mercury, etc.) was involved. The study controlled for other neurotoxins along with socioeconomic status and education. To ensure a standardized measure (not influenced by hard to monitor factors such as foods consumed), urine samples were used.

In Toxicology and when setting Public Policy, it is the lowest levels of exposure that cause harm that are relevant, not the highest levels.

Thus, this and other studies demonstrate that low levels of Fluoride can harm the brain, especially in the Fetus.

Certainly, the Precautionary Principle applies.

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From an international leader in environmental poison research:

“Adverse effects from fluoride additives to drinking water have not been fully considered in the past, and the new study from Mexico, along with substantial evidence from other countries, now shows that fluoride toxicity to brain development must be taken seriously.”

- Dr. Philippe Grandjean, Chair of Environmental Medicine at the University of Southern Denmark and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health regarding Bashash et al. (Sept 2017)

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From the Director of the US National Toxicology Program:

"There have been similar findings related to exposure to fluoride and IQ from children in China. So this observation or association has been reported before.” - Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Science regarding Bashash et al. (Sept 2017)

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From a pediatrician who studies links between environmental exposures and health problems:

“This is a very well-conducted study, and it raises serious concerns about fluoride supplementation in water” - Dr. Leonardo Trasande, pediatrician & associate professor at New York University Langone Health on Bashash et al., (Sept 2017)

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Taken from Medical News Today ...

"This is significant," explains Dr. Hu, "because previous studies estimated exposures based on neighborhood measurements of drinking water fluoride levels, which are indirect and much less precise measures of exposure."

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As the study authors conclude, "[...] our findings, combined with evidence from existing animal and human studies, reinforce the need for additional research on potential adverse effects of fluoride, particularly in pregnant women and children, and to ensure that the benefits of population-level fluoride supplementation outweigh any potential risks."