Since 1945, it has been claimed that including fluoride to ingesting water is a secure and efficient manner to enhance the general public’s dental well being. Since then, many have purchased into this fallacy hook, line and sinker, regardless of overwhelming proof on the contrary.
One of many explanation why it is so necessary to eradicate water fluoridation is as a result of this chemical could be very troublesome to filter out. You can take away some or a major quantity utilizing distillation, reverse osmosis and particular filtration media, however the overwhelming majority of water filters that individuals have entry to is not going to take away fluoride.
In consequence, you would possibly filter your water, considering you have purified it, however you have not eradicated fluoride. That is significantly problematic for low-income dad and mom of young children, who have to use fluoride-free water for mixing child formulation. Fluoridated water incorporates 200 to 250 occasions extra fluoride than mom’s milk,1 considerably elevating the kid’s danger of fluorosis and different well being issues.
Fluoride Can Wreak Havoc on Well being
Scientific investigations have revealed fluoride is an endocrine-disrupting chemical,2 and have linked it to the rising prevalence of thyroid illness,3 which in flip can contribute to weight problems, coronary heart illness, melancholy and different well being issues.
Much more importantly, fluoride has been recognized as a developmental neurotoxin that impacts short-term and dealing reminiscence, and contributes to rising charges of attention-deficit hyperactive dysfunction (ADHD)4 and lowered IQ in youngsters.5
Many of those research have discovered hurt at, or precariously near, the degrees hundreds of thousands of American pregnant girls and kids obtain. In all, there are greater than 300 animal and human research demonstrating fluoride may cause:6
- Mind injury, particularly when coupled with iodine deficiency
- Lowered IQ
- Impaired means to study and keep in mind
- Neurobehavioral deficits reminiscent of impaired visual-spatial group
- Impaired fetal mind improvement
Assist Remove Water Fluoridation within the US
Within the featured video, Paul Connett, Ph.D., a toxicologist, environmental chemist and the founder and present director of the Fluoride Motion Community (FAN), gives an replace on FAN’s lawsuit towards the U.S. Environmental Safety Company (EPA) to cease water fluoridation nationwide, together with the historical past behind and the science underpinning it.
Over the previous 19 years, FAN has facilitated the elimination of fluoride from the water provides of a whole lot of communities throughout North America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. This week, we’re serving to FAN elevate funds to guarantee that FAN wins this lawsuit, and I encourage you to make a donation to this necessary trigger.
The lawsuit has been led by legal professional Michael Connett, a former government director of FAN who has an encyclopedic data of the science of fluoride. He’s additionally the son of Paul and Ellen Connett. He’s a working towards legal professional in a agency that makes a speciality of poisonous harm instances.
Over the previous 12 months Michael has traveled throughout the USA and the world, working with main consultants to develop the case that EPA should regulate fluoridation chemical substances to forestall recognized or anticipated harms. In essence, meaning the top of fluoridation.
The gathered scientific proof for the case is unprecedented in scope and the authority of the individuals behind it. Legally, the case breaks new floor by utilizing a bit of the Poisonous Substances Management Act (TSCA) that enables anybody to file go well with to compel EPA to regulate any poisonous chemical in order to forestall hurt from that chemical.
EPA has tried authorized maneuverings to cease or constrain the lawsuit, however the courtroom has sided with FAN each time. So, the case is scheduled for trial that can final two weeks or longer within the federal district courtroom of San Francisco. 1000’s of pages of testimony have already been gathered in preparation for the trial.
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Again Historical past of Lawsuit In opposition to EPA
November 22, 2016, a coalition together with FAN, Meals & Water Watch, Natural Shoppers Affiliation, American Academy of Environmental Medication, Worldwide Academy of Oral Medication and Toxicology, Mothers In opposition to Fluoridation and a number of other people, filed a petition7,8 calling on the EPA to ban the deliberate addition of fluoridating chemical substances to U.S. ingesting water below Part 21 of the Poisonous Substances Management Act (TSCA).
As defined by Connett, the TSCA permits residents and nongovernmental organizations to petition the EPA to take away poisonous substances discovered to pose a risk both to the overall inhabitants or a subset of that inhabitants.
The petition was made on the grounds that a big physique of analysis demonstrates fluoride is neurotoxic at doses inside the vary now seen in fluoridated communities, and included over 2,500 pages of scientific documentation detailing these well being dangers.
The EPA denied the petition9 February 27, 2017, on the grounds that it had did not current “a scientifically defensible foundation” to conclude that anybody had in actual fact suffered neurotoxic hurt on account of fluoride publicity. In response, FAN and its coalition companions filed a lawsuit within the U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of California, legally difficult the EPA’s denial of their petition.
Victories Alongside the Means
As one would possibly count on, the EPA filed a movement to dismiss the lawsuit. Luckily, United States District Choose Edward M. Chen denied the EPA’s movement10 on December 21, 2017, thereby permitting the case to maneuver ahead.
Subsequent, the EPA sought to restrict the coalition’s scope of discovery. Not solely did they attempt to stop coalition attorneys from acquiring inner EPA paperwork, however additionally they needed to ban coalition consultants from referring to research printed after the November 2016 petition was submitted.
This included a landmark U.S. government-funded examine11,12 printed within the journal Environmental Well being Views in September 2017. This examine is important in demonstrating that fluoride is neurotoxic and has no place within the public water provide. Luckily, on February 7, 2018, Chen denied13 this movement as properly.
“By and huge, we have succeeded in getting all of the interviews and depositions that we wanted,” Connett says, including, “Our lawsuit is far stronger than the authentic petition due to science which has taken place since September 2017.”
The Historical past of Fluoridation Science
Within the featured video, Paul Connett gives a abstract of the historical past of the science underpinning the lawsuit:
“In 1996, once I first received concerned, it coincided with the primary two intelligence quotient (IQ14) research from China, which discovered that youngsters in high-fluoride communities had decrease IQ than youngsters in low-fluoride communities,” he says.
“By 2006, when the Nationwide Analysis Council checked out all of the well being points from toxicology of fluoride,15 they discovered six IQ research. They concluded, based mostly solely on these six research, that fluoride did in actual fact pose a risk to the mind. After all, these human research have been backed up with many dozens of animal research …
By 2008, we have been as much as 18 research. The motive it jumped from six to 18 was that my son, Michael, who spearheaded a lot of this … analysis into neurotoxicity, had translated lots of the Chinese language research …
By 2010, after we printed our e book ‘The Case In opposition to Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Ingesting Water and the Unhealthy Science and Highly effective Politics That Maintain It There,’ which I printed with Dr. James Beck from Canada and Dr. Spedding Micklem from Scotland, the quantity [of studies] had risen to 23 …
Then in 2012, a distinguished workforce, partly from Harvard College, did a overview16 of 27 of the IQ research; 25 of these have been from China and two have been from Iran. Now, they identified many weaknesses within the examine designs. They did not really feel they’d sufficient data in lots of these research.
However additionally they concluded that the consistency of those 27 research was overwhelming … These 27 research have been executed over a interval of 21 years. They have been executed in two nations, China and Iran. They have been executed in several geographical areas of China. They have been executed by totally different analysis groups.
Regardless of all that number of analysis, 26 of the research confirmed that the kids with the upper fluoride publicity … had decrease IQ than the kids with the decrease fluoride publicity … Very hanging certainly. The proponents of fluoridation have executed their greatest to dismiss these and different research …
Over 60 research have been executed. A minimum of 57 now present this distinction of lowered IQ with greater fluoride publicity. However the proponents have stated, ‘Oh properly, these research are from China and these different nations. You’ll be able to’t belief these. They did not do them in fluoridated communities. That is pure fluoride’ …
In addition they stated that the concentrations have been ridiculously excessive, a lot greater than in fluoridated communities … The promoters of fluoridation have at all times confused focus with dose.”
As defined by Connett, it isn’t the focus of fluoride within the water (measured in mg per liter) that’s important for well being. What issues is the dose you get in mg/day and the dosage (mg/day divided by the person’s physique weight) and these rely upon a wide range of fluctuating elements, reminiscent of:
- The focus of fluoride within the water
- How a lot water you drink
- How a lot fluoride you get from different sources
- Your physique weight
The physique weight difficulty is of important significance, for a given dose in mg/day it’s worse for a kid than an grownup; worse for an toddler than a baby and far worse for a fetus than an toddler, a undeniable fact that was made very clear in a landmark U.S.-government funded examine printed in 2017.
Landmark Research Printed in 2017
A global examine effort led by professor Howard Hu, who on the time of the examine’s publication was on the College of Toronto. The examine is named the “Bashash examine” after the lead creator, Morteza Bashash, Ph.D. The workforce additionally consists of researchers from McGill, Harvard, Mount Sinai, Michigan, Indiana and the Nationwide Institute of Public Well being of Mexico.
Funding for this analysis got here from the U.S. Nationwide Institutes of Well being, Nationwide Institute of Environmental Well being Sciences (NIEHS) and the EPA. The finalized examine17,18 was printed within the September, 2017 difficulty of Environmental Well being Views.
“It was a 12-year examine. It was funded by the U.S. authorities. We had prime researchers and topnotch methodology. They managed for each conceivable issue,” Connett says.
“They discovered a robust relationship between the extent of fluoride in pregnant girls’s urine and the next IQ of their offspring. Particular person measurements of publicity … is necessary as a result of it is unbiased of the supply of fluoride.
It would not matter if the fluoride got here from water, from salt, from air pollution or [any other source]. [They measured] the whole dose … Positive sufficient, they discovered lowered IQ within the offspring at 4 years of age, after which once more between 6 and 12. The upper the fluoride ranges of the urine of the ladies, the decrease the IQ of the kids.”
2017 Research Predicts Vital IQ Loss at Present Publicity Ranges in US
The 2017 Environmental Well being Views examine19 is necessary for FAN’s authorized case as a result of it demonstrates the anticipated IQ loss from fluoride publicity at present ranges within the U.S. is important.
It revealed {that a} youngster of a mom who drinks water with 1 half per million (ppm) of fluoride will be predicted to have an IQ that’s 5 to six factors decrease than a baby born to a mom who drinks fluoride-free water. Equally necessary was the discovering that there was no threshold under which fluoride didn’t have an effect on IQ.
In a nutshell, as the extent of fluoride in urine elevated, IQ decreased, and this remained true throughout the whole vary of exposures, from lowest to highest. So, the extent of the injury is basically only a matter of diploma.
As famous by Connett, an necessary characteristic of the 2017 Environmental Well being Views examine was that they measured fluoride in urine, as it is a way more correct indicator of whole fluoride consumption than merely measuring the focus of fluoride in ingesting water after which calculating how a lot water is being consumed.
The researchers additionally managed for a variety of things — together with lead, mercury, socioeconomic standing, smoking, alcohol use and pregnancy-related issues — that might doubtlessly skew the outcomes or produce a false impact. Importantly, they have been capable of largely rule out the affect of those confounding elements. Connett notes:
“Once more, the proponents of fluoridation say, ‘This isn’t related to water fluoridation. They do not have water fluoridation in Mexico.’ [This is a] fully ineffective argument, as a result of [the level of fluoride in the urine is a measure of the women’s total exposure of fluoride regardless of the source of fluoride].
Subsequent to this examine, in 2018 a examine20 [was] executed in Canada. They discovered the identical ranges of fluoride within the urine of pregnant girls in Canada as in Mexico Metropolis. To be exact, the common in pregnant girls in Canada is 0.87 ppm. The typical in Mexico Metropolis was 0.91 ppm, so about the identical. Additionally … they discovered twice the extent [of fluoride] within the urine in fluoridated communities in comparison with non-fluoridated communities.
There have been extra research since then … [In 2018], Bashash, et al., additionally checked out attention-deficit/hyperactivity dysfunction (ADHD). They discovered extra signs of ADHD amongst the kids with the highest fluoride publicity of their moms than the decrease ones.21 That was necessary.
There’s been one other crucial examine22,23by Ashley Malin … She discovered that for ladies who have been already low-iodine or borderline iodine-deficient, publicity to fluoride made their hypothyroidism worse, as measured by TSH … Tens of millions of individuals in Canada and the USA are borderline or outright poor in iodine. This can be a crucial discovering.
It is also necessary to narrate the 2 points. When a fetus comes into existence, it has no thyroid gland. It’s completely depending on the mom’s manufacturing of thyroid hormones as to its improvement. Vital in that improvement is psychological improvement.
It is well-known that if a lady is hypothyroid, there’s an elevated danger for the kid to have a decrease IQ. You can see the attainable clarification for what’s taking place with pregnant girls. It could be this elevated danger of hypothyroidism.”
Fetal Publicity Is Extraordinarily Worrying
As famous by Connett, the sum of the analysis suggests American youngsters are certainly being harmed by present ranges of fluoride in ingesting water. Within the featured video he cites one Chinese language examine through which they discovered 1.4 milligrams (mg) of fluoride per day was related to a reducing of 5 IQ factors in youngsters.
The advisable fluoride degree within the U.S. is 0.7 ppm. To achieve 1.4 mg of fluoride a day, a youngster would wish to drink simply 2 liters of water at 0.7 ppm, Connett says, including “And that is earlier than you have even launched the notion of fluoride from swallowing toothpaste, from meals, from pesticides and so forth. It is clear that many, many youngsters are being overexposed to fluoride so far as their psychological improvement is worried.”
Importantly, the 2017 Environmental Well being Views examine24 shifts the main focus of concern from childhood publicity to fetal publicity in utero. For a fetus, the toxicity of any given dose is way extra important than for an toddler, younger youngster or an grownup. The growing mind of a fetus could be very weak to poisonous influences, which fluoride has clearly been demonstrated to be.
“It actually is mindless of placing this recognized neurotoxic substance into the ingesting water for each pregnant lady and each youngster,” Connett says. “That is what we’re attempting to finish with this lawsuit.”
Why is that this lawsuit so necessary? Why are we elevating cash for this lawsuit? Effectively, the lawsuit is necessary as a result of as necessary as we imagine these research are … the main media on this nation haven’t lined it. The New York Instances has not stated a phrase concerning the neurotoxicity of fluoride. They, like many different mainstream media, are nonetheless selling fluoridation and treating us as idiots, as loopy individuals. It is unhappy, however that is the reality.
Sadly, skilled our bodies and well being departments are nonetheless trapped by the paradigm that fluoridation is secure and efficient. They go loopy every time a examine reveals that tooth decay goes up for those who cease fluoridation. Many of those are fallacious research, however they get enthusiastic about that as if the entire concern concerning the physique is the tooth …
It is a very myopic view of the human being, and definitely the event of the fetus and the kid. However that is the institution’s perspective. They both ignore these research or they discover a manner of attacking them. The fantastic thing about our lawsuit is the lawsuit below TSCA, it is in the arms of a federal legislation decide.
On this specific [legal] case, [because it is being tried de novo25] the EPA can not trump the science with authority. They cannot say, ‘Effectively, we’re the company that the U.S. authorities has set as much as overview these points like this. We’ve got decided that fluoride is secure’ … They cannot get away with utilizing authority. This lawsuit shall be a battle between the sciences: Our science … and their science, which I assume will try to destroy every examine.
However they are going to have onerous job as a result of there are over 300 research. Over 60 human research now present that fluoride damages the mind at ranges at which the fetus is uncovered in fluoridated communities. I imagine this lawsuit … is our greatest probability of ending fluoridation in the USA. If we finish it in the USA, we finish it worldwide. It’s extremely necessary.”
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You’ll be able to study extra and discover the main points on the a whole lot of printed research26 on fluoridealert.org. And, for those who’re involved concerning the well being results of fluoride, please assist FAN together with your tax-deductible donation right now. Funds raised shall be used to proceed preventing this lawsuit to the top.
“Why do we’d like a lot cash? Effectively, lawsuits are costly,” Connett says. “As we have made progress on this federal lawsuit … we have gotten extra enthusiastic about the true risk that we might win and finish fluoridation. As we received extra excited, we received extra consultants, a few of them world-famous; a few of them main authorities of their areas of specialty. That is why we have to top-up our funds to win this lawsuit.”
