As yearly throughout our annual Fluoride Consciousness Week, Fluoride Motion Community (FAN) founder Dr. Paul Connett is right here to supply us with a progress replace. FAN has been instrumental in decreasing fluoride publicity in North America and in lots of international locations all through the world over the previous 20 years.
As in earlier years, we ask that you think about donating to this worthy group that’s spearheading the daunting job of eliminating water fluoridation all over the world. As traditional, Mercola.com will match your donation, greenback for greenback, as much as $25,000 throughout Fluoride Consciousness Week.
Fluoride Lowers Youngsters’s IQ
From the very starting, considered one of Connett’s driving issues was the likelihood that fluoride is likely to be reducing kids’s IQ.
“Two Chinese language research had been revealed in 1995 and 1996, in English. I was very involved, and felt strongly that if there was any proof that fluoride lowered intelligence of youngsters, then there is no manner you’ll put advantages to tooth above that and proceed water fluoridation,” Connett says.
Ten years later, in 2006, the Nationwide Analysis Council appeared on the toxicology of fluoride.1 At the moment, there have been six IQ research and, based mostly on these six research together with many animal research, the NRC concluded that fluoride did actually pose a risk to the mind. By 2008, there have been 18 such research.
In 2012, a distinguished staff, partly from Harvard College, did a evaluate2 of 27 IQ research; 25 from China and two from Iran. Strikingly, 26 of the research confirmed kids with increased fluoride publicity had decrease IQ than the youngsters with decrease fluoride publicity.
“The bombshell got here in 2017. As much as that time, we had about 60 research that had proven a reducing of IQ, most of them from China, but additionally some from India, some from Iran, some from Mexico,” Connett says.
US-Funded Research Confirms Many years’ Lengthy Suspicions
The bombshell research3,4 Connett refers to, often known as the “Bashash research” (named after the lead creator, Morteza Bashash, Ph.D.), was funded by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, the Nationwide Institute of Environmental Well being Sciences and the Environmental Safety Company.
It adopted pregnant ladies and their infants for 12 years. They measured the fluoride of their urine, which reveals complete publicity, whatever the supply or sources, and so they discovered a robust relationship between the fluoride degree in moms’ urine and IQ scores of their kids on the ages of 4, and between 6 and 12.
It’s vital to understand that it’s not the focus of fluoride within the water (measured in mg per liter) that is important for well being. What issues is the dose you get in milligrams per day, and the dosage (mg/day divided by the person’s physique weight), and these depend upon quite a lot of fluctuating elements.
“The NIH is a father or mother of the Public Well being Service, so they have been selling fluoride for years and years (since 1950). So, I consider they put some huge cash into this research considering that it might show, as soon as and for all, that loopy individuals like me and others had been completely mistaken concerning the notion that fluoride lowers IQ in kids.
However lo and behold, they gave us very, very robust proof that it is. And that essentially the most prone age, so far as fluoride’s influence on the mind, is throughout fetal improvement.
It seems the placenta doesn’t defend the fetus from fluoride, and, as , as much as about six months of age, the blood-brain barrier isn’t totally shaped within the child. So, the fetus may be very prone to this influence of fluoride.”
The primary response of the American Dental Affiliation was that the findings didn’t apply to the USA, because it was finished in Mexico Metropolis. Nevertheless, this ignored the truth that human beings are human beings, by measuring fluoride within the urine they’d a measure of complete publicity, whatever the supply. It actually doesn’t matter if the fluoride comes from water, different drinks, meals or toothpaste.
Canadian Researchers Verify ‘Bombshell’ Outcomes
In 2019, the NIH research was replicated in Canada,5 and so they too discovered that increased fluoride ranges in maternal urine had been related to decrease IQ of their offspring. The one main distinction was that based mostly on maternal urine ranges solely boys seemed to be affected, not the women. However when the moms’ fluoride publicity was calculated from ingestion (i.e. from meals and drinks) there was a relationship between that and the youngsters’s IQ for each girls and boys,
“Now, this research, not like the primary one, the Bashash research, bought a specific amount of protection,” Connett says. “[It] was revealed within the journal of the American Medical Affiliation, Pediatrics. That is one of many main pediatrics journals on the planet, and the editors of this journal went to excessive lengths.
They knew this was controversial. Hats off for them to take it on. They knew it was going to be consequential, in order that they doubled up on the peer evaluate course of, they double checked the statistics, in order that they had been assured once they launched it. They even ran an editorial saying the steps they’d taken.
That they had two of their editors, the editor of JAMA in complete and the editor of JAMA Pediatrics did a 20-minute podcast explaining how astounding the outcomes had been. They stated, ‘Oh, we had no concept that fluoride precipitated any issues to well being.’ I do not know what they’d been studying. However anyway … it was a bombshell for them to instantly discover that fluoride could possibly be damaging the mind of the fetus.
Additionally they ran an editorial from David Bellinger, one of many world’s consultants on lead’s neurotoxicity, and he stated ‘The measurements listed here are akin to what’s occurring with lead.’ In different phrases, it’s very, very critical, and that bought a lot of protection all over the world.
However the different aspect was organized and so they shortly bought some ‘consultants’ — none of them really consultants on fluoride or toxicology or neurotoxicity — who stated all the correct issues to dampen individuals’s concern about this research.”
Two Different Essential Research
“There are 4 research that folks have to learn about,” Connett says. To study extra about every, see Connett’s video commentaries on FluorideALERT.org FAN.television web page. Except for the 2 already talked about, the 2 different ones are:
- The Riddell research, revealed in 2019, discovered an almost 300% enhance in ADHD prevalence in adolescents in Canadian communities with fluoridated water provides, in comparison with these residing in non-fluoridated communities. “Science by no means stops,” Connett says. “You have got to entertain the notion that an unsightly reality can destroy a ravishing concept, on this specific case, we bought quite a lot of ugly information, however the large one is the truth that fluoride might injury kids’s brains.”
- The Until research, which in contrast the IQ of youngsters who had been bottle fed as infants in fluoridated communities (and thus would have gotten fluoridated water of their formulation) versus non-fluoridated communities. Right here, they discovered a big IQ distinction.
FAN Lawsuit In opposition to EPA on Fluoride Underway
November 22, 2016, a coalition together with FAN, Meals & Water Watch, Natural Customers Affiliation, American Academy of Environmental Drugs, Worldwide Academy of Oral Drugs and Toxicology, Mothers In opposition to Fluoridation and a number of other people, filed a petition6,7 calling on the EPA to ban the deliberate addition of fluoridating chemical substances to U.S. consuming water beneath 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 (an unreasonable danger) 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 petition8 February 27, 2017, on the grounds that it had did not current “a scientifically defensible foundation” to conclude that anybody had actually suffered neurotoxic hurt because of fluoride publicity. In response, FAN and its coalition companions filed a lawsuit within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Northern District of California, legally difficult the EPA’s denial of their petition.
This interview was taped June 2, 2020. FAN was scheduled to start arguments in entrance of a decide June 8. FAN will clarify the neurotoxicity of fluoride proven in these and different research, and then the EPA’s business consultants, paid consultants who’ve additionally defended glyphosate and different toxins, will current their proof. (see FAN’s site FluorideAlert.org for a abstract of the trial)
“However we’ve, for our lawsuit … some of the main consultants on neurotoxicity on the planet,” Connett says, “together with a pair that had been concerned within the research I have been speaking about.” That consists of Bruce Lanphear, the EPA’s go-to particular person for details about the neurotoxicity of lead. Lanphear labored with Until on the JAMA Pediatrics article and the bottle feeding research listed above. Howard Hu, lead creator of the Bashash research, is one other knowledgeable FAN witness, as is Philippe Grandjean.
“I’m very optimistic. [The EPA] doesn’t have the science. We do. And never solely do we’ve the science, however we’ve among the world’s greatest consultants testifying for us. So, except these artful attorneys for the EPA are ready to muddy the waters, I believe we’ll haven’t any bother in demonstrating three issues: One, that the preponderance of proof that fluoride is neurotoxic is overwhelming.
Second, that it’s a danger on the ranges at which we add fluoride to the water. And thirdly, it is an unreasonable danger. As a result of even when your primary focus was decreasing tooth decay, there are different methods of delivering fluoride, as an alternative of this ridiculous notion of placing it within the consuming water and forcing it on your entire inhabitants.
I believe we will exhibit these three issues. And I am completely happy to let you know that my son, who began our webpage in 2000 and developed the biggest well being database on the planet, greater than different fluoridating governments, by the best way, goes to be the lawyer preventing this case,” Connett says.
Now you can view the transcript of Michael Connett’s sensible abstract assertion
The Finish of Water Fluoridation Is Inevitable
If victorious, the EPA will seemingly attraction, as this can be a basic stall tactic. “There is not any company within the United States that’s higher at dragging its ft on controversial points,” Connett says.
“They dragged their ft for over 18 years on the reassessment of dioxin, a problem I used to be very near, and so they nonetheless did not resolve the problem. They’re very topic to business strain, and their manner of resolving points is simply delay, delay, delay.
However, I do consider that if a federal courtroom, having heard each sides, declares that fluoride poses an pointless danger, an unreasonable danger to the creating mind of our kids, that that information will ricochet round the fluoridating world — Australia, New Zealand, Eire, Canada, Israel, Malaysia, and some different international locations the place they nonetheless fluoridate. It will have a huge effect.
And I believe the residents will have the ability to use this as ammunition to say to their well being departments, ‘Come on. Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this while you’ve bought this scientific info … finished by prime notch scientists. Why on earth would you proceed this follow when that if you need fluoride, you’ll be able to merely brush it in your tooth and spit it out. What is your rationale for persevering with this?
By the identical token, to the skilled our bodies, to the AMA, the ADA, the APHA and all these different organizations which have endorsed fluoridation for years and years and years, why would you proceed to assist this? Why would you divulge to the general public that you haven’t any scientific credibility?
That you do not learn the science, that you do not sustain with the science on a problem like this? When you are going to the general public and saying once more and time and again that fluoridation is secure and efficient, while you’ve bought this proof proper there in entrance of you?
Another factor … Probably an important company for reviewing the toxicology of poisonous substances is the Nationwide Toxicology Program (NTP). Again in 2016, FAN requested the NTP to do a scientific evaluate of the neurotoxicity of fluoride. This was earlier than the courtroom case and earlier than we went to courtroom.
After three and a half years they got here again, having reviewed all the animal information and the human information, and of their draft they stated, ‘Based mostly upon the literature, the presumption is that fluoride is a neurotoxic substance. Based mostly upon research finished on kids in a number of completely different international locations, the presumption is that it’s neurotoxic.’
Not that it is particular; however you would need to presume, based mostly upon all of the literature, that this can be a neurotoxic substance. So, that’s an enormous vindication for our case. However, as a result of it is a draft and never a last model, we will not really use it within the courtroom case. Nonetheless, that is very helpful for us going ahead, along with regardless of the courtroom guidelines.”
Ending Water Fluoridation Nonetheless Met With Sturdy Resistance
Whereas FAN has efficiently ended water fluoridation in lots of areas, it’s nonetheless very tough. One of many causes for it is because those that need it to proceed at all times level to critiques by authorities companies “which, as bogus as they’re and unscientific as they’re, carry quite a lot of weight,” Connett says.
In Eire, they seek advice from the knowledgeable committee. In New Zealand, they seek advice from the ministry of well being and in Australia to the Nationwide Well being and Medical Analysis Council. Within the United States, they seek advice from the Facilities of Illness Management and Prevention.
All of these companies have promoted water fluoridation and usually are not good judges of whether or not there are issues or not. Hopefully, a courtroom win in opposition to the EPA will facilitate and pace up the method of getting fluoride out of consuming water. A win would additionally set one other vital precedent:
“We have been capable of deliver this to courtroom beneath the Poisonous Substances and Management Act, which has a clause [stating] that any group or particular person can petition the EPA to take away, to ban, any specific use of a specific chemical in the USA if they will present it is an unreasonable danger to the inhabitants, or perhaps a subset of the inhabitants.
We … together with Meals & Water Watch are the primary teams to ever do that. So, it is establishing a vital precedent, which is actually worrying the chemical business. It’s an enormous concern of ours, as a result of behind the scenes I am positive they’re attempting to muddy the waters in each manner they will. However it is an enormous precedent. I hope that our victory may also shoot adrenaline into the veins of all these different [health safety] teams …”
One other Fluoride-Associated Challenge To Be Tackled
In our interview, Connett additionally discusses the fluoride air pollution launched throughout recycling of lithium ion batteries, similar to these utilized in electrical automobiles. Lithium ion batteries include fluorinated polymers like polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) and an electrolyte referred to as lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6).
When heated throughout the recycling course of, these fluorinated compounds break down to provide hydrogen fluoride, and lots of fluorinated byproducts that are poisonous and tough to seize. Like PFOS, these chemical substances stick round for therefore lengthy they’re often known as “ceaselessly chemical substances.”
Because it occurs, a lithium ion battery incinerator is being constructed close to Connett’s residence, throughout the highway from a residential space and adjoining to just a little league baseball discipline. “It’s a completely insane, unethical siting,” Connett says, noting that there actually is not any secure place for such amenities. It’s the recycling course of itself that must be modified, which is what Connett is preventing for now.
“What this has finished is fortuitous. It has introduced collectively almost all of the strands of our activism. I’ve had 35 years preventing incineration and dioxins [and] 24 years preventing fluoridation. Now we’re assembly hydrogen fluoride and fluorinated by-products in spades. On the very least the issue might be: What do you do with the sodium fluoride that is left over within the effluent, the waste water?
I hope somebody doesn’t mean placing it within the consuming water. As a result of additionally in that waste water you will have a PFAS, a polyfluorinated alkyl substance (utilized in among the batteries), and my spouse has spent many, a few years sustaining a database on these PFAS … She’s been involved with that for a very long time. So, we have been ready to attract on three completely different strands of our activism to assist our local people.”
Keep away from Fluoride to Optimize Your Well being
Eliminating water fluoridation will go a good distance towards defending the well being of all individuals, however particularly kids. Sacrificing kids’s mind operate for a theoretical good thing about much less tooth decay is unconscionable.
Except for ensuring you don’t drink fluoridated water, or use fluoridated water to combine toddler formulation, to scale back your publicity, keep away from consuming extreme quantities of tea, which tends to be excessive in fluoride.
“Combine it up,” Connett says. “If you happen to should drink tea, then drink tea, drink espresso, drink natural tea. Combine it round. Not an excessive amount of tea. Additionally, keep away from animal bones. Do not eat the bones from sardines and pilchards. Do not eat the bones from hen. Keep away from mechanically deboned meat.”
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Once more, for extra particulars on the 4 research Connett highlights on this interview, see his video commentaries on FAN.television web page. There you may also discover a webinar lecture by FAN’s senior scientist, Chris Neurath, during which he explains the neurotoxicity of fluoride. To assist unfold the phrase, you’ll be able to print out a FAN pamphlet to share with household, pals and local people bulletin boards.
In closing, if you happen to’re involved concerning the well being results of fluoride, please assist FAN together with your tax-deductible donation at this time. Mercola.com will match your donation, greenback for greenback, up to $25,000 throughout Fluoride Consciousness Week.
