Fluoride's Brain Damage Studies Mounting
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2014
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Studies showing fluoride can lower IQ are
just the tip of the iceberg in fluoride/neurotoxicity research,
according to evidence presented by attorney Michael Connett, Fluoride Action Network's (FAN) Special Projects Director at the 5th Annual FAN Conference on September 6, 2014.
Public
health officials never considered brain effects before instigating
fluoride's addition to water supplies starting in 1945, attempting to
reduce children's tooth decay.
"Accumulating
brain research suggests that adding fluoride chemicals en masse to
public water supplies may be having a similarly disastrous effect on
children's brains as did lead chemicals that were once added to
gasoline," says Connett.
Human research now shows that fluoride can damage the fetal brain, adversely affect newborn babies' behavior, damage the central nervous system of fluoride-exposed workers, and affect performance on neurological assessment tests.
And the IQ studies keep on coming. Forty one out of 48 studies show fluoride reduces IQ; 17 at levels the US EPA claims are safe.
Over 100 animal studies show fluoride can directly damage the brain; with another 30 animal studies showing fluoride impairs learning or memory -- including four published in 2014. In one study published this year in the journal Physiology & Behavior, researchers found that fluoride "induces cognitive deficits and anxiety-depression-like behaviors in mice." (Liu 2014)
In the early 1990s, toxicologist Dr. Phyllis Mullenix
predicted that fluoride could cause "IQ deficits and/or learning
disabilities in humans" based on the behavioral effects she observed in
fluoride-exposed rats in her laboratory at the Harvard-affiliated Forsythe Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mullenix's
prediction has now been confirmed by dozens of fluoride IQ and animal
learning/memory studies. Mullenix's own research career, however, was
left in shambles after reporting her findings. She was fired, and years of government funding suddenly went dry.
The treatment of Mullenix, a leading scientist at a Harvard-affiliated research institution, "put a chilling effect on US research into fluoride's brain effects," says Connett.
Researchers
in other countries, however, have continued investigating fluoride's
toxic effects on the brain and this research is now starting to be
heeded by western scientists. Earlier this year, a paper in The Lancet classified fluoride as one of the few chemicals known to damage the developing brain in humans.
More fluoride/brain information here: http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/brain/
RELATED LINKS
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