Harvard Says Fluoridated Water is Causing Cognitive Disorders
A newly published study in Harvard’s The Lancet weighs in on the toxins causing autism and ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder). Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) say that along with these numerous environmental toxins, fluoridated water is adding to the higher incident of both cognitive and behavioral disorders.
Harvard had already published a study in 2006 that pointed to fluoride as a ‘developmental neurotoxicant’, and this newer study looks to over 27 additional investigations into the matter via meta nalysis. In the previous study, it was already established that fluoride consumption lowered children’s IQ scores. The left-over from industry, passed off as ‘medicine,’ obstructs brain development, and can cause a full spectrum of serious health issues – from autism to dyslexia, ADHD, ADD, and more.
The study calls the effects from this chemical a ‘silent epidemic’ that mainstream media and many scientific papers have ignored.
Two of the main researchers involved in the study, Philippe Grandjean from HSPH and Philip Landrigan from ISMMS, say that incidences of chemical-related neurodevelopmental disorders have doubled over the past seven years from six to 12.
The study admits that there are numerous chemicals to blame – many of which are untested or ceremoniously approved by the FDA, USDA, and CDC without truly knowing their long term ramifications on human health – but that fluoride is a definite culprit.
“[S]ince 2006, the number of chemicals known to damage the human brain more generally, but that are not regulated to protect children’s health, had increased from 202 to 214,” writes Julia Medew for The Sydney Morning Herald. “The pair said this could be the tip of the iceberg because the vast majority of the more than 80,000 industrial chemicals widely used in the United States have never been tested for their toxic effects on the developing fetus or child.”
The fact is that fluoride, pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, radioactive isotopes, GMO foods, and weather warfare chemicals are creating a neurological-toxic mix that is unprecedented in human history.
Fluoride, like other toxins, accumulates in the blood stream and even makes it past the blood-brain barrier. Eventually, as the body tries to protect itself from these unwanted substances, the substances make it into the bones and the organs, causing cancer, cognitive abnormalities, and even birth defects in unborn children. Fluoride is known to pass into the placenta in pregnant women, yet regulatory agencies ignore its toxic legacy.
The chemicals lurking in our food supply, water supply, and in our air and soil are causing the neurological decline of both young and old.
The Study that the Havard researchers referenced was investigating fluoride levels in water in rural China were the levels of fluoride are 10times higher than the recommended safe levels used by Western countries. It’s results are not transferable to the claims made here.
Please share your source, to back up your statement, thanks a lot.
It’s all accumulative and builds up in the human body, and the human body has difficulty expelling that particular chemical from the body, meaning it’s building up over time, which would suggest that the effects would be less, not non existent.
You provide no facts or research to support your idea. How long is this accumulation? The point is, if it takes 20 years to build up to a toxic level, that would remove it as a cause for these cognitive problems in children. Research, please.
This is a comments thread not a thesis paper. There’s plenty of research on this, you sound like a sharp guy, I’m sure you can figure it out. Keep in mind that symptoms maybe subtle – could be a slight decrease in IQ, or minor difficulty in concentrating, etc. Here’s something to getcha started: http://www.fluorideresearch.org/382/files/382127-132.pdf
Fred, please share your source to back up your statement. How do you know which water supply was being investigated in the referenced study?
Actually there is a place in California that has such a high fluoride content that the residents are advised by posted notices to not ever drink the water unless boiled.
And boiling water does what to fluoride? pfshhh
Boiling water with fluoride additive concentrates it more .I am a testament to what fluoridated water does to peoples health. It has almost totally destroyed my once good health and immune system.
Fluorine is one of the major ingredients in the controversial psycho-active psychiatric drug PROZAC (Fluoxetene Hydrochloride), and also in deadly Sarin military nerve gas.
And there is chlorine in salt. Maybe understanding basic chemistry would be an advantage before you start implying things that are clearly beyond you.
why are we letting our elected by the PEOPLE representatives POISON OUR WATER AND US why are they doing this to us they all have full knowledge don’t they realise they are drinking this POISON as well or ARE THEY,DO THEY ALL KNOW SOMETHING WE DONT IS THIS AN EXTERMINATION ON THE HUMANS OF OUR EARTH.this crap is POISON and has no need to be in our drinking water,WE NEED TO HOLD THESE CRIMINALS TO ACCOUNT,IF THEY KNOW THEY SHOULD BE JAILED FOR POISONING HUMAN BEINGS PERIOD.I DO NOT WANT TO BE POISONED ANYMORE POLITITIANS.
The author of this article is either obtuse, being deceptive, or both. This is not about trace quantities of fluoride routinely added to drinking water. It is about industrial contamination.
“Harvard’s The Lancet”? A bit of a giveaway, not even knowing what The Lancet is.
From the new literature survey, in The Lancet Neurology
“A meta-analysis of 27 cross-sectional studies of childrenexposed to fluoride in drinking water, mainly from China, suggests an average IQ decrement of about seven points in children exposed to raised fluoride concentrations. Confounding from other substances seemed unlikely in most of these studies. Further characterisation of the dose–response association would be desirable.”
That is the only mention of fluoride, apart from in a list of new chemicals added to the list of industrial chemicals.
“Harvard had already published a study in 2006 that pointed to fluoride as a ‘developmental neurotoxicant’, and this newer study looks to over 27 additional investigations into the matter via metanalysis. In the previous study, it was already established that fluoride consumption lowered children’s IQ scores. ”
The 2006 article in The Lancet, “Developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals,” does not mention fluoride. That was the point of its being mentioned in the 2014 survey of the literature.
In 2006, the list of industrial pollutants was lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic, and toluene. In 2014, the authors added manganese, fluoride, chlorpyrifos, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, and the polybrominated diphenyl ethers.
Are hydrofluorosilicic acid, sodium fluorosilicate, and sodium fluoride natural?
NO!
Then they have no fking business inside my body. Period.
What some fluoridated retards need to understand is that not only water has fluoride. A lot of other drinks are made (with) fluoridated water as well. Another thing is, hydrofluorosilicic acid, sodium fluorosilicate, and sodium fluoride are not naturally occurring but toxic waste. WTF is toxic waste, regardless of how little it is, going to do for my body. NO THANKS.
If you are ok with it, form a community, move altogether in the same area and request 100% of the fluoride in the water to be delivered to you.
Thank you!
Here’s the paper they cited:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/