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The report was issued in two parts, a monograph and a meta-analysis. The meta-analysis found that 52 of 55 studies found lower IQ with higher fluoride exposures, demonstrating remarkable consistency. Of the 19 studies rated higher quality, 18 found lowering of IQ. The meta-analysis could not detect any safe exposure, including at levels common from drinking artificially fluoridated water.
Here is the table of contents:
ntp.niehs.nih.gov...
Here are the documents:
ntp.niehs.nih.gov...
... When the NTP held firm, these agencies got HHS Assistant Administrator Rachel Levine to block its release. Only one historical example exists of an NTP report being blocked from release, a report on the carcinogenicity of asbestos-contaminated talc. Talc industry groups conducted an aggressive lobbying campaign, enlisting friendly congresspeople to intervene. FAN was able to force today's release of the NTP report by using leverage from the ongoing lawsuit against the EPA. ...
EPA Neurotoxicology Division (2009): A team of researchers found “substantial evidence” that fluoride is a “developmental neurotoxicant“ in the same category with alcohol, arsenic, bisphenol A, lead, mercury, and nicotine.
The average loss in IQ was reported as a standardized weighted mean difference of 0.45, which would be approximately equivalent to seven IQ points for commonly used IQ scores with a standard deviation of 15.* Some studies suggested that even slightly increased fluoride exposure could be toxic to the brain. Thus, children in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low-fluoride areas. The children studied were up to 14 years of age, but the investigators speculate that any toxic effect on brain development may have happened earlier, and that the brain may not be fully capable of compensating for the toxicity.
"It is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain." (National Research Council, 2006)
BRAIN
Fluoride’s ability to damage the brain is one of the most active areas of fluoride research today. Over 400 studies have found that fluoride is a neurotoxin (a chemical that can damage the brain). This research includes:
Over 200 animal studies showing that prolonged exposure to varying levels of fluoride can damage the brain, particularly when coupled with an iodine deficiency, or aluminum excess;
74 human studies linking moderately high fluoride exposures with reduced intelligence;
Over 60 animal studies reporting that mice or rats ingesting fluoride have an impaired capacity to learn and/or remember;
12 studies (7 human, 5 animal) linking fluoride with neurobehavioral deficits (e.g., impaired visual-spatial organization);
3 human studies linking fluoride exposure with impaired fetal brain development.
9 Mother-Offspring studies linking certain levels of fluoride in the urine of pregnant women to reduced IQ in their offspring.
originally posted by: Observer19
a reply to: Nothin
I'll be the first to say it, even though I hate to say it: Municipals are racist because the rich can easily afford bottled water and the poor cannot. ...
originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
ATS has a lot of threads exposing fluoride. It's the gate way poison that dumbs you down so that you will accept other poisons like...
Quackzines.
originally posted by: Observer19
a reply to: Nothin
I'll be the first to say it, even though I hate to say it: Municipals are racist because the rich can easily afford bottled water and the poor cannot. Twist it anyway you want. Municipal water is like toll roads, they benefit the rich.