{"id":29497,"date":"2011-08-12T08:20:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T08:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=29497"},"modified":"2011-08-12T08:20:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T08:20:15","slug":"article_23770","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_23770\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluoride Linked to Lower IQ and Neurological Impairment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For related articles and more information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/health.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Issues page<\/a> and our <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/foodsafety.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Safety page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paul Connett, co-author of the book, The Case Against Fluoride, is joined by his wife, Ellen, webmaster of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), and Tara Blank, PhD, Science Liason Officer for FAN, in authoring this article on fluoride and the brain. Together they have recently provided an extensive commentary to the EPA&#8217;s Office of Drinking water in response to its proposed safe reference dose for fluoride1.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u00a0In an ongoing effort to determine which chemicals may damage the developing brain, scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently conducted an extensive literature review of over 400 chemicals, including fluoride.<\/p>\n<p>\tFluoride is Classified as a Neurotoxin<\/p>\n<p>\t\u00a0While the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) would have us all believe that fluoride is perfectly innocuous and safe, scientists from the EPA&#8217;s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory have classified fluoride as a &#8220;chemical having substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity&#8221;.2 Consistent with the EPA&#8217;s conclusion, a continually growing body of human and animal research strongly suggests that fluoride can damage the developing brain.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing effort to determine which chemicals may damage the developing brain, scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently conducted an extensive literature review of over 400 chemicals, including fluoride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,8],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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