As Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy can continue a strict, high -quality study on the efficacy of fluoride in drinking water and whether this is dangerous to our health.
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Instead, he is undergoing insufficient research on the matter and now we are here, as Kennedy confidently tells the President at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that “all the Fluoride science” agrees that “the more you get, the more delicate you are.”
Kennedy mentioned “finding” as part of his justification to try to change the federal guidelines for fluoridation of drinking water.
“[EPA Administrator] Lee Zeldin and I work together to change the federal fluoride provisions, to change the recommendations, and now we look at science, ”he told Trump. “In August, the National Toxicity Program … made a meta review of the entire fluride science and found that there was a direct reverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children.”
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“So the more you get, the more niggard you are.”
Like many Kennedy’s scientific statements, he deals with half -truths.
While fluoride meta-analyzes in drinking water suggest that there may be feedback between fluoride exposure and infant intelligence, the data themselves are obsessed with problems.
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Stephen Novella, Doctor of Medicine, Clinical Neurologist at the Medical School at Yale University, debunked discoveries in a blog for scientific-based medicine in 2023.
The novel criticisms are mostly double:
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Relivated by studies are mainly from communities in China, where water is naturally fluorized with much higher fluoride concentrations than it is in the water in the United States. While CDC recommends 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water, some of the data was 16 milligrams per liter.
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Even high levels of fluorine exposure are not as compelling in terms of cognitive function. “The effect, in other words, if real, it seems not clinically dramatic,” Novela said.
“Of course, all the potential neurotoxicity for the developing brain must be taken very seriously. Every IQ point is a precious human resource,” Novella writes.
“What I think all of this means that current levels of drinking water fluoridation are safe and provide considerable benefit to the health of the teeth. But we also need to conduct higher quality studies to show if there is even a real neurotoxic effect and increase the levels in the managed drinking water.”
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The federal government is already leaving decisions to fluorine to the state and local authorities.
To the great horror of the American Dental Association, Utah banned fluoride in its public drinking water in March, becoming the first country to do so. Florida is ready to follow the example.
The American Dental Association strongly supports the fluorination of water. Evidence shows that the mineral is highly associated with reduced dental diseases.
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This article originally appeared on Huffpost.
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