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Fluoride Studies funded by the U.S. Government
Overview The human studies funded by U.S. government agencies, particularly Bashash 2017, Green 2019 and Till 2020, reveal that in fluoridated communities the fetus and the formula-fed infant are the most vulnerable to fluoride’s neurotoxicity. Certain high levels of fluoride in the pregnant women’s urine were found to significantly impact the IQ, or neurodevelopment, of […]
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Effects of Fluoride Long-Term Exposure over the Cerebellum: Global Proteomic Profile, Oxidative Biochemistry, Cell Density, and Motor Behavior Evaluation.
Funding This study was financed by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) from Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTI) process number: 435093/2018-5 approved by R.L. L.B. and A.D. received CNPq and FAPESP scholarships, respectively. M.B., M.E.C.-L. and C.M. thanks for CNPq fellowship. The APC was funded by Pró-Reitoria de […]
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Fluoride Exposure through Different Drinking Water Sources in a Contaminated Basin in Guanajuato, Mexico: A Deterministic Human Health Risk Assessment.
4. Discussion This study’s different results suggest past, present, and potentially future exposure to F– levels above the international drinking water guidelines, and that consequently represents a health risk for children and women whose drinking water source is the La Onza well or wells with similar F- concentrations in the CARL. Since convenience sampling is non-probabilistic, […]
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Fluoride exposure and duration and quality of sleep in a Canadian population-based sample.
Excerpts Introduction Inorganic fluoride can naturally occur in the environment or be introduced through industrial processes or fluoride supplementation programs. A primary method of fluoride supplementation is community water fluoridation, which refers to the practice of adding fluoridation chemicals to drinking water for the purpose of controlling dental caries. Ingestion of fluoridated drinking water is […]
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Probiotic alleviate fluoride-induced memory impairment by reconstructing gut microbiota in mice.
1. Introduction Fluoride is a widespread environmental pollution, and groundwater is the major source of exposure in which the fluoride concentration can be as high as 35 ppm (Petrone et al., 2013). Fluorosis induced by geological origin is a serious public health concern in 28 nations particularly in India and China (Rafique et al., 2015). In […]
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Canadian IQ Mother-Offspring Study: News Coverage
The Journal of the American Medical Association’s on Pediatrics (JAMA Pediatrics) published the second U.S. government-funded Mother-Offspring study linking the pregnant woman’s fluoride urinary levels to cognitive deficits in the offspring. (The first study was by Bashash et al., 2017.) The Study: Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in […]
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Fluoride Induced Neurobehavioral Impairments in Experimental Animals: a Brief Review.
References García MG, Borgnino L (2015) Fluoride in the context of the environment. In: Fluorine: Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects, 2015, pp. 3–21. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781782628507-00003 Seixas NS, Cohen M, Zevenbergen B et al (2010) Urinary fluoride as an exposure index in aluminum smelting. AIHAJ 61(1):89–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298660008984520 Article Google Scholar Choubisa SL, Choubisa D (2016) Status of industrial […]
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Early Life Exposure in Mexico to Environmental Toxicants (ELEMENT) Project.
Excerpts ELEMENT 2015 Between 2015 and 2018, we followed-up children in ELEMENT 2011 through late adolescence and included additional similarly aged participants from the original cohorts. Goals of this study were similar in scope to ELEMENT 2011, but included new research foci: (1) characterising long-term consequences of early life exposure to fluoride; (2) exploring epigenetic […]
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Biomarkers for the Assessment of Fluoride Exposure in Children.
References Bashash M, Thomas D, Hu H, Martinez-Mier EA, Sanchez BN, Basu N, et al. Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6-12 Years of Age in Mexico. Environ Health Perspect. 2017 Sep;125(9):097017. Bashash M, Marchand M, Hu H, Till C, Martinez-Mier EA, Sanchez BN, et al. Prenatal fluoride exposure and […]
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Inorganic fluoride and functions of brain.
Note from the Fluoride Action Network: It’s worth noting that this review paper did not include these important Mother-Offspring studies: Bashash-2017, Valdez-Jimenez-2017, Green-2019. Nor did it include the ADHD study by Bashash-2018. Perhaps it was too late for the authors to have included the Green IQ study published in August 2019, the Riddell -October 2019 […]