In May 2023, the U.S. Government’s National Toxicology Program (NTP) released a 6 year scientific review of fluoride and IQ. The Review contained a monograph and a meta-analysis. The meta-analysis found lower IQ with fluoride exposure, demonstrating remarkable consistency. Of the 19 studies rated higher quality, 18 found lowering of IQ. The NTP authors said:…
Read detailsScience caught up with lead, mercury and dioxin and now it has caught up with fluoride. There is now more research showing that fluoride is associated with brain damage than there was with lead, when lead was stopped in the mid-1990s. Lead was removed from paint and petrol in 1996 after at least three decades…
Read detailsSince 2017, there have been ten U.S. Government funded studies that have found fluoride causes brain damage. Fluoride, at levels New Zealanders are exposed to via fluoridation, is now associated with lowered IQ and central nervous system disorders such as anxiety, depression and ADHD. In 2006 the U.S. Government’s National Research Council undertook research to…
Read detailsIn July 2022 the Director-General of Health (DG) sent directives to 14 councils around New Zealand to start fluoridation by a given timeframe or face serious financial penalties – $200,000 plus $10,000 a day for every day thereafter. But at a court hearing yesterday the DG’s lawyer stated she has no intention of seeking these fines. Councils are…
Read detailsFluoridation…the bad news – and a plan of action. If you have not already heard, we have very bad news – Waitaki water will be fluoridated by the end of this month. Council’s Press release: Director General of Health confirms fluoridation for Ōamaru If you have the Waitaki App see yesterday’s article: Fluoride in Ōamaru…
Read detailsJOINT PRESS RELEASE FROM FLUORIDE FREE NEW ZEALAND AND NEW ZEALAND DOCTORS SPEAKING OUT WITH SCIENCE. Last week the High Court in Wellington heard the case that the Hastings District Council had implemented an unlawful directive to start fluoridation. Yesterday Justice La Hood ruled that the council was allowed to continue because the unlawful directive…
Read detailsPre-natal fluoride exposure has serious consequences for mental health, according to another major study just published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). According to Tracy Bastain, senior author of the study and an associate professor of clinical population and public health science “Our results showed that higher fluoride levels in mother’s…
Read detailsAngela Hair and Lizzie Freeman present petition to Hastings District Council to stop fluoridation – 2 May 2024
