{"id":44928,"date":"2026-04-15T01:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44928"},"modified":"2026-04-15T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:33:17","slug":"fluoride-in-drinking-water-has-no-effect-on-iq-or-brain-function-long-term-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44928","title":{"rendered":"Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/kids-health\/fluoride-water-children-iq-brain-cognition-study-rfk-jr-rcna267328?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776110377760_now_daily_b_flouride_edwards_260413_S3_1920x1080-2h8y9o.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:203px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/kids-health\/fluoride-water-children-iq-brain-cognition-study-rfk-jr-rcna267328\">Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study shows<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI think that the public can be assured,\u201d Tomar, who was not involved with the new research, said. \u201cThere is no association with community water fluoridation and any measure of IQ or neurodevelopment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[853,83,57],"class_list":["post-44928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-fluoride","tag-skeptical","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44931,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44928\/revisions\/44931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}