The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.

The paper is here

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    15 hours ago

    I wonder why we don’t handle it like any other vitamin? Where’s my multivitamin tap water?!

    I filter my water, so the fluoride goes to waste sadly. Wonder if it comes in a small dose pill.

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      15 hours ago

      It does. But I don’t know if there’s a reason we fluoridate water and not something else, like iodine in salt and all the stuff they put in enriched flour.

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        11 hours ago

        Perhaps has to do with the medium and the tendency of things to decay away. Maybe fluoride is stable in water, but something like Vitamin D would break down. Sunlight for example breaks down some things like that. I imagine water is probably a difficult medium to survive in for a lot of things.