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“The average IQ of children whose tap water was in the upper 20% of manganese concentration was 6 points below children whose water contained little or no manganese.
The analyses of the association between manganese in tap water and children’s IQ took into account various factors such as family income, maternal intelligence, maternal education, and the presence of other metals in the water.
… For co-author Donna Mergler, “This is a very marked effect; few environmental contaminants have shown such a strong correlation with intellectual ability.”
As if that wasn’t bad enough, there are a number of other factors that make soy formula an even more dangerous option. One of these factors is the fact that fluoride can increase manganese absorption, so if you mix the powdered- or concentrated soy formula with fluoridated water, you’re worsening matters even further!
Fluoride and manganese interact in a number of ways through various pathways. For example, fluorides can cause zinc deficiency which in turn can cause damage to your brain by altering your manganese levels. This is because fluorides act as a TSH (thyroid-stimulating-hormone) analogue, and along with iodine, zinc and selenium are also controlled by TSH. And when you’re deficient in zinc, the manganese levels in your brain become altered.”
I got this from Dr Mercola’s website. He is a reliable source of information. For parents of gifted chilren I’d like to point out that each IQ point is much, much greater magnitude than an ordinary IQ point so 6 would be a massive deficit in a gifted child. Having most of my family sensitive to cow’s milk, we have used non G-M soy as a substitute. I am very wary about soy now and have given up my soy cappucino. I am feeling healthier too so it must have been affecting my health.
Soy is in almost all prepackaged foods now and most of it is Genetically Modified. Cakes, biscuits, gravies, sauces, canned foods, are thickened with it. Rats fed G-M soy all died youmg in experiments and their offspring were very much less fertile in the first generation and fully infertile after that. All animals refuse G-M products unless there is nothing else. Gifted people are more sensitive to everything than others and we don’t want reduced health. GM soy is growing in Victoria now and the pollen blows in the wind. If you have gifted genes be very careful.
