Dr. Mercola August 06 2007 77,085 views
Most tap water in the United States is laced with fluoride, a toxic industrial chemical that has been widely promoted as being healthy for the public. In reality, however, fluoride is a poison that may harm your health. Consider this:
The only states where less than 25 percent of the tap water is fluoridated are Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, Montana, and New Jersey. The others fluoridate from 25 percent to over 75 percent of their water supplies.Countertop and pitcher filters typically only filter out particulate matter, not fluoride. You can remove fluoride from your drinking water using a reverse osmosis filtering system.
Too Much Truth July 24, 2007
Also, besides flouride there are other major concerns of our water. According to a recent study sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the American Pharmacists Association, there are measurable levels of all sorts of prescription drugs in Lake Michigan and public water supplies derived from it. The researchers found traces of Tylenol, ibuprofen, birth-control pill hormones, beta blockers, antidepressants, and anti-seizure medications. In fact, that anti-seizure medication was found even in water that had already been treated.
flouride there are other problems with water.
As a Doctor of Chiropractic, I'm asked each day about the "best" water to drink. After 12 years in practice, I recommend only one: Alkaline, Ionized Water. Not Tap because of the toxins. Not RO or Distilled (empty, lifeless, void of Minerals). In Japan and Korea, Alkaline Ionizer machines are Medical devices. Both cultures emphasize preventative medicine. 1 in 5 homes in Japan and 1 in 8 homes in Korea is equipped with Alkaline Water Ionizer . In America, the prevalence is 1 in 18,000. I am selling my practice later this year to spread the word about the healing properties of Alkaline Ionized water. Why? Because Americans are hungry for a simpler solution to their health problems......We are a population that poisons itself on over-Acidic foods (packaged foods, fast foods, soda, processed meats) and products that dehydrate our bodies (coffees, teas, alcohol)..Then, we waste our valuable time running to Medical (and Chiropractic) offices to counter the effects of a Over-Acidic, Dehydrated Body. The foolish among us then waste our precious money on Pharmaceutical drugs that calm the symptoms, but prolong the Acidic Dehydration...OR...Expensive Surgeries that Quick-Fix the Symptom but NEVER address the cause (they remove Gall Bladders, Tonsils & Prostates like they were skin warts---what a joke). Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, who authored "Your Bodies many Cries for Water" wrote about the effects of Chronic Cellular Dehydration and how to easily cure Asthma, Allergies, ADHD, Ulcers, Lupus, Hypertension, Gout and Cancer (yes, Cancer) simply by adequately hydrating the body using water and Sea Salt....In my opinion, he didn't go far enough in his recommendation of water. Talking to his widow last week, I learned that he fully understood the power of alkaline solutions in the body. He just chose to keep his message simple. The solution to Cellular Dehydration and OverAcidification is Alkaline Ionized Water. www.truthaboutwaterhealing.com...... Dr. Danny Bettiol
Dr. Dan,
I agree that alkaline water is very important and some of these units are quite excellent. However, you aree missing the point of Dr. Mercola's statement about flouride. These alklaline units will not remove floride, so no matter how charged the water is, it will still be a health problem and maybe more so if that charged floridated water is more easily absorbed. I agree with you that R/O water is not great either as it is a dead acidic and wasteful form and often it is hard to know whether or not the filter membranes have fouled-- so what does one do but make the best choice they can. But don't mislead yourself or others by assuming that alkalizing machines will filter out flouride.
Best,
Al
What is Distilled Water?
Distillation is nature's way of purifying water. When the sun heats water, this causes evaporation, an example of distillation on the grand scale. Vapor rises from the surface of water, leaving behind all its impurities. These water vapors rise and cool as air temperature in the upper atmosphere drops, and the vapors change from gas to liquid, becoming water, ice or snow. If our atmosphere were not polluted, each drop of rain or snow would be pure H 2 O.
The production of distilled drinking water is man's attempt to copy nature's form of water purification . As with evaporation in nature, distillation actually removes water (in the form of steam vapor) from the heavier materials that are its impurities. Other types of water treatment attempt to remove contaminants from water, rather than removing water from the contaminants .
The Freshwater Filter company make a filtration system called the FW2000, which is composed of a twin housing filter , with one filter block for a very wide range of contaminents , using a ceramic-carbon block, the second block is in line and needs to use a different process for Fluorine removal. There are a choice of other second stage filters. I use an FW2000, which requires minimal maintenance. The key thing is minerals are left intact in the process as opposed to reverse osmosis which strips minerals.
Dr. Mercola does not recommend distilled but R/O water. Distilled water does not remove all toxins from water. Some will travel attached to the water molecules to the condenser. I learned this in grade six and double checked this information as that was 34 years ago. www.finewaters.com/.../Theres_No_Such_Thing_As_Pure_Water.asp
The above website is just one of several that concur with this information.
Personally I wish everyone had access to good, clean well water. This is what we drink and it is tested several times a year for contaminants. Unfortunately many of us are stuck drinking purposefully polluted tap water that is charged for both arriving and leaving one's house. Truly criminal.
He didn't recommend distilled. How did you get that?
There are serious shortcomings with most common "filtering" systems, including the Brita types, R/O, distilled and others. These systems provide "dead" water, without minerals and with high acidity. R/O also raises the chance of algae build up and distilled water leaches the minerals out of your bones! My wife & I have been using a system that makes "Pi" water - it is a 2-step process that filters the water with 3 stages, then adds in minerals; the 2nd step is to oxygenate the water in a "tornado-like" pitcher, which also raises the pH to a more alkaline state. We have seen a decrease in headaches, general aches, and I've reduced the need for a prescription (Neurontin - for headaches) and reduced my pain meds (Ultram - from 2-50mg tabs, 3x/day, down to 25mg, 3x/day...75% decrease!) Keep up the fight, Dr. Mercola! WE ARE WHAT WE EAT........AND DRINK!!!