Git ya Some High-Quality H2O

Your Water is Gross - Use a Filter like you on the IG

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Quick Summary

• High-Quality H2O is vital to your health

• Your water is full of contaminants

• Flint Michigan is an extreme case of most cities

• The best filters and accessories to use for some high-quality H2O

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Bobby Boucher was onto something. Water is essential to life.

Literally.

All known life needs water. When scientists are looking for proof of life on other planets, they are looking for evidence of water. You could live weeks without food, but only days without water.

Water is vital to many bodily functions:

• Keeps your skin hydrated and helps promote collagen production

• Lubricates your joints

• Increases performance

• Excrete waste efficiently

• Improves cognitive functions

Yet most people don't drink half of the recommended water. Men need 120 oz of water and women need 90 oz. That is like 16 cups for men and 12 cups for women. Yes you can get 20% of your water from food. But if you exercise or are in a hot region you need more than the recommended amount. Honestly though, just drink more water.

However, the water you do drink is full of crap....

Flint Michigan - Exhibit A for Why You Need A Filter

Yummy. Like a fresh mountain spring

Yes, Flint was an extraordinary case. But most public tap water has all sorts of contaminates:

• Aluminum

• Arsenic

• Cadmium

• Fluoride

• Lead

• Mercury

• Perchlorate

• Radium

• Barium

• Chloramine

• Uranium

• Copper

• Selenium

• Nitrates

Do you have a well? Hopefully you are testing it frequently because depending on where you live, you can have all the same issues as tap water plus a chance of bacteria. CDC recommends frequent testing depending on your area and local issues.

Don't Drink Bottled Water

Ahh, bottled water. It makes you envision a bubbling brook flowing down a mountain oasis to a beautiful well where virgins come to hand draw water to deliver right to you. Delicious, thirst quenching....

In actuality, it is tap water put into plastic that some big trucker is throwing around. It ends up in a hot container truck boiling in the sun, then sits in some back closet for months before you buy it. Yes, there is a disturbing lack of young virgins handling your bottled water.

Even worse than you are paying a lot of money for essentially tap water, you are getting that tap water with a heaping side of xenoestrogens from the plastic container.

High Quality At Home Water Filter

If you are hurting for money and on a budget, a Brita filter is better than nothing. Brita filters are cheap and use an activated carbon filter. This basically work by having tiny pores in the filter that traps large particles of crap in the water. Then the carbon in the filter also attaches to smaller particles to prevent them from getting out.

It works in a pinch, but the best option is the Berkey filter.

Berkey filter - “Filtering so good, you can call it a purifier”

Berkey water filter is one of the top filters and worth the money. It may be a bit pricey, but the product is top notch. The product filters out so many contaminants it is classified as a water purifier, which is a step above a water filter. Berkey achieves this through both ionic absorption and microfiltration. Berkey sits on the counter and is fairly easy to clean. This would be my go to option.

Reverse osmosis (RO) filters are great at filtering out contaminants. RO filtration forces water through a semi-permeable membrane. Many RO filtration systems are large and install under the cabinet. The downside to this, is it is easy to forget to clean the water tank that holds the filtered water. Even with RO filters being extremely good, any potential mold that can find its way into the water tank has a perfect growing environment.

Distilled water comes up as an option, however I don't recommend it. Distillation is done by basically boiling the water and catching the vapors. Therefore, the distillation process removes nearly all the minerals. Additionally, any pesticides or herbicides that have a low boiling point would be even more concentrated post distillation.

And don't think getting colored sugar water....err...I mean sports drink....is the same as good water.

Metal Ice Trays & Bottles

Not only estrogen free, it has an easy release handle so you stop snapping plastic ice trays trying to get that corner cube out.

Doing al the work of getting a top of the line filter, and then going to the freezer to crack ice out of cheap plastic ice trays makes zero sense. Get a stainless steel ice tray. Even if your refrigerator has an ice maker, it is likely all plastic tubing and water sitting in the pipes. Everyone can use some metal ice trays.

Similarly, get a high quality stainless steel to go bottle so you aren't putting your delicious clean filtered water in some BPA/S leaking plastic toxic swamp. The Stanley IceFlow models are good high-quality ones and what I currently use now. There are other bigger ones out there, but this isn't too big to carry and fits in a car cup holder.

Wrapping up - Hydration

Water quality is one of those topics that is easy to ignore. Hell, growing up we used to drink water out a hot plastic hose that sat around growing mildew and getting filled with spider webs. But proper hydration is so important you need to be drinking more water. And if you start drinking more water, you want to make sure you are getting clean water. Go get a filter. Minimize the additional mold, chemicals and contaminates you are ingesting.

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