I made the switch and also sprung for fluoride/arsenic filters from Berkey.
Unfortunately, it'll probably take a long time to get noticeable benefits, but I also need to get a chlorine/fluoride filter for the tap for showers. I can say for certain that the flavor is INCREDIBLY different after the fluoride filtration, compared to non-fluoride filtration products.
Another aspect that oft gets passed up is competitive inhibition. A lot of halogens (fluorine, bromine, chlorine, iodine) will compete with each other and disrupt a lot of biological processes.
Most shower filters won't filter the flouride, other than maybe 10-15%. The only one I did see that could filtered only 50% and was like 90 dollars. Still better than nothing though, because there is a lot of nastiness that they will get.
Might even help with male pattern baldness if you can get a good shower filter.
Soft plastics are the ones know to be phthalates based. The ones that break down into stuff like xenestrogen, a synthetic molecule similar to estrogen that disrupts human hormones.
Also would you trust a bottled water company to do something as expensive as filtering fluoride? Maybe if it came from a country where they dont add fluoride to the water would it be free? But otherwise, it'd have fluoride.
Check their water quality reports. It will list most potential contaminants and how much of it is in the water. If you’re a Costco member, Kirkland water isn’t supposed to be bad.
Unfortunately not. Bottled water usually isn’t filtered properly and contains. Added sulfate as well as whatever micro plastic crap that leeches into it.
Careful with Berkey. I have one that I don’t use anymore. The water was constantly cloudy after installing the fluoride filters (properly, with lots of rinsing). Turns out that the fluoride filter uses aluminum to filter out fluoride and aluminum was seeping into the water making it cloudy.
I would not trust it. I don’t think they changed their design and I saw others complaining about similar issues. One reviewer even started to have health issues from the high quantities of aluminum he was ingesting.
I read that about Berkey filters. It has a sort of trade off, you get some aluminum contamination but if filters out the fluoride. Aluminum is not something you really want to be drinking either. I never read about making the water cloudy though.
I made the switch and also sprung for fluoride/arsenic filters from Berkey.
Unfortunately, it'll probably take a long time to get noticeable benefits, but I also need to get a chlorine/fluoride filter for the tap for showers. I can say for certain that the flavor is INCREDIBLY different after the fluoride filtration, compared to non-fluoride filtration products.
Another aspect that oft gets passed up is competitive inhibition. A lot of halogens (fluorine, bromine, chlorine, iodine) will compete with each other and disrupt a lot of biological processes.
+1 for Berkey. They aren't cheap, but what is your health worth to you?
Maybe better to get creek/stream water then filter that, cleaner starting point.
Most shower filters won't filter the flouride, other than maybe 10-15%. The only one I did see that could filtered only 50% and was like 90 dollars. Still better than nothing though, because there is a lot of nastiness that they will get.
Might even help with male pattern baldness if you can get a good shower filter.
Yeah I haven’t thought of the fluoride for the shower; just the chlorine. It probably does wonders for you.
Probably easier to drink bottled water maybe?
Well I live across the pond. If you buy bottled water it's almost always bottled at source from natural springs which means no fluoride.
If it's like NZ "spring water" doesn't actually have to be spring water.
Soft plastics are the ones know to be phthalates based. The ones that break down into stuff like xenestrogen, a synthetic molecule similar to estrogen that disrupts human hormones.
Also would you trust a bottled water company to do something as expensive as filtering fluoride? Maybe if it came from a country where they dont add fluoride to the water would it be free? But otherwise, it'd have fluoride.
And drink plastic?
Check their water quality reports. It will list most potential contaminants and how much of it is in the water. If you’re a Costco member, Kirkland water isn’t supposed to be bad.
Unfortunately not. Bottled water usually isn’t filtered properly and contains. Added sulfate as well as whatever micro plastic crap that leeches into it.
Careful with Berkey. I have one that I don’t use anymore. The water was constantly cloudy after installing the fluoride filters (properly, with lots of rinsing). Turns out that the fluoride filter uses aluminum to filter out fluoride and aluminum was seeping into the water making it cloudy.
I would not trust it. I don’t think they changed their design and I saw others complaining about similar issues. One reviewer even started to have health issues from the high quantities of aluminum he was ingesting.
I read that about Berkey filters. It has a sort of trade off, you get some aluminum contamination but if filters out the fluoride. Aluminum is not something you really want to be drinking either. I never read about making the water cloudy though.
The cloudiness was why I suspected something was amiss. Then I checked reviews.