hiker53
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Have you put a drinking water filter on your faucet? I am interested in getting one and was curious about types and brands and ease of installation.
Also am wondering if it is truly beneficial. What do you think? Hiker
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A countertop filter (Brita) is a bit more effective. Undercounter inline filters have to work under pressure at far higher rates of flow. The Brita carbon filter using gravity is hard to beat for the $.
Interesting that Brita is owned by the largest supplier in the world of chlorine.
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groovy2
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Yep I have a- New Wave Enviro-- It works Really well-- Has a 9 stage filter-- good for 4000 gallons--
The water will make clear ice- and tastes very clean-- It seams to work as clamed on box--
$100 for complete filter-- replacement filters $50 In long run much cheaper than most--Filter lasts me 3-4 years--
Sets on counter with a small hose that runs from facuet- Clean water comes out spout on filter-
Cleans about 1 gallon a minute-- Well made--Jay--
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Hi Groovy 2, Is that a reverse osmosis system?? Website??
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SForsgren
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Reverse osmosis wastes a lot of water. I know their are arguments for and against, but I use a distiller. IMHO, the minerals issue is very slight to non-existent if you are also supplementing electrolytes, etc. I use Waterwise.com distllers.
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GiGi
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When I was still ill, I used to have a shower filter - that helped a lot.
We have PURE filters, especially in the kitchen for washing food and for cooking.
There is no filter that takes out Fluoride and that is horrible. There are studies that came out five years ago that it destroys the intelligence of growing young children. I don't even want to start to think about this.
Then comes the chlorine - right after that. There is lots of evidence now that cardiovascular disease and deterioration of the blood vessels is very much linked to chlorine exposures. With ART testing, we have a method to test for fluoride toxicity and I think one for chloride (not certain about the last). At least that way it's easy to find out the status of a person and a way to do something about.
We absorb this stuff through the skin, more than anything else. Look at more and more meds that are applied to the skin. In a 20-minute shower (that we no longer do of course) we absorb more fluoride and more chlorine and more petrochemicals and more heavy metals than if we would drink it all day. Stay out of the shower and the soaks in the tub!!!!!!!!! Smiles.
There are shower filters that do a good job. Some take out some fluoride.
There is no water filter system that I am aware of that takes out all fluoride because they are too small a molecule; they just go right through. So once it's in there, it's in there. Check your toothpaste!
There is some research on fluoride. A study in India on real people and children that died and could prove that just minimal exposure to fluoride calcified the pineal gland completely. It's known that in the West, we all have calcified pineal glands.
Well water - is as good as the well water is, where you get it. It has to be checked. So many of them are downstream somehow, and an underwater stream from some petrochemical spill, from a gas station, or something else....
In general, the water table quality is pretty bad in the US. We have seens the values in Switzerland, Holland, Austria, and when you look at the mineral content, it looks good in many places. Excellent. I have seen the tests from a person in this business. In general, in the Rocky Mountains there is a lot of uranium and manganese, even mercury occurring naturally in the water.
The flatlands are now all contaminated with farm pesticides that are seeping in the ground, especially in Florida because of the flatland. It's difficult to find good well water. The good thing with well water is that it's easy to clean up with a water filer, because you don't have the fluoride in there. That makes good water. It's impossible to clean up city water.
It's a pity. Seattle has by nature the best water in the world. It's all glacier run-off, but it's completely destroyed. There's no bacteria in the way it comes out. In Austria or in Germany when there is no bacteria in it, they don't add chlorine. You add chlorine if the water is contaminated. Here they add it because it is the law. There is no reason for it.
There is also an interesting synergistic effect between mercury and fluoride. A big one.
Detox as you go and prevent what you can.
This is all info I glean from seminars - held by our doctor for other doctors who want to help their patients teaching (www.neuraltherapy.com) Other invited speakers, most of them practicing physicians, contribute with their knowledge and experience.
Take care.
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Thanks for the info on floride filters or lack there of. I've been trying to find one. The cap of our PUR filter was blown off on Christmas Eve. Some how too much pressure or it was clogged? Don't know.
THe brita is easier, but if we can't get rid of floride what is the point. I can let the water sit to get rid of clorine.
What if I filter spring water I buy or good quality well water from friends? Is this a good alternative?
GiGi
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Things change over the years. I will try to call the source who markets the shower filter. It's via a well-known cardiologist and LLMD in Fort Worth, TX. Maybe the people who see him for treatment, can call there also and get the info.
I am sure there are others that are good. It's a matter of some research and asking the pertinent questions. If you have no clue that most filters do not remove fluoride, then you won't ask the right questions. I always find things out afterward, it seems. If we were to educate ourselves a bit better, a lot of the manufacturers would not get away with what they sell.
I do not really trust the bottled water. Number one: I do not like the plastic. I have written about the many plastic-toxic patients. Just another added headache. Leave that plastic water bottle in the car during a summer month and you get a really bad load of plastics. The glass bottles are too expensive and most of them don't supply it that way.
The PUR we use still gets rid of a bunch of undesirables. I don't have the info in front of me. But remember, I wrote recently about the syneristic effect of one toxin that may still keep you out of trouble, but take a few and it puts you into the illness/danger range.
Read that post, the tests done on rats with a number of toxins: One lethal dose of one toxin did kill only one of the 100 rats. One lethal dose of the 5 toxins combined killed all 100 rats.
In toxicology: 1+1 = 1000
It is the multitude of exposures we face repeatedly that does us in.
Everyone has to look for their individual best solution to these problems.
Take care.
P.S. We do not use distilled water, unless it is for a very specific purpose. It is really dead water -- also energetically. In other words, yes, distilled water is pure. But it is also very aggressive and has no structure.
We use inexpensive quartz crystals, rose quartz, etc. to revitalize our drinking water. In the evening, I fill our container (one for each person) with filtered/purified tap water and let it stand 8 hours. It will never be a living natural artesian water where nature had hundreds of years to do that.
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Hiker, it's so weird that you brought this topic up. I was just doing some research tonight about shower filters. I found a site that seems to have an interesting comparison chart of different brands of filters.
I haven't ordered anything yet but thought this might be a good source of information.
I drink a LOT of water, so I definitely needed an under-the-sink filter.
When we first bought the house and had the kitchen remodeled, we had a Culligan water filter installed. I think we got it at home depot or lowes. Anyway, I'm not sure they still carry the unit, but I'm still able to buy replacement filters online.
I use the filtered water for drinking, for the pets and also for cooking.
Keep us posted if you find a shower filter you think is good; I'd be interested!
Andie
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breathwork
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Shaklee has three types of water filters or purifiers that I like. At the website they have spec sheets that list the contaminants that they remove from water, etc...They have pitcher filters, reverse osmosis and filtration treatments.
I don't sell Shaklee, but use many of their products. I'd be glad to refer you to a good friend who sells Shaklee full time for more info if you're interested. I like the countertop filtration system best....works quite well and tastes much better than the water imported to this part of California!
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We use quest filters. They have a reverse osmosis system if you choose, we don't. We have used one for the last several years. Had our water tested through our local lab after filter and it was great. We use well water.
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A literature search led me to the studies on which the ADA and CDC based their recommendations... let's just say that as a result of my investigation I am against water fluoridation. Therefore, I am providing this description of ways to obtain safe drinking water without fluoride. Feel free to e-mail me ([email protected]) From http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa102302a.htm
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johnnyb
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To my knowledge, fluoride increases your body's uptake of aluminum, which is another strike against it. I think I've had more neuro symptoms in the summer, when I've been in the pool (chlorine). Yes, Gigi, please post a recommendation for a shower filter when you find out.
Any inline filters, guys? One that you could solder into the pipes for the shower / tub in the basement, where you won't have to see it? Most of the shower filters I've seen only attach to the shower head, which will not protect water coming out of the bath faucet....
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After mush weighing and hemming and hawing and comparing all the opposing views out there on water, I am using home distilled.. and I 'restructure it' with some crystal salt and the sun.
I also make sure we get enough minerals throughout the day through crystal salts, herbs, and food.
I'd rather be sure the water is pure, and replenish the minerals myself. ...since an artisan water source is just not possible for me.
Also, since I am still working with regimines that rerquire concurrant detox, I think this is the best choice. perhaps I will change when and if active detox is not a daily requirement.
Distilled water is 'empty', therefore, it is great at removing debris from the body on a molecular level. Even some 'high quality' mineral waters are too 'full' to do the job water should do.
(but you must effectively consume good minerals and electrolytes no matter what if using distilled)
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