The harder you work the luckier you get! Posts: 965 | From Nebraska Cornhuskers fan in Massachusetts | Registered: Dec 2007
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lymie_in_md
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I think the brand you might be most interested in is aquasana. I've been using an under the sink filter for a year and half now. It is quality system and you can read their specifications from their site. One positive, the unit removes 50% of the flouride from the tap water. That might not happen with poland springs.
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I have RO water. It's good having purified water, BUT it does take minerals out.
My birds were drinking the RO water and had poor feathering. Their feathers on their wings were coming in like sticks. I bought some mineral drops at Whole Foods and add it to their water, now all is fine.
I add a pinch of Himalayan Salt to my water to add the minerals back.
Overall, I think it's good because there are so many toxins in our water, but I do think the lack of minerals needs to be addressed.
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TerryK
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Good point six. My understanding is that most minerals are obtained through our food anyway but I do supplement with minerals because minerals are critical for lyme patients. We need them in order to produce the enzymes we need for detox.
I don't know anything about the spring water that you use but in order to compare you would need a chemical analysis of both. I've read many times that spring water is not necessarily free of the chemicals and pathogens that are damaging. It would depend on the water itself.
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Posts: 6286 | From Oregon | Registered: Jan 2006
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I've been drinking either distilled or reverse osmosis water for years.
We bought a Aquasana water filter a couple months a go and I am having a hard time getting used to the taste of minerals in it.
There are pros and cons with both systems. The distilled and reverse osmosis strips all the mineral out of the water, so you basically have dead water.
The Aguasana leaves the minerals in, but I don't know if it filters as well as the others.
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-------------------- You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. Posts: 807 | From South Dakota | Registered: Jul 2005
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Many people who are chronically ill (like Lymies) also have elevated heavy metals and other toxins in their bodies.
RO filtered water is a good way to stop adding to the load.
The water that you buy and drink from plastic bottles is a lesser option, because it hasn't had the heavy metals removed, and it may contain a toxin from the plastic.
Don't underestimate the importance of replacing the good minerals that are missing in RO water, though, especially magnesium.
Perfectly healthy people who have changed their water drinking choices without mineral replacements have died from heart problems related to magnesium deficits.
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