Full Transcript Why Tap Water Matters 0:00 I don't know about you, but I remember the days when I would just drink tap water. 0:04 Water straight out of the tap. 0:06 And my kids today, they'll look around and they'll say, well, where do I get water? 0:11 And I think, well, there's the tap, but we're very fearful of what's coming out of our tap anymore. 0:16 What's in our water is going to be dangerous for our bodies. 0:20 And a lot of people believe that the water that's in these bottles is better for them than something that's coming out of the tap. 0:26 Well, today we're going to debunk a lot of things. 0:29 We're going to talk about what do we really need in our water? 0:32 What are potential problems with the water? 0:34 How do we avoid it? 0:35 And are these all what they say they are? 0:39 So let's get into this. 0:41 Let's talk a little bit about the problems or potential things that could be in water and also the things that we need from water. 0:48 First of all, We need the water. 0:50 Water is like the transport medium. 0:53 It is the semi truck that moves everything through your body. 0:57 It's what carries nutrients to your cells. 1:00 And if you don't have water or enough water, no cell in your body can work properly, which means you can't work properly. 1:07 So you have to have water. 1:09 Water is essential. 1:10 Water can carry a lot of things. 1:13 I like to think of it kind of as like the UPS truck, you know?
What Water Needs to Do in the Body 1:16 And if it's already full of things before you drink it, then it can't carry other nutrients that you need carried as well. 1:26 So how full is your water before you're getting it? 1:28 That's honestly the concern that we have with tap water. 1:33 and every single water. 1:34 How full is it before we're already getting it? 1:37 And is it full of things that we don't want to be putting into ourselves? 1:40 So what are those things that it can be full of? 1:43 Well, one that we're always concerned about is some sort of microbe, right? 1:46 A bacteria, a virus, a fungus, a parasite. 1:49 That's why we don't drink water at a stream in the mountains because of Giardio. 1:53 Well, there's also potentially those sorts of microbes in the water that we're drinking coming out of a tap or any other source. 2:00 So bugs. 2:01 That's one thing we're concerned about. 2:03 A second thing we're concerned about is certain chemicals that we don't want in our body. 2:08 Fluoride is the one that I don't want in your body. 2:10 Chlorine, I don't love that as well. 2:13 Chlorine causes a lot of issues with the way cells talk to each other. 2:16 We don't want things like solvents and petrochemicals. 2:19 We don't want other people's pharmaceuticals, right? 2:22 Their prescription medications that have maybe gotten into our water supply. 2:26 We don't want things that are called forever chemicals that are in a lot of things like Teflon and plastics. 2:32 We don't want that in our cells either because they gum up our cells. 2:36 These are all things that we're concerned about and that we want to take out of the water. 2:40 Now what else may that water be carrying? 2:43 It's carrying minerals. 2:45 Now, minerals are naturally occurring compounds that came from the water source.
Contaminants and Minerals in Water 2:50 So the water comes from the sky, right? 2:52 Rain comes down, it hits the soil, it then moves through the soil, through the rock, to the stream, the river, the spring, 3:01 wherever it then emerges that we then source the water from to go back to our municipal water source. 3:08 As the water passes through the earth and the soil and the rocks, it picks up different components. 3:16 Now, different waters have different levels of minerals in them because they come from different places. 3:23 So when you say, my water is very hard, what are you saying? 3:28 You're saying your water actually has a lot of minerals in it. 3:31 That's what hard water is. 3:33 You're also going to find that that mineral or that water is very alkaline. 3:37 So if we are measuring the pH, which we're going to do here in a minute, but if we measure the pH, it's going to be on the alkaline side. 3:43 Why? 3:43 Minerals make things more alkaline, less acidic. 3:47 So where your water comes from determines that mineral level. 3:52 That's not necessarily something we want to remove all off. 3:54 We're going to talk about that in a minute. 3:56 So how do we clean the water that we drink from our water, from our tap? 4:00 How do we clean it? 4:00 How do we make sure that it's clean? 4:02 There's a bunch of different types of filtration systems. 4:05 There's very simple filtration systems that are like carbon filters or ceramic filters that will remove the bigger pieces. 4:12 They'll remove some of the minerals that you don't want. 4:15 They'll remove some of the bacteria, some of the bugs that you don't want. 4:18 They actually don't remove things like chlorine and fluoride and solvents and pesticides very easily because they only remove bigger things. 4:28 You can add something like a UV filter. 4:30 What does a UV filter do? 4:31 It's going to kill bugs. 4:32 So that's going to take care of some of the rest of the bugs that are still in it. 4:36 But if you really want to remove everything, there's only two ways to truly do that. 4:41 So reverse osmosis filtration passes water through a very fine filter, uses pressure to do it. 4:48 And in doing that, it removes everything. 4:50 So it takes out all of those pesticides, solvents, fluoride, chlorine. 4:55 It takes out all the bacteria, the parasites, viruses, everything that you're going to want removed from that water. 5:01 It also takes the minerals out. 5:03 So we're going to talk about that in a minute. 5:05 The other way that you can clean the water completely and make it completely pure is by using distillation or using distilled water. 5:11 What is that? 5:13 water that's been boiled and condensed and then they use the condensed water. 5:17 Everything is left at that point. 5:19 So reverse osmosis and distilled water are completely free of everything. 5:24 Now I will say reverse osmosis has maybe you know 0.0001% so there may be a little bit of things in there but mostly completely free of everything.
Filtration Methods and What They Remove 5:33 The problem is, is that those minerals that come in the water are important for our bodies. 5:38 Those minerals are the things that take those packages from the UPS truck and move them through the cell membrane. 5:45 So they are the things that allow the nutrients to get into your cells and allow you to utilize them properly. 5:51 Those minerals, calcium, magnesium, they're used in so many different processes that happen inside of our bodies and inside of our cells that they're very essential. 6:01 And this is why a lot of people end up supplementing them instead of just getting them from their water. 6:06 It also changes the way that it works for your teeth. 6:08 So your teeth require those minerals as well. 6:10 Remember this outer layer of your tooth is mineral. 6:13 It's a mineral layer. 6:14 And if you don't have minerals to put back in, or minerals to use elsewhere in your body, your body will actually steal these minerals and the minerals 6:21 in your bones to take care of its other functions. 6:24 So minerals are incredibly important. 6:26 I have a patient who actually is very big in the healthcare world and she was a big proponent of drinking distilled water. 6:33 That's all she drank was distilled water. 6:35 Well, the first time I saw her, I expected that her mouth was gonna be really healthy because she was very, very healthy. 6:40 She took great care of herself. 6:42 The first time I saw her, I was shocked. 6:44 she had about 20 cavities. 6:46 They were everywhere, especially around the gum line on her teeth. 6:50 And I didn't even know how to tell her. 6:53 But I just kind of sat back and said, I need to be really frank with you right now, because your mouth is falling apart. 6:59 Your teeth are so full of tooth decay, but yet you do everything right. 7:04 So let's go through everything you're doing and find out what's missing and what's not going right here. 7:08 And what we discovered is that it was the water. 7:10 Her water was deficient in minerals. 7:12 And she said, well, I put mineral drops in when I drink it, but not always. 7:16 Exactly. 7:16 Not always. 7:17 And her body was pulling the minerals out of her teeth to feed the rest of her and take care of all of her other systems. 7:22 very dangerous to use reverse osmosis and or distilled water without actually adding minerals back in. 7:29 So some of these filtration systems have a remineralizer on them. 7:32 It's very important to do that. 7:34 And they'll sell you on the idea that you don't want minerals because it creates, you know, hard water spots and plugs things up. 7:42 It may do that to a degree, but those minerals are necessary for you. 7:47 So you need to have minerals. 7:50 These waters in front of me, are they better? 7:52 Are they better than what's coming out of the tap?
Why Minerals Matter for Health 7:54 You think, well, this is a lot of work. 7:55 How am I going to do this? 7:57 Is this better? 7:57 Let's find out. 7:58 I want to see what's the alkalinity or acidity in these waters. 8:01 And remember, we want to be neutral. 8:04 We would love water that's about seven right in the middle. 8:07 Why? 8:08 Well, because if it's seven, if it's acidic, it's going to pull minerals from your teeth. 8:13 If it's alkaline, it's going to add minerals to your teeth but it's actually going to decrease your stomach activity. 8:19 Your stomach needs to be acidic. 8:21 So if you're drinking a high like some of these say 9.0, that's actually really alkaline. 8:26 If you're drinking only that water, you're going to decrease the acidity and the activity in your gut. 8:33 So alkaline water can be extremely dangerous on your absorption on how you uptake nutrients. 8:38 And I look and see tooth decay because of alcohol and water. 8:42 So we don't want to go either way. 8:44 We don't want to go extreme in either direction. 8:46 We don't want to be acidic and we don't want to be alkaline. 8:48 We want to be 7, 7.5, 8 at the most, which is right up there, just a little higher than neutral. 8:55 So let's see what these are. 8:56 Let me tell you the scale, what we're looking for on here. 8:59 So anything in the red or yellow area is acidic. 9:02 Green is neutral and anything in the blue is alkaline. 9:06 Let's see what they all are. 9:07 I've already added one to this one. 9:10 You can see that one's blue, that means it's alkaline. 9:13 Let's go through, got two in that one, maybe we'll do two in all of them just so that they're all the same here. 9:20 Interesting how some are changing and some are doing nothing. 9:26 Some are staying yellow. 9:28 Remember blue is alkaline, green is neutral, orange or yellow is acidic. 9:39 Let's see what we have here. 9:41 Okay, you can see which one is the most alkaline right over here. 9:46 This is Smartwater 9.5 pH.
Testing Bottled Water pH Levels 9:50 And what it's showing here is that dark of a number is going to be in the 8, 8.5 range. 9:55 So this is definitely true to the label. 9:59 Most alkaline. 10:00 This is a secondary alkaline one. 10:02 This one says it's 9.5. I think it's probably more in the 8 range, but it's also alkaline. 10:07 Interesting. 10:08 This is Arrowhead, and it's slightly alkaline. 10:13 This is actually a good water from alkaline acidity standpoint. 10:17 This is Fiji. 10:17 This is labeled or marketed as alkaline, slightly alkaline. 10:21 This is probably my preferred one. 10:23 This or this one here. 10:25 This is a Hawaiian volcanic. 10:28 These are gonna be from a natural source. 10:29 So these are spring water. 10:31 And what they're doing is they are right about where we want them in that sweet spot, about 7.5. These are looking right where we wanna be. 10:37 This one's a little closer, not bad, core hydration. 10:41 This is to alkaline, or this is a little more alkaline than we'd like. 10:44 It says it is, it's 9.5, so it's actually claiming that, it's true to claim. 10:48 What's the most acidic here? 10:51 All these others are in the range of about 6.0. So this one, Aquafina, just the generic, whatever version this is, same thing here, 11:02 Pure Life. 11:04 Those are all ranging in the acidic side. 11:09 So which do we prefer? 11:10 If I'm going to pick, I'm going to pick this one here, Cor Fuji or this I'm not going to be able to pronounce it. 11:19 Hawaiian volcanic water. 11:21 The others are a little more alkaline than I like. 11:23 This one isn't bad either. 11:24 Life water isn't bad. 11:25 That one actually looks pretty good too. 11:27 The others are more alkaline or more acidic than I would like. 11:31 easy way to test. 11:33 Little reagent bottle, drop it in, see what your water is, test your water at home. 11:37 We want it to be slightly on the alkaline side, not too far, and certainly not acidic for tooth health, for bone health, 11:43 for overall health. 11:45 So let's wrap this up. 11:46 What do you need in your water? 11:48 You need it to not have the things you don't want, which are solvents, chemicals, pesticides, bugs. 11:55 You don't want those coming in your water. 11:57 You do want minerals, beneficial minerals, not too many, but enough that it enables your body to work correctly and not steal minerals from you.
Choosing Better Water 12:06 This is a way to do it or reverse osmosis with a remineralizer is a great way to do it. 12:12 Can you make the water better with a carbon filter with a simple filtration mechanism? 12:16 You can. 12:17 You're not taking out fluoride, but you are taking out a lot of the bugs and some of those chemicals that you don't like. 12:24 Learn about this. 12:25 Look past the marketing messages. 12:27 Find out what really works and what doesn't. 12:29 Test it yourself. 12:31 And let's see if you can't ensure that every bit of water that's coming in your body can carry the nutrients you need, nothing that you don't want, 12:39 so that your body can continue working as it should.
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