Fluoride is up there, but pthalates and all the bisephenol hardening agents are what are truly fucking our health up. It's. In. Fucking. Everything. Name it, and there's some polymer that's leeched into it. I'm on the path to ridding all plastics from my life, from my synthetic clothing, to my cookware, when I'm done not even my water will have touched anything plastic.
That said, 60-70% of fluoride in your body is absorbed through your skin, from your shower water. Unless you're on well water with calcium fluoride (not sodium fluoride as added to municipal water systems), showering with R.O. water, or optimally - distilled water, you're not going to escape from it. Even R.O. has fluoride, just not as much as tap...
It's in essentially every shelf-bought beverage too, less distilled water, but that shit comes in plastic jugs so you can't win. Salt is 400 PPM, if you eat food with salt, you're getting a hefty dose (I cook with Himalayan pink, it has less than 2 PPM).
One investment I have my eyes on is a whole-house distiller, paired with shark bite or propressed copper pipe throughout my home. My clothes will be cotton/wool, my cookware will be silver-lined copper, my water will be distilled running through copper, and my food will be aquaponics grown in a completely zinc/magnesium system.
I'm sure we all have a built immunity to all this shit, so a little is sure to be okay, but not at the levels we're subjected to on a daily basis. It's sickening, really.
What whole house distiller are you considering?
Honestly I'm not sure yet, maybe the Durastil 84150? Not many options, house distillers are still in infancy, and most have internal plastic parts. I have an H2O Labs counter distiller where the last thing the water touches is carbon (for VOC's) and glass, it can only do 4 gallons a day. I'm on well water currently so I'm not pressed to buy a whole house distiller, I have yet to find anything that could crank several kilowatts (7 or more) that is cheaper than a car, which is what I'm seeking.
Copper leads to showers and faucets, then I'd have zinc plumbing for drinking and cooking.
https://youtu.be/imbl_SmUvpg -don't ever use PEX
I should just start a damn company from my garage, the market is starving for beefy plastic-free options.
*Edited to add the model and clarification
Build a house and use stainless steel for your pipes, however you're really going to have to stay on top of your ph to avoid long term damage.
actually you need MORE salt
Nah, I sold to a heart surgeon once and he said salt is like running sand through your veins, causes inflammation and restricted blood flow at higher levels.
Lack of salt kills
Bull. Shit.
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