How to Get Prescription Drugs Out of Your Tap Water
One of the consequences of being “one nation under drugs” is being exposed to toxic, prescription drug metabolites via your tap water! Fortunately, with the right water filter, you can avoid it.
Drug giant Merck recently warned that “There’s no doubt about it, pharmaceuticals are being detected in the environment and there is genuine concern that these compounds, in the small concentrations that they’re at, could be causing impacts to human health and aquatic organisms.” To wit, officials in Philadelphia identified 56 pharmaceuticals or by-products in tap water. Such medications included pain meds, cholesterol lowering drugs, birth control pills, antidepressants and blood pressure meds! None of which belong in little Johnny’s “sippy cup.”
Don’t expect your city to be any different. The federal government doesn’t require any testing or safety limits for drugs in tap water. Protect yourself with the right water filter!
The market is flooded with various types of water filters – microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, electrodialysis reversal, membrane bioreactors, and combinations of membranes in series. At the conference on Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse for Sustainability it was shown that reverse osmosis filters were the most effective at removing all pollutants, including pharmaceuticals. Looking for the most user friendly and economic filter, I found the RioFlow Complete 5-Stage Reverse Osmosis System. For about $180, you can rest assured that your water is free and clear of “other people’s drugs.”
Posted in Natural Cures
March 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
how can I get the flouride out of my water? What info do YOU have on flouride?
March 18th, 2008 at 6:54 am
This is valuable and practical advise, but I agree with Linda, it would be nice to know how to get flouride out too.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Reverse osmosis will get fluoride out too.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:48 pm
From what I have read, reverse osmosis, besides being everything you said, makes the water dead, not unlike distilled water. The water’s beneficial energy has gone pfffft! How can we get good filtered water and still have “live” water, with all its health benefits?
April 29th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
That is a myth. You do not get your minerals and nutrition out of your water you get it from your food. Technically H20 is just that, water, nothing else. Water is not a major source of minerals. ANY beneficial quality that the water may have is negated by the chemicals and toxins contained in the water.