Water Filters And Filtration Systems Explained — Remove Fluoride, Arsenic, Dangerous Bacteria

[donnay]

Water Filters And Filtration Systems Explained — Remove Fluoride, Arsenic, Dangerous Bacteria Heavy Metals From Your Water Supply

Posted by JB Bardot

Fluoridated water has become a major health concern in the US as over 70% of the water supply now has fluoride added to it. Hailed as a wonder substance that prevents tooth decay, fluoride is actually a toxic chemical that has been linked to arthritis, endocrine disruption, kidney disease, skeletal fluorosis, diabetes, cancer and severe cognitive dysfunction. Along with fluoride, tap water also contains a wide range of viruses, bacteria, toxic heavy metals, chlorine and sediment that all finds its way into the body through washing fruits and vegetables, taking baths and showers, cooking and drinking.

A water filtration system or countertop filter supplies uncontaminated water and removes most of the harmful microbes and chemicals from the water supply; however, it is important to know exactly what each model is capable of doing. Some remove the vast majority of fluoride from the water whereas others can only clean it of microbes, heavy metals and sediment. It is also wise to take into account the long-term cost of installing a filtration system in the home versus using a high quality gravity filter, and if your system will still be operational if the grid goes down.

Why Is Fluoride Added To The Water Supply?

””Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?” – A quote from Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

The US government began adding fluoride to the public water supply as early as the 1940s after a series of studies performed during the 30s suggested that ingesting small amounts of fluoride could prevent tooth decay. One of the most famous studies was carried out in 1939 by Gerald J. Cox who recommended water fluoridation after observing its effects on laboratory rats. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stood by this outdated theory despite newer trials such as a 2009 study performed at the Department of Preventive & Community Dentistry at the University of Iowa proving that there is no link between tooth decay and fluoride exposure and found the theory to be ‘problematic’. As well as being linked to a wide number of health problems, mass medication of the US population with fluoride is considered by many to be a method of ‘dumbing down’ the people to make them more docile and easily manipulated. A study performed in China in 2012 found that children living in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQs than those in areas with little or no fluoride added, and that long-term exposure to fluoride inhibited their neurodevelopment.

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[Zippyjuan]

A study performed in China in 2012 found that children living in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQs than those in areas with little or no fluoride added, and that long-term exposure to fluoride inhibited their neurodevelopment.

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The "significant lower IQs" averaged three points lower. Margin of error on an IQ exam is six points (meaning the exact same person can take the exact same test one day and be six points higher or lower the next day). The difference was statistically insignificant and well within the normal margin of error.

[donnay]

Fluoride & IQ: The 43 Studies

[Zippyjuan]

Thank you. It supports just what I said.

http://giftedkids.about.com/od/testing/qt/IQ_scores.htm

Cautions about IQ Scores

IQ testing is not a science. It may seem that way at times, but it's not. Scores from tests are really estimates based on test performance on a particular day. There is always a margin of error. The "actual" score could be higher or it could be a little lower (within the margin of error).

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

I hope you drink your fluoride every day like a good boy, Zippy

[Zippyjuan]

If you don't like your tap water you of course can drink bottled water and get all those plastic chemicals they contain. Most bottled water comes from municipal sources anyways.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Bottled water contains plastic chemicals? Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me, and I'm sure any trace chemical is such a low dosage that it isn't harmful, anyway

[Zippyjuan]

You are right on that.

[donnay]

You are right on that.

You keep on forgetting trace poisons have a cumulative effect and cause chronic illnesses.

[Zippyjuan]

If the levels are high enough they might. And some don't accumulate in the body. Most require very high levels to be harmful. Polonium can be deadly in smaller amounts (and is one of the "84 essential trace elements" in your Himalayan salt). And it is natural so it should be good for you!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...der-litvinenko

Polonium-210: the hard-to-detect poison that killed Alexander Litvinenko

Just a few milligrams of the highly radioactive isotope is a lethal dose

Seven years ago the Kremlin critic and ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko met two Russians in a London hotel. What happened next was one of the most brazen assassinations of modern times. According to British prosecutors, Litvinenko's companions, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, slipped a colourless, odourless substance into his tea. Litvinenko drank. Not much, but enough for him to die in agony three weeks later in University College hospital.

The substance was polonium-210, a rare and highly radioactive isotope that a Swiss team has discovered in Yasser Arafat's exhumed corpse. It is extremely hard to detect. Scientists only identified it in Litvinenko hours before his death. A former FSB officer, and teetotaller, Litvinenko was a fitness fanatic. Doctors say it was only because he was in such good shape that he lasted so long. If he had died sooner, the cause of death would probably never have been uncovered.

Polonium-210 occurs at very low levels naturally, but is manufactured for use by industrial plants to prevent the buildup of static electricity.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/53...imalayan-salt/

What Are the 84 Minerals in Himalayan Salt?

In alphabetical order, they are: actinium, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, astatine, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, calcium, carbon, cerium, cesium, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorine, francium, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, gold, hafnium, holmium, hydrogen, indium, iodine, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, osmium, oxygen, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, plutonium, polonium, potassium, praseodymium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, uranium, vanadium, wolfram, yttrium, ytterbium, zinc and zirconium.

But people don't die from eating Himalayan salt. Dose DOES matter.

[Weston White]

If you don't like your tap water you of course can drink bottled water and get all those plastic chemicals they contain. Most bottled water comes from municipal sources anyways.

Sure, go get your "Got tap?" on Zippy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/ny...reak.html?_r=0

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Yea!

[angelatc]

Sure, go get your "Got tap?" on Zippy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/ny...reak.html?_r=0

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Yea!

That's just totally off topic.

But if you were trying to refer to the fact that a lot of bottled water comes from public or contaminated water supplies, then duh. They use the same filtration systems that DonnaY is posting about to remove the impurities.

[angelatc]

If the levels are high enough they might. And some don't accumulate in the body. Most require very high levels to be harmful. Polonium can be deadly in smaller amounts (and is one of the "84 essential trace elements" in your Himalayan salt). And it is natural so it should be good for you!

But people don't die from eating Himalayan salt. Dose DOES matter.

Fluoride is all natural too. In Texas, they filter it out of the groundwater.

[William Tell]

The great thing about filters like these is they don't just remove fluoride. They take out lots of other stuff that is bad in large quantities, having a water filter is a smart choice.

[William Tell]

Fluoride is all natural too. In Texas, they filter it out of the groundwater.

Maybe some places, they add it most places in Texas.

[Weston White]

Fluoride is all natural too. In Texas, they filter it out of the groundwater.

That is not true. Alex Jones has done segments about the use of sodium fluoride in Texas and how it corrodes pipes and angle irons around the mixing tanks.

Also, not all water filtration systems or methods are equal. And there are many stages available when filtering.