"I started drinking tap water"

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Scientists in Germany have found that PET plastics -- the kind used to make water bottles, among many other common products -- may also harbor hormone-disrupting chemicals that leach into the water.

"What we found was really surprising to us," Wagner said. "If you drink water from plastic bottles, you have a high probability of drinking estrogenic compounds."

"Having done all of these experiments, I started drinking tap water"

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Plastic, making women out of men.
 
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I haven't found anything about which water to drink or avoid from Ray Peat, unfortunately.
 

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Water from milk, fruit, broth, etc.....
 

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Charlie said:
Water from milk, fruit, broth, etc.....


Yeah, but where do you get the water from to make broth and coffee? I guess you could buy the carbonated mineral waters packaged in glass and let them flatten out?
 

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Mineral waters will have iron in them.

I use reverse osmosis water. Honestly not sure its the best to use though.

This is an entirely good question and I think someone should volunteer to run is across Ray Peat.
 

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Charlie said:
Mineral waters will have iron in them.

I use reverse osmosis water. Honestly not sure its the best to use though.

This is an entirely good question and I think someone should volunteer to run is across Ray Peat.


It's a sticky question alright. Which is worse, the iron from the sparkling mineral water or the plastic that all the distilled, spring, and RO waters come in?
 

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I have an RO filter here at home. That does run through plastic lines though. Maybe I should switch them out to copper. Hmmmmm
 

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Copper lines. Why not, Charlie. You've come this far, why not go all the way?

How high is the iron content in the quality carbonated mineral waters? I picked up a few bottles of the Gerolsteiner mentioned here on another thread for the lithium content. Should I nip that in the bud?
 

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Dean I dunno about how high the iron is. I just know that we are supposed to avoid iron as much as possible from what I gather. That's one of the reasons we use the canning salt as opposed to regular ole sea salt.
 
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This is the analysis for Mountain Valley Spring Water:

Iron: not detected. Detection limit: 0.02mg/L

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Spring water is best, then gravity fed and cistern. Everything else is going to vary depending on what is available in your area. I like my well water (I based buying my house on how the water tasted) but other people have some nasty stuff coming out of their tap.
 

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Where I lived in my teen, lead was known to be in the tap water. We knew it and the consensus was "not to drink too much". So we drank a lot of bottled water, but still we drank the tap water quite a bit because we believed it was ok as long as not too much.
 

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