May 14, 2025 • 19 mins
What Is Reverse Osmosis And How Does It Compare To Bottled Water?
What you don't know about your bottled water could be harming your health. The convenience we've come to rely on masks a troubling reality: those plastic water bottles are slowly leaching chemicals into your drinking water that disrupt your hormones, accumulate in your organs, and potentially contribute to chronic health issues.
Dr. Sibley, an internal medicine physician with 35 years of experience, explains that plastic water bottles contain phthalates that act as endocrine disruptors in the body. "It's almost like giving you extra estrogen," she warns, potentially triggering early puberty in girls and disrupting normal development and hormonal function in boys. Even more concerning, microplastics break off from these bottles and accumulate in the brain, liver, and spleen. Heat dramatically accelerates this leaching process, making those cases of water sitting in the sun at gas stations or bottles left in hot cars particularly problematic.
Reverse osmosis water filtration offers a compelling alternative, removing 96-99% of contaminants from your water source. When this purified water is stored properly in glass containers, you eliminate the ongoing chemical exposure from plastic. As water treatment expert Dan Toth reminds us, "If you're not using a filter, you are the filter" - a sobering thought when considering what our bodies must process. Many people spend more time researching vacation destinations than investigating what they consume daily, yet the cumulative effect of these toxins over time represents a significant health concern, especially for children growing up in what Dr. Sibley calls "a toxic soup."
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Mountain View Pure Podcast,
where your journey toexceptional water quality begins
.
Here's your host, dan Toth,owner of Mountain View Pure
Water.
They proudly serve homeownersin the Tri-Cities and beyond,
offering advanced water and airpurification solutions that
support a healthier lifestyle.
The mission is clear helpingyou get great water.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
In this episode we dive into the science behind
reverse osmosis, a highlyeffective water purification
method, and explore how itstacks up against the
convenience of bottled water.
If you're wondering whetherreverse osmosis is worth the
investment for your home, we'vegot the answers.
(00:55):
Welcome back everyone SkipMonty, co-host, slash producer,
back in the studio with owner ofMountain View Pure Water, Dan
Toth, and Dr Sibley, who hasjoined us in episodes before.
Guys, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We're glad to have you.
I'm really excited to learn allabout reverse osmosis.
What exactly is that and howdoes it compare to bottled water
?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, first off, I'd like to say thank you to Denise
for joining us again.
Dr Sibley is well experiencedin the healthcare field as a 35
years now as an internalmedicine doctor, and she's our
expert with us for a secondepisode here to talk about the
difference between reverseosmosis and bottled water.
And I think this is an issuethat a lot of people really
(01:37):
don't understand.
They don't understand thatthere is purified water and then
there is other, so they'refairly indiscriminate as to what
they drink.
It looks like water, it's clear, I'm going to drink it is, I
think the general consensus andthen I've talked to people about
for years is just asking themwhy they've chosen the water
(01:58):
that they drink.
And typically I find threecommon reasons why people choose
the bottled water.
First off, we choose bottledwater because it's convenient.
About 15, 20 years ago, bottledwater came out and most people
were like why are we paying forbottled water?
Then they went back to theirfaucet and they think, okay, I
can't actually put this to mymouth.
So then they realize, okay, Ihave to drink something else
(02:20):
that's palatable for me.
And so we all buy bottled waternow as a regular way to get the
water that we consume.
And I'll ask people why did youchoose the bottle that you're
using?
And they'll give me threetypical reasons.
First off, it's the cheapestone.
It was the cheapest.
We have to buy a bottle ofwater, so it's the cheapest.
(02:40):
The second one is they have abottle that I like, and so
typically these bottles arereally flimsy these days and you
might open it up and it comesoff all over you because you had
to squeeze hard enough to twistthe cap off.
And then the third is I likethe flavor, and so when I
analyze that, as someone who islooking at the quality of water,
(03:01):
none of that has to do withquality of water.
The quality of the water is thebiggest issue when choosing what
water we're going to put intoour body, and we want a pure
water that doesn't havecontamination, because our
health depends on having a clean, well-working system.
And so what are some of thethings that we would find in
(03:24):
bottled water that we wouldn'tfind in water that would be run
through reverse osmosis?
Well, we're going to talk aboutthat real quick, but by and
large, reverse osmosis rejects96 to 99% of any contaminant
that would be found in theoriginal source water.
That's a really big deal,because when we look at bottled
(03:45):
water, we want to know, well,what is in that water that I
wouldn't want.
Do you have any ideas of wherewe can start this conversation?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, as you were saying, you know where do they
get the source of the water fromfor their bottle.
Is it just out of manufacturerstap?
Is it distilled?
Is it from a spring?
You know they call it springwater.
What does that mean?
What spring?
What's in that water?
A lot of that's a dark hole andit could have some of the same
(04:16):
issues that we have with tapwater or just going out to a
creek.
I guess they actually don'thave pathogens in it.
But my big concern is theplastic in which it is contained
, and the plastic is becoming ahuge deal.
Of course, people would say,well, it pollutes the
environment, okay, but the bigthing about plastic is that it
(04:40):
contains substances calledphthalates that make the plastic
.
It's a plasticizer, it makes itbendable and not breakable, and
those substances leach into thewater and they have endocrine
disrupting properties.
That's a huge thing.
(05:01):
Not only that, but there's alsothen little parts of the
plastic that break off, which wewould call microplastics.
So you're drinking somemicroplastics which are not good
for you and your brain.
They get stored in organs, yourspleen, your brain, your liver.
But the endocrine disruptionit's like it's almost giving you
(05:23):
extra estrogen disruption.
It's like it's almost givingyou extra estrogen.
So it would be affecting girlsin their estrogen cycles,
perhaps making puberty occurbefore it's supposed to.
Or for boys, it could befeminizing the boys or
disrupting their puberty ortheir sperm production, some of
their hormonal balances.
(05:44):
So I'm very concerned about whatthe water's contained in in a
plastic bottle.
And then you know, myselfincluded, I used to leave some
plastic bottles bottled water inmy car.
Well, what does your car dowhen you're at Hilton Head in
the summer?
(06:04):
Well, it's about 120 degrees inthe car when you open it and
that water's been sitting thereall day and all week and maybe a
month.
And that heat.
It increases the leaching ofthe plastic into the water and
all those bad things.
We don't want the endocrinedisruptors, and it deteriorates
(06:26):
the plastic so that it is ableto go into solution and so, wow,
that's a really bad thing toheat up the plastic and then to
drink it.
So I woke up to that too, as Ihave to a lot of things during
these last five years and Idon't keep plastic in my car
anymore well, if we don't wantto keep plastic in the car
(06:47):
because it's going to get hot,would it be a good idea to?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
if I'm at the gas station, I'm headed out of town
to grab the plastic waterplastic containing water that's
sitting?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
there Sitting between the pumps there all stacked up.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
It's been something that has bothered me for years
and in fact, I will often tellthe attendant you can't put this
out here.
I worked in a grocery storewhen I was younger and one of
the things that we do is, whenwe're unloading the trucks, you
set stuff where you need to setit in order to get access to it,
to take it in and stop thegrocery store.
Well, a lot of these bigcontainers just skids of water
(07:27):
are being left out in the sunand that is very scary to me to
think that the plastic isleaching into that even more
than it would if it if it wasn'tsitting in the sun.
Absolutely yes absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And you know there's a place I go and they offer you
water.
It's a swanky little place andthey offer you water.
Well, it comes out of this bigplastic jug.
You know you can put your waterunder it and even physical
therapy place they have a placewhere you can get water and fill
up your container.
But place they have a placewhere you can get water and fill
(08:02):
up your container, but it's abig plastic jug that it comes
out of.
So, yeah, you can use your owncontainer, but it's coming out
of a big plastic container.
So the plastics bother me.
They break down, they leachinto the water you're drinking.
It it's more impurities.
It is not good for you, it isdangerous.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I think that people have heard of some of these
different contaminants that wefind in plastic.
I can't even sometimes it'shard to pronounce them.
We have perfluorooctonic acid,or PFOA.
We have perfluoroalkyl, andthat's P-F-O-A-S.
Alcohol, and that's P-F-O-A-S,P-F-A-S, and so these PFAS
(08:45):
chemicals really are comprisedof about 600 different chemicals
that are available.
I guess they're justcontaminants.
It's not something you want tobuy, it's not something you want
to add to your water, but it'sjust in there because things are
in plastics.
We have the microplastics thatare in the environment and
they're called forever chemicals.
They there are forever chemicals.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's like you can't get rid of them.
So, and you know that's part ofthe microplastic um pollution.
Or you might call it a toxin, apoison, once you drink it but
you don't realize that you'reactually drinking some poisonous
, toxic water out of yourplastic water bottle and you
don't know.
You might go to a sports game.
(09:22):
You know soccer moms they loadup the car with all the water
bottles for the kids.
Or you know, now there'sGatorade and all those things
with all our official dyes, butthey're all in plastic and
they're sitting in the sun andthey're sitting in sunlight and
those kids are going to go outand exert themselves and it's
really you're drinking a toxin.
Now one thing that I've seenthat's become a little bit I'll
(09:46):
use the word swanky again is toput now, instead of it in
plastic, to put it in aluminumbottles are people actually
going to southwest?
airlines is now that's howthey're delivering.
I don't fly much, but Iunderstand that Southwest
Airlines has gone to.
Now all their water is inaluminum and you can I've seen
aluminum.
They're nice looking cans inthe coolers when you stop at a
(10:10):
convenience store.
They're quite expensive, butyou know it's a different, so
you don't have to use plastics.
But now you would drink it outof aluminum.
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
about that.
Well, it has that if you were topour the contents of, like a
Coke bottle onto the Coke bottle, it would eat up the aluminum
and you know, inside of thatyou'd have a plastic bubble
that's actually containing thesoda.
So these aluminum cans areactually lined with plastic and
that can be everything from yoursodas over to the vegetable
(10:45):
aisle where you get your cans ofgreen beans or whatever.
And so these things all havethese plastics in them.
And if we think of it as aone-off, if I were to go out
today and I had some food thatwas in plastic, if I had a
bottle of water, the amount ofplastic probably wouldn't be a
big deal, but it's theaccumulation of this.
(11:06):
Our body is really good atfiltering to keep us safe.
The problem is, when it filtersout all this stuff, it has no
place to store it safely.
It ends up being stored in ourin our brains and in organs that
require that.
It will affect and causeproblems, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So you know the and then we get into the whole.
So not only is aluminum plasticcoated, but then the aluminum
can leach into the water as well.
And we know that aluminum is aneurotoxic.
That means it's a toxin to yourbrain and your whole
neurological system and it'sinflammatory to the brain and
(11:47):
the neurological system.
It's also hard for your kidneysto filter that out.
So the answer of putting thingsin aluminum well, it's no
better.
And it's more expensive.
So what is the best containerto put water in?
I think it's glass.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And you want to make sure that it's not something
that has other metals in it,Right like a glass from China.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right.
And so you know, maybe panningjars, you know that are maybe
made in the United States.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I've seen people walking around with mason jars
with their water.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That was a thing.
But you know good quality glassthat you've cleaned, that's
probably, I guess, stainlesssteel Certain stainless steel
that's made for a food grade.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
That would be another great way If you haven't gotten
to the stainless steel, becauseI don't like the flavor of the
water when it comes out.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Maybe it's the smell, maybe it's the flavor of the
water when it comes out.
Maybe it's the smell, maybeit's the flavor.
Less for me as the preferredmethod for storing, yes, so yeah
, go ahead.
Are there are?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
there, I'm sorry, are there plastics?
Any plastic bottles that aresafe or safer, oh no, no.
We went through a time when thebpa um was outed as being
poisonous and so then they cameout with plastic that was BPA
free and, honestly, it's sort oflike the chlorine versus
bromide.
It's no better.
There's still toxins in there.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yes, and you'll see a lot of baby products as a grant
.
You know a grandma with youngchildren.
You'll see a lot of the.
The products for babies areplastic and it'll say BPA free.
Well, okay, well, that's fine.
But what you know?
that's just one little thing,but everything else is still in
that plastic.
So you know, do I try to limiteven the plastics for my
(13:32):
grandchildren?
Yes, absolutely.
And you know we grew up with alot of plasticsware.
You know that was a huge thingin my day.
Rubber made, you stored allyour sugar and flour and your
you know baking goods in thesetubs of plastic.
Well, I've done away with those.
I've gone to big wide mouthjars of keeping my flour and
(13:54):
sugar so that I can have easyaccess to it.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
But I've gotten rid of my plastic.
I've noticed in in the grocerystore there are a lot more
options of a glass container.
It might have a plastic lid,but the container itself for
storage is glass.
That's really a good way to goand, you know, those things last
longer as long as you don't letthe kids do the dishes.
You just end up with a wholebunch of extra lids.
You know, making sure that thecontainer that we're using is
just as important as making surethat the water that we're
(14:20):
drinking is pure.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
So that's absolutely I had no idea.
Once you go and you devotehundreds of hours to studying
the things that are in our airand this year in the General
Assembly I had a bill about RedDye 40, which did pass for the
school systems Federally, we'relooking at food dye so you start
(14:44):
looking at labels everywhere,things that I never did as a
doctor and I didn't know whatwas in the sky.
I didn't know what was in thesky.
I didn't know what was in thewater because I hadn't looked,
but because now I look and I'mconcerned.
It takes a lot of study but youfind out things that you really
(15:05):
need to be paying attention tofor your family because, again,
your family is your, it's yourGod given little tribe.
Family is your, you know it'syour God given little tribe and
you want them to have the bestof food, the cleanest food, the
cleanest water, long term health, absolutely.
(15:27):
And we have this epidemic orchronic disease, which we all
know about, especially in ourchildren.
And so you know, for yourfamily, especially as a mom and
now as a grandma, you know I'mlooking to be safe, especially
as a mom and now as a grandma,you know I'm looking to be safe.
I want to give my children safethings and usually you know for
the most part that falls on momor in the family, but some dads
are into it as well, which, danis, because this is tough, but
(15:47):
it is worth your investment.
Again, there's a lot of thingsyou can invest in, but if you
don't have your health, youdon't have anything.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You also?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
need God.
You absolutely need God.
You don't have anything.
You can't enjoy life if youdon't have your health.
So this is a you know.
These things we're talkingabout are worth looking at and
not just burying your head inthe sand and saying, well, I'm
not going to worry about it.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Well, you should I have one more thing that I think
is really important.
You know, water is theuniversal solvent.
The rain comes down and itcleans things.
This is God's plan for cleaningthe earth and so as it cleans,
it grabs some of that stuff andit holds onto it, and if we're
not discerning as to how weremove those things, we're just
taking it into our body andpolluting ourselves.
(16:32):
My mentor in water treatment,almost 20 years ago now.
He had a favorite saying ifyou're not using a filter, you
are the filter, and I don't wantto be the filter.
I want to remove that stuffbefore it gets to me.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What goes up must come down as far as what's in
the atmosphere and guess whereit all lands is in our
groundwater.
I mean, it comes to the soil aswell, but it's going to
eventually run off into thegroundwater.
So yeah, don't be the filter.
Buy a good filter.
Take an interest in thesethings.
People spend more time decidingwhere they're going to go on
(17:07):
vacation and looking upeverything where we're going to
go, what we're going to do.
Then they do on what they'reeating or drinking, and that, I
mean that just astounds me.
But you know, I guess I used tobe guilty of that as well, but
now I'm not.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Now I know I feel like a reader's digest.
An ounce of prevention is wortha pound of cure.
Those things really meansomething when we're talking
about long-term accruing ofthese chemicals and toxins
inside of us.
It really matters that youstart now to make sure that
you're not getting a lot of thisin your body.
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Especially the children, because they're
growing up in a toxic soup thanmaybe.
You know.
I'm 65 years old.
For my generation, I mean, wehad toxins, I'm sure, but
there's more.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, I tell you younger folks and this is
pleasing to me and I'm happy mykids are all young adults and
when they come to visit,whenever they pull anything out
of the refrigerator, they'relooking at the back and my son
says if it's got more than threeingredients, I'm not interested
and I'm like okay but they allguzzle water out of plastic, so
I'm so excited to whip this outon them.
(18:18):
So straighten them out.
Well, dr Sibley.
Dan, I can't tell you how muchwe appreciate you stopping by
the studio today.
This has been very informativeand something we can talk about
forever.
Maybe we can get Dr Sibley getyou back in another episode.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Thanks, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
All right, Dan.
Thanks so much, and we'll seeyou in that next one.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Thank you for joining us on the Mountain View Pure
podcast.
When you're ready to transformyour home's water and air
quality, call or text423-218-9361 for a free in-home
consultation.
For more information visitmvpwaternet.
Remember, great water is thefoundation of a great life.
Welcome to the Mountain View Pure Podcast,
where your journey toexceptional water quality begins
.
Here's your host, dan Toth,owner of Mountain View Pure
Water.
They proudly serve homeownersin the Tri-Cities and beyond,
offering advanced water and airpurification solutions that
support a healthier lifestyle.
The mission is clear helpingyou get great water.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
In this episode we dive into the science behind
reverse osmosis, a highlyeffective water purification
method, and explore how itstacks up against the
convenience of bottled water.
If you're wondering whetherreverse osmosis is worth the
investment for your home, we'vegot the answers.
(00:55):
Welcome back everyone SkipMonty, co-host, slash producer,
back in the studio with owner ofMountain View Pure Water, Dan
Toth, and Dr Sibley, who hasjoined us in episodes before.
Guys, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We're glad to have you.
I'm really excited to learn allabout reverse osmosis.
What exactly is that and howdoes it compare to bottled water
?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, first off, I'd like to say thank you to Denise
for joining us again.
Dr Sibley is well experiencedin the healthcare field as a 35
years now as an internalmedicine doctor, and she's our
expert with us for a secondepisode here to talk about the
difference between reverseosmosis and bottled water.
And I think this is an issuethat a lot of people really
(01:37):
don't understand.
They don't understand thatthere is purified water and then
there is other, so they'refairly indiscriminate as to what
they drink.
It looks like water, it's clear, I'm going to drink it is, I
think the general consensus andthen I've talked to people about
for years is just asking themwhy they've chosen the water
(01:58):
that they drink.
And typically I find threecommon reasons why people choose
the bottled water.
First off, we choose bottledwater because it's convenient.
About 15, 20 years ago, bottledwater came out and most people
were like why are we paying forbottled water?
Then they went back to theirfaucet and they think, okay, I
can't actually put this to mymouth.
So then they realize, okay, Ihave to drink something else
(02:20):
that's palatable for me.
And so we all buy bottled waternow as a regular way to get the
water that we consume.
And I'll ask people why did youchoose the bottle that you're
using?
And they'll give me threetypical reasons.
First off, it's the cheapestone.
It was the cheapest.
We have to buy a bottle ofwater, so it's the cheapest.
(02:40):
The second one is they have abottle that I like, and so
typically these bottles arereally flimsy these days and you
might open it up and it comesoff all over you because you had
to squeeze hard enough to twistthe cap off.
And then the third is I likethe flavor, and so when I
analyze that, as someone who islooking at the quality of water,
(03:01):
none of that has to do withquality of water.
The quality of the water is thebiggest issue when choosing what
water we're going to put intoour body, and we want a pure
water that doesn't havecontamination, because our
health depends on having a clean, well-working system.
And so what are some of thethings that we would find in
(03:24):
bottled water that we wouldn'tfind in water that would be run
through reverse osmosis?
Well, we're going to talk aboutthat real quick, but by and
large, reverse osmosis rejects96 to 99% of any contaminant
that would be found in theoriginal source water.
That's a really big deal,because when we look at bottled
(03:45):
water, we want to know, well,what is in that water that I
wouldn't want.
Do you have any ideas of wherewe can start this conversation?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, as you were saying, you know where do they
get the source of the water fromfor their bottle.
Is it just out of manufacturerstap?
Is it distilled?
Is it from a spring?
You know they call it springwater.
What does that mean?
What spring?
What's in that water?
A lot of that's a dark hole andit could have some of the same
(04:16):
issues that we have with tapwater or just going out to a
creek.
I guess they actually don'thave pathogens in it.
But my big concern is theplastic in which it is contained
, and the plastic is becoming ahuge deal.
Of course, people would say,well, it pollutes the
environment, okay, but the bigthing about plastic is that it
(04:40):
contains substances calledphthalates that make the plastic
.
It's a plasticizer, it makes itbendable and not breakable, and
those substances leach into thewater and they have endocrine
disrupting properties.
That's a huge thing.
(05:01):
Not only that, but there's alsothen little parts of the
plastic that break off, which wewould call microplastics.
So you're drinking somemicroplastics which are not good
for you and your brain.
They get stored in organs, yourspleen, your brain, your liver.
But the endocrine disruptionit's like it's almost giving you
(05:23):
extra estrogen disruption.
It's like it's almost givingyou extra estrogen.
So it would be affecting girlsin their estrogen cycles,
perhaps making puberty occurbefore it's supposed to.
Or for boys, it could befeminizing the boys or
disrupting their puberty ortheir sperm production, some of
their hormonal balances.
(05:44):
So I'm very concerned about whatthe water's contained in in a
plastic bottle.
And then you know, myselfincluded, I used to leave some
plastic bottles bottled water inmy car.
Well, what does your car dowhen you're at Hilton Head in
the summer?
(06:04):
Well, it's about 120 degrees inthe car when you open it and
that water's been sitting thereall day and all week and maybe a
month.
And that heat.
It increases the leaching ofthe plastic into the water and
all those bad things.
We don't want the endocrinedisruptors, and it deteriorates
(06:26):
the plastic so that it is ableto go into solution and so, wow,
that's a really bad thing toheat up the plastic and then to
drink it.
So I woke up to that too, as Ihave to a lot of things during
these last five years and Idon't keep plastic in my car
anymore well, if we don't wantto keep plastic in the car
(06:47):
because it's going to get hot,would it be a good idea to?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
if I'm at the gas station, I'm headed out of town
to grab the plastic waterplastic containing water that's
sitting?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
there Sitting between the pumps there all stacked up.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
It's been something that has bothered me for years
and in fact, I will often tellthe attendant you can't put this
out here.
I worked in a grocery storewhen I was younger and one of
the things that we do is, whenwe're unloading the trucks, you
set stuff where you need to setit in order to get access to it,
to take it in and stop thegrocery store.
Well, a lot of these bigcontainers just skids of water
(07:27):
are being left out in the sunand that is very scary to me to
think that the plastic isleaching into that even more
than it would if it if it wasn'tsitting in the sun.
Absolutely yes absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And you know there's a place I go and they offer you
water.
It's a swanky little place andthey offer you water.
Well, it comes out of this bigplastic jug.
You know you can put your waterunder it and even physical
therapy place they have a placewhere you can get water and fill
up your container.
But place they have a placewhere you can get water and fill
(08:02):
up your container, but it's abig plastic jug that it comes
out of.
So, yeah, you can use your owncontainer, but it's coming out
of a big plastic container.
So the plastics bother me.
They break down, they leachinto the water you're drinking.
It it's more impurities.
It is not good for you, it isdangerous.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I think that people have heard of some of these
different contaminants that wefind in plastic.
I can't even sometimes it'shard to pronounce them.
We have perfluorooctonic acid,or PFOA.
We have perfluoroalkyl, andthat's P-F-O-A-S.
Alcohol, and that's P-F-O-A-S,P-F-A-S, and so these PFAS
(08:45):
chemicals really are comprisedof about 600 different chemicals
that are available.
I guess they're justcontaminants.
It's not something you want tobuy, it's not something you want
to add to your water, but it'sjust in there because things are
in plastics.
We have the microplastics thatare in the environment and
they're called forever chemicals.
They there are forever chemicals.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's like you can't get rid of them.
So, and you know that's part ofthe microplastic um pollution.
Or you might call it a toxin, apoison, once you drink it but
you don't realize that you'reactually drinking some poisonous
, toxic water out of yourplastic water bottle and you
don't know.
You might go to a sports game.
(09:22):
You know soccer moms they loadup the car with all the water
bottles for the kids.
Or you know, now there'sGatorade and all those things
with all our official dyes, butthey're all in plastic and
they're sitting in the sun andthey're sitting in sunlight and
those kids are going to go outand exert themselves and it's
really you're drinking a toxin.
Now one thing that I've seenthat's become a little bit I'll
(09:46):
use the word swanky again is toput now, instead of it in
plastic, to put it in aluminumbottles are people actually
going to southwest?
airlines is now that's howthey're delivering.
I don't fly much, but Iunderstand that Southwest
Airlines has gone to.
Now all their water is inaluminum and you can I've seen
aluminum.
They're nice looking cans inthe coolers when you stop at a
(10:10):
convenience store.
They're quite expensive, butyou know it's a different, so
you don't have to use plastics.
But now you would drink it outof aluminum.
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
about that.
Well, it has that if you were topour the contents of, like a
Coke bottle onto the Coke bottle, it would eat up the aluminum
and you know, inside of thatyou'd have a plastic bubble
that's actually containing thesoda.
So these aluminum cans areactually lined with plastic and
that can be everything from yoursodas over to the vegetable
(10:45):
aisle where you get your cans ofgreen beans or whatever.
And so these things all havethese plastics in them.
And if we think of it as aone-off, if I were to go out
today and I had some food thatwas in plastic, if I had a
bottle of water, the amount ofplastic probably wouldn't be a
big deal, but it's theaccumulation of this.
(11:06):
Our body is really good atfiltering to keep us safe.
The problem is, when it filtersout all this stuff, it has no
place to store it safely.
It ends up being stored in ourin our brains and in organs that
require that.
It will affect and causeproblems, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So you know the and then we get into the whole.
So not only is aluminum plasticcoated, but then the aluminum
can leach into the water as well.
And we know that aluminum is aneurotoxic.
That means it's a toxin to yourbrain and your whole
neurological system and it'sinflammatory to the brain and
(11:47):
the neurological system.
It's also hard for your kidneysto filter that out.
So the answer of putting thingsin aluminum well, it's no
better.
And it's more expensive.
So what is the best containerto put water in?
I think it's glass.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And you want to make sure that it's not something
that has other metals in it,Right like a glass from China.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right.
And so you know, maybe panningjars, you know that are maybe
made in the United States.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I've seen people walking around with mason jars
with their water.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That was a thing.
But you know good quality glassthat you've cleaned, that's
probably, I guess, stainlesssteel Certain stainless steel
that's made for a food grade.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
That would be another great way If you haven't gotten
to the stainless steel, becauseI don't like the flavor of the
water when it comes out.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Maybe it's the smell, maybe it's the flavor of the
water when it comes out.
Maybe it's the smell, maybeit's the flavor.
Less for me as the preferredmethod for storing, yes, so yeah
, go ahead.
Are there are?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
there, I'm sorry, are there plastics?
Any plastic bottles that aresafe or safer, oh no, no.
We went through a time when thebpa um was outed as being
poisonous and so then they cameout with plastic that was BPA
free and, honestly, it's sort oflike the chlorine versus
bromide.
It's no better.
There's still toxins in there.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yes, and you'll see a lot of baby products as a grant
.
You know a grandma with youngchildren.
You'll see a lot of the.
The products for babies areplastic and it'll say BPA free.
Well, okay, well, that's fine.
But what you know?
that's just one little thing,but everything else is still in
that plastic.
So you know, do I try to limiteven the plastics for my
(13:32):
grandchildren?
Yes, absolutely.
And you know we grew up with alot of plasticsware.
You know that was a huge thingin my day.
Rubber made, you stored allyour sugar and flour and your
you know baking goods in thesetubs of plastic.
Well, I've done away with those.
I've gone to big wide mouthjars of keeping my flour and
(13:54):
sugar so that I can have easyaccess to it.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
But I've gotten rid of my plastic.
I've noticed in in the grocerystore there are a lot more
options of a glass container.
It might have a plastic lid,but the container itself for
storage is glass.
That's really a good way to goand, you know, those things last
longer as long as you don't letthe kids do the dishes.
You just end up with a wholebunch of extra lids.
You know, making sure that thecontainer that we're using is
just as important as making surethat the water that we're
(14:20):
drinking is pure.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
So that's absolutely I had no idea.
Once you go and you devotehundreds of hours to studying
the things that are in our airand this year in the General
Assembly I had a bill about RedDye 40, which did pass for the
school systems Federally, we'relooking at food dye so you start
(14:44):
looking at labels everywhere,things that I never did as a
doctor and I didn't know whatwas in the sky.
I didn't know what was in thesky.
I didn't know what was in thewater because I hadn't looked,
but because now I look and I'mconcerned.
It takes a lot of study but youfind out things that you really
(15:05):
need to be paying attention tofor your family because, again,
your family is your, it's yourGod given little tribe.
Family is your, you know it'syour God given little tribe and
you want them to have the bestof food, the cleanest food, the
cleanest water, long term health, absolutely.
(15:27):
And we have this epidemic orchronic disease, which we all
know about, especially in ourchildren.
And so you know, for yourfamily, especially as a mom and
now as a grandma, you know I'mlooking to be safe, especially
as a mom and now as a grandma,you know I'm looking to be safe.
I want to give my children safethings and usually you know for
the most part that falls on momor in the family, but some dads
are into it as well, which, danis, because this is tough, but
(15:47):
it is worth your investment.
Again, there's a lot of thingsyou can invest in, but if you
don't have your health, youdon't have anything.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You also?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
need God.
You absolutely need God.
You don't have anything.
You can't enjoy life if youdon't have your health.
So this is a you know.
These things we're talkingabout are worth looking at and
not just burying your head inthe sand and saying, well, I'm
not going to worry about it.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Well, you should I have one more thing that I think
is really important.
You know, water is theuniversal solvent.
The rain comes down and itcleans things.
This is God's plan for cleaningthe earth and so as it cleans,
it grabs some of that stuff andit holds onto it, and if we're
not discerning as to how weremove those things, we're just
taking it into our body andpolluting ourselves.
(16:32):
My mentor in water treatment,almost 20 years ago now.
He had a favorite saying ifyou're not using a filter, you
are the filter, and I don't wantto be the filter.
I want to remove that stuffbefore it gets to me.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What goes up must come down as far as what's in
the atmosphere and guess whereit all lands is in our
groundwater.
I mean, it comes to the soil aswell, but it's going to
eventually run off into thegroundwater.
So yeah, don't be the filter.
Buy a good filter.
Take an interest in thesethings.
People spend more time decidingwhere they're going to go on
(17:07):
vacation and looking upeverything where we're going to
go, what we're going to do.
Then they do on what they'reeating or drinking, and that, I
mean that just astounds me.
But you know, I guess I used tobe guilty of that as well, but
now I'm not.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Now I know I feel like a reader's digest.
An ounce of prevention is wortha pound of cure.
Those things really meansomething when we're talking
about long-term accruing ofthese chemicals and toxins
inside of us.
It really matters that youstart now to make sure that
you're not getting a lot of thisin your body.
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Especially the children, because they're
growing up in a toxic soup thanmaybe.
You know.
I'm 65 years old.
For my generation, I mean, wehad toxins, I'm sure, but
there's more.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, I tell you younger folks and this is
pleasing to me and I'm happy mykids are all young adults and
when they come to visit,whenever they pull anything out
of the refrigerator, they'relooking at the back and my son
says if it's got more than threeingredients, I'm not interested
and I'm like okay but they allguzzle water out of plastic, so
I'm so excited to whip this outon them.
(18:18):
So straighten them out.
Well, dr Sibley.
Dan, I can't tell you how muchwe appreciate you stopping by
the studio today.
This has been very informativeand something we can talk about
forever.
Maybe we can get Dr Sibley getyou back in another episode.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Thanks, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
All right, Dan.
Thanks so much, and we'll seeyou in that next one.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Thank you for joining us on the Mountain View Pure
podcast.
When you're ready to transformyour home's water and air
quality, call or text423-218-9361 for a free in-home
consultation.
For more information visitmvpwaternet.
Remember, great water is thefoundation of a great life.
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