The Hidden Dangers Lurking in Your Bottled Water: Health, Cost, and Environmental Concerns

Is Bottled Water Worth Your Dollar?

The crystal-clear water in your bottle might be hiding a murky truth. Dan Toth, owner of Mountain View Pure Water, reveals how our perception of bottled water as a healthy choice stands on shaky ground. What began as a convenient alternative to questionable tap water has transformed into a dependency with serious health implications.

Most of us select bottled water based on price, bottle durability, or taste preference—but none of these factors actually indicate water purity or safety. The plastic bottles themselves pose significant health concerns, containing hormone-disrupting compounds that create artificial estrogens in our bodies. For men, this can mean reduced testosterone and increased fat retention; for women, a host of hormonal disruptions. These chemicals don't just affect our physical appearance—they impact brain function and mental acuity.

Reverse osmosis systems represent the gold standard solution, removing contaminants that basic carbon filters miss, including pharmaceuticals, herbicides, and pesticides. When combined with glass containers instead of plastic bottles, you create a truly safe water solution that protects both your health and the environment. Ready to break free from bottled water dependency? Transform your home's water quality with a solution that supports genuine health and wellbeing.

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Episode Transcript

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 (00:35):
Many people rely on bottled water for convenience
and perceived purity, but is itreally the best choice for your
health and wallet?
Welcome back everyone.
Skip Monty here, co-host slashproducer, back in the studio
with Dan Toth, owner of MountainView Pure Water.
Dan, how's it going?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Doing well today.
Skip, how are you?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm doing just fine, doing just fine, sitting here
drinking a bottle of water,which is the subject of today.
You know, that's something thatI think we were all taught
years ago that bottled water wasgood for you and that it was.
You know, that's something thatI think we were all taught
years ago that bottled water wasgood for you and that it was.
You know, as long as yourecycle, it's good for the
environment.
Is that the case, dan?
Is bottled water really worthyour?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
dollar.
Situationally you could make acase for bottled water, but I
think one of the problems thatwe've all run into is, over the
past two decades we've foundthat bottled water has become
more than a solution.
But we're actually kind ofchained to it.
We don't really want to drinkthe water that comes out of the
spigot because it might tastelike metal or smell bad.

(01:37):
If we're on well water or maybeit's kind of like dipping your
mug into the neighbor's pool, ittastes and smells like chlorine
, so we don't want to put thatto our mouths.
So we pick up a bottle of waterthat we assume somebody has
approved and made safe for us,and that assumption is really
where the problem is Bottledwater.

(01:59):
Out of necessity we carrybottled water around so that if
we get thirsty we have somethingto drink that we have a
confidence in its quality.
But the problem is once againwe're assuming that it's quality
.
I have talked to people forabout a decade about this, since
it's become really a big issue.
It used to be that all thebottles were BPA plastic and

(02:20):
then that became a big sore spot.
People said, hey, this iscausing problems and so wouldn't
.
You know, the BPA plastic wasreplaced with a different kind
of plastic which is justhonestly not any better.
It has its own problems, and sothe plastic is one of the big
problems with bottled water.
The second issue is what'sactually in the water?

(02:42):
I have three criteria that I askpeople to give me the
information about their waterthat they choose.
The first one is, you know,people choose bottled water
based on price.
It's the cheapest one there.
They bought the bottle becauseit was the one that was on sale
or it was the cheapest one.
The second one is actually thebottle quality.

(03:02):
Some people just refuse to buythese cheap plastic bottles that
as you're unscrewing it, itkind of like torques around and
squeezes and the water comes outall over you.
The third one is actually thetaste.
People have certain water thatthey taste, that they like, and
they just go with that, and sothat's the standards that we
have for water quality, and notone of those has anything to do

(03:24):
with the purity or the qualityof the water, and so we've kind
of convinced ourselves thatwe're doing something that's
healthier or better for us, andthere's no standard to assess
that by.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, what are some common?
Like you said, what's in thewater?
What are some commoncontaminants that can be found
in bottled water?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Well, the list goes on and on.
So the first one is BPA, andthere are a whole lot of issues
with plastics.
We have come to understandrecently that these plastics are
hormone disruptors.
They create estrogens in ourbody and those things are not

(04:04):
good for us when it'sartificially created.
So the more plastic that wehave in our body, the more
estrogens produced.
For ladies, this causes certainissues.
For men, it causes other issues.
Guys don't need estrogen intheir body.
We need testosterone, andtestosterone, when it breaks
down, creates an estrogen in thebody as well, so we don't need

(04:27):
to add any extra estrogens.
Most men feel like they're notas manly to start with these
days because we don't do as muchheavy work, we're not outside
as often doing things that guysneed to do to feel alive and
vibrant, as often doing thingsthat guys need to do to feel
alive and vibrant, and so whenwe put extra products in us that
cause us to be less manly, thatcreates just all sorts of

(04:49):
issues in our physical response.
We are putting on more fat andless muscle, and those things
aren't good for us.
And then also, if they disruptbrainwaves, they disrupt
hormones in the body.
These things can really causedamage to our mental acuity and
how we live and how we respondto the environment around us.

(05:11):
So that's one thing.
There's another concept peopleare becoming more and more aware
of, which is PFOS, p-f-o-a andP-F-O-S.
There's like 600 of thesedifferent contaminants that go
into that category, and theseare microplastics and other
things that cause our bodies tojust hold on to more and more

(05:31):
plastics.
Some of the crazy ideas thatI've heard are that we actually
have a plastic spoon's worth ofplastic in our brain because of
all the plastics that we'vetaken in, and if you understand
how these things can affecthormones and how our bodies work
and how our brains function,that's really dangerous because

(05:54):
we don't have a way to removethis stuff effectively from our
body.
Whatever we we take in, weretain some of it, and so it has
accumulated in most people.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Wow, spoonful of plastic in my brain explains a
lot, actually it's a plasticspoon's worth of plastic, oh
geez, even better Wow.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, we have a lot of things that we eat come in
plastic.
Real food is really good for us.
Processed food is not, becauseit has lots of artificial things
and some of that is actuallyplastics and so when we are
eating these things, our bodyretains some of it.
It doesn't all just get removed, and we're really good filters
and so we filter outcontaminants, and whatever can't

(06:38):
be removed from our body getsstored somewhere in the body.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, what's an alternative to?
Obviously, a home filtrationsystem is what you need.
But as far as to, let's say youhave a filtration system, you
have pure water, you've testedit, I guess glass I mean what
alternative to carry, to carryyour water with you?
I have a glass bottle.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
I have reverse osmosis water in it and that's
kind of what we would expect, asthe solution to this is you
have to filter your water.
There's a lot of water filtersout there.
Most everyone has a waterfilter on their refrigerator, so
if they're getting water out ofthe refrigerator they feel like
the water is better because itdoesn't have the taste and odor
that the water does coming outof the tap.

(07:22):
Some of those filters canremove some of the plastics and
microplastics that are in thewater, but they don't remove
other things likepharmaceuticals, herbicides,
pesticides and other things thatcan cause us lots of problems.
So that's not necessarily theright solution either.
It's better than the watercoming out of the tap.

(07:45):
Some bottles of water can havereally pure water.
There are certain water that isspring water.
People really just love it.
It tastes great.
It has low TDS level, which isjust the amount of dissolved
solids that are in it, whichreduces the amount of potential
contamination, because there'snot much in the water, but at
the same time that water canhave other contaminants that

(08:06):
aren't being tested for beforeit's bottled.
So that's not necessarily theperfect solution.
Reverse osmosis waters arebottled and that's a good
quality water until you put itin the bottle, because now you
have extra plastics that you'retaking in your body as soon as
you drink it.
So the best solution is thestandard around the world, which
is reverse osmosis.

(08:27):
It removes a very highpercentage of contamination, as
well as compounds and chemicalsthat would not be removed by
just a carbon filter, and soreverse osmosis gives you a
great quality of water, tastesphenomenal, it can be used for
cooking and even cleaning.
But when you put it in a glass,then you have a really safe

(08:51):
solution to the water thatyou're taking into your body,
because it doesn't have thecontaminants and it doesn't have
the plastics.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Wow, man, I had no idea that there was so much bad
stuff in bottled water.
This is actually a very deepsubject that we should try to
continue this conversation inanother episode, if you're up
for it.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, we can do that, that's.
Fine.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
All right, awesome.
Well, dan, love it.
Appreciate the information,very helpful to all of us, and
we'll catch you in the nextepisode.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Thanks, skip, have a great day.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
You too.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
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.