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Glenn (00:00):
Welcome to the Toxic
Truth About Water.
We're Drs.
Glenn and Ina, and in thispodcast, we're uncovering the
hidden dangers lurking in yourwater, and how those
contaminants impact your health.
Ina (00:11):
After decades of exploring
natural health, we've learned
the importance of clean, safewater.
And we're here to share thatknowledge with you.
From the effects of toxins andcontaminants to the solutions
that you need.
We've got the inside scoop.
So let's dive in.
Glenn (00:28):
All right.
Ina (00:29):
Diving in.
All right.
So today we are talking aboutreverse osmosis.
And before we share what isthat?
I want to just preface this withreverse osmosis.
It used to be, I always say, itused to be the cat's meow when
it comes to, or when it came towater filtration.
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And as we've been exploring,we've shared a lot of the
different types of contaminantsto be concerned about.
We're talking about the variousoptions, like what do you do now
that what do you do?
And one of the most popularfiltration methods out there is
something that we had in ourhome.
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Oh gosh, 25 plus years ago.
And it's reverse osmosis as Imentioned.
So first of all, again, it usedto be the cat's meow and we're
going to share with you, thegood, the bad and the ugly,
okay?
What's good about RO, what's notso good because we want to give
you the whole picture and wewant you guys to understand that
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perhaps this is very antiquated.
Glenn (01:40):
Remember, the goal is to
do the best you can with the
latest information, with thelatest technology that's
available.
And so while things may bepopular, it doesn't really
matter if they're popular, theymay not really do the job that
we need them to do, is reallywhat it comes down to.
Ina (01:59):
And that's, having said
that, 25 years ago when we were
filtering our water in our homein New Jersey, It was a little
different than it is now, right?
As time goes on, there'sdifferent types of contaminants
that we need to be concernedabout.
And again, as differenttechnology develops, perhaps
there's better ways.
So here's the thing, and we sayit a lot, any filtration is
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better than no filtration.
And if you're somebody that hasa reverse osmosis system, either
just for your drinking water orfor your whole house, we don't
want you to feel like, oh mygosh, I'm doing something wrong.
Because the truth is, Reverseosmosis does remove the majority
of contaminants.
It really does, and we wantthat, right?
Glenn (02:45):
many ways, it's excellent
technology.
So we should start by just,let's talk about what is reverse
osmosis.
And basically, it's a multistage purification or filtration
system that your water can gothrough.
It is most commonly, by far,used on a single faucet
situation, usually for drinkingwater only.
Ina (03:07):
Now what's happening is
there's a semi permeable
membrane that water is pushingthrough where it's retaining,
holding back, all of thecontaminants.
However, It's also holding backthe minerals.
So everything is being filteredwhen it comes to reverse
osmosis.
Glenn (03:27):
So again, it's that the
major thing that sets it apart
is the semi permeable membranethat the water is being forced
against.
basically the only thing thatcan get through is pure water on
the other side.
Minus.
The minerals and everything,that's how powerful it is at
capturing and taking everythingout of the water.
But that can be a negative, ofcourse, and we'll discuss that
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as we go on.
The biggest issue is it's amulti stage unit, and in a
general sense, it's the semipermeable membrane with carbon
filtration before it and afterit.
That's really what it is andthat's very effective in many
ways But there are somenegatives and especially when
we're talking about water in ageneral sense and how we consume
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It's not just drinking waterthat we need to be concerned
with,
Ina (04:14):
right?
Yeah, so let's you know, talkabout some of these things.
The absolute benefit of reverseosmosis is that it does remove
the majority of thecontaminants.
So when we're talking abouthealthier water, less toxic
water, then yes, it isabsolutely an option.
And again, if that's somethingthat you're already using in
your home, we don't want you towalk away from this episode
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feeling oh geez, I got to goreplace it.
No, it's just some informationto think with if you haven't.
your water yet, you may considerthat this may not be the best
option.
Let's talk about the drawback.
As we said, it removes mineralsalong with the unhealthy toxins
and in nature.
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And I always go back to what didnature intend?
What does nature provide?
And when water is, travelingthrough, Lakes and streams and
it's rubbing rocks and pickingup all that rich mineral
content, that's what our bodiesneed and want.
That's what nature provided.
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So when we're talking aboutremoving minerals now, that's
something that we need to thinkwith because
Glenn (05:26):
you were changing the
water.
Ina (05:27):
We're creating dead water
like distilled water, similar.
We're just creating dead waterand I just want to share this
and then we'll go on to some ofthe other Drawbacks to reverse
osmosis, but according to theWorld Health Organization
Drinking pure RO water can leadto adverse health effects such
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as muscle fatigue cramps, bodyaches, and memory loss, and this
is due to mineral deficienciesthat can occur when minerals are
removed from the water by thesereverse osmosis filters.
So just keep that in mind, andthat's, one of our big concerns
as health professionals that wewant.
those minerals in our water.
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So let's talk about some of theother downsides to it.
Glenn (06:11):
So one thing is reverse
osmosis in, since you're only
doing it against this littlesemi permeable membrane, it's
literally creating purifiedwater drop by drop and then
filling in most cases a tank.
However, there is new technologythat has RO that is tankless as
well.
But that's pretty new.
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most people are familiar with atank under their sink and like a
four or five stage reverseosmosis
Ina (06:38):
you mean like carbon
filtration on the side.
Glenn (06:41):
Yeah.
It's the carbon and the semipermeable membrane The whole
thing is on the side the tankthat holds that purified water
needs to be in there, too Sothat's the whole thing You don't
have water until that tank isfilled up enough for you to draw
from and then once it is it'sadding water As it needs to
constantly
Ina (06:57):
right so it takes up a lot
of room.
Yeah under our cabinet, NewJersey we basically had that and
we could fit, our dish detergentand, some little things, but it
does take up a lot of space,which okay, fine, if it's, so
beneficial, but here's somedownsides.
I just want to say the otherthing, as
Glenn (07:15):
that water hits that
membrane.
Okay, great.
So the purified, minus themineral water comes out the
other side, but what happens tothe rest of the water that
didn't get through the membrane?
Ina (07:25):
So a ton of wastewater,
Glenn (07:27):
exactly.
Ina (07:28):
every gallon of that
filtered reverse osmosis water,
It could be one, two, three, ormore gallons of wasted water.
So imagine just to get onegallon of good, clean, filtered
water, we're wasting so much.
So that, is one of thedrawbacks.
Glenn (07:46):
And it's one of the
reasons we rarely see people
apply this in a whole housesystem, because the time to fill
a tank that large would take along time, but that's fine.
If you had time, you could doit.
The problem is it's large.
It's be like putting, like arefrigerator sized tank outside
your house, along with a largereverse osmosis contraption that
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requires a lot of maintenance,
Ina (08:10):
a lot of electricity and
changes,
Glenn (08:13):
You're just constantly
having to change filters,
Ina (08:16):
And we'll touch on that
whole house.
reverse osmosis filtrationsystem.
Again, a lot of people don'thave those because they're
extremely expensive.
It's like having a laboratory onthe side of your home.
So imagine if we're wasting thatmuch water from a, under the
sink, reverse osmosis with wholehouse, it's a ton of wastewater.
So water bills get really high.
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Electric bills get really highbecause that's all, plugged into
electricity.
Typically, that's a 500 gallontank that, in order to have
enough water to, have that waterbeing showered with and dish all
the water in your home when youhave that whole house reverse
osmosis system.
And by the way, those systemsmulti thousands of dollars a
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good whole house reverse osmosissystem is going to start
somewhere around 15 grandupwards of 30, 000 to do that.
So not practical and really notoptimal.
So again, drawbacks taken outthe minerals.
a lot of water.
As Glenn mentioned, there's aton of maintenance to reverse
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osmosis.
So even if we just talk underthe sink, which is what most
people have, you gotta changethe filters quite frequently and
it will vary from It's brand tobrand, the different systems
that are out there, butsometimes every six months nine
months, a year.
So again, a lot of maintenance.
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And the other thing that I wantto talk about is the biofouling,
right?
So within a tank, you have waterand you have air.
Biofouling is whenmicroorganisms, whether it's
bacteria, mold is growingwithin.
a water filtration system, andit's very common with reverse
osmosis, and you have tosanitize it quite frequently.
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So for people that, especiallyif you're not using the water as
frequently, let's say you goaway on a vacation, go away for
a weekend, down here there's alot of snowbirds, you come back,
that water's been sitting in thetank.
You need to clean that, to notjust drain it, but you need to
clean and sanitize the tank.
Glenn (10:19):
that usually has to be
done professionally.
And you can't get into thesetanks yourself, they're sealed
so it becomes and it's amaintenance thing that's
important and yet most people onthese systems don't even do I'm
glad you brought it up becausehere you're working so hard to
purify your water and imaginejust the holding tank producing,
biofouling where you're gettingbacteria back into your water
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that you were working so hard toget rid of.
Ina (10:45):
Yep, absolutely.
The technology is antiquated.
It is getting out thecontaminants, but there's a lot
of downside water being wasted,a lot of maintenance and for us,
especially taking out thoseminerals when there's better
ways, obviously we're going tobe talking about better ways.
But we wanted to bring to yourattention because it is
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something that's commonly used.
We had one when we were in NewJersey.
In fact, when we moved toFlorida, we put A similar system
in to what we had in New Jersey,but we did add.
a softener because down here thewater's harder.
We did speak to you guys aboutsofteners in a previous episode,
but we ripped it all out.
Glenn (11:25):
we also had a
remineralization.
So those who have reverseosmosis are smart to have
remineralization.
Now it's controversial onlybecause How are you
reintroducing those minerals?
It's usually a cartridge, and tobe honest with you, who knows
how long they last?
You have no way of reallyknowing.
They give a, just a generaltimeline, and then you change
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it.
But the idea is, since you tookthose minerals out, we need to
put them back in, because thetheory is, over time, and Ina
touched on it earlier, if you'rejust drinking a lot of RO water,
the body then begins to look forthose minerals.
That's the natural, it's thenatural draw.
It looks for those minerals.
If those minerals like calciumand magnesium are in your bones
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and things like that.
So
Ina (12:10):
it's going to pull from
bones.
It will pull from teeth enamel.
Again it's not necessarily thehealthiest thing to drink water
that's not naturallymineralized.
And it is and it should be andwe shouldn't be taking that out.
So that's, our biggest takeawayfor you guys.
Having said all that, the,conclusion to this episode, we
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are going to be talking aboutlet me just share this, we're
wrapping up the next episodewill be the final episode of our
series, and then we're going tohave a couple of bonus episodes
that we will have for you, andas time goes on, when we feel
like there's something That wewanna share with you.
We'll record more episodes inthe future, but we have planned
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these 12 episodes.
So this is number 11.
Then we'll have 12 and thenthose couple of bonus episodes.
But a lot of people, as wementioned, we have had people
reaching out to us.
And by the way, feel free to goto our website, the Toxic Truth
Info.
We actually have a book now, theToxic Truth About Water.
E book and paperback.
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Where was I going?
What was I going to say?
I just lost my thought.
Oh, that's right, sorry.
People have been asking because,we're sharing so much
information about what is ourrecommendation, and we are going
to share our recommendation, butwe didn't want that to be part
of the series.
This, the purpose of this seriesis bringing the awareness,
right?
We have a problem, we have a bigproblem at hand.
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What are the options out there?
And we'll definitely be sharingwhat we feel is, in our opinion,
right now, the best option.
But, certainly there's a lot ofoptions out there.
And we're really just wantingyou guys to have the
consciousness, the awareness, toknow what to do to move forward
to protect yourself and toprotect your families.
Glenn (13:55):
So again, just to wrap up
in this particular episode about
reverse osmosis, remember inalmost every application, it's
not a whole house solution.
It's a drinking water solutionand it can be okay.
We pointed out some of thenegatives.
There are definitely majorbenefits as well.
But one of the key negatives forus is that it isn't treating
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your whole house and we spendlots of time bathing, washing
and using water outside ofusually that particular faucet.
And so that's the thing to keepin mind as well.
Ina (14:27):
Absolutely.
All right.
So we're gonna, wrap today'sepisode up and we want to thank
you guys so much for tuning into this episode of the Toxic
Truth About Water.
We do hope that you're walkingaway with valuable insights on
how to protect yourself and yourloved ones from hidden water
toxins.
Glenn (14:48):
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And until the next time,remember, we're in this
together, everybody.
So keep questioning, keeplearning, stay healthy, stay
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informed and much love to youguys.
Ina (15:12):
Bye.