How Bad Is Tap Water for Health? | Dr. Andrew Huberman

There are going to be other individuals who are suffering particular ailments of brain or body or both that absolutely should be filtering their drinking water if they're getting their drinking the water from their tap because it is pretty well established now that tap water contains a lot of these disinfectant by products as well as in most cases exceeding the threshold of fluoride that we know to be healthy for us . How should you filter your tap water ? Well , you have everything ranging from the so called Brita type filters .

How Bad Is Tap Water for Health? | Dr. Andrew Huberman

Let's talk about tap water . And here I have to take a deep breath , not a deep gulp , but a deep breath .

How Bad Is Tap Water for Health? | Dr. Andrew Huberman

That to me seems a bit extreme if you want to do that , be my guest , but I don't think most people need to do that . However , I do believe that for people who have zero disposable income to devote to paying for any kind of filtration system for their tap water that taking that tap water and putting into some container at room temperature and keeping at room temperature for a half day or a day or more and then pouring off the top two thirds of that water into another container and consuming the water from that second container is going to remove some , not all of the contaminants that one would need to be concerned about . And here I should mention something that I neglected to mention a few moments ago if you're going to do this um zero cost option and , and let the water sit out for a bit , you would want that water to sit uncapped .

How Bad Is Tap Water for Health? | Dr. Andrew Huberman

Most people I realize , including myself are simply not going to do that . Um If you want to know what I do , I tend to drink water that is filtered through one of these lower cost filters . Or if I'm going to be consuming a lot of fluid , I will drink um , certain kinds of fluid that later , I'll tell you .

How Bad Is Tap Water for Health? | Dr. Andrew Huberman

It's very clear that DB PS have been shown to disrupt ovarian function , spermatogenesis and fertility outcomes even at concentrations of DB PS that are present in drinking water that comes from the tap . Now , does that mean that you shouldn't drink tap water ? Well , the answer to that is a , it depends what does it depend on .