Let's talk about tap water . And here I have to take a deep breath , not a deep gulp , but a deep breath .
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 .
So by letting water sit out for a while , you were able to remove some of the contaminants present within the pipes of your home and the building and even the pipes that lead to your home or apartment . Now , some people get really obsessed with this whole tap water thing and really want to find out all the details about the pipes and what sorts of , you know , hard metals and how much magnesium and how much calcium are present in their water . There are ways that you can test your drinking water for those sorts of things .
However , in researching tap water for this episode , by way of looking at the peer reviewed research , meta analysis , reviews specific research articles where specific hypotheses were tested and in talking with experts in toxicology and so on . It's a pretty grim picture frankly , when one looks at what's contained in most tap water and whether or not the compounds that are contained in tap water are present in sufficient concentrations to negatively impact our health . And the bad news is that much , if not all tap water , believe it or not much , if not all tap water contains things that are bad for the biology of ourselves .
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 .
