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

They don't want chemical contaminants that are going to make people immediately sick . So they treat water , water treatment plants , treat water with disinfection products and those disinfection products create things called disinfection , by-product and the presence of those DB PS are just disinfectant can strongly impact the ph of water by way of changing the concentrations of magnesium and calcium put differently . I do believe that governments are trying to provide people with clean water .

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

Will those work ? Are they sufficient to filter out the disinfectant byproduct's provided you change the filters often enough . However , it is not thought , unfortunately , not thought that they filter out sufficient fluoride .

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

I would argue that why wouldn't you employ some very low or even zero cost approach to filtering your water ? 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 ?

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

And almost always they contain certain chemicals themselves , right ? Those filters have been treated with certain chemicals that neutralize certain other chemicals . Ok .

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

They don't want sewage in that water . They don't want chemical contaminants that are going to make people immediately sick . So they treat water , water treatment plants , treat water with disinfection products and those disinfection products create things called disinfection , by-product and the presence of those DB PS are just disinfectant can strongly impact the ph of water by way of changing the concentrations of magnesium and calcium put differently .