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Pure Know How detox series looks
at methods to remove toxins from our bodies. Water
is essential for moving water-soluble toxins and mineral wastes
out of our bodies - it literally makes us go!
Why do you care?
- Detoxification a normal body process of elimination or neutralizing
toxins through the colon, liver, kidneys, lungs, lymph and
skin. 24/7!
- Our kidneys have the job of not only removing metabolic
wastes from the blood and into urine but also to help control
the rate of red blood cells formation and regulates blood
pressure, calcium absorption and volume, composition and body
fluids pH. 1
- It is recommended we drink 6 to 8 glasses of pure
water a day to hydrate, flush out our system combat daytime
fatigue.2
- But water - tap, bottled and filtered - may contain toxins
that we ingest with every mouth full. Gulp!
- Tap water is highly regulated by federal and local municipalities.3
- Health Canada notes that all chemical disinfectants
used in drinking water can be expected to form by-products
that could affect human health - including chlorination
by-products - trihalomethanes (THMs).4
- Suspected link between long-term exposure to high levels
of THMs and a higher risk of bladder and colon cancer.
High levels of THMs may also have an effect on pregnancy
and an increased risk of miscarriage.5
- Some research raises concern over the cement, cast iron,
PVC and lead pipes that deliver water between treatment
plant and home.6
- Agriculture, industrial and other chemicals found in
municipal water include pesticides, fertilizer, plasticizers,
solvents, and propellants, prescription and non-prescription
drugs and their metabolites, fragrance compounds, flame
retardants and cosmetic compounds.7
- Bottled water is unregulated and the water tests are not
required to be publicly released.
- Natural mineral and spring water - originating
in protected underwater ground source and not a public
water supply, not chemically treated. Mineral water has
more dissolved minerals.
- Purified water - water from any source and produced
for consumption by distillation, de-ionization, or reverse
osmosis.8
- See our water, water everywhere
reference guide.
The Know How
- Drink up! Six to eight glasses of pure water daily
- don't wait until you are thirsty as you are already dehydrated
by then. Add fresh lemon or substitute green or other herb
teas. Give your body a boost.
- Filter drinking and cooking water at home.
- Activated carbon filters - commonly seen as "water
pitcher", inexpensive, may remove lead, unpleasant odors
and chlorine and its by-products.
- Micro-filters - often in faucet-mounted modles,
removes fine particles and some microbes.
- Reverse Osmosis - most effective, removes most
chemical contaminants, more costly, some water waste.
- Ensure your filter meets Canadian standards and know
exactly what contaminants these filter remove.9
- If drinking tap water let run water run at full flow before
use. Fill a glass or steel container and let it "off
gas" as the chlorine that is present will evaporate out.
- Use refillable glass or metal water bottles - plastics may
leach BPA into the water. Safer plastic choices are No. 1,
2 & 5. See our e-bulletin on Plastics
Water Bottles.
Know and Tell
- Patti's has been confused over the water issue and has come
to a "combo" solution. She brings home large (18
liter) natural spring water bottles to be used with a water
dispenser - although the container is a potentially leaching
# 7 plastic. They also use a stainless steel water pitcher
that they fill with tap water and leave on the counter to
allow chlorine to dissipate. Her main man is currently
researching a reverse osmosis water system for their home
drinking and cooking water.
- Tamey doesn't even like water, but forces herself to drink
it for health reasons (the Klean Kanteen is helping!) and
like Patti, she finds the whole water issue very confusing
- but for now she's sticking to tap water.
1 The Complete Natural Medicine
Guide to Breast Cancer. Dr Sat Dharam Kaur, 2003.
2 Natural Makeover Diet, Dr. Joey Shulman. 2005.
3/4/5. It’s your Health - Drinking Water Chlorination,
Health Canada. Retrieved from website November 13, 2007
6. Product Report: Bottled Water, The Green Guide. May 2003.
7. A National Assessment of Tap Water Quality, Environmental
Working Group. December 20, 2005.
8. Product Report: Bottled Water, The Green Guide. May 2003.
9. The Virtuous Consumer, Leslie Garrett, 2007.
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