Health Minute: Shower Water Toxicity + Filter

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Health Minute Audio Summary:

You get more toxic exposure from taking a shower than from drinking the same water.

So reported Science News about a recent study by a major U.S. university. Possibly one of the most significant risks to your health is not about what you put in your body by way of food and water, but what you put on your body by bathing in chlorinated water. The skin is the body’s largest organ and easily absorbs contaminants, which pass through it to the blood stream. Therefore, whatever you put on your skin ends up in your body. Health and Longevity in August 1994 reported:

The skin, the body’s largest organ, can easily absorb contaminants found in water which pass through it into the bloodstream. The experts are just beginning to understand the potential health hazards from skin absorption of water contaminants.

TOXIC CHLORINE

So what is chlorine, and what can it do to us? The dictionary defines chlorine as a “gaseous greenish-yellow element used as a bleaching and disinfecting agent.” Chlorination of drinking water began in the 1890’s to fight water-borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid. People stopped dying of typhoid and cholera, but they started dying of cancer and heart disease!

We all know chlorine kills harmful bacteria in water. But its effect doesn’t stop there. The problem is that not only is it absorbed through the skin, but it’s also vaporized and breathed into the lungs as well.

BATHING IN CLEAN WATER

So what’s the answer to chlorine exposure through bathing? Simple, inexpensive shower filters are now available that remove chlorine, not to mention other contaminants. The best type of filter uses a patented filtering media called KDF 55. This is a zinc-copper alloy that looks like golden sand. KDF 55 works best in hot water, which of course is the kind you’re bathing in. It removes not only chlorine, but iron, arsenic, mercury, hydrogen sulfide, bacteria, algae, fungi, dirt and sediment. For a filter to work properly, the chlorine-water has to be in contact with the KDF 55 filtering medium long enough. For that reason water-saving shower heads are used that slow down the flow enough to get the job done. (For more info, click the above button!)

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