Is Drinking Bottled Water Safe?

You know hydration is important. But, are you doing more harm to your body than good by conveniently reaching for that bottled water?

Water is essential for life, and the human body is about 60% water.  Water is a vital nutrient in all cells in the body.

Simply put your body will not function properly without adequate amounts of clean pure water. Your brain, heart and muscles are composed of more than 70% water. The lungs more than 80% water.  Interestingly enough even your bones are more than 30% water.

Water plays several key roles in the human body

• Regulating internal temperature
• Transporting metabolized food through the bloodstream
• Unique ability to dissolve vital nutrients and minerals for cell absorption
• Aids in the elimination of waste from the body

Many Americans understand that water is important. In fact, water consumption has been going up over the years.

It is great that people are choosing water over the highly process soft drinks on the market.

But is that store bought bottled water helping for harming you? The average American drinks 31 gallons of bottled water per year. But, what’s in that bottled water may shock you.

A recent study

conducted for the Environmental Working Group (EWG) at one of the country’s leading water quality laboratories found 38 contaminants in many top brands of bottled water.

The pollutants identified include common urban wastewater pollutants like caffeine and pharmaceuticals, an array of cancer-causing byproducts from municipal tap water chlorination, heavy metals and minerals including arsenic and radioactive isotopes, fertilizer residue and a broad range of industrial chemicals.

Several brands also contained various types of harmful bacteria.

German researchers found nearly 25,000 chemicals lurking in a single bottle of water, according to a study published in the journal PLoS One.

What the study found was mind-blowing. Much of the bottle water tested was full of hormone-disrupting chemicals.

Anti-estrogens and anti-androgens were present in most of the bottled water tested in the study.

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are man-made compounds interfering with hormone signaling and thereby adversely affecting human health.

Other Harmful  Substance Found In Bottled Water

• PFOA- this group of chemicals are known as “forever chemicals” because they are extremely hard to break down. To make it worse they can accumulate in the human body and cause a variety challenging side effects.
• Arsenic- Long-term exposure to arsenic from drinking-water and food can cause cancer and skin lesions. It has also been associated with cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In utero and early childhood exposure has been linked to negative impacts on cognitive development and increased deaths in young adults.
• Cadmium- frequent exposure to cadmium is kinked to increase risk of cancer
• Lead – People with prolonged exposure to lead may also be at risk for high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease, and reduced fertility.

Paying a couple bucks for store bought bottled water may be convenient, but the long term effect may be racking up some serious health challenges down the road.

So, what can be done? First of all stop buying bottled water! We now know water is essential to our health But, purchasing a high price multi staged filtration system for your home may be out of reach for most people.

The good news is that today, there’s a better option!

Therasage, a leader in InfraRed devices and applications, has created a unique one­ of­ a­ kind water purification system, “TheraH2O”. After many years of research, Therasage has come up with the only water purification system that not only filters heavy metals, harmful chemicals including fluoride, lead, chlorine, pesticides, and virtually all particulates, and then creates living, mineralized, alkaline, cellular hydrating healthier living water.