Trying To Find an Affordable Way to Reduce/Eliminate Microplastics in my Spring Water…

…Was WAY More Challenging Than It Should’ve Been

But I Did Find a Great Option

I’ve been buying and drinking spring water as my tap water alternative for at least 20 years now. My idea with spring water is that I’m trying to drink something that is as close to nature as possible, without any chlorine/fluoride/halide treatments, and with as little pollution in it as possible.

Problem: Most spring waters come in plastic jugs.

There are glass spring water options, but they’re often expensive, I question the qualty of the glass as far as lead goes and the caps they use.

So: Shall I poison myself with lead that could impact my brain, or with plastics that mimic estrogen, may cause systemic inflammation, and contribute to the massive over exposure we all already have to plastic every single day.

The working expression among us water researchers is “we all consume a credit card’s worth of plastic every week.”

Not including the credit card I ate for fun yesterday.

This is a huge problem.

Especially for us men, who are already struggling with testosterone levels pretty much from the time we’re teens onward based on my research.

So I’m hoping for the lesser exposure to heavy metals when I purchase my spring water.

But spring water routinely tests too high for microplastics.

And with the different size plastics they’re finding, we have no idea to what extent we’re getting blood-brain-barrier effects.

So I’m filtering that dang water. No way I’m NOT filtering it. It’s just not worth the over-exposure.

The filters here have pores all the way down to the .2 microns size, so we’re going on the idea that the overwhelming majority (claiming a solid 99%) of the plastics can be removed via the below filter, AND, very importantly, can be done so AFFORDABLY.

The larger gravity filters are the Lambo’s of water filters if you’re not doing the distilled route.

But they’re expensive, and since 2020 and the world events, became scarce to come by…they sold out quickly and did not get restocked for countless months. We’re living in such an unpredictable world now, I believe we must-must have water filtration available.

Note: The coal tar filter; I have zero…”zero”…safety concerns about it. Based on my research and personal use of this product, it is both completely safe, and effective, and I will continue to use this style of filtration for years to come. The concerns stated about it are based on misinformation and they do not understand how this material is processed and utilized.  And in my opinion, doesn’t even remotely compare to the risks of ingesting so many microplastics.

The below is a great affordable option that I’ve chosen and am getting great results with. You can both check out the company’s website that explains the filtration mechanisms and what they filter out, the third party tests, and they have some great reviews on Amazon from some fellow water snobs like me that go into detail on the positive tests and results from the product.

Note: You may find yourself craving the filtered water once you experience it.  The body knows and recognizes what it’s been missing.

There’s about 20 minutes of set-up time for the product after purchase.  The funnel in the pitcher is a two-stage filtration system, the very bottom tip of it being a carbon-gravity-style filter that needs to be rinsed for a minute first, (separating from the rest of the funnel which you can’t see readily in the pic below), the rest of the funnel also needing a rinse-through.

We then put our spring water in the top of the funnel, filling to the top; the water drips out of the bottom of the funnel and sits at the bottom of the pitcher as shown in the pic.  I’d say it takes about five minutes for the clean water to come out for each fill-up.

I have the large size pitcher, so it gives me about two large glasses of water for each fill-up.  The large size is the only way to go with the amount of water I like to drink.

I noticed the difference in taste very clearly, and it’s awesome to know my microplastic exposure is now greatly reduced.  It’s speculated that plastic water bottle drinkers have as much as two to three times the amount of exposure compared to those who don’t drink out of plastic.

I then empty the filtered water into the lead-free glass water bottles and/or mugs you can find on the Store tab above.

Just another item in the endless line-up of things I need to reduce my toxin exposure.  This was a long-awaited must-have, and so awesome that it’s finally affordable.  The only options we had for a long time were $300 to $500 gravity systems.

Mark my word, I’m pretty good at predicting the future of the direction of the health industry; microplastic concern will get larger and larger and larger over time.  The only reason it isn’t now is because of the industry efforts to avoid addressing it.

A great affordable microplastics filtration system.  Click on the pic: