Best water filter??!

[Razvan]

What is the Best water filter type?
reverse osmosis, gravity or distillation?
Suggestions?

 

[purple pill]

IMO....Distiller becomes very tedious filling it everyday or EOD, also has to boil away for 4-5 hours to fill a gallons worth.
Reverse osmosis for the win!! If you're even half handy and/or follow a tutorial from YouTube you can easily setup a basic under sink RO for as little as £100.
Or if money is no object just go for a tabletop RO

 

[FatOven]

Reverse osmosis gave me copper toxicity. You can read a little about it here. RO and distilled water are very hungry and dead; they will steal minerals from your body and dehydrate you.

Best thing you could do is get a local spring water delivered in 5 gallon jugs. We all know plastic isn't ideal but it's usually a very hard plastic (sometimes BPA free) and the water isn't heated in the plastic. RO filters are actually made of plastic and you end up with more microplastics in your water by using RO than drinking out of flimsy plastic water bottles from the store (which I wouldn't recommend either).

The 5 gallon jugs are very cheap (mine are $7.99 a jug) and they usually use carbon filters and UV to sanitize the water. You're getting clean, mineral-rich water out of the deal. I like to compare the water reports from different sources in my area. Some are higher in good minerals and lower in heavy metals than others.

 

[purple pill]

Reverse osmosis gave me copper toxicity. You can read a little about it here. RO and distilled water are very hungry and dead; they will steal minerals from your body and dehydrate you.

What was your setup? Whole house RO through copper pipes?

RO filters are actually made of plastic and you end up with more microplastics in your water by using RO than drinking out of flimsy plastic water bottles from the store (which I wouldn't recommend either)

Any lab reports confirming RO membranes adding micropastics to water? Never heard that one before, response from grok....

"High-quality RO setups, especially those meeting NSF/ANSI standards, keep leaching negligible—parts per trillion, if anything. Compare that to bottled water, where microplastics can hit 10-100 particles per liter from the PET bottles degrading over time. RO’s still a champ at stripping out 99.9% of microplastics already in the source water, which is why folks swear by it over tap or bottled stuff."

 

[charlie]

IMO....Distiller becomes very tedious filling it everyday or EOD, also has to boil away for 4-5 hours to fill a gallons worth.
Reverse osmosis for the win!! If you're even half handy and/or follow a tutorial from YouTube you can easily setup a basic under sink RO for as little as £100.
Or if money is no object just go for a tabletop RO

 

[FatOven]

What was your setup? Whole house RO through copper pipes?

Any lab reports confirming RO membranes adding micropastics to water? Never heard that one before, response from grok....

"High-quality RO setups, especially those meeting NSF/ANSI standards, keep leaching negligible—parts per trillion, if anything. Compare that to bottled water, where microplastics can hit 10-100 particles per liter from the PET bottles degrading over time. RO’s still a champ at stripping out 99.9% of microplastics already in the source water, which is why folks swear by it over tap or bottled stuff."

Yep copper pipes. The only way RO should be setup is with PEX but you're still getting dead water that will steal minerals and dehydrate you like I said before.

Don't have any studies for you but it's well known the filters are made with polypropylene. I remember it was discussed on this Strong Sistas podcast. I think it was around 17:20.

Spring water has been a game changer for my entire family. I rarely drink water because I prefer to hydrate through fruit juices, milk, coconut water etc, but when I do drink water I use spring and I only cook with spring. I do remember when I first switched to spring I found myself drinking so much less than when I was on RO. Makes sense.

Also the 5 gallon jugs I'm talking about are very hard plastic and are usually bottled just a few days before you receive them. I wouldn't compare them to poland spring bottles in recycled flimsy plastic that have been on the shelf for 2 years.

 

[Kray]

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