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I've been drinking only boiled water for. Like fifteen years, as I learned from master Wong.

The taste of normal non boiled water in SF killafornia is rank . Low grade .

I drink boiled hot water still hot to cleanse an quart or two easy every morning before fruit and herbal tea.

Praise the Lord.

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All this boiling of the water will increase everyone’s carbon footprint causing the seas to boil.

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You can get a 4 litre distiller for about $100 in Australia - and a 4 litre glass jug to catch the distillate. Change the post-distillation carbon filter regularly. And, if the world goes belly up you can use it to distil alcohol.

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Distilled must surely be the only way to go these days if you have the option.

Better source water: wild from creeks/rivers, tap, or filtered?

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Mar 4·edited Mar 4

Here we arrive at a window into the #1 infrastructure and technology problem today: adulterants, adulteration and labeling policy and the new dimensions in toxicology and harm mitigation which result therefrom.

The entirety of our national potable water delivery system and quality standards are obsolete and in desperate need of engineering transformation. The related bureaucracies and regulatory schema are disgracefully obsolete, creating one of the input forcings that amplifies the morbidity of modern disease sequelae. There is a major need for recapitalization and expanded public works.

America was built by engineers and knowledge capital. America is being destroyed by rhetoricians and neurotics with personality disorders in predatory pursuit of rent-seeking and narcissistic supply.

Time for tough love. For the children. God only knows the magnitude of hormone mimics and endocrine disruptors and other man-made molecules and drugs that contaminate their milk, their juices, the water in their food, their drinking water, the shower mist that fills their lungs and the evaporation of open water sources in homes and buildings that supply airborne molecular contaminants for continuous ingestion.

There were always airborne toxic biota, metals and organic chemicals in the human habitat. But the immune systems in the humans there in have never been more degraded, injured and suppressed.

None of this is accidental, which begs the question: To which purpose is this being done?

Prohibition will not work. Engineering does. Reengineering and updating civil infrastructure should be Job One.

Better engineering and better, more intelligent and mutually oriented capitalization is where the most influential and important answers will be found and reasonably prioritized.

Sadly, there are not sufficient competing opportunities for graft, patronage and nepotism to give it an advantage over the status quo: politics conducted as an ongoing criminal enterprise.

Arguably, politics conducted as an ongoing criminal enterprise is the #1 cause in Years of Life Lost over the lasts 100 years of government Democide, deliberate and inadvertent.

Rudy Rummel was right: PowerKills.org

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Two facts about EDTA. One is that it is a strong chelator, using two electrons to bind. The other is that it is not very absorbable through the gut wall. My conclusion is that EDTA added to water containing nano-plastics would probably prevent most of the nano-plastic absorbtion and would be excreted. Questions that I have are what is the effect of boiling nano-plastic water with added EDTA? What is the effect of RO filtration of nano-plastic water with EDTA added?

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"Drinking Boiled Tap Water Reduces Human Intake of Nanoplastics and Microplastics"

Is boiling really enough? I use only distilled water for drinking and cooking.

In the past, after a while you would see limescale at the bottom of kettles or coffee machines.

Today it is an almost black substance that can only be removed with vinegar.

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Wouldn't it be better to filter water? The chemical reactions on boiling increase fluoride?

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They dont tell how long they boil the water for to get things to fallout to the bottom or miniscule amounts to stick to the side of the pan. Or how they get the 'clean' water out of the contaminated water, except coffee filters... which are now magically good enough to collect microplastics. You can boil away a whole pan of water to nothing and you will barely get any scale on the pan.

Sure. I never believe studies from chinese scientists. They are after all trying to kill us. I will stick with a zerowater filter and TDS meter.

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Tap water is not “potable” anyway.

The optimum cycle would start with filtering your water intended for kitchen work or drinking. The best way is to set up prefilters for the building/apartment and add quality filters in the kitchen. I have been using Berkey for a long time, efficient, extremely low cost, high quality, zero waste water. I gave up reverse osmosis after 15 years due to costs (waste water unusable). If you boil water from this filter, you are good.

This simple procedure will eliminate bottled water from your life - the best decision to be healthy you can make.

Filtered water is said to lose some of its mineral content, so you are facing another health-boosting decision: use quality ingredients in the kitchen. Real organic, not label organic. No, it will not be as expensive as we think.

If you want to go “extreme” (meaning: to care about your own health), you will change eating habits. Mindful eating (slow, sitting, phone off, tv off, radio off, quiet or nice relaxing music, no hurry) could help you fire all doctors. And you will need less “product” to meet nutritional needs and go “I got this, that feels great” when you finish your meal.

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Mar 4·edited Mar 4

I've thought a lot about this topic. We have two separate issues here: 1) the PRESENCE of micro-plastics, and 2) the particle's ability to continue self-assembly i.e. are they still active? Perhaps I'm wrong, but the particle's ability to self assemble seems to me to be the prime concern. We have now shown that freezing actually does kill their activity, and now boiling perhaps is doing the same thing. When boiling hard water, the micro-plastics and quantum dots are likely encapsulated or the particles stick to the carbonate thats in the process of plating out. So, heat may de-activate them, and they also settle or filter out with carbonates. My drinking water is all RO water, which I hope filters out most or all of the nano-tech particles and micro-plastics.

I've taken this theory one step further. When eating meat products, canned goods are pressure cooked (autoclaved) in the cans to higher than boiling water at 212F. They might be ok. But don't order your steak medium rare as it doesn't get heated very high (maybe 120F). Bacon for example, gets fried on a grill. As the fat renders out and it gets browned, the temperature goes far higher than boiling water. This again might be a lower risk meat as the temperature goes too high for q-dots to survive and stay functional as self-replicating units. B-fast sausage I wouldn't trust as internal temps dont get very high. Similarly, long-cooked items like stew, or chicken soup especially when made in a pressure cooker, gets exposed to temps much higher than boiling water at 212F. In a pressure cooker, temps might reach 215F, which may help kill their ability to replicate.

Regarding drinking water from surface water: lakes and rivers - DONT. These waters have been exposed to the constant rain of contamination from chemtrails, plus from sources of groundwater pollution (septic tanks, municipal discharge, etc.). Same goes for melting snow - DONT. However, a spring coming out of the ground will usually be safe to drink. If you're out hiking etc., do all you can to clean your water: boiling, filtering, etc. Well water is likely ok to drink, but if the hole was left open, be suspicious of rotting animal carcasses that fell in. Cistern water - DONT.

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Good to know boiling water helps, thanks Dr. Ana. I have reverse osmosis water in my home with a carbon pre-filter, plus I boil the reverse osmosis water also.

Some articles I’ve read about reverse osmosis water systems say it can remove the micro plastics if it has a carbon pre-filter:

“….. most of the RO filtration systems can remove micro-plastics, but not all. The best filtration system for removing micro-plastics is the reverse osmosis filtration system with a carbon pre-filter. While the carbon pre-filters remove chlorine, sediment, rust, and other contaminants, the reverse osmosis membranes effectively eliminates micro-plastics with their tiny pores!”

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Water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why do you realize that 70% of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water - to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Now a foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works. That is why I drink only distilled water or rainwater? And only pure grain alcohol...

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Yay! I've boiled my water for years not knowing if it was beneficial, but knowing it tasted much better than tap water. Thank you for posting this info. 🙏

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I started doing this after Dr. Ardis talk about snake venom peptides. Now I know it has other good benefits as well.

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ChuckP

I have used Doulton filter candles for drinking water from my well for 17 years. They filter down to less than 0.2 microns. They were developed many decades ago to filter the Thames river water for safe drinking. They are a micro pore ceramic device and require a housing to connect to your plumbing. I also use another filter GAC which is activated charcoal and silver filtering.

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