Is your
ineffective bath or shower filter or
absence of a bath or shower filter making you
ill?
If you don’t have a shower filter,
you may be absorbing toxins and endangering your
family’s and pet’s
health.
Being trained in
the traditional health paradigm I blindly believed the
government was protecting my family from toxins in our
water. Only after discovering that we had mercury, copper
and lead toxicities did I discovered the truth. I read
what other web sites claimed to be concerns but could
not verify their resources and references. After
months of medical research review I’m convinced that many
of us have a problem in our homes. I’m sharing my review
of the published research. Actual medical and research
references are located at the end of this
page.
The water and pipes in our homes and
businesses may be poisoning us. Most homes and businesses built
prior to 1986 have metal water pipes. Most faucets and valves
are brass, a copper, lead and zinc alloy. Brass is considered
to be lead free if it has less than 8% lead in it. Lead is used
to make the brass soft enough to make the stylish shaped
faucets. Yet, that softness allows the acidic water to leach
the copper and lead into the water we drink and bath
in.
You can test for
toxic heavy metals and chlorine in your water and toxic
heavy metals in your body.
I filtered our
drinking water to remove chlorine, copper and lead but
our body levels of the toxic metals kept increasing! The
following research shows, without a
doubt, that
we can absorb toxins
not only by drinking water, but also through our skin and by breathing the
steam while we take a
bath or shower, swim in the pool and taking a relaxing
soak in the hot tub. It’s estimated that up to 66% of the
toxic metals we have in our body comes from the steam from
that relaxing hot shower.
According to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), “approximately
one in
eight Americans is exposed to potentially harmful
microbes, pesticides, lead, or radioactive radon whenever
they drink a glass of tap water or take a shower.”
[i]
Not ready to start
using a drinking and shower water filter? Read
on…
The Merck Manuel
Medical Library states that the drinking
water in
the U.S.
should be tested for lead. Lead poisoning is most
often a long term disorder and may not cause sudden symptoms.
Lead poisoning eventually has irreversible effects.
[ii]
By the time you
have a problem it’s too late to correct the lead
damage!
[i]
Jobson MD,
Grimm SE 3rd, Banks K, Henley G., The effects of water
filtration systems on fluoride:
Washington
,
D.C.
metropolitan
area. ASDC J Dent Child. 2000
Sep-Oct;67( 5):350-4, 302,
304.
[ii]
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec21/ch326/ch326j.html
accessed 11/08/08.
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