Do You Know Where The Water You Love Came From?
You probably have a preference of bottled water versus municipal or tap water. But do you really know what you are drinking? Dr. MJ Collier breaks down the differences between spring water, tap water, alkaline water, purified water, and vitamin-enhanced waters.
Bottled Water
Many large brands of water come from the same place as tap water. They literally getting the same tap water that your sink. Bottlers may use additional purification methods such as reverse osmosis to change or remove unwanted taste. Examples of basically tap water bottled water are the Disani, Aquafina, and Pure Life. So these are ones that we buy by the case, usually in stores, you know, in their price reasonably decently.
Spring Water
Spring water originates from rainwater that moves through underground and is filtered naturally by rocks and minerals after it’s pushed to the surface, the water is collected. And FDA, this is under FDA regulation that when the bottle is sold, it must contain it be the same composition as the original spring water source.
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Alkaline Water
Now something very powerful now months people to work out is alkaline water. Alkaline water is altered to a higher pH which some claim can improve your recovery from exercise or after excercise. So it does, but the body does an incredible job of maintaining its pH in a certain range, and so alkaline water usually won’t shift your pH outside of that range.
Enhanced or Vitamin Water
Now, some manufacturers enhance water by adding micronutrients and vitamins. The water comes in sugar, sweetened all sugar free options. In some brands, a 20oz. bottle contains 27 grams of sugar and that’s more than is recommended you should consume in an entire day. Also, vitamin infused water, may contain more than 100% of the daily recommended doses of vitamins B and C, but these are water soluble vitamins and so they are filtered by the kidneys and excreted in a urine immediately.
Purified Water
These are the ones that are probably different from tap water. Pure Life, Dasani Purified are examples of that and Refresh. They are label as purified. They have to go through a special process that may include distillation, deionization, or reverse osmosis, and these are sold in individual sanitary seals containers. Purification typically removes all tastes and odors from the water.
So the pros and cons tap water is called municipal. It comes from large rivers or reservoirs, and it used it usually has certain components and things like fluoride and one of the things that’s happening in the population is that people aren’t drinking the water with the fluoride in it. We have a large number of young people and adults that are having dental problems. Seeing more rotting teeth than you saw 20 years ago in young people.
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