The Health Benefits of Drinking Filtered Water

It seems that every day, there’s a new way for us to ‘stay healthy longer,’ or ‘get super healthy in no time.’ One thing that always comes up even in the faddiest of health kicks is water – drink lots of water, all the time, every day, and you’ll feel better. It’s a magical substance that sustains us.

But then, not all water is made equal, and there’s no point eating clean if you’re consuming nasty, suspicious water. Buying a water filter could help you make sure the water you’re guzzling is actually doing you good. Try https://homefixplanet.com/best-faucet-water-filter/ for ideas.

Tap water contains chlorine.

Yep, chlorine. The stinky, eye-stingy stuff they use to keep swimming pools clean is also used to disinfect drinking water. If your tap water is highly chlorinated, you’ll be able to both smell and taste it. Drinking water should be odorless, but chlorine has a distinct smell and tastes slightly bitter. If, like us, you don’t like the idea of drinking chlorine, a carbon filter can almost eliminate it from your water.

Pipes are pipes.

Drinking water is cleaned of actual dirt at water treatment plants, but between leaving the plant and arriving in your tap, it travels through miles and miles of pipes sometimes. Now, pipes are maintained, of course, but some are older and even rusting, and that’s before it even gets to the pipes in your home, which could be even older. Just because you can’t see rust or dirt in your drinking water when it comes out of the tap doesn’t mean it’s not there. Again, a water filter can help you feel confident that you’re not drinking bits of an old pipe.

A bug’s life

So far, we’ve covered chemicals and dirt, but that’s not even the worst thing that can get into your water. Microorganisms and bacteria that can grow, breed, and make you sick can get into the water, which is basically the reason why chlorine is added to keep it clean. But then, as we’ve already covered, we don’t want to drink chlorine either.

A good solution is to eliminate chlorine with carbon filtration, and then zap any germs with an ultraviolet filter. Also, don’t leave opened water standing around! Yuck.

Don’t eliminate everything.

You don’t want to take absolutely everything out of your water. Remember, natural water is good for you for a reason. It’s jam-packed with minerals we need to function, like potassium, calcium, and magnesium. Some are now recommending ‘reverse osmosis,’ which takes literally everything out of the water, but you do need to keep the minerals where they are. Pick up a filter that leaves those in.

It should be tasty.

There are plenty of ‘healthy’ things that don’t taste great, but water shouldn’t be one of them. Filtered water is much more enjoyable and delicious to drink than water right out of the tap (although some tap water tastes better than other tap water), which makes you more likely to drink more of it. That sounds like a benefit to us!