FAQ about Reverse Osmosis

Q: What is Reverse Osmosis?
A: RO (It’s Nickname) is the highest level of water purification technology we have. Source water is squeezed, with ordinary water line pressure, through a man-made, semi-permeable membrane that leaves behind all of the potential, harmful contaminants to be flushed down the drain.

Q: Is Reverse Osmosis a whole house system or a drinking water system?
A: This type of RO system is considered to be a (POU) or a Point Of Use drinking water system, typically placed under the kitchen sink and connected to its own faucet. You should be cooking with RO water as well.

Q: Why can’t a common carbon drinking water filter do what an RO can do?
A: It all comes down to the size on the ingredients you are trying to filter out. A typical carbon drinking water filter can filter down to .5 Microns. You might think this is pretty small. However an RO filters down to .0001 Microns.

Q: Can I taste or smell if my drinking and cooking water is OK?
A: No. Aside from the undesirable smell of chlorine and perhaps other organic odors (fishy smell) you cannot taste or smell such things as pesticides, benzene , nitrates, MTBE or arsenic. Their presence is detected by laboratory work.

Q: If an RO takes out everything, does that mean it takes out the minerals in the water also?
A: Yes an RO removes minerals, including fluoride.

Q: Doesn’t our body need the minerals to maintain good health?
A: Yes, the body does require minerals, however the mineral content of water is inorganic, ground up rocks if you will. Our body needs organic minerals derived from fruits and vegetables. Do you ever recall anyone saying “You have a vitamin & mineral deficiency, drink more water. ” Probably not. But you have heard someone say “You have a vitamin & mineral deficiency, eat more fruits and vegetables.” Plants extract inorganic minerals from the water and soil and through the process of photosynthesis convert inorganic minerals into organic minerals that we can use.

Q: I have heard that pharmaceuticals are showing up in municipal water supplies?
A: This is true. Documentation exists that highlight studies confirming this.

Q: Since carbon drinking water systems are capable of filtering much of the potentially harmful contamination believed to be present in all raw water sources why is there a need to go further with RO technology?
A: Because of the extreme purity of RO water it subsequently has an extremely high osmotic
pressure that enables the water to be absorbed by every cell it reaches in our body.Concentrations of solutes within a cell is not infinite and when pure water molecules easily infuse into the cell wastes and toxins are bumped from the cells and are flushed from the body.

Q: Doesn’t regular carbon filtered water reach every cell in our body?
A: The fact is; NO!  Water with a lower osmotic pressure cannot permeate a cell wall if it is carrying more solutes than are actually in the cell itself.

Q: Why is it deemed so important that the water we drink and cook with have the capacity to permeate every cell in our body?
A: The answer lies in a cultural/health paradox. our culture misleads us to believe that by consuming beverages like tea, coffee, soda pop, beer, etc. that they represent acceptable fluid intake and we are sufficiently hydrating or bodies. The evidence suggest otherwise. Here’s an example to prove the point you might find hard to refute. “You’re out in the yard mowing grass on a hot, sunny August day and you’re perspiring like crazy and dying of thirst. You go inside and down a beer and return to the mowing only to find out that you did nothing to quench your thirst” It tasted good, felt cool and refreshing but did nothing to hydrate your body. It will simply be fluid in, fluid out. Pure water is the bodies source of hydration, beverages are a source of our preferences and pleasure.

Q: What is an example of an “Insidious, long term, health affect” that I am exposed to?
A: Try chlorine and trihalomethanes. We cook,  drink, bathe, shower and inhale chlorine day in and day out, every day of our lives. It has been convincingly documented that chlorine interacts with organic material in our bodies and creates a byproduct named trihalomethanes (THMs) for short. It is also convincingly documented that THMs are probable  carcinogens. If you accept the evidence then you accept you are accumulating carcinogens in your body day in and day out. It is argued that the source of bladder cancers and kidney failures are likely attributable to our chlorine exposure.

Q: Who is likely to purchase and use an RO drinking water system?
A:Anyone who takes their health and well being seriously but more specifically everyone who has made the effort to look beyond today's complacency and has confronted issues of long term health affects of a lifetimes exposure to the risks of pollution.

Q: Where can I get independent, credible information to corroborate what sales people have to say about water and the hazards of pollution?
A: Read this alarmingly compelling book by the acclaimed author Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. biology “Living Downstream” an ecologists investigation into the link between cancer and the contamination of our environment. WWW.steingraber.com Contact  the US Environmental Protection Agency WWW.epa.gov for papers on chlorine and THMs. Go to the National Cancer Institute at http://dceg.cancer.gov/people/CantorKenneth/html and see what he has to say about safe drinking water. Digest a fascinating book by F.Batmanghelidj, M.D. “Your Body’s Many Cries For Water”  WWW.watercure.com for information on our inadequate hydration of the body.

Excerpted: Water is the essential solvent of the body...It is the solvent, the water content that regulates all functions of the body, including all activity of the solutes that are dissolved in it ...  Adequate amounts of pure water are required to transport  enzymes, proteins, hormones and nutrients to sustain organ health  and for the production of the chemical messengers they produce to aide in the activity of every body function ...“The Body’s Many Cries For Water” F. Batmanghelidj, M.D

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