Fluoride and drinking water
I recently had an email from someone asking about fluoride in drinking water and its removal. I decided to post my response as well as email it.Dear ________
I am a nutritionist, although I once worked for local government in QLD. In that capacity I operated water treatment plants and ran the laboratory’s for them.
I have to say I understand your concerns about fluoride in the water. It is a rather nasty chemical and very difficult to get rid of.  There is currently only one type of filter that is on the market that will remove fluoride from you water. That is an aluminum filter which is almost as bad, in my opinion.
The filter that Nikken uses removes some/most of the fluoride from the water but it is not designed to do so and it is not legally claimable that it will do so.  I have had several tests done by labs and a large proportion of the fluoride was removed although there was some left.  This will also shorten the life span of the water filter as some of the chemical filter components end up saturated faster. This is not a claim that the Nikken filter can remove fluoride and should not be taken as one.  However, fluoride occurs naturally in pretty much all water supplies so it is natural for there to be some in all drinking water.
For me, one of the issues that you face is that the Nikken system does much more that just filter the water. Â For that reason I would not suggest replacing it with another system as you still need the magnetic and mineral stone properties of the system.
You have several options, some of them fairly expensive.  ”Water filter world” has small above and below bench systems that will remove fluoride.  These are the aluminum filters that I was mentioning.  They also have a small reverse osmosis system that will give you water that has everything removed, but you would definitely need to run it through the Nikken system and I would suggest putting it through an optimizer to remove the water memory of the treatment.
One of your main issues is that reverse osmosis and distillation systems give water that, to my mind, is worse for your body than what often comes out of the tap. For this reason I usually suggest that people do not use them, at least not on their own.
Beyond that it is very much price and personal opinion that will drive what sort of system you go for.  Your options are fairly much, reverse osmosis, distillation, and condenser systems.  The osmotic and distillation systems can be found at most good water filter stockists such as the link above.  The condenser systems are relatively new.  They are effectively a dehumidifier and a storage tank to collect the condensation.  The only issue with these is that they also collect any impurities and toxins in the air such as lead or other car exhaust fumes or particulate matter such as well as pollens etc.  However the water will almost certainly contain trace fluoride levels as there is fluoride in the atmosphere at trace levels.  Depending on your location and the lab it may be so low as to remain effectively unmeasurable. In this case it may not have any affect on you.
At the very low end concentrations fluoride is normally considered harmless to most people but if you have had a condition that fluoride affects then you may wish to consult a medical practitioner as to whether the condensation system is what you want.
The outputs of all of these types of systems are still not aligned with natural water supply quality so I would suggest putting that into the Pimag system and then optimize it.
Regarding your question about distillation.  Yes that would effectively remove all of the fluoride, how water stills are fairly expensive to purchase and run, as such it may not be your best long term option.
If you would like to talk more or ask any further questions feel free to email me.
February 15, 2009
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Tags: drink, drinking, filter, fluoride, Nikken, Pimag, Water · Posted in: Water
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UV Water Purification - March 8, 2009
UV Water Purification…
it was full of soap…
Hi
The naturally occuring for of Fluoride is Calcium Fluoride not the vastly more toxic Sodium Fluoride use in fluoridation projects.
One might have thought that if the reason for adding fluoride to our water was for health reasons was for health reasons – the healthier calcium fluoride form would have been used.
The choice of the sodium form reinforces the view that the real reason is the cost efficient disposal of a highly toxic industrial waste product. And health is a superficial cover story.
Hi, interesting post. I have been thinking about this topic,so thanks for sharing. I’ll definitely be subscribing to your blog. Keep up the good posts
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