Modern drinking water originates from surface and groundwater sources that are presumed clean but are increasingly shaped by legacy contamination, delayed exposure, and system design.
For more than 40 years I've been using Reverse Osmosis water for drinking and cooking. But I've also started with whole house activated charcoal filtration because I don't want to shower in chlorine! I have the same setup at work and have a very large aquaponics setup with thousands of Tilapia and can do complete tank water exchanges right from the tap since my system removes 100% of the chlorine (and almost all other contaminants). A system like this is not crazy expensive (around $250) and should be done by everyone IMHO. And yes, it makes sense to add minerals back into your drinking water...
Just ordered my first bottle of Aurmina - I'm excited to try it! I live in the Pacific NW, where the water has always tasted fine, so I'll be curious to see what happens. Thanks for all your work with this - great information!
Thanks for all your work on this and every other rabbit hole you have entered in recent years. I just started using your Aurmina product in conjunction with my RO (Aqua Tru) purifying system. We have well water that was tested about 4 years ago and all was GOOD including a lot of extra testing that fell under some grant that our county was offering at the time. However, the re-mineralizing and structuring is why I'm happy to use Aurmina. All that said, the clean water tank looked slightly yellow the second time I treated. Thoughts? need final filtering?
When my aunt was born (1921), the delivering doc was in a rush. He had boiled the instruments, but then told my great-grandmother to cool them down with water. She told him it was a shallow well, but he didn't care (he had a to get his drink.) The result was my grandmother died of infection about 8 weeks later. But as some say, pay back comes eventually. The doc was operating on a person with an infection some time later, and when making an incision, he was hit in the eye with pus, later infecting HIM, resulting in his own death.
Ok, so we have well water and a RO system. We are using Aurmina to remineralize our water. I didn’t see you explicitly say that, if you have an RO system and are using Aurmina, you are avoiding the dangerous contaminants that you mentioned. Please clarify.
I am currently experimenting with the Aurema product. Right now I have used two water sources. Tucson’s tap water -brown sludge in the glass bottom after 3 days ,uggh! Decanted into my Berki. Then used Costcos gallon purified water, not perfect either but better. When I move on to San Diego in Spring and try there I’m sure it will be terrible!
When I move on to the Mountains in McCall Idaho in the summer where we get our water from a very clear lake river system , it should be interesting! I’m so excited to try this. It excites my undergrad organic chemist in me, lol.
I hear you. I have been traveling around and testing waters - lots of variability, but you know which municipal water is hands down the finest so far? New Yawk City baby!! My hometown.. I was at my parents and treated their water - nuthin. Totally clear (which is not a surprise as NYC is known to have good water)
Hmm. Not all TDS is the same, number doesnt tell you much beyond you are not at zero! Celtic sea salt "looks good on paper" in terms of having broad mineral content, but the others are infinitesimally small in amount- salts are so high in sodium and chloride you dont get the breadth as with other sources. Also, commercial R.O remineralization filters are also very narrow - calcium, mag etc but not much else.. Just some thoughts, full discosure, I am a big proponent of "mineral spectrum widening," the reasons for which I will be publishing soon.. it is the "gravitational center" of my book, but I haven't shared that chapter yet :)
We have allowed them to put systems in that completely contaminate our environment. Every day I see people totally uncaring and unaware of what they are doing in their everyday lives that contribute to the contamination - they run cars while they chat or pop into a store polluting the ground air, they buy plastic like there's no tomorrow, they spray poisons on their lawn proudly. Now if you're serious you want to clean the environment, we need to be talking about hemp over and over and over. But not a whisper. We ought to be putting together a structure where we incentivize, encourage and reward good care of the environment. I have put such a list together and it rewards people for such things as not having a car, not using pesticides, growing their own food organically, for putting out trash once a month rather than once a week, and many more. It attributes units or points to those who do these things. If anything it makes us all more aware of the damage WE DO OURSELVES by going along with what's most convenient. Once people would use the excuse that they're too busy, but now more people don't have jobs. Doing things in accordance with caring for the environment actually saves us a lot of time overall. But people are too stuck in their ways. Ugh.
Not to mention the general public can go into Lowe's and Home Depot and purchase any amount of chemicals for fungus, insects, fertilizers, etc, and just dump them into the yard without even reading the instructions. Paint gets dumped down the sink and into the storm drains just to touch on the tip of this poisonous iceberg. It's stunning really. The heads of these companies know it but look the other way. Our politicians know it but do the same.
For more than 40 years I've been using Reverse Osmosis water for drinking and cooking. But I've also started with whole house activated charcoal filtration because I don't want to shower in chlorine! I have the same setup at work and have a very large aquaponics setup with thousands of Tilapia and can do complete tank water exchanges right from the tap since my system removes 100% of the chlorine (and almost all other contaminants). A system like this is not crazy expensive (around $250) and should be done by everyone IMHO. And yes, it makes sense to add minerals back into your drinking water...
Just ordered my first bottle of Aurmina - I'm excited to try it! I live in the Pacific NW, where the water has always tasted fine, so I'll be curious to see what happens. Thanks for all your work with this - great information!
Thanks for all your work on this and every other rabbit hole you have entered in recent years. I just started using your Aurmina product in conjunction with my RO (Aqua Tru) purifying system. We have well water that was tested about 4 years ago and all was GOOD including a lot of extra testing that fell under some grant that our county was offering at the time. However, the re-mineralizing and structuring is why I'm happy to use Aurmina. All that said, the clean water tank looked slightly yellow the second time I treated. Thoughts? need final filtering?
When my aunt was born (1921), the delivering doc was in a rush. He had boiled the instruments, but then told my great-grandmother to cool them down with water. She told him it was a shallow well, but he didn't care (he had a to get his drink.) The result was my grandmother died of infection about 8 weeks later. But as some say, pay back comes eventually. The doc was operating on a person with an infection some time later, and when making an incision, he was hit in the eye with pus, later infecting HIM, resulting in his own death.
So if one uses Aurmina on RO water, does one still remineralize? Or is that already in Aurmina?
Ok, so we have well water and a RO system. We are using Aurmina to remineralize our water. I didn’t see you explicitly say that, if you have an RO system and are using Aurmina, you are avoiding the dangerous contaminants that you mentioned. Please clarify.
I am currently experimenting with the Aurema product. Right now I have used two water sources. Tucson’s tap water -brown sludge in the glass bottom after 3 days ,uggh! Decanted into my Berki. Then used Costcos gallon purified water, not perfect either but better. When I move on to San Diego in Spring and try there I’m sure it will be terrible!
When I move on to the Mountains in McCall Idaho in the summer where we get our water from a very clear lake river system , it should be interesting! I’m so excited to try this. It excites my undergrad organic chemist in me, lol.
I hear you. I have been traveling around and testing waters - lots of variability, but you know which municipal water is hands down the finest so far? New Yawk City baby!! My hometown.. I was at my parents and treated their water - nuthin. Totally clear (which is not a surprise as NYC is known to have good water)
In the other article you mentioned how RO takes out minerals.
There are two solutions that are easy and cheap. No need to do the steps for aurimina.
- add Celtic Sea salt to the water you consume. Sea salt has more than just sodium. It's also good to keep salt levels for health.
-get an RO system that has a post filter that adds minerals like this one I got a while ago.
https://www.amazon.com/APEC-ROES-PH75-Alkaline-Certified-Drinking/dp/B0DBCC23FN/
With the tds tester RO bypassing post filter I got perfect 0.
After the post filter, around 50.
Water supply with no filtration gives me around 350.
Also we should consider lithium orotate supplementation.
It's a win win.
https://michaelnehls.substack.com/p/essential-lithium-could-save-billions
Interested in this. Maybe you could do a post on it.
Hmm. Not all TDS is the same, number doesnt tell you much beyond you are not at zero! Celtic sea salt "looks good on paper" in terms of having broad mineral content, but the others are infinitesimally small in amount- salts are so high in sodium and chloride you dont get the breadth as with other sources. Also, commercial R.O remineralization filters are also very narrow - calcium, mag etc but not much else.. Just some thoughts, full discosure, I am a big proponent of "mineral spectrum widening," the reasons for which I will be publishing soon.. it is the "gravitational center" of my book, but I haven't shared that chapter yet :)
Yes. Tds is just an electrical conductivity test which is a proxy for dissolved solids.
If not celtic, there's other good salts for "mineral spectrum widening".
However, I'm not over paranoid about mineralization. Removing toxic fluoride, chlorine, and lead is what deals the most benefit.
The rest is a fraction of the benefits.
Also have you considered lithium supplementation?
Not the toxic stuff they use for bipolar, but lithium orotate. In areas that have natural lithium levels, crime and depression is very low.
https://michaelnehls.substack.com/p/essential-lithium-could-save-billions
Lithium is not just for batteries 😂
Check out Primary Water info to add to your great research noted in this essay. Thank you
https://primarywaterinstitute.org/
Ooh... you are on top of your game...I was just researching and writing about primary water last week!
We have allowed them to put systems in that completely contaminate our environment. Every day I see people totally uncaring and unaware of what they are doing in their everyday lives that contribute to the contamination - they run cars while they chat or pop into a store polluting the ground air, they buy plastic like there's no tomorrow, they spray poisons on their lawn proudly. Now if you're serious you want to clean the environment, we need to be talking about hemp over and over and over. But not a whisper. We ought to be putting together a structure where we incentivize, encourage and reward good care of the environment. I have put such a list together and it rewards people for such things as not having a car, not using pesticides, growing their own food organically, for putting out trash once a month rather than once a week, and many more. It attributes units or points to those who do these things. If anything it makes us all more aware of the damage WE DO OURSELVES by going along with what's most convenient. Once people would use the excuse that they're too busy, but now more people don't have jobs. Doing things in accordance with caring for the environment actually saves us a lot of time overall. But people are too stuck in their ways. Ugh.
Not to mention the general public can go into Lowe's and Home Depot and purchase any amount of chemicals for fungus, insects, fertilizers, etc, and just dump them into the yard without even reading the instructions. Paint gets dumped down the sink and into the storm drains just to touch on the tip of this poisonous iceberg. It's stunning really. The heads of these companies know it but look the other way. Our politicians know it but do the same.
Very informative analysis! Thank you!