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Lithium in tap water

Lithium and Tap Water

While we usually talk about contaminants negatively impacting your health if we find it in drinking water – lithium is a rare example of an element that may actually benefit...

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Is Plastic Piping Safe?

Is Plastic Piping Safe?

The pipes that carry your tap water come in a variety of materials–from lead to copper to plastic. With lead piping now illegal and copper piping very expensive, that brings...

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Phthalates and Drinking Water

Phthalates and Drinking Water

What are phthalates and are they dangerous? You can’t smell them, taste them, or perhaps even pronounce them, but phthalates are everywhere. Therefore, due to leaching, weathering and disintegration, they...

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Aluminum and Alzheimer’s Disease: Is There a Link?

Aluminum and Alzheimer’s Disease: Is There a Link?

Although some of the risk factors for Alzheimer’s cannot be changed, we can influence other potential causes of the neurodegenerative illness. Environmental exposure is one of those risks we can...

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How Dangerous Are Pesticides in Water?

How Dangerous Are Pesticides in Water?

Our entire food system relies on pesticides. One of the primary ways that pesticides work their way into the water supply is by seeping through the soil to the groundwater....

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Heavy Metals and Bioaccumulation explained

Heavy Metals And Bioaccumulation: What You Need to Know

Heavy metals are natural elements that—in high doses—are poisonous to humans. What are heavy metals, and what does it mean for them to bioaccumulate? Why is heavy metals bioaccumulation dangerous...

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What To Do If You Have Mold In Your Home

What To Do If You Have Mold In Your Home

Mold has been living on our planet for millions of years, and there is always some mold everywhere. The infamous “toxic mold”–which refers to the varieties that release mycotoxins into...

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Glyphosate: How the Most Common Herbicide Puts Tap Water at Risk

Glyphosate and Tap Water: Are You At Risk?

Have you ever wondered how the food production industry has been able to keep up with feeding our world’s rapidly growing population? Or perhaps, what your food goes through before...

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