First, this thread on water filters is an essential prerequisite for the post to follow:
https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-54863.html
TL;DR, APEC countertop is the best system for those guys living in an apartment or condo that can't drill into their counters for the more involved undersink cabinet system. I personally know RVF members who have heeded my advice on this and feel the benefits. Berkey for full house and more intensive filtration is also very good.
Where to even start?
The report, published in the current issue of Fish & Shellfish Immunology, adds to a growing body of research pointing to problems with estrogen in the nation's waterways. Other research has found evidence of estrogen exposure in freshwater and some marine fish populations. In a previous report, USGS scientists found widespread occurrences of fish in the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers with "intersex" characteristics -- male fish carrying immature female egg cells in their testes. Other scientists observed similar problems in fish in Southern California and in labs in Canada and the United States.
"The fact that estrogen blocked production of hepcidins in fish exposed to bacteria gives more weight to the theory that estrogen or estrogen-mimicking chemicals could be making fish more susceptible to diseases," said Laura Robertson, who led the research. Environmental groups have asked U.S. EPA to ban chemicals used in many household detergents that are linked to endocrine disruption and gender changes in fish. One chemical, nonylphenol, imitates estrogen.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/estrogen-in-waterways/
Tangential to estrogen, but important and relevant enough to this topic that I feel it worth including here, the presence of massively over-prescribed ADHD, antidepressant, and narcolepsy pharmeceuticals, inter alia, in our water supply.
Instead, researchers fill them with rocks and organisms obtained from local streams in upstate New York. And in place of bubble bath, they add to the water D-amphetamine, the same active substance found in several ADHD and narcolepsy medications. The water in the tubs is mixed with enough amphetamines to make the organisms think they’re sitting downstream from one of Baltimore’s water treatment plants. The goal of this lab is to find out what the US’ heavily medicated population might be doing to its surroundings.
There, they persist for long periods without breaking down. Hormones in medications like birth control cause changes such as intersex development in fish and amphibians. Antidepressants have been found in the brain tissue of fish downstream from wastewater treatment plants. Research on the presence of illegal drugs in water bodies has revealed some interesting trends: drug concentrations are highest on weekends and skyrocket after social events, such as music festivals, where large quantities of drugs are often consumed.
Now here comes the more relevant part:
Before most amphetamines and other drugs and drug compounds reach water bodies, they pass through municipal water-treatment plants. For the most part, these facilities filter out regulated water contaminants like viruses and heavy metals before they’re discharged into the environment. But most treatment plants lack the often-expensive technologies necessary to filter out amphetamines and other potentially dangerous “chemicals of emerging concern.”
The primary way these chemicals enter the environment is when pharmaceuticals physically pass through people: when a person takes a drug, his or her body metabolizes only a fraction of the intended dose. Much of the rest ends up in feces or urine, thereby getting into wastewater (a small amount leaves the body in sweat).
Agriculture is also a problem. Most livestock in the US are treated with hormones and antibiotics, and, like humans, farm animals excrete some of the drugs they’re treated with. Contaminated animal waste easily contaminates the environment.
In the US, water that enters the typical wastewater treatment plant undergoes one to three rounds of treatment. The more rounds of treatment the water receives, the cleaner it should be. In the first round, wastewater is held in basins that separate liquids from solid materials (which are discarded). The next involves removing dissolved and suspended biological matter, like bacteria. In the third round, water is disinfected using chemical or physical techniques, such as chlorination and filtration, that help to remove more persistent contaminants such as toxic chemicals and nutrients. Once water is sufficiently treated, it’s discharged back into the environment.
https://arstechnica.com/science/201...-the-research-bathtubs-saving-our-ecosystems/
When girls are on any type of hormonal birth control, they piss estrogen, straight down the toilet into our water supply, which does not filter it out. Full stop.
It helps when you washing your hands, taking a shower, filling a pot of water to boil for food, to think literally of straight estrogen, antidepressants, and meth flowing out of the faucet. That's not hyperbole, it's the truth. Municipal water systems do not have the technology to remove it, so that's left to us. You should at least be drinking clean water at home, at the most basic level of effort. Even if you can't do a full home filtration system, get a Culligan filter showerhead. Something is always better than nothing. Take cooler and faster showers, which causes less absorption into the body. Bring your clean filtered water out with you so you don't have to drink from polluted water fountains, or heaven help you, a tap. I strongly believe this is one of, if not THE leading reason for the drastic increase in mental illness and homosexuality now affecting Western society.
Our bodies are extremely delicately balanced machines. While our bodies have the ability to handle a metaphorical punch from estrogen and other chemicals, what we are facing right now is a 2 ton wrecking ball of hormones and chemicals coming at it. Step 1 is to get some better armor, step 2 is to decrease the size of the wrecking ball.
I don't want these posts to sound alarmist, this is just the collection of findings I have made from over a year of study and experimentation on my body and a gradual understanding of just how fucked up our environment is now. Again, hope this is useful, and causes genuine and serious action in our community.
https://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-54863.html
TL;DR, APEC countertop is the best system for those guys living in an apartment or condo that can't drill into their counters for the more involved undersink cabinet system. I personally know RVF members who have heeded my advice on this and feel the benefits. Berkey for full house and more intensive filtration is also very good.
Where to even start?
The report, published in the current issue of Fish & Shellfish Immunology, adds to a growing body of research pointing to problems with estrogen in the nation's waterways. Other research has found evidence of estrogen exposure in freshwater and some marine fish populations. In a previous report, USGS scientists found widespread occurrences of fish in the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers with "intersex" characteristics -- male fish carrying immature female egg cells in their testes. Other scientists observed similar problems in fish in Southern California and in labs in Canada and the United States.
"The fact that estrogen blocked production of hepcidins in fish exposed to bacteria gives more weight to the theory that estrogen or estrogen-mimicking chemicals could be making fish more susceptible to diseases," said Laura Robertson, who led the research. Environmental groups have asked U.S. EPA to ban chemicals used in many household detergents that are linked to endocrine disruption and gender changes in fish. One chemical, nonylphenol, imitates estrogen.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/estrogen-in-waterways/
Tangential to estrogen, but important and relevant enough to this topic that I feel it worth including here, the presence of massively over-prescribed ADHD, antidepressant, and narcolepsy pharmeceuticals, inter alia, in our water supply.
Instead, researchers fill them with rocks and organisms obtained from local streams in upstate New York. And in place of bubble bath, they add to the water D-amphetamine, the same active substance found in several ADHD and narcolepsy medications. The water in the tubs is mixed with enough amphetamines to make the organisms think they’re sitting downstream from one of Baltimore’s water treatment plants. The goal of this lab is to find out what the US’ heavily medicated population might be doing to its surroundings.
There, they persist for long periods without breaking down. Hormones in medications like birth control cause changes such as intersex development in fish and amphibians. Antidepressants have been found in the brain tissue of fish downstream from wastewater treatment plants. Research on the presence of illegal drugs in water bodies has revealed some interesting trends: drug concentrations are highest on weekends and skyrocket after social events, such as music festivals, where large quantities of drugs are often consumed.
Now here comes the more relevant part:
Before most amphetamines and other drugs and drug compounds reach water bodies, they pass through municipal water-treatment plants. For the most part, these facilities filter out regulated water contaminants like viruses and heavy metals before they’re discharged into the environment. But most treatment plants lack the often-expensive technologies necessary to filter out amphetamines and other potentially dangerous “chemicals of emerging concern.”
The primary way these chemicals enter the environment is when pharmaceuticals physically pass through people: when a person takes a drug, his or her body metabolizes only a fraction of the intended dose. Much of the rest ends up in feces or urine, thereby getting into wastewater (a small amount leaves the body in sweat).
Agriculture is also a problem. Most livestock in the US are treated with hormones and antibiotics, and, like humans, farm animals excrete some of the drugs they’re treated with. Contaminated animal waste easily contaminates the environment.
In the US, water that enters the typical wastewater treatment plant undergoes one to three rounds of treatment. The more rounds of treatment the water receives, the cleaner it should be. In the first round, wastewater is held in basins that separate liquids from solid materials (which are discarded). The next involves removing dissolved and suspended biological matter, like bacteria. In the third round, water is disinfected using chemical or physical techniques, such as chlorination and filtration, that help to remove more persistent contaminants such as toxic chemicals and nutrients. Once water is sufficiently treated, it’s discharged back into the environment.
https://arstechnica.com/science/201...-the-research-bathtubs-saving-our-ecosystems/
When girls are on any type of hormonal birth control, they piss estrogen, straight down the toilet into our water supply, which does not filter it out. Full stop.
It helps when you washing your hands, taking a shower, filling a pot of water to boil for food, to think literally of straight estrogen, antidepressants, and meth flowing out of the faucet. That's not hyperbole, it's the truth. Municipal water systems do not have the technology to remove it, so that's left to us. You should at least be drinking clean water at home, at the most basic level of effort. Even if you can't do a full home filtration system, get a Culligan filter showerhead. Something is always better than nothing. Take cooler and faster showers, which causes less absorption into the body. Bring your clean filtered water out with you so you don't have to drink from polluted water fountains, or heaven help you, a tap. I strongly believe this is one of, if not THE leading reason for the drastic increase in mental illness and homosexuality now affecting Western society.
Our bodies are extremely delicately balanced machines. While our bodies have the ability to handle a metaphorical punch from estrogen and other chemicals, what we are facing right now is a 2 ton wrecking ball of hormones and chemicals coming at it. Step 1 is to get some better armor, step 2 is to decrease the size of the wrecking ball.
I don't want these posts to sound alarmist, this is just the collection of findings I have made from over a year of study and experimentation on my body and a gradual understanding of just how fucked up our environment is now. Again, hope this is useful, and causes genuine and serious action in our community.
