Guest guest Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Kim, When I was researching water filters and purifiers, I could not find any reverse osmosis filters that removed fluoride. I think you would have to buy some type of extra add on to remove the fluoride, if that was available. LinnOn Jun 12, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Kim Hanson wrote:I believe reverse osmosis purifiers remove fluoride. Sorry if this is a duplicate post, I'm not sure which group this info was posted on. Apparently Wal-Mart/Sam's Club has a bottled water that is processed via reverse osmosis. When researching my own water purifier I was shocked to find out that it does not make any claims to remove or even lessen chlorine content. It is a carbon block. I still need to contact the manufacturer to verify. I'm on a community well. I'm still trying to get a hold of the company that runs it to find out if they are adding fluoride to the water. Kim in TexasFrom: iodine [mailto:iodine ] On Behalf Of braguet@...Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 8:05 AMiodine Subject: Re: Hashimoto's questionIn a message dated 6/10/2006 7:09:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, linnmiller@... writes:Regarding drinking lots of water, do you use a filter that removes fluoride?Is there such a thing? I have not heard of it yet if there is. Bonnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 The R-O unit I use claims to remove 98% of fluoride. The people who sell this particular unit have been very helpful to me. I have been using this unit now for 8 years and am very happy with it. The first link show how much of what chemicals are removed, and the second link is to their main page. http://www.h2ro.com/_Removal.htmhttp://www.h2ro.com/AlobarOn 6/12/06, Linn <linnmiller@...> wrote: Kim, When I was researching water filters and purifiers, I could not find any reverse osmosis filters that removed fluoride. I think you would have to buy some type of extra add on to remove the fluoride, if that was available. Linn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 You might want to be careful of vending machine water as there are no health safegarding regulations in place. See here for details: http://www.h2ro.com/_Vending.htm AlobarOn 6/12/06, Kim Hanson <khanson93065@...> wrote: I believe reverse osmosis purifiers remove fluoride. Sorry if this is a duplicate post, I'm not sure which group this info was posted on. Apparently Wal-Mart/Sam's Club has a bottled water that is processed via reverse osmosis. When researching my own water purifier I was shocked to find out that it does not make any claims to remove or even lessen chlorine content. It is a carbon block. I still need to contact the manufacturer to verify. I'm on a community well. I'm still trying to get a hold of the company that runs it to find out if they are adding fluoride to the water. Kim in Texas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Thanks, I'll check that out. I didn't research R-O units as much as the others though as they remove the minerals from the water, didn't want to lose those. LinnOn Jun 12, 2006, at 11:45 PM, Alobar wrote: The R-O unit I use claims to remove 98% of fluoride. The people who sell this particular unit have been very helpful to me. I have been using this unit now for 8 years and am very happy with it. The first link show how much of what chemicals are removed, and the second link is to their main page. http://www.h2ro.com/_Removal.htmhttp://www.h2ro.com/AlobarOn 6/12/06, Linn <linnmiller@...> wrote:Kim, When I was researching water filters and purifiers, I could not find any reverse osmosis filters that removed fluoride. I think you would have to buy some type of extra add on to remove the fluoride, if that was available. Linn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 I am planning on getting a Berkey Light water filter. I am impressed by all that it removes... beyond what a reverse-osmosis or distilling system can do, including, specifically, a filter just for removing flouride and arsenic. I am not sold on the process of RO. I don't think a distiller can remove VOD's, as they have a higher boiling point than water and some people I've read have complained that distilled water's ph is messed up. I am sure someone pro-RO or pro- distiller will correct me if I am wrong.) Anyway, before I stumbled on the Berkey, I was seriously considering a solar still... but it's those pesky chemicals I kept having to worry about. Berkey seemed the perfect solution once I finally found out about it. Katharine http://www.arkinstitute.com/themes/waterfilters.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Lakota Scientific sells non-RO filters with an optional fluoride filter. I don't know what percentage of fluoride it removes but just sent an email asking them. I do know they are a very nice company to deal with. Sharon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 I am suspicious of the Berkey water filter. The website says " Additionally, these filters will reduce chlorine, " but it does not say by how much. It does not mention Fluoride at all. Likewise it does not say how much organic waste is removed. Compare to R-O filtration here: http://www.h2ro.com/_Removal.htm Alobar On 6/13/06, mooredlighthouse <mooredlighthouse@...> wrote: > I am planning on getting a Berkey Light water filter. I am impressed > by all that it removes... beyond what a reverse-osmosis or distilling > system can do, including, specifically, a filter just for removing > flouride and arsenic. I am not sold on the process of RO. I don't > think a distiller can remove VOD's, as they have a higher boiling > point than water and some people I've read have complained that > distilled water's ph is messed up. I am sure someone pro-RO or pro- > distiller will correct me if I am wrong.) Anyway, before I stumbled > on the Berkey, I was seriously considering a solar still... but it's > those pesky chemicals I kept having to worry about. Berkey seemed the > perfect solution once I finally found out about it. > > Katharine > > http://www.arkinstitute.com/themes/waterfilters.htm > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 Alobar, I don't think you read far enough on the site. No matter, below are some links with more of the scientific studies you were looking for about the Berkey Light. This company has been around since 1847 - that's almost 160 years, more than 5 times longer than H2RO. Additionally, I take personal issue (because of personal life experience)with anything that openly professes itself to be the reverse of any natural process... such as REVERSE osmosis. I will take natural osmosis verses reverse osmosis any day of the week. Gimmie some rainwater, filter it through a Berkey, and you have a happy campler. Call it just being me... or just being unwilling to trust a backwards process. (See: Black Berkey, PF2, PF4, LSU report)at: http://newmillconcepts.com/BLight_brochures.html or http://www.jamesfilter.com/specifications.htm or http://www.pleasanthillgrain.com/berkey_light_big_berkey_water_filter _british_berkefeld_portable_purifier.asp Katharine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 I am not sure what to look at on the first link as it lists a bunch of different PDF files. The second link talks about efficiency in removing particles. Nothing about eith Chlorine or Fluoride. The third link talks about reducing heavy metals but it does not say how much it reduces them. Again, no mention of Chlorine or Fluoride. Since this thread began with questions about Fluoride removal, it seems to me that one would want a unit which actually removes Fluoride. Just because something has been around a long time does not make it better. I am not saying because a process is new, that makes it better either. One must evaluate each option for oneself. The Berkey unit looks good if I wanted to drink lake water and remove bacteria and sediment. Especially useful if no electricity is available. To me, when using city water, removal of chlorine and fluoride seems like a much higher priority. Reverse osmosis isn't against nature. Buckminster Fuller once commented (paraphrasing from memory here)That which is against nature is imposible. The thyroid concentrates Iodine from the blood. That is reverse osmosis. Nothing un-natural about it at all. Alobar On 6/13/06, mooredlighthouse <mooredlighthouse@...> wrote: > Alobar, I don't think you read far enough on the site. No matter, > below are some links with more of the scientific studies you were > looking for about the Berkey Light. This company has been around > since 1847 - that's almost 160 years, more than 5 times longer than > H2RO. Additionally, I take personal issue (because of personal life > experience)with anything that openly professes itself to be the > reverse of any natural process... such as REVERSE osmosis. I will > take natural osmosis verses reverse osmosis any day of the week. > Gimmie some rainwater, filter it through a Berkey, and you have a > happy campler. Call it just being me... or just being unwilling to > trust a backwards process. > > (See: Black Berkey, PF2, PF4, LSU report)at: > http://newmillconcepts.com/BLight_brochures.html > > or > > http://www.jamesfilter.com/specifications.htm > > or > > http://www.pleasanthillgrain.com/berkey_light_big_berkey_water_filter > _british_berkefeld_portable_purifier.asp > > > Katharine > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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