Posted on 06/20/2019 8:18:39 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
a New York Times article mocking a new craze in San Francisco’s tech heartland for bottles of untreated spring water sold by companies such as Live Water for $36.99. These start-ups extolled the benefits of drinking “real water… within one lunar cycle of delivery”.
However, not everyone was laughing. Some were taking notes. Drinking water is typically highly regulated, and the market for buying and selling untreated water remains small and anecdotal. But the website Findaspring.com shows that “raw water” has since become a global movement of people seeking out their own wild water sources. Eager users list and map thousands of natural wells and springs across the world for people to drink from.
“It’s got probiotic bacteria in there… Drinking raw water improves microbiome health.” He’s also observed that “drinking raw water as your primary hydration for a few days yields noticeably smoother skin”.
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If you are deficient in these minerals using this salt could be beneficial.
If you have bad kidneys it could give you trouble.
Yeah, in most of the world, ‘raw water’ is known by another name: ‘sewage’.
Drinking sewage means you’re getting the nutrients other life forms missed. Bonus!!
In San Francisco? Raw water from the streets paved with human feces?
Giardia! I drank well water at a rural ranch while 4 months pregnant. The few antibiotics I was allowed to take didn’t do it, so I got to keep giardia for the duration of the pregnancy. Fun. My immune system finally fought it off 2 weeks after giving birth.
Hey, that’s our Boulevard in upper middle class Los Angeles.
Celtic and Himalayan salt have better flavor and more trace minerals. For cooking they make a huge difference. You can get some in bulk at some stores with bulk bins.
That must have been awful!
Giardia alone felt like Muhammad Ali was in my stomach trying to punch his way out.
Mmmm, mmm. Connoisseurs of this kind of swill would have been avid customers for Radithor, radium-infused water marketed as
“Perpetual Sunshine” back in the 1920’s.
Inventor of this stuff had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin, his remains were intensely radioactive active from years of ingesting bone-seeking radioactive material which gets incorporated into skeletal structure.
Mr. Pitt, you’ve got to stop looking at that picture!
....and our stock will go heil!
“Actually, salts are not all the same. Different tastes, textures, additional minerals, etc. I use a couple different salts in the kitchen — partly for my own culinary amusement. :-)”
Himalayan pink salt.
They threw out religion and replaced it with new age fads. They obviously have extra money. The government needs to take their extra money and give it to people who can’t afford $37 for a bottle of water (plus $0.10 for the bottle.)
Cost...and a lot of wells have lots of extra bacteria introduce via leach fields being improperly run...like having diluted black water if you don’t treat it.
They need to drink hot dog water.
If you are deficient in these minerals using this salt could be beneficial.
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There’s not enough of those minerals in the salt to make a therapeutic difference.
For example, if someone can’t get enough calcium in their regular diet, they should take a calcium supplement. Overdosing on salt isn’t the solution.
Our water is untreated and only filtered for sediment. It is 18,000 years old from the Uintah Arch Paleozoic Aquifer, a federally protected sole source artesian aquifer.
Mmmmmm.... - so delicious!
My wife’s case of giardia helped solve a missing person’s case.
I have thought of marketing capsules of giardia as a guaranteed 20-lb weight-loss product. Probably wouldn’t be much repeat business, though.
Now that sounds like an interesting and unusual story. Go in...
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