Bottled water is marketed to consumers as being healthy to drink. They often use images of pristine springs and glaciers in their marketing. However, a new study has discovered that bottled water is full of nanoplastics. How much? About 240,000 nanoplastic particles per liter! What’s worse is that they are small enough to get inside our blood, cells, and even our organs like our brains! Plastic in our brains cannot be good!
A new paper was released on January 7 by the National Academy of Sciences. They noted that, for several years, scientists have been measuring the microplastics in bottled water, which is plastic that ranges in size from one micrometer to half a centimeter in length. Some of this research has discovered microplastics in the Antarctic, the human placenta, and virtually every body of water in the world.
These microplastics spill out of our laundry machines and get into our soil, where they affect wildlife. They are also virtually all the food we eat and water we drink. One study in 2017 discovered that a single bottle of water contains, on average, 325 pieces of microplastics.
However, these studies didn’t measure nanoplastics. Now we know that every bottle of water has as much as a quarter million pieces of nanoplastic on top of the microplastics in it. Many of these nanoplastics come from the bottle itself but are also present in the water that is being bottled. It may even be coming from the water filtration process!
Researchers don’t know how dangerous these nanoplastics are. In 2019, the World Health Organization said there wasn’t firm evidence linking microplastics to human health, but said that there is an urgent need for further research. The problem is that they’re small enough to get into a person’s blood, liver, and brain. Plastic in our liver and brain cannot be good! There will probably be follow-up research linking these plastics to various health conditions. Why wait for the bad news?
The multi-stage water filtration system inside our premium alkaline water ionizers will remove micro and nano-plastics! They will remove other nasty contaminants as well, such as fluoride, chlorine, nitrites, and more. Plus, a liter of alkaline ionized water from our water ionizers costs about two centers versus a dollar or more for a liter of bottled water. We think the choice is obvious!
