Just when you thought all you had to do was drink purified or bottled water maybe we should just drink the tap water and hope we ingest the drugs that we prefer. Chances are we’ll ingest way more pharmaceuticals that we want or need.
There are many methods to clean our tap water like purification, filtering and treatment with ozone or steam distillation but they don’t seem to break down these pharmaceuticals. I do not think any of these methods were created with the idea of removing man made chemicals with complicated molecular structures. I understand that reverse osmosis may be able to break down the pharmaceuticals but this is a very expensive water treatment technique and we know how much our culture and branches of the government enjoy spending money for our health. It’s quite evident that billions of dollars a day for water boarding seems acceptable but not for clean drinking water for our troops and citizens.
And just when I thought our water cleaning methods may treat chlorine, fluoride and maybe some traces of waste, it seems the chloride already added to our water to burn and scald our throats and sinuses or, as they say, to make it safer for us to consume, may combine with some of the pharmaceuticals in the water to make them more powerful and toxic!
These drugs do not fully break down in our own bodies so why should a little H2O break them down. After processing by our liver and kidneys they still drip and pass through our systems and find their way back to the tap. However, if we drink water with trace amounts of pharmaceuticals these drugs will seep into our system through our gut before our body’s filtering techniques even get a fair chance at it. And yes, I understand that these are small, minute traces of the pharmaceuticals but if you drink the tap water every day and take Oprah’s advice and drink eight eight-ounce glasses a day and you do this for twenty or more years; don’t you think when your doctor says you may have some strange abnormality that it may mean you are overloaded with pharmaceuticals that were never prescribed for you?
No wonder so many people say that drinking a glass of water by itself may cure a headache! Sure, chances are you may luck out and get some water with traces of Vicodin or Rush’s fave; Oxycotin. That will make you forget you ever had a headache! But what if I want water for a headache and I don’t luck out and get water laced with progesterone? I like my deep manly voice and the hair on my legs.
Sometimes I wonder if we have progressed at all. Seems to me that the ancient societies that were dying from drinking bad water were onto something when they created wine and other fermented beverages.
Life is short. I’m moving near San Francisco; an article mentioned a ‘sex hormone’ was detected in their tap water. I don’t like to purposefully take drugs but if I’m going to drink them anyway and there’s not much I can do about it; I’m moving near Frisco! This way, I can ingest a little Human Growth Hormone, Testosterone, Deca-Durabolin and a little Ecstasy and Crystal-Meth. Might as well have fun with it!
Oh, grow up!
Ó 2008 Carlos A. Perez
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