What’s your take on Vivian’s information?

I’d like to comment on Reverse osmosis filters.

I heard recently that while RO filters take out all the ‘baddies’ in our tap water, they also take out all the alkalising minerals, so it’s not good for our bone health.

I tested the pH of both my tap water and RO water, and was disturbed to see that the RO water had a pH of 5.5, while the tap water’s pH was 7.

I’ve used one for about 15 years and had also been eating about 12oz of animal protein a day. I was recently diagnosed with osteoporosis, with a high risk of fracture.

The doctor was puzzled to see such a loss in bone density, as I don’t have any of the risk indicators for osteoporosis – don’t smoke, drink, have never been underweight, don’t have relatives with osteoporis.

It was only after doing some research that I realised that my food and water had been causing my body to lose calcium at a very high rate.

I’d never before heard of this downside to RO filters – it must not be generally known.

One remedy would be to use mineral drops to re-mineralise filtered water, but the important thing is to publicise this information about the acid pH of RO water and what can be done to rectify it. So when I read your comment about reverse osmosis filters I felt I should share this information.

Best wishes,

Nichola