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154 // Can filtering water reduce Hashimoto’s toxin triggers? [Hashimoto's Health Lab] · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast. Our summer series is the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  This series is going to be 10-minute episodes.
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  Every week, we'll talk about a specific tool or practice. We're going to cover
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  everything from environmental detox to stress reduction, energy boosters,
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  biohacks, and all of it is going to be designed to give you tools for better
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  health with Hashimoto's.
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  I'm your host, Esther Yunkin. I'm a registered nurse helping women uncover their
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  root causes and regain energy.
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  So these episodes are going to be short. If you are ready for a deeper transformation,
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  check out the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  It will help you identify your unique triggers and root causes so that you can
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  focus your own energy on what really matters for your health.
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  Are you ready to explore a new strategy for thriving with Hashimoto's?
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  Let's dive in. This is the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  There's a new word, new-ish word going around, and I wonder if you have heard
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  of it. It's called the exposome.
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  And basically, it is the cumulative or total environmental exposures that you have.
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  It's all of the chemicals and toxins and hormones and obesogens and everything
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  that has hit you all cumulatively. It's just a way to, you know.
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  To name that. And I have never used that word specifically, but if you've gone
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  through the Holistic Hashimoto's program, if you've gone through the Root Causes Revealed course,
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  the mini course, you have heard the concept because one of the biggest triggers
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  and root causes for any autoimmune problem,
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  but specifically for Hashimoto's, is the toxins that we are exposed to.
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  So your exposome matters.
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  And today's tool is one way to counteract that, and that is filtering your water
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  or looking at your water.
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  This could be a huge episode. I could do probably a series, a month-long series
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  during the winter, you know, 20-minute episodes of different ways to filter
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  your water and, you know, pros and cons of different things.
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  But first, let's talk about why your water matters and clean water specifically
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  matters, especially if you have an autoimmune problem.
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  Now, with every single autoimmune problem, you have three different things.
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  You have a genetic component, you have a gut component, and you have one or more triggers.
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  Your genetic component is unchangeable.
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  You are born with specific genes. Now, one common analogy that is said is that
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  your genes load the gun and then the triggers obviously pull the trigger.
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  So your genes, you're born with them. But what you are exposed to can impact
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  how that gene is expressed.
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  So we want to do the best that we can to make sure that our genes are expressed
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  correctly, that the bad ones are not turned on.
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  We want to make sure that all of the switches are flipped in the correct order,
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  right? And your body is awesome.
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  Your body is amazing. It's always striving for health. So let's support it as much as we can.
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  And here is what is in the...
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  Typical tap water. This is per the EPA studies.
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  So in 98% of U.S. water systems, you have chlorine.
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  Now this is changing with the Maha movement. I think Florida as of this month
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  or maybe next month soon, Florida is getting rid of chlorine in tap water.
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  I don't know about other states.
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  I'm assuming that other states will follow suit, because chlorine, like you've seen in the.
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  Hashimoto's Decoded, the Root Causes Revealed mini course, if you haven't done
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  that yet, it's going to take you less than an hour to go through,
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  and I'm going to help you figure out your root causes.
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  But we talk about the periodic table of elements, and I show you where chlorine
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  is, and I show you in, you know, a very simple way why that matters.
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  I show you chlorine, I show you matters for your thyroid that you have chlorine exposure.
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  Another thing that is in your water, at least in 70% of tap water, are PFAS.
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  Those are PFAS. They're the forever chemicals. They're found in 70% of U.S.
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  Tap water, and those are associated with thyroid dysfunction.
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  Microplastics, another thing in tap water. They are so prevalent.
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  83% of global tap water samples have microplastics. This is horrible.
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  We do not want to be drinking plastic.
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  And yet these microplastics are in our tap water. And that's,
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  you know, even if you're avoiding drinking out of a plastic bottle.
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  And yes, whenever possible, avoid drinking out of plastic.
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  Drink out of glass. When I am home, I have, I just use a mason jar,
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  you know, basic one liter or one quart.
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  A canning jar. It's glass. So cheap. You can get them at a garage sale for 10 cents.
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  I was passed down a whole bunch by different people at church,
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  actually, like, hey, do you want any canning jars? I'm like, yes, absolutely.
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  That is what I prefer to drink out of when I am at home. When I'm out and about,
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  I have a stainless steel water bottle because, again, I don't want the exposure to plastics.
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  When I have to get some water on the go, I'll go to the gas station and I'll
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  get you know a plastic jug of water.
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  I try to get the one gallon plastic jugs and then I refill my stainless steel
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  because I don't want the the squeezy plastics that are at the gas station in
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  all of the water bottles.
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  I don't know about you but I'm always looking for ways to reduce my exposome,
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  to reduce the things that I'm exposed to.
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  I can't control it all but what I have control over, I want to control.
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  So gross. Microplastics in our water. Another thing in our water,
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  pharmaceutical residue.
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  Yuck. We have drugs and hormones in our water. There are trace amounts of drugs and birth control.
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  So many women are on birth control and then they're peeing it out and there's hormones in our water.
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  So we have pharmaceutical residue in our water.
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  So all of this is going to contribute at some point to your exposome.
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  Exposome, whatever, you know,
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  to those toxins that you don't want to have bombarding you all the time.
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  So a high quality water filter is one simple tool that you can implement.
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  And I guess it could be simple, it could be complex.
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  This one could be however big you choose to make it. You can do everything from,
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  you know, a countertop system.
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  I will tell you the one water filtration system that I have been looking at the most.
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  Right now, our well water has been tested fine and I don't need an additional water filter.
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  But if I did, my number one choice is called the water machine.
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  Number one, the water machine is glass and it uses a carbon filter.
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  It sits on a countertop where you can get stand for it. I love that it's glass.
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  I love that there's not plastics that the water is going through.
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  I think there's a tiny, you know, plastic spout maybe, but for the most part,
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  it's glass and it's carbon.
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  It gets rid of everything. You get rid of the bacteria, get rid of the chlorine, viruses.
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  Parasites, fluoride, heavy metal, pharmaceuticals, petroleum contaminants,
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  BPA, and like I already talked about PFAS, it's going to get rid of all of it.
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  It gets the herbicides and the pesticides out.
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  The water machine is so good. And it
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  keeps the minerals in. So there's other ways to filter your water too.
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  There's reverse osmosis. That one's a really common and popular one because
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  that gets everything out.
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  The problem with reverse osmosis is that you have to add the minerals back in.
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  And so there's some chemistry and some playing with it. And once you figure
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  it out, I think it's not a problem, but it's just one extra step.
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  So for me, when I have been looking at water filtration systems and water purifiers,
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  that's the one that I landed on. I love the water machine.
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  I do not own one and the only way I can
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  get you a discount code is if I bought one first and like I said I don't need
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  one so I do not have a discount code for you but if you go to the website which
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  is just thewatermachine.com there's a pop-up that can save you I can't remember
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  what percentage when you buy straight from the company.
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  When you're looking at investing in this tool in you know filtering and cleaning
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  your water, you do have options.
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  Like I said, the reverse osmosis, the carbon, there's ceramic filters.
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  You can get everything from a pitcher that you put in their fridge,
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  or you can get actually in-fridge ones. You can get whole house filters.
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  You have a lot of options. Like I said at the beginning, we could do a whole
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  month-long series, the 20-minute episodes, on your different options.
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  And so for right now in this 10 minute episode, I'm going to tell you that the
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  one I chose, if I needed to invest in one right now, is the water machine.
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  And it would just be for drinking. It's not a whole house water filter.
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  It's not going to affect the showers, but it would clean up the water very,
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  very, very well. And you don't have to add anything back in.
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  But there's a lot of choices. So you get to make that decision for you.
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  But the biggest decision is choosing to lower your environmental toxin exposure
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  through something that you're supposed to have, you know, a half a gallon to
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  a gallon drinking of water a day.
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  That's a lot. And so it's one little thing that you can do that has a huge cumulative
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  effect, filtering your water.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  I'll see you next time on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.