If you use well water, it’s a good idea to have your water tested.

In addition, most municipal drinking water is contaminated with an assortment of toxic metals and chemicals, even organic chloride compounds.

Whole house filtration systems are a bad idea, because if you are away from home for several days or longer, the water in the pipes beyond the filter can grow numerous organisms and collect toxic metals.

The best methods for obtaining drinking water are either a reverse osmosis system at the faucet head or to use distilled water, as I do.

Add 100 mg of magnesium malate or citrate per gallon of water as powdered magnesium to improve its health benefits.

You should avoid all fluoridated drinking water, as well as toothpastes, mouthwashes, and dental treatments that contain fluoride, which is a very powerful toxin, even in the concentrations used in drinking water.

Aluminum — which is also added to drinking water — rapidly binds to fluoride, forming an aluminofluoride compound that is even more toxic than either substance by itself.

Studies have shown that in a concentration just one-half of that used in drinking water (1 part per million) aluminofluoride does significant damage to brain cells.

More than 50 studies have now linked fluoride to impaired IQ in children.

These compounds also accumulate in the bones and in the brain, meaning that over time the concentration in the brain can become extremely high.

As we age, we begin to lose bone. As bones dissolve, they also release any toxic metals they contain into the bloodstream, redistributing the metals to other tissues and organs, including the brain, heart, liver, and kidneys.

It’s like being poisoned all over again — but with a much higher dose than originally.