Clean water and health and longevity.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, live long and prosper with us today? Is doctor Peter Milos? And what else do we have to do to make sure we live long? Doctor Milos? What do you have for today?

0:14 Speaker 2 Well, most of our body, we find out we know is made up of water, and the purity of our waters turns out to be extremely important for health and longevity. And a lot of the blue zones and the areas where people live a long time, the quality of their water is very very good. And some areas recently, for example,

0:38 right here in the Northeast, some of the bays and lakes have been found to be contaminated, like for example, on Long Island, there’s a place called Meecox Bay, and they found that it was in the top ten places that ended up positive for dangerous levels or something called entrococcus, And that’s a bacteria that’s an intestinal passage path and

1:00 basically it’s found in the poop, so it’s not a good thing, and it’s basically an indicator of how much fecal matter is in the water. So if you have your pets or dogs or children trying to swim, and I think that we need to really address the issue of the way we address individual houses. Forty nine percent

1:19 of the contaminants that go into the water come from these septic tanks, so upgrading septic systems will be an important thing in the future for protecting bodies of water. The runoffs from farms that’s coming off eventually leeches down and eventually gets into these tributaries and bodies of water.

1:39 And a lot of these chemicals, for example, the detergents we use the bleaches, you know, every time we do our laundry, So it’s better to try to shop and buy biodegradable type of detergents and chemicals that eventually will make it into the aquaphor or drinking water of many of our wealth. Some areas have excellent water, like New

2:00 York City gets its water from some upstate reservoirs in scantily populated areas. The problem is when you keep building houses and density and the more septic tanks, the more you affect the water. In addition, they’re finding these microplastics and the water everywhere, even in the oceans, and that’s also a big problem. And those microplastics are being found,

2:23 like for example, when they’ve taken biapsies of tumors and they look under the microscope. They’re finding microplastics in places like people’s prostates, and they’re finding out these things are hormone disruptors, and we don’t really know what the long term implications. And our ancestors even one hundred years ago didn’t have microplastics in their bodies and their blood vessels,

2:44 and they even found them in some of these part plaques, which is kind of scary to even think about. So these are things that we have to address. We talked about on WABC that some of the tea bags, you have to look at the type of tea bag because if it’s a past stick nylon made tea bag, when

3:02 you drop it into the hot water, they found it releases millions of these micro and nanoplastics into the tea and then we’re drinking it and consuming it. So that’s why sometimes it’s better to use one of those tea strainers and do it separately. Unless you see the bags are what are called silken, which is made of a

3:18 material that just degrades into without any plastics in it. So you have to look out for these things. And unfortunately, I don’t want to make people paranoid but we’re learning more and more that our environment, the things we’re consuming are toxic to us, and we’re seeing many, many more health problems and younger and younger people, and we really

3:41 need to get towards more natural as you always say, food to table food for farm to table food that’s fresh and healthy, so that we continue to live long and prosper and keep an eye on the water supply.

3:56 And if anybody wants to follow the story, they can follow the Meacock’s Bacon Servancy meecoxmecox dot org. And that’s an example of an organization that’s trying to clean up their body of water. And it’s also happening in another one called Lake Igon, So it’s fascinating. And these build ups of these algas that put out these bacterical cyanobacteria,

4:17 this tuxin that comes out of the blue algae. So they’re going to be putting alja harvesters and doing things like that to help clean up our bodies of water, because again, we’re made up mostly of water, and it’s said that we can’t drink all our waters out of the tap, and we’re all having to buy bottled waters

4:34 to especially when we travel around the world, because if you consume water that has a protozoa or bacteria or parasite, you can end up really sick. So water quality and protecting our water supply in the future will be extremely important, especially in the time of wars where you need to have fresh and clean water, and we have to protect

4:57 those areas, our reservoirs. Nobody tries to contaminate them and poison our water. So that’s a national security issue. Water security is national security.

5:08 Speaker 1 Doctor Peter. The other thing is I talked to one of the owners of one of the very, very large water companies and he said to me that some of the tap water he has just as much plastic as the water the water in plastic bottles. Any truth to that.

5:34 Speaker 2 Yes, there is. Some of the waters around the country have been found to have microplastics, because it depends again where the source of the water is. What I advise people is that I tell people what I do myself is I buy a standalone filter that’s basically one of these filters that you can have on the countertop, and

5:53 you pour your water and I pour my bottle water if it’s from a plastic bottle, through that, and that can collect as microfilters and carbon filters that can collect a lot of the microplastics, and that’s another second layer.

6:08 So that’s the water you can cook with, you can have tea with coffee with to try to protect yourself.

6:13 Speaker 1 What kind of filter is it? Does every name?

6:16 Speaker 2 I don’t want to talk about brand names, but basically they’re over over the count, over the counter of filters that have a carbon and micropore filter on top of them. There are many brands you can look at. Consumer Reports publishes a list of some of the top filters that you can choose, and then I do a secondary filter

6:37 every day and leave it in the refrigerator and I can use that for cooking, tea preparation, meal preparation, and even for drinking.

6:45 Speaker 1 One more item before we sign off. Bottled water in actual bottles, is that still better off than plastic water in plastic bottles?

6:57 Speaker 2 Absolutely, Glass is always better because and leach into the regular plastic, especially people who leave it outside or if it’s being delivered around the country or you get it through mail, it’s sitting out in the heat and Arizona somewhere at one hundred and ten degrees. Some of the more micro increased temperature of plastic releases more of the microplastics.

7:20 That’s the bottom, Doctor.

7:22 Speaker 1 Peter Michalos, thank you for your wisdom and thank you so much. I hope we both live to one hundred.

7:29 Speaker 2 Thank you John for always getting the truth out and interesting health information to our audience on WABC.