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Ep 17 - The Hydration Episode
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Grab your mug and let’s talk about why hydration got so complicated—and how to fix it without needing a $15 K filtration system. Peppermint tea, hot cocoa chemistry, and why “fancy hose water” isn’t hydrating you. We break down bottled vs. tap vs. well, RO and remineralizing, plastic pitfalls, travel electrolytes, kid bath filters, and the energetics/structure of water. Plus: easy ways to upgrade hydration at any budget and our upcoming in-person Disney water tasting (follow @dr.natalierichards + @dr.feliciadevine).
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Transcript
Intro
Podcast Intro and Beverage Alternatives
00:00:51
Felicia Devine
Hello and welcome back to episode 17.
00:00:53
Natalie Richards
Hey, Felicia.
00:00:54
Felicia Devine
Hey, Natalie.
00:00:56
Natalie Richards
We have a good episode today.
00:00:58
Felicia Devine
i love how we've like crafted our intro to always be the same.
00:01:01
Natalie Richards
i know, our intros and outros.
00:01:02
Felicia Devine
but
00:01:04
Natalie Richards
I always say bye.
00:01:05
Felicia Devine
but I always just say, and that's it. We're done. Are you drinking peppermint tea again?
00:01:12
Natalie Richards
Of course, it's working.
00:01:14
Felicia Devine
I actually drank peppermint tea twice this week.
00:01:17
Natalie Richards
did you?
00:01:18
Felicia Devine
You inspired me.
00:01:19
Natalie Richards
i I actually think it's very enjoyable.
00:01:22
Felicia Devine
It is. And I've been craving a fun drink in the afternoon when I'm adjusting because I love just like sipping on a coffee throughout the morning shift and just kind of like carrying it around.
00:01:31
Natalie Richards
Agreed.
00:01:31
Felicia Devine
i love an accessory and I love leaving it all around my office.
00:01:33
Natalie Richards
Agreed. Give me something to do with my hands. yeah
00:01:37
Felicia Devine
oh I think I have ADHD. but So in the afternoons, I'm like, I don't need another coffee. So I found
Coffee Aversion and Hot Chocolate Recipes
00:01:46
Felicia Devine
peppermint tea at my office. I'm not a tea drinker, but you inspired me.
00:01:49
Natalie Richards
I haven't really been either, but I've i've been liking it.
00:01:52
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:01:52
Natalie Richards
So.
00:01:53
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:01:53
Natalie Richards
I usually only they drink it like if I'm sick, but now I'm actually liking it for other things.
00:01:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:01:59
Natalie Richards
So maybe.
00:01:59
Felicia Devine
Are we maturing? Are we mature?
00:02:04
Natalie Richards
sometimes like I do love coffee, but sometimes I just don't want it. i don't know why.
00:02:09
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Are you pregnant?
00:02:10
Natalie Richards
Like I'm – no, I better not be No, I'm not.
00:02:14
Felicia Devine
I despise coffee.
00:02:14
Natalie Richards
Because when I was pregnant, ohs it was the last thing I could think about putting in my body.
00:02:16
Felicia Devine
Yeah. yeah
00:02:19
Natalie Richards
Mm-mm.
00:02:20
Felicia Devine
Dan would make it in the morning and I couldn't even smell it. It was so yucky. I wonder why coffee is so repulsive.
00:02:26
Natalie Richards
it's funny. I don't know.
00:02:27
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:02:27
Natalie Richards
I, Lord, did I want a hot chocolate though. i
00:02:31
Felicia Devine
You tried to get me drinking element hot chocolate.
00:02:31
Natalie Richards
drank,
00:02:34
Natalie Richards
okay, that is not that great, but a regular old hot chocolate when I was pregnant hit.
00:02:43
Felicia Devine
How do you make your hot chocolate?
00:02:45
Natalie Richards
i
00:02:45
Felicia Devine
Because I don't like it.
00:02:45
Natalie Richards
okay, this is complicated.
00:02:48
Felicia Devine
When is it not?
00:02:48
Natalie Richards
doesn't have to be this complicated. Everything I do is complicated.
00:02:53
Felicia Devine
You're like, it's not Swiss Miss water. It's okay.
00:02:55
Natalie Richards
Heck to the no. And Jean loves a hot cocoa. So I have to make this frequently and I've figured it out on how to actually do it.
00:02:58
Felicia Devine
Does he? Okay. Okay. What's your, what's your hot cocoa?
00:03:03
Natalie Richards
Okay. So i have to make my own chocolate syrup basically is what I do with maple syrup and cocoa powder.
00:03:07
Felicia Devine
Gosh, Natalie.
00:03:12
Natalie Richards
And it's the only way to make it work because...
00:03:14
Felicia Devine
Fresh every time.
00:03:17
Felicia Devine
What's your ratio?
00:03:19
Natalie Richards
I put like a little blurb of maple syrup and like a tablespoon, maybe like two teaspoons of cocoa powder and you have to just like either – do like pop it in the microwave for like 10 seconds to like me and have it mixed together and you make like a syrup and then you put that in the warmed milk.
00:03:26
Felicia Devine
Okay. You're like making a matcha.
00:03:33
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:03:36
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:03:40
Natalie Richards
So I'm like warming milk on the stove and
00:03:43
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:03:44
Natalie Richards
If you don't, then the the cocoa powder just doesn't absorb. Like it you're mixing it for hours.
00:03:48
Felicia Devine
Right. Right.
00:03:50
Natalie Richards
So you have to make a syrup.
00:03:51
Felicia Devine
It's like my prenatal.
00:03:53
Natalie Richards
h
00:03:56
Natalie Richards
It's way more complicated than it needs to be.
00:03:56
Felicia Devine
Okay. Okay. Have you heard of bone broth hot chocolate?
00:04:02
Natalie Richards
I have heard of it.
00:04:03
Felicia Devine
Have you tried it?
00:04:03
Natalie Richards
i don't think – no, I don't think I would like it. and
00:04:06
Felicia Devine
oh
00:04:06
Natalie Richards
i want it to just taste like – want it to be milk. i need If I'm going to drink a hot chocolate, it better not be made with water.
00:04:14
Felicia Devine
No.
00:04:14
Natalie Richards
It better not be made with him brought bone and broth. No.
00:04:18
Felicia Devine
Okay. Okay.
Wine Preferences and Personal Branding
00:04:19
Natalie Richards
i
00:04:19
Felicia Devine
I've had a few patients that like are pregnant and love a bone broth hot chocolate and I just have never tried it.
00:04:25
Natalie Richards
Maybe I'll try it.
00:04:26
Felicia Devine
I don't know.
00:04:28
Natalie Richards
I don't know.
00:04:28
Felicia Devine
Maybe we need to do a hot cocoa tasting.
00:04:30
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:04:32
Felicia Devine
you No, I just have never liked hot cocoa longer than like three sips.
00:04:37
Natalie Richards
Yeah, because it's always too sweet.
00:04:39
Felicia Devine
I think that, and it's like so tacky in my mouth, the after effects. I get like the opposite of cotton mouth.
00:04:45
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:04:47
Felicia Devine
I get like, like Play-Doh mouth.
00:04:51
Natalie Richards
I'll make it for you. You'll enjoy it.
00:04:53
Felicia Devine
Okay, Natalie's going to make me a hot cocoa, and then she's going to spike it.
00:04:58
Natalie Richards
so Wait, are we back on the sauce? Are we drinking That's true.
00:05:04
Felicia Devine
Actually, because I need to get pregnant.
00:05:09
Natalie Richards
I had a long time that I drank nothing.
00:05:09
Felicia Devine
I have to behave. Yeah.
00:05:12
Natalie Richards
Now I've been like, a dabble occasionally, but like
00:05:14
Felicia Devine
had, okay, I'll be honest. I had a beer last night.
00:05:17
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:05:17
Felicia Devine
She had beer.
00:05:18
Natalie Richards
Okay. Okay.
00:05:18
Felicia Devine
Her nose got stuffy. Man, an IPA will stuff up my nose faster than faster than a flower up my nose.
00:05:20
Natalie Richards
o Oh, two seconds. Yep. Yep.
00:05:27
Felicia Devine
I don't know.
00:05:27
Natalie Richards
I also know by the first sip of wine, whether it has additives in it or not, because I will get like immediate inflammation in my sinuses.
00:05:31
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:05:38
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:05:38
Felicia Devine
Is that from the additives? What do they call that? No. Isn't there a term for it?
00:05:44
Natalie Richards
like sulfates and sulfites, but then there's like they add – like in the U.S., they add like 500 different add additives that you can possibly – it's horrible.
00:05:46
Felicia Devine
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that what people are allergic to? It's like a cigarette. Okay.
00:05:56
Natalie Richards
So that's why I can only drink – I can only drink Spanish, Italian, French wine.
00:06:02
Felicia Devine
Natalie, you are the most interesting. Wait, let's, for all the people that aren't looking at our, we should, because I don't know anything about wine and I'm not really into wine.
00:06:05
Natalie Richards
We should have a wine episode actually.
00:06:12
Felicia Devine
For those of you that are not watching this episode, if you're not watching our episodes yet, you should start doing that on Apple Podcasts. But if you can't see Natalie, Natalie, tell us what your hat says.
00:06:24
Natalie Richards
My hat says expensive and difficult. And if that doesn't sum up every decision that I make, i don't know what does.
00:06:32
Felicia Devine
Her hot chocolate is expensive and it's difficult to make. Her wine is expensive and difficult to source. Natalie, you're on brand.
00:06:40
Natalie Richards
That is my brand. That is me.
00:06:42
Felicia Devine
and love it.
00:06:42
Natalie Richards
That is me.
00:06:43
Felicia Devine
I love it.
00:06:43
Natalie Richards
So.
00:06:44
Felicia Devine
And for those of you that don't know, when Natalie went to buy this hat, it was the only hat on the shelf.
00:06:49
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:06:49
Felicia Devine
So it was made for Natalie.
00:06:51
Natalie Richards
Yes, it was it was for me.
00:06:52
Felicia Devine
One of one.
00:06:53
Natalie Richards
For me. She also said that she's like, I'm going to order like 30 more of these because apparently a lot of people have this brand.
00:07:00
Felicia Devine
Are expensive and difficult.
Water Quality and Filtration Methods
00:07:02
Felicia Devine
You're like, and no, no, you should buy them all up so nobody else can wear them.
00:07:05
Natalie Richards
I should.
00:07:07
Felicia Devine
Yeah. We should make our own trucker hat and make it say something that we say.
00:07:11
Natalie Richards
i I was thinking about that also.
00:07:13
Natalie Richards
and
00:07:13
Felicia Devine
What would our quotes be?
00:07:14
Natalie Richards
It's going to happen.
00:07:15
Felicia Devine
Not for me.
00:07:16
Natalie Richards
That's perfect. That's good.
00:07:19
Felicia Devine
Not for me.
00:07:20
Natalie Richards
wait that's a really good one.
00:07:21
Felicia Devine
Yeah, I like that one.
00:07:22
Natalie Richards
I love that. As a hat, I love that.
00:07:23
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Okay, so we're going to sell merch.
00:07:27
Natalie Richards
I think that's amazing. Okay, we're going to brainstorm about this.
00:07:28
Felicia Devine
Is that our first merch drop?
00:07:31
Natalie Richards
Another thing that's expensive and difficult though is our water as it always has been.
00:07:31
Felicia Devine
Dan? Oh, tell me. Oh. We... We take something that is so accessible, so free, so easy to source, and we make it so expensive.
00:07:44
Natalie Richards
So free.
00:07:49
Natalie Richards
Okay. But in the US, it is not that great and accessible to have good quality water, actually.
00:07:54
Felicia Devine
No. Yes, yes.
00:07:56
Natalie Richards
So yes, like you're not going to die.
00:07:57
Felicia Devine
We have clean water per the rest of the world.
00:08:01
Natalie Richards
Diphtheria.
00:08:02
Felicia Devine
You're not going to get malaria. What do you get from waterborne illness?
00:08:07
Natalie Richards
Diphtheria.
00:08:08
Felicia Devine
Diphtheria, not malaria. That's from a bug, right?
00:08:13
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:08:13
Felicia Devine
That's from a mosquito.
00:08:14
Natalie Richards
Mosquito.
00:08:17
Felicia Devine
I had to dive down, wait, side note.
00:08:20
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:08:20
Felicia Devine
I had to dive down microbiology, microorganisms in my brain on the spot during a new patient exam the other day.
00:08:25
Natalie Richards
Oh my.
00:08:29
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:08:31
Felicia Devine
had a patient in that presented 17-year-old female. She had crazy, almost neurologic symptoms. And I say almost.
00:08:38
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:08:39
Felicia Devine
She had neurologic symptoms. She was borderline meningitis.
00:08:44
Natalie Richards
Mm.
00:08:45
Felicia Devine
Couldn't figure out what was going on
00:08:47
Natalie Richards
Mm.
00:08:48
Felicia Devine
Raging headache. Neck pain. Could barely move. Sat in a crunched over position.
00:08:50
Natalie Richards
Mm. Ooh.
00:08:53
Felicia Devine
a Slight fever.
00:08:54
Felicia Devine
Wasn't high. That's why I was like, maybe not meningitis. And then she was like yeah, I can barely eat. And I was like, what do you mean you can barely eat? And she was like, my tongue is disintegrating.
00:08:54
Natalie Richards
Oh.
00:09:04
Natalie Richards
Disintegrating.
00:09:05
Felicia Devine
She showed me her tongue, Natalie. It was, it wasn't flaking because that's like surface level. It was like multiple epithelial levels deep.
00:09:14
Natalie Richards
What?
00:09:14
Felicia Devine
like Like, like, like, disintegrating is the only word.
00:09:16
Natalie Richards
Like ulcerous?
00:09:19
Felicia Devine
No, not ulcers.
00:09:20
Natalie Richards
What?
00:09:21
Felicia Devine
Like, the edges of her tongue were like ridged in like, if you were to like fray out, but like deep, cavernous.
00:09:25
Natalie Richards
Oh, okay. Okay. Okay.
00:09:31
Natalie Richards
Holy cow.
00:09:32
Felicia Devine
It was crazy.
00:09:33
Natalie Richards
I mean, I started thinking Lyme disease 1 million percent.
00:09:33
Felicia Devine
And
00:09:36
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:09:36
Felicia Devine
I said that I said, Mono, she was not totally meningitis presenting, but also like, you can't rule that out.
00:09:43
Natalie Richards
No.
00:09:44
Felicia Devine
then I was like, okay, what else did i what else did I brainstorm? Lyme.
00:09:49
Natalie Richards
why was she Why was she in your office?
00:09:49
Felicia Devine
Cause she had a headache. I said, I know the bounds of chiropractic and you are due to be in the yeah er right now.
00:09:57
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:09:58
Felicia Devine
I sent her to the ER. So yeah it was crazy. And they were like, no, I think she needs an adjustment. And i was like, whoa,
00:10:07
Natalie Richards
Yeah, not after she not until after she's thoroughly checked out.
00:10:07
Felicia Devine
lo Yeah, so no, I literally was racking my brain about microorganisms and I was like, gosh. And then the mom was like the mom was like, well, what should I ask for them to test when I get there?
00:10:15
Natalie Richards
oh shoot.
00:10:19
Felicia Devine
And I was like, okay, well, we have a mononucleotide and we have, I'm blanking. I literally was like, i am, am like pretty versed in like Western ailments testing just because like school taught us the like entry level things.
00:10:30
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:10:38
Felicia Devine
But I'm like, I don't use, yeah.
00:10:38
Natalie Richards
Infectious disease, though, is not...
00:10:40
Felicia Devine
But I'm like, i don't see enough of it to be like, oh, that's like a classic sign of this.
00:10:42
Natalie Richards
No. no Oh, my.
00:10:46
Felicia Devine
And I just like, didn't know what to do. And then halfway through the conversation, the mom's like, oh yeah, my tongue did that when I was pregnant. And I was like, we pregnant?
00:10:55
Natalie Richards
Oh.
00:10:56
Felicia Devine
We pregnant? And she was like, no. And i was like, mom, is she pregnant? So I don't know. don't know she's pregnant. I don't know.
00:11:02
Natalie Richards
Please fill us in.
00:11:02
Felicia Devine
But I know.
00:11:03
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:11:03
Felicia Devine
But the the microbiology side of my brain was just racked. And I was like, i i've run out of I've run out of organisms.
00:11:12
Natalie Richards
and Yes, that are and I know the
00:11:14
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And I'm like, like and you have traveler's diarrhea. I just know hot topics. Yeah.
00:11:21
Natalie Richards
And that would be from water, from traveling somewhere else, drinking the water, traveler's diarrhea.
00:11:24
Felicia Devine
Yeah, but that's true. Yes. Side note, back into water.
00:11:27
Natalie Richards
There we go. sir
00:11:30
Felicia Devine
Waterborne infection.
00:11:30
Natalie Richards
Skirt.
00:11:32
Felicia Devine
Back on topic.
00:11:34
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:11:35
Felicia Devine
Okay, so we're going to talk about water and how we have we have done some of the research so that we can provide you with some of the information about sourcing and about quality and content.
00:11:42
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:11:46
Natalie Richards
Yes. Yes.
00:11:48
Felicia Devine
There's a lot more to water than meets the eye.
00:11:48
Natalie Richards
Because, yeah all water truly is not created equal. So water is not water is not water.
00:11:53
Felicia Devine
No.
00:11:56
Natalie Richards
And i as you can attest at our years of ski trips together, there has not been one that I have not had San Pellegrino in the grocery order.
00:11:57
Felicia Devine
no
00:12:01
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:12:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Natalie and I love, Natalie and I love a glass bottle of San Pellegrino.
00:12:13
Natalie Richards
Glass bottle mineral water is superior. And I've always...
00:12:16
Felicia Devine
If you've gone out to dinner with Natalie, she orders not tap water, not table water. She orders the glass bottle sparkling water.
00:12:26
Natalie Richards
If I'm feeling fancy, order it with a wine glass.
00:12:27
Felicia Devine
Yeah, or or flat. Yeah.
00:12:32
Natalie Richards
And a wine glass with a lime.
00:12:32
Felicia Devine
Oh, I love it.
00:12:34
Natalie Richards
Thank you.
00:12:34
Felicia Devine
Yeah, yeah.
00:12:36
Natalie Richards
So that's just, it's what I've always done. It's always felt right to me.
00:12:39
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:12:40
Natalie Richards
And now that I know more information, i know why it feels right because...
00:12:43
Felicia Devine
You're like, oh my god, my intuition read me it led me to the right spot.
00:12:45
Natalie Richards
It led me to the right spot. It did So i think that brings us to like talking about the difference between what mineral water is and like a true from the source water versus what is coming out of our tap versus what is in a plastic water bottle in the United States.
00:12:55
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:12:58
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:13:01
Felicia Devine
Correct.
00:13:05
Felicia Devine
Correct.
00:13:05
Natalie Richards
Because let me tell you, purified water in a plastic bottle doesn't exist in other countries.
00:13:12
Felicia Devine
No, it's a scam.
00:13:13
Natalie Richards
They don't drink it because they know that it's that its horrible for you.
00:13:18
Felicia Devine
Well, it's a scam.
00:13:19
Natalie Richards
It's a scam. It is, first of all, tap water that has then been stripped of everything, which is good, but I'm bad.
00:13:21
Felicia Devine
Plastic bottled water is a scam.
00:13:28
Felicia Devine
Of everything. Good and bad. Good and bad.
00:13:33
Natalie Richards
Take the bad stuff out.
00:13:35
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:13:35
Natalie Richards
Totally, totally down for that.
00:13:37
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:13:38
Natalie Richards
But they'll add a mineral for taste, which is just a bunch of crapola because first it doesn't taste good.
00:13:41
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:13:45
Felicia Devine
yeah Oh, wait, or they'll change the pH.
00:13:48
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Or they changed it. Change the pH by adding a ton of calcium to it or something.
00:13:50
Felicia Devine
Crazy.
00:13:54
Felicia Devine
Oh, my God. People out here.
00:13:55
Natalie Richards
This water, our bodies don't know what to do with that.
00:13:58
Felicia Devine
Yeah, I know.
00:13:59
Natalie Richards
Our cells are getting shriveled.
00:13:59
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:14:02
Natalie Richards
And this goes back to like like biology, osmosis, like all this stuff.
00:14:08
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:14:08
Natalie Richards
So this is kind of deep. Yeah.
00:14:11
Felicia Devine
Not only are we referencing microbiology, we're referencing cellular
00:14:15
Natalie Richards
osmosis, cellular function.
00:14:18
Felicia Devine
feel her physiology.
00:14:21
Natalie Richards
So if you really want to dive into it, just just do a little research on on some osmosis in a cell and you'll see that it create is what's needed is a proper mineral balance to maintain the appropriate fluid level in a cell.
00:14:26
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:14:29
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:14:34
Felicia Devine
right
00:14:38
Felicia Devine
Yes. So what happens is the area that has more salt and solid concentration, the water is going to diffuse into to dilute it and make it equal amongst all the cellular layers.
00:14:44
Natalie Richards
Solids. Mm-hmm.
00:14:51
Natalie Richards
Right. Right.
00:14:53
Felicia Devine
So if you're drinking something that has absolutely zero mineral or sodium or like any of those nutrients, yeah, in a water,
00:15:01
Natalie Richards
The 80 different minerals that should be in water. Mm-hmm.
00:15:07
Felicia Devine
If you drink just, I'll call it plain water. Your body is going to fight to move that water about. And basically you're just creating more dehydration.
00:15:18
Natalie Richards
Right. so that So when you're drinking purified water, which is what most people go for because it sounds great,
00:15:19
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:15:22
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Right. Yeah. Like that's what's like in a bottle of Dasani.
00:15:27
Natalie Richards
it's the Dasani, it's the Aquafina, aquafiina it's the nearly nearly every, like smart water, all of it.
00:15:29
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Aquafina. Oh my Jinx.
00:15:36
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:15:37
Natalie Richards
If it doesn't say spring water, you're pretty much drinking water.
00:15:40
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:15:43
Felicia Devine
Fancy hose water.
00:15:43
Natalie Richards
junk food water. Let's just say fancy hose water that doesn't also have any minerals that hose water actually would have.
00:15:46
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:15:49
Felicia Devine
No. Right, right. a Hose water might be safer. Minus the fluoride, which is another problem.
00:15:54
Natalie Richards
and Right. The whole other thing. so So that brings us then to like tap water, which a lot of people will drink tap water.
00:16:00
Felicia Devine
it Yeah.
00:16:02
Natalie Richards
So, okay, fine.
00:16:02
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:16:04
Natalie Richards
That has minerals because it's somewhat of a naturally occurring water, even though it's been treated
00:16:05
Felicia Devine
and then
00:16:09
Felicia Devine
Yeah. It's treated somewhat get chemicals out of it, runoff, medications out of it.
00:16:13
Natalie Richards
o
00:16:15
Natalie Richards
To again not kill you immediately. Kind of.
00:16:21
Felicia Devine
Yeah, sometimes.
00:16:22
Natalie Richards
but Sometimes.
00:16:22
Felicia Devine
But then it's fortified. and Would you call it fortified?
00:16:26
Natalie Richards
Yes, because you're adding back of, yeah.
00:16:27
Felicia Devine
Or whatever. Yeah, adding. Fluoride, which was a public health problem in low-income areas like cities and and things like that to help protect children's teeth.
00:16:30
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:16:34
Natalie Richards
Right. Right.
00:16:40
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:16:40
Felicia Devine
But if you have good oral healthcare care and you're doing appropriate things like eating, yeah, eating good foods and all the things that would like constitute like good public health, right?
00:16:44
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:16:46
Natalie Richards
And remineralizing. and
00:16:55
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:16:55
Felicia Devine
Like sanitation, then fluoride isn't as necessary for you.
00:16:57
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:17:01
Natalie Richards
Right. And now we know a lot more about fluoride. We know that it causes lower IQ in children and all this stuff.
00:17:05
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:17:07
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:17:09
Natalie Richards
so So tap water also isn't great because then you have all the all the chemicals and metals and all the and chlorine and all the stuff that you really don't want to be drinking.
00:17:09
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Okay, so tap water has that.
00:17:15
Felicia Devine
Chlorine.
00:17:18
Felicia Devine
And that's, you don't want to drink it, but it's to make the water quote unquote clean, right?
00:17:24
Natalie Richards
Clean, right?
00:17:25
Felicia Devine
Like it doesn't come out smelling like mold. It doesn't come out smelling like,
00:17:28
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:17:30
Natalie Richards
It doesn't have the bacteria level in it.
00:17:32
Felicia Devine
right, right.
00:17:32
Natalie Richards
So yeah, you're not going to immediately die from a disease from drinking the water.
00:17:33
Felicia Devine
E. coli, things like that. no, no. No, you're not going to die. You're not going to die. And if that's your best option, that's better than Aquafina.
00:17:42
Natalie Richards
Fine. Fine.
00:17:44
Felicia Devine
I think, I don't know. Should we go? What would you say? What would you go? Tap water straight out of the tap? Or would you drink an Aquafina?
00:17:51
Natalie Richards
I can't make these decisions.
00:17:53
Felicia Devine
and that i would go 50. I would mix them.
00:17:56
Natalie Richards
Sure. have I don't have a clue.
00:17:58
Felicia Devine
I don't know.
00:17:59
Natalie Richards
and don't have a clue
00:17:59
Felicia Devine
I guess, honestly, and in pure honesty, I would probably go with a bottle of Aquafina and then add in
00:18:07
Natalie Richards
add minerals.
00:18:08
Felicia Devine
Salt.
00:18:08
Natalie Richards
Yeah, I would too. I would add salt to bottle a purified bottled water. Yeah.
00:18:12
Felicia Devine
Before I would drink tap water.
00:18:13
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:18:14
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:18:15
Natalie Richards
I would agree. Mm-hmm.
00:18:16
Felicia Devine
Okay. All right. So that's our bottled water. That's like plastic off the shelf you get at the gas station, the grocery store, and like those vats of 30 water bottles.
00:18:18
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:18:21
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:18:25
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:18:25
Felicia Devine
Also, you have no idea where that plastic water bottle was stored, how it was shipped, how long it's been how long it's been in
00:18:31
Natalie Richards
No. That's the other. Mm-hmm.
Mineral Water and Health Benefits
00:18:35
Felicia Devine
that plastic.
00:18:37
Natalie Richards
Yep. So if you bottle a water like immediately and it's in plastic, that's fine.
00:18:44
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:18:44
Natalie Richards
You're fine. You're not going to die.
00:18:47
Felicia Devine
Wait, like you're bottling it?
00:18:47
Natalie Richards
You're not going to die. like if you had a bottled water that you know was bottled immediately before you drank it, it's okay.
00:18:55
Felicia Devine
Which, where are you sourcing that?
00:18:57
Natalie Richards
Okay?
00:18:57
Felicia Devine
I have no idea because we don't know.
00:18:57
Natalie Richards
Where are you sourcing it? I don't know. But when you have most bottled waters, they're stored in hot warehouses.
00:19:04
Felicia Devine
In the sun when they're in transport.
00:19:05
Natalie Richards
Anytime they, yes, anytime they heat up is where the problem comes.
00:19:09
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Microplastics.
00:19:10
Natalie Richards
And pretty much and he's at any time, every single water bottle that's on on the shelf is going to be heated at some point.
00:19:17
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:19:17
Natalie Richards
So that has tons of plastics and that's the whole other, the whole other problem.
00:19:19
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:19:22
Natalie Richards
Not to mention the, the garbage problem and the, you know, that's huge.
00:19:24
Felicia Devine
The lack of nutrients. Right. Yeah. Plastic water bottle problem. Yeah.
00:19:30
Natalie Richards
So some people truly just drink those all day.
00:19:30
Felicia Devine
I know.
00:19:32
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:19:32
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So if that's what you're opting for, it's better that you get nice container, glass.
00:19:39
Natalie Richards
yeah
00:19:41
Felicia Devine
I don't know. What is your thought on like stainless steel? Does it have a like, does i have, does have toxic off?
00:19:44
Natalie Richards
I think it's fine.
00:19:47
Natalie Richards
I don't think most of them I don't think so.
00:19:48
Felicia Devine
Okay. Okay. There was this whole Stanley, this whole Stanley debacle about what was the thing it was leeching?
00:19:50
Natalie Richards
A whole Stanley thing. I don't know. I think anything is going to have some sort of like.
00:20:00
Felicia Devine
Was it, it was o lead.
00:20:00
Natalie Richards
I don't remember. oh yeah. Yeah. Mm
00:20:04
Felicia Devine
People were saying it was like leaching lead into the water and like, you're just poisoning yourself.
00:20:06
Natalie Richards
hmm.
00:20:08
Felicia Devine
And I'm like, oh, we can't win.
00:20:10
Natalie Richards
I know. i My stance with all of that is I actually would prefer the lead over the plastics because you could I'm dead serious.
00:20:18
Felicia Devine
You can detox lead.
00:20:18
Natalie Richards
You can detox lead. we Our bodies can't get rid of plastic for like 50 years.
00:20:24
Felicia Devine
Right. Yeah. Okay. So take the Stanley, not the reusable bottle.
00:20:26
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:20:31
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:20:32
Natalie Richards
So now mineral water, because this is what
00:20:32
Felicia Devine
I've. Yeah. Tell us.
00:20:36
Natalie Richards
this is what every other country in the world drinks and knows is superior.
00:20:39
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:20:40
Natalie Richards
And this is their bottled water.
00:20:40
Felicia Devine
This is their quote unquote bottled water. It's just mineral water, spring water.
00:20:43
Natalie Richards
It's mineral. Yes. So spring water, mineral water technically are interchangeable, I would say, except mineral water technically has a different mineral content most of the time.
00:20:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:20:50
Felicia Devine
hmm.
00:20:55
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:20:56
Natalie Richards
Mineral water can, a lot of them are sparkling, but spring water are not.
00:21:00
Felicia Devine
Yes, but yeah.
00:21:03
Natalie Richards
Most of them are not.
00:21:04
Felicia Devine
Right, right.
00:21:05
Natalie Richards
So
00:21:05
Felicia Devine
And there's natural carbonation and there's artificial carbonation.
00:21:08
Natalie Richards
Right. Right. So some carbonation really does occur naturally, which is fascinating to me. Fascinating.
00:21:15
Felicia Devine
And it's not as sparkly.
00:21:18
Natalie Richards
Yes. it's It's like a gentle afferent effervescence, which I prefer.
00:21:18
Felicia Devine
Right. Yes. It's not in your face.
00:21:23
Natalie Richards
i don't like an aggressive effervescence.
00:21:24
Felicia Devine
Right. No, no.
00:21:26
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:21:27
Felicia Devine
I've had some aggressive sparkling waters recently and I'm literally just like flying up to the ceiling.
00:21:33
Natalie Richards
Honestly, I like let – I leave them open for a while and just like let it all – let the gas come out.
00:21:33
Felicia Devine
It just, yeah. Mm-hmm. Aerate. Mm-hmm.
00:21:39
Natalie Richards
Okay. So first of all, yeah, my preference would be glass bottle, spring water, mineral water, whatever.
00:21:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:21:47
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:21:48
Natalie Richards
I would prefer still, but sparkling is fine.
00:21:51
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:21:52
Natalie Richards
It is what it is.
00:21:53
Felicia Devine
I think the perfect balance of sparkling is Sam Pellegrino.
00:21:57
Natalie Richards
I think so too. I really prefer it.
00:21:58
Felicia Devine
It's like, it's sparkly enough where it gets the point across, but you're not just sitting there with like bubbles in your chest.
00:21:59
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:22:05
Natalie Richards
Yep. Agreed.
00:22:06
Felicia Devine
It's like slightly.
00:22:06
Natalie Richards
Like Topo Chico is too much for me. I think it's very aggressive.
00:22:09
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yes.
00:22:11
Natalie Richards
So I have to, it's truly so, so tough.
00:22:12
Felicia Devine
That's like soda.
00:22:16
Felicia Devine
What are the brands of the ones I've recently gotten? I got like an Icelandic sparkling. I'll have to look back at my photos.
00:22:21
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:22:23
Natalie Richards
We're going to be doing – Felicia and I are going to be together in a few days. And when this episode comes out, we're going to be together by the time this episode comes out.
00:22:29
Felicia Devine
Get ready. Yes.
00:22:34
Natalie Richards
So we are actually going to be doing an in-person water tasting.
00:22:39
Felicia Devine
Yes, we are.
00:22:40
Natalie Richards
for the gram.
00:22:41
Felicia Devine
yeah Yeah. So tune in.
00:22:43
Natalie Richards
So that's going to be fun.
00:22:43
Felicia Devine
You better be following us.
00:22:45
Natalie Richards
Oh, I wanted to talk a little bit about, oh, also just like finding spring water. So you can go to findaspring.org and you can look for springs around you.
00:22:50
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:22:56
Natalie Richards
And I understand that is very difficult for people to do.
00:22:59
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:22:59
Natalie Richards
No.
00:22:59
Felicia Devine
Also, there's you have to make sure the sourcing is correct because you don't know.
00:23:02
Natalie Richards
her
00:23:03
Felicia Devine
So like yeah do not go to the creek in your backyard and look for freshwater source because you're going to get an infection real quick.
00:23:07
Natalie Richards
no
00:23:13
Felicia Devine
Talk about waterborne infection.
00:23:14
Natalie Richards
Right. Right.
00:23:15
Felicia Devine
You don't know if an animal died one mile up the stream and is just running over a dead deer and you could get very sick.
00:23:18
Natalie Richards
Yep. Correct. Not to mention pesticide runoff and all this other stuff.
00:23:24
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:23:25
Natalie Richards
And it's just like, okay, we have to be careful.
00:23:25
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:23:27
Felicia Devine
We to be careful.
00:23:28
Natalie Richards
From what I know, if you could find like a spring spring, like an artesian well, whatever, the water's coming from deep enough that I don't think pesticide runoff is a problem.
00:23:39
Natalie Richards
And i don't quote me on that.
00:23:40
Felicia Devine
But you also have to get it like at the source.
00:23:42
Natalie Richards
at the source. I know.
00:23:44
Felicia Devine
You cannot go one mile down the road and then bottle.
00:23:46
Natalie Richards
Right. So I would say like that is gold standard.
00:23:51
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:23:51
Natalie Richards
Okay. Like that, if you can do that, it's living, fresh, flowing water.
00:23:56
Felicia Devine
Yes. Okay, let's work backwards.
00:23:58
Natalie Richards
That's the best. Let's work backwards.
00:24:00
Felicia Devine
Okay, so gold standard.
00:24:01
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:24:01
Felicia Devine
And then how do we get nice quality water to our more body?
00:24:04
Natalie Richards
Right. and So then I've also done the glass bottle delivery of Mountain Valley Spring Water.
00:24:11
Felicia Devine
Yeah, and then and then you just have like a dispenser at your house.
00:24:12
Natalie Richards
I was doing that for a long time and I liked it. You have a dispenser and that's probably like I still think is second best.
00:24:21
Felicia Devine
Okay, but glass bottle, not the plastic jug.
00:24:22
Natalie Richards
Third best, which is now what I – yeah, preferably.
00:24:25
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:24:25
Natalie Richards
But again, those are bottled very quickly.
00:24:27
Felicia Devine
very quickly.
00:24:29
Natalie Richards
They're not in sitting in there for a crazy long time.
00:24:31
Felicia Devine
And then just make sure if you're storing it, you store it cool dry place, not, or like a not sun.
00:24:35
Natalie Richards
Right. Cool. Right.
00:24:38
Felicia Devine
Yeah, I don't know why say like cool dry.
00:24:38
Natalie Richards
Yep. Not in the sun.
00:24:41
Felicia Devine
No, just don't put it directly in sun. If it's in plastic, don't store it in the sun.
00:24:43
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:24:44
Felicia Devine
Don't let sun hit it.
00:24:45
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:24:46
Felicia Devine
You don't want sun on your plastic.
00:24:47
Natalie Richards
Right. So then I'd say third best reverse osmosis with added minerals.
00:24:53
Felicia Devine
Okay. But adding, yeah. So reverse osmosis takes tap water in your home and it filters out quite literally everything.
00:25:01
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:25:04
Felicia Devine
It turns it into plain water. Okay.
00:25:06
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:25:07
Felicia Devine
But that means you have to reconstitute it with good mineral balance.
00:25:10
Natalie Richards
Yes. And a lot of the RO systems remineralize, quote, not enough.
00:25:15
Felicia Devine
Do they?
00:25:20
Natalie Richards
So most people think like, oh, no, it's remineralized.
00:25:20
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:25:22
Natalie Richards
No, it's not.
00:25:23
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:25:23
Natalie Richards
You need more. Sorry. You need more.
00:25:25
Felicia Devine
Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:26
Natalie Richards
And i know that because i from anecdotal evidence and from symptoms that people have from drinking their reverse osmosis, reverse osmosis is the best option for most people.
00:25:31
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:25:34
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:25:39
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:25:39
Natalie Richards
Let's just say that because it's easy to obtain for the most part.
00:25:40
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:25:42
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:25:43
Natalie Richards
Like you, most people can, can figure that out.
00:25:43
Felicia Devine
Yeah. can you Can you install your own RO?
00:25:47
Natalie Richards
You could.
00:25:48
Felicia Devine
Or do you i have to get a plumber?
00:25:49
Natalie Richards
You could. yeah Yeah. If you have like a built-in soap dispenser in your sink, then yes, because it just goes right up through there.
00:25:55
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:59
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:25:59
Natalie Richards
So yeah, you could.
00:26:01
Felicia Devine
I want to RO my whole house.
00:26:03
Natalie Richards
Well, that's a whole other thing. that That's $10,000 to $15,000 to do your whole house.
00:26:08
Felicia Devine
That's fine.
00:26:08
Natalie Richards
So yeah, I mean, it's worth it. most For a lot of a lot of the time, it's worth it.
00:26:11
Felicia Devine
That's a... We really got to get this podcast off the ground before I get a full house RO.
00:26:16
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. So let's go back to that, table that for a second.
00:26:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:26:21
Felicia Devine
We'll revisit that.
00:26:21
Natalie Richards
Because then we'll talk about that in a second.
00:26:27
Natalie Richards
So you have to remineralize it. I like... I like from Trace Minerals, it's called Utah Sea Minerals and and it's it's their trace plus salt.
00:26:37
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:26:40
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:26:41
Natalie Richards
You can also just put sea salt in your water.
00:26:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:26:45
Natalie Richards
Sea salt, pink salt, mine salt, not Morton salt, not kosher salt.
00:26:47
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:26:51
Felicia Devine
No.
00:26:51
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:26:52
Felicia Devine
Not table salt.
00:26:52
Natalie Richards
Very specific. Not table salt. Okay.
00:26:55
Felicia Devine
I like...
00:26:55
Natalie Richards
Very specific. Okay.
00:26:56
Felicia Devine
I like doing trace minerals and then adding in, I have pink salt crystals that you soak in water.
00:27:02
Natalie Richards
Yes. Perfect.
00:27:04
Felicia Devine
And then it's from Feminescence and it looks gorgeous on your counter.
00:27:06
Natalie Richards
Perfect.
00:27:09
Felicia Devine
I keep it in a glass jar and then you just scoop a little bit of that solution into your water.
00:27:14
Natalie Richards
Perfect. perfect
00:27:15
Felicia Devine
And then she's good.
00:27:17
Natalie Richards
Yep. Perfect.
00:27:19
Felicia Devine
thought I poisoned myself the other day, Natalie.
00:27:21
Natalie Richards
Oh, God.
00:27:22
Felicia Devine
I put my trace minerals on... Like I went to squeeze it because it's a squeeze. Mine's a squeeze bottle, not a dropper.
00:27:29
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:27:29
Felicia Devine
And I squeezed the trace minerals and it was in a mason jar. So I guess some of the trace minerals dripped onto the lip of the jar and got on those like grooves.
00:27:40
Natalie Richards
Oh.
00:27:41
Felicia Devine
So I started drinking it and then I like licked my lips and I literally was like, Is there?
00:27:46
Natalie Richards
Oh.
00:27:46
Felicia Devine
i thought it was like, like, it tasted like rat poison. I've never tried rat poison, but I literally was like, oh what's in my water?
00:27:50
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:27:54
Natalie Richards
It's truly the worst, the worst thing in the world.
00:27:55
Felicia Devine
It's... It's the worst taste when it's that concentrated.
00:27:57
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:27:59
Felicia Devine
It was like pure trace minerals in my lips and on my mouth.
00:27:59
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:28:02
Natalie Richards
Horrible.
00:28:04
Felicia Devine
And I was just like, oh oh my God.
00:28:06
Natalie Richards
Uh.
00:28:07
Felicia Devine
And I i kept like second guessing myself. I'm like, where did this, where did this mason jar come from? Did it have like poison in it? And then I just like went and poured it out because I couldn't get over it. But do not just drink trace minerals by itself.
00:28:18
Natalie Richards
so
00:28:20
Natalie Richards
No. And you really only need few drops in a decent amount of water.
00:28:24
Felicia Devine
They say a tablespoon or something. I'm like, I know not good.
00:28:26
Natalie Richards
No, no. for no no no no that's for That's for like a supplement.
00:28:30
Felicia Devine
Oh, oh, oh.
00:28:31
Natalie Richards
To remineralize water, it's like two to four drops per glass.
00:28:33
Felicia Devine
Yeah. A couple of, I just do, I just do a couple drops.
00:28:35
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:37
Felicia Devine
Okay. So then if you can't go RO, I do Berkey.
00:28:41
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:28:42
Felicia Devine
I like Berkey, but again, that's going to take everything out of it. So you have to reconstitute it.
00:28:46
Natalie Richards
You have to. Yep.
00:28:47
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:28:48
Natalie Richards
And then a lot of people will do a Brita, which a Brita is better than tap water because it's going to at least – the carbon filter is going to at least take out the chlorine, some fluoride, some metals.
00:28:51
Felicia Devine
Hey, it's better than tap water. Yeah.
00:28:57
Felicia Devine
Yeah. The fluoride.
00:29:02
Natalie Richards
Like it's going – it's not great, but it's better.
00:29:05
Felicia Devine
Right, right.
00:29:06
Natalie Richards
It's better.
00:29:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:29:07
Natalie Richards
So that's like an okay option.
00:29:09
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:29:09
Natalie Richards
Zero water is much better if you have to do like a pitcher filter.
00:29:14
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:29:14
Natalie Richards
Zero water actually gets it down to zero total dissolved solids.
00:29:18
Felicia Devine
Okay, and then you reconstitute.
00:29:19
Natalie Richards
And then you re also remineralize that as well.
00:29:22
Felicia Devine
Okay, okay.
00:29:22
Natalie Richards
Yep. A lot of other people will do a countertop RO filter, which is like AquaTrue.
00:29:29
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:29:29
Natalie Richards
That is a countertop RO.
00:29:29
Felicia Devine
Oh yeah.
00:29:31
Natalie Richards
So that's also fine.
00:29:31
Felicia Devine
Is that the one that has, what's the one that, oh, Santeva.
00:29:36
Natalie Richards
Oh, is that another one?
00:29:37
Felicia Devine
That's a countertop and it has like, it's rocks and charcoal and like all the stuff, like you can see it in the glass jar and you put your water on and you watch it like go through.
00:29:42
Natalie Richards
Similar. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep.
00:29:48
Felicia Devine
it basically is simulating it going through the earth.
00:29:50
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:29:51
Felicia Devine
And that I think remineralizes
00:29:54
Natalie Richards
It probably does from the rock.
00:29:55
Felicia Devine
Because it's going through the rock and stuff.
00:29:57
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:29:58
Felicia Devine
Another thing from Santeva that I love, because we're talking about water.
00:30:02
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:30:02
Felicia Devine
I use a Santeva water filter on Giuseppe's bathtub.
00:30:06
Natalie Richards
Oh, yes. Okay. That's where I wanted to get back to
00:30:07
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Oh, yeah. And we're circling back.
00:30:12
Natalie Richards
because you mentioned the whole house reverse osmosis.
00:30:15
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah. Your skin.
00:30:17
Natalie Richards
So we also can talk about well water versus municipal water supply.
00:30:21
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Right, right.
00:30:23
Natalie Richards
And i know I know so much about water. It's ridiculous. This is
00:30:28
Felicia Devine
Yeah, we could talk about water for three episodes.
00:30:29
Natalie Richards
silly at this point. We really could. like We could dive into all of this stuff pretty heavily.
00:30:34
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Are there a ton of wells where you guys are?
00:30:37
Felicia Devine
OK.
00:30:38
Natalie Richards
Yes, because everyone has a well.
00:30:40
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:30:40
Natalie Richards
There's no, at least where we are there's no municipal water at all.
00:30:42
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Oh, are you on a well at your house?
00:30:45
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Yes.
00:30:47
Felicia Devine
Oh, OK.
00:30:47
Natalie Richards
so And my parents are on a well. So like I've always been on a well and have pretty much never drank tap water because of that because you just don't really know what the deal is with it.
00:30:50
Felicia Devine
OK. You've known well.
00:30:57
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Right. Right.
00:31:01
Natalie Richards
You can have it tested, but they do not test for everything.
00:31:02
Felicia Devine
Right. It's also going to change. Right.
00:31:05
Natalie Richards
It's always going to change.
00:31:05
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:31:07
Natalie Richards
They also don't test for pesticides most of the time. like If you have somebody come over like from the city and test your well water,
00:31:10
Felicia Devine
Wow.
00:31:12
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:14
Natalie Richards
A lot of times they're not testing for that stuff. So I don't trust it.
00:31:17
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:31:19
Natalie Richards
Kyle also worked for the water department in Rochelle. So like he also knows so much about water, but he only knows but he only knows the traditional like thoughts.
00:31:24
Felicia Devine
Oh, really? Oh, my God. We should have guest speaker Kyle.
00:31:30
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:31:32
Natalie Richards
And I'm like, I don't agree with you.
00:31:32
Felicia Devine
Yes. he's He's Western medicine water.
00:31:35
Natalie Richards
i know' He's Western medicine water. I'm like, I'm sorry, we're not on the same page. Yeah.
00:31:41
Felicia Devine
No, but really, we, speaking of Western medicine water, we have to circle back to energy of water at the end.
00:31:47
Natalie Richards
Oh yes, we do.
00:31:47
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:31:47
Natalie Richards
We do.
00:31:48
Felicia Devine
All right.
00:31:48
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:31:48
Felicia Devine
Sorry. Continue.
00:31:50
Felicia Devine
Back to your well water.
00:31:51
Natalie Richards
so well water versus municipal well water has a whole host of problems.
00:31:53
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:31:57
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:31:57
Natalie Richards
It doesn't have the chlorine and fluoride and, and pharmaceuticals, but then you have more bacteria, you have metals, you have so rock solids, you have, like we had we had a
00:31:59
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:32:11
Natalie Richards
iron forming bacteria in our well water. So it would make everything red. Like our whole shower, like this is why we had to change, we had to get our whole water system revamped like a couple months ago e at our house currently.
00:32:18
Felicia Devine
Oh my gosh.
00:32:21
Felicia Devine
Wait, at your parents' house or your house? so Oh my gosh.
00:32:25
Natalie Richards
So our whole shower was stained red because it was like a
00:32:25
Felicia Devine
gosh.
00:32:29
Natalie Richards
it it would create iron in the water. And then in the summer it would smell like sulfur and it was just like gross.
00:32:37
Felicia Devine
my gosh.
00:32:38
Natalie Richards
It was safe, quote unquote, from the water guy.
00:32:41
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:43
Natalie Richards
It's safe, but like I would never drink that.
00:32:43
Felicia Devine
Oh my gosh.
00:32:46
Natalie Richards
It's disgusting.
00:32:47
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:32:48
Natalie Richards
So, and then the pesticide thing. So there's there's been so many clusters of cancer in well
00:32:53
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:32:56
Natalie Richards
and well recipients because they're near near a field where there's there's pesticide runoff.
00:33:00
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Well, right.
00:33:02
Natalie Richards
And that's...
00:33:02
Felicia Devine
Cause a lot of wells are on properties that don't get me municipality water.
00:33:06
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:33:06
Felicia Devine
Because they're off the grid.
00:33:08
Natalie Richards
right.
Personal Water Routines and Hydration Solutions
00:33:09
Felicia Devine
Yeah. OK.
00:33:09
Natalie Richards
So just because you're on a well doesn't mean you're safe from chemicals and and all of that stuff.
00:33:14
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:33:16
Natalie Richards
So cancer rates are actually really high in people who do drink drink well water.
00:33:16
Felicia Devine
Right. Mm-hmm.
00:33:21
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:33:22
Natalie Richards
so And then from the the city water, then you have the chlorine and you have the fluoride and you have the pharmaceuticals and all of that.
00:33:27
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:33:29
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:33:31
Natalie Richards
So in a perfect world, yeah, you would have a whole house r RO system because then your showers are going to be filtered.
00:33:35
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:33:38
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:33:38
Natalie Richards
Your sink water that you're brushing your teeth in is going to be filtered.
00:33:41
Felicia Devine
And washing your face and doing your dishes, yeah.
00:33:42
Natalie Richards
washing your face. Right. So I'll tell you what we did when we we just redid our whole water system.
00:33:49
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:33:49
Natalie Richards
And we had to put an iron curtain in, which is basically something that oxidizes the iron that's in our water.
00:33:54
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:33:57
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:33:57
Natalie Richards
It oxidizes it to a big enough molecule that then the filter can filter it out.
00:34:02
Felicia Devine
Grab it, yeah.
00:34:03
Natalie Richards
And then the water softener takes out the rest of the iron.
00:34:07
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:34:07
Natalie Richards
And then for our drinking, we added an RO system for our s sink.
00:34:12
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:34:14
Natalie Richards
But we did not do it for the showers and and the the other sinks only because it just didn't make sense.
00:34:21
Felicia Devine
Okay. You don't want to strip it.
00:34:24
Natalie Richards
but It didn't make sense at the time.
00:34:24
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:34:25
Natalie Richards
at the time
00:34:26
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:34:26
Natalie Richards
And I also have a filter on my shower.
00:34:29
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:34:30
Natalie Richards
So for showering, I'm not concerned because that's going to take out most of the other stuff that the that the iron curtain and all that doesn't get out.
00:34:39
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:34:40
Natalie Richards
For drinking, it was most important for us.
00:34:41
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Right. Right.
00:34:43
Natalie Richards
so that's So I wanted to do the RO for that. But it would have been, yeah, it would have been $15,000 more on top of what we already paid to get the whole house RO.
00:34:45
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:34:48
Felicia Devine
Right. Yeah. To do the whole house. Yeah.
00:34:52
Natalie Richards
And he said, you may not even get out all the pesticides that way, which is unbelievable.
00:34:56
Felicia Devine
Wow. Wow.
00:34:58
Natalie Richards
So you have to have like a UV system and you have to have like, there's just, yeah.
00:35:00
Felicia Devine
Yeah. I know plenty of people with UV systems.
00:35:04
Natalie Richards
So you kind of have to do a lot of different things depending on what is in your water, but that's like a whole rabbit hole to go down.
00:35:07
Felicia Devine
Right. Yeah.
00:35:11
Felicia Devine
I know.
00:35:11
Natalie Richards
So there's a lot of easier ways to get to get good drinking water without having to do that.
00:35:13
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:35:17
Felicia Devine
Right. Right. i so Giuseppe's bathwater filter is the Santeva brand.
00:35:18
Natalie Richards
So.
00:35:23
Felicia Devine
So it not only filters out the chlorine, the fluoride, the pesticides, the whatever, whatever could be in it.
00:35:28
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:35:30
Felicia Devine
I don't, I don't even know.
00:35:30
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:35:31
Felicia Devine
I haven't tested our water.
00:35:32
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:35:33
Felicia Devine
And then it remineralizes the water as well.
00:35:36
Natalie Richards
So cool.
00:35:37
Felicia Devine
So his water is like so soft. It's so, his water is gorgeous.
00:35:40
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:35:42
Natalie Richards
Amazing.
00:35:43
Natalie Richards
Uh-huh. The spout.
00:35:43
Felicia Devine
But it's like a little sachet that you just put over the bath spigot.
00:35:49
Felicia Devine
Yeah, the spout.
00:35:49
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:35:50
Felicia Devine
And it's in this like cloth bag and then it dries.
00:35:53
Natalie Richards
Cool.
00:35:54
Felicia Devine
It's like awesome.
00:35:56
Natalie Richards
That's amazing.
00:35:57
Felicia Devine
I love them.
00:35:57
Natalie Richards
I love that.
00:35:58
Felicia Devine
And then like Sepp has never struggled with skin issues. He's never had, I mean, eczema is more so a vaccine reaction.
00:36:05
Natalie Richards
it's a Yeah, it's a gut issue.
00:36:08
Felicia Devine
so I, I'm not, I'm not, i'm not, you know, that.
00:36:08
Natalie Richards
It's a dispersed gut issue.
00:36:14
Felicia Devine
I don't think his bath, yeah, I don't think his bath filter is what's preventing his eczema, but but he doesn't, he never got cradle cap.
00:36:14
Natalie Richards
Concerned about eczema.
00:36:18
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:36:21
Felicia Devine
He never got like any of these other skin issues that kids like severe diaper rashes.
00:36:26
Natalie Richards
Yep. Yeah.
00:36:28
Felicia Devine
The only time he's had diaper rashes when he was sick, but really like, yeah, he's never had skin issues, but we've been doing a reconstituted water filter.
00:36:31
Natalie Richards
Right. Teething and sick, yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:36:40
Felicia Devine
literally since the day he started having baths.
00:36:43
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:36:44
Felicia Devine
And then he we don't put soap on his body.
00:36:46
Natalie Richards
No. i Yeah, I've never really used.
00:36:47
Felicia Devine
More than necessary.
00:36:48
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:36:49
Felicia Devine
Yeah, more than necessary.
00:36:50
Felicia Devine
We use it to wash his hands and often like around his face just to get some of the oils off from like food because he eats a very oily-based diet.
00:36:53
Natalie Richards
Yep. Yep.
00:36:59
Natalie Richards
Oily diet. Yep. Yep.
00:37:01
Felicia Devine
So I don't want him getting like breakouts because he has oil on his face.
00:37:03
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:37:04
Felicia Devine
But yeah.
00:37:04
Natalie Richards
Yeah. I have, I mean, I, yeah.
00:37:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:37:08
Natalie Richards
So soap is not, that's a whole other thing.
00:37:10
Felicia Devine
Okay, soap is a whole nother topic. I haven't used body wash.
00:37:15
Natalie Richards
oh God, no.
00:37:16
Felicia Devine
How many years?
00:37:16
Natalie Richards
don't think I ever have.
00:37:19
Felicia Devine
I haven't used body wash in probably seven years. I haven't used soap on my body.
00:37:26
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:37:27
Felicia Devine
Actually, I take that back. I had to use it once in the past seven years. I went and did a float tank.
00:37:37
Natalie Richards
Oh, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:37:39
Felicia Devine
And when you float tank, they make you use body wash and shampoo before you get in the float tank. And I was like, oh, I don't even know.
00:37:44
Natalie Richards
Okay. Yep.
00:37:46
Felicia Devine
i Like I literally looked at it and I was like, oh, is it worth it
00:37:49
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:37:50
Felicia Devine
Should I even do that?
00:37:51
Natalie Richards
Oh, my. Mm-hmm.
00:37:52
Felicia Devine
I know I didn't want to, but I did.
00:37:53
Natalie Richards
I use like bar soap just like a little bit.
00:37:56
Felicia Devine
Here and there. Oh, I use Alevia body enzyme.
00:37:58
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:38:02
Natalie Richards
Oh.
00:38:03
Felicia Devine
So it has, it doesn't have any surfactant.
00:38:04
Natalie Richards
That's intriguing. I need send that to me.
00:38:07
Felicia Devine
Okay. Alivia is great because it is like a cleanser and I use it like three times a week, but it doesn't have any surfactant.
00:38:08
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:38:11
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:38:13
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:38:16
Felicia Devine
So there's nothing that's stripping the oil.
00:38:16
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:38:18
Felicia Devine
It's just an enzyme that like gets some bacteria off.
00:38:18
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:38:22
Natalie Richards
I like that.
00:38:23
Felicia Devine
Yeah, I love it.
00:38:23
Natalie Richards
I like that a lot. Mm-hmm.
00:38:24
Felicia Devine
So I use Alevia and then anyway. Okay. So that's, we could go down that rabbit hole too.
00:38:27
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:38:30
Felicia Devine
Okay. So back to circling back to water. So, okay. you, uh, basically we we went down like the hierarchy. So we've gotten to like Brita's and like countertop filters that are great.
00:38:37
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:38:41
Natalie Richards
here
00:38:42
Felicia Devine
If you don't have like excess income to be spending on house filters and like expensive filters or like, it's not cheap to buy glass bottle San Pellegrino.
00:38:47
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:38:49
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:38:53
Natalie Richards
No.
00:38:54
Felicia Devine
Like that's also, that's not how you can sustain all your water income.
00:38:54
Natalie Richards
No, it's not.
00:38:58
Natalie Richards
No. No.
00:39:00
Felicia Devine
Like that's for like, I don't know. I don't, do you buy it in the case by the case?
00:39:05
Natalie Richards
I do. From, yeah, from Costco, I'll buy it.
00:39:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah. From Costco.
00:39:07
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:39:08
Felicia Devine
I just got a Costco membership this week.
00:39:09
Natalie Richards
Oh, good. Oh, I love Costco.
00:39:10
Felicia Devine
Ooh, I'm excited. So San Pellegrino hates to see me coming.
00:39:12
Natalie Richards
a
00:39:14
Felicia Devine
But drank a lot of San Pellegrino when I was pregnant. It just was so yummy.
00:39:17
Natalie Richards
I did too. So satisfying.
00:39:19
Felicia Devine
I mean, I still drink a lot of it. So what's mineralized, what's not.
00:39:21
Natalie Richards
I can tell at this point when I – I really can. If I'm drinking like a purified water or like a RO water that hasn't been remineralized, I'm like, I'm still thirsty.
00:39:28
Felicia Devine
You know.
00:39:31
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:39:32
Natalie Richards
it doesn't It doesn't do anything for me.
00:39:32
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:39:35
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:39:35
Natalie Richards
So it's almost like why am I even drinking – it makes you more thirsty and it when you understand the –
00:39:36
Felicia Devine
It makes you more thirsty. Yeah.
00:39:40
Natalie Richards
physiology of it, you understand why.
00:39:42
Felicia Devine
Why?
00:39:44
Natalie Richards
But i will I absolutely notice a difference.
00:39:47
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:39:47
Natalie Richards
I will notice like if I go on on a trip or something and I don't have mineral water for a while, my cat if like if I stretch my foot out and my my calf will cramp and I'm like, oh boy, dehydrated.
00:39:51
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:39:57
Felicia Devine
You'll know. Dehydrated. Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:00
Natalie Richards
And no matter how much, that this is the misconception hear all the time, I drink a ton of water. Like, oh, I'm sure you do.
00:40:06
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:40:08
Natalie Richards
And you're still having all of these cramping and twitching and dehydration issues.
00:40:11
Felicia Devine
Dehydration issues. present
00:40:14
Natalie Richards
It's because it's actually not hydrating your cells at all.
00:40:17
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:40:17
Natalie Richards
So like migraine, i have so many migraine patients that will come in and say,
00:40:18
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:40:23
Natalie Richards
you know, I'm just getting migraines all the time. I'm drinking a ton of water. i go, what type of water are you drinking? And most of the time and the people who are drinking tons, it's, it's bottled water all day.
00:40:29
Felicia Devine
Right. They're like Gatorade.
00:40:34
Natalie Richards
And I go, okay, well that's doing nothing for you.
00:40:37
Felicia Devine
No.
00:40:37
Natalie Richards
I say, just for like a week, humor me and just try putting minerals or salt in your water
00:40:40
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Try it.
00:40:44
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:40:45
Natalie Richards
And every single one comes back two days later and they're like, and in two days it was gone. My migraines were gone.
00:40:50
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:52
Natalie Richards
it's It's like an unbelievable, unbelievable thing.
00:40:55
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:40:56
Natalie Richards
And all these people who have more and more migraines and they're going to these doctors and getting Botox and doing all this stuff.
00:40:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah. car i was to say cardiac issues too. Mm-hmm.
00:41:02
Natalie Richards
Like, maybe try a little salt in your water first.
00:41:05
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:06
Natalie Richards
And it it's like unbelievable.
00:41:07
Felicia Devine
Also, it'll hydrate your skin and then you won't have wrinkles and then you also won't need Botox for your face.
00:41:10
Natalie Richards
yeah Well, it's true. It's true. just There we go.
00:41:15
Felicia Devine
It can prevent lots of reasons for Botox.
00:41:17
Natalie Richards
Beauty hacks.
00:41:18
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. No.
00:41:20
Felicia Devine
Water? Yeah.
00:41:20
Natalie Richards
But there's – like it can be that – it actually can be that simple sometimes for migraines and it sounds ridiculous.
00:41:24
Felicia Devine
It can be. Yeah.
00:41:27
Natalie Richards
Okay.
00:41:27
Felicia Devine
All right, let's go over to-go electrolytes. So like like Element, Liquid IV, Waterboy.
00:41:30
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yes. Yes.
00:41:35
Natalie Richards
Sure.
00:41:37
Felicia Devine
Like what's your go-to?
00:41:37
Natalie Richards
Sure. You could walk around with a little salt vial in your purse.
00:41:42
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:41:42
Natalie Richards
And I can't say that I haven't.
00:41:46
Felicia Devine
Wait, have you seen this little mini tahini?
00:41:49
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:41:49
Felicia Devine
Just dump that out and then put your own salt in Yeah.
00:41:49
Natalie Richards
It's essentially that.
00:41:53
Natalie Richards
i I do actually carry around every day.
00:41:54
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:41:56
Natalie Richards
i i carry on a little trace minerals.
00:41:58
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:41:59
Natalie Richards
So I have one, like like a mini one.
00:41:59
Felicia Devine
Oh, do they make a mini one?
00:42:01
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:42:01
Felicia Devine
Oh, cute.
00:42:02
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:42:02
Felicia Devine
That would be a great stocking stuffer.
00:42:03
Natalie Richards
It sure is. It's a great gift. I mean, it's awesome.
00:42:06
Felicia Devine
Oh, wait.
00:42:06
Natalie Richards
So I carry that with me all the time.
00:42:08
Felicia Devine
We should make a little gift guide.
00:42:10
Natalie Richards
Love it.
00:42:11
Felicia Devine
A little like Natalie and Felicia.
00:42:12
Natalie Richards
i'm I'm literally giving salt for Christmas gifts. I can't even, I'm giving salt.
00:42:15
Felicia Devine
Wait, didn't you go to Hawaii? Did you get a bunch salt?
00:42:18
Natalie Richards
Yes, I did. And I brought it back and I gave it as gifts. so
00:42:23
Felicia Devine
Yes, I did. Okay, so...
00:42:25
Natalie Richards
I'm giving salt away for Christmas gifts.
00:42:28
Felicia Devine
Okay, so if you are out and about, you're going on a girl's day, you're going out to lunch and you know you're going to be drinking water, but you don't have water with you, you can pack a little vial of good salt.
00:42:40
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:42:41
Felicia Devine
You can make that at home. You can grab a little thing.
00:42:45
Natalie Richards
A little baggy. People will think
00:42:51
Felicia Devine
You're like shaking stuff in your water and they're like, man, we're going to have to kick you out.
00:42:54
Natalie Richards
Am I bringing my own salt on this trip that we're taking in a few days?
00:42:57
Felicia Devine
Yes, absolutely.
00:42:57
Natalie Richards
Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:43:00
Felicia Devine
Disney doesn't know what's coming.
00:43:02
Natalie Richards
No.
00:43:02
Felicia Devine
Okay. What about, what is your take on like Element and Liquid IV and stuff?
00:43:06
Natalie Richards
Oh, yeah. Okay. i think theyre
00:43:13
Natalie Richards
it depends. So liquid IV, the only benefit I can see with that one is if you are truly like dehydrated and you need the sugar content to help bring minerals into your cell also.
00:43:14
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:43:25
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:43:28
Natalie Richards
So like if you're severely dehydrated, you're throwing up, you're sweating profusely, you do need a little sugar.
00:43:28
Felicia Devine
Yeah. aye I put
00:43:37
Felicia Devine
liquid IV out after our sauna patients.
00:43:40
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:43:41
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:43:41
Natalie Richards
That's fine. Like get when you're really sweating, you're really losing fluids.
00:43:42
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:43:46
Natalie Richards
In order to like meant to rehydrate at that deep level, you do need a little bit of carbohydrate.
00:43:50
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:43:53
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:43:53
Natalie Richards
So I don't hate the sugar in that, but I don't think you need to do it every day.
00:43:54
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. No. But it's not... Your daily, no.
00:43:58
Natalie Richards
No. and So like really salt, just regular salt in your water should be daily.
00:44:02
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:44:04
Natalie Richards
Elements, again, maybe one a day is fine. it's not a But like after a workout, if if you're really feeling dehydrated, that would be a good thing to do.
00:44:07
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:44:09
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:44:13
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:44:13
Natalie Richards
Elements gotten a lot of flack lately for like their extra things that they're putting in it.
00:44:16
Felicia Devine
Sourcing.
00:44:17
Natalie Richards
and Their source they're sourcing is actually good, at least from what it says on their website.
00:44:17
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:44:22
Natalie Richards
like they're using
00:44:23
Felicia Devine
Oh, OK.
00:44:24
Natalie Richards
They're not using table salt. They're using mind salt.
00:44:26
Felicia Devine
OK. Well, i know it was like controversial for a while.
00:44:29
Natalie Richards
It was controversial for a while. So they were adding – they added like multidextrin in there or something and and people were or having a cow.
00:44:31
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:44:35
Felicia Devine
Oh, on edge. Yeah.
00:44:38
Natalie Richards
Whatever.
00:44:39
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:44:40
Natalie Richards
Which is fine. Like why do you need to put fillers in there? i don't i don't know.
00:44:42
Felicia Devine
Right. Right.
00:44:44
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Instant hydration is a really good one I've come across lately.
00:44:46
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:44:49
Natalie Richards
and they use, I think, like real fruit flavors and gray French sea salt, I think is what they're using.
00:44:51
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:44:56
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:44:56
Felicia Devine
Just ingredients. They make one that has no dyes and there are so
00:44:56
Natalie Richards
So that one, like, yeah, just ingredients is great.
00:45:01
Natalie Richards
There are so many wonderful
Salt's Role in Health and Water Structuring
00:45:03
Felicia Devine
many.
00:45:03
Natalie Richards
ones.
00:45:03
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:45:04
Natalie Richards
Just read the ingredients. So you don't want any artificial sweeteners.
00:45:06
Felicia Devine
And if you're sensitive, no, I was going to say artificial sweeteners are like, uh, hard now.
00:45:11
Natalie Richards
Hard no. You would ideally have one that's sweetened with fruits or maybe monk a little monk fruit, maybe stevia. Stevia is one I don't really love, but it is what it is.
00:45:22
Felicia Devine
Yeah. yeah
00:45:24
Natalie Richards
Certainly no artificial sweeteners.
00:45:27
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:45:29
Natalie Richards
And I don't – like there's so many out there I can't even – can't even really make like my top recommendations.
00:45:33
Felicia Devine
Right. Right.
00:45:37
Felicia Devine
Those are, those are something that you have on hand to like, if you know, you're going to be out at a, an amusement park all day and you want something in your purse, that's easy.
00:45:42
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:45:45
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:45:45
Felicia Devine
That's going to give you a little flavor. That's going to be like a fun drink.
00:45:47
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:45:49
Felicia Devine
Like they're good for when they're used in moderation and appropriately.
00:45:55
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:45:56
Felicia Devine
Like you,
00:45:56
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:45:57
Felicia Devine
I don't know. That's that's my take on them.
00:45:58
Natalie Richards
Yep. Yep.
00:46:00
Felicia Devine
I don't drink an element every single day but I'm also remineralizing my water when I drink it, so I don't feel like I need it every single day, you know?
00:46:02
Natalie Richards
Right. And I know, yeah. yeah Agreed. Agreed. And I know a lot of people are nervous about...
00:46:12
Natalie Richards
like blood pressure and having salt and all this stuff and it's preeclampsia, all of it, here's here's the real deal.
00:46:15
Felicia Devine
Yes. Pre-eclampsia.
00:46:22
Felicia Devine
Here's a shtick.
00:46:25
Natalie Richards
Salt is not causing your high blood pressure.
00:46:28
Felicia Devine
It's not this old.
00:46:29
Natalie Richards
But sodium, sodium chloride, table salt could be, could be.
00:46:34
Felicia Devine
Yeah. McDonald's fries.
00:46:36
Natalie Richards
So sodium and like
00:46:37
Felicia Devine
hundred percent. and
00:46:38
Natalie Richards
in like hand processed things.
00:46:40
Felicia Devine
who
00:46:40
Natalie Richards
That sodium is not what we're talking about. So that, yes, you should probably limit.
00:46:43
Felicia Devine
Do not. Yeah. Yes.
00:46:46
Natalie Richards
Sea salt, yes, yes,
00:46:46
Felicia Devine
That's what's called. That's what causes swelling that and dehydration, but regular healthy salt, not, not the problem.
00:46:54
Natalie Richards
is is helping the fluid balance of your whole body.
00:46:56
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:46:58
Natalie Richards
and it will actually in many cases lower your blood pressure.
00:47:01
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:47:02
Natalie Richards
so
00:47:03
Felicia Devine
I always tell my pregnant patients, you need more salt.
00:47:05
Natalie Richards
Salt.
00:47:06
Felicia Devine
Good salt.
00:47:07
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So it just – there's more and more.
00:47:08
Felicia Devine
More water, more salt.
00:47:11
Natalie Richards
You can go and do your own research on that if you're really if you're really concerned.
00:47:12
Felicia Devine
I know.
00:47:14
Natalie Richards
This is like old.
00:47:15
Felicia Devine
We're not your doctors.
00:47:15
Natalie Richards
This is so old news. I don't – I'm like annoyed.
00:47:19
Felicia Devine
If you don't already know this.
00:47:20
Natalie Richards
I'm annoyed by it at this point.
00:47:22
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:47:22
Natalie Richards
It's like, okay.
00:47:24
Felicia Devine
No, but if you have if you have questions about like what salt you're drinking or if you're drinking, like shoot us a message and we can take a look at the ingredients with you or like give you a recommendation on like what our take on the salt is.
00:47:25
Natalie Richards
Okay. Mm-hmm. Totally.
00:47:33
Natalie Richards
Totally.
00:47:38
Felicia Devine
But we all need salt.
00:47:38
Natalie Richards
yep
00:47:41
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:47:41
Felicia Devine
like You need salt.
00:47:41
Natalie Richards
Like way more than what the RDA is.
00:47:44
Felicia Devine
Yeah, right.
00:47:44
Natalie Richards
Like double at least.
00:47:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:47:46
Natalie Richards
Like five grams is what i is everything that I've seen, four to five grams.
00:47:48
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Okay. Okay.
00:47:50
Natalie Richards
And 2,400 or whatever that the RDA is, is just it's going to be very inadequate for most people.
00:47:57
Felicia Devine
Right, right.
00:47:57
Natalie Richards
So we really need more. And I think all you can do is is test it out on yourself.
00:48:03
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:48:03
Natalie Richards
Who's to say that I'm right and that you're right?
00:48:05
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:48:06
Natalie Richards
just Just try it.
00:48:06
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:48:08
Natalie Richards
If you're having migraines, you're having migraines <unk>re having eye twitches, you're having muscle cramping, if you're having if you're sweating a lot and working out, sorry, you need more.
00:48:08
Felicia Devine
Just try minerals.
00:48:12
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:48:15
Felicia Devine
Mild cardiac issues.
00:48:16
Natalie Richards
If you're having cardiac issues, if you are pregnant and are worried about preeclampsia and swelling, please just try it.
00:48:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Swelling. Mm-hmm.
00:48:25
Natalie Richards
Please.
00:48:25
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:48:27
Natalie Richards
Because i can i nearly guarantee that it's going to help.
00:48:31
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. I agree.
00:48:33
Natalie Richards
So, oh yeah, please.
00:48:34
Felicia Devine
Okay. Let's talk about the energy of water. Okay. So water can either be structured or unstructured and that is its energy.
00:48:46
Felicia Devine
I guess, what what would you call it?
00:48:47
Natalie Richards
It's the it's the actual crystalline structure of of water of the molecules in the water.
00:48:48
Felicia Devine
It's organization. Yeah. It's the
00:48:53
Felicia Devine
It's the molecules, how they lay, what organization they're in Think of like a flash mob or a snowflake.
00:48:59
Natalie Richards
Yes. Or a snowflake.
00:49:01
Felicia Devine
And it's disoriented until it's not.
00:49:04
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:49:04
Felicia Devine
And there's there's this beautiful crystalline structure, like you said, and organization to it that is...
00:49:08
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:49:10
Felicia Devine
quite divine, if I don't say so myself.
00:49:11
Natalie Richards
Yes, it is.
00:49:13
Felicia Devine
Now, when we start filtering waters, when we start processing waters, we lose that structure and it becomes disorganized and gaya and chaotic.
00:49:20
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:49:23
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:49:23
Felicia Devine
And what your body has to do is it has to use energy sources to restructure the water once you drink it.
00:49:29
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:49:30
Felicia Devine
Now, naturally occurring water, spring waters, waters from like actual natural sources. If you go to a spring and you like get it out of a river, those waters are naturally structured because they're tumbling on the rocks and they're like, they're structured.
00:49:42
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:49:45
Felicia Devine
But when you start to filter them and they're not structured anymore, we can have, there are solutions to restructure them.
00:49:51
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:49:52
Felicia Devine
I use a soma vedic.
00:49:54
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:49:55
Felicia Devine
a soma vedic is like a EMF blocker and structure water structure.
00:49:59
Natalie Richards
It o
00:50:01
Felicia Devine
It does so many good things for you. It is a beautiful crystal.
00:50:02
Natalie Richards
does a lot of things. Yeah.
00:50:04
Felicia Devine
but that after 10 minutes will restructure the water. And then when you drink the water, your body doesn't have to work so hard to restructure it, to utilize it.
00:50:07
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:50:11
Natalie Richards
Right. Right.
00:50:13
Natalie Richards
I'm also aware that salt and a little citrus in water actually does create the energetic restructuring.
00:50:17
Felicia Devine
and
00:50:20
Felicia Devine
Burst. Okay.
00:50:21
Natalie Richards
It creates the energy to that.
00:50:22
Felicia Devine
So like lemon.
00:50:24
Natalie Richards
Yep. Lemon, whatever.
00:50:24
Felicia Devine
Do you have to activate it?
00:50:25
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:50:26
Felicia Devine
Like, do you shake it? How do you, what would you say?
00:50:27
Natalie Richards
I think it's recommended that you stir or activate it somehow in general when you're drinking water.
00:50:30
Felicia Devine
yeah Okay.
00:50:33
Natalie Richards
I think it's a good idea to move it because that's how you then create the energy flow again.
00:50:33
Felicia Devine
Yeah. yeah Yeah.
00:50:37
Felicia Devine
but Yeah. Cause salt is a conductor, you know?
00:50:42
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:50:42
Felicia Devine
And so if we put energy into the bottled water or the glass of water, you can restructure it.
00:50:43
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:50:49
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:50:51
Natalie Richards
And this isn't woo-woo. Like this is truly like you can see it under a microscope.
00:50:51
Felicia Devine
which just makes it, no, there's science behind this.
00:50:56
Felicia Devine
Like Natalie said, if you look at a, if you look at a snowflake under a microscope, it is the most beautiful structure.
00:51:03
Natalie Richards
And that's what actually water should look like if you're looking at the molecules put together.
00:51:05
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:51:08
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So there are ways of restructuring. Natalie said you can do salt and citrus and then shake or stir, or you can have a very fancy soma vedic device.
00:51:17
Natalie Richards
Very fancy. So a bit.
00:51:19
Felicia Devine
But I love my soma vedic for a lot of reasons.
00:51:21
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:23
Felicia Devine
It's like good clean energy in the home, but it also blocks EMF and it restructures my water.
00:51:27
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:51:29
Felicia Devine
There's like a lot of good benefits of it, but that's a little above and beyond.
00:51:30
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:51:34
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:51:35
Felicia Devine
But i have one at my house and in my office and I don't regret either purchase.
00:51:40
Natalie Richards
No, I think it's great.
00:51:41
Felicia Devine
I think it's great. People walk into our office and they're like, oh, it's so, the energy in here is so good.
00:51:43
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:51:45
Felicia Devine
And I'm like, first off, it's us.
00:51:45
Natalie Richards
Yep. There's another one.
00:51:47
Felicia Devine
But then second off, it's my Silvavidic.
00:51:48
Natalie Richards
Right. There's another like box device. It's called, I think it's Lila quantum.
00:51:54
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:51:54
Natalie Richards
I think, am I making that up? It starts with an L and it's like a, it's a quantum energy device and you can put your water in like in the box and it will, yeah.
00:52:02
Felicia Devine
Proximity. Oh, inside of it.
00:52:03
Natalie Richards
And even within, within proximity because water is such a good conductor, it will pick up on, on the quantum energy field.
00:52:05
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Right.
00:52:12
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:13
Natalie Richards
So it's wild.
00:52:13
Felicia Devine
I know. I think how close is the Soma Vita kept to be?
00:52:14
Natalie Richards
It's so cool.
00:52:18
Felicia Devine
don't even know. Like within a foot maybe.
00:52:20
Natalie Richards
Probably.
00:52:21
Felicia Devine
Yeah. I think so. Yeah. So water is a fascinating topic. It is. i don't know. It's just, you could, there's so much variety.
00:52:30
Natalie Richards
It's, yeah, it's so complicated only because we've made it complicated in the U.S.
00:52:34
Felicia Devine
it is. Right. Because we've stripped it of all its goodness.
00:52:39
Natalie Richards
Right. So we've.
00:52:40
Felicia Devine
first But again, like I see the public health side of it.
00:52:43
Natalie Richards
Good. Yes, absolutely.
00:52:44
Felicia Devine
like Water that doesn't have disease-causing organisms in it.
00:52:49
Natalie Richards
Of course. Of course.
00:52:50
Felicia Devine
Water that helped at one point. The fluoride's probably still helping children. Right. probably still helping children
00:52:59
Natalie Richards
To a certain degree.
00:53:00
Felicia Devine
I will probably say like, I mean, lower income houses that don't have access to healthcare that don't have good hygiene and things like that.
00:53:01
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:53:03
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Sure.
00:53:08
Natalie Richards
Sure.
00:53:08
Felicia Devine
Like, I'm sure it's helping somewhat, but I don't know how much water are they drinking anyway?
00:53:15
Natalie Richards
From tap, I don't know.
00:53:17
Felicia Devine
I don't know.
00:53:18
Natalie Richards
and don't know.
00:53:18
Felicia Devine
So I don't know the water, the water is a bigger topic.
00:53:20
Natalie Richards
it's It's not all created equal, as I said.
00:53:23
Felicia Devine
No,
00:53:25
Natalie Richards
it's just it's a it's a complicated situation. But you can optimize it at any income level.
00:53:30
Felicia Devine
It is.
00:53:34
Natalie Richards
You really can.
00:53:34
Felicia Devine
Right.
Water Quality Challenges and Personal Anecdotes
00:53:35
Felicia Devine
Exactly. And we, we just like went through a couple options of like the top tier, what you can do to filter out everything to like countertop solutions to like additives, things like that.
00:53:41
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:53:46
Natalie Richards
yep
00:53:47
Felicia Devine
and Natalie and I this week, we'll start sharing a little bit more, on stuff that we have in our own home that we use, like the products we have.
00:53:52
Natalie Richards
Yeah. What do we actually do every day? Mm-hmm.
00:53:55
Felicia Devine
and we'll share some of those because i think We're not trying to overcomplicate it.
00:54:00
Natalie Richards
All right. no you
00:54:01
Felicia Devine
That's not the point.
00:54:02
Natalie Richards
if you're going to be keeping up with a habit, it has to be as simple as possible.
00:54:05
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Simple. My mom always said, if it what was it? It was like, if it has more than eight ingredients, she's not making it
00:54:15
Natalie Richards
I mean, i feel that.
00:54:15
Felicia Devine
I'm like, I am your child.
00:54:16
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:54:17
Felicia Devine
Like if a recipe has more than eight ingredients, goodbye, goodbye. The only thing I'm going to overcomplicate is like my fancy coffee and like mocktails, but those are like one off.
00:54:26
Natalie Richards
Sure. Still less than eight ingredients.
00:54:29
Felicia Devine
Yeah. But still less than eight ingredients. But like, if you're doing something that's repeatable every single day, it can't, it can't be complicated.
00:54:37
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:54:38
Felicia Devine
can't. And like the only way I'm going to complicate something is if I'm habit stacking.
00:54:44
Natalie Richards
Exactly.
00:54:44
Felicia Devine
Like if i'm if I'm doing three things at once, each thing is going to have one step. So I don't know. I digress on that.
00:54:54
Natalie Richards
a
00:54:56
Felicia Devine
Make it as complicated as you want.
00:54:58
Natalie Richards
I think we covered pretty much everything that I wanted to cover.
00:55:01
Felicia Devine
Yeah, we talked about a lot.
00:55:02
Natalie Richards
We didn't cover hydrogen water and that's a whole other thing, but I don't want to go into that right now.
00:55:06
Felicia Devine
Oh, I love, I love my hydrogen water though.
00:55:10
Natalie Richards
i know.
00:55:11
Felicia Devine
i love it. I gifted all my girls.
00:55:12
Natalie Richards
I think, but that's like a whole other thing.
00:55:15
Felicia Devine
I know. I gifted all my girls hydrogen bottles last year for Christmas.
00:55:17
Natalie Richards
Amazing. I love it.
00:55:20
Felicia Devine
I know. This year I'm doing something else.
00:55:23
Natalie Richards
oh
00:55:23
Felicia Devine
Very special. I'll share with you off the pod.
00:55:25
Natalie Richards
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:55:26
Felicia Devine
I don't even know. Honestly, if you're one of my girls at my office and you're listening, you'll have to let me know. I don't know if they listen. They hear me talk.
00:55:33
Natalie Richards
to To know if they listen. Yeah, they know what you do.
00:55:35
Felicia Devine
They hear me talk all day long. They don't need to listen one more bit of me.
00:55:38
Natalie Richards
That's true.
00:55:39
Felicia Devine
If you think I talk a lot on the podcast, you should hear me at the office.
00:55:42
Natalie Richards
Oh, my God. Right.
00:55:44
Felicia Devine
I'm a yapper, but yeah, I, every year for Christmas, I get my girls like a big ticket item, health object, health, not object, but like I do something healthy for them.
00:55:52
Natalie Richards
I love that.
00:55:55
Natalie Richards
Health tool or, a yeah
00:55:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:58
Natalie Richards
I love that.
00:55:59
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So, all
Travel Plans and Social Media Engagement
00:56:00
Felicia Devine
right. Well, Natalie and I will be in Disney next week. So if you want to follow along, you'll have to follow us on Instagram.
00:56:07
Natalie Richards
Wish us luck. and Disney with with toddlers.
00:56:08
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:11
Natalie Richards
Oh, boy.
00:56:12
Felicia Devine
If you want to follow my Instagram, it's dr.feliciedivine. What is yours, Natalie?
00:56:18
Natalie Richards
Dr. Natalie Richards.
00:56:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Mine's dr.feliciedivine.
00:56:22
Natalie Richards
yeah yeah
00:56:24
Felicia Devine
And then it's dr.natalierichards. Follow us along on Instagram. If you want to see us get together in Disney, our water tasting. That's going fun.
00:56:33
Natalie Richards
Yeah, that's going to be so fun.
00:56:35
Felicia Devine
Getting us some trouble down there. We'll see.
00:56:37
Natalie Richards
Yep. Yeah. Oh, we definitely will.
00:56:38
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:56:41
Felicia Devine
All right. And we'll, we're going to be filming and recording a podcast when we're in person together.
00:56:46
Natalie Richards
Yeah, it's going be so fun.
00:56:47
Felicia Devine
So stay tuned for that. All right. We'll see you next week.
00:56:49
Natalie Richards
So fun. Bye.
00:56:50
Felicia Devine
Bye.