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Better Water, Better Life with Kyle Flynn
30 Plays6 months ago
Water, water everywhere — but what is safe to drink? Most Americans consume tap water with higher-than-recommended levels of contaminants every day. How does that happen, and what's the impact on our sleep and overall health? Discover the benefits of home drinking water filtration and electrolysis.
Want to know what's in your water? Visit https://www.ewg.org/.
Kyle Flynn is a former gym owner and strength coach turned holistic wellness entrepreneur. Learn more at https://kyleandtaylorflynn.com/.
In this episode:
- The different ways people stay fit (it's not always high intensity)
- What's really in our drinking water?
- The reasons city water is legally allowed to have contaminants
- The health benefits of drinking filtered water
- What to look for in a water filtration system
- Electrolysis and how alkaline water may help your body
- Despite health trends, hydration is quality over quantity
- Small steps to get started
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Introduction and Sponsor Mention
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Free audio post-production. BioPhonic.com.
Episode Idea: Water Quality and Sleep Impact
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Because I do this podcast, people will sometimes reach out to me with ideas for episodes. And so a while back, I got a message from Kyle with an idea to do an episode about how drinking better water can assist with sleep quality.
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Now, I thought that was interesting because usually the conversation around how water impacts sleep is limited to two main bullet points. And the first is that you should drink water. It's important to be hydrated for your overall health.
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And the second is that you should try to drink most of your water early in the day so you aren't waking up a bunch of times in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. And that's about where it ends.
Hydration, Water Quality, and Health Effects
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And so I was interested to dive a little more into this about how not all glasses of water are equal in terms of the contaminants and other materials that are actually in them and the tangible impact that drinking the right water can have on your overall health and your sleep quality as well.
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Today, I talk with Kyle Flynn, a former gym owner and strength coach turned holistic wellness entrepreneur. We discuss water, what's in it, why you might consider filtering it, and the impact that better water can have on your sleep and overall health.
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I'm Jimmy
Kyle Flynn's Career Path and Wellness Focus
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Leonard. This is Sweeneyo Labs.
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Kyle Flynn, welcome to Suenio Labs. How are you doing today? I'm good. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, absolutely. I'm excited about the conversation today because I think it's something that we don't normally think about, even though it's something that we all interact with every single day, which is our drinking water. We'll kind of get into the work that you do, but I thought we could maybe start with your background a little bit. So you've had quite the journey through strength coaching and entrepreneurship. So Tell me how you got to where you are today in life. So pretty much been in the fitness industry since I was 15, kind of working at a front desk at a gym, went to school for kinesiology. So got my undergraduate degree in, you know, essentially movement of the body, and then ended up opening my first gym about a year after college. So I was like 2013. So I've been in the gym space ever since then. I've owned two CrossFit gyms. In the meantime, I've done some strength conditioning for kids and
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really kind of gotten to the whole fitness realm of just wanting to help people. um So just seeing how fitness made me feel and wanting to have, you know, help people kind of be able to take control of their own fitness and not just be resigned to like, oh, as I get older, I'm going to feel worse. And that's just how life goes. And it's like, I mean, it doesn't have to be like that. um you You know, you can you can age gracefully or, you know, even better than that. So and I was always wanting to help people, you know, either lose weight or just kind of, I've always been infatuated with helping people, but really well and and feel good in their movement. So was kind of my whole philosophy in terms of the gym. And it's honestly why I like CrossFit. I'm not really the high intensity, but the fact that I get to teach a lot of different style movements from body weight, barbells, kind of everything from there. So since about 12, 13 years, I've been doing that. And then my wife has been helping me in the gym since about 2020, which is not a great time to get into the gym space. If you think
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Sure. we had so we had a couple of arduous years in the beginning there, surviving through COVID with the brick and mortar gym. So ever since that point time, we've been kind of looking for you know kind of what the next thing is. And you know maybe we don't have to necessarily be tied to a gym location. And how can we just help people live their best lives, maybe not specifically in the gym, but how can we help them in the other 23 hours of their life? So... She brought me this health product that we'll get into a little bit more. and It's been just been awesome. It's been truly impacted our health. It's been crazy what we've seen with our family members and other people who have utilized the machine in the water. so we're just super excited about it and found it really helps further our mission of helping people live you know healthier lives, feel
Contaminants in Municipal Water
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better. To us now, it makes a lot of sense that hydration is is a very logical place to start because everyone drinks water. It sounds like she was the one who kind of...
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put you onto that path. But I'm i'm curious, like you mentioned, you you had so much teaching of fitness and strength training. like how often was the hydration conversation coming up in some of those classes or was it not?
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Was it just kind of assumed that you're here, you brought a water bottle, we don't need to talk about it? Yeah, pretty much until October 2023, was i was largely in the camp of like water is just water, right? So like fill it up from a tap, get it from a water fountain, you know, as long as it's not green, ah you're you're good to go, right? So um she kind of challenged me in that in that position. And I kind of pride myself on but you know, being curious on things rather than just judgmental from the start. So, you know, as a good husband, I sat out to prove her wrong. And it looks kind of backfired on me in in a good way. So it's been great to see. And, and you know, we we kind of got, we didn't love how much emphasis was being, people were putting on the one hour in the gym and expecting it to make up for the 23 hours outside the gym, um which is kind of why we we kind of made this turn where it's like, you know,
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you know Working out is great. you know working you know Being active is great, but you know there's a lot of different ways to kind of skin that cat, so to say. and you know we were just like, you know it doesn't have to be super high-intensity CrossFit all the time.
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It doesn't need to be that for a lot of people. That's where we took that that fitness into the hydration realm as well. Okay. So you mentioned that you were challenged on the idea that water is just water, and then you found out maybe it's not. So yeah to unpack that for me. Like what, what is wrong about that line of thinking that water is water? It doesn't matter where it comes from. For sure. So, I mean, originally started, like I said, before then we, we just kind of filled up our water bottles from the tap and we were just like, you know, we have good city water. Doesn't smell weird. You know, it's, it's clean, whatever.
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And then we actually she found this website called EWG.org. So it's EWG, just the letters.org. And it's the Environmental Working Group. And they do a broad survey on all the municipal water in the United States. And so you can essentially just type in your zip code, and it tells you what contaminants and it gets it right from the EPA, right from the municipalities, self reported what what is in the water.
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um that you are currently drinking if you are leaving it unfiltered. So they ah originally had it data from like 2019 to 2021. And they actually just updated it for 2025. So if you do go on that website, they have the most up to date data on your municipal water source. so um It doesn't go into wells, but just municipal water. So anyways, we did that. And like the our water had like 13 contaminants that were not just like a little bit over the health guideline. They were like 30, 40, 50 times, times over.
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um the health guidelines. So it's like like, there's things like chloroform that was like 80 times the health limit in our in our water, like bromate, trihalomethane, like all these different cancer causing agents that were just in our tap water.
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And ah we' we're just like, holy crap, like if we're pouring... a gallon of this in our bodies every single day, like the accumulative effect of it is, it's just no wonder you're seeing people with these chronic diseases popping up over and over and over again, and people can't really figure out why. No wonder if you're just having these this water that's inundated more and more and more with more chemicals, because a lot of these treatment plants aren't filtering the water, they're just adding things to clean the water, quote unquote, right? They're not really ever taking anything out. They're just adding more chemicals to neutralize what's already in there with no really thought to what byproducts that chemical was making with the current contaminants that are in it. So as we found out, we were like, man, this is scary what we've been putting into our body for so long.
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Yeah, I mean, it's like just throwing a bunch of chlorine in a swimming pool. And, you know, i think we all kind of had that experience as kids, or at least I did. Like you get in the swimming pool and people say, now don't open your eyes underwater because it's going to burn. And that's the chlorine.
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And like, you you kind of look back on that and you're like, so why is no one concerned that I'm swimming around in something that burns if I open my eyes? so Like, which is kind of like... Yeah, yeah sure. All right.
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So you mentioned that theres there's a health limit. Why isn't there like a legal limit on these things? So the legal limits are usually multiple increments higher than what the health guideline is. So and there's there's there's a logical reason for that, too. And then also there's sometimes not legal limits on things, right? So like EFASs, PFLSs, like but the plastics and water, there's no legal limit.
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We don't know what the limit is, right? It could be 100 times more than what it should be right now. But um the the legal limit, it it it does make sense from a municipal and government standpoint in terms of like less than 1% of the water that's coming from youipal municipal sources is being used to drink, right?
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but So it's being used to flush toilets, clean your floors, waterways. water your lawn, right? It's in fire engines, putting out fires. So like, it doesn't make sense from a government standpoint to invest the billions of dollars it would likely take to make every single, you know, drop of water clean enough to drink, right? That just this wouldn't really make a lot of sense, right? Does your toilet water need to be drinkable? Probably not.
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Right. So from' from a government standpoint, it makes sense. But then when you do think about, you know, that 1% of the water that you are drinking and even showering in, right, we're not even getting to that side of the conversation is what, you know, what's doing with the absorption of the skin. And then, you know, when you're inhaling the vapors and stuff like that, but you know, what damage
Health Benefits of Improved Water Quality
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are those,
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trace the amounts of chemicals being done to your body as you drink it or as you shower in it? What is the answer to that question? I guess, you know, if somebody's thinking like, okay, there's there's trace amounts of stuff or, you know, like you just did some air quotes, you know, it's maybe a little more than trace. yeah yeah I think sometimes because our world is the way that it is, we can almost have this attitude of, well, everything gives you cancer. So, you know, what can you do?
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I mean, but what what is the the concern or or maybe even like the alternative. Like if we aren't doing this, how do we feel better? Sometimes that's actually easier to measure in the short term because um might not get cancer tomorrow, but I might feel better tomorrow if I start changing what's going into my body. a lot of these kind of contaminate them, like even things that are used to clean the water, right? Like, you know, chlorine is a big thing that they use to clean the water that then you're then drinking. But like things like chlorine, fluoride, you'll even find pharmaceutical, trace pharmaceuticals in the water um that accumulates just from it being recycled and reused and reused and reused.
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um And these have a you know lot of effect on the body in terms of just oxidative stress that it builds up in the body, which is similar to like being chronically stressed out, like, um things like that. It can also deteriorate the the gut bacteria, which is going to affect on your sleep, if your your neurotransmitters and your ability to, um you know, establish things like serotonin and melatonin.
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Fluoride accumulates in your pineal gland, which then can then deteriorate slightly and reduce the effect of, you know its ability to produce melatonin. So like your first step in trying to you know, figure out what to do with all this is one, just figure out what's in your water, right? So like go to that website, see what's in your water, see what you're dealing with. And then two, what we always recommend people do is, again, take your filtration into your own hands. so Brita filter is, you know, it it's better than nothing, right? I'm i'm a big fan of like one's better than zero. So like, don't think you need to like eliminate everything or you're not going to, you know, might as well not do anything.
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And that would always, that would always infuri and infuriate me at the gym. It's like, well, if I can't come five days a week, then I might as well not come at all. So I'm not going to get with the results. You're like, well, no, that's not really how that works, right? So, you know, doing something, we we have a ah water filter that we really like.
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It's called the AquaPure. It's a multi-peer and it's called the company's multi-peer it's called the Aqua Versa. It's a counter um unit that we just hook up to our tap and it flows through there. And it's pretty much rated for like 14 to 15 of the most common contaminants that you'll see.
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Everything from heavy metals to asbestos to like big common things like chlorine and fluoride and stuff like that. So we utilize that. And then we also have a water ionizer on top of that, which is where the electrolyzed reduced water comes the top.
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That's a big part of what you talk about. so maybe this is the right time to get into that. So we're talking about what shouldn't be in our water, but you're adding things to water. yeah Yeah. Like our baseline first step that is filtration, right? Making sure that your water is clean to drink. and And that's what we were a big proponent of back. And then we have what's called a water ionizer, which it doesn't really technically add anything to the water. It plugs into an outlet um and it sends an electrical current through the water. So as the water goes through our filter, it runs into this ionizer and then it adds an electrical current through the water.
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What happens is that electrical current undergoes a process called electrolysis, which is essentially breaking apart the water molecule using electricity. So it breaks the water molecule down from H2O into a positive stream and a negative stream, right? So this this machine has two hoses. The negative stream comes out of the top, which is our alkaline water.
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And then our bottom stream has the positively charged water, which is acidic water. Based on how much electricity put into the machine is you can affect then the ah they pH of the end drinking water results. So like if a 9.5 pH comes out the top hose, then you're going to have a four and a half pH come out of the bottom hose because that pH of water of ah of a solution is always 14, right? So you're splitting it and that's what the that has the balance is goingnna it going to work out.
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And why would you want to do that? Yeah. So yeah great question, right? Why would you want to do that? So it has a ton of health benefits. So the alkaline side of the water um has a ton of health benefits and it's that's used for the drinking water, right? So um the biggest benefit is, so like on the the negative side, which is you know alkaline, we have it ah ah accumulation of OH molecules, which is hydroxide, right? So we're splitting that H2O into two different things, either hydrogen, which is positively charged, comes out of the bottom hose, or hydroxide, which is negatively charged.
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And this isn't a solution, right? So it's not like only hydroxide. It's like ah you know a water solution with more hydroxide than the other. Anyway, so then in that solution, then you also have an accumulation of hydrogen molecules, right? So the H that split off becomes H2, which is hydrogen gas.
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And hydrogen gas has been been studied lately as being a super productive and super specific antioxidant in the body. So that water that's coming out of the top is infused essentially with hydrogen gas.
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It's alkaline um and it has great antioxidant properties, which is going to help neutralize the oxidative stress that builds up in your body from different things like contaminants in water, if you still have that, which hopefully you don't if you have this machine.
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um But you know different things like pollutants outside or processed food or if you smoke or drink any alcohol, um it can help neutralize those things or just from chronic stress as well.
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And ah how often do you have i'm like, I'm trying to understand the impact on your life to have this machine running? Is it like you, you get enough where you can kind of stock up for a while? Do you have to flip it on every time you want to drink? Like, what is the day to day look like?
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The dayto day to day essentially, I mean, so we use it mostly for our drinking water. So anytime we're filling up a bottle, like our Stanley or whatever, you know, um you know, plastic free bottle we're using, we we turn it on, but then you can also utilize the water that comes out of the bottom hose, the acidic water for cleaning purposes. So we use it for a lot of our household cleaning products, and we've pretty much been able to eliminate any toxic, you know, base cleaning products, we use it for our laundry detergent, we use it for hand sanitization, we use it for wound healing, we use it to clean our oven, we use it to clean off
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you know, stains on the floor, we use it to do pretty much anything around the house, we can mix it up and use it for soap, we use it for face wash. So it's also not only is great drinking water source, but we use it to be making our household essentially toxic and chemical free, which is going to then further allow us to, you know, kind of neutralize these environmental toxins that build up in our house and and around ourselves.
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The acidic water you can essentially store for about a week in like a dark container. So like we'll fill it up and then have it for about a week and then we'll kind of cycle it out. So it's not something we have to like fill up a container every single time.
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And so what have been some of the results of doing that? For me personally, just kind of energy levels have really gone through the roof. Personally, like, you know, used to be a big coffee drinker and, you know, have to wake up and drink 20, 30 coffee in the morning you know, coffee pot. And then I'd have my espresso in the afternoon and just kind of, you know, always need something to kind of get that energy going.
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But um you my energy level has been great. My testosterone levels have actually risen. My sperm motility has actually gone up. So we kind of started this and we my my wife and I were looking to start getting, um you know, hopefully have kids.
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And then we did kind of tests from the doctors and, you know, everything checked out on her side and my sperm ability was super low. um So we kind of add this into our regimen and I went from like the zero percentile up like the 30, 40 percentile.
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Wow. And and we now we actually have a kid on the way too. Oh, congrats. like spot Thank you. Going from a spot where you're like, oh, I'm not sure if we're going to have kids to like, honestly, getting pregnant within like the first two weeks of trying, and it was it was a pretty crazy, you know, turn of events for us. And so like ever since that happened, we were like, yeah, this is, um it's fixing something in our in our bodies, you know, and if we're feeling the energy levels and we're seeing, you know, our biomarkers increase from really just changing our water, then you know Why wouldn't we try to promote this to more people and help them um experience that health benefits as well?
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Something else we saw also, my mom has a machine and she had eczema on her hands for about 35 years. Terrible eczema. I've never gotten a pedicure before. Her hands were just bloody messes during this during in the winter. And like as someone who lives you know on the East Coast-ish, you know how winters get super dry and ah very cold.
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um And she was just miserable every single winter and growing up. And so we were like, Hey, try this water, check it out. We would send her you know a couple gallons and every couple of days. And that was like her primary drinking water for about five months. And in about six months, her hands had been completely healed fully, no no
Importance of Water Quality for Health
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issues. She went away from drinking the water for a few weeks and everything started coming back.
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And so she ended up buying a machine and that's like all the water she drinks now in her hands and having had an issue for about almost a year at this point. And it's in 35 years where she tried everything from steroid shots to you know and you know everything she could get her hands on. She tried juicing, she tried you know everything she could and it would get a little bit of help, but nothing that would ever actually solve the issue and until this came along.
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Yeah, that's incredible. There's some really tangible benefits to point to. you When I always explain to people and talk about it, it's always and like, that's kind of the issue with water in general, right? It's such a kind of taken for granted topic and subject and that it's just so available, right? it You just turn on a sink and you get water that comes out.
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so it's just something that's some that's really taken for granted. But like, if you kind of think about how much of your body alone is made up of water, right? Your brain is like 70% water. Your lungs are like 80% water. Like most of your cells are 60, 70% water. So it's like, if your body's mostly comprised of something, AKA water, like wouldn't you want to then input the best water into your body possible to, you know,
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kind of create some health benefits for yourselves or hopefully feel as good as possible. And I think it's something just so overlooked and we don't realize how bad our current situation is if we're not doing anything to fix the water and how much better it could be.
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So Kyle, I think that's a really good segue into the other piece of this that I wanted to talk about, because the conversation that we've been having is kind of assuming that people drink water. It's just drinking the right water. But I think that the evidence is pretty overwhelming that the majority of Americans are not drinking enough water. I was actually trying to find a number for this before our conversation today. Different surveys say different things, but the consensus is there. Like most people are chronically dehydrated.
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And I'm curious to get your perspective, especially with so much of a background in the fitness community as to why that is. i mean, if you look at my For You page on TikTok, it's like,
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Stanley's, Wallace, and like whatever water bottle du jour is trending. It seems like everyone has has the props, they have the accessories. A lot of times you'll hear people talk about like, oh, my New Year's resolution is I'm gonna drink more water. You know, it's like it's like this health trend.
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But then the data is still saying that people aren't getting enough to drink. So what's the disconnect here? Yeah, I mean, so I think unfortunately, the disconnect is like, we're not having a conversation. i mean, the conversation in the community is still that more is better. And I don't think that's necessarily the case, right? I think better water is better.
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And it it'd be like trying to solve a food issue, which is saying, Oh, just eat more food. And you know, you'll have more energy where it's like, well, if some people eat more food, and they want to go to sleep, Right. You know, they don't want to do anything after that. So it's like, you know, more water isn't really the solution. It's better water is the solution.
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Right. And I think we don't talk about that enough. It's the same thing with exercise really too. Right. Like doing more and more and more all the time doesn't really make it better. Right. In terms of movement. Right. But doing better movement. Right. You know, if you're having a form on your squats. Right. Doing a better form of your squat is better than just doing a ton of really crappy squats with a ton of weight on bar.
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So I think that's the issue, right? Because if if you are drinking more water, which is great, but you still don't really feel difference from it, then it's okay. How good is your water? Are you filtering it properly? Do you know what is in your water? And I think if you don't have the answer to that, then ah really the question is, what's in your water? And then how can we make it better for you?
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Because like even on a macro level, right? Like water is not water, right? If I gave you natural spring water and then I gave you like a bottle of sewage water, like you would take the natural spring water, right? So like on a macro level, we always make that choice. Kind of stops after on the kind of micro level where it's like, well, is this water...
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great for me, right? It doesn't have pollutants in it that I need to be careful of that are, you know, disrupting my hormone regulation that are causing an increase in cortisol that are causing my, you know, my, my nervous system to go all haywire when I'm trying to, you know, calm down at night, because I drink my 16 ounces right
Effects of Poor Quality Water on Health
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before I go to bed. But then maybe that's jacking up my you know hormone regulation, because it's full of chlorine and fluoride I didn't pharmaceuticals. I didn't even realize we're in there.
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Yeah. I mean, and that's not even getting into the conversation about having a 16 ounce soda and saying like that counts toward my hydration in or something. that that was that That was the image that popped into my mind when you said sewage water versus spring water, picturing that dark soda.
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like i Like, actually, i I don't know if everybody does make that choice on a macro level. You're like this diet, right? You're fine. When somebody is maybe they're drinking a lot of water, but it's not the right water. I'm curious what some of those symptoms are, especially related to sleep, I think is is relevant to what we normally talk about on this show. But i mean, it could be anything to you what are some things that you're going to see that could be indicators that you're maybe not drinking the right water?
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i think a lot of it. comes down to i mean like one thing that we always felt with the water that we used to drink before what we drink now is like how heavy does it feel and if i find it's kind of weird but like do you ever like drink a lot of water and you just feel kind of like sloshing around in your stomach and you're just like yeah sure ah to me that's a tall tale sign of like your water has some issues in terms of how fast it's being digested and absorbed which leads me to believe that there's some kind of chemical properties going on in there that shouldn't be in there, right? list With our filtered water now and the electrolyzed reduced water, like I could probably chug my entire Stanley and be good to go and not having the issue. and I guess you don't really know that until you know the opposite. But like, for me, that's how I tell people, it's like, you know, do you ever feel like that water just sits in your stomach? And like, yeah, like, I drink water before I work out, I just feel miserable. It's like,
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To me, that's like, all right, like that's something you should like, you know, your check engine like should be kind of pop it in your head and like, all right, maybe I should dig into more of like why this is happening. Yeah, I think a lot of things are like that. You might have health issues or whatever, but like in a perfect situation, your stomach should be able to absorb what you put in it.
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Just like your your ears should be able to hear. what sort of input they're getting. And so if you're in a situation where your ears are ringing, like that's, there's probably something wrong. The thought process of like, oh, well, that's just how it is. That's just how it's always going to be is something that we should, you know, people should kind of try to step away from. It's like,
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oh, I'm just not a very good sleeper. Like, that's just who I am. You're like, you know, your body needs rest. So like, it should be craving some kind of rest, right? In some kind of capacity. So like, if it's not, then like, you know, what's, what's causing that, right? Or it's like, oh, you know, my, just have bad knees. Like, that's just me. Or it's like, you know, like,
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you weren't born with bad knees. Like, you know, maybe you were injured playing sports or something like that. But it's like, you have these issues that you just think are just like, oh that's just, you know, how my body is. Like, there could be an underlying thing that's causing them. and there probably is. You take time to actually kind of look into it and research it.
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I've got a question. i think sometimes when we have these conversations, you'll probably appreciate this, especially as somebody who's done so much personal training and strength training. Sometimes we want to be healthy, but it feels like it's just a laundry list of things that we now need to do. It's like, I have to count my macros. I have to pay attention to what I'm eating. have this and this and this. And now like you're giving me one more, Kyle. like I have to also have the right water. and What do you say to somebody who's maybe listening to this and having that thought right now? If you're just giving me one more thing that I have to now pay attention to, to try to be a healthy person.
00:25:51
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Yeah, I mean, and and I'd say don't don't be overwhelmed by it. Don't think you need to do everything to do anything. kind of what we mentioned before earlier in this in this conversation is like start with understanding what's in your water.
00:26:03
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Figure out, you know, don't be just remain ignorant in that fact. Like, you know, you have that resource, ewg.org. Take a look, see what's in your water. If you're on that well system, get a sample done.
00:26:13
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you know, start there. And then you're probably going to want to make the filtration, you know, step pretty quickly after you see what's actually in the water. So, you know, start there. And then can what happened that's kind of where we started. And then what happened to us is then we were like, all right, what's the next step? And then we added the next step. And then when we went on vacation without the machine, when we had the machine, we were just like,
00:26:34
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oh, this bike, we feel gross. Like we're going to bring this machine with us. Like, mean, until recently, a second bag always flew free on Southwest. So that was our main one. But yeah, I guess we'll have to kind of real figure that out. But yeah when we went on vacation for a week, we were just like, ah, we just don't feel great. Like I'd rather feel good and bring this with us.
00:26:53
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And then that was the impetus to but pretend out to bring it on with us. It was never like, all right, like we have to do this now. Now we have to do this. Now we have to do this. So it was like, all right, like, you know, step one was this. And then we just realized we felt better.
00:27:05
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And so we did the next thing and then we felt better. And then, you know, when we didn't do it, we felt worse. And we decided we'd rather feel better than feel worse when we go on vacation. So that, you know, that was the impetus. And it's, you know, i think a lot of that is the same for a lot of stuff in the fitness realm where it kind of snowballs forward versus like you trying to jump all the way down.
Water Filtration Systems vs. Bottled Water
00:27:23
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i love that. That's such great advice.
00:27:26
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So for just kind of what you'd recommend for a filtration system, how much is that going to set somebody back? So the MultiPure Aqua Versa that we use, it's like $6.95, something like that, $700. We change the filter once a year. It's like another $30, maybe something like that. It ends up being like $0.30 a gallon you know that we utilize throughout the year. So in terms of like what bottled water would cost you per a gallon, which is going to be closer to $3 to $5 per gallon.
00:27:53
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um From just the filtration cost alone, it just makes sense. It like pays for itself within a year. It has a super sturdy stainless steel base you know that's it's just not going to you know break. It's not a bunch of like cheap plastic filters that they keep replacing over and over again. So that's kind of where we started with that and what we always recommend people do.
00:28:11
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It's one of the only filters on the market that is rated to... um filter out heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and then other kind of trace contaminants as well. Yeah, I think that's a good way to frame it of what the cost you'd be saving of having to source water elsewhere.
00:28:27
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you know, it's ready to last like 20, 30 years. So think of it 700 divided by 30 years, right? It's, you know, it's four bucks a year. um Sometimes I wonder with like some of the store brands of bottled water too. i mean, how much of that is just marketing?
00:28:42
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You know, you don't really know what kind of filtration they're using. That that same website, the EWG, they have ah actually a a report on bottled water and a lot of it has contaminants that are multiple over the the legal limit or even the the health limit that ah that are imposed. So it's like,
00:28:59
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all right, if this like natural spring water is, you know, actually filtered or is it just exactly what I'm drinking, but put in a bottle of water. And then that opens a conversation of like, all right, well, has been bottled for six months and it's in the heat. And then how much of that plastic is leaching off into the water? And, you know, don't even know the health benefits of that. So it's like, you know, if I can get one machine that's going to filter through everything out versus having to buy packs and packs and packs of water bottles over the next, you 10, 30 years,
00:29:29
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10, 20 years or whatever, then to me, that's worth it on just a personal health level, not even to mention, ah you know, an ecological level in terms of what it's doing to
Conclusion and Additional Resources
00:29:37
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the environment. Yeah, i was just thinking about that, you know, the plastic bottles add up to. Well, Kyle, this has been great stuff.
00:29:42
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Where can somebody go to learn more about you and the work that you do? So we have a website at probably where lead you to. It's kyleandtaylorflynn.com. um We have a blog on the website that talks more about the electrolyzed reduced water. And we kind of update that every week with the different topics surrounding hydration and water.
00:30:01
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um And then we also have a mini course as well that talks about um the water that you can do that you can learn more about. And then we also have kind of like a business on the side that you can learn more about as well.
00:30:12
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um So you can sign up for the mini course or check our blog out and learn more about what we do. Nice. I'm looking at it right now. Kyleandtaylorflynn.com. the In the picture, the machine that you're holding, that's what you use to electrolyze the water?
00:30:27
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Yes, sir. That's smaller than I i was picturing even. Yeah, no, it's not it's not super big. It's not super big. And they have under under the sink models as well that you could you can use. Awesome. in terms of just, you know, kind of looping this all back to sleep and kind of how that helps is, you know, really understanding what you're currently drinking, what water you're currently drinking in terms of the contaminants that are in it, making sure you filter that out and um see what kind of effect that has on your sleep because those contaminants like chlorine and In fluoride that's in everyone's water, it does have issue. It does have effect on your yeah your yeah kind neurotransmitters and your ability to create different things that help like melatonin, serotonin that help you sleep better, um stimulate your nervous system and things like that. So it can pull play a big role. And then you know your body's 70% water, 80% water. So making sure you're properly hydrated is just going to help your cells function better and feel better and hopefully sleep better.
00:31:17
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Well, Kyle Flynn, thank you so much for coming on the show. Awesome. Thanks for having me.
00:31:23
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