Drink up!

Don’t pee in the water? Let’s get real. You have to pee and you have to … well, you know, in the toilet. And, therein, Stan Nodvik says, is the major source of pharmaceuticals in our drinking water, in our lakes and rivers, and, of course, in the oceans.

How so? Well, Stan says no drug in pill or capsule or liquid form, including those vitamins, is completely absorbed by the human body. If someone takes, for example, an antidepressant like wellbutrin, then what excess of bupropion beyond what the body/mind needs is voided either as urine or feces.

Therefore, the human elimination of wastes is a more serious source of pharmaceuticals in water than the harm that comes from emptying bottles of pills into the commode, although this, too, is a bad practice.

“Fish caught near wastewater treatment plants serving five major U.S. cities had residues of pharmaceuticals in them, including medicines used to treat high cholesterol, allergies, high blood pressure, bipolar disorder and depression, researchers reported.

Findings from this first nationwide study of human drugs in fish tissue have prompted the Environmental Protection Agency to significantly expand similar ongoing research to more than 150 different locations.”

–www.msnbc.msn.com on March 25th 2009

Consider the side effects of one medication, then multiply those side effects by hundreds over for all the drugs that were unabsorbed by millions and millions of Americans. Oh, sure, minute amounts won’t hurt you, but with the increase in polypharmacy (individuals taking long term multiple drugs), decades of accumulation and dozens of drugs contraindicating each other, you are asking for problems.

What can be done? Nothing, I would say, at the human source. Toilet filters? What about at the water and sewerage plants? Good luck. Hey, Is distilled water still the safest water to drink? And you thought traces of mercury in our water was bad. Good Gawk! Maybe doctors should prescribe more placebos in the future as a solution!

In the past, Blog4Brains has brought to your attention many health alerts regarding the dangerous chemical in our drinking water. Here’s a brief recap of some of those prior posts. The first one called Health Alert: Drugs in our Water Supply? by Unum back on August 10th 2007 was right on and ahead of its time about the pharmaceuticals in our water.

••Health Alert: Drugs in our Water Supply? by Unum is a must read for b4b readers. It could be considered Part One of this posting.

••Health Alert: Plastics May Make You Fat! by Unum showcases the chemical called bisphenol A and its fat-cell activity. It’s a common chemical used in products from marine paints and pesticides to food and beverage containers.

••Health Alert: The World’s Tiniest Threat by Unum about untested nanomaterial in nanotech products.

••Health Alert: Some Medications Can Cause Obesity by Unum about how Researchers and practitioners have found that dozens of prescription drugs cause you to gain weight (from side effects from these meds),

••Health Alert: Popcorn Chemical May Cause Cancer by Unum re perfluorooctanoic acid.

••“US doctor smeared for raising drug concerns” by Cerebrl about the FDA and Dr. Steve Nissen findings that Avandia approved by the FDA dangerous side effects that increased the risk of heart attacks.

••10 Year Olds: Toxic Accumulation by Unum.

••Are You Poisoned With 320 Chemicals? by Unum relates what National Geographic journalist, David Ewing Duncan found thru ordered tests for chemical in the human body.

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