10/14/2026
Which one of these is tap water?
You can't tell by looking.
But I could tell by taste.
For years I never thought twice about our water. I'd fill a glass with ice, and it tasted like nice, cold water. Nothing to worry about.
Then I started leaving that glass on my nightstand overnight. By morning the ice had melted, the water had warmed up, and it tasted like a swimming pool. That sharp chlorine taste I could never pick up when it was ice cold was suddenly impossible to miss.
That's when it hit me. If I could taste it once the cold stopped covering it up, it had been there the whole time. And if it was in my glass, it was in our showers, our baths, and everything I cooked with.
And chlorine is just the one you can taste. Most city water also has fluoride added on purpose, and you'll never taste that one at all.
City water is treated to meet safety standards, and I'm grateful for that. But "meets standards" and "ideal for a body that's trying to heal" aren't always the same thing. Depending on where you live and how old your pipes are, your tap can carry fluoride, chlorine or chloramine, disinfection byproducts, lead from old plumbing, and even PFAS, the "forever chemicals."
When you're healing from mold, your body is already carrying a heavy load. Water is the one thing you take in more of than anything else, all day, every day. Lowering your exposure there lightens the whole pile.
So I dug into the research, and I'd take fluoride out of my family's drinking water. In this week's post I cover:
đ§ What the research actually says about fluoride
đ§ What else can be hiding in your tap
đ§ The exact softener and reverse osmosis setup we use at home
You don't have to fix everything at once. Clean water is one of the simplest places to start.
