What's going on? It's episode 177 of the Genius Life and welcome aboard.

What's going on everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Genius Life. Hope, uh, this finds you well.

My name is Max Lugovier. I'm a filmmaker, health and science journalist, an author of The New York Times,

bestselling book, Genius Foods and The Genius Life. You guys, today I'm super excited to talk

about all things H2O, aka water. Today to the show we welcome the terrific Robert Slovak.

Robert is regarded as one of the world's foremost water experts pioneering a reverse osmosis

technology in the early 70s with his brother Jack. Today, Robert is the Chief Science and Technology

Officer at Water and Wellness, offering a curated collection of products to provide every household

with toxin-free mineral rich and health giving water. Over the course of the next hour and a half,

we talk about how Robert went from working in aeronautics and with the intelligence community

during the Vietnam War to become a pioneer in the field of reverse osmosis. We also get all up

in reverse osmosis technology and we discover how it actually works to purify water, whether it's

from the sea, a polluted river or your tap, to make it safe for human consumption. He shares

what can be done to prevent the depletion of minerals and trace elements in water that our bodies

need. We talk about the declining mineral content of our food supply and we go into

deteriorum and what deteriorum is and what its relation to water and our health is.

We also talk about finally the ocean and we discuss why all life on earth is in its debt

and we cover what we can do to make sure that we're not deficient in its resources on which we've

evolved to rely. I love taping this episode with Robert because he's so passionate about something

that we all take for granted and that is water, especially if you live in the first world. The fact

that we have running tap water is an incredible miracle and Robert is going to break down all of the

benefits of staying healthy and hydrated and what we can do to optimize our relationship with water

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