Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. The weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. It's not unreasonable to question the quality of your drinking water. Is tap water actually safe to drink?

What's the best way to filter water? Is the government doing enough to limit potential contaminants?

These are all questions you deserve to have answers to. After all, water is absolutely essential for life.

That's why today I brought on a special guest to help set the record straight on drinking water and the safest options for you and your family.

She's Helen Cristoni, a passionate health and wellness executive. As the current vice president of business development and partnerships at Ideal Living, the makers of Aqua True, Air Doctor, and Aroma True.

Helen believes everyone has the right to clean air, pure water, and a solid foundation for wellness.

On today's episode, we're going to discuss common water contaminants, what is considered safe, and how to properly filter your water at home.

Stay tuned. We'll be right back. You're going to drink this up, folks.

Helen, it's so glad to have you on the show.

Thank you, Dr. Gundry. Thank you so much for having me here today.

I want to know what was your big aha moment when it came to understanding the importance of water quality?

My big aha moment is when I ran my zip code through the EWG database.

What the heck is an EWG?

So I'll tell you, it's the Environmental Working Group, and just so everybody knows, their website is www.org.

I'm in this business, I'm in the water business, and so when I ran my zip code, I live here in Los Angeles, and came back with several contaminants that I had no idea where I might walk.

So I brought them for you today, so I'll run through the list.

So first of all, on my water, I had arsenic at 10 times the health guidelines.

And then also, and this one really kind of blew my mind, is I had Chromium 6.

So Chromium 6 was in my water at 247 times the health guidance lines.

So Aaron Brockovich, she made Chromium 6 famous 30 years ago, and I saw the Aaron Brockovich movie.

So to see if the Chromium 6 was in my water at 247 times the guidelines, when everyone knows about this contaminant, and it's been so well talked about and covered, really, really shocked me.

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