New Airline Water Study: No More Coffee or Tea… And Don’t Wash Your Hands

Amy & T.J.

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🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Center for Food as Medicine & Longevity has just released its latest 3 year study on the quality of water on board airplanes, and the results and recommendations are disturbing. The study ranks water quality by airline, from best to worst, and says nearly all airlines need to make some changes to address bacteria found in some samples. Amy and T.J. go over the findings and add a little perspective from a microbiologist after the break.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:15.0	Welcome, everyone.
0:16.4	It is Sunday, January 11th, and a new study says,
0:21.0	the next time you fly on an airplane, do not drink the coffee, do not drink the tea,
0:28.3	and don't wash your hands in the bathroom on your next flight.
0:34.5	DJ, I believe I have done all three of the above pretty much every time I get on a flight. I just drink alcohol and I never wash my hands in the bathroom anyway, so I'm good. Really? I'm kidding. Obviously, I wash my damn hands, but no, I don't drink water. I don't drink anything, but usually a mimosa and Bloody Mary when I fly.
0:55.2	Yeah, wait, you don't usually get tea.
0:56.9	I guess I don't see you do that.
0:58.2	No, it's hot.
0:58.9	Why would you want a hot liquid on an airplane?
1:01.9	I do like a coffee, but that is about to change the director of this study that came from the Center for Food as Medicine and Longevity. This was his quote,
1:13.6	nearly all regional airlines need to improve their onboard water safety. That is alarming.
1:20.9	I never, it makes sense. We'll get into the meat of it and why it is the way it is, but what they found is incredibly
1:29.6	alarming, but I never considered not washing my hands. It says they're on a sign on the mirror.
1:38.2	Please wash your hands before returning to your seat. Okay, the sign doesn't need to be there
1:42.6	anyway. First of all, nobody should
1:45.6	have to be told to wash your damn hand. You should have been told this since you were a child. So, this shouldn't be there. Next, they give you the wipes, right? As soon as you get on the plane, now they hand you those little sanitary wipes and telling you to use your hands, to use those on your hand. So there are options, And I'm curious if this is a headlinement to
2:03.6	scare the hell out of all of us or we are in real danger. Yeah, I'm actually surprised because
2:08.6	I thought that soap, when you, obviously, if you just ran your hands under the water, I understand
2:14.3	maybe you're susceptible to any bacteria that could be in the water. But I always believed that if I use the soap, which I do, that that gets rid of the bacteria.
2:23.9	And I thought that using too much hand sanitizer gets rid of good bacteria. It dries out your
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