Welcome to Highbrow and I'm your host, Meina Le.

Before we get started today, I have to bring up the fact that I got this

amazing email. So if you listen to the last episode, it was kind of like a recap of things that were

happening in April and March. And I mentioned water discourse, specifically like the flavored water discourse that was happening

on TikTok.

And I got into this whole thing with like the luxury water market.

And I mentioned this one clip from Zach Efron's travel food show on Netflix.

I don't remember what it's called.

Forgive me.

But in this episode, in this clip that I

showed, they went to a water sommelier. And the water sommelier made this claim that you should not

be drinking purified water because it strips the minerals from your body. And I thought that

sounded a little ridiculous and I did make that disclaimer,

but I got an email from someone who actually knows more about it than me. So I'm going to read out this email. This is from Liliana. Lilliana preface that she is studying environmental science

at their school. Okay, so this is what they wrote. First of all, what the French man said about drinking water with TDS of zero leading to

minerals leaving your body was blatant misinformation.

The only study that possibly supports this was conducted in 1980s Soviet Russia, and it

found that drinking water with less than 100 milligrams per liter of TDS led to the release

of sodium, potassium, chloride, and calcium ions from the human body.

However, it is not a reliable source because the scientific methods used were questionable,

as was the conclusion it came to.

Additionally, major health organizations like the World Health Organization

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