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Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. You know, people are always asking me, Dr. G, should I be filtering my water?

Well, the short answer is yes, absolutely. That's why this week I brought on one of the early developers of reverse osmosis technology to help you sort out fact from fiction and help you make the best decision for your health.

He's Robert Slovak. Robert is a degreeed mechanical and aeronautical and astronomical engineer who has been in the water treatment game since the 1970s when he co-founded the company water factory systems.

Since then, Robert has been on the cutting edge of water filtration technology and he's taking his knowledge all around the world.

On today's episode, he and I are going to discuss why you should start filtering your water as soon as possible. What's wrong with plain old tap water and whether alkaline water is really worth the hype?

Robert, welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. Thank you. Happy to be here and it's certainly very special to be with a celebrity.

So yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not a millennial who would be interviewing you, but you know, we'll make up for it. All right, so you've been, let's talk about deuterium.

You've been interested in deuterium for a really long time. What the heck is it? People may have heard about it. It's a buzzword right now. Why should we care about deuterium?

Well, props the first and I'll try to lead this off with a little humor that deuterium was a favorite buzzword of mine when I was in the Cub Scouts.

And unlike everyone else, I called my Cub Scout Patrol, the Atom Patrol.

So I was a fanatic about the Atom and it was in the late 40s and early 50s when I was in the Cub Scouts.

The Atom was one of the more fascinating things and deuterium was part of that, but I became fascinated with deuterium when I looked at it very differently than everyone else.

I realized that it was like another contaminant in the water. And we're going to have to explain to your audience what it is, so it makes sense.

Because here we had something that's part of water that's one of the most egregious contaminants and has a as yet undiscovered impact on human and animal and plant health.

So it just caught me off guard. It stunned me. I'm going water is a contaminant in water.

So should I describe what deuterium is?

Yeah, bring everybody up today, because I would say it's now kind of a buzzword, but I think sometimes the problem with buzzwords is that nobody even knows what the word is.

Yeah, and I think that's maybe helpful, but I'm going to hold this up. It's not going to mean much everybody, but it is a periodic table of the elements.

Yeah, and the whole universe is made out of 92 of these things and not to oversimplify it.

And the first one and the lightest one is hydrogen, but rarely do I find, you know, whether they're just consumers or professional people realize that many of the elements have more than one version or form and those forms are called isotopes.

Hydrogen happens to have even though we just think, oh, it's hydrogen, hydrogen, hydrogen, it has three very distinct forms.

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