Ben Wehrman on Nostr: ...

Plastic-bottled water is so consistently loaded with crap (on top of the microplastics and fluoride...); these headlines come out practically weekly now.

As someone who travels a lot, trust me I understand: if you don't have your own water filtration system at home, or have an office/gym you can bum off of, it can be difficult to remain perfectly plastic-free.

Here's a personal anecdote to use as a problem-solving reference as I just had to deal with this in the last month 👇

a) Searched everywhere and had absolutely no luck finding glass-bottled water in Buenos Aires, so had no choice but to get a couple large plastic jugs to hold myself over for a couple weeks (less total containers = less total plastic exposure). Sucks, but I do a lot of active detoxing so I trust my body was able to purge those toxins

b) I knew I wanted to learn how to fight while here anyway, so I asked the local boxing gyms if they had good filtered water onsite. I made sure to pick one that had this

c) Bought a bunch of empty glass bottles at the grocery store, and loaded them all up every time I went to the boxing gym. Got some weird looks from the staff but I don't care lol

d) Yesterday, I FINALLY found a place that sells high-quality glass-bottled water (a little artisian bakery on the other side of town)

SUCCESS 🔥 I will continue using the gym as my main, and buying more from this place as a backup if I need to. Plastic bottles defeated 👊

(And I'm not even going to tell you how much this "artisian water" costs...I made a pact with myself years ago that I would never be cheap on my health, so we do what we gotta do 😅)