Martin Riese: Why Your “Healthy” Water Might Be Lying to You

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Is this thing on? Hello, friends. Welcome to another podcast. I am so excited today because as you guys know, if you guys follow my social media, you possibly saw my little mountain valley water debacle that went viral. And listen, I'm just a girl. I was sad. I wanted to test my water because somebody had said some things. And you can never believe everything that you see online. Long story short, I tested the water, got some results that I didn't quite understand. But there's a man who has dedicated his life to teaching people about water. And he's actually America's first water sommelier. Mr. Martin Risa. Thank you so much. Did I say it right? Yeah, perfect. Okay, good. I'm always saying like, because people always say it because I'm German. Oh, you pronounce Porsche, no, it's Porsche. So it's the same with my last name. It's not Risa, it's Risa. Gotcha. It's exactly the same. I love that. I am so happy you're here because I found you in my comments and I didn't even know who you were. Like I hadn't, you have never crossed my FYP. Like I've never even seen any of your content. And when it started going viral on TikTok, people were like, you need to ask Martin, talk to Martin, talk to Martin. And I'm like, who's Martin? So I went over there and looked and I was like, oh, he won't come on the podcast. I didn't think you would. And then you commented on my Instagram post and we kind of, we had a little back and forth. Yes, correct. And, but at the same time, like I love to be educated. I never want to spread misinformation. And what were you just saying a minute ago that as content creators? This is like, first of all, thank you so much that I can be here. And I think it showcases even online. You did a video where, because you want the best for your followers. You want the best. I can see the passion. You want to spread the best to your, to your followers. Yes. And I saw that video because I, I've been tagged so many times and I almost had a heart attack. And I was like, oh, I think I need to say something. So in my very German, undiplomatic way, I said like, what's up? I was like, what's going on there in this video? And you said like, you should do some research. You say, I am the research. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, oh shit. I was like, did we just become best friends? No, but I think what, what we're learning both, I think from this situation, even when you disagree sometimes online, that does not mean you need to don't like the person or something like this. And you, you showcased it so beautifully to say, do you know what? I want to learn. Maybe there's something I don't know was I saw in my test were like that. And I totally even understand because I will tell you why it's so confusing as well. Why these tests are so misleading to the people. So I totally get it. It's not your profession, your content creator, you're creating amazing, cool videos and fun videos. I'm a guy who just drinks water every day. I love it. Yeah. Yeah. I can't wait to get into your, cause I did a lot of research on you last night and I'm like, just fascinated by your story, but I did want to just add to what you said. I am never, um, always right. I love to be taught stuff. I don't want to, I think when you stop learning, you stop living. And I want to know, like, if I'm saying something wrong, correct me. I want, I, and I want to take accountability for that. And obviously what I did was not a hundred percent right. And we'll get into that later. But let's talk a little bit more about your background because I, first of all, I've never heard of a water sommelier. I've heard of wine sommeliers, but I've never heard of water. And as I started reading about like your history and stuff like that, like you have like a real passion for water and how did this come about? Like even as a child, it started as a child, I was four or five years old and on vacation time with my parents, I was just fascinated about the different tap waters in Europe. So we were driving in the car. I was waiting until the car stopped. We had obviously bottled water in the car, but I already had the taste. Why I should drink it again? So we were waiting until the car stopping. I was running to the restroom when my parents always thought, man, he really needs to go all the time, but I didn't go to the restroom. I just wanted to drink the tap water. And my mother looked at me like, what is wrong with our son? Like, why, what's going on there? Until I told them, no, I'm doing this because I like the taste of the water. And they looked at me like, the taste, it's not hydration for me. He's saying, no, hydration is boring. I want to taste the water. And as a child, obviously I had no clue why water could have different taste profiles. I had no clue. And then many years later in 2005, I worked in a beautiful Michelin star restaurant. So my background is hospitality. I worked in a Michelin star restaurant in Berlin and a guest came to me and said, Martin, you have over a thousand different wines on your menu. But you're just serving one brand of water. And he didn't like the taste of that particular brand. And he asked me, what else do you have? And I looked at him and I remind myself of my childhood and I thought he's absolutely right. It's the restroom business. Imagine you would go here in Nashville to a beautiful barbecue spot and they're just serving you one sausage. That's all what they're serving. Nothing else. Or one barbecue sauce. Yeah. They would be like, that's a weird concept for a barbecue joint. Or you're going to a sports bar and the only beer they have on tap is Coors Light. You would be like, nothing wrong about Coors Light. I don't want to like blame now Coors Light or something, but it would be weird to just have one beer. So why are we doing this with water? Water has taste due to minerality and water is our most healthy and most important beverage. Without it, we wouldn't be here. Nobody would sit here in this beautiful room right now when we wouldn't have access to clean and safe drinking water. So I thought, wait a minute, I need to create a water menu. And I did this in 2000. And then the media started to pay attention of me and they actually called me water sommelier. I didn't like the title at all in the beginning, but I thought, no, a sommelier is for wine. I'm more like a water expert. But when I told people I'm a water expert, they thought I'm working for the Department of Water and Power. They couldn't make the connection that I create water menus, talk about that you actually can pair even waters to your dishes. We will go into this. And that there's actually barbecue waters or sushi waters out there who pairing perfectly. For your scenario and for your lifestyle. So it's like wine almost. It is like wine. It's exactly the same like wine, actually. And I thought, you know what, I'm running with water sommelier. It just makes it easier. Everybody understands what that means. And I've been actually certified as a water sommelier in 2010 by the German Water Trade Association for Mineral Waters. I wrote a book about water on the German market. And then I came over here to the States in 2011 based on an O1 visa, the Extraordinary Ability Visa. So for people who don't know, it's the hardest visa you can apply for. So when you're an actor, you better win an Oscar or an Emmy. That's your regulation for an O1. When you are a scientist, you better be a Nobel Prize winner. That means when you're a sports person, athletic person, the Olympic Games should be on your resume. That's what means O1. I'm the only person so far who gained an O1 for this country based on water. That's insane. So I'm holding this O1 visa and now I became dual citizen last year in November. I'm very proud of that. So I'm even now American as well. I love that. And America welcomes you with open arms. I love this country. So I'm still hung up on the fact that as a child, you were so obsessed with drinking tap water. Where do you think that came from? And what was it that made you so obsessed with it? I believe that if you want to call it God or Buddha or Allah or whatever you want to call it, but I believe that every person on this planet has a special gift. Some people can paint beautiful pictures. Some people can create beautiful music. Some people have very good taste like a chef. You can create beautiful flavors that we have incredible good dishes. And somehow I ended up with a good palate as well, especially for water. But I have to say, I can taste a lot of other things as well. My nose is very sensitive. I can smell a lot. What is sometimes not that fun, actually, that you can smell everything. Let's say it like that. It's tough. But I can taste a lot. And it's very interesting. When I then concentrate on water, I stopped drinking hard liquor because it was too strong suddenly. When I really like went into the whole passion of water as like in my mid twenties, I can't handle liquor anymore. I drink beer, I drink wine, but I don't drink any more hard liquor. It's too intense for me. So it's a gift. What lucky me I received and somehow I can actually talk about it. But it's another gift. You know it as well as a content creator, even when you have a gift doesn't mean you have the gift as well to show it to the world right it's a different gift as well no but I I love the way that you present yourself to the world now you are very uh captivating so I mean just when you my accent helps I love that well you sound like a super villain like I love it whenever I did not expect that voice that accent to come out when I first clicked on one of your videos and when you started talking I was like I love this man it instantly was just like okay this is so cool no I really appreciate that so so you grew up you know tasting water and just on this mission and then you somehow got into the restaurant business though so yeah correct because I liked I liked hospitality my father was a sommelier as well for wine okay so the background is already there gotcha he was trained and he was in the restaurant business but then he left the restaurant business so I never saw him actually working as a sommelier in a restaurant I saw him working in a in a wine store as the sommelier you to recommend all the different wines so in my family it was always about taste and food already so that runs in the family my my brother is a very very good person who who loves to cook for himself I'm not really a good cook I'm more like I like to wash dishes I don't have any problems with that my wife is very happy with me that I'm happy to wash the dishes that's a good man though I think so too I'm happy wife happy life I totally agree with you yes that's the reason I have a long-distance relationship with my wife I barely see her yeah she lives in Alaska I live in Los Angeles oh wow she runs a beautiful resort hotel over there the Alyaska resort in Gertwood and she's a very smart cookie I believe it I would think that you would need that uh that stimulation that mental stimulation yes and she's very she's a very strong woman she used to be a professional swimmer so she loves water as well in a different angle and she was actually supposed to go to the Olympic games in 2000 but she went to become sick and she couldn't go but she was on that level so it's it's nice that we both have the connection somehow to water as well I'm drinking it and she's swimming in it I love that so this is nice I love that just like you guys got to bond over water like water has been just a theme in your life I wonder what you were in a past life wonder if you were like a dolphin or something we'll see huh I don't know yeah maybe like or like a shark or a killer whale you never know I talk just with my wife when we're talking about like for my life I just talked to my wife because we're all getting older and we all have to make decisions like what you're gonna do at one point when you may be passing from this planet and you you need to set up what you want to do so obviously when I'm gonna pass hopefully before my wife because I'm very selfish I need my wife surrounding me so I don't I don't want that my wife is going first I no no no so obviously she will get everything what what I have right now in my life but then we thought what are we gonna do when she's passing because we don't have children and we don't want to have children I'm crazy enough what my wife always says like no there's no like a mini me of Martin Reeser that would be not fun that's too much too much energy I think it would be adorable yeah no I would be a very good father but I have a lot of energy like my energy runs very very high maybe because I drink so much water I don't know what it is so we decided we want to give then the rest of the money what we own to a good cause where we're helping others to gain access to clean safe drinking water because water is so important in both of our lives and I think this is something what you should do then it doesn't make sense to give it to friends or something or like I think like there's other people who are like I don't know what to do I don't know what to do I don't know who actually needs it yeah way worse than we maybe needed in Los Angeles that's so beautiful so it's important yeah definitely so take me on to you created water menus what is a water menu because I've never heard of this before and I never even knew this was a profession yeah so when you think about wine let's let's think about wine first and on our wine menu you start maybe with sparkling wines you have champagnes you have sparkling wines then you have the lights of your and Rieslings lighter white wines and then you have the water menus and then you have the and then you're going to Pinot Noir so a little bit more stronger red wines and that you're ending up maybe with a Bordeaux blend or Malo or Cabernet Sauvignon so by wine you have a full spectrum of light wines and heavy wines well the heavies are the red wines the light wines are the the the light Rieslings or Sauvignon Blancs so by water think about like all waters in the ocean like 97 percent of the water currently what we have on this planet is in the ocean we have around 356 million trillion gallons of water on this planet and we're not running out of water we're out of water a lot of people always think we're losing water we don't this planet has the same amount of water since billions of years wow that's what's very important to know that is very important because they tell you something different the problem what the media is saying all the time we're running out of water they don't mislead you but they're not 100 correct and not 100 wrong the problem is what we're facing due to the change of of the environment what's happening right now because it's getting warmer and warmer on this planet and yes it's not just here in America it's trust me i've been from yeah i've been from germany we have the same issues over there so it's not a political party problem it is a world problem that's very important to me the thing is in certain areas it rains too much in other areas we barely have rain anymore so the distribution of water is messed up now on this planet that is the issue and that's the reason we're saying now we should save and conserve water in areas where we have not enough water got so for example los angeles it barely rains i think the last one was in may that's quite a while now that's like vegas yeah we don't have any forecast right now about rain so maybe the next rain will hopefully in november or december so we in los angeles need to understand how can we conserve water and it starts with little things about you're brushing your teeth in the morning and stop the tap in that moment and then you're starting the tap again or what a lot of people don't even think about it um do you know I don't need ai for everything these days and no because i don't need to google everything by ai because when you're using one question in ai it takes around half liter of water like this water here will be wasted by one question of ai because these data centers needs water badly to chill the data centers down and they're using fresh water for that wow so every question in google one water that means i gotta stop talking to chat every day yeah holy shit it's really crazy you can save water by that you would never even think that ai and water would even be intertwined in great britain right now they put a warning up because they have a very severe drought now as well and they said the government said can you please delete all your old emails and people are like old emails to conserve water yeah because again all this data what is stored in the data hubs where they all need the water the less they have data the less they're using water so please get rid of your old emails and you can save water by that you can save emails guys to save water actually on this that is mind-blowing you would never think i'm me even me like i'm i'm learning every day what you already said i'm learning every day something new and what you said about fact checking as well in a lot of my videos i'm saying please even fact check me it's very important to me don't think because i'm martin reason the authority of water does not mean i know everything i'm learning every day and i want to learn because without learning there will be a terrible planet i think like when i'm done and i know everything teach me that would be for me like the the most terrible thing ever yeah absolutely yeah when you stop learning i feel like you stop living yeah so your passion for water and all and all things water is what led you to making these uh menus but also writing books about this the you have one that you yeah because it's it started i realized when i created the water i mean it was first about option giving options to my guests about the most healthiest beverage on the planet and by the way a lot of people will be extremely surprised when i'm saying this now because bottled water everybody always says oh it's so bad for the environment bottled water has the smallest impact on the environment from all bottled beverages why is it because indirect water is the key word here because like a saratoga a mountain valley or aquapana what you have there on the table for example or sucrosan incredible good water from peru by the way i'm so proud that you have it there on the table because it's really amazing yeah that's a fun water i've never had it no it's really it's nice i saw this like wow you have you have sucrosani that's like that's for me like very special water so these waters doesn't need to be produced because they're literally just bottling mother nature's juice that's all what that is whereas an orange juice needs to be produced because the orange comes from a tree the tree needs water to grow the orange then you need to harvest the orange then you need to press the orange then you maybe need to add something to it what you want to add or wine or beer whatever you want to add whatever you want to add whatever you want to produce everything needs to be produced and they're using water for this so bottled water has the smallest impact on the environment and you would think that because you're bottling the water wouldn't that make it produce more because it has to fill what you guys take or it's just there's an endless supply water cycle and here in america the same in europe there are strict regulations how much water you're actually allowed to pour from your spring sources yes there are bad companies out there let's be honest and i told you earlier when you when i was like oh this company likes you that does not mean that every water company likes me because i have some water companies who hate me i can't wait to get into that because like it's just like i'm just putting facts on my page or not every water company is happy about it right but i'm sorry when you when you mess up in your business i just call it out well what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong sorry there's no there's no gray zone for me but the fact that you told me that there's so much drama in the water world i'm like i'm sad i can't wait to hear about it the water business is a messed up industry in my opinion why do you think that's the case i don't know i don't know that is it's it starts especially in america because a person asked me today on my insta current so martin i'm in great britain and you're always talking about purified water and you have it there you have a smart water there i see a core water over there you have dasani so this is nothing else than tap water this is filter tap or smart water is boiled up tap that's all what that is it's boiled up tap water they're collecting the steam adding back some electrolytes the fancy word for minerals or salts right that's all the same guys um so don't be afraid when dasani says we're adding salt and smart water says we're adding electrolytes it's exactly the same what they're doing it's the same so this marketing is very messy here in america so the companies came up with once the idea wait a minute it's so much cheaper to just open the tap in the factory versus finding a spring source making sure the spring source is actually okay to use because not every spring source is healthy not every spring source is actually okay to drink from so it's just easier for them to open their tap water filtering everything out and then they can just open the tap water and they can just open the tap water and they can just highly processing it adding back some minerals in very small amounts and calling it electrolyte infused water with a high ph of 8.5 or 9.5 and you as a consumer say that sounds great it's pure water this is healthy adding electrolytes and then the ph is so important or the page is just a marketing gimmick it's literally a marketing gimmick to convince americans to buy tap water in a plastic container for three dollars per pop how is that legal it's crazy it's marketing it's all marketing there's nothing wrong about it i think it's wrong but hey like whatever floats your boat what i'm always saying but that's the reason i'm saying on my socials what actually the water is and not every water company is happy that i'm actually saying what they are when i'm saying sorry but smart water is nothing else than highly processed boiled up tap water that's what that is it tastes like port-a-potty i'm sorry that what that is and it barely has any electrolytes dissolved yeah barely anything you can taste the difference in every water that you drink like there's it's it's amazing and i can't wait to get into that and i will explain this wise because we came from the wine angle and you all know that for example a sauvignon blanc from new zealand tastes totally different than a sauvignon blanc from napa valley how is that possible when it's the same grape but it's it tastes differently so it is has something to do with terror it's a french term what we're using in the wine industry for showcasing the mother nature is so that wine pulls minerality from mother nature so they have different stone layers in the loire valley for example in chablis versus here in california we all know this different stone layers different minerality so the grapes are growing on these different minerality therefore the wine tastes differently by water because i said 97 percent of the water is in the ocean clouds are created they're coming over let's say to nashville right now rain is coming down very badly today actually what is nice to see but everybody else didn't thought because it took me an hour to get over here and everybody was freaking out on the freeway because it was raining it was kind of funny um comes down and the minute this water this is almost now distilled water by mother nature not 100 because there's still minerals in it but almost distilled water now water is a universal solvent there is no other liquid on this planet who has more dissolving power than water think about this fascinating so the water comes down on the rocks and now it passes through different stone layers and will leak out minerality and these minerals you can actually taste later on so this is like cooking a soup without salt it's tasteless adding a little salt suddenly all other flavors will appear and that is what mother nature does for us so therefore a saratoga tastes totally different than a mountain valley springs different sources different spring sources you can measure this by tds you did yes yes you did let's explain what tds is really quick so tds stands for total dissolved solids and you were actually right because you said once to me but martin it's not just about healthy minerals it could be other thing and you're absolutely right tds doesn't stand for total dissolved healthy minerals but it doesn't stand for total soft poison either right so the the tricky part about tds is in this country and this is where the confusion starts again what i even understand why everybody's so confused because there's two big agencies who's controlling the water industry in america the epa versus the fda so the epa controls tap water in america and they're actually saying you should not consume water higher than 500 tds why they're saying this because the department of water and power let's imagine they're pushing out 200 tds here in nashville i don't know the number 100 correctly i didn't look it up i just as an example i'm using this right now let's say they're pushing 200 tds into the pipes here at your beautiful house we're ending up with 600 something happened obviously between the department of water and power in your house that means cross-contamination that could be maybe let now or stuff we don't want to have in our water the tds meter will not tell you what it actually is it will just tell you that there is something in it in water a tds meter is actually nothing else when you look at it there's two little diets in the bottom and it looks how fast electricity goes from one point to another and the more electrolytes are dissolved in the water or substances with metals the faster will go this idea from one till two and therefore the tds meter will just tell you the kind of like the conductivity of a water that's all what that is and the number what even my tds meter shows you on yours they're not even they're not even close what's actually is that's the issue what is kind of sad there is no really good water tasting kits what you can use at home that was my next question it just doesn't exist right it doesn't exist it's too complex the topic water we all think it's so simple it's not so now i feel bad because i'm at home testing these waters thinking like these strips are legit and no is that just another scam i just i just looked at the strips as well on amazon because you said you ordered them on amazon i looked it up like i googled a little bit i made some research as well because i'm always saying as a content creator you do research first and then you're going out versus influencer is a person who actually kind of like as an actor for a commercial he doesn't know what what they're talking about and they just oh make make an announcement for this and this brand you're just doing it right but actually have no clue what that is whereas a content creator tries to understand first the topic and then talks about it so the tds meter the problem is with the stripes as well they're accurate between 29 and 65 percent that means nothing 29 accuracy that's nothing it's all about just making money and i think like again like a tds meter is kind of fun to use it sometimes in your water to get like an idea yeah what maybe the tds is but again it doesn't mean it's good or bad no that's the one that i used right there so this is mine looks exactly the same right it looks almost the same except mine is not fancy what has uh green yellow and red amazon no and that is the problem with this thing now because it says red in in your and here it says as well five hundred tds so i don't know if it's a good thing or if it's a bad thing but i don't know if it's a good thing or if it's a bad thing and i don't know what it is but it's for epa tap water right that has nothing to do of the water safe or not so when i did that test and the kroger water came out to be the best water as compared to mountain valley water that was completely inaccurate it was not inaccurate it has super low because it's nothing else than purified tap water right it's filtered tap so there's no minerals out there there's no minerals anymore therefore the tds will be two or three or four and we can do the test with the kroger water we're putting this in with a tds of two then i will add a little bit of water and then i'm going to just see salt and that thing will go in red wow that doesn't mean the water is now unsafe to drink no it's just water with electrolytes so we create an energy drink how do you know if you're drinking minerals or if you're drinking cross-contamination though here we go and that's the reason why there's an fda and an epa because this is epa stuff i have i kind of have some beef with the fda though i feel like they i get it are not for the people i'm very i'm i'm actually yeah but not everything is bad i'm always saying we always need to look like what makes sense what doesn't make sense and that's reason i'm always saying as well especially right now in these times where we are with a with a rise of ai and you have no clue what is fake and what is not fake anymore please do your research think about it what makes sense what doesn't make sense for your for yourself first and then think maybe they are onto something or maybe this is just lying so with the fda for example i'm very upset with them because this stupid nutrition label on bottled water doesn't make sense at all like there is no fat there's no sugar in the water so i'm not going to do that i'm not going to do that like why you even have a nutrition label on the on the water so what we're doing in europe we have a similar agency obviously it's called not fda but it's called differently over there but they are requiring that every bottled water has to put the tds on the water on the bottle and the five key minerals that the consumer can see oh tds of 20 tds of 500 and understands immediately what's going on but here it's so confusing because the epa tells me don't drink anything 500 and you don't drink anything 500 and you don't drink anything 500 and you don't drink anything 500 or up and the fda doesn't say anything about tds why they're not saying anything about it and this is now the very important thing because i've been to many many spring sources in my life now and i talked to many many water producers and they're all running literary tests every day right they want to make sure their product is 100 safe imagine a lot of the comments as well under your your video was let's you imagine these companies would go crazy yeah it gets good every day when they actually would give you uh unsafe water right so what what's happening with bottled water let's imagine crazy number 2000 tds they're getting the water they're looking at the water quality report and they're saying we have 2000 tds why so they're running a full quality report in a lab obviously. Again, you cannot do it at home. Most of the watercolors actually have their own labs. You see them right next to the spring source, their own building. There's a full lab integrated because they're doing this all the time. All day long. They want to make sure everything is safe. So, they're running the quarter water quality report and now they're saying suddenly, oh, look at this, 500 milligrams of magnesium, 100 milligrams of sodium, 250 milligrams of potassium. You're sure my water is super high. Then they're running again the report for arsenic or for other stuff, lead, what you obviously don't want to have in your water. But there are regulations by the FDA how much arsenic, for example, can be in our water. And no, it's not that they're adding arsenic to it to make you poison or something. It's not like what I'm always saying. It's not like a company who tries to make, let's say, as an example, again, guys, I'm not against the milk industry, so don't take my words, but as an example, milk back in the days in Germany had maybe an expiration of two days, now it's suddenly two weeks. What happened? So they're adding something in there, in my opinion, to make the shelf life longer. The same with bread, the same with other things. And these chemicals, what they're adding in, might be having a problem at one point. By bottled water, for example, with the arsenic topic, what was your topic as well? Yes, which, let's touch base on that really quick before you get into it, is the whole reason why we're here is because there was a company who supposedly tests water, too, that had a reel on Instagram, and it said, you know, I had people tagging me in it, and they, should we bring up the reel or no? Can you play it for us? Did you ever get to see it, Martin? No, I never saw what triggered you. I just know that you saw something, and you wanted to do it for yourself. Okay, I'm going to play it for you. That would be great, because maybe I know already why they're doing it. Well, what they had said was that Mountain Valley Springwater has been hiding their stats, and they're testing for the past two years since I think it was Primo, bought them out, and that they have high arsenic in the water, and like over what the FDA allows. And so I was like, I don't believe this. I even left a comment. I was like, I still don't believe it, because I know the facts. It's not true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when I was like, I don't know if I believe this or not, so I'm going to test the water myself. And I get it. I totally get it where you're coming from. Yeah. And when you don't think about it, because for you, you're just like, I like the water. Now suddenly an influencer or somebody, it tells you on the internet, it's not healthy. Maybe I want to check out. 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There were a total of ten contaminants, along with eight beneficial minerals detected. However, the most alarming part was arsenic at forty times the recommended health guidelines, which could be carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and cause reproductive issues. However, it was detected below legal limits. There was also two times the health guideline of total trihalomethanes, along with the maximum recommended amount of nitrates. The other seven contaminants, including fluoride, barium, and uranium, were below health guidelines. The highest mineral detected was calcium at 58.2%. It was also detected at a rate of 82 milligrams per liter, along with a few others, which were similar to their 2023 report, which likely suggests that they are using the same source in Arkansas. You can view the full report for yourself and other recommended waters on our website. So I've been tagged in many, many of his videos as well. And first of all, I think it's great when people are trying to be more transparent. I think it's great. The idea what he has, I think it's actually great. The execution I have a problem with, because what he does is nothing other than fear-mongering on the internet. It sent me in panic. This is how. he sells his subscriptions. Wow. So it's a subscription model on his app. You need to pay, I have no clue how much. And he does this on purpose to push these videos out again and again and again to spread fear. But isn't that considered misinformation then? Absolutely. So can he be sued for that? So what he said, I think water companies actually have a very good reason to sue him. Good, hopefully legal matters with him at one point. Yes. And for sure it will happen at one point. Look, I'm not in the water industry, it's not my problem. Like, I'm not touching that, but. Yeah. I have a feeling this guy will have severe issues at one point. Yeah. From the water industry. There will be a pushback. You can't do that to people. No. So first of all what he said, oh they're hiding, they're hiding their water quality report since '23, since Primo bought them. They bought Mountain Valley in 2020. First of all. That's online. You can easily research this. So his first thing what he already said, they are hiding their water quality report, is not true. There's a quality report on the homepage, clearly, it is from '23. I actually called Mountain Valley up when I saw the video as well. I said, guys, can I have a water quality report? They said, absolutely. They sent me one, and the measurements are totally different than this one. Yeah, and let me interject right there before you go on. Mountain Valley actually reached out to my team and called a meeting with my team, and they were more than gracious, more than sweet, and were like, look, you know, we don't have anything to hide, but what they did give us was an official statement that I'm going to read on here. For you guys. Let me put my bifocals on. Hold on one second. So this is an official statement from Mountain Valley Water. Bunny, I am so glad your team was willing to speak with us. As you can imagine, the safety and quality of our products are at the core of what we do. Our products are thoroughly tested in accordance with both federal and state law, and we meet all quality and safety standards, including those set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the International Bottled Water Association, and the relevant agencies and states where our products are made and distributed. We maintain rigorous protocols grounded in science at every stage of the bottling process so that our purified and spring water brands meet our own high standards, as well as federal, state, and local health and safety requirements. As a proud member of the International Bottled Water Association, IBWA, we also comply with additional quality standards that exceed FDA requirements. As you know, what makes Mountain Valley the brand as it is known is that it has been bottled right at the source in the, I don't know how to say this, the Oaxaca Mountains since 1871. Interesting things to note, in any natural source, there are naturally occurring minerals that appear in the soil and groundwater that at federally regulated levels are safe to consume. We regularly and rigorously test our spring water so that it meets all FDA and IBWA requirements and pride ourselves on exceeding those standards to provide healthy and safe water to all consumers. We continue to prioritize consumer safety and trust, delivering products that meet all standards of quality and compliance. As we spoke with your team about, a TDS meter is not designed to and does not measure contaminants. Its purpose is to measure all organic and inorganic substances. Such as minerals, salts, etc. In a liquid and will not determine whether or not a water sample is safe or healthy to drink. TDS or total dissolved solids can vary in water sources, leading to lower or higher TDS readings, reflecting the water's natural mineral richness and flavor profile. Fun fact, similar to the difference in taste between a full-bodied cabaret and a light Pinot Noir, which is exactly what you said. So thank you, Mountain Valley Spring Water. It's nice to see that the company is reacting. Yeah, and we appreciate you and we appreciate the transparency because, you know, I did not mean to fearmonger or send people into a panic, but just by human nature, we all started freaking out. I totally get it. I totally get it. And this is like what I think is great because Mountain Valley actually has their water quality report clearly posted on the homepage. Trust me, other water companies are trying to hide them. They're actually hiding them. Yeah, like who? Who hides their stuff? Dasani, for example. I even called them. I don't like Dasani. Can I have their water quality report? No, this is trade secret. He's saying, are you kidding? Are you kidding me? Your water quality report is your trade secret? Come on. What about Fiji? How's Fiji land? Fiji is very good. Very transparent as well. Love that. Very transparent. Great water for red wines. Wow. Fiji. Fiji has a lot of silica dissolved and natural cooling mineral, especially in the Pacific Rim area, especially in Fiji water. There are not so many brands who have such a high silica content like Fiji. And by tannin-rich red wines, who are like very bitter in the aftertaste, the silica makes that. It makes the wine super smooth. Unbelievable. You should try that out. Like a heavy carbonate and then Fiji right next to it, you will say like, you will be like, what the hell? What's happening to my red wine? It's so crazy that you can manipulate your palate like that to just see the difference in stuff. Can we talk about, okay, I don't know if I'm going to, how to pronounce this, but deuterium depleted water. Deuterium depleted water, yeah. It's for me all, there's so many different waters out there these days. Right. And they all have different. What people are saying, health effects. Look, I'm not a doctor and I know I'm not going into the whole health scene. I know basic stuff, what I think it's important. And I see what is a little bit more gimmicky and not gimmicky. And for me, this deuterium depleted water, the hydrogen water, what is a huge, what is a huge thing right now? I don't think it will actually give you the benefits. There's a placebo to it. The thing is with hydrogen water, for example, they have no clue. How much hydrogen actually needs to be added to the water and how long the water is actually stable to have the hydrogen as a gas. It will disappear immediately. Right. That maybe it has an impact on your health. Maybe they're even saying in the studies and they're saying there's so many studies been done. Yeah, they're all saying the same at the end. We actually don't know. We need more research. It was the same with alkaline water for several years ago that everybody freaked out about the high alkaline pH. I was on that train. What is clearly now, it was a marketing gimmick. Of course, it doesn't matter what you drink or eat, it will go acidic in your body. It's like distilled water almost, isn't it? Alkaline water? No, alkaline water can actually from nature be alkaline based on the different mineral compositions. Or you can recreate alkaline water by pushing it through an ionizing machine. That means you're splitting off the water molecules and there's acidic and alkaline ions in water and you're separating the acidic ions. And you're separating the acidic ions. So you're just collecting the positive charge alkaline ions together and then you're selling this ionized water. There's, for example, what was under your comments and that was where I'm really getting then upset. Because under your comment, suddenly started the multi-level marketing people commenting they're trying to trick you into a multi-level marketing. So some people comment, oh, this is all crap. Every bottled water is bad. My medical water is the best water you can buy. And they're not even allowed to say medical water. They're getting in serious trouble for this by their mother company. They're just doing it because it's multi-level marketing and nobody's accountable. What is the problem with multi-levels? I feel like that's the problem, not to cut you off, but I feel like that's the problem is why are these companies and people not being held accountable for what they're feeding to the masses? I know. Sometimes I'm like, I'm the only guy maybe online who's actually debunking all the time. Yeah, I feel like if somebody actually stepped in and said, hey, you can't say this. Hey, America, you need to put the TDS and the minerals and stuff like that on. It should be. And some are doing it. For example, Fiji, turn around the Fiji bottle. They're saying it. TDS and the key minerals. Look how transparent they are. Look, as a big company, I love this. This is the way it should be. And I'm always saying this to so many water companies when they ask me for my help. You see, the first basic for everything what you're doing, put your water quality report on your homepage and put your key minerals and the TDS on your bottle. Be transparent. This is the only. The only thing what the consumer actually cares for. They want to be transparent. The problem, obviously, with the school system, we talked a little bit offline already about this, that not so much has been taught about water. So people came up with this idea of pure, pure, pure, pure, purified water. That's a marketing gimmick, again, created by big corporations who just want to sell you tons of tap water because they have a great money making machine there. Is all purified water tap water? All purified water is tap water. So when you see purified on the bottle. And I'm not even fully against purified. For example, when you have like a pure life water, for example, at Costco for like, I don't know the price point, but it's super cheap. I get it. The soccer mom says, I just need bottled water for my kids when they're going to sport. I get it. I get it for a cheap price. I totally get it. But when you're a company who suddenly bases up premium purified water and charges $3 for the bottle and creates all this marketing hype about alkaline and restructured water. And all this nonsense, what I see all the time. I have a problem with that. But that's misleading. That's all misleading. There's a company by Erebon. I don't know if you know Erebon. It's like a super fancy retail or like grocery store in Los Angeles. Super overpriced. I've been there. And there's one water. They're literally like saying everything. They're saying hypoxynated. We are not a fish. I cannot gain oxygen from water. Sorry. I'm like, what is that? How is that working? So hypoxynated, restructured water, alkaline water and nano. Nano purified that it can go that you the term what they're always using. It will hydrate you on the cellular level. Sounds crazy and fancy. Yeah. Every water will do that because it needs to go to my cell to get nutritions to my cell and close waste out of my cell. Every water will go on the cellular level. Please don't don't use these marketing terms. So they have all this BS on their front label and on the back label. They're saying everything what we said on the front label is not FDA approved. So please don't sue us. Pretty much. It's all marketing. That's the reason why I told you this whole business is a mess. It's a huge mess. And the consumer is super confused. Because sure, I would be confused when I had no clue about water. And I see a TDS meter on TikTok because everybody uses it suddenly. 500 years poisoning. And then and then you have suddenly and then you forget. No, but then I get it. I totally get it. And then the FDA tells you, no, it's totally fine. What's up with the FDA now? You would think, yeah, but that there's a two different parts of shoes because it has something to do with cross contamination versus the bottle is closed at the spring source. Now they know the TDS of 2000. Nothing can happen to this bottle anymore when it's in glass. Plastic is a different game plan sometimes. But glass, best container ever. OK, so can we talk about microplastics? Because now they're saying that you can that there's microplastics in glass bottles also. So let's be honest. Microplastics is everywhere. Every when every foot you're eating in every bottle of water, pretty much everywhere is microplastic. Most of the microplastic people don't know this comes from your car tires. That's the main source of microplastic. Wow. The run offs of your tires. That is a huge problem. What we're facing and then obviously many, many other parts because we're using just too much plastic. So to to suddenly say, oh, what are we going to do now? Well, we need to filter. We need to do this. No, we need to get rid of plastic guys. We need to find a new idea to. We need to attack the problem where it occurs. need to just a solution no we need the solution needs to be attacking where it starts a problem right that's the solution here guys right it's the same when my doctor tells me martin you have a high cholesterol we need to attack it now before you're getting a heart attack huh we don't want a heart attack my father just had one for five days ago but he's safe everything is great he's happy everything is good i talked to him he saved my mother saved his life i think because she realized something is off with my father they're both in the mid-80s so it's great but i'm happy dad's i'm so i'm so happy that my father is happy because literally on that day where you posted this and i got all this thing my sister called and i was a mess mentally obviously and then i had to deal with all this stuff oh my god martin i'm sorry son of a bitch that day was fun i'm so sorry no no but i'm here everything is good my father is healthy he's already at home again and he looks great because he gets actually suddenly oxygen through his bladder anymore before he didn't have so much because it was 90 off cut it already by his heart man i'm so lucky oh but then you're realizing suddenly we are all mortal yeah huh i never sure you know it's happening but this was really like this first like warning signal for me for several days ago he's like oh my god it can happen every day this call that you're sitting in the plane and then flying back to germany because you need to bury your loved ones oh terrible i can't even i don't even want to talk about dad's gonna rock it out for a long time he will be great my mother my grandmother was 99 when she passed oh so he's 86 so he has way more yes at least 30 more years yes he drinks good water he knows me good so is there microplastics in glass bottles so it can happen as well yes absolutely and i did a video about this and it looks like maybe it comes from the source maybe it comes actually from the uh from the cap very interesting yes i've heard the cat i was really thinking like because i saw the study saying how is that possible from the cap that's what i was gonna say if it comes from the cap is it enough to even like really affect yeah it seems like but then i looked and then i thought like but how it seems like it's just about when they're painting something on the cap right it's not just the metal cap it's more like the paint on the cap gotcha and so this is the paint has microplastic and then i thought but how is this ending up now into the water when the outside is thing but again i've been to several water companies and sometimes the caps are actually mixed in one big bucket and they are floating around there and then the machine is picking them up and puts them in little tubes so they've been moved around the whole time and i think that is a problem doing bottling that then microplastic maybe can be introduced and this is like again where our water companies have to learn as well and adopt they never thought about this and then see suddenly a study and they're saying it comes from the painting of the cup so hopefully a lot of water companies will switch their caps to a non-painting anymore because i don't need to have the name of the water on top of it right i don't care yeah let's walk microplastic is better for me it's like snapple you know like when you said there you know there was like a little thing underneath whenever you don't do that anymore because obviously it's not good or maybe another version maybe you need to wash your caps before it goes actually on the bottle something like that but that's the reason we're all learning we're all learning together even the big companies are learning as well guys so don't be always upset immediately with a company so for example mountain valley springs even when they're because i saw the newest water quality report yes there is arsenic in that water in so low amounts you barely can measure it's nd non detectable to one parts per billion parts per billion and again arsenic is a natural element what you can find in many many foods in many many waters for example um brown rice i looked it up yes 154 i learned that today per billion versus one what is mountain valley so the idea that mountain valley is poisoning it obviously is complete nonsense even when there is maybe what he does he's fear he's fear pawning fear mongering he is fear mongering to sell his app that's what he does what is sad i feel sad for him actually so the only water that doesn't have arsenic in it would be the pure purified water or would even that have arsenic in it too because like all these waters coming from different spring source and sometimes maybe uh that element of of arsenic is not in that grounds so some waters will have zero but again when i drink alcohol let's be honest i will i will have a nice beer tonight i'm very excited for that that's my you're german you're supposed to drink beer what i call that i have videos on this where people think what's your flavored water take martin saying yeah and then i will grab a beer what's your favorite kind of beer i love hefeweizen so wheat i love hefeweizen with uh orange slices in it i'm a big fan of that so good me too so so i like these why i like these beers but we all know let's be honest that that is actually poisoning alcohol that is really bad for you yeah it doesn't matter in which amount it's just bad oh and beer has gluten in it yeah it's really bad for you yeah it's really bad for you yeah it's really bad for you let's be honest so so the minimalistic idea and i looked at it like what actually this once parts per billion means that means when you when you put one drop of arsenic into an olympic swimming pool that's what that water has in the scenic wow okay think about this gotcha so and lucky me we all know maybe we all saw the movie um war of the worlds so there's this movie out from the 50s yeah already the book and everything incredible good movie so how did the aliens didn't survive on our planet because they've been exposed to our nature in the end that's how we actually fought them it's not that we fought them with guns we tried it but we didn't work out no they killed themselves by bacteria what we have micro bacteria in our air so it's the same with arsenic my body can actually handle several poisonings because i have a liver maybe you have don't have it but i have it i just can't talk for myself right now i'm not a doctor i think my liver is beaten and tattered but it's still working but i have a liver and my liver can actually get rid of arsenic wow my urine so it is when people saying immediately on the internet oh there's poison in it yeah sure everything is poisoning even an orange a beautiful amazing orange is super healthy we all know this imagine you would just eat oranges nothing else anymore you will have a problem at one point on this example because i did a video about it was so hilarious to me because it fits perfectly in this team there was a guy once on twitter who said bottled water is radioactive you should not drink bottled water so i looked at this claim and there was one brand what he said what like 1400 becquerel i think is the measurement how you how you measure the how you measure the um the the the radioactivity so this bottled water at 1200 you it sounds crazy 1200 this is radioactive oh my god like you think it's bad then i looked oh a banana has 15 000 of that and then i looked how many bananas do i have to eat to actually have an impact on my body about radioactivity 50 million bananas oh wow it's fear-mongering guys so it's like anybody could say anything correct like of course like so he's right yes there is maybe arsenic in some waters that does not mean it's that's a problem what i have with him he's fear-mongering to trick you in my opinion into a subscription model and that's not cool i don't like it at all because i'm in the middle of creating an app as well but my app will be totally different it will tell you everything about the water about the sustainability factor i'm gonna be a subscriber and it will be free for everybody yeah it's very important to me because i don't believe that knowledge should be paid for right i want to make this app for free for everybody let the water companies pay my bills that they can maybe promote a little bit on my app later on something so i'm trying to do it this way but i want that the consumer have it for free and i will talk about sustainability about the water quality report i'm not gonna fear porn because for what it's totally fine it's fda approved i know i'm not the biggest fan of fda but we have to trust sometimes our agencies right and especially for bottled water because i've been in this industry since over 20 years now and really making research all the time yes they're pretty good in that like they're safe we don't have to worry about that so what if you could name off the top of your head your five favorite waters and five least favorite waters doesn't exist i will tell you so first of all the app will be called sourced that everybody knows it as well and and we we are in better right now you cannot still download it but you can go to sourced minus water.com and you can be on the waiting list yes and then we will send you out sign us up memes and we will send you up when it's ready and it's going to be really fun and cool and the cool thing is you can actually scan the bottle the barcode and then the bottle will show up so you have your personal water sommelier martin with you all the time in the store i love that that's the idea cool so there is no best for me and i can tell you why okay because i'm getting thirsty i want to try some waters as well i brought some because with wine when you said so what is your favorite wine i would say no like when i have sushi i maybe want a sauvignon blanc but for my steak or for my barbecue tonight i wouldn't drink a sauvignon blanc i would drink maybe a red wine so there is good water for your lifestyle depends what you want to do so for example saratoga what is a great brand here from the east coast as a td as a 40 so it's light in minerality which by the way that's what i've been drinking guys here we go so that's a great water for example that's a great water for example for sushi or for light appetizers i feel like it's a thicker water i like the consistency yeah that's a good volume on that water some of my friends have said that they feel like they don't get exactly like quenched when they drink this why is it like that with some I think because it's low in minerality so they are maybe thinking and this is obviously a fact the more salts you're adding the more flavor has a water the stronger will be the flavor and I think one of your friends maybe say I like the more like maybe sparkling or more like intense waters where the minerality is a little bit higher so I took us over low mineral water there's nothing wrong about low mineral waters it's just a fact from the spring source that this water is has very small minerals dissolved in small amounts whereas a mountain valley is 220 TDS or the Sokosan is over a thousand TDS I've missed you yeah it's a great water I have it at home I love mountain valley water it's very good like I literally I've been drinking it for years like and it was so funny when they said about primo waters and they freaked out about primo and they're hiding and all this crazy stuff and I said you guys know that Saratoga and mountain valley are both owned by primo it comes from the same house yes it's not the same source obviously it's totally different we learned that I didn't know that it's the same company it's primo waters they're all independent operating pretty much but primo is the umbrella company they own arrowhead they own poland spring they owned Osaka from Texas they're like a water monopoly I don't want to say monopoly because there's so many other brands out there but they are pretty big in the water industry and and they actually invited me to several of their spring stores because they want to be transparent how beautiful is that I love that and they showed me forks I've been at Saratoga springs and I've been at the white cedar spring source where there's where there's still water and glass comes from in main up they invited me there they showed me everything they showed me the beautiful wetlands what they have they showed me that they have the water stewards right there to measure everything that the wetlands are in perfect intact it's so nice to see that big companies actually care yes and I would love to see it in more companies it's refreshing that that feeling and and they are actually good people there are people behind that who don't want to screw people they're saying no we want to actually take care of nature yeah yeah sure it's it's a problematic case because some people say they're stealing water no they're not stealing first of all they have a business model with the state or with the county or whatever it's like that they're stealing water somewhere and when there's a problem it needs to be addressed and they're addressing it and I would call it out as well when people would suddenly fuck around pardon my english I will call it out fuck around find out no but like over here no no company for me has like a free jail card it doesn't exist for me I always question everything I'm very always thinking about it what they're doing what they're not doing but that they reached out to me and said Martin we really want to showcase what we're doing was a good sign right what are some waters that you would not recommend that people would drink it really depends what you want to do so when you say when your doctor told you again I'm not a doctor and it drives me nuts as well that on tiktok everybody's a doctor and tells you what you drink and what you should not drink when a doctor tells you maybe you need more salts in your blood so more electrolytes you can go for spring waters or mineral waters mineral water means comes from a spring and has to have at least 250 tds that's mandatory that's a threshold of mineral waters they have to have 250 tds and these are great sources for natural occurring electrolytes because they're not just they don't have been artificially added so I have a problem with the companies who are saying we're adding electrolytes people running to these waters thinking they're getting now great amazing amounts of electrolytes and they're getting barely anything because the smart waters tds I think is around 28 it's nothing yeah it's barely anything in there right and people buying it for the electrolyte level right thinking that it's nourishing them come on some way and it's not unhealthy don't get me wrong huh it's not unhealthy to drink these waters but for example and I'm sweating a lot because I'm exercising I would not drink that water right because you want something to replenish I want something to replenish all my electrolytes I'm just losing and I will go then to a water where there's more electrolytes dissolved yeah but I wouldn't I wouldn't bash a water it's bad or it's you you you will die when you drink that water this again this multilevel arcane people it's kangen I will say it as well because they they're trying to hide the name and then by dms they're trying to tell you to into this kangen scheme then I I actually fell for that and I bought one of those machines and I just didn't I didn't love the way the water tasted it didn't taste five thousand dollars yeah I know it didn't yes I know it did but it didn't take and this is not me bashing them but to me it didn't taste right there was something off about it I didn't love it yeah it's processed tap water let's be honest huh and then there and then they're saying like no and you you can create all these different ph shells first of all we all learned already I think that ph is it's a marketing gimmick so that's over already the game plan the problem this Kangen people doing and this drives me so nuts about accountability because again mountain valley got in hot water ponant heated right now let's say like this they reached out to you and said let's let's let's talk about the fact Kangen does it exactly the other way around wow they're doing it all on the back alley yeah no it's like you're our because I'm sending sometimes in the emails and saying like guys you're telling me you're not allowed to say any health claims but I see all your reps on TikTok all the time saying when you drink this water you have better blood flow you can breathe better no I saw a claim no cancer will come to you how insane that is to even say that yeah to say that my mother's a cancer survivor I'm very thankful that she had doctors surrounding her and supported her when she had breast cancer and she survived it for 25 years ago and she listened to a doctor not a water company like this is and this is then for me where it gets personal so they are actually harming people that means they're creating death let's be honest and then these people going on the TikToks and on Instagram and saying when you drink liquid death you're gonna die this is what they're saying yeah and you're like what yeah because it's sparkling and sparkling is acidic water and therefore it's bad for you cancer can drive in your body and then you're gonna die he's saying are you guys nuts because they're they don't understand basic chemical structures so for example when they are saying oh cancer cannot drive in an alkaline environment they're actually right with that claim guess what else cannot survive in a fully alkaline environment your body because you're gonna be dead because your body is different pH so it's not just one and that is a problem how they're like trying to under the radar mingling around and trying to scare people to tell and making crazy claims about water brands what is absolutely not true to try to into this multi-level marketing scheme and that is so sad and I'm getting so I'm getting very upset about it like I don't want to be upset but I'm getting really upset it is infuriating I hate people who are getting scammed it drives me nuts I don't want that Americans getting scammed I was one of them and I don't want it and I fight my best for it to protect people we need more Martins in this world I'm telling you because it's you have blown my mind today with some of the facts that I had no idea about do you want to start trying some of these waters because and I think we should we talked about Saratoga Mountain Valley and we talked about Saratoga Mountain Valley and we talked about Saratoga Mountain Valley and I think like let's actually taste Saratoga and then I brought a water what is so different there are two still waters uh Saratoga let's start with this and then let's go to three bays from Australia what is really funny okay perfect I'm excited like a little bit we just need a little glass and then no I'm ready easy I want to while we're waiting to pour these I'm gonna ask you a question because my friend J-Dog from Hollywood Undead actually is like really um you know obsessed with waters and stuff too and he wanted me to ask you yeah please yeah please a couple questions so hold on let me pull them up a little bit I just need a little bit for myself we're tasting water not drinking it oh there's a difference yeah by the way I have them on room temperature the waters on purpose because when you drink room temperature water you can actually taste everything out of the water when you're putting an ice cube or you're chilling them super down you barely can taste anything anymore because you're actually numbing up your taste abilities that's insane try to get rid of ice cubes guys like ice cubes is actually the poison for you for beverages wow and plus you don't know what water you don't know what water they were using correct for the ice either by the way I don't want to I don't want to bash Nashville but oh my god guys like I I had to go to the restroom right after I came out of the plane I pressed I pressed the the the water in the toilet and this whole wave of chlorine came into my nose oh no and I was like oh my god that is intense and then I thought oh maybe they have a chlorine problem here so I went over then to the to wash my hands obviously and this is the first thing I'm always doing so I'm taking both hands and then I'm putting water up to my nose oh my god it was chlorine it was so bad scary we have a water softener you have to stalled in our house when I saw this over there you have to have a water softener in the system a lot of people don't know this it's very important not just what you're drinking even what you're showering with yes a shower filter is mandatory in my opinion in this country they're not expensive guys you can buy a water softener in the system you can buy a water softener in the system you can buy a water add-on shower filter for like 60 70 bucks I have for example a reverse osmosis system at my place from delta faucet because they're pretty cool because by our all the problem is you're filtering everything out and then you don't have the minerals anymore so a delta faucet ro system they have a cartridge you're plugging this into your system and they're remineralizing the water with our tds of around 90 to 100 I love this and by the way they reached out for several years ago as well when they were in the volume change and said martin can we do a water tasting with you so they wanted to learn as well as a company and I love these companies like we want to learn i think it's beautiful transparency is beautiful and that's great so i'm a big fan of them okay this one so saratoga let's taste it i don't i don't like drinking out of glasses i like to drink straight from the bottle so you're a bottle girl i like it i'm a bottle girl but it's a smooth water it's not it's not heavy it's not salty or something because it doesn't have so many minerals thick right yeah but think about the next one when you think this is thick oh my god okay so this is the water i've been on the zach efron show down to earth with zach efron okay and anna kendrick was sitting right next to me and we had this tasting we had this water on the show and she had this water and she's like what the hell is going on she could not believe and it's your bottle so you want it when you want to drink it from here that's yours no it's okay i'll have her pour it no i'm not taking i don't want to just be swinging on your bottles so so this water has a very interesting story so it's been founded by accident by a retirement couple in australia a little bit southern of melbourne and it looks like this this water is around 2 000 years old that means the last time it was rain water because obviously every water is billions of years old okay but i mean like the last time it was rain water it was from 2 000 years ago it passes for 2 000 years through stone layers and picks up so much minerality so the tds here's 1 300 so your tds meter would blow away actually yeah when you put your tds meter in that water that thing will like well i think evaporize yes by that water okay cheers this one is thick but oh my gosh it's good you guys try it it's crazy huh that is thick that is actually a very heavy water that is thick it has very interesting minerality after notes what i really love but that so the after taste what is that it's the minerality now okay it's like loaded with 27 key minerals it's almost like sweet though right yeah yeah it's very creamy yeah it's very creamy you're absolutely right sweetie creamy yes it's a very unique water i don't know if i love it or or not i would have to definitely try another sip of that then let's let's taste the water what everybody was talking about the freaking mountain valley water this is my favorite i have the sparkling here let's go with the sparkling because i have another sparkly water for you that you have two carbonation levels okay gotcha so mountain valley is this still oh you have to be careful not that we're getting wet here with martin with the water somewhere here so i'm so european of me huh so i'm i'm all over 18 here huh all right so i'm gonna ask you this question from my boy jay dog please he said what tds gives you kidney stones a lot of confusion on that high tds does but at what rate yeah there is no what range because we're all humans are different some people can drink a high tds water with 2500 day in day out and will never have kidney stones others they may get kidney stones by a tds of 300. there is no it's talk to your doctor talk to your doctor do your check-ups all the time every year you should do a check-up for yourself and when there's a problem you need to look why maybe it doesn't come even from food from from food my i mean maybe it doesn't come from the water maybe it comes from your food from your high diet because there's tons of minerals dissolved too what can build up to kidney stones so it depends on you there's i'm so sorry i would love always the question to have an answer sometimes but i'm a guy when there is no real answer i will say it as well i'm not faking an answer because a lot of people don't know what kidney stones are a lot of influencers doing that as well these days they're thinking they need to know everything and then bullshitting around what is actually not true so this is a very very important question i think but you should check it out with your doctor with your physician and see is there a problem or not like my parents drinking high mineral content water since many years and they never had kidney stones others have it immediately his second question was a lot of people assume if they get a salt softener it's safe to drink the water after but you're doing an ion exchange and trading one mineral for another so you're drinking a shit ton of sodium or magnesium and is that safe do you still need an ro filter so water softeners bringing down minerality but he's right it will in change with other minerals and it really again depends obviously on you as your body on your lifestyle on your diet even if the water is now totally fine or maybe you should think about an RO system when you're adding an RO system you don't have to have a water softener because you already have an RO now it's double that's you didn't have to do this so i have a RO that was for me my choice my personal choice and again because i'm using it does not mean everybody else needs to use it that's very important to me that's again the big difference between an influencer content creator i can just say what i like and what i think would be for my lifestyle perfect i choose RO because i liked it this is the most safe way in my opinion there's no really downsides except your water will slide down and you're not going to have to use it again so if you're using an RO system you're not going to have to use it again and you're not going to have to use it again and you're not going to have to use it again and you're not going to have to use it again and you're not going to have to use it again and you're not going to have to use it again because there's waste water created as well by the RO system because RO is nothing else than actually a very thin membrane where water needs to pass through and then it filters the bad stuff out what we definitely don't want to have we p5s microplastics forever chemicals all this terrible stuff what we don't want to have in our waters but the problem is it will fill it out as well call it some magnesium sodium potassium the stuff what i want to have in my water and again my RO has the benefit of adding back minerality but you can do it at home as well when you don't have a fancy RO system what i have little sea salt yeah like a carafe of water little sea salt on top of it and you're good to go you created literally like a little electrolyte drink for yourself awesome okay all right mountain valley springs sparkling so i don't think i've ever had mountain valley springs sparkling so this comes from a still water obviously still water source artificially to it okay but i like the bubbles the bubbles are very tiny you're the sparkling water drinker right okay so listen he is a sparkling water fiend this guy it's a beautiful water with a very good very good um soft soft bubbles she said it tastes like tv static yeah this one's gonna be fun oh the next one you will freak out guys okay we're gonna share so the next one comes from the country of georgia okay so not the state we are talking about the country of georgia i never knew there was a freaking country named georgia on the east east europe okay and this water has more electrolytes than a gatorade wow the tds is 5 000 wow it was like it's gonna make my hair stand up yes this water is crazy crazy is this i love learning about water martin you got to come back every year this is so fun absolutely i'm happy and when you're in la come over i have beautiful house yeah i feel yeah we would love to we have a nice i have a nice backyard with yeah a nice pool and a hot well pool where we can immerge ourselves in water and drink water this smells like straight up it has an irony smell yeah like a metallic smell this smells like 5 000 it smells like monkey's blood yeah you would think iodine it smells like iodine yeah yeah okay give it a sip oh my goodness it's super salty it's that's heavy it's very intense the water so how okay how somebody couldn't drink that every day correct and that brings me to a very good point and you're absolutely right that is not meant for hydration anymore okay this water is so intense it has so much minerals that actually definitely in my opinion that will definitely be a problem at one point for your body yes when you just shove this down as your regular water you know what it tastes like have you ever put alka-seltzer like in a water it has the same impact like a yes that is a medicine water okay so we have in germany and this is now where where the fda will hate me for it to i'm saying this and the pharma industry will hate me for it we have 60 water brands in germany who falling under the medication law their state approved medication it's nothing else than bottled water wow and here the fda forbids all the water companies who tell anything about health benefits besides water what is crazy because there are waters out there even here in germany who have a benefit besides hydration for example at twitter joe's a german brand it's called gerol steiner 2500 tds loaded with calcium it has the same amount of calcium than a glass of milk it's crazy for lactose intolerant people that is just amazing because they need calcium yes certain waters have that from nature so what do you drink this for like if you're sick correct so this is like this is european waters are like the waters in the spa and bath towns where people still going there to this day then treat themselves on these healing waters it's good for digesting for example so this is actually when you when you cannot go to the restroom that oh it's like a magnesium drink yes so it actually will help to to for your digesting system most of these very high mineral content waters are very good for digesting it's very interesting amazing because i cannot open because the only bottle i have but this is for example the brand in germany gerol steiner and that is medicine the back label is a medicine back label up front here there's a medication approving number printed on and even it says in the german language do not no not for children under 12 years this is bottled water wow you would think like what a bottled water needs to put a warning label in it's not for children under 12 no because that's medicine this is medicine so would you drink the whole bottle or is there a dosage they're putting it down how much you have to drink for what - Okay, gotcha. - It's literally like medicine. They're telling you exactly what to do with this water. amazing so and i think that is like again this extreme confusion in america where everybody thinks water needs to be pure right and then they're coming with their tds meters yeah that's me no and again not bashing about you not at all because i totally understand where you know i know i get it i get it i'm just taking i'm taking accountability and and that was the issue with with with americans no wonder they're all freaking out when their tds meter goes red right i would freak out as well when i didn't know i would freak out and say what is going on here guys so no it can be amazing actually yes when that thing goes red yes that's like yeah so when you came in you were freaking out yeah we should drink this okay okay it's called sokosani and why do you love this so much it has a very cool taste profile it's like the tds is around one one thousand three hundred tds this is a still the sparkling version can you see it this is still nice even better yeah because the still version is still the sparkling version and it's still the sparkling version and it's still the sparkling there's a slightly effervescent to it it says four times more electrolytes it's loaded with electrolytes one thousand three hundred tds it's more than a gatorade as well this one so this you couldn't drink all the time either yeah one thousand three hundred is like it's okay i think like over two three thousand then we're getting like now it's getting like intense right a thousand three hundred like a pellegrino is nine hundred okay it's pellegrino yeah i'm not a huge pellegrino fan so sokosani from peru um the fun part is that this is natural occurring bubbly so it has super tiny bubbles yeah that's what i was i was like is this sparkling the same with bourjomi this was natural bubbles so that happens when you have old volcanic reactions in the grounds the water passes through the different stone layers will pick up now the the co2 slightly due to the magma and now the water becomes acidic from a ph standpoint and acidic water has more dissolving power than still water what has a higher ph has so therefore the sparkling natural sparkling waters always have a higher tds as well because they have more dissolving power so that's the reason one thousand three hundred four thousand uh this one is two thousand five hundred like these natural occurring sparkling waters are always super high in tds all right let's give it a world by nature cheers cheers that was shocking i didn't hate it though no i love that water oh i'm a big fan of sokosani it's yeah it's got a little tang to it but then after you swallow it's okay so you drink it it's sparkling you swallow it still yeah yeah right it's very it's very interesting yeah and especially after bourjomi obviously it feels so much more approach approachable right than bourjomi some people love bourjomi they love the taste yeah my wife loves high mineral content waters yeah she's addicted to it and i think that has something to do with with her childhood as well because she always been in water and trained as an olympic swimmer so she always needed electrolytes so for her water for her is not just hydration she wants the electrolytes as well she craves for this and that's the reason sometimes when you see in tests oh look tap water again one in a blind tasting against bottled water that does not mean that the tap water is actually better that just means you've grown up on that taste profile of the tap you think that is good water and you think suddenly that a water what you don't like from my taste perspective is suddenly bad so it has something to do with your childhood would you suggest anybody in america drink tap water out here we should all drink tap water because the most sustainable way but you should filter it first okay that's my yeah but i think i'm not against tap water at all i'm a pro tap water person very important to me but i have a feeling because the infrastructure needs to be clearly uh more money invested there we have huge problems with the infrastructure in america i think we all know that and especially when it comes to all our pipes in this country is so big i totally understand it's a huge undertake for the country so i'm not even saying they are bad we just have that problem we need to fix it just we saw what in flint michigan happened yeah but they tried to make it cheaper they switched over to a new water source and didn't realize that the city of detroit where they used to get the water adding something into the water to prevent their pipes from corrosion so they didn't do that and after the pipes were starting to get corrosive and the water was yes and then there was highly lead so there was poison it was poison that water then they switched it back to their original detroit water but the harm was done because all the pipes were now done so they had to change out all the pipes and they're still doing it since 11 years they are still fixing the pipes in flint now think you need to fix the whole country obviously it's a huge undertake so we have to make sure we're putting money aside to do this the last administrate what we had before not this administrate now they actually started to invest in water infrastructure and they put a plea on it that in 10 years no more lead pipes are allowed to be here in america what i think is a great step in the right direction we need to put goals to each other to say even 10 years sounds crazy when you think about how much work that actually is it's not crazy but we need to put goals together to get better water into every single household in america because water is a human right yes that's what i'm standing for i'm not a fancy guy who just drinks fancy waters with beautiful ladies in this beautiful house here in in in nashville in nashville no my passion actually goes for every person who don't have clean and excessive drinking water we need to bring awareness to water because without water we wouldn't be here martin that's what it is you're a blessing and the world is lucky to have somebody like you i appreciate that but i need the content creators like you to spread the words as well and the more we are the more we have the more we talk about water the better it is for everybody even for our little fur animals they need water too sweet little babies yeah they need water too hayley has a question do you like the brita water filters that you put the water into the containers and it filters it or would you recommend a filter like on the actual i've seen the ones on the sinks where they go through that what do you like better it depends what you want to filter obviously a 20 brita filter will not filter the same way as a water filter but it will filter the same way as a water way than a reverse osmosis system for two thousand dollars it's it's like let's be honest like there's a totally different game plan it maybe filters something so the cheapest brita filter literally just gets rid of chlorine that's all what that is it doesn't filter anything have you seen the ones that have mold that they like now the problem is with filters and you have a point there the problem is when you have a filter a filter is nothing other than a sponge that's what a filter is so when you don't clean your filter you have a problem at one point that's the same we all know i think in our kitchen we have all the sponges everywhere you should actually trash them after a week you need to get rid of them you need to get rid of them they are like actually at one point they will give more harm than benefits to you i agree and that's the same with a filter system so the the huge the huge problem is that you're thinking oh my fridges are built in filter i have to worry okay when did you change your filter from your fridge never how old is your fridge 20 years we have a problem you might be drinking actually now super poisoned water every day you need to obviously maintain the filters at one point they're full so my reversal small system for example tells me when it this smart system so sometimes you have to do it yourself sometimes you have to read the manuals they're saying every two or every three months it really depends what kind of filter so again there's no best filter as well because it depends on your house what you need to get rid of i kind of make a recommendation when i have no clue what's in your house actually for water but a brita filter cheap one is the best filter for your house literally just for chlorine you can even save the money there just put your tap water into a carafe leave it overnight in your fridge because chlorine is a gas and the chlorine will be gone in 24 hours what do you think for free yeah copper water have you heard of uh like the copper if you leave it in so copper copper like silver as well is antibacterial that means it can actually kill bacteria what is pretty cool that's reason in the medieval times a lot of people use copper silverware or copper cups or or silver because they knew the benefits that that bacteria we can kill from that what is pretty awesome so to drink like when you're hiking and you bring your copper um glass or something obviously it cannot kill everything but the the chance you get sick is lower in that kind of a vessel versus a plastic vessel what is pretty cool i love that last but on least i want to ask you about what is going on with the perrier drama oh my god i have so i have several videos on that and there you can see as well how i'm martin reason can actually turn to to being a fan of a brand to be what the fuck right and peep that out please i don't know if kids okay no please something but that's more okay you know but like that is for me it's so bad what happened there so the problem was what came out for several years ago already that they are filtering actually their spring water what is not allowed under the european law because when you have spring water you're not to touch it there are several regulations what you're allowed to do for example you can extract iron you can add carbonation or extract carbonation and like small little other things like micro bacteria you can kill you can uv light it or zone it to make sure that micro bacteria will be killed that nothing will happen in the water because let's be honest when you open a bottle of water and leave it in the sun for like two months that thing is growing with 1 billion bacterias again saw a video about some sorry idiot guy who had a three month old fiji bottle open on his on his thing and said why it's green they're has poison no dummy you had a water container open for three months yes there's mycobacteria everywhere where we have and from water comes life that's all what that is that's life where it's created right now so please don't tell me that fiji water is selling me crap no you had it for three months open what's happening with your milk in three months it will grow it will walk right next to you the milk container yeah like really like come on no so clean your damn car out bro yeah so what happening with perry so they found out that they're actually filtering their water what they're not allowed to do under the european law but they charge premium as a mineral water and the term mineral water is very regulated on the european law when it says natural mineral water you cannot filter you're not allowed to do certain things and they did so they found it out they found out that they even tried to do a deal with the french government so this whole deal drama is actually even in the government that they try to bullshit around there and for sure about i have no clue obviously internally what happened there but for sure it's all about money to try like come i will give you some money and then just change some laws that we can still do this what we're doing so now you suddenly see on the europe on the american market maso perry and you'll be like they just rebranded no no it's a different source but they're not allowed to say any more spring water from perry perry that's it's it's forbidden by law so they had to change it to maso perry it's a totally different water what's in there and it not even tells you in the and there for example they are untransparent no water quality report on the home page i can't find anything there i reached out to them once per email and said can you please tell me where the water's coming from no response so that is untransparent what this guy said they're hiding something maybe he should start there yeah not all it's american jobs well like that again i'm getting upset don't go dehydrated it drives me nuts and i see every day i see now crazy people talking on the internet about crazy stuff when they have no clue about and it's so sad because they're scaring others and and one more thing about scare tactics on my channel as well you will see it there was a lady doing the fires in los angeles what we had in the middle of the night and she was like oh my god i'm gonna in in january she was sitting in her beverly hills mansion you can see her big house she was completely remodeled nothing wrong nothing wrong with this i have a lot of friends who are doing this i don't have any issues with that whatever floats your boat i don't care but she goes on the internet and says they're poisoning us our tap water's bad because i live in beverly hills proper what she said proper 90210 proper like how how more self like assholey can you be in my opinion so she used the tds meter she put it into her tap water and she said look at this it's red look at this poison then she used distilled water and i was like really she put now the tears mean distilled what distilled water means obviously zero because everything is filled that out huh that's what distilling means and it was green obviously and she's like there you have it so i did a deep first of all i called her out and i sent her a dm first they're saying you have a little problem there like i'm more than happy to explain what that actually is what you did and she's like fuck off and i was like and then i said like just to give the heads up i gonna do a debunk video about you on my channel and it will not be pretty when you're not like please delete this video because it's literally misinformation because you're spreading fear to others who don't have access to water right now this is like it's so wrong on so many levels and she is again like i don't care saying here we go a day later that thing went viral that video what i created she had to close all her social media accounts but i feel actually bad i don't want that i don't want to call out people and that they have to that they have to like shut down their socials i don't want that but you're kind of like the water avenger and i think that people should be open to being corrected hey maybe there is more we should actually talk to this guy i would love to learn and more people who are going to make videos like that like you need to be okay with being corrected especially if we're not professionals because i'm learning as well when a doctor tells me salim martin maybe you need to tweak it there because maybe you said something what is from a from a physician standpoint maybe not 100 correct i want to learn i want to learn that i can be better even but what i say most and i'm saying this again as well here the podcast please fact check me guys yes please fact check even me don't take everything granted what i said i tried my best to do my research in all the but i don't have a lab at home to run a water quality report for waters i have to rely on i'm surprised you don't because you just can't do it at home there's so many factors what could alternate the results that you have to have professional people who are trained for that to do this actually and that's the reason i have to obviously relay as well on other informations and i have to trust others and yes we need to trust each other because let's be honest i flew over from los angeles over to to nashville to i had to trust the airline i had to trust the pilot that he puts me down here safely my uber driver was a great person i loved her so much she was such a fun girl and she talked to me the whole time and i was sleeping in the back but she talked the whole time and it was great she she like she had this beautiful voice where i can totally pass off yeah because i was a little i was a little i was a little tired poor thing and she was she was great and i gave her good tips and everything and i had to rely on her that i can close my eyes and relax a little bit and i know she won't do an accident so we have to trust certain people but again be skeptic yes and when something is too good or too weird too bad suddenly maybe there's a background what i said about the person what i think is cool that he has an app but how he's trying to sell his app is not okay in my opinion right he's fear-mongering yes he pulls out videos about how bad everything is and everybody freaks out and then oh my god i have to pay now i don't know how much his subscription is and to that i know that what water is safe i've talked to water companies where they said his results are totally different than my results i have at my company totally different so i have no clue how he tests maybe something's wrong with his tests even i don't know yeah i don't know his i don't know him he reached out once to me and i said to me i'm sorry i'm not i'm not available for you yeah i'm not interested part of your app yeah i don't like the business model there i agree i wouldn't want to be a part of it either martin thank you so much for being the time to sit down with us and go over everything with us and just always here for you being here and just being such a light to the world and i'm just so excited to get to collab with you more and just watch your journey also definitely i'm doing a lot of podcasts it's always funny i'm doing i'm a regular on the h3 podcast with ethan klein i don't know if you know him i yep uh with hill and ethan and it's it's funny to be there sometimes because they have a huge team obviously and they're all talking to each other and and we're always doing some fun videos together and and i love them i love the fact that we're all talking to each other and and we're always i love the fans i love your friends as well because some of them reached out as well and said like how martin's is so cool i'm such a big fan of you and now you're going to her podcast my god two two worlds collide suddenly and it was so nice to see the the the feedback actually of your of your followers as well they're sweet and that's the reason i said as well let's go over there i don't care what it costs i want to be here i want to talk about you because again we need to help each other out i love it that's all what it is and i think that's to the end i would love to say please guys help your neighbor help your loved ones don't scream immediately on the internet when you see something super bad let's try to scale back our voices and be a little bit more feel a bit more come compare like what is the english word for this like come come um companionship come yes compassion here we go that's the word i was looking for be a little bit more compassion to each other because you don't know what happened in their lives maybe and you know what happened in my life so maybe let's understand each other a little bit better yes and then we can talk about our differences but just screaming doesn't help anybody caps lock never gets you anywhere let's be all american and let's help each other out that's a strong community and that's a strong country amen thank you so much thank you again thank you guys for tuning into another episode of dumb blonde i'll see you guys next week bye we use shopify for our storefront at bunnyxo.com and one thing 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