Here are some reasons your should consider investing a few dollars in getting a filter for your water bottle:

1. Being dehydrated can have very negative effects on your health and mental acuity. You body loves water, and your brain doubly so. The average human brain is estimated to be around 75% water and your musculature system maintains a level of about 60% water. If your hydration drops, your brain and body don’t have enough water to function optimally. Have you ever wondered why you can get a headache from not drinking enough water on a hot day?

2. Some other side effects of dehydration are bloating, water retention and kidney problems, such as the presence of kidney stones. When the body doesn’t get enough water ingested, its safe guards kick in and it does it’s best to hold onto this life-preserving stuff in any way it can. Kidney problems occur undersuch conditions when not enough water is ingested to flush the sediment from your body, and it clumps together in your kidneys forming a “stone”.

3. Other fluids you can ingest, such as Tea, Coffee, Soda and Alcoholic beverages like beer, all have their own negative side effects. Caffine will effect your sleep which can lead to other more detrimental long term health problems. Soda contains a lot of sugar which will spike your insulin levels resulting in the release of cortisol, an immune suppressor. Diet soda doesn’t help as the artificial sweeteners have their own downsides (cancer). That leaves alcohol. Alcohol will cause your body to pass more water than it consumes resulting in increasingly chronic dehydration. Also, you can’t sit around at work drinking beer unless you have one HELL of a nice boss. My boss wont even let me listen to audio books at work, let alone drink alcohol.

4. Tap water contains many, many impurities and chemicals. Most commonly it contains Chrlorine and fluoride, however, trace elements of heavy metals are also common, along with bacteria. None of which you want to be ingesting on a regular basis.

5. If you buy a Water Bottle Filter, you can have clean, refreshing, chlorine and fluoride-free water anywhere life may take you.

6. Water bottle filters are cheap, and will replace some 300 plastic water bottles that would othewise have ended up in our landfills.

So do the right thing for your body and the environment, get a Water Bottle Filter, and enjoy clean water and feeling great!