Module 3.1: Drink Clean Water

I prioritize drinking high quality and clean water because tap water can be loaded with different chemicals and things like chlorine that can damage the gut microbiome. At one point while trying to heal, I went from being in remission and feeling really good, to flaring up really badly after drinking heavily chlorinated tap water for a few days. It’s really hard to find research on how water affects the gut microbiome, specifically in regards to IBD. Now this isn’t research, this is a concept paper that proposes the same idea that I’ve been talking about for years, which is that drinking chlorinated water can cause gut microbiome dysbiosis and result in the development or flare up of IBD. “Levels of chlorine used to treat metropolitan water are considered safe for the individual, based on toxicity studies. However, to our knowledge there have been no studies examining whether levels of persistent chlorine exposure from tap water are also safe for the ecosystem of microorganisms that colonize the gastrointestinal tract. Given the importance of the microbiome in health, persistent exposure to low levels of chlorine may be a hitherto unrecognized risk factor for gut dysbiosis, which has now been linked to virtually every chronic non-communicable disease of the modern era (13).” More research needs to be done, but this idea is exactly why I drink clean, purified water, and I’ve seen incredible results from doing so.

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