Nick HowarthFounder, BBHC · Founder - BBHC Health Coaching

Is City water All that Bad?

19 Feb 2026 · 2 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that municipal tap water contains residual hormones, especially estrogen, because sewage treatment removes bacteria and toxins but not hormones. He claims that these hormones re-enter the drinking water supply, leading to estrogen accumulation in consumers. According to him, elevated estrogen can cause weight gain, mood swings, menstrual irregularities in women, and gynecomastia ("man boobs") in men. To mitigate these alleged effects, he recommends drinking bottled water instead of tap water, supplementing with DIM (diindolylmethane) to counteract estrogen, and consuming large amounts of cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale) which naturally contain DIM. The tone is informal and persuasive, emphasizing personal health concerns and offering specific dietary and product recommendations.

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Is tap water making you fat? Well, maybe it is. Here's how. So every time you go to the bathroom and everything goes down off to the sewage farm, what they do is they clean all the bacteria and the viruses out of there, all the toxins, but they don't clean out the the hormones. They don't know how to do that. So in city water or in municipal water, that hormones comes back in the drinking water. And if you're drinking that, things like estrogen start to pack up and pack up and pack up in the drinking water and then in your system. So yes, Drinking water could be messing with your health. It's far better to go and spend that extra money and buy yourself bottled water. Forget about the plastic stuff like that. That is far less harmful than the city water that's full of chlorine, full of chemicals, and full of hormones. So if you think that you have a problem because of the drinking water, or the dairy that you're eating and there's elevated estrogen levels, you'll find with women you'll have mood swings and all sorts of menstrual cycle problems. With men, you'll start to develop man boobs. That's what happens when you have an estrogen problem. Take something called DIM, D-I-M, and that will remove the bad estrogen from your system. Also eat A lot of cruciferous vegetables. Go and look up the word cruciferous. It really means all the broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, all of those kinds of things, kale. Those also have DIM. Now, actual fact, DIM is just a concentrated version of what's contained in cruciferous vegetables. That's why your mom always said, eat your vegetables!