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Toxic Water: Why It Ruins Your Detox & Gut Health

16 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Paul Savage MD arguing that contaminated water undermines detoxification and harms gut health. Early remarks warn against "retox" during detoxing and call out water-treatment chemicals (chlorine, chloramines) as agents that can damage the gut lining and cause health issues.

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You don't want to retox when you're detoxing. Right. Like, water is vital for us as humans to detox our bodies at the cellular level. Right. And if you're retoxing when you're supposed to be detoxing, it's actually quite problematic. And so, you know, I think that contaminated water really can cause a lot of health issues, gut issues. You know, I mean, forget about all the scary chemicals. Let's just talk about what they're treating the water with. But chlorine, chloramines, all these things, I mean, it's just chewing away at our gut lining and our gut health.

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