water filter for fluoride, chlorine and calcium

i want to filter the water coming out of my fridge. the ge mwf filter doesn’t filter fluoride. i really don’t use the ice-maker but i am curious to know how an inline filter would wreck it. not questioning you, just trying to understand. thanks

Go to filtersfast.com…they have every conceivable filter in lots of variations on filters. For example, I found a half dozen filters to fit my refrigerator and was able to choose exactly what I wanted it to filter out of the water sr\tream.

Propur makes an inline filter that works well for just about everything that can be filtered. I dont think hard elements like calcium can be filtered. I think you need a softener for that.

I use a 3-stage activated carbon filter for the whole house, UV light to deactivate all the chloramines you can't filter out and then a ProPur inline at the fridge to remove the fluoride. It seems to work well for us. I replace the ProPur every 2 years.

RO is nice for under a sink/drinking spigot use but it is very wasteful and you need to add nutrients back in after going through RO. Consider it for very specific use only.

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Calcium fluoride is good. Sodium fluoride is a pharmaceutical that has plenty of studies questioning its safety.

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Plenty of bullshite studies. Let me help you out here, fluoride is a halogen and the body doesn't care what kind of halogen it is, it will have an extremely short half-life in the body (about 6 minutes). Calcium, sodium, tin fluorides all work nearly exactly the same as far as the body is concerned, few studies suggest combination of sodium/stannous fluorides being slightly more effective than either alone but really nothing substantive. There is a lot of bullshite public health initiatives over the decades but fluoridation of drinking water isn't one of them. Sodium fluoride is naturally occurring but in a rare mineral, calcium is more common, both are produced in industrial processes as well as stannous fluoride. If you have a healthy, varied diet and you drink coffee or tea regularly then you are getting more fluoride in your diet than from your tap water anyway.

Reverse osmosis is the cleanest, best tasting water. It's what dialysis clinics provide and recommend for their patients.

And no, you don't need to add anything back into it after filtration.

Brondell makes a great under-sink model and it is not wasteful relative to other manufacturer models. Highly recommend.

thanks. i did not know that. i thought ebr did put fluoride in the water. I am in zachary. though.

A quality inline filter will filter out all that you mentioned. My brothers own many many restaurants and everytime they put a great filter on the water system the ice makers shite the bed. The small small amount of chlorine actually helped with the slime and crud kept it in check. Filter out the chlorine nothing will help with that and they Algae you and get slimy quickly and you can clean all you want but that. You home your choice!

I’d be careful putting a filter on any line that removes Cl2. The problem you will have is algae or biofilm build up between the filter and the discharge of that line. That Cl2 is in there for a reason. What I recommend is filtering it once it is out of the line and keep that water refrigerated.
I am in the water treatment industry and understand your concerns over the chemicals in the water but the chemicals aren’t the issue, it’s the dosing. It’s critical that a plant has good operators and the plant set up so they can maintain proper chemical dosing. One thing that I do see this industry moving towards is RO filtration at the plant. This basically removes everything from the water, which lowers Cl2 demand, and you have to add back the alkalinity, hardness, pH and etc. Those 3 factors in water are key to minimizing the corrosiveness of the water. Without a certain level of alkalinity, hardness and a stable pH, your fixtures and metal piping Will corrode at a very fast rate.