Anonymous says, “I love your Gerolsteiner and drink about 1 pint per day.”
Yeah, I did before AmazonFresh ran out of it.
“Should there be anything I should be concerned with about this? Is this too much for any reason?”
One pint strikes me as very little Gerolsteiner. So, a bottle of Gerolsteiner,
they come in— And
so, 1 liter? Okay. A bottle is 1 pint and 9.3
fluid ounces. So, I guess it’s a little bit over a pint and a half. Is that right?
Anyway, it’s significantly less than a bottle. I don't think so because generally if I have
it available I often drink 1.5 to 2 bottles of Gerolsteiner in a day. I guess conceivably if
you're also drinking a lot of milk, or eating a lot of cheese, or supplementing with calcium,
or taking bone meal powder, I guess you can get too much calcium. I wouldn’t really worry
about it from 1 pint. I do think that the main concern with carbonated beverages of any type
is that you have too much acid running over your teeth a lot. So,
I think it's wise to drink this in a way that tends to bypass your teeth. And I think you
can kind of do that when you're drinking from the bottle. I mean, you can do it more
effectively if you use a straw, but I think you can manipulate the bottle in your mouth
to kind of pour it beyond your teeth, which I think is a good thing to do.
I think the wider the mouth of the jar you're drinking it out— Like if you pour it into a glass
and you don’t have a straw, you’re probably a lot more likely to have more of it running over your
teeth. Probably the best thing that you can do for that is before you brush your teeth,
make sure that you swish with water or, if you really wanted to be anal about it, baking soda.
But my understanding of the dentistry of it is that having acids pass by your teeth
in and of itself is not the biggest concern. The main concern would be weakening the enamel
and the mineral matrix with bathing the teeth in something acidic for a long period of time
and then coming in with a toothbrush and scraping all of the weakened enamel off your teeth or all
the weakened mineral out of it. Ever since I started drinking Gerolsteiner, I really crave it
and I think that’s because my body has been wired to understand that it gets the minerals from it.
And so, I’m not really anal about this. Maybe I should be more anal than I am,
but my approach is basically drink it from the bottle feeling like it’s
not going in front of my teeth. It’s going behind them in terms of the stream of water. And then,
you know, don’t drink a bottle of it and then go brush my teeth. If I drank it recently, I
would swish with water. If I drank it a long time ago, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. That’s
the way that I look at it. All right. Thank you, Anonymous, for your question. I hope that helped.