Women's hormone health · 40+
You're doing the work to balance your hormones. Your water may be undoing it.
You've cut the seed oils, swapped the plastic containers, cleaned up your skincare. But the tap water you drink and cook with all day carries forever chemicals and microplastics, and these are recognised endocrine disruptors: chemicals that can interfere with the very hormones you're working to settle.
The work you're already putting in
You've cleaned up every hormone input but one.
If you're navigating perimenopause, you've built a whole routine around lowering your load. Look at how much you've already changed.
Your hormone-balancing list
- Magnesium & the right supplements
- Cut back alcohol
- Swapped plastic containers for glass
- Cleaned up skincare & make-up
- Seed cycling & whole foods
- Strength training
- Adaptogens & cortisol care
- Prioritised sleep
You went to the trouble of ditching plastic containers, then kept drinking litres of unfiltered water from the same tap every day.
The word for these chemicals
They're literally called endocrine disruptors.
This is the same mechanism you've been reading about. Certain chemicals can mimic or interfere with your body's hormones, and two of the most common ones are exactly what standard tap water isn't required to remove.
- Forever chemicals are recognised endocrine disruptors, and they build up in the body over years rather than passing through.
- Microplastics carry hormone-disrupting compounds like BPA and phthalates, and they've now been detected in human blood and tissue.
- Perimenopause is already a hormonal balancing act. Adding chemicals that interfere with your endocrine system is the opposite of what you're trying to do.
- Mains water isn't treated to remove them. Water company treatment targets safety and bacteria, not forever chemicals or plastic.
You can't control every source of endocrine disruptors. Your drinking water is one of the few you can fully switch off.
For someone doing this much work on the inside, it's a strange one to leave running in the background.
The part most people miss
Most "filters" are made of the exact problem.
- Supermarket jug filters improve taste, but you're drinking water that's just sat inside a plastic reservoir, which can shed the very microplastics and BPA you're avoiding. Independent testing has shown that many of these filters can actually increase heavy metal contamination such as aluminium by significant margins.
- Bottled water is one of the most plastic-exposed drinks there is. Studies have found hundreds of thousands of plastic particles per litre in popular brands.
- Boiling handles bacteria, but does nothing to forever chemicals or the plastics leaching from your kettle or bottle.
Swapping a plastic jug for another plastic jug isn't cleaning up your water. It's changing the label on the problem.
If you've moved your kitchen to glass, your filter should follow.
See it in action
Watch the bench top filter at work.
No plumbing, no power, no fuss. Fill the top, and gravity does the rest, drawing your tap water down through 13 stages of filtration into clean, great-tasting alkaline mineral water. Press play below, and tap to unmute.
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The Waters Co difference
Filters the disruptors out. And doesn't add new ones back in.
The BIO 500 MAX runs your tap water through 13 stages, filtering microplastics down to 0.1 microns and removing up to 99% of chlorine, chemicals, heavy metals and bacteria, then holds it in a 7 litre hand-blown glass reservoir with a BPA, BPB and BPS-free build. So the water you drink all day isn't picking up disruptors on the way to your glass.
- Targets forever chemicals, pesticides and herbicides, the disruptors that accumulate over years.
- Filters microplastics to 0.1 microns, plus chlorine, fluoride, heavy metals and bacteria in one pass.
- Hand-blown glass reservoir, BPA / BPB / BPS-free build, no plastic sitting in your water.
- Adds 60+ trace minerals back at a mild alkaline pH of 7.6 to 8.5, so your water enriches rather than just strips.
13 stages of sterilising, filtration and mineral activation, held in hand-blown glass.
What comes out
The load you've been quietly trying to lower.
Forever chemicals
Recognised endocrine disruptors that build up over years.
Microplastics
The carriers of BPA and phthalates, now found in blood.
Glass reservoir
Hand blown, BPA / BPB / BPS-free. No plastic sitting in your water.
Heavy metals
Lead, mercury and others that accumulate over time.
Fluoride & chlorine
Added at the treatment works, filtered back out at your worktop.
Minerals added back
Bio-organic trace minerals your water is usually missing.
No plumber, no project
On the worktop in minutes. No plumbing, no power.
Sit it on your kitchen worktop
Compact and lightweight, assembled by hand in a couple of minutes. It's gravity-fed, with no drilling, no electrician, no cupboard rearranging.
Fill the top with tap water
Gravity draws it down through all 13 stages into the 7 litre glass reservoir. Nothing to plug in, nothing to remember.
Pour, and cross it off the list
One filter set runs up to 12,000 litres or around 18 months, quietly doing its job while you get on with everything else. A filter reminder service means you don't have to track it.
Glass, not plastic
BPA / BPB / BPS-free build.
Up to 12,000 litres
Per filter set, around 3p a litre.
Free UK shipping
Fast delivery.
From women already doing this
The glass reservoir is what sells them.
"I'd swapped my containers, my skincare, everything, then realised the water was the one plastic-adjacent thing I'd missed. The glass reservoir was exactly what I wanted, and the water tastes beautiful."
"At 48 I'm doing all the hormone-balancing things. Reducing my exposure to endocrine disruptors was the whole point, so filtering them out of my water instead of drinking from a plastic jug was a no-brainer."
"We replaced our old plastic filter with this. Knowing I'm not drinking water that's been sitting in plastic anymore is worth it on its own, and my whole family uses it now."
Honest answers
The questions women 40+ ask us.
Will this balance my hormones or help my perimenopause symptoms?
No filter can do that, and we won't pretend otherwise. What the BIO 500 MAX does is reduce your exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals like forever chemicals and microplastics in your drinking water, which is one of the few sources you can fully control. Whether that changes how you feel is individual, and for the symptoms themselves your GP is the right person to see. This is about lowering an input, not treating a condition.
What actually is an "endocrine disruptor"?
It's a chemical that can mimic or interfere with your body's hormones. PFAS, BPA and phthalates are common examples, and they turn up in packaging, plastics and water. The idea behind cleaning up your inputs is simply to reduce how many of them you're exposed to day to day.
Isn't the filter itself made of plastic?
This is the part that matters most for you, and no. The BIO 500 MAX uses a hand-blown glass reservoir and a BPA, BPB and BPS-free build, so you're not swapping one plastic source for another the way you would with a standard jug filter.
I'm on HRT or supplements. Is filtered water fine alongside that?
It's simply clean, re-mineralised drinking water, so it sits comfortably alongside whatever your GP has you on. As always, follow your doctor's advice on your treatment; this just cleans up the water you're drinking with it.
Does it strip out the good minerals too?
No, and this is a real point of difference. Rather than stripping your water bare like reverse osmosis does, the BIO 500 MAX re-mineralises it, adding back over 60 bio-organic trace minerals at a mild alkaline pH of 7.6 to 8.5, so your water enriches rather than just cleans.
Is 7 litres enough, or will I be refilling it constantly?
Seven litres covers a day's drinking, tea, coffee and cooking for most households without much thought. You top it up when it's low, which is roughly once a day rather than the several times an hour a jug demands.
Your purchase is 100% protected
Waters Co has led gravity-fed filtration for over 40 years, with independent lab testing behind its removal claims and certifications including NSF International, ISO, CE, FDA and the Water Quality Association. Your BIO 500 MAX ships free within the UK, from a brand women have trusted since 1984, and is covered by a lifetime warranty and a 30 day money back policy. You're not taking a risk, you're taking one disruptor off the list.
One input, finally handled
You've changed everything else. Now change your water.
Of all the work you're doing to lower your hormone load, this is one of the simplest wins left: filtered, re-mineralised water held in hand-blown glass, on your worktop, for the next 12,000 litres.
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