One of those other sites had an article on water and what to drink. It claimed … " Your best source of water would be pure water that is distilled. The only way for the water to be distilled would be for a vapor compression distillation process. The benefit of distilled water is that it transports the inorganic minerals out of the body. The cells and tissues of the body reject these inorganic minerals, which add to the purification of the body."
Any thoughts? Is this true??
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One of those other sites had an article on water and what to drink. It claimed … " Your best source of water would be pure water that is distilled. The only way for the water to be distilled would be for a vapor compression distillation process. The benefit of distilled water is that it transports the inorganic minerals out of the body. The cells and tissues of the body reject these inorganic minerals, which add to the purification of the body."
Any thoughts? Is this true??
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Inorganic minerals, huh? Like sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, zinc, and iodine? Yeah, get those out right now!
Actually I have known several people who bought into the distilled water idea. After they started passing out from low electrolite levels they stopped.
Water, in nature, does not generally arrive distilled. Of course, rain may be somewhat pure, but like other animals we’d drink out of streams, lakes and eventually wells.
I am not sure, but I think that water devoid of all minerals simply leeches them from your body. Contrary to the article that you mention, this may not necessarily be a “good thing” for you.
Now, this doesn’t mean you want any and all impurities or that you want any and all levels of salts and minerals either.
Trust your body to look after itself… at least with respect to natural foods and substances, that’s what it is built to do.
RO water is better than distilled.
distilled is the best to use in your steam iron. if you even have one.
I was doing manual labor out in El Centro one summer, and had heat stroke. I was drinking distilled water. Had I been drinking spring water or gatorade, things would have been different. Unless you’re taking salt tablets…
no. Di water is not for consumption. inorganic minerals are essential to life. Besides, they sure as hell are not as water soluble as they make it out to be. Minerals require chemical carriers to get in any appreciable concentration in any ISF.
When I was in the Navy, I’ve always heard of a long running joke to play on the new guy on the ship. They would tell him to drink from a water line that was pure H2O (I forgot what the ship used it for, but it’s not for drinking).
The guy would have “the runs” for a couple of days, and learned quickly not to drink absolutely pure water again.
water is water. your body seperates it from what ever else is mixed with it, whether it is naturally ocurring minerals, chlorine, or even a solution like a coke or milk. of course the other components are handled accordingly, but as far as water is concerned, H2O is H2O.
i guess if it was ionized it could possibly attract inorganic materials and act as an anti oxidant. i don’t know if drinking ionized water is a good idea though.