Distilled Water for drinking

[calicojack60]

Hi All,

I've have also been seeking the truth about distilled water. I have found the subject to be more then a formidable opponent and also akin to something like who shot JFK! I see the billion dollar water industry has really muddied the waters with this debate leaving average folks in no mans land. With Billions to be made, there would indeed be a war of misinformation between bottled, tap, filtered and distilled water.

If you have anything solid knowledge of distilled water, then read my post that is on this page below. I would be very keen to hear anyone with solid knowledge about drinking distilled water.
http://www.procyclingwomen.com/Distiller/Debate.html

thanks,
CJ

[winterhell]

As far as the leeching goes, maybe the truth is a bit different. I read somewhere the body sees the lack of minerals and does its best to give it its own minerals to compensate, even if they are already part of the body structure.  

Some sites recommend distilled water only for week-two detoxification, but claim its harmful for longer.
Maybe that is the case until it gets the calcium carbonate/lime and other inorganic useless TDS that have accumulated in the body since the kidneys couldnt filter them all. And then the harmful part starts when the body begins giving off its own minerals? Both claims that the body gives voluntarily and that its no good for more than 2 weeks at a time seem to support each other in this respect.

To determine if the low TDS water actually leeches our bones and how, there are 2 relatively simple tests that could be done.
1) Take a real bone, and wash it with tons of distilled water and check its weight every 10 liters or so. If calcium carbonate can take up 500mg/Liter or more in the tap water, then the bone could get dissolved pretty fast. Even if it leeches only 20mg/Liter, that would make 20 grams per 1000 liters, which is pretty detectable. Even if every wash leeches mirenals from the bone after thousands of liters, both the average and the peek leeches could turn out to be negligible with respect to the recommended daily intake.
2) See in the urine of a person what type of calcium is peed, not only the volume. If only inorganic one is present, there is that. How long has the distilled water intake been in effect would be important. Maybe at least a month?
In the case the body really is giving off its own minerals, could it be converting the organic into inorganic?

Of course both 1) and 2) would be reinforced with a control groups of tap water, maybe also alkaline and reminiralized distilled water with higher pH.

Sorry if this post was hard to follow or does not make any sense. I believe both tests are cheap to do, the cost boiling down to producing the 100s or 1000s liters of distilled water and testing the urine. Can someone academic do this?

[wildkrafter]

Hey There

You want to talk to somebody that knows his distilled water? look up Andrew Norton Webber on facebook. This man is the King of distilled. I think you can utube his talks as well. He knows his stuff.

[jackmack54]

Hi

the link in the original post goes to a 404 error page, is there another link I can read your findings on? thanks

[drread507]

I drink distilled water and add liquamins drops even though i read it might have some bad metals in it, cave man drank ground water for thousands of years but it was much cleaner back then

[lrbnx3]

Yes, I also agree with you that water leaches. But what happens in the body once you drink water? How is it digested and does the somewhat acidic distilled water (or any water) really matter once it hits the acidic stomach? Cell level and minerals is something you might consider looking into because (from my understanding) it is at the cell level where minerals and nutrients are transported and used in various parts of the body. Some say that the more "alive" or organic minerals and vitamins are, the easier it is for our bodies to use and assimilate them. Some say that spring water has minerals that cannot be used very well by the body, as they are inorganic. This means the body would store them and they become like toxic in our bodies. And as bigbralover mentioned, a point his Dr made, "it's silly argument that distilled water leeches anything from the body, because it's the liver and kidneys that does the filtering. Water is simply an aid..."

My thoughts are that when water gets to the stomach, it is broken down and digested by the enzymes and acids, and then pure water is taken where it needs to go and the minerals or anything else is taken in other places. If, in fact, this is the case, it leads me to think that no water leaches anything. Perhaps the purer the water, the more it can be used in the liver and kidneys to filter out toxins and materials unusable by the body. It seems to me that the cleaner the water, the less "junk" or "toxins" the body would have to deal with. If water is not broken down in the stomach, then what does happen? I'd like to know......

I think perhaps the acidity level of distilled water is what might be a more important thing to look into. Does it disrupt ph levels in the body? I mean, we eat things that are acidic, don't we? Like tomatoes. I don't think I've heard anyone say not to eat any foods that are considered acidic. My next search I think will be to find out what happens when we eat acidic things and alkaline things. This might shed some light on the acidic levels of food and water/drinks and how they affect our bodies. Just some things to consider, unless you are not open to learning and are sticking with your belief no matter what...... =)

[Paxiled]

Of course water leaches.  All water does.  That's how spring water gets to be spring water, by coming down without much in the way of minerals as rain and then, through a long period of percolation (leaching) through rock it comes up as mineralized spring water.  Now, does it have time to leach in the body?  Got to leach some, that's what liquid does, but I don't know the exact amount.  If you say food stays around a long time, that gives water more time for leaching.  Don't know what the cellular level has to do with it, we're talking about minerals, and we know water leaches minerals.  As to Navy studies, anyone believing studies from the military, which can't possibly admit harm for fear of liability and protecting military toughness (see Agent Orange, radiation, lead, etc. the military has decided didn't harm the troops).  So we're still at square one, no good long-term research if one drinks distilled water regularly.  But again, I knew people who did it and they didn't seem the worse for it as they ate very well, but again, who knows how it would have been different had they done otherwise?  These were people who, for health reasons, were forced to use distilled water as they had to avoid certain minerals in spring water.   Interesting stuff, but don't know that there's a definitive answer out there.