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

[bigbralover]

Things i agree on by reading up to this point...

Once distilled water hits your stomach, the acid content is like zero on the PH scale, extremely acidic. Then what are the changes to the distilled water inside your stomach before it enters your the lower intestines and such. Sometimes food and water can stay in your stomach for a very long time, and that makes it highly suspect that distilled water would of retained any of it's leeching properties by the time it exits. This was also the point  my doctor made, is what do you think happens to distilled water when it hits your stomach acid chamber? He knows a little about bio-chemistry as a doctor and he thinks 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 to digestion in his view, and he doesn't  believe distilled water can leech anything at the cellular level. If we can find out what the changes are to distilled water once it hits these chambers, then we can know what it's capable of doing, if anything.

The best research I have found are these two, one from the WHO, and other in favor of distilled water from the Canadian Water Association.

WHO
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutdemineralized.pdf

Canadian Association
http://www.cwqa.com/faq.php?section=cwqa&subsec=faq&question=3A

Cybernook
http://www.cyber-nook.com/water/DistilledWaterWHO.htm

Bascially if Distilled water doesn't leech at the cellular level, then the case is closed. All we would have to worry about is getting enough minerals from a balanced diet. The Electrolytes thing would be the lesser of the two evils in this debate, but I am always open to hear more about this. Those can be replaced quickly, as where replacing minerals in the bones and at cellular level, much longer. That part of the research is critical, IMO.

If you read what the WHO wrote, or if you read what the water association wrote by Lee Rozelle, not to mention the Canadian Water association, you would of seen it mentioned 3 times, that the official report of the US Navy from the top brass states that in 40 years of naval vessels out to see, no one ever experience long term health effects by drinking distilled water according to their records.

Reference: http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Nutrition/Distilled-Water-for-
drinking/show/1251783

[lrbnx3]

I also found this site, which seems to make sense to me. However, I know you were looking for studies. It seems to me that a simple investigation of what happens in our bodies at the cell level would actually answer these questions. I believe I will be drinking only distilled water from now on.

http://www.precisionwatersystems.com/health.html

[lrbnx3]

I'm not sure if you will get this post because it looks like this thread is over 2 years old, but I am glad to see I am not alone in wanting to know the truth through the studies. My big concern is the same as yours. Have you, since 2010, found anymore evidence or research to help you get your answers?

Are the minerals from the earth usable by our cells? Or are the minerals from the earth too large and lifeless, therefore rendering them incompatible with the cells' needs? If the latter is the case, then the minerals would be rejected leaving a lot of accumulation of these minerals in our bodies. Does distilled water leach out only unusable minerals or as you asked, does it leach out at the cellular level?

I suggest you find the book "Water Can Undermine Your Health" by Dr N. W. Walker. I am going to read it because I found an excerpt from it explaining the answers we might be searching for. I hope this will help us.

[Paxiled]

I think the suggestion to put in the trace minerals was a good one.  There's a company named, oddly enough, Trace Minerals that has good quality products, but there are others, too.  Might solve your problem.  Worth a try, anyway.  You can get the macro minerals from a good diet, and adding the trace minerals would probably prevent leaching.  

[calicojack60]

I'm not that old yet, so it concerns me some. Right now, nobody down in the central valley drinks the water cause of pesticide residues and petro chemical stuff in the water. It's just crazy. Everybody is drinking bottled water. The amount of bottled water Costco sells in insane. Up where I live in the mountains, the wells are not contaminated yet, but they are often hard like mine and need to be filtered or distilled. My point also is that if I took your spring water and did a lab test of all the TDS in it, and then distilled my own water here and added the TDS levels your has, plus eletrolytes, I should have the same water as you. Science tells up that has to work. There is no divination or anything magical that comes out the ground. We should be able to create that easily with a TDS water meter and some TDS products in hand. However, I am not sure I want to drink what you are drinking. I am thinking TDS from 50 to 100 parts per million is safe and plenty as long as I have a good diet. I'm betting distiller marketing is going to be a booming business in the future, if it's get corrected. It needs to be certified by the government, and they need to research this with a grant to cover all the bases. Until then it seems distilled water will always have an asterisk. I am wondering if any universities are researching distilled water. If anyone knows, drop a post our way.

[Paxiled]

I fear you're right; no question we're running out of fresh water.  As I said, I sold five gallon jugs of distilled water for years to people who had sensitivities, and they were still alive and doing well.  Obviously they found a way to compensate.  We need a lobby of regular humans who want to know the basic things in life.  But as long as I can get regulated spring water, that's my choice.  Since I'm old, I'll be dead before we run out of water, but it would be nice if we were just a tad wiser about what's important.  Maybe you're the person to solve this.