someone told me recently that you shouldnt buy distilled water as the distillation process basically cooks the electrolytes out of the water and you could actually dehydrate drinking nothing but.
now i’m sketchy on the dehydration thing, but the cooking out of the electrolytes thing makes sense i guess. i don’t know much about electrolytes, but if they can be cooked then i guess distillation would do it.
i was just wondering if anyone had any information on this.
I think that this is BS. Distilled water is essentially condensed steam; pretty pure H2O - simple as that.
I’m aware that they put sugar and a little salt into water to make up a rehydration formula for people in drought situations, or for people recovering from diarrhoea. But I think that this is for assisting the rehydration process.
We should get enough “electrolytes” (sugars and salts?) from food normally.
Have you experimented with a “distilled water only” regimen yourself? Would be interested in the results.
gda-
you have really got to stop taking advice from that crazy hobo on the street man. He don’t know what he’s talking about.
lol
I know you can kill a house plant if you give it nothing but distilled water with no fertilizer. I imagin the same could be said about a person. But you’ll die on any kind of water if that is all you ingest (i.e. no food). So strickly speaking, yes. But it isn’t 'cause it’s distilled water.
Originally posted by Kung Lek
[B]gda-
you have really got to stop taking advice from that crazy hobo on the street man. He don’t know what he’s talking about.
lol [/B]
yeah man, you can die from drinking meths you know!
I bet if the mob gave you concrete shoes and threw you in a big tub full of distilled water it could kill you.
Now this is going to be hard to believe, but pure water is a great insulator and will not conduct electricity. It is the dissolved solids and other impurities that causes the conduction of electricity.
This water is called Di water, di-ionized.
Distilled water is made by heating the water, energy needed to break apart the attraction of the hydrogen and oxygen moloclues to each other. The water vapor rises, steam is invisible, cools(energy removed) and condenses back into water. The impurities are mostly left behind.
so what do you guys think is better for you overall?
i have been drinking nothing but distilled for a long long time.
No, you need the minerals that are in Drinking water.
Distilled water is what i like to call “dead” water. thats why they suggest that you brew things like coffee and tea in it as the water itself has nothing really in it mineral wise and water that has no mineral content and is distilled tends to leech off of whatever is put in to it. I dont like distilled because in fact it DOES leech minerals out of your body when you drink it,the same goes for De-ionized water (which alot of atheletes drink and SHOULDNT)
there was a story once of a marathon runner that complained of having chest pains similar to that of a heart attack. this runner was in the best shape of his life and ate well and watched his diet very closely,but after he would run and train he would feel like he was going to die. He went to the doctor and after several tests were done it was determinded that the runner had a SERIOUS lack of Potassium in his system(which is vital to healthy heart function and hydration)
When the doctor asked if he drank those sports drinks the runner replied “NO”, " all i drink is distilled and DE-Ionized water.
It was determined that the De-I water and the distilled was leeching the minerals out of his body creating that heart attack like effect. when the runner started drinking spring water and a few of the sports drinks the chest pains went away and his potassium levels normalized.
I remember when i used to work at the clean fabs at samsung here in austin several years ago,we would USE De-Ionized water to clean the plasma residue off of the equipment because the (DE-I) water would bond itself to the minerals in the residue and literally clean them off the quartz parts as well as the other metal and teflon parts that were used in silicone wafer processing.
Now distilled is not as bad as De-I water is but the concept is the same,the distilled will absorb in to whatever it comes in contact with ie: tea leaves,coffee,a human body,and will draw from the tea leaves,coffee,human body.
Thats why all i have EVER drank is Spring water. if you can find a good brand that isnt really municiple city water filtered then i suggest that you drink that instead. Most of the gallon jugs of spring water here come from local well springs in the surrounding area here in central texas(im lucky i guess in that respect).
anyway hope that helps GDA and others here.
PEACE,,TWS
I drink filtered water.
actually yeah that does. so he wasn’t completely wrong, just a little off base.
ill start buying spring.
I’m not a big fan of the ultra clean thing sweeping through our culture. They say kids are getting sick more because they aren’t exposed to germs as regularly as they should be. You can’t build up an immunity to something you’ve never experienced. heck, I only filter the water because it taste better then straight out of the tap.
Utter nonsense. The more minerals in water the more difficult it is for the body to accept it. Most Americans have mineral imbalances in their diets. Too many of some and not enough of others. Minerals are best supplied and absorbed by eating fruits, grains and vegetables grown in proper soil.
This is true but the FACT still remains about distilled and DE-I water. ask yourself this would you rather drink the “clean” and “pure”(and i use those terms loosely) water that will leech out more minerals than you put in to your body by eating those fruits and veggies grown in proper soil? OR would you rather drink a water that has a mineral content that doesnt leech the minerals out and yet still allows for absorbtion with those fruits and veggies you talk about?
trust me Tony this is something that i actually DO know about.
my own research as well as talking with doctors and nutritionists.
not trying to step on your d!ck here but the “utter nonesense” comment is Utter nonesense.
PEACE,,TWS
Originally posted by red5angel
I’m not a big fan of the ultra clean thing sweeping through our culture. They say kids are getting sick more because they aren’t exposed to germs as regularly as they should be. You can’t build up an immunity to something you’ve never experienced. heck, I only filter the water because it taste better then straight out of the tap.
i agree completely and have at least one argument with adora’s grandmother about that every singe day.
i just kept getting distilled cause i like the taste better than the spring also. but if spring or drinking water is better for me i could get used to either.
I actually read some data a while back that showed that kids that were bathed roughly every other day tended to be healthier then kids who were bathed once or more a day.
im glad i took adora’s doctors advice on the bathing thing then. he said the same thing. she’s had baths every other day, with obvious execpetions, as a general rule forever.
I hear the water in atlantis is nice.
It’s B.S. An urban legend.
Water is water…same chemical formula H20.
Distilled, spring, tap, etc.
It’s whats added or not added to the water that you notice.
How could distilled water “leach” anything out of your body?
Somebody explain that chemical process to me.
Its true when someone is extremely dehydrated they give them a very dilute salt/mineral solution but that is because they have usually lost a lot of salt through their skin also.
If your blood electrolyte levels get even a little bit off you can get a coma or even die.
Distilled water is okay. Tap water and filtered are too. De-ionized water is not suitable for drinking water.
It is however very useful for laboratories and such. Water is a very good solvent for minerals and deionized water will readily leach minerals if given the opportunity. This is why DI water it is not stored in glass containers.