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MS: I thought I was the only one that knew that...hehe....hubby and I buy distilled water......to us, it has a distinctive taste that we like......some people don't see the taste difference.....what type of water do you drink, MS? assuming you drink water
Assuming I drink water?? Incredibly presumptious. I am a silicon-based life form that requires pure sand to keep me running smoothly. Oh drop the sarcasm already MS.
I drink tap water. That sounds horrifying I know. But I live in a town that has very pure artesian water coming out of the taps. It has less solutes in it than almost all the commercially bottled 'spring water'. But when I leave my sleepy hollow I read the labels and drink the purest spring I can find, or distilled before a show when I'm sodium depleting.
I drink tap water. That sounds horrifying I know. But I live in a town that has very pure artesian water coming out of the taps. It has less solutes in it than almost all the commercially bottled 'spring water'. But when I leave my sleepy hollow I read the labels and drink the purest spring I can find, or distilled before a show when I'm sodium depleting.
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Bringing it to a boil would destroy certain bacteria that could possibly be harmless, possibly.
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Scott 825....boiling water just kills bacteria...I dosen't distill it.
To distill I you need to buy a distiller (yes you can put tap water in it!)...A distiller heats up water so the steam travels upwards through a tube and when the steam condenses it drips into a tank and tada! you have pure H20...with nothing else in it!
To distill I you need to buy a distiller (yes you can put tap water in it!)...A distiller heats up water so the steam travels upwards through a tube and when the steam condenses it drips into a tank and tada! you have pure H20...with nothing else in it!
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Thats what I've heard all my life.
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AGENT SHAGWELL
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distilled is just pure H2O, no minerals or anything else...really not good to drink on a regular basis because you don't get the minerals that naturally occur in water, like sodium, flouride, etc.
"To distill I you need to buy a distiller (yes you can put tap water in it!)...A distiller heats up water so the steam travels upwards through a tube and when the steam condenses it drips into a tank and tada! you have pure H20...with nothing else in it!"
This does NOT produce PURE H20, by any means. Any compounds that have a boiling point less than or equal to H2O will evaporate and be condensed in the collection container along with the water.
This does NOT produce PURE H20, by any means. Any compounds that have a boiling point less than or equal to H2O will evaporate and be condensed in the collection container along with the water.
40butpumpin
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Agent Shagwell is exactly correct, however, he missed much more important minerals such as Magnesium and Calcium. Drinking distilled water has the double negative effect of not having any minerals *and* pulling out the ones that already exist in your cells. That's because your body has to achieve a state of mineral equilibrium. If you put mineral free water in your body, your cells let go of the minerals to get to that equilibrium state. This is EXTREMELY dangerous for your heart.
Actually, this is not the case with distilled water. The water that is sometimes used for research IS capable of leaching minerals from a persons body(i.e. non-ionic and triple distilled water)however, simple distilled water (such as what you buy in the store) is not a strong leaching agent in and of itself. Even distilled water that has been put through a reverse osmosis purification as well as an ozonation procedure still contains small particles and ions. This can be demonstrated by a certain test in which a glass of distilled water is exposed to low-amp currents of electricity from zinc and copper material anode and cathode, respectively. Even the purest of distilled water (except non-ionic water and triple distilled water) will show particulate matter upon passage of electricity through the water.
**As a side note, the worst water that was subjected to this test was Evian. The electrode was caked in black gunk after the test was concluded. This is funny because if you spell EVIAN backwards you get 'naive'. Okay, so it wasn't funny.
Water is absorbed quickly by the body. A certain percentage is excreted in solid waste a few hours later. The rest is either used in the cooling mechanism of sweating or it is ultimately filtered by the kidneys and re-used if needed. Distilled water should not normally leach minerals from the body unless it has been triple distilled--which is reserved for medical and scientific research purposes.
If a person is low enough in potassium or calcium or magnesium or other ions then the addition of ANY water can result in a type of electrolyte abnormality possibly leading to neurogenic diabetes insipidus (which means in English that the kidney cells are not being supplied with enough electrolytes to be able to perform their filtration job).
I am not aware of non-ionic water being sold anymore, although research facilities can still get it. Nonetheless, even these companies are not very profitable considering that a laboratory can make non-ionic water cheaper than they can buy it.
At any rate, triple distilled water and non-ionic water can leach minerals from the body to the extent that if consumed in large quantities can lead to low calcium and low potassium levels but distilled water will not do this in an otherwise normal individual.
**As a side note, the worst water that was subjected to this test was Evian. The electrode was caked in black gunk after the test was concluded. This is funny because if you spell EVIAN backwards you get 'naive'. Okay, so it wasn't funny.
Water is absorbed quickly by the body. A certain percentage is excreted in solid waste a few hours later. The rest is either used in the cooling mechanism of sweating or it is ultimately filtered by the kidneys and re-used if needed. Distilled water should not normally leach minerals from the body unless it has been triple distilled--which is reserved for medical and scientific research purposes.
If a person is low enough in potassium or calcium or magnesium or other ions then the addition of ANY water can result in a type of electrolyte abnormality possibly leading to neurogenic diabetes insipidus (which means in English that the kidney cells are not being supplied with enough electrolytes to be able to perform their filtration job).
I am not aware of non-ionic water being sold anymore, although research facilities can still get it. Nonetheless, even these companies are not very profitable considering that a laboratory can make non-ionic water cheaper than they can buy it.
At any rate, triple distilled water and non-ionic water can leach minerals from the body to the extent that if consumed in large quantities can lead to low calcium and low potassium levels but distilled water will not do this in an otherwise normal individual.
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HeavyDutyGuy
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I drink different kinds of water, some tap, some bottled,, some mineral. I don't see the point in drinking distilled water, except around a contest....maybe.
You're right to do that Heavy. Back in school I experimented with a specialty diet which required a gallon of distilled H20 every day. No tap water, no ice cubes nothing except distilled. I also ate plenty of natural food as well but that's beside the point.
I did this for a month and I felt better, but as exams were in full swing, I had to opt for fast food in between study sessions. I was sick for two days with nearly explosive diarrhea.
The problem I had which I later learned from talking with a professor of microbiology is that the bacteria in our drinking systems had to be reintroduced to my system, thus a version of Montezuma's revenge.
I did this for a month and I felt better, but as exams were in full swing, I had to opt for fast food in between study sessions. I was sick for two days with nearly explosive diarrhea.
The problem I had which I later learned from talking with a professor of microbiology is that the bacteria in our drinking systems had to be reintroduced to my system, thus a version of Montezuma's revenge.
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