Re: Re: About (distilled) waters, please? [water 'energy', structured wa...

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In a message dated 3/28/2004 1:25:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, tben@...

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It seems odd to discuss how to add back to distilled water what was

purposely removed.

-Terry

Also, what if that distilled water was 'alkalinized' and had minerals added

to it, with say, coral calcium, before drinking, would that be the ideal

drinking water, health wise?

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I will stick with my hard, Mother Nature made, un " improved " well water.

mjh

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In a message dated 3/28/04 1:25:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, tben@...

writes:

> It seems odd to discuss how to add back to distilled water what was

> purposely removed.

It doesn't seem very odd to me, since there's plenty of junk in water one

would want to get rid of-- organic pollutants, undesirable metals, maybe

microbes, etc.

Chris

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I am now using a water filter which has an ultraviolet light to purify the water

and then a carbon filter. It supposedly helps with bacteria build-up which

happens in carbon filters. It is a vortex unit. Does any one know anything about

these filters? Of course the literature is all great about it. It is supposed to

leave the minerals and such in the water. It creates ozone int he unit and then

the ozone is reconverted to oxygen in the filter cartridge.

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Re: Re: About (distilled) waters, please? [water 'energy',

structured wa...

In a message dated 3/28/04 1:25:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, tben@...

writes:

> It seems odd to discuss how to add back to distilled water what was

> purposely removed.

It doesn't seem very odd to me, since there's plenty of junk in water one

would want to get rid of-- organic pollutants, undesirable metals, maybe

microbes, etc.

Chris

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>I am now using a water filter which has an ultraviolet light to purify the

water and then a carbon filter. It supposedly helps with bacteria build-up which

happens in carbon filters. It is a vortex unit. Does any one know anything about

these filters?

Ozone water purification is definitely the most efficient

and least harmful. Much of Europe has converted to it ...

the chlorination system we use has lots of downsides.

-- Heidi Jean

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Bee wrote:

> >I've read a lot about distilled water pulling minerals out of the

> >body.

But have you read anything that makes a remote smidgeon of physiological or

chemical sense? Pretty much everything I've read about distilled water on the

internet is just plain bunk.

>Adding celtic sea salt wouldn't stop that action even though

> you are adding minerals back to it.

How do you know this, if no one can give a reasonable explanation for the

mechanism by which this " action " occurs?

Too much of any water can upset electrolyte balance, and to that end, the

less minerals you consume with your water, the more exaggerated the effect. But

if you add minerals to the distilled water, you don't have any lack of

minerals, and if you *eat food* that contains minerals, you don't need them in

your

water (assuming your food is mineral-dense enough to replace what you'd get

from hard water). But the same could be said of any other process that removes

mineral from water, and the same could be said for simply any diet that

contains too much water and not enough mineral-dense food.

Maybe other more savvy chemical > people here can shed more light on this.

I can respond with my thoughts to a specific claim/article, etc, but I

haven't seen anything remotely convincing.

Heidi wrote:

> >I don't know about pulling chemicals from the body, but people

> (and animals) seem to have a natural inclination to want water

> with " stuff " in it. Adding a twist of lemon to a glass of water

> certainly makes it go down easier, and animals seem to like

> their water better with a splash of vinegar. The pioneers

> and early Brits preferred cider or beer over water ... water

> was considered not as good for you (actually a lot of people

> STILL prefer beer over water ... ). And mineral waters are

> commonly drunk with meals instead of tap water.

> " Sports drinks " seem to be easier to drink than water too.

I agree with this. I was saying on another list recently that too much pure

water seems to sit in my stomach like a brick and " not digest. " But this has

nothing to do with distillation-- it's true of any pure water. Besides, any

of these things can be added to/made with distilled water.

> I kind of think that water that is closer to the stomach

> contents is easier on the stomach ... which might account

> for the preference for acidic drinks too? When a person

> is dehydrated you are supposed to give them water with

> a little bit of sodium/potassium in it, not straight water,

> because it rehydrates them faster (?) even though most

> people have plenty of sodium.

What's the basis for the judgment that they have " plenty " of sodium, if they

do better consuming some more of it? Sodium and potassium regulate osmotic

pressure and therefore how much water gets into cells, and how much water is

retained in the blood rather than excreted by the kidneys. Sodium is also

necessary for potassium to enter the cell at its maximum rate (some potassium

channels are sodium-driven pumps;others aren't).

Chris