Distilled Water

January 10, 2002

<rhbailey@...> wrote:

<Somewhere I read that it's not good to drink distilled water for a long

<period of time. I think there was a study that showed that certain minerals

<were excreted in the urine when drinking city water or well water, and those

<same minerals, in the same amounts, were excreted in the urine after

<drinking distilled water. The implication was that the distilled water

<caused minerals to be pulled from the bones. I don't want to be an

<alarmist--I could be way off on this.

I've read the same thing, SueB. So now, I occasionally drink distilled

water, but also drink a lot of Aquafina (reverse osmosis) - when we water-

tested it for sediment, it came out identical to the test we did on

distilled water.

Sue

" The greatest part of our happiness and misery depends on our dispositions

and not on our circumstances. " Martha Washington

June 28, 2002

This is something I wanted to add to the previous post.

I live in a rural area and have a good spring that runs 6 gallons a

minute year around no matter what the weather conditions are. The

temperature of the water stays around 65 degrees so I'm assuming its

coming from deep down and loaded with minerals. I also have a small

pond that is fed by watershed only and have observed that wild

animals will avoid the spring and go to the pond. I don't know what

this means, maybe its just the temperature of the water but could it

be that they prefer rainwater which is distilled by nature?

Tom

December 10, 2002

Hi guys, I found this article and wanted to see what others thought. I

consider Dr. Mercola a great resource, but I was surprised to read an

article on his website (not written by him but still). It's weird b/c it

mentions that prolonged use of dw can cause hypothyroidism, but regular

water has fluoride which is bad for the thyroid. I'm soooo confused. I was

going to start putting dw in my baby's formula (she has half breastmilk and

half organic formula), but now I don't know what to do. I don't want her

little body being overridden with fluoride, lead and other toxic substances.

can anyone shed light on this? thanks!

http://www.mercola.com/article/Diet/water/distilled_water.htm

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December 10, 2002

In a message dated 12/10/2002 8:15:33 AM Pacific Standard Time,

karlynn17@... writes:

> It's weird b/c it

> mentions that prolonged use of dw can cause hypothyroidism, but regular

> water has fluoride which is bad for the thyroid. I'm soooo confused. I

> was

> going to start putting dw in my baby's formula (she has half breastmilk and

>

> half organic formula), but now I don't know what to do. I don't want her

> little body being overridden with fluoride, lead and other toxic

> substances.

> can anyone shed light on this? thanks!

>

Dear ,

It's basic physiology--the osmotic principle. Minerals or salts (or toxins,

for that matter) will move across a semi-permeable membrane (skin, fascia,

etc.) from a solution in higher concentration toward a solution in lower

concentration. That principle is what makes kidney dialysis work.

If the water source you're using on a constant basis is distilled, and thus,

without minerals of any kind, the minerals in solution in your denser body

tissues, glands, organs, muscles, bones, naturally gravitate out toward the

less concentrated fluids and are used up or expelled.

It's not as quick a process as one of my Organic Chem profs said when he was

teaching us about this process. " If you were to buy one gallon of distilled

water off the shelf and drink it all in an hour, you would die! " he warned,

vibrating with fear and urgency. I laughed inside because I'd used distilled

water many times to rid myself of headaches when nothing else would budge

them. But, I always went back to drinking RO or otherwise filtered water

when my headache went away.

And that's the secret, IMO. Drink water that's been filtered by Reverse

Osmosis. It removes the majority of impurities, pests, metals, chemicals.

It's probably not perfect, but it's pretty close for now. Either invest in

your own under-the-counter setup or have it delivered or tote it home from

the grocery. Here is Southern California, we have " Water Stores, " wouldn't

you know, where you can haul your own 2 or 5 gallon reusable plastic

containers of filtered or purified water for pennies a gallon.

LOL!

in LA

December 10, 2002

There is a difference between distilled water and water which is purified.

I use this water from a place here that uses a reserve osmosis system which

gets all the bad stuff out. Not using distilled doesn't mean not using

purified. I haven't drank water out of the sink for 20 years. Jeanie

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