The distilled water is healthy myth part 1

Addressing the first article from an earlier post about distilled water (http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1537768#i

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Or water distilled harms http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1513531#i

 

The question of whether distilled water "leaches" minerals from the body causing hair-loss and other health problems due to mineral deficiencies.?
Distilled water was used for decades in even the most prolonged fasts with NO hair-loss or other health problems associated with mineral/electrolyte deficiencies.

 

This is not true.  Just because something is not obvious without testing does not mean that health issues are not occurring.  For example there is the electrolyte issue.  Distilled water is hypotonic to the cells so it rapidly flows in to the cells.  In fact if red blood cells are placed in distilled water they will quickly swell and burst from the influx of water.  One of the biggest concerns of drinking distilled water is that the sudden influx of water in to the system due to the hypotonic state will disrupt the electrolyte balance.  The greater the intake of water at one time the greater the risk of a severe imbalance.

Leaching of minerals from the bone or loss of vitamins due to drinking distilled water may not be obvious or obvious at first either.

 

 

"You may have heard that distilled water "leaches" minerals from the body. That is partially true. The minerals that are leached(removed) by distilled water are the inorganic minerals that the body cannot use. The effect, therefore, is healthful.

 

Again not true and very easy to prove wrong.  As I have pointed out before in order for minerals to get in to the body they must first be dissolved in water.  As the water moves in to the body it carries the dissolved minerals with it.  This is true whether the minerals are bound to organic materials or not.  And just as easily as the water dissolves the minerals to carry them in to the body the same water can dissolve these minerals to carry them out of the body.  This is essential to the body as too much of any mineral can cause problems to the body.  Just imagine what would happen to the body if we retained all the "organic" calcium we ever ingested throughout our life.  Luckily water removes these excess "organic" minerals for us.

It is also false that we cannot utilize "inorganic" minerals.  And I have even seen some sites claim that the human body cannot even absorb inorganic minerals, which is also false.  Take for example mineral salts?  Are these people really claiming that sea salt, which has nearly the identical make up of our blood's liquid portion would not be absorbed and even if it did it would not be utilized by the body?  And why is it if our body is not reliant on inorganic minerals then why is it that the mineral component of our bones is primarily the inorganic mineral hydroxyapatite?  Going further with this according to their claim the distilled water only removes inorganic minerals from the body.  So if  their claim was true then this means that the distilled water would be removing the inorganic hydroxyapatite from the body,and thus we are back to my original claim that the distilled water leaches BENEFICIAL minerals from the body.

 

 

Distilled water will NOT leach (organic) minerals that have become part of the structure of the body cell system. Once a mineral has become part of the cell structure, it cannot be leached."

 

Already addressed and disproven above.  But to add proof to this claim being false consider this. Let's say someone has hypercalcemia from hyperparathyroidism.  According to the chelation hypothesis the minerals cannot enter the bone unchelated.  Of course this is false since the primary mineral of bone is inorganic hydroxyapatite.  But let's say for a second that their hypothesis is true. So the calcium released by the parathyroid hormone is excreted in the urine as a protective mechanism by the body, just as it rids itself of excess calcium from chelated sources.  If we isolate the calcium from the urine that is being excreted we find that it is not chelated.  The point being made is that the body does utilize non-chelated minerals, which is why we find non-chelated minerals in the body that were once chelated.

While on the topic of inorganic mineral salts though you may find this interesting:

 

http://www.biochemic-cell-salts.com/12-tissue-salts/dr-wilhelm-heinrich-schue...

 

Schuessler came to the conclusion that missing inorganic mineral salts will cause disruption to the living processes and therefore create illnesses. This results in  an inhibition of the cell metabolism.

 

 

The use of distilled water whilst fasting acts as a purifier of all foreign substances (including inorganic minerals that only clog your arteries and cause havoc within the body) and which greatly aids in the elimination of toxins

 

Hmmm..... food is a foreign substance as is all the nutrition we derive from it.  More proof that distilled water removes beneficial nutrients from the body.

And inorganic minerals do not clog the arteries.  More on that later.

 

 

and if it is THAT harmful to the body, then we would derive no benefit from fruit and its juices either, as this contains exclusively distilled water via Nature.

 

Nature does not really provide truly distilled water.  Distiled water is highly solvent and quickly sequesters carbon dioxide from the air forming carbonic acid.  It also picks up inorganic and organic substances from the air as the rain or snow falls.

This brings up the point if mineralized water is so toxic then how has mankind survived so long before water distillers were invented?  In fact some of the longest living and healthiest people in the world drink mineralized water coming from rivers and wells .

 

 

Nature isn't stupid: we cannot derive our minerals that have any benefit to the body such as Iron from eating metal railway sidings,

 

What does this have to do with Nature? This is an alloy containing iron.  But if you took the metal itself and ground it up fine then our stomach acid and water would make some of these metals available to the body, but this would include the toxic metals in the alloy.  So this example is pretty irrelevant.

 

 

or Calcium from eating plain chalk

 

Actually yes we can.  Although this is dependent on the stomach acid levels or acidity of foods taken with it.  Chalk is calcium carbonate, an ORGANIC MINERAL.  Oyster shell and dolomite, commonly used in supplements, are also made of the ORGANIC MINERAL calcium carbonate.  Studies have shown that this form of calcium is well absorbed by younger individuals due to their higher stomach acid content, or if taken with acidic foods such as tomatoes.  The poorly absorbed carbonate is converted in to more readily absorbed salts through the reaction of the organic mineral with the acid.

 

 

only the plant-derived minerals as part of its edible structure are fit for human consumption, and have any bioavailability and health-benefit to the body.

 

Complete garbage as has been shown above.

 

 

At birth you were about 75% water. If you make it past 95 and die of old age, you will be about 25% water. You will have transformed from a plum to a raisin in your 95 plus years. 

 

Again misleading.  Age does not necessarily lead to dehydration.  And at 25% water you would be looking at no joint lubrication, severe constipation, blood looking like sludge......  Two of my grandparents died at the age of 96.  Both drank well water their entire lives.  My grandfather has no signs of dehydration whatsoever.  And he was still very active including herding cattle and fixing fences until he lost his vision, one eye due to hemorrhage from taking aspirin and the other from a piece of bailing wire piercing the other eye.  After that he went in to deep depression and died shortly afterward.  His wife died 3 years later.  She was a little dehydrated, which is part of the reason she was incorrectly diagnosed with polycythemia vera.  But I think a lot of her problem was also from depression after her husband of 64 years passed away.  Their one daughter is about 94 years old and has also always drank well water.  And she shows no signs of dehydration either.  Where they come up with this 25% water garbage is beyond me.

 

 

It is true that the body needs minerals. It is not true that drinking water containing minerals is good for you — quite the contrary — it is lethal. 

 

Again this is COMPLETELY FALSE!!!!  See some examples above.  And how do they explain all the centurians in the world that never drank distilled water in their life?  I was in Iceland for 2 1/2 months backpacking.  While I was there I had to find some benzene to fuel my stove since they don't sell white gas over there.  So I went to a clinic and met a doctor there who I got the benzene from.  While I was there I struck up a conversation about the general health of Icelanders.  Turns out that despite their generally high consumption of sugar and alcohol there is very little heart disease or cancer there.  And guess what their water source is?  It is not distilled water, it is mineral rich glacial and river water.

 

 

The function of minerals in the body is to serve as co-enzymes for the enzymes which direct metabolism. Without its proper mineral, an enzyme cannot function correctly. Without the function of the enzymes systems of your body, your metabolism would come to a screeching halt, and you would die immediately.

 

Again this is misleading.  Minerals have other functions than activating enzymes.  And these are not the only enzyme activators.  Among other enzyme activators are vitamins.  And minerals can still act as enzyme activators REGARDLESS if they are organic or inorganic.  Although some inorganic minerals are poorly absorbed.  For example magnesium oxide/hydroxide.  A small portion of this inorganic mineral will absorb due to reaction with stomach acid turning it in to an absorbable salt. The rest will pass through the body.  Other inorganic minerals though such as sodium chloride are readily absorbed and even utilized by the body.

 

 

A mineral, to be useful to the body, must be in a form in which it can be taken up by its matching enzyme.

 

Nonsense.  And this is contradictory to their earlier statement that the mineral is an activator for the enzyme.  Now they are claiming that the enzyme is making the mineral useful.

 

 

There is only one way a mineral can be utilized by an enzyme: when it is delivered to its enzyme by an organic molecule. An organic molecule is made of a string of carbon atoms. When a mineral is in such an association with an organic molecule, it is said to be chelated. A chelated mineral can be transferred to an enzyme, so that mineral can then function as a co-enzyme. A non-chelated mineral cannot be transferred; therefore, it is worse than useless.

 

So how do they explain the use and benefits of inorganic mineral salts by the body?

 

 

A solution of minerals in a plain electrolytic solution, to be useful in the body, must first be chelated by the body.

 

Again not true.  Take for instance sodium chloride, an inorganic mineral.  One of its functions is in the production of stomach acid (hydrochloric acid, HCl), which is essential to our health.  There is no chelation involved in this process.  The sodium chloride is split in to sodium and chlorine.  Carbon dioxide enters the picture leading to the formation of HCl from the chlorine and sodium bicarbonate from the sodium.  No proteins are combined in the process to make a chelate of any kind.

 

 

The best source of straight water is distilled water. There was a time when nature provided pure, distilled drinking water in the form of rain water and melted snow, sleet, hail, etc.

 

As I pointed out earlier Nature does not provide us with truly distilled water.  The water being aggressive will find any substance it can to saturate with.  This includes carbon dioxide from the air forming carbonic acid, the same acid used to make carbonated water and sodas, and organic and inorganic particles floating in the air.  This includes dust made from inorganic minerals.  Even if you went to the top of the highest mountain a thousand years ago before all the industrial pollution to collect the snow up there it still would not consist of pure water.  Mankind has ALWAYS survived on mineralized water since this is what Nature really provides us with. 

 

 

There is no good third choice of water. Carbon-filtered water is highly touted, mainly by the people who sell carbon filtration equipment, but many minerals are left after filtration. Reverse osmosis is a better solution, but still leaves inorganic minerals present.

 

So why do you suppose that in order to get pure water from steam distillation for laboratory use that they have to TRIPLE DISTILL the water?

 

 

http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/aboutwater.html

To a chemist, the term "pure" has meaning only in the context of a particular application or process. The distilled or de-ionized water we use in the laboratory contains dissolved atmospheric gases and occasionally some silica, but their small amounts and relative inertness make these impurities insignificant for most purposes. When water of the highest obtainable purity is required for certain types of exacting measurements, it is commonly filtered, de-ionized, and triple-vacuum distilled.

 

 

The worst possible choice you can make is mineral water. 

 

Actually the worst waters you can drink are type 1 (ultrapure water), followed by distilled, deionized and reverse osmosis waters.  All of these are aggressive waters that remove beneficial vitamins and minerals from the body.  All of these waters should be saturated with minerals before drinking, just like the great water Nature has always provided us with.  Next on the do not drink list are highly alkaline waters that can also be corrosive like type 1 water and can interfere with nutrient absorption among other problems.

 

 

 Inorganic minerals are not only unavailable as co-enzymes; worse than that, they crystallize in the body, both inside and outside the circulatory system. When they crystallize outside the circulatory system, they cause such problems as arthritis. 

 

LOL!!!!  What a load of garbage!!!  There are over 120 forms of arthritis.  None of these have anything to do with drinking mineralized water.  And as far  as the bone spurs that form in arthritis, this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with mineral precipitation.  I am not going to go in to a big long explanation of their formation, but in short it has to do with piezoelectric deposition of the minerals due to stress on the bone at a certain point.

 

 

When they crystallize inside the circulatory system, they are deposited in the walls of your arteries and, over the years, contribute to the plaque formation of atherosclerosis.

 

More garbage.  The arterial plaque is a result of arterial inflammation.  The cholesterol comes in to heal the injured area.  If the source of damage is not removed then the cholesterol will continue to flood the area leading to the narrowing of the arteries.  The cholesterol can calcify, but this calcium can come from a number of sources including our bones.  And being that distilled water can leach minerals from the bones distilled water could also provide the calcium to calcify the cholesterol in arterial plaque.

These atherosclerotic plaques yield only to prolonged chelation therapy, and while it is true that they can be dealt with in this manner,

This is not true.  Arterial plaque can be cleared through a variety of methods.  Lecithin, silica, magnesium, ozone, peroxide, TMG.........

Prevention of atherosclerosis is accomplished through a diet high in fiber

Yes, fiber rich in the inorganic mineral compound orthosilicic acid.  This is the form of silica the body absorbs and utilizes.  It does not contain carbon, and it is not really chelated either.  But it does help strengthen tissues, including blood vessels, through the formation of collagen and elastin, and helps to reduce arterial inflammation.  Thank goodness for this beneficial inorganic mineral!!!

Mineral water, whether derived from bottles at a high price, or from a faucet for almost nothing, is dangerous to your health because, over the course of years, it will give you hardened arteries and arthritic joints.

Already disproven above.

For most people, at least for those who are leading busy lives, the best solution is to drink only steam distilled water. 

Only if you wish to destroy your health.

 

 

If you are one of these people who drinks mineral water — perhaps that fizzy, carbonated, entertaining stuff from Calistoga or France — please know that you are doing your body no favor at all through this practice and you are spending much more for your water than you need to. Most of all you are promoting the crystallization of minerals in the soft tissues of your body and, over time, you will pay dearly for this practice.

 

Yet not all carbonated waters contain minerals.  The purely carbonated drinks are just water with carbonic acid, the same as distilled water.  The distilled water pulls carbon dioxide from the air to form carbonic acid.  It is just not as saturated as the "fizzy" drinks since this level of carbonation requires pressure to force more carbon dioxide in to the water.

It should also be noted that minerals in a carbonated water can form organic carbonate minerals.  So their claim of organic minerals being good is now being contradicted by their claim that carbonated mineral drinks that form organic minerals is bad.  Can they make up their mind?

The purity of the water you drink is critically important to your health and vitality.

Again false.  If you really wanted pure water then there is type 1 water, which is ultrapure water.  But the water is highly corrosive due to its purity.  The more pure water is the more aggressive it is and the more nutrients it will rob from the body.

IN ADDITION......................
Distilled water, which contains no carbon dioxide, has a neutral pH of 7. 

Again VERY MISLEADING.  It is well known in science that distiled and other purified waters will readily absorb carbon dioxide and other gases from the air forming a variety of acids.  Unless you are making your distilled water in a vacuum distiller, which the average person is not going to have access to.  The primary acids formed are carbonic acid, nitric and other nitrogen based acids and sulfuric and other sulfur based acids.  They kind of admit to this later in the same paragraph.  Keep in mind that rain water is a form of distilled water:

 

 

“Clean” or unpolluted rain has a slightly acidic pH of about 5.2, because carbon dioxide and water in the air react together to form carbonic acid, a weak acid (pH 5.6 in distilled water), but unpolluted rain also contains other chemicals.

 

The water of fruits is absolutely pure, having been DISTILLED by heaven's own process, and then canned and sealed by a skin that is impervious to germs. 

The water in fruits is not pure.  It is saturated with the chemicals in the fruit such as the sugar produced by photosynthesis and the minerals dissolved by the water and taken up by the plant.  If the water in fruit was pure it would not have any flavor!

 

The juices of the watermelon, orange, lemon, and lime are among the best for drinking, and can be taken at any time, as they contain no nutriment excepting a little sugar; but the juice only should be taken, as the pulp, or cellulose, of fruit is indigestible.

The cellulose is used by the intestinal flora as a food source, and by the body as a bulk laxative. Fiber also slows the absorption of sugar so it does not spike our blood sugar so fast, helps in the formation of bile, the detoxification of estrogens, the binding of heavy metals........  If you are juicing and throwing away the pulp then you are getting rid of some of the most beneficial components of the fruit.

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