Could you drink distilled water with a mineral pill
Drinking pure H2O isn't good for you. As far as I know it could even be deadly. But what if you had a pill with all the minerals usually dissolved in water and washed it down with a nice big glass of distilled water? Would it be more or less the same as drinking tap water? Or would you need more time to dissolve the minerals? What if you threw the pill into the H2O and stirred?
Or am I missing something entirely? I think someone on Lemmy even explained to me the other day what is so bad about distilled water. But I'm stupid today and forgot.
Distilled water isn't bad for you - it's just lacking in a lot of nutrients you'd usually get from "normie" water. It's still better for you than soda or juices.
Do you have an aversion to tap water? Britas and Berkeys are options if you're concerned about taste or chemicals respectively.
The vast majority of the minerals that your body obtains are from food and drink. The danger of drinking distilled water (due to the lack of mineral content) is very overblown. And the osmotic pressure of tap water is essentially the same as distilled water.
there's no data that says drinking distilled water is bad for you. if half of a grain of salt would make that water no longer distilled, the leftover minerals in your mouth from the last thing you ate are going to make it no longer distilled
Distilled water isn't bad for you in moderation, but electrolytes and other solutes which are present in impure water are important in maintaining cellular homeostasis, so you'd want to drink standard water on the side. Dissolving electrolytes into distilled water just means that you'll have extra clean normal water. Fun fact, Coca Cola and other soft drinks use distilled water!
electrolytes and other solutes which are present in impure water are important in maintaining cellular homeostasis
But they're barely present. Adding up the common ones, calcium, sodium, magnesium doesn't even get you to 100mg per liter. Meanwhile, the body needs at least 1000mg of calcium, which is 30 liters worth.
As one might expect, water simply isn't a big source of nutrients. Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something, probably either bottled water, or mineral-powder to add to osmotic filters.
I have an elderly neighbour who is a little on the paranoid side and believed that fluoride in the water was going to poison him. He ended up buying a distiller, and he started to only drink distilled water. He became very sick and had go to to the hospital where he was diagnosed with hyponatremia. Essentially, if you drink too much distilled water it'll flush out the sodium and other minerals in your body causing cells to expand and burst due to the osmotic pressure. If someone is drinking distilled water it's important that they watch their electrolyte intake. Drinking too much water in general can lead to hyponatremia, but it can happen more easily with distilled water since it's as hypotonic as it gets.
Other than the water will taste like it's missing something, because it is, there doesn't seem to be any conclusive proof of harm. Calcium and magnesium seemed to be the 2 main things people in even industrialized nations may be short on in their diet that they could benefit from having in their water.
The one thing I did find of interest from the paper was this:
This processed water has no residual chlorine and stored or dispensed in PVC can/bottles provides no protection against probable microbial contamination due to handling which is taken care of in conventional system of water supply having free residual chlorine.
So when you dispense it after distillation, it is more prone to some forms of contamination that treated water.
I'm not sure the purpose of removing minerals to just add them back in. You would have to figure out the "blend" you prefer, and the supplement industry is not free from controversy, so being positive what you're reintroducing to the water is now a question. With tap water, you should be able to get a report of it's composition from your water company.
This is almost literally the process Coca-Cola uses for its Smartwater brand. People outside Coca-Cola have described the process of removing everything then adding it back as dumb though. I wonder why
Why do people drink distilled water? I get that there's some taste from the minerals, but I live in a place with hard water and it tastes fine. I've had fancy bottled water and that tastes the exact same if not worse, I drank distilled water and that basically tastes the same too.
My HS chemistry teacher was adamant that distilled water could pull filings out of your teeth. No idea if that's true or not, I doubt she is still alive to ask.
As I understand your neighbour wants to remove fluoride, can he get an under tap filter that only removes those types of chemicals? If not, why not simply buy mineral/spring water. Where I live it's the same price.
I use to make my own and add the minerals back. You’re essentially doing the same thing. It’s been awhile and this may be a rebrand but I think this is what I used https://a.co/d/hKbbL23
This is how all the top producers make their water really. Like Essentia and smartwater.
Been drinking distilled water all my life... I even have a countertop water distiller to ensure I always have it available. I prefer the taste of distilled water over RO water
I think that there’s a line which makes destillier water bad. Like when you’re drinking 1250 ml destillied water it’s definitely healthy, but 2500 ml, over a long time, will surely cause some side effects
Everything is poisonous at some level. Distilled water has absolutely no minerals in it so in a very high quantity it will potentially cause cell death through osmosis - it's also the case that if you exclusively drink it your body will constantly flush minerals you get from water in your pee while not replacing them. Do shit in moderation and enjoy the occasional glass of tap water.
I asked a distilled water seller once, they say you can basically drink it because it's made from tap water, but they get to sell it with a margin because they don't have to be food grade certified, so they have to put a warning on the bottle. there could be a lot of nasty things in the distill process.