Hi Jajmz,
the mung beans failed to grow in distilled water (pure H20) because the water was deprived of oxygen. Mung beans do not breathe thru lungs as we do.
Supply the body with distilled water, and keep on breathing.......you have the very best option available.

Regards

Chrisb1.

squeaky gremlins awesome.. I don't have the problem some have with mineral water jaymz, it may have 'inorganic' minerals in it, but it's the same water we've been drinking since we crawled up out of the mud so I'm assuming our bodies can handle it. However, the same thing goes with distilled water, that's the stuff that fell out of the sky and made the mud in the first place and plenty of natural water comes pure without minerals in it so surely we can handle that as well? The idea of blaming pure water for our problems when I can almost guarantee none of the people making those claims can also claim they consume nothing else that conceivably COULD be the cause of their problems instead.

Stop eating your refined sugars animal products diet drinks chocolates etc etc etc then tell me pure water is the cause of all your woes. :)

Andrew.

i think bling was maybe talking about me and my hair loss! no, i wasn't drinking distilled water during my fasts - but i was drinking absolutely pure water (no sodium, no chloride, no fluoride).

i drink 'pureau' water in australia which is 100 times more pure than world health organisation and australian national food authority standards.

http://www.pureau.com.au

click on 'water & you' and there is a really interesting article on tap water (written by a naturopath i used to see)

i use this water for absolutely everything - even to clean my teeth and my teeth have been much whiter and i don't ever get that yukky furry feeling anymore.

with regards to hair shedding, it is a self-correcting condition called 'telogen effluvium' and the primary causes of this are:

* Illness, especially if there is fever
* Surgical operation
* Accident
* Childbirth
* Nervous shock
* Weight loss or unusual diet (i guess this includes fasting!!)
* Certain medications
* Discontinuing the contraceptive pill
* Overseas travel resulting in jetlag
* Excessive sun exposure

i'll repost the link to more info on this condition:

http://dermnetnz.org/hair-nails-sweat/telogen-effluvium.html


hair shedding usually occurs about 30 days from the onset of one of the above causal factors, but you can more accurately determine the onset from looking at the beau's ridges on your nails.

i had to see my g.p. the other day and she told me that the main cause of telogen effluvium is stress.

i am now on day 24 or so of refeeding, following my 36 day fast-to-completion. i have just started to notice some slight hair shedding again now (*grrrr* it was just starting to grow back!!) which is exactly the same timeframe as i experienced before on my 26 and 14 day fasts.

from my experiences, pure water is far superior to tap water. and although i'm not entirely convinced about distilled water, the hair shedding is completely unrelated to its usage.

- lulu

Yes i read Braggs book. And i knew he died while surfing in his nineties, what a way to go though. I'm sure he didn't see it that way, he was probably hoping to live into his hundreds.

Is it like hard water clogging up your washing machine with limescale?

I'd be very careful of believing every claim that something has been 'proven'. What we are doing here hasn't been proven by medical standards and much of what our bodies actually do has been 'proven' to be impossible too.

The evidence that the minerals in water can't be absorbed is compelling. However I've also seen evidence to the contrary and as I've said earlier the evidence of billions of years of animals living on mineral water AND rainwater both really speaks for itself. So long as I can keep the chlorine and fluoride and any other civilised pollutants you can think of I'll be happy. Just like our food it's what we do to it or add to it that's the problem- the food AND the water as it comes from the ground is how we should be consuming it.

Andrew.