Given what these health-oriented MDs have concluded about distilled water, doesn't it make sense to further research the topic rather than relying on opinions formed more than 50 years ago?

And concluding with:

If you prefer to ignore what these health-oriented medical doctors have discovered in their active practices, then let's take a look at the brutally deceptive "organic and inorganic mineral" argument that so many natural health writers use to justify distilled water drinking.

The above is underlined becaue it constitutes a two-fold question that arose in my mind while reading this article. Now I will go over the above highlighted questions that arose in my mind while reading this article.

The author makes the assertion that they conducted over 3000  evaluations and concluded that mineral deficiencies exist in people who drink distilled water. The question that arose in my mind here is, why did the author not corroborate their assertion with whatever hard facts their evaluations turned up? Surely such a relatively large-scale series of evaluations produced some hard, clinical evidence. I have to tell you, passing mention of "blood tests....urine tests....hair samples....." are certainly approaching the neighborhood of hard facts, but, unfortunately, stop short of revealign hard facts. To repeat, assertions are not hard fact. They may be based on hard facts, but by themselves are merely assertions. Where are the hard facts? Mentioning over 3000 evaluations does not constitute hard facts, it merely hints that there may be some hard facts as a result. Where are they? Some people conjecture that distilled water is bad because it contains no minerals. People in this camp both wittingly and unwittingly subscribe to the theory that the human body can assimilate inorganic minerals, ergo, one must drink rock-laden water to remain heatlhy. Some people conjecture that consumption of distilled water in turn leaches from the body stores of organic minerals. If this is true, this could well lead to a person being mineral deficient. Theoretically, it is possible that both these factors might impact those who consume distilled water. It seems likely that somebody who might have some hard facts to lend credance to these theories might be, for instance, somebody who conducted over 3000 evalutations....like, the author of this article. To repeat, why did the author of this article hold on on disclosing whatever clinical evidence their evaluations turned up? 

Given what these health-oriented MDs have concluded about distilled ....

This seems to be a repeating theme here. It's very nice some health-oritented MDs reached some conclusions but it would have been much more very nicer had these MDs backed up their assertions rather than stating naked conclusions.

And now the two-fold finale. For starters, the author made it pretty easy to ignore what these health-oriented doctors discovered, namely by mostly glossing over the details of what they claim to have discovered. Again....this is a repeating theme in this article - lots of assertions made with seemingly little in the way of hard, clinical facts to back up the assertions. What's worse is that the author appears to be seguing into the effort of taking a look at the brutally deceptive "organic V inorganic mineral argument". The problem is, all they did was give lip service to taking a look at this argument, followed promptly by not providing any info relevant to having taken a lok at this supposedly brutal deception. What's up with that? If the author and any of their attendant health-oriented MDs had any facts to bear in the matter as it pertains to conclusivly proving that inorganic minerals are actually assimilable by the human body, this article would have been a perfect place for them to have mentioned the details of such. All the while, no such details, no such clinical evidence was revealed.   Until such time, common sense is still in play. Common sense says that one does not need fancy health-oriented doctors and all their exhaustive data-less tests, studies and evaluations in order to know that inorganic minerals, otherwise known as dissolved rock - even when it is inorganic rock that may have been dissolved down to very fine, sand-like, silty particles, do not provide direct, beneficial sources of assimilable  nutrition for the human body... at least they don't until the time that the human body evolves to the point of developing the capacity to perform the mircale of photo-synthesis the way plant life does; herbs, fruits, vegetable, nuts, seeds.