Re: Don't Drink Distilled Water

Well, as far as I am aware, distilled water is not common on the surface of the planet in a natural form, because in most rivers and ground sources, minerals get added naturally. Just as we breathe air consisting of nitrogen and oxygen to get oxygen, we drink water to get the H2O and get a few minerals added by planet earth in the process.

So our bodies would have gotten used to drinking groundwater with minerals for tens of thousands of years, from wells and rivers, just as we got used to breathing air. Therefore, to me, water with minerals seems more natural than water without minerals.

Yes, I know rainwater is distilled, but probably when people fasted they lived near a water source and drank from that, and yes I have tasted distilled water water and did not like the taste, so if I was a cave man and knew nothing about the science, I would probably have drunk the river water anyway, rather than gone to elaborate measures to capture rain water. In fact, without a plastic bucket, a cave man would probably have had to use a stone with a hollow anyway, so this would probably add minerals.

So to me, water with minerals is just like breathing air with nitrogen, and having read stories of hair falling out from more than one source, then I feel safer drinking it, particularly as the reason for my Water Fasting is weight loss rather than detox.

Perhaps if I wanted to detox I may experiment with distilled water, but if I did I would certainly be monitoring any adverse symptoms, and would probably break my fast completely if I experienced hair loss and restart the fast on tap / ground source water after a refeeding period.

As someone here has already pointed out, it could also be impurities in distilled water from plastic bottles as well.

What's really needed is a few scientific experiments to monitor this, but with fasting so rare I am not sure this is likely to happen. And if big pharma or food companies get involved in the tests, they are likely to tell us we will all look like Jean Luc Picard after a few glasses of rainwater, unless we drink Acme organic rain water from Peru with added natural volcanic minerals, costing twice as much as normal bottled water.

Mind you, I do recall drinking from a stream when I was a kid, and finding a dead sheep in it further up the mountain! Still here to tell the story though! Tweet