That’s all the local store has left.

I can't think of any.
Do you drink anything else distilled?

No risk, just no flavor.

None, drink away.

Distilled draws minerals from your body.
It's best to drink it at the same time as good mineral supplements. Use whats available until you get a good quality purifier. It beats being dehydrated.

Take a multi vitamin
It has absolutely no salts or minerals...
So it may pull some trace things out of your body (some say) but if it sits in your bladder I think it would balance out...???
Probably urban myth...

Thanks for the replies!

Distilled water lacks the minerals in tap or bottled drinking water. It can cause diarrhea in some people if consumed in large quantities.

As Happy Camper stated, a vitamin/mineral supplement can help offset any negative effects of drinking distilled water.

Poor sailors, how do they do it?

All years at sea on a US Navy destroyer drinking distilled water. No wonder I'm the way I am.

Rainwater is distilled water.

No risk at all, unless you are not eating anything at all for days on end, but only consuming distilled water. Any minerals you find in water are inorganic, and of no use to your body anyway (You piss them all out, without making use of any of them). The minerals you need for health and life are the organic minerals you find in your food. Folk who say otherwise are know-nothings.

As a former sailor who actually operated a distilling unit, I'll tell you.

The water was distilled, then chemically treated with a cartridge that added a small amount of iron, barium, and calcium.

It was NOT mineral/chemical free once it reached the potable water distribution system..

Rain water contains small amounts of carbon, sulpher, and sodium chloride.

Yep, and plenty of people drink exclusively rainwater with zero ill effect.

It's not poison .
Its just that water is a solvent, especially when it contains no minerals.
If you are deficient, you will be giving up more from your food and blood stream and may become more deficient in the necessary nutrients.
Young people with dense bones and good health won't notice the effects as much as an old timer.
These days men are commonly osteoporotic from poor nutrition, sedentary lifestyle and processed foods/beverages. Short term use = little to no risk.
I wouldn't drink it long term.

Pop/soda is far worse.

If that was done, it was done based on ignorance. Distilled water doesn't draw organic minerals from your body. It does draw toxic inorganic minerals from your body, which is a good thing.

just buy beer

there's water in it somewhere

Add some lemon, and a pinch of salt, add some ice.

How could water possibly draw minerals out of your body? And then where would they go?

Other bottled waters taste horrible to me, and/or make my mouth VERY dry... which doesn't make much sense, but I have read that some bottled water has minerals added that supposedly act as a drying agent.... so they say.

I grew up drinking good well water. Hard water. SO good. But I don't have that anymore. I find distilled water to be the least offensive of all bottled water I have tried.

It was done because after the advent of steamships with distilling units, a small percentage of sailors with delicate G.I. tracts would get the screaming [bleep] from drinking nothing other than distilled water for months at a time.

Check your facts and get back to us,

Distilled is the purest of water,

You're trying to tell me that water that falls from the sky has no impurities?

Tap water has all kinds of toxins dumped into it and people survive...... until they don't. Could they live longer, healthier lives with better water?

At 40, I felt like I was over 80, whatever that's like.
I eventually got off the city water for drinking and used bottled.....distilled.

Then I drank spring bottled water.

I noticed a remarkable difference between each kind.

The best water for my limited personal experiment was purifying water that contained some minerals from a shallow well . It was rain water/ "distilled" plus the soil minerals. No chlorine, fluoride, or chinese chemicals (100+) were added as were to tap.

That was THE best single source of improvement in my health. My purifier was not a worthless otc Britta either . It was a Royal Berkey. Thousands of gallons later and using good water from the shallow well.

I have/ had friends who have chosen differently.
Some drink pop..... diabetic.
Others drank a little alcohol quite often.....enlarged organs. I said enough, but those are my.personal observations for what worth they are to anyone.

Here's an article about containers too.
That has been a concern to many.

https://draxe.com/nutrition/bottled-water-risks/

Indeed. Short term if possible.

Old wives tales.

I'm telling you it is distilled. I said nothign about impurities.

Anything distilled may contain impurities depending on what happens to it after it is distilled.

Agree, a very little salt in there is beneficial.

Its not good for making rhubarb wine.
Charlie

Pour back, and forth, get some air in it?

That's what my diabetic friends think too.
I get asked for prayer for God to reverse years of consequences, but denial so much that I won't preach to them.
I just share what I know and they can take it or leave it.
It's their bodies and choices.

As to chiinstructors use of distilled. No big warnings or concerns from me. I can back up everything I said.

So now sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, and magnesium carbonate are "Organic"?

Come on Hawk! You are brighter than this. An ion is an ion.

Distilled water does not leach minerals from the human body.

Like I stated,this is is an old wives tale.

I think most here are mistaking deionized water for distilled water. Distilled water is OK to drink, deionized isn't because it becomes acidic after exposure to air.

Same with RO (reverse osmosis) water. RO water needs to have critical minerals placed back into the water to make long term usage safe! memtb

Hogwash.

https://nutriteam.com/pages/does-distilled-water-leach-minerals-from-my-body

https://www.aquariusthewaterbearer.com/does-distilled-water-leach-minerals-from-our-bodies/

https://thewaterdistiller.com/does-distilled-water-leach-minerals/

https://necsalgroup.com/will-drinking-distilled-water-leach-the-minerals-out-of-my-body/

https://www.hammernutrition.com/kno...tilled-water-enhances-mineral-absorption

http://www.bestcuppingtreatment.com...water_leach_minerals_from_human_body.htm

Um, no.

The amount of minerals in drinking water is pretty minimal. The amount of nutrition found in one healthy meal would probably dwarf what's in a full day's supply of drinking water.

Um, yes. I know people who get ALL their water from a catchment system and they are healthy.

There's information on both sides of the debate.

I used distilled for a long time and feel noticably better with good mineral water. This is subjective to me. Others do what they want and tell me I don't know squat and I will say do what you want.
I check my bone density with a very scientific bone density test thats going to make the medical staff roll their eyes. I look at my teeth in a mirror with good light behind them. If they are looking translucent/ clear then I know that there's a need to work on my diet AND supplements. Absorption may be an issue as well.

I also use supplements that restore the lost tooth enamel, which most dental schools apparently still teach is bogus. They seem to teach that teeth are like dead wood furniture rather than living dynamic bones that change over time. But I digress.

Knew an old guy that would only drink water from a special spring on his property. Claimed fairies lived in the spring and made magical or some schit.
He traveled with it. Wouldn't touch tap or bottled.

He died at about 60yo from years of drinking cheap beer and cheap whiskey.

Apparently the Old Crow was too much for the fairies to contend with.

I believe he's referring to the fact that rain water starts as ground water, goes through an evaporative process and then precipitates from air from condensation, a process similar to distillation.

A friend of mine drinks quite a bit of distilled water. He claims it makes his joints and himself overall feel a little better. Of course his well water has a pretty high mineral content.

I think it may help flush a few toxins and other crap from the body that builds up over time, but I wouldn't want to drink it all the time. Even a water softener replaces one mineral ion with another.......either sodium or potassium.

I've not done any studies with lab rats, but think this would be an interesting one. My simple theoretical experiment that anyone can do isn't 100% following the scientific methodology. But shows the difference between distilled/ RO and hard water. They can wash clothes using one then the other and see the difference. Water binds to most particles. It's not proof of what happens in the body, but people who are interested can infer their own conclusions.

One thing that is important to all of us is to supplement the poor low quality food that most of us buy. Most soil is very poor quality and given NPK. We require more than NPK to survive and thrive.
Tomorrow morning I will add methylsulfonylmethane to a glass of water. There's many noticable benefits that I would not get from the demineralized water sources.

Heavens sake you are arguing about potable water, come on spring cabin fever has reached a new level

Some ‘distilled’ water is only deionized.


Healthy, natural water has a bond angle of 104.5 degrees.

I think when get to jacking around with ultra distillation, i vaguely recall the bond angle widening. Was some back and forth on that altered water not being good for cells in your body and blood cells.


Been 15 years since Gen Chem and the young phD talking about this. May be junk science. Was a hallway conversation anyway.


Happy Camper, you got anything on this? Help me out.



I get my water out a slab of limestone and we pump it through a reverse osmosis. None of this debate makes a poot to me. The goodyear blimp could crash into the WTP over in town, wouldnt be no sweat offa muh sack

It's water that has evaporated, and condensed. As was said, that's how little raindrops are formed.

I wouldn’t think so after it’s cleaned the atmosphere on the way to the cistern.

Yea but your are dumber than [bleep]

Smart enough to see through to your stupidity.

Which really ain’t much of a challenge.

Slumlord,

Once that bond angle gets beyond 110° it's like drinking draino. I would not use it in a car battery after that!
😉. 😄
Seriously, I took a lot if chemistry, but it's been a while.


Limestone? Cool.
Is it an artesian well?

I may be wrong

But evaporation, sublimation, condensation is not distillation


Distillation necessitates heating water to Kelvin: 373.2 K
Celsius: 100ºC
Fahrenheit: 212ºF

That doesn’t occur in the normal rain cycle.



You can get those temps in nature but it would volcanic or other extreme heat. But then, that’s just a boiling off. Capturing it and recondensing it would be distillation. Hence, a “still” with manipulation and control.

Depending on where one lives, there could be all sorts of nastiness in it, from China even.

Which came first though?

The groundwater?

or the rainwater?

Chicken and egg stuff going on here.

The best tasting water I ever drank was from a cave in a WV mountain. It was so full of minerals that you had an after "taste" that lasted for minutes.

I don't think the OP has anything to worry about.
It's just that some like to debate about whatever floats their boat.

Later!

The big bang came first. And of course, after that The Big Guy had to take a leak.

"And then the rains came."

Maybe the Big Bang was the Big Guy fartin' before making water?

When water goes from the liquid phase to the vapor phase, minerals in solution are left behind and that happens whether it's just evaporation at ambient temperatures or by boiling. And that water vapor can precipitate back to the liquid phase in a condenser or in the atmosphere. The processes are different but removal of minerals happens with both.

Maybe but fartin' doesn't make me want to take a leak like that other kind of bangin' does.

One thing hasn't changed since I signed up here.


Campfire chemistry, biology, medicine, and physics is at least as good as on the other side of the campus at the Campfire Philosophy school.

Head to the Mountains of Busch........Beer.

The best water I can recall drinking came from a spring south of Chinook MT 😎

I think a person could live off of beer only, for many years.

I looked it up, whiskey contains phosphorus, zinc and iron. As an added bonus it also has thiamine (B1) and niacin (B3) and makes you feel warmer..

We know that ice can be found right nearby.

How has no-one mentioned this yet?

I agree!

This, but no problem short term.

Distilled water is okay. KYHillChick has been running a distiller since her cancer surgery in 2018. She was put on distilled water by her nutritionist.

Yes, I'd always heard distilled water is bad, that it sucks minerals out of your body. However, if you're doing it short term there is no problem. KYHillChick takes a bunch of supplements every day, partly to put back what the distilled water might take out.

Rainwater is a whole 'nuther matter. It too is safe, but it's got stuff in it. One thing I know of for sure is oxygen. My water system at the farm runs off rainwater. I had to replace the pump after 3 years, because the water ate the steel impeller. I put in a pump with a plastic impeller, and it's been good for over 15 years. Rainwater also absorbs all the air pollutants. Where I am out in the sticks, it's fine. However, I would not want to drink rain from just downwind of Cincinnati.

Agreed. Distillation is a process, nothing more. Purity of the cuts is solely dependent upon the efficiency of the apparatus, the raw materials, and other factors.

But it IS distillation none the less

My family has eaten a whole lot of fish that we have caught. We all have become smarter as we age.

That's science. Ha!

Beer was mentioned.

I like beer.

Beer and water are my top choices to keep hydrated and at times slightly inebriated.

Distilled water would be my last choice if I had to choose because I don't like the taste or lack of taste.

When I worked in a power plant we had a high purity water system for certain things used in the production facilities we supported. Courtesy of a Reverse Osmosis system and that's what we were always told about drinking that. Because it's nothing more than straight pure water with nothing else and your body isn't accustomed to that. Like when you go to a different part of the world and they say "Don't drink the water !".

How much vitamins does 8 oz. of distilled water take away from your body?


Waiting ....

So is acid rain better straight up or on the rocks?

Easy to tell who slept through 8th grade science class.

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Showoff! Went to 8th grade!

Exactly.

I think that was actually done in history in certain regions.

You want show off?

Ha! I was in 8th grade for 3 years!

It must be the mercury in the fish.

Jethro only made it through the sixth grade.

Jethro made it TO 6th grade. Whether he made it THROUGH 6th grade is open to contention...

Seriously, it seems I recall that Midway atoll was dependent on desalinized seawater.
As has been stated, sailors must have gotten along drinking it.

Regular water also contains a certain level of allowable levels of contaminants....and it is not rare to find pharmaceuticals from people flushing medications into the water system...distilled water should have none. We receive most of our minerals from the food we eat...which in itself may contain pesticides and agricultural contaminants.....distilled isn't going to hurt you.

Yes, Slummy, you are incorrect.

Distillation occurs when a compound or element enters the gaseous state and is then reconverted to a liquid state and collected.

(Gold can be collected via Mercury distillation)

And no, heated distillation does not guarantee a pure product. Even though ethanol has a higher vapor pressure than water. When boiling the mash, you still get 5% water in the distillate, as well as many other contaminants including traces of methanol.

Vapor pressure of water is high enough that it will enter the gaseous state at temperatures below freezing.

When condensation forms on the outside of your iced tea glass, or in our case the outside coils of our heat pump at 20 degrees F this morning, that is distilled water.

Even the boiling point can be manipulated significantly by changing atmospheric pressure.

When condensing syrups or juices, they are heated in a closed chamber until the top of the chamber is filled with steam. Cooling coils at the top condense the steam back to water, which lowers atmospheric pressure inside the vessel, and thus depresses the boiling point.⁰

Products are condensed in this manner to prevent scorching of the product and to make the process more energy efficient.

I spent many years working in a lab with both distilled and deionized water on tap. We often filled a cup with de-I water for consumption. It is harmless.

Distilled/deionized water is acidic. Very. Very weakly acidic, because water naturally has a low pH. Distilled/deionized water has no buffering ability. The slightest contaminant will cause massive pH swings. Even the absorption of Cabon Dioxide will depress pH further as Carbonic Acid is formed.

But there are lots of buffering agents present in the human body.

I use RO water in my aquarium. I have to keep a few limestone rocks in the aquarium to prevent pH swings into the acid range which can be lethal to aquarium livestock. Calcium Carbonate is a strong buffer.

It makes sense slummy.
With distilled there is nothing to interfere in the "matrix" of water molecules...
No stray attractions/repelling forces...
But for some reason 110-degrees is floating around in my head...

No argument intended, just thought experiment.

How does the zinc, iron, phosphorous, thiamine, and niacin make it out of the boiling pot and into the condensate to be included in the whiskey?

No risk, whatsoever. Any minerals, or salts that were removed will be easily replaced by your diet.

Yes, pure water is commonly known as "hungry water". It is low pH, acidic. Just a trace of buffering compound such as any carbonate will change that characteristic drastically.

Purified water does not "strip" the body of essential elements. It just does not add any.

Hard water will precipitate elements onto an ice cube tray. If you drink that water, you are consuming those elements.

Much of the water bottled in the US for consumption is RO water. It is remineralized before sale, not specifically for nutritional purposes, but for palatability.

Shaman, that sounds like electrolysis from a current leak.(bad dock wiring in marinas)
Do a search for "stray current corrosion of boat propellers."
Stx may know about it. It eats sacrificial zines like nobody's business then gos on to propellers, shafts and rudders.

Thank you.

And it showed.

As I recall, it was done because water freezes, while beer doesn't. So beer is available for drinking while water is not.

The only downside I can see is that you won't have anything to mix
with your Prestone, top off your batts, or fill wifey's iron.

yes, you can, beer and beef.

In the days of sails, a lot of sailors got by drinking rain water. Granted, it would have been far less polluted way out there in the ocean.