If you accept that our water is laced with nasty things, should we be drinking distilled water?

We’ve written quite a bit about some of the contaminants found in water. Lead, chlorine, flouride, industrial chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, drugs and much more.

According to the Ralph Nader Institute there are anywhere up to 2100 toxic chemicals in our drinking water, so I’m sure you can see the need to filter your drinking water, or even using a whole house water filter so that you can wash in filtered water, and even wash your clothes in filtered water. Unclean water even affects your clothes.

But we digress. Back to distilled water.

Surely distilled water has to be the cleanest drinking water?

Distilled water is water that is produced by boiling water, usually contaminated water, collecting the steam and reconstituting it into water by cooling. If you hold a plate over the top of the kettle when it’s boiling you’re collecting distilled water.

Water distillation removes contaminants from water, no doubt. But it has a problem, and for this reason drinking distilled water is not recommended at all, except perhaps in small quantities.

You see distilling water results in all the minerals being removed. Now whilst we want our water filtered distilling our water is not the best water filtration method. The minerals it removes are beneficial to our bodies, and so aren’t getting them drinking distilled water.

And not only that, water that is distilled can attract minerals to replace those lost, and so can leach important salts and other minerals from our body. This can be quite dangerous.

Yes certainly you need the best water filter money can buy, preferably as a whole house filter so that all your water is filtered, but drinking distilled water is not the answer.

There is some suggestion that because distilled water sucks up other substances so well it can be useful as part of a toxin elimination diet. This may be so but is outside the area of this website. Read the rest of this entry

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