Water Purifier Review :: Drinking Distilled Water  

Drinking Distilled Water

Drinking distilled water can be both advantageous as well as disadvantageous to health.  Advantageous for short term as it cleanse body and drives out toxins.

Distilled water is free of dissolved minerals as it is boiled, evaporated and condensed, because of this, it has the special property of being able to actively absorb toxic substances from the body and eliminate them.

Studies validate the benefits of drinking distilled water when one is seeking to cleanse or detoxify the system for short periods of time. 

It is true that Distillation removes minerals but mostly all of the beneficial minerals you receive are not from water. They come from food consumption. Fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, grains, nuts, and dairy products are where the body gets its beneficial minerals from.

Airola, P (1970) wrote about dangers of distilled water.  Drinking distilled water can be disadvantageous because of the following:

More the amount of distilled water in the body more the body becomes acidic as it absorbs carbon dioxide. 

Intake of distilled water in the long run causes rapid loss of electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and trace minerals like magnesium, deficiencies of which can cause heart beat irregularities and high blood pressure.

Cooking foods in distilled water pulls the minerals out of them and lowers their nutrient value.

 Distilled water is an important constituent of a soft bicarbonate drink and heavy soft drinkers face problems like osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and a long list of degenerative diseases generally associated with premature aging.

A fact that can not be disputed is that water distillation removes the broadest range of contaminants over any other form of point of use water treatment system.  Another fact is that water distillation is the most effective method for the removal of organic, inorganic and biological bacteria, viruses’ contaminants.

Therefore, you need to do your own research and decide for yourself whether drinking distilled water is right for you. There are experts on both sides of the fence on this, and ultimately you will have to make that choice after reviewing both sides.