Comments on: Health effects of Reverse Osmosis Water

By: raj

raj — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:58:22 +0000

hu i think you r right bcause iam doing research on this RO purified water .and i found that this water is injurious for health if we r taking it for a long time . beacuse this water work as adsorbent whcih will catch minerals of your body make you exposed for diseases . so in my personal view RO water is safe for drinking water although it remove impurities but also remove minerals that is important for health .

By: Mark Shapiro

Mark Shapiro — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:47:11 +0000

Yep, I know both sides are true. Pure water is good, and pure water
will not sustain life. But in reality, my tummy always has other stuff in it
so pure water SEEMs safe to me unless injected. I tried for a month to find
proof one way or the other, the only proof I can find is bad stuff in water is bad.
No proof good water is good or bad with solid science can be found by me.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:02:11 +0000

I have Mark’s same concern and agree with your response RO water could potential be harmful with chronic intake. Do you know of any substantiated long term research that has been done to more or less prove that RO water is harmful? After all, the leaching effect of pure water may be negligible with a regular diet, vitamins, etc. Who knows?

By: Truth of Water Admin

Truth of Water Admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:13:52 +0000

Hi Mark

What you would need to do is make up a saturated salt solution, and have a metering pump inject it into your drinking water at the required amount.

A company called LMI has a saturator/metering pump assembly that could do just that. It was meant for potassium permanganate crystals but it would work equally well with salt.

You’d need some sort of flow switch to activate the metering pump and some patience playing with the settings of the pump.

It would probably cost you about $1500 for the equipment alone, so I would do it only if you had money to burn.

In any case, I’d be interested to know how the “celtic sea salt” works out for you.

By: Mark Shapiro

Mark Shapiro — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:35:58 +0000

I am ordering some “celtic sea salt” to add to my RO/DI water. It’s a neat
concept to remove everything from your water, then add what you want to add -
calcium, magnesium, etc. That sounds good to me. Too bad it’s impossible
to have an inline salt crystal in a home system – problem is, water will
sit on the salt for less than 1 second sometimes, and 12 hours other times,
adding too much, or too little salt.

By: WaterTestingBlog.Com

WaterTestingBlog.Com — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:35:12 +0000

While I have no real information to contribute towards the discussion of whether or not DI/RO water will cause harm to the human body, I can say that somewhere in the past I read about home water systems that first remove all ‘impurities’ in drinking water via Reverse Osmosis and then have a special attachment that puts back specific ions that the manufacturers claimed the human body actually needed.

I apologize for not have anything more psecific about these devices, but I read that article several years ago and unfortunately did not save any links to the devices it referenced. A search on Google or another prominent Search Engine will probably turn up some information, though.

By: Truth of Water Admin

Truth of Water Admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01:11 +0000

Thank you for the Comment Mark.

The concept of Ion Balancing is a valid one and based on good science. I do not sell anything and I give information for free. I’m sorry that you do not agree but the fact remains ultra pure water has the potential to have some chronic long term affects because of this.

Best of luck in your future endeavors,

Mike

By: Mark Shapiro

Mark Shapiro — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:11:10 +0000

Thank you so much, your answer duplicates most answers on the web from people selling alternative water filters or water “conditioners”. The idea that pure
water is a poison and can leach things out of your bones is not based on science.
As an example, I grow sprouts – alfalfa, lentils, peas, beans – and on pure water
with 0 TDS, they grow twice as fast as on tap water. In sprout growing there is no dirt, just water and light on seeds. My cat only drinks 0 TdS water and he’s 11 now, so I don’t know how dangerous pure water is except in a lab where osmosis counts.