Mr. Barraza from California writes:

Is distilled water safe to drink?

The answer is yes and no.

Distilled water is very similar to reverse osmosis water.  Both techniques leave nothing but pure H2O behind, for the most part.  What happens then is because the dissolved minerals are gone, the dissolved CO2 is allowed to combine with some H2O to form carbonic acid, bringing the pH of the water down to about 6.

The other thing is that water is an excellent solvent.  It will dissolve trace amounts of just about anything given the opportunity, like a sponge.  Think of your tap water like a sponge full of minerals that cannot take any more.  Distilled water is like a dry sponge looking for minerals.

When the distilled water enters your body, the water in your body with a mix of dissolved minerals will pass some over to the distilled water to balance the ratio.  It works very much like air temperature, where warm air will pass its energy onto colder air until an equilibrium is reached.

Eventually, drinking too much of this water over a long period of time can deplete your body of much needed minerals and electrolytes.

While drinking the occasional glass of distilled water won’t harm you, but it may be a chronic problem if drank repeatedly over a long period of time, especially to women who are at risk for or suffer from osteoporosis.

The best recommendation to follow if you drink large quantities of distilled water (for example, if you live in the midwest or western Canada and have a high level of uranium in your water you want to remove), is ensure you take a daily multivitamin and follow a healthy diet. Doing both those things will help replenish any minerals that may be lost by distilled water, and in fact, having an abundance of nutrients may negate any ill effects of distilled water.

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