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For once, yes. But exclusively? It'll extract minerals from your body, causing health issues.
I've been exclusively drinking distilled water for half a decade.
It's fine. Turns out food is also full of minerals and shit.
Especially shit.
Source?
Osmosis
Pretty sure that’s not how it works. Water is mixed with a soup of stuff the moment it goes in your body, and our digestive system/diet is not as simple as osmotic pressure pushing water into cells (and somehow pushing other substances out?) if that’s what you’re getting at.
It doesn’t strip minerals, it just doesn’t replace them, eat enough salty foods and it’s a non issue. Distilled isn’t stripping stuff, it just doesn’t replenish it.
So your source is what…? Some smart ass comment that you don’t even comprehend yourself? Provide an actual source if you think that’s what is the issue.
Source for the salty foods? Salt in food is normally sodium chloride, not the calcium or magnesium which you need to replenish.
You don’t drink milk or take a multivitamin, veggies, fruits? There’s lots of sources, it doesn’t strip, so you don’t need to eat extra.
You're right, drinking distilled water is perfectly fine, just take a multivitamin to compensate for the lack of minerals.
You don’t NEED a multivitamin, most doctors recommend it because people’s diets are shit.
Distilled water isn’t a factor here dude. Jesus. If you aren’t getting enough minerals from your food, regular water isn’t gonna make a difference either.
Why are you STILL arguing this silly opinion? You’ve provided nothing to support that water will deplete your bodies minerals, let along distilled being a factor in it.
Yeah I'm done here. And hurt, I even said you're right!
Can't find it right now, lots of articles online about electrolyte imbalance causing issues, but none linked to an actual source.
Yeah there’s a reason for that… distilled doesn’t strip, so there won’t be any source that corroborates that statement.
It does, for the simple reason that urine (as well as sweat) necessarily contains electrolytes, so you lose those.
The misconception lies in thinking that tap or mineral water somehow don't do this. They contain some electrolytes, but not really a significant amount, as you primarily get them from food.
… you realize that no matter WHAT you drink you sweat and pee regardless? The issue people are saying is that distilled water makes it worse. That’s just wrong.
Yes that's what I said. But one of the likely reasons the myth stays around is that all of the following is true:
What the myth ignores is that:
But saying it doesn't strip you of anything isn't entirely true, and I'm not a fan of misinfo even if it's more of a nitpick. More than that I don't think it's going to help when from my first 4 bullet points you could easily come to the incorrect conclusion that drinking distilled water will quickly lead to hyponatremia.
It's probably also where the osmosis thing further up comes from, since that's involved in causing the neurological symptoms, it's just unrelated to what fluid you consume, since it happens with your blood, not the fluid itself.
You don't fight misconceptions with half-truths.
Edit: when i say fluid i mean something water based ofc, if you drink something else for some reason you'll probably have all sorts of different issues anyway.
That is a lot of words to say distilled water doesn’t affect your body in any significant way.
It also doesn’t strip you of minerals, that’s not how the body works, please provide a source lmfao. Distilled water doesn’t pull minerals out of your body, that’s just plain false. Argue whatever adjacent point you want, but this is just plain fucking false. You’re using incorrect information that’s been debunked. God fucking lmfao.
Yes exactly glad you get it. Some people want to actually understand why something isn't true instead of believing the first source that says so.
And what a shocker, no sources.
…. You still don’t get it do you.
Provide a source that says distilled water strips you body of minerals, that’s outdated and incorrect information that’s been debunked. The body doesn’t work that way.
So please provide a source, I need another laugh this morning. You’re the fifth person now who’s arguing and won’t be able to provide a source.