• zout@fedia.io
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    8 days ago

    Nope, distilled water has nothing, no minerals or anything else, including ions. Deionized water is also not the best for consumption.

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      8 days ago

      But distilled is perfectly safe to drink… it just tastes weird from the lack of minerals and other stuff.

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        For once, yes. But exclusively? It’ll extract minerals from your body, causing health issues.

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              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.

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              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.

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                Source for the salty foods? Salt in food is normally sodium chloride, not the calcium or magnesium which you need to replenish.

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                  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.

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            Can’t find it right now, lots of articles online about electrolyte imbalance causing issues, but none linked to an actual source.

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              Yeah there’s a reason for that… distilled doesn’t strip, so there won’t be any source that corroborates that statement.

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          I’ve been exclusively drinking distilled water for half a decade.

          It’s fine. Turns out food is also full of minerals and shit.