Hey, psa, friends: If you don’t need distilled water, please don’t buy it. It does not taste good and people need it for medical purposes.
Actually distilled water is perfectly fine to drink, exclusively even. There's no *reason* to do it, but it won't hurt you. The thing about the body needing the minerals in water is an urban myth. You get those from food.
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Distilled water is hypotonic to red blood cells... definitely not safe to drink regularly and especially not without food or something else
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Was waiting for the science to come in on this
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IIRC it's not about minerals, its about osmotic balance in certain processes and essentially accelerated flushing compared to norm...
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Drinking too much regular water will also kill you, yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication … It doesn't matter if it's distilled or not. But if you drink distilled instead of normal water, in normal amounts, while eating normally, nothing will happen to you.
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It removes electrolytes which is dangerous if you don’t replenish them.
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Which you will by eating. Drinking normal water (and nothing else for a while) also removes electrolytes, which is why sports drinks are a thing. My point is that distilled water isn't any worse than regular water. The difference doesn't matter in normal circumstances.
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https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf … ? Do you have any sources for your claim?
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That link is a 404. Try this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1495189/ … *Some* waters contain clinically relevant levels of minerals, but never most of the DRI, and many American bottled waters are so low as to be about the same as distilled water. And nobody's dying by drinking them.
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