Distilled water vs mineral water

Some questions have arisen in regard to my recommending distilled water in many situations. I do often recommend drinking distilled water for cleansing and for certain situations like when there is difficulty breastfeeding or when there is any kidney disease, and other situations.

Whenever you drink any water, your blood becomes hydrophobic, forming clusters which resist the uptake of water.

Enagic (who makes a kangen water machine) used this as an opportunity to launch a sales pitch that their water (which I like, but I’m not sure all their sales pitches are honest) would hydrate better in spite of such…

But the truth is the body does this because if it didn’t, one glass of water might literally kill you. It could dilute, or wash out your electrolytes and your heart would stop!

Under normal circumstances, drinking distilled water doesn’t wash out any electrolytes, it just picks up toxins.

Rehydration happens (in the case of a normal day, not a journey through the desert and extreme dehydration) to the tune of about 3 ounces every half hour at the kidneys. The water is mixed with electrolytes in the body in this process and recycled back into the body. The rest picks up wastes and excesses and carries them into the urinary drainage system.

Electrolytes are conserved.

Normally.

In cases where the person is under high stress and cortisol is correspondingly elevated, minerals are spit out of the cells and these are lost as excess at the kidneys. In this case a very slight (but possibly noticeable clinically) increase of loss of minerals occurs from drinking distilled water, over drinking water with minerals in it.

Something similar can happen if the right toxins are encountered which bind to minerals in the blood. The kidneys will filter them out, but w the minerals they are bound to. These, the kidneys release as part of detoxification of those toxins. Recently the toxins in the air have been pulling sodium out of the body and resulting in sodium cramps, which are distinctive because they don’t go away but continue for many minutes and are resolved only when sea salt is consumed.

However, in both cases, the discussion is quite incomplete without noticing that distilled water helps the detox, helping both general removal and preserving against potential overload damage at the kidneys themselves.

I personally feel that in the cases of extreme stress (if it is known) that sea salt or some other carefully selected mineral source (blackstrap molasses, kelp, acid bound trace minerals of some kind) should be added to distilled water or the person should use a good quality well water during that time. Otherwise, distilled water may be my best choice as I feel that the toxins in the modern world are a bigger threat.

I believe that some of those with breastfeeding problems may be suffering from hormone-binding or hormone-active toxins from their environment. On that note, if plastic jugs are all that is available for distilled water, I do recommend that most of the time this be poured through a simple countertop charcoal filter to remove the plastics. Plastics are a serious problem which I believe to be affecting everyone today and are often producing a kind of inflammatory response as well as hormone and blood toxicity.