Asklemmy

The vast majority of the minerals that your body obtains are from food and drink. The danger of drinking distilled water (due to the lack of mineral content) is very overblown. And the osmotic pressure of tap water is essentially the same as distilled water.

Distilled water is fine unless you are not eating food. Which means you’ll die eventually anyway. Plenty of minerals in solid food.

Distilled water isn't bad for you - it's just lacking in a lot of nutrients you'd usually get from "normie" water. It's still better for you than soda or juices.

Do you have an aversion to tap water? Britas and Berkeys are options if you're concerned about taste or chemicals respectively.

there's no data that says drinking distilled water is bad for you. if half of a grain of salt would make that water no longer distilled, the leftover minerals in your mouth from the last thing you ate are going to make it no longer distilled

Distilled water shouldn't be bad at all.

It shouldn't be your only source of water though.

Distilled water isn't bad for you in moderation, but electrolytes and other solutes which are present in impure water are important in maintaining cellular homeostasis, so you'd want to drink standard water on the side. Dissolving electrolytes into distilled water just means that you'll have extra clean normal water. Fun fact, Coca Cola and other soft drinks use distilled water!

I found a short paper in the NIH library since most sources seem to be from water companies.

Other than the water will taste like it's missing something, because it is, there doesn't seem to be any conclusive proof of harm. Calcium and magnesium seemed to be the 2 main things people in even industrialized nations may be short on in their diet that they could benefit from having in their water.

The one thing I did find of interest from the paper was this:

This processed water has no residual chlorine and stored or dispensed in PVC can/bottles provides no protection against probable microbial contamination due to handling which is taken care of in conventional system of water supply having free residual chlorine.

So when you dispense it after distillation, it is more prone to some forms of contamination that treated water.

I'm not sure the purpose of removing minerals to just add them back in. You would have to figure out the "blend" you prefer, and the supplement industry is not free from controversy, so being positive what you're reintroducing to the water is now a question. With tap water, you should be able to get a report of it's composition from your water company.

This is almost literally the process Coca-Cola uses for its Smartwater brand. People outside Coca-Cola have described the process of removing everything then adding it back as dumb though. I wonder why

There is nothing wrong with drinking distilled water except it'll taste bad.

I think this would be fine. But the mineral content of that glass of natural water is probably tiny, so the pill would be mostly filler.

My HS chemistry teacher was adamant that distilled water could pull filings out of your teeth. No idea if that's true or not, I doubt she is still alive to ask.

Distilled water is fine for you. Otherwise big gov would be telling you to pack up vitamins/minerals for emergencies (they do anyways, but not because of distilled water worries).

I don't see why not, though I don't know why you would - distilled water tastes blek. Not as bad as bitter-ass unflavored seltzer water though.

Why do people drink distilled water? I get that there's some taste from the minerals, but I live in a place with hard water and it tastes fine. I've had fancy bottled water and that tastes the exact same if not worse, I drank distilled water and that basically tastes the same too.

Drinking pure H2O isn't good for you. As far as I know it could even be deadly.

Tell me more please

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As I understand your neighbour wants to remove fluoride, can he get an under tap filter that only removes those types of chemicals? If not, why not simply buy mineral/spring water. Where I live it's the same price.

Yes. Home brewers do this all the time with beer.

I use to make my own and add the minerals back. You’re essentially doing the same thing. It’s been awhile and this may be a rebrand but I think this is what I used https://a.co/d/hKbbL23

This is how all the top producers make their water really. Like Essentia and smartwater.

I think that there’s a line which makes destillier water bad. Like when you’re drinking 1250 ml destillied water it’s definitely healthy, but 2500 ml, over a long time, will surely cause some side effects

Been drinking distilled water all my life... I even have a countertop water distiller to ensure I always have it available. I prefer the taste of distilled water over RO water

I asked a distilled water seller once, they say you can basically drink it because it's made from tap water, but they get to sell it with a margin because they don't have to be food grade certified, so they have to put a warning on the bottle. there could be a lot of nasty things in the distill process.