Guest guest Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 Distilled water is best, even for drinking. It will pull inorganic minerals out of your body before pulling organic minerals and is essential for doing this. The organic minerals it might happen to leech could be replaced by a few grains of sea salt or a good organic meal. Love, Doc Ian "Doc" Shillington N.D.505-772-5889Dr.IanShillington - Alison Maynes herbal remedies Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:13 PM Herbal Remedies - distilled water Someone recently asked about the use of distilled water vs.. tap water. I wasn't sure how to respond to their claims. Here is the post... >>Lots of opinions on that. Dr. Christopher says definitely. But many naturopaths say that it pulls too many minerals out of the body. Distilled water acts like a magnet and pulls stuff. It is great when you are sick or detoxing. It is great for making tea as it pulls more nutrients out of the water. But, in general I think drinking filtered water is best. If just plain tap or distilled – well it depends on how bad your water is and if you are taking vitamins or not Any comments??? Alison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 Hi Allison, Comments Okay! Here are mine. Distilled water definitely takes out minerals from your body. Yes, that is correct. However, it does not remove organic minerals. It will only remove inorganic minerals. So if you are eating a terrible, typical standard American Diet of junk and mucus forming foods then you are not getting any organic vitamins and minerals in your diet. So the distilled water will pull out the inorganic ones that you are putting into the body. These inorganic ones come from cooking your food. Cooking turns organic minerals and vitamins into inorganic minerals and vitamins. Then most folks take supplements cause they are told they aren't getting enough minerals and vitamins in their diet. Well what the vitamin companies aren't telling you is that those vitamins and minerals they are selling to you are also inorganic. Why? Because it would be too cost prohibitive to manufacture organic ones. So now your body is not getting any vitamins or minerals that it can use from your food and your supplementation is ineffective as well. Now your body is not getting what it truly needs to build and maintain your body (organic vitamins and minerals). So you are drinking distilled water and someone tells you it is dissolving your bones and removing all the minerals out of your body. Yes, it is but only the inorganic ones. However, due to your choice of diet you aren't getting the nutrients to feed your body so now people, medicos, scientist and whoever will blame it on the distilled water. Change your diet to a raw natural one, balanced with lots of fresh organic fruits and green leafy vegetables, lots of sprouted grains, nuts and seeds, Lemon Egg for the organic Calcium and Panther Piss for the organic iron and 15 other organic vitamins and minerals it has in it and drink all the distilled water you want with the juice of organic lemon added and you won't have a problem with it at all. Filtered water is far better than tap water any day. There is no such thing as pure tap water anymore. Filtered water or distilled water? I prefer the distilled myself but will drink filtered if I cannot find distilled. There is an ever growing research into structured water. Pure water is living water. Polluted water is dead, devitalized water. Distilled water is dead water also cause it was heated but it is pure water. Getting very difficult to find sources of pure water here on our planet nowdays. Most all water everywhere on earth is polluted to some degree. However, there are lots of ways to put the life back into it if you so choose to research it. Okay, that is sort of my opinion. I am not too sure it is all coherent. But I do hope this helps you. Don Q. - Alison Maynes herbal remedies Monday, January 12, 2004 5:13 AM Herbal Remedies - distilled water Someone recently asked about the use of distilled water vs.. tap water. I wasn't sure how to respond to their claims. Here is the post... >>Lots of opinions on that. Dr. Christopher says definitely. But many naturopaths say that it pulls too many minerals out of the body. Distilled water acts like a magnet and pulls stuff. It is great when you are sick or detoxing. It is great for making tea as it pulls more nutrients out of the water. But, in general I think drinking filtered water is best. If just plain tap or distilled – well it depends on how bad your water is and if you are taking vitamins or not Any comments??? AlisonFederal Law requires that we warn you of the following: 1. Natural methods can sometimes backfire. 2. If you are pregnant, consult your physician before using any natural remedy. 3. The Constitution guarantees you the right to be your own physician and toprescribe for your own health. We are not medical doctors although MDs are welcome to post here as long as they behave themselves. Any opinions put forth by the list members are exactly that, and any person following the advice of anyone posting here does so at their own risk. It is up to you to educate yourself. By accepting advice or products from list members, you are agreeing to be fully responsible for your own health, and hold the List Owner and members free of any liability. Dr. Ian ShillingtonDoctor of NaturopathyDr.IanShillington Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 This is from the message archives Distilled Water - It doesn't get any better ;o) The Importance of Distilled Water Only oxygen is more essential than water in sustaining the life of all living organisms. Human beings can live for several weeks without proteins, carbohydrates, and fats but just a few days without water. The quality of your tissues, their performance, and their resistance to disease and injury are absolutely linked to the quality and quantity of water you drink. Experts agree that in order to maintain optimum health one needs to drink 8-10 glasses of water per day. The daily cleansing of wastes from each cell, the flushing of the alimentary canal and the purifying of the blood are all dependent on our drinking water. Most people get their water from the household tap. This water originates from lakes, rivers, streams, and underground sources. The majority of water goes through a system of cleaning at the local water treatment plant. However, because of a lack of funds to provide the necessary technology, many harmful pollutants and water borne diseases are present in the finished treated water.Our tap water is treated only to minimum standards, by sedimentation, filtration, chemical conditioning and disinfection with chlorine. The toxic metals, pesticides, industrial chemical,... the 50 or so chemicals used in the water treatment are present in the already treated water, along with the dead bacteria killed by the chlorine, as are the carcinogenic Trihalomethanes from the chlorine itself, that are known to cause liver and corectal cancers. Dr. Michael Colgan, Optimum Sports Nutrition.According to the scientists from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute(NCI), it has been estimated that between 60 to 80 percent of all cancer is caused by the chemicals in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. Cancer will afflict one out of every four people. The NCI expressed concern over 20 years ago that increase in carcinogens in water and our inability to remove them at the treatment plants could result in serious exposure of the general population.Bacteria, viruses, synthetic compounds, metals, and radionuclides are the contaminants that become incorporated into our drinking water, and have the potential to cause health effects ranging from low grade sub-clinical illnesses such as colds and flue to death from cancer. Canadian Nutrition Guide.There are more than 60,000 chemical contaminants in water. Any municipal water supply is likely to have at least a thousand of these. Water authorities do what they can, but it is too great an expense to ensure our tap water is healthy enough for us to drink.Fifty percent of the US population uses water that in part is made up of recently discharged wastewater. And like the treatments for drinking water, wastewater treatments do not remove many of the toxic substances. Prevention Magazine.The contamination is beyond help. More than 55,000 of the regulated chemical dumps across the nation are leaking into the ground water. Science News, 1993. With all this in mind, you need to know that distilled water is an excellent source of water. Distilled water is water which has been heated to the boiling point so that impurities are separated from the water which itself becomes vapor or steam. It is then condensed back into pure liquid form. The impurities remain in the residue which is simply thrown away. Distilled water contains no solids, minerals or trace elements, and has no taste. Distillation removes the debris, bacteria, and other contaminants.Distilled water has been a water purity standard in analytical labs, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and many other industries for many years and more recently a gold standard for drinking. Distillation duplicates nature’s hydrologic cycle. The sun’s heat vaporizes the water and draws it from the earth’s surface into the atmosphere. The impurities remain. As the vapor cools, it falls back to the earth as rain, snow, and other precipitation. As it leaves the clouds, the precipitation is pure but as it makes is descent to the earth it picks up the various forms of pollution found in the air. Then, as it reaches the ground, the water continues to pick-up contaminants on its way back to the various bodies of water on the earth. In mechanized distillation, water is boiled in a distiller, which creates steam that rises and leaves virtually all contaminants behind in the boiling chamber. Steam is then collected and condensed into pure, clean distilled water leaving the impurities behind to eventually flush down the drain. Because of the heat involved in the process of creating steam, all forms of bacteria and all water borne diseases are destroyed. Distilled water is the only form of water, which is free from all contaminants and impurities. Distilled water is the only clean water. Virtually everything is removed from the water by steam distillation. Seven brands we tested run from 2 - 12 PPM contaminants. That’s about as clean as you can get. Dr. Michael Colgan, Optimum Sports Nutrition. “Do I need to tell you why drinking plenty of good quality water is as essential to health as eating properly? In a nutshell: one of the main activities of the body’s self-healing system is filtration of the blood, a job performed mostly by the kidneys which a little help from the mechanism of perspiration. Kidneys are such efficient, compact and miraculous filters that they put to shame the dialysis machines used the maintain the patients with renal failure. The heart, blood, and kidneys are a single functional unit the constantly cleanses and purifies itself, removing all the toxic wastes of metabolism and the breakdown products of harmful substances that get onto our bodies one way or another. This purification system can operate efficiently only if the volume of water flowing through it is sufficient to carry away the waste. Further, as good quality steam distilled water enters the body, it has the ability to pick-up mineral deposits accumulated in cells, joints, artery walls, or wherever such deposits occur and begin to carry them out. Gallstones and kidney stones then decrease, and it also lessens arthritic pain as joints become more supple and movable.” Dr. Andrew Weil, Natural Health, Natural Medicine. There are two forms of minerals, organic and inorganic. Inorganic minerals refers to non-vegetable or non-animal matter, i.e. not living. This included carbonate and lime compounds, calcium, iron and magnesium. Because these components are non-living, our bodies can no make use of these minerals and our cells reject them. The result of ingesting these minerals is an accumulation of debris in our bodies. Organic minerals on the other hand are living, and are found in vegetables, fruit, seeds, grains, meats, and nuts which form our daily diet. These are easily assimilated by our cells and are essential for good health. If you rely on water a source of your required minerals,you are sadly lacking. The minerals in water are inorganic, and the body cannot make use of them. The body continually assimilates the much needed minerals from the food we eat. No, this is physiologically impossible. Some have been lead to believe that because distilled water is so pure, it will leach healthy minerals and trace elements from the body. Distilled water will do this with pipes. In our bodies distilled water cleans out our impurities and replenishes the essential nutrient required for human life; pure, clean, healthy water. Our cells use the organic minerals for body growth and maintenance; however, the impurities that the body cannot make us of are flushed out with distilled water. Distilled water flushes out all the inorganic minerals and pollutants which would otherwise be retained in the body and accumulate in vital organs such as liver, kidneys, intestines and fatty tissue. These minerals and pollutants are gradually increased by drinking impure water. A continuous or prolonged exposure to these minerals and pollutants may cause carcinogens to form within tissues. The cancer may only manifest itself months, years or even decades after such contacts have ceased. And often the causative agents may have totally disappeared from the tissues. It has become apparent that pollution and contamination exist within our drinking water. With the amount of sewage dumped into drinking water sources, many water borne diseases are present in the so-called “treated” drinking water. This leaves our bodies wide open to diseases.The viruses of major concern in relation to drinking water are those of intestinal origin, excreted by infected animals or humans, which reach water resources by way of the soils unlimited potential for serious disease and contamination of the human body. Canadian Nutrition Guide.Don’t take unnecessary risks, Drink Healthy, Drink Distilled. To be Sure, several drinks of local tap water will not kill you, but common sense will tell you that your body cannot function and survive with daily ingestion of poison.ELIZABETH ELLIOTT <eliz3378 wrote: I am curious about water. You say distilled yet other people think distilled doesn't have any nutrients in it. What kind of water should we be drinking? 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Guest guest Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 If there was no oxygen in the water then you wouldn't have water, all you would have would be hydrogen gas. All fish tanks need a bubbler to bubble air through their tank whether you use distilled water or salt water. Those fist died most likely from lack of having a bubbler in their tank supplying them with the oxygen they need. It wasn't the water, Trust me on this one. Don Q. - Michael and Kimberley Medlin herbal remedies Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:09 PM Re: Herbal Remedies - Distilled water Not trying to be the devil's advocate....but what about oxygen? one of my friends bought her son some fish and a tank. She used distilled water and the fish died because there's no oxygen in the water. Is this somthing we don't necessarily have to be worried about? Then again, I suppose the oxygen would allow room for contaminants. I suppose it also depends on the brand. ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Ain't no bugs here!Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.588 / Virus Database: 372 - Release 2/13/04 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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