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Drinking water of millions of Americans contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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That water isn't much better. But that's why I fill my 5 gallon jugs with the distilled water (self distilled tap water).
Make sure you remineralize your distilled water or it will degrade your teeth over time.
Can you elaborate on this point? I installed a to system in my house this year, so I'm curious about that but.
Not OP, but basically tap water, depending on where it comes from, may have more or less calcium in it. If you're used to drinking high calcium water, you might not be drinking lots of milk or eating much cheese. Shifting to purified water would remove said calcium from the diet and leave you at a slight deficit. Incorporate some other source of minerals into your diet.
Same goes for other things you would get from water like sodium (though not a concern if your diet is high enough in sodium), magnesium even if you are blessed with a source of mineral water.
The human body uses these ions in way more ways than just say... calcium for bones. Calcium is important for example for proper muscle function (including the heart muscle), as are magnesium, sodium and potassium - that's why you feel like crap when hungover - drinking too much caused you to eliminate too much water. And the kidneys cannot eliminate just pure water, they do so by using some of the aforementioned ions, and since alcohol forces elimination of water from the body, the kidneys start throwing out whatever they can to get the water out too, starting with sodium and potassium. That's why salty snacks taste so good with alcohol and bananas are recommended for hangovers.
But I digress.
TL;DR - Keep your ions in balance, folks - RO or distilled water no longer contain sodium, calcium, potassium and other such goodies. Get them somewhere else.
Thanks for the informative reply!
I tend to drink mostly to water currently, but I make a point to take a daily multivitamin, so hopefully that will help make up for the lack of minerals in my water.
Plenty of other sources for said minerals ;)
Better be distilling multiple times to get rid of PFAS.
It's literally the most effective way to get rid of PFAS. I'm ok with over 99.x% PFAS free for water after just one cycle