Fact of the day #1
Drinking absolutely pure water can kill you. All the water we normally drink – from taps, from bottles, from the garden hose – contains impurities which affect a property of water called tonicity. This is the ability of a solution to draw or repel water from ajacent solutions when separated by a membrane. Solutions that are hypertonic gain water, while hypotonic solutions lose water. Drinking water, which we usually think of as pure, really contains a whole mess of salts and sugars which make it slightly hypertonic. They also give water its taste. The cytoplasm in the cells of your body also have a tonicity. So, when they are exposed to hypertonic solutions, the cells themselves lose water and shrivel up. When they are in hypotonic solutions, they gain water, swelling up and bursting like a balloon. Absolutely pure water -with no impurities at all – is the most hypotonic solution. So, if you drink enough of it, your cells will start absorbing water. This disturbs the balance of electrolytes (electrically conductive ions) in your body. This is most seriously a problem in the brain, where water poisoning can lead to brain damage, coma and even death.
Hello I’m from 2021 (You already looked at the date it was published) I just wanted to say… That in agreement with some of the other comments, it can depend on all the other variables. If you don’t think this is true, (That %100 percent clear water can be fatal/is bad for the human body) Realize that the person who made this post could be talking hypothetically (I mean, if someone said that stepping on infected feces would give you worms you wouldn’t want to test it out by stepping on said thing then testing for worms-). Maybe the actually haven’t tested this and just pieced the information together LOGICALLY- (don’t go commenting on this saying “god grow a brain this comment literally makes no sense.”- because I’m in the middle.) Now for my next argument, if you are COMPLETELY sure that this statement is correct, then also think about if this is in different circumstances. According to the above comments (not the exact words but similar, all of the comments) there is a lot of contradicting topics- BUT. Even the words “pure” indicates that it has exactly NO (0, nada, nothing, zilch) of dilution or (I cant think of the word right now, sort of contamination). So I would think that Pure water has no bacteria of any kind. It’s kind of like worming with a home-made wormer, not realising that your body actually needs bacteria/worms to survive. So- Drinking pure water for a lengthened period of time (So say no bacteria at all coming into your body) You would most likely get pretty sick. (I have no degree, if you don’t agree with this comment I am okay with that. I’m just summarizing my finding as well as others who commented here). As someone “Roger” or someone said… They had been drinking pure water for 25 years of their life? as well as their family? I would ask them if they were eating things that provided sufficient nutrients or bacteria (maybe they ate a piece of dirt a day don’t ask me why I think of these examples). If they were drinking rain water, I would say that isn’t completely pure water so it doesn’t count. (Skip this bracket if you dont want the explanation why. Rain water is not only not pure because of how it was formed in the atmosphere that POSSIBLY contains contamination, even a rain water tank is not 100% clean- if it is rolling off a roof then it is definitely not pure. Dead animals, bird feces and dirt would be there.) Ok now that that is finished I would like to say I am a pacifist in this PARTICULAR matter, although I am kind of leaning to the fact that pure water (drunk in large portions/for a long time) IS harmful for the body. I would think one sip is ok.
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Pure water means that it has no electrolytes. It’s often used in chemistry labs to wash off beakers. If you drink enough of it your cells can burst and kill you.
Dear pacifist,
Pure water isn’t water with just all of the bacteria taken out, it’s water with ALL impurities removed. Rainwater isn’t even close to that. Pure water doesn’t exist in nature. It has to be created in a lab. Even natural water is very corrosive, and will dissolve anything organic over time, but water with no impurities at all becomes very thirsty for organic materials of any kind. It will dissolve almost anything. If you put a goldfish in it, it would dissolve the goldfish over time. A very small amount of it wouldn’t hurt you as your saliva would immediately dilute it, but a pint of water with 100% of the impurities removed would dissolve your cell walls and cause them to burst.
It’s used to cleaning microchips.
Right??? Rain water is actively dirty, have you never left a glass outside?
Thankyou! Pure water with no impurities can visibly melt gold, please don’t drink it.
Hello bro, your essay is very interesting but i have a writting mistake on it,
“So, when they are exposed to –hypertonic– solutions, the cells themselves lose water and shrivel up. When they are in –hypotonic– solutions, they gain water, swelling up and bursting like a balloon”
I supposed that your intention was to write “hypertonic” in second sentence. sorry about my english.
I’m just reading for improving my english vocabulary.
thanks for sharing this article.
The prefix hyper means more, or above. The prefix hypo means less, or below. So hypotonic solutions are things that lack tonicity and want to absorb other substances tonicity. So no, I believe the did intend to write hypotonic.
Water is toxic in too large quantities as it will mess up your electrolyte balance. It follows that distilled water is very slightly more toxic than most tap waters but only very, very slightly. As soon as you drink distilled water it is no longer pure. It will contain salts, proteins and bacteria for starters. I would happily substitute distilled water for the tap water I drink (if the taste and cost were similar). There would be no health implications.
This article is talking about actually pure H2O. The kind that doesn’t exist in nature and has to be created in a lab. Distilled water still has many impurities, otherwise it would be dangerous to drink a meaningful amount of it as it would be both very corrosive and also try to take things from your body to make up for its lacking in organic materials.
Schauberger’s Living Waters he explains a thing called “the water worm”. It occurs when you drink from a true artesian well at its exit from the earth/rocks. This is the nearest to pure H2O that will be found in nature and drinking it burns out the throat usually fatally. It’s said pure H2O is a perfect solvent. Schauberger explains this as the H2O’s propensity to absorb _carbonnes_ – carbon based substances – any carbon based substances. It will suck them out of the air if it does not find a throat. Not far from the well it is fine to drink once it has been exposed to our coat on rich atmosphere. 😉
I drink what could and should be referred to as “Pure Water” but I personally do not like the word pure in reference to water. I prefer clean water because when water was created eons ago it was clean and comprised of H2O. It has been my drink of choice for over forty years and I have had no ill effects. I just passed eighty years and it hasn’t killed me yet. The water provided for people via municipal water works or natural water from rain or snow melt has minerals in the form of inorganic dissolved rock and the human organism cannot assimilate rock. The mineral content first has to go through the photosynthesis process to convert the rock minerals to organic minerals for the organism to be able to use them as electrolytes. Normally we would get the mineral content from our diets but due to the modern farming techniques the organic mineral content is questionable so I take a chelated mineral supplement. The idea that a water based life form could be harmed by it’s base being clean (pure) is to me not understandable. I have witnessed many human ailments caused by contaminated water being cleared up when the person is introduced to clean water as an alternative. Dr. Paul Bragg wrote a book named “The Shocking Truth about Water” that should be required reading in all medical schools, in my opinion. If anyone is interested I can send a lab analysis of the water I consume. I look forward to the day when everyone can benefit from the true nature of ‘Clean Water”
Derald. I would like to see the lab analysis of the water you consume. I am very interested in this pathway of chemistry. Thank you. Please let me know how we can correspond. Hope all is well.
I have been making distilled water at home in a commercially made distiller (Pure Water, Inc. Midi-Still) since 1979. Today is January 3rd 2022 so we are talking about roughly 43 years. Although it is distilled it is not pure H2o, but it has an extremely low percentage of electrolytes and it will not pass an electric current. The boiler is made of stainless steel and the heating element is unknown to me but those are the only things that contact the water before it is turned into steam. Organic compounds in tap water that are more volatile than H2o will become steam and pass to the condenser unit before water does and therefore will be present in the “distilled” final product. H2o is the universal solvent so there may be some amount of leaching that occurs in the stainless steel condenser unit and in the glass jugs I use to capture and store it when finished so I truly do not know how “pure” it is. I’d have it tested if I knew how to go about it but like Derald McCabe in the reply above I consider it to be “clean water”, the cleanest I can provide for my consumption. And like Derald I have been giving it the empirical test by using it as my only drinking water. In my case that is 43 years. I am 82 years old, have most of my teeth and feel that I am in a state of general good health and in much better shape than most of my peers. When I learned years ago that my body was 70% water I vowed that I would put the cleanest water available into it. So far, I have not shriveled or burst a noticeable amount of cells and can only surmise that my drinking water is more than adequate to the task and not “too” pure. Having said all of that I too am a neutral observer on the topic and would like to know if anyone has done any empirical testing of pure water on large, complex living organisms.
James, like you I just turned 80 and I am generally in good health. I just had a biopsy for a skin problem I have developed caused by the coved vaccine and the Dermatologist told me the wound caused by the biopsy was healing while he was looking at it. I can share with you a method to keep the organics that have a similar boiling and condensing point close to water can be eliminated. If I had you email address I could send you a lab report that shows how clean the water I drink really is. It only make sense to put the cleanest water available in a water organism.
Interesting that this article has no sources at all…
Drinking pure water won’t hurt you as long as you’re getting enough electrolytes in the rest of your diet. Your body has mechanisms for adjusting the tonicity of your blood, the same way it has mechanisms for adjusting the amount of sugar in your blood. Think about it – if your body couldn’t compensate for water without the perfect amount of minerals in it, how careful would you have to be to consume exactly the right amount of salt, magnesium, potassium, and so on every day? You would have to be extremely careful when drinking milk or anything with vinegar, too. Saying pure water will burst your cells is like saying vinegar will dissolve your bones. That might be how it works in a test tube, but your digestive system is a LOT more complicated than a test tube.
SM says to Derald well said and to All.
I am not too well acquainted as some of you with pure water as I am certain that pure water is produced from a lab, really clean water comes from underground in mountains from around the world and claimed to be pure? (not the case) but maybe close to being really clean after being underground for thousands of years with no source of contamination from the atmosphere or underground influences, I have drank water from some of the cleanest springs in Scotland, my home since the age of 3 now 80, no I do not drink from the same source now due to obvious reasons, but I do drink filtered or some bottled water, neither has the same fresh taste of my childhood water supplies from permanent fresh springs, that are never influenced by weather come snow or rain they never change. LOOK at PLASMA water and WFL.?
what the heck i drink this everyday
So like after making pure water can you like add like the nutrients and bacteria and whatever else is needed to make it drinkable?
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