Boiling water for a few minutes is a common way to get rid of biological contamination.
Aside from the ones that will boil together with water are those that will boil off before the water (methanol is the other common example that comes in practice). If you have any that boil off before water you have to know at what point it's safe to start condensing the vapour and storing it.
This is a particularly annoying myth. When the water passes through the gut it picks up plenty of mineralisation, as well as other gunge.
On ships, vacuum vapor distillation is quite common for drinking water production. This is because the equipment is used to generate boiler feed water, which must be high quality distillate. Acquiring additional water-making equipment is redundant.
Nutritional content can be limited and lacking diversity. Many minerals in the body are of very low concentration, they are nevertheless, necessary. Osmosis will delpete the body of these over time. The health effects of this would require a longterm study for chronic symptoms to appear. I have never seen any study of this nature. I have seen mariners after several months at sea with no other water source and, yes anecdotally, they look like hell. I will not drink distilled water for any length of time, but a few weeks would never amount to anything.
So in your day to day life, sure, you have a healthy, diverse, first-world diet and have no ill-effect from drinking distilled water. You can 'live' drinking only Coke. Appalling, certainly, but doable. In terms of cost and energy expense, distilled water is likely higher than Coke to produce, though that is an aside.
You don't want water picking up minerals from your body .. you want it DEPOSITING minerals into your body. That's the way we evolved obtaining minerals from water from streams where the water runs over rocks to mineralise.
No, it’s not. I’ve been drinking it exclusively for the last ~20 years and have no health issues.
So you're substituting in the lost minerals from other sources. I don't see how that detracts from my (rather weak) argument
Why do you seem to feel so strongly about distilled water?
If you have to compensate from other sources than I don't understand how something is necessarily harmless, without the qualifier that it should only be used in the context of a proper diet (which many/most don't have, particularly the types that might be susceptible to quack wellness claims)
Besides, one anecdote does not a disproven theory make
But it should be obvious that your mineralisation is not on a knife-edge. The tiny amount of minerals lost by drinking distilled water is massively made up in the other stuff you eat and drink.
No, this is not proven. To prove this, we must demonstrate that a person who only drinks distilled water would get sick sooner than the same person who only drinks tap water - in exactly the same conditions.
Clearly this experiment would be very hard to perform. But if someone did perform it, I'd love to hear about it.
This just seems like such a bizarre and indefensible hill to die on.
It isn't and doesn't. Please stop pushing this annoying myth.
Please provide quality references, or even some argument, to support your statement, beyond 'you said so'. 'You said so' is always a useless information-less way to communicate that I would push back on, but this is a health relevant issue, and you are spreading misinformation that is dangerous. Provide some quality references if you're right, but you're not.
>if you're right, but you're not
where is your evidence?
http://ecoewp.com/images/nutrientschap12.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4223198/
And FFS people, lighten up. The preferred way to correct someone wrong on the internet is gently.
Many of us have had the “citation needed” demand thrown in our face in very rude ways during the COVID vaccine debacle. It’s gonna take some years for it to settle down and be forgotten again.