In a message dated 6/22/00 9:52:54 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << Listers, I find myself unable to ignore the discussion of the pro's and con's of drinking distilled water. As an alternate opinion; During my training with Dr. Carey Reams' son, Eugene, another student asked him about the concept of distilled water leaching minerals from the body. He responded that this idea came from a misconception of how the body uses water. Water is a carrier in our bodies. It first is used to carry nutrients throughout our bodies to the locations where those nutrients are needed. Then it is used to carry metabolic waste-products and toxins from throughout the body to the eliminative organs to be disposed of. To do this, the water must be empty of all minerals and chemicals. If it is not, the body must first "distill" its own water before utilizing it, which consumes extra metabolic energy. This "full" and "empty" aspect of water can be seen when you stir sugar into a glass of water. The first spoonful dissolves and disappears into the water, but if you keep stirring more sugar into the water, eventually the sugar stops dissolving. This is because the water molecules have become full of sugar molecules. In the same way, if the water we put into our bodies is already full of various substances, the water will need to be "emptied" by the body before it can carry the important nutrients extracted from our food. One might think that the minerals found in water would go directly to where they are needed, but this is not the case, because all minerals found in water are metallic/inorganic minerals from the ground which must first be converted by the body to organic to be utilized. This conversion process is very inefficient, from as high as 50% conversion (people with excellant digestion) to as low as 5% conversion (most people nowadays). Those inorganic minerals which are not converted and utilized tend to accumulate throughout the body, resulting in arterial plaque, kidney and gallstones, arthritic bone spurs, etc. He further explained that the organic minerals found in the body are a part of the body, having been ionized into the body (the minerals are part of the structure and material of the body). He gave the analogy of washing the bumper of a car. As you wash, the water will remove the dirt which is on the bumper, but it will not remove the chrome which has been ionized onto/into the bumper. The body uses the water we drink to "wash" toxins and waste products from our body, not to remove minerals which our body has already utilized. I read the article at the website which was given during this discussion, and didn't find the author's points well supported. He used the health issues which regular consumers of soda pop suffer from to establish his point against DW. That's like saying that because scotch and soda, whiskey and soda and gin and soda all cause you to become intoxicated, it must be the fault of the soda! Also, when I contacted two soda distributors (Coke and Pepsi) and asked them what kind of water they used in their product, I was informed that they only used the purest spring water, not distilled (they said that would be too expensive). For someone to inform me that they had consumed DW for X number of years, and that explained their poor health issues, sounds like the kind of reasoning you will find a medical authority using to disprove the efficacy of food supplements in general. Without knowing anything about their diet, living and eating habits (not to mention their mental and spiritual habits), and then blame DW for poor health issues is a reasoning process which can be used to disprove anything (and doctors frequently do it). Someone once said to me, "But DW is not natural!" But steam distillation duplicates the process that occurs in nature (rainwater). As Dr. Reams explained it, it also charges the water with energy on a molecular level, which energy is utilized by the body. In fact, the only water that is more charged with energy than distilled water is the "heavy water" found in nuclear reactors (not recommended). Respectfully submitted, Terry Wayne >>
Terry: Basically, what you are saying is that minerals which "have become part of the body" are chemically combined and will not leach out. Is there evidence to support this reasoning, or are we left to decide which of the two speculative arguments is more acceptable? Roger -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
