Brooks, >I feel constrained to make a comment on the "urban >legend" claiming distilled water "leaches" minerals >from body tissues.
I appreciated your comments. When I spent a week with Dr. Reams' son, he explained it like this: How do they put chrome on a car bumper? They run electricity through it with a certain charge. The chrome powder, which is attracted to the bumper, bonds to the bumper molecularly. When you wash your car, what is removed from the bumper? The dirt, of course, not the chrome. The dirt is not a part of the bumper, it is extra to the bumper. The minerals that are removed from our bumper by water are in fact the minerals and debris that our body wants removed. He went on to explain further: 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 (including unwanted/unneeded minerals) from throughout the body to the eliminative organs to be disposed of. To do this most efficiently, the water is best utilized if it is 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. 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. There is controversy over the theoretical value of the minerals found in water, but because of the importance to the body for water to be "empty", water is not an essential source of minerals. Indeed, according to Dr. Reams, more easily assimilable minerals are garnered from the air we breathe than are found in water (which demonstrates the value of clean, pure air!). In addition to this, the minerals found in water are inorganic, metallic minerals, not readily or easily assimilable by the body, unlike food-derived minerals, which the plant or animal they come from has converted to an organic state. Add to this the uncertainty of the wide variety of kinds and concentrations of different minerals in the water which can be found in wells, streams and reservoirs throughout the country, and it's clear that water is an uncertain and sometimes even risky source of minerals. I have no desire to stir up any controversy here, so I will not post any further on this off-topic. Should anyone desire to discuss it further, contact me off-list. Terry _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca -- 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]>
