I believe that might be in error. Speaking logically, but from a limited knowlege... 1] The body does not distill water. It purifies it with a process similar to reverse osmosis which requires very little energy and is complementary with ongoing digestion. Salt water fish are not salty.
2] Metallic minerals would probably be very rare...like pure metallic calcium or sodium? It seems that all minerals would be in some compound or another. of course, plants have a different metabolism than humans and may be able to assimilate more and varied compounds that we can. But, if the mineral is not assimilated or passed through the RO filter, it passes through the gut. [Or you vomit when the body detects an overload of soluables like salt or poisons ...like an RO filters back flush cycle?] The lung does not contain strong acids and won't convert compounds very well. Foreign materials get backflushed..washed out with phlem and coughed up unless they are already soluable. [in which case, they enter the bloodstream quickly with little regulation] 3] It is the function of stomach acid to make various compounds [including metals from any source] soluable so they will pass through the filter and provide nutrition. Water is a two way transport medium. Distilled water will combine with stomach acid and will pick up whatever the stomach has to put into it just like any other water. So, even muddy water is probably as good as any as long as it doesn't contain poisonous materials or pathogens. It all gets sorted out, perhaps with a few limits. Ken At 01:49 PM 7/7/01 -0400, you wrote: >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]> > >
