What does your water contain?
- As we are all into health being caravanners- This should interest just about everyone! About 3 weeks ago I was contacted by my son who asked me to go to YouTube and watch a video called ' The journey of water' This video is of a lecturer in front of a class telling them about the appalling state of our water and the tricks and chemical manipulation used to blind us to the truth about what we are drinking from our taps. Now, this video is American but I can assure you( with photographic evidence) that our water is just as bad. Having watched the video, I immediately ordered a water distiller and have been drinking completely pure water now for two and a half weeks. I won't bore you here with the ins and outs but my photo- the first one I have ever put on CT- shows the crud, filth and deposits from just 20 lts of our tap water distilled through my machine!! I would have drunk this under normal circumstances and the smell is appalling by the way!! I replace the minerals in it by using dissolvable mineral sea salt (half a teaspoon in 4 lts which is the capacity of my machine) I invite you all to watch this video and to see just what you are consuming in what should be, the purest drink you can get. He also covers bottled water and filtered water - that will be an eye opener too. Having said that, well filtered water is much better than nothing and being non EHU, that's what I will have to do while away. Have I noticed a difference- yes! My joints don't ache so much and I have more energy! Coincidence? I doubt it. I'm not consuming 80,000 chemicals including estrogen! Petro chemicals , pesticides and goodness knows what else!
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Missing your vitamins then!
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I get all those essential vitamins and minerals in my diet. As was explained, minerals are put back with natural disolveable mineral salts anyway and I oxygenate the water! So the choice is then, if I'm understanding this right, drink all sorts of poisons as long as you get your essential nutrients? mmm, I think I'll do my way thanks! 😊Pure water cleans out the garbage from your system, hydrates you far better and assists the healing and renewal functions of the body. Watch the video- I think you might change your mind. Anyway, I'll leave it with you. Thanks for the replies.
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Sorry Merve each to their own, but the only video I can find on youtube with that title is a litany of pseudoscientific claptrap!
Yes there are impurities in the water and if you concentrate them you will get all manner of salts and chemicals as you have, but when they are drunk dissolved in water, the body is quite capable of handling them and has evolved to do so.
You say you add mineral sea salts, do you know the exact chemicals that are in that and how they were made? I bet not!
Drinking distilled water is bad for you and can leach out the body’s own mineral reserves and lead to severe mineral deficiencies which lead to diseases such as osteoporosis, diabetes, tooth decay and heart disease, reduced immunity and nervous system issues.
Sea salts may not adequately compensate for the essential minerals that you are removing.
You also say you are using a distiller, by its very nature distillation is good at removing most soluble salts, but will not necessarily be good at removing many chemicals and hydrocarbons / organics, particularly those with similar boiling points to water and these will end up back in the water (unless its a 10 foot fractional distillation column).
If you like the taste and you feel you are adequately replacing the essential minerals.....that you are removing....jobs a good one Merve, more power to you !
...I'll stick to good old corporation pop though!
Out of curiosity, what machine are you using?
Sorry edit, just read your second post.
What does oxygenating the water do? (other than dissolve oxygen in water).
Also, it drinks high in minerals and fat are better at hydrating as it helps the body absorb the water quicker, I will see if I can find the study, but skimmed milk is actually one of the best things to drink to quickly hydrate, followed by mineralised sports drinks, OJ, coffee and lastly water!
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CJ, thanks for your reply. Firstly I think to call it Pseudoscientific Claptrap is rather cruel- especially when it has been proven - scientifically- that these impurities exist.
Yes, I agree that the body has 'evolved' to deal with impurities. However, the term ' evolved' can be over used and often is to throw a vale over problems. The body has no doubt 'evolved' to deal with impurities to a certain extent although the kids dying by the score worldwide from drinking dirty water might not agree! Chemicals are another matter. These compounds are 'new' and no one knows what the cumulative effect is.
Yes, I do know exactly where my minerals come from and what's in them- they are totally natural and dried in the sun. To oxygenate the water is just to move it around so that it is not so 'flat'
You mention semi skimmed milk- milk being a substance that is almost as good as water as it has been 'cleaned' by its host. Sports drinks? Are you serious? Full of processed sugar I think. A poison proved again to be deadly. My machine is a Via Vosa. It has a carbon filter in the neck to catch any volatile chemicals boiled off with the water. I have tasted tap water again and it's GOPPING! Diet is all important when using distilled water but is absolutely and perfectly possible- you do not need to drink minerals( although I do) you can eat them you know. Anyway, as you say, everyone to their own and my own is not to weigh down my immune system with all sorts of poisons. Now getting ready to go to the NEC for the day! Have a good one.
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If you are finding a benefit from drinking your pure water then good for you, carry on. Personally I think your version of the science is flawed and a little bit too evangelical for me, so I shall carry on getting my "ten a day" from the dirty tap water.
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It certainly is JCB- no one is getting out of here alive as they say. I am on no medication and don't intend to be! It's not about extending your life although if I can have another 5 years caravanning because of what I am doing now, then that has to be a plus- it's all about the quality of life- There is enough evidence available, if one really wants to research this, to frighten the living cr*p of of you. We are not meant to drink what they supply through the modern tap - period!! I'm not saying either that I have the perfect answer- what with distillation. Ionisation. Reverse osmosis etc etc it's confusing to say the least. What is known is that acidic water is bad for you and alkaline water is better. Cancer thrives in an acidic body whereas they tell us they can't survive in an alkaline body. I quote the medical professional here, it's not some weird idea I've come up with- I just know that I am not drinking the filth that they call tap water. I can't run with this argument regarding minerals- it's rather like saying " eat this poisoned porridge because the oats are good for you" - I'm almost sorry now that I even tried to warn people about what they are feeding you but there you go! Water is the single most important nutrient we need- so I want mine clean- simples!
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an interesting thread Merve, I have been using a filter jug for years because the tap water in my area was giving me an upset stomach.
I find some of the replies very disrespectful, there are ways to put a point across without belittling the opinion of the op.
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I think its interesting how animals will go for rainwater rather than tap water. In a former life I sold a few water filters and at least one was sold due to the family dog preferring it to tap water. My dogs have filtered - but one prefers to drink the overflow water from the rainwater butt in the garden. I am beginning to suspect tap water as being a trigger to the labrador's seizures as she has far more away from home when I don't filter it.
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Brue, I was simply pointing out that tap water contains particulate which is, by all intents and purposes, ...... dirt or filth! and it contains quite a bit. The water treatment works manipulate water with chemicals to make it look nice but it ain't! I apologise if I upset you by my choice of wording. My only intent was to make folk aware of what is coming out of your taps. Knowledge is power but if you choose to ignore it that is your constitutional right and I would defend your right to do so.
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No problem Merve, our local water comes from chalk aquifers, locally we can also get water from the Exmoor area which is peaty. In Scotland we had water from an ice cold loch which was tea coloured. As long as the bugs are taken out I don't mind drinking it! I wonder where your local water comes from? At least we are all lucky to have it on tap and can do what we want with it!
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Merve, what do you drink when in the caravan? Do you take your distilled water with you?
I've long had a bee in my bonnet about the quality of 'caravan water' from an aquaroll, and it would be interesting to see what distilling some of that produced!
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Hi ValDa, I will be taking a good quality filter with me- being non EHU means I can't use my distiller but a well filtered water, although not perfect will still be vastly superior to what I get out of my Taps! I will of course take some with me but it doesn't last long- it's too nice! Brue, We get our water from Anglia water which covers part of the industrial midlands. That's the reason I posted the photo-what can't speak can't lie- when you blow it up you can see what has gathered and don't forget that's only 20 lts !! We can protect ourselves from the insidious chemicals and poisons in our water- but it costs. You either buy a good quality filter like the Berkey from America (AmazonI think) or you go the whole hog like me and spend more on electricity to refine and clean what you drink. You then have to realise that an adjustment in diet is required to maintain your mineral intake but I put them back in the form of naturally dried mineral sea salts. Having seen the crud that is in my water and having smelled the distiller after use- believe me when I say you would do the same as me!! I'm sure chalk aquifers were brilliant at one time but with all the pesticides, chemicals, , particularly petrochemicals seeping into our water supplies.... ? Well it's just better to be protected from them. Have you all watched the video?
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Quite entertaining.
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Merve,
Given that so much material is ending up in the world’s oceans, aren’t you just a little concerned as to just what, undesirable impurities, the additional ‘Dissoluble Mineral Sea Salt’ may contain?
Or have you already looked into that one?
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Oh dear. All this just convinces me more to avoid water and drink beer. After all, that was how beer came to be so popular in England hundreds of years ago.
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