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Do people actually drink distilled water? If you want to increase your water consumption, I believe unadulterated tap water will contain sufficient electrolytes
by spuz 5y ago
Do people actually drink distilled water? If you want to increase your water consumption, I believe unadulterated tap water will contain sufficient electrolytes. No need to complicate your life by supplementing with additional salt. Obviously, drinking too much tap water will deplete the electrolytes in your blood but it's probably still wise for more people to drink a little more water than they already do even if it doesn't have the perfect salt balance.
- hammock 5y agoYes, adding to the existing comment, all water I use in the kitchen for internal consumption comes from either an RO filtered tap or a water filter pitcher, both of which remove electrolytes. The purpose of this is to avoid lead and other contaminants.
- dade_ 5y agoMany cities, such as Toronto where I live, still have lead pipes for drinking water. The levels are extremely low, and they have various additives in the water supply to minimize risk, but the safe level of lead consumption is zero. So yeah, I drink distilled water. It’s also handy to have distilled water around for various uses, such as steam irons. There are many sources of electrolytes, bananas, our endless array of processed food, salt, etc. I can’t imagine anyone in North America needs to worry about their electrolytes, beyond those that do anyway due to medical issues or due to strenuous physical activity. Our lackadaisical attitude toward pollutants in our drinking water, especially lead never ceases to amaze me. Though we shouldn’t be dumping such large amounts of a pollutant in our waterways, it is wild to see the traction fluoride gets with the paranoid.