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It's all just kind of f'd anyway. The biological need for "water" is tuned to expect "water" to involve all sorts of trace minerals and compounds, some desired
by swatcoder 3y ago
It's all just kind of f'd anyway.
The biological need for "water" is tuned to expect "water" to involve all sorts of trace minerals and compounds, some desired and some undesired, as well as some kind of stream of gut flora contributors and immune system challenges.
Thinking of RO and other forms of heavily or industrially purified H20 as the same thing is a technologist's mistaken idealization, and to a cynical eye reads a lot more like ancient Hellenic ideas about simple essential fluids than anything either scientific or sustainable.
It may be a necessary compromise because of modern contamination or because modern demand forces us to rely on increasingly worse supplies, but it's a long way from "verifying the response". It's more like an ugly last resort hack.
- JohnMakin 3y agoGo drink unfiltered water out of a wilderness stream after a melt and tell me how it goes
- scottyah 3y agoI've done it a few times, never got sick. I've known people to not be so lucky, but that's pretty rare. Sure does "taste" good, but I'm not sure how much of that is circumstance based.
- JohnMakin 3y agoSorry I was not meaning to be as snarky as that came off. I’m an avid backpacker and have been in situations where I had to drink unfiltered stream water - while I know it’s possible to do so and not suffer ill effects, there are also a ton of super bad effects, and our bodies are far removed from the environment we evolved in 100k+ years ago. I don’t know the research on this but I’d wager our gut biome is much different than it was a million years ago as well.
- newZWhoDis 3y agoCompete and utter nonsense. You’d need 100+ gal/day to get the trace mineral content of a multi vitamin. The rest is equally preposterous.