Is pure water bad for you?

Answer 1

Well too much water in general can kill you. It's pureness isn't the issue and isn't a factor.

Your body takes time to remove excess water and if you drink faster than it can regulate it, your body's pH, temperature, and systems in general will leave homeostasis.

As you keep drinking water the conditions in your body become more and more extreme, and eventually you can end up dying.

The amount of water needed for this to occur though is usually a very high amount and usually these deaths occur when people were holding in their urine and not going to the bathroom like they should; when they felt the urge to.

If you drink less than a gallon of water an hour and go to the bathroom when you feel like going, you'll be fine.

Answer 2

1. It is true that pure water absorbs nutrients VERY EFFECTIVELY, simply because there is more "capacity available" in pure water to absorb it. BUT that doesn't make it bad for our health. It actually makes it BETTER for our health.

   If the water we drink had unknown minerals it leaves less capacity for the water to absorb the necessary nutrients from the food you eat that your body needs and to deliver them to your cells. It also leaves less capacity for the water to carry out waste from your cells because it is already loaded with un-needed nutrients.

   The WHOLE purpose of water in our bodies is for mineral transport. Once water enters our body, it's job is the carry nutrients into all the cells and flush waste out of the cells. Pure water has the advantage here. BUT you have to eat a balanced diet to have enough nutrients available for delivery to your cells. If you mainly rely on the minerals available in "non-pure" water, you'd have to drink something like 5 bathtubs of water everyday. Water never was meant to be a source of nutrients. If you don't eat a balanced diet, both types of water will only end up flushing waste from your cells but will have nothing to deliver to your cells. Unless your water is contaminated it doesn't matter what type of water you drink. People will always complain, valid or not, about one or the other.

   Just to clarify further… Pure water isn't bad for you. When you eat something, digestion breaks down food, and water absorbs these nutrients to then deliver to your cells. Think of it like a river that brings in sediment but flushes it away too. Your cells, via the cellular membrane, control what can be brought in and what can be flushed out. Many nutrients and vitamins are water soluble (dissolve in water - Vitamin C). Many are fat soluble (dissolve in fat - Vitamin E). The fat soluble ones are stored in the body fat and used as needed. They are more difficult to flush out but instead are used up. If you intake too much you can develope poisoning of these as they'll build up in your fat faster than they are being used up. The water soluble ones on the other hand are constantly flowing in/out of your cells and not stored. This is where water comes into play. It absorbs these water soluble minerals and vitamins and is used as it flows into the cells but excess then gets flushed out as the water flows out of the cell. From this you can see how pure water isn't bad for you.

Answer 3

It is not the amount of distilled water or any water, but the sodium and electrolytes displaced by consumption of excessive amounts of water or excessive exercise without replacement of nutrients that causes death. This condition is called hyponaturemia. Hyponaturemia sets in when sodium serum level of less than 135 mEq/L (milliequivalent or 1/1000 of a gram per Liter) occur (typically from over consumption of water) and is considered serious or severe when the serum level is below 125 mEq/L.

Answer 4

No, it isn't. This is just a stupid urban legend making the rounds.

Pure water can damage organisms that are used to living in, say, seawater. But it's not "toxic".

Answer 5

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