If you’re looking to buy distilled water, I sincerely hope it’s because you’re a scientist and need pure water to clean your lab instruments. Because if you’re not a scientist and want to drink distilled water, don’t do it! It’s very acidic and, over time, will make you sick.
Distilled water and reverse osmosis water were created to prevent leaving behind residue. Lab equipment is very sensitive, so when cleaning it, you want to avoid leaving alkaline minerals like calcium and magnesium behind. It was never intended for people to enjoy drinking it.
Fast forward to today, and add some greedy corporations with deceptive marketing campaigns, and you’ve products like Dasani, Aquafina, and the Pure Water Store, all selling “zero” water. Why? Because they argue that pure water is better for you. It’s not!
So, why don’t you want to buy distilled water to drink? For one, it’s empty, and that’s a very bad thing when it comes to your health. Water is supposed to contain substances that promote health, such as alkaline minerals, oxygen, and antioxidants. When you purify it with a distilled or reverse osmosis system, you take all that good stuff out and leave behind an empty vessel.
When water is empty, it is acidic, and when something acidic comes in contact with something else, it oxidizes it. Oxidation is rust. If you drink distilled or reverse osmosis water over time, you will leach valuable minerals from your bones, leaving you susceptible to conditions like osteoporosis. The rusting occurs at a cellular level, where drinking pure water over time will raise oxidative stress levels (think free radical damage). The higher these oxidative stress levels, the more likely you are to develop adult-onset diseases like arthritis, cancer, and diabetes.
High levels of oxidative stress have been determined to be the cause of or linked to over 200 illnesses and diseases we face. When it comes to water, you certainly don’t want to drink something that increases oxidative stress in your cells and increases the chance you will get sick!
If you don’t buy distilled water, you may be tempted by other types of bottled water. If it’s Aquafina or any other brand using reverse osmosis to purify the water, the result is the same acidic water as distilled water. Some bottled water brands, such as Fuji, are made from bottled spring water. This water is usually superior to distilled or reverse osmosis water because it contains natural alkaline minerals that maintain a pH level of around 7, or neutral.
If you have a choice, opt for spring water. However, there’s a significant problem with bottled water, regardless of its origin, that it has been sitting in a bottle for a long time.
A natural spring water has energy from the sun in the form of ions. These ions combine with the hydrogen in water to make active dissolved hydrogen, which is water’s natural antioxidant. But if you take natural spring water away from the sun and stick it in a bottle, those natural hydrogen ions will fizzle out just like carbonation fizzles out of a soda. This natural water, once alive and ready to make you healthy, becomes stagnant and dead.
Most of us don’t have access to a natural spring or glacial stream to obtain water that’s naturally rich in antioxidants. Luckily, water ionizers replicate the sun’s effects, creating high-quality, healthy water. The first water ionizers made in Japan used the Fountain of Youth in Lordes, France, as the model for the natural water they wanted to create. When scientists tested this water alongside water from other longevity springs and glacial streams, they found that it had a pH of approximately 9.5 and an ORP of -330. ORP stands for oxidation-reduction potential, and in natural water, it measures the antioxidants present in the water.
Japanese scientists discovered that using water electrolysis could transform stagnant water, such as tap water, into natural alkaline water rich in antioxidants, which measured the same as the longevity-promoting properties of springs, glaciers, and even the Fountain of Youth.
Now, the technology has improved even further with advanced 16-stage filtration systems, complemented by superior quality platinum-titanium plates. A modern water ionizer like the EOS Genesis Platinum 9, will remove 99.99% of toxins and impurities from your water, create the perfect drinking water at a 9.5 pH and -330 ORP, and create multiple other water pH levels that you can use to clean, water your plants, clean your face, and even sterilize bacteria and viruses in your sponges and tooth brushes!
So, don’t buy distilled water to drink, it’s not healthy and it’s expensive. The cost of a liter of water from a water ionizer is only about $.02! You’ll save money with a water ionizer and get the healthiest possible water to drink.
