The purest water comes from… STEAM!
For the past 6 years, I have been producing my own pure water at a fraction of bottled water using city water. If you want to be healthy, you got to start with the quality of your water as it is essential for just about every bodily function.
Reverse Osmosis VS Distillation
For me, the choice was easy, the two leading methods of water purification are reverse osmosis and distillation. The main advantage to reverse osmosis is that it uses filters, which means you can produce water, as you need it. This is also a huge drawback because you need to keep buying these filters and my guess is that water quality slowly degrades as the filters fill up with gunk. The other method, distillation, uses no filters and simply captures the steam from boiling the water in an enclosed capsule. The huge advantage to this is you purchase it once without any ongoing expense other then electricity but the disadvantage is you may have to wait for the water (run it over night and this isn’t a problem).
If you review studies done on effective water quality of these systems, distillation is hands down the most efficient way to produce the highest quality water for you and your family. You can get this information freely by contacting a distilled water products manufacturer or distributor
Distilled water controversy
There seems to be a controversy regarding drinking distilled water, the main one is you ONLY have H2O (2 Hydrogen atoms and 1 Oxygen atom), everything is taken out – including minerals and fluoride. This is the reason why I bought mine in the first place! I want all that stuff out of my water! Since when is water considered as a way to supplement an inadequate diet? Toothpaste has fluoride by the way 
I have also heard that distilled water is bad for your organs as it leaches out minerals from your own body, this is a property that all water types have – the hydrogen and oxygen molecules making up water hate being alone. Generally speaking, the purer the water, the more aggressive an absorber it becomes (both toxic and helpful ones to the body) BUT a healthy diet provides more then enough nutritional compounds for the body to offset this loss. If you want to start comparing leaching agents, alcohol and carbonated drinks are far more effective in the body at leaching then water. This is a fact often lost in the statistics and studies shown against the use of distilled water.
Distilled water also has a neutral ph. In other words, it has no effect (positive or negative) on the body’s chemical reactions; this is why science laboratories around the world use distillation as their preferred method of water purification. There is also evidence that distilled water absorbs CO2 from the air thus making is acidic; again a proper diet will easily offset this – if it where true. I have used a ph test strip after 3 hours of having the distilled water out (about how long it lasts here before making a new batch), I saw no change in ph. Again, this is a property that ALL water types have including many other liquids. You have to ask yourself why detractors hate distilled water so much yet make no statement regarding the acidity of carbonated drinks?
Distilled water is also blamed for disrupting the electrolyte balance of the body (sodium, potassium & chloride), true, distilled water lacks electrolytes but so what, since when is water your primary and sole source of electrolytes (much less minerals, vitamins etc.)? Eat food! If you are fasting or going without food for any length of time (ei: days), no matter the type of water you are using, you should supplement it by drinking something high in electrolytes. By the way, drinking regular water and even alcohol also reduces your electrolytes
Again, if all you do is drink distilled (or any other “type” of drink) without eating and/or a very poor diet to begin with, you will have health problems regardless. Pointing in the direction of distilled water as a factor in diseases like osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure (and the list continues) simply doesn’t hold water. If this was true, then why do people drinking “normal” water get these conditions as well? Mmmmm-.
Why are distillation systems so hard to find?
Simple answer is a 5-letter word that starts with G and finishes with D. Listen, if you could purchase 1 system and never need anything else for 10-15 years, those companies would go out of business. They push reverse osmosis (and other systems) for a reason; you need to keep coming in to purchase filters and equipment. If they try to pull this on you, go somewhere else – they don’t have your health in mind, only their bottom line.
One interesting fact you will notice is that the largest detractors of distilled water tend to have a vested interest in their own system or patents. If you want pure water, then get pure water – anything less is NOT pure water, it’s polluted.
Reading through distilled water detractors information you would think pure water was essentially a toxic substance and only “their” water was safe to drink. If they where so concerned about what you drink, why is there NO statement anywhere regarding the detrimental effects of alcohol consumption or to a far lesser extent, carbonated drinks?
The Bottom Line
If you want pure cheap water, get a distillation system. They range from a few hundred to a few thousand depending on the quality you need. For one person, a counter top version produces more then enough for cooking and drinking. Nothing comes close to the quality of water it produces short of mixing hydrogen gas with oxygen gas. From all that I have read, I have come to the conclusion with a good diet, distilled water is superior to “polluted” water in every way except one, the profit margins for other companies.
Additional Information
I have not cited any scientific studies regarding the effects of distilled water on the body, I consider them flawed and to narrow in scope as they do not take into account diet (before, during or after the study), exercise (amount or type) and medical history of the people involved. This is a HUGE and glaring hole in their methodology, enough to make them worthless in my opinion.
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Hi, enjoyed your article about distilled water. You did not mention a large, usually overlooked benefit of distilled water. Its real benefit is that due to its purity it has less surface tension than other waters. This translates into much increased absorbtion by the body ingesting it.
I never heard of that Barbieri but I do believe the purer the source, the better anything is for the body. For instance, processed foods are unhealthy because of the changes made to the whole from which they are made. Good comment!
Jon