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From what I've read if you only drink a few glasses a day it's fine. It's when you drink more than that you start flushing calcium and other minerals out of your body.
As far as I know distilled water doesn't leach stainless steel.
I know what you mean about the hardened residue. I have a living water distiller and I quit using it because I got tired of cleaning it all the time.
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I never tried Citric Acid Monohydrate. On mine I soaked the boiler in vinegar until the lime was soft and then I would use a brush to brush it out.
Luckily I like water and that's what I mostly drink. I also drink some coffee, tea, and tart cherry juice for my arthritis.
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This guy Dr. Mercola is selling something just like the Swerdlows are. So why is he different? Because he has a "Dr" in front of his name?
He's wrong about getting minerals from water since the minerals found in water are inorganic that come from ores and rocks, etc. Your body can't assimilate them. The type of minerals your body requires are from food sources like fruits and vegetables.
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I agree with you Eurydice, I know the damage that drinking only distilled water did to my body. I was sick for a very long time, could not get the mineral count up in my body no matter how many supplements I took. I had so many problems with pain, brain function, cramps, hormone imbalance. Finally, after 9 years of distilled water, which Swerdlow advised me to drink, I went back to spring water.
Swerdlow feels that distilled is the cleanest water. That is not incorrect, but it is also dead water. He advised that if you drink spring water you absorb too much radon into your body. Once I started to think about it, I realized that radon is a gas that rises and evaporates, so if you leave your water open for a bit, any radon (if there is any) would just evaporate out.
I was advised by 3 different doctors to stop drinking distilled water, but I didn't listen. I was convinced that Swerdlow was correct. My mistake. As a matter of fact, I don't think there was a single thing that Swerdlow told me to take for my health that helped me.
I was so sick that I searched for another doctor, he figured out what was going on, added amazing supplements to my diet, got me off the distilled water.
I am now taking a wonderful mineral supplement plus drinking either reverse osmosis water or spring water. My health has returned.
What was happening was that the distilled water was leaching out everything I put into my body, all the minerals, etc. What a waste of time and money.
Once I got off the distilled water, my body began to absorb what I needed and my health returned.
Of course, I did other therapies also, but I do think a huge part of it was getting off the distilled water.
I have a friend who was suffering tremendous leg cramps, she could not get enough minerals into her body, she was taking huge amounts of potassium each day just to stop the pain. She was a huge distilled water drinker also. Once she stopped drinking it, her cramps left her.
Distilled water is great for irons, not for humans, IMO.
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