Drinking RO/DI
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I drink either distilled water or purified water (Ozonated, De-ionized, carbon filtered) and have been for 20 + years. I drink between 1/2 and 1 gallon of it per day. I have never had a serious illness or been or felt inexplicably ill. That the "empty" water depletes minerals and other necessary substances out of your body faster than they are replenished has been a subject of debate for years and years. I should have died from heart failure many times over from all those years working outside in the deep south and drinking gobs of the evil, deadly water after already sweating out 1/2 the minerals in my body. Obviously I don't buy the "good water is bad to drink" stuff. Water shouldnt taste like anything as far as I'm concerned.
The whole "DI is bad for water" myth is just that - a myth. DI or RO/DI stops being deionized the second it touches your tongue.
The only reason why people don't drink straight RO/DI is because of the bad taste. That's why RO/DI drinking units usually comes with a carbon "taste" block to re-introduce a few ppm of TDS back into the water.
The only reason why people don't drink straight RO/DI is because of the bad taste. That's why RO/DI drinking units usually comes with a carbon "taste" block to re-introduce a few ppm of TDS back into the water.
cloudjockey
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Drinking RO/DI water does not remove or add anything to your body. I think you're best off with tap water or mineral water for drinking, but it's not going to hurt you.
wharfrat48
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So should I remove my post DI carbon filter for my fish tank use?
MrZ
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Absolutely - the only reason it is there is to make the water taste better for human consumption. No need for it when making water for your reef tank.
On another note - what some people will do is Tee off between the output from the RO membrane and the input for the DI cartridge for drinking water (basically bypassing the DI stage)
Me...I drink tap water. Nothing wrong with it around here and supposedly the flouride they put in the water is good for your teeth. This whole craze of drinking filtered water is pretty darn silly in my opinion unless you live somewhere with extremely hard or extremely poor tasting water. In that case I would still say put in whole house sediment filter and a water softener, save the RO water for the fishes, and use the wastewater for the laundry or kuring homemade rocks.
It isn't a myth, but for the most part is just extreme cases where you drink a lot of RO water in a short amount of time or in combination with fasting from food.
Do you recall the lady that died a few months back from the Wee for a Wii contest?
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070116-1736-ca-waterintoxication.html
Here is the article from wikipedia about water intoxication.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Do you recall the lady that died a few months back from the Wee for a Wii contest?
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070116-1736-ca-waterintoxication.html
Here is the article from wikipedia about water intoxication.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
This is ABSOLUTELY RETARDED.
Go check all your mineral water bottles on the back. MOST of them are bottled tap processed by RO/DI.
Do you honestly think RO/DI was developed for reef keeping? It was designed to make drinking water from rain or desalinazation from the ocean.
Where do you guys read this bunk about all the minerals leeching from your body?
I've been drinking RO/DI for YEARS, and i'm perfectly fine, and hell if im going to drink 400 TDS LA tap. Yuck.
The whole leeching minerals ideas come from the same pseudoscientists that also believe in 'detoxification' and other oppotunistic garbage to make a quick buck. Just googling the dangers of RO/DI I found a water ionizer, that puts more of the good stuff in.
Go check all your mineral water bottles on the back. MOST of them are bottled tap processed by RO/DI.
Do you honestly think RO/DI was developed for reef keeping? It was designed to make drinking water from rain or desalinazation from the ocean.
Where do you guys read this bunk about all the minerals leeching from your body?
I've been drinking RO/DI for YEARS, and i'm perfectly fine, and hell if im going to drink 400 TDS LA tap. Yuck.
The whole leeching minerals ideas come from the same pseudoscientists that also believe in 'detoxification' and other oppotunistic garbage to make a quick buck. Just googling the dangers of RO/DI I found a water ionizer, that puts more of the good stuff in.
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It is called water intoxication but only happens in extreme circumstances.
Read about it in my above link.
Again. READ THE ARTICLE.
It not necessarily about taking away minerals just diluation of electrolytes within your body that can be fatal.
I TOTALLY agree that RO/DI is fine to drink.
I'm saying trying to explain how and where all this half truth stuff about leaching minerals is steaming from and that it is not a myth, nor bunk. It can happen in EXTREME circumstances.
None of which is a concern for people of drink normal amounts of RO/DI water and replenish minerals via food.
I'm saying trying to explain how and where all this half truth stuff about leaching minerals is steaming from and that it is not a myth, nor bunk. It can happen in EXTREME circumstances.
None of which is a concern for people of drink normal amounts of RO/DI water and replenish minerals via food.
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It doesn't take away. It dilutes. I'm saying it is a very common misconception people make when they say and/or believe it strips, leaches or whatever you want to call it.
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