• @[email protected]
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    209 months ago

    No. You can get those minerals from your food. It is safe to drink distilled water. But there is a lot of misinformation about distilled water, I have even had people tell me it can kill them! Water is water. Get your minerals from food.

    • @mnemonicmonkeys
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      49 months ago

      Tbf, chugging over a gallon of distilled water in one go will actually kill you though

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        9 months ago

        Better than chugging a gallon of artificial sweetener, caffiene and flavours.

        Isn’t a gallon almost four litres? A gallon of anything is going to be dangerous to drink all at once.

        • @mnemonicmonkeys
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          39 months ago

          Isn’t a gallon almost four litres? A gallon of anything is going to be dangerous to drink all at once.

          That’s the joke

    • I Cast Fist
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      39 months ago

      Good to know, I had the misconception that you could only get some never specified minerals from freshwater and that distilled water would leave you mostly thirsty.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        Likely from some company trying to sell expensive foul tasting “sports water”. Eat a bag of crisps with your water if you are really concerned about your salt intake.

        Drinking distilled water will not leave you thirsty. And on a study here in Australia on teenagers drinking electrolyte sport drink vs water while doing athletics, it was proven there was better athletic performance from the water drinkers… Which brings a lot of the advertising into question.