can you drink RO/DI?

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by Aquaria

well in my interweb searches iv found that drinking it can acually effect your intakes of certin vitamins that come in water since the water is stripped of everything. im sure u could offset this by taking vitamins and drinking milk though. this is all based off of internet reading :P but IMHO, no you shouldent drink it

Stop believing stuff on the internet (Haha Iroonnnyyyy), there are no vitamins in tap water. Vitamins are organic compounds produced biologically, you don't find them in tap water only in them in the food you eat. This myth about having to drink tap water to get your mineral content/ vitamins is unbelievably wrong.

A single 50g serving of Swiss cheese contains 480 mg of Calcium which equates to about 1.19 e-2 mols of calcium or 7,211976048000000000000 molecules (7.2e21). Calgary water has 200 ppm of dissolved minerals (Including Calcium, Magnesium, sodium...). 50 mL of water is 50g, at 200 ppm 0.02% of that is minerals or 0.01g, this means that there are about 2.49e-4 mols of minerals or 1.49e20 molecules (using the heavier weight of calcium to calculate).

What does it all mean Basil!
Well for every 1 calcium molecule in cheese there are 0.02 dissolved hardness molecules in water (again this includes Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium...). So you would have to drink 2.5L of water to match 50g of cheese and I'm still comparing apples to oranges here as that's pure calcium in cheese and an accumulation of all hardness minerals in water.

The major advantage to drinking RO water is that you know it's ONLY water, a proper RO unit will filter out not only all the minerals but containment such as chlorine, chloramine, VOC, bacteria, viruses, lead and anything else your worried about.

Don't listen to me though, my opinion is bias as I used to sell these units. .

[BC564]

ok...Calgary does not use Chloramine to disinfect.......

[Aquaria]

first off ill say i don't believe everything i read and second there is NO proof as to it being good OR bad thats why i said IMHO i wouldn't drink it. there still to much debate as to it being healthy or not for me to drink it, i want some concrete evidence before i pour a glass. you say that theres no evidence that its bad well i say theres no evidence that its good either again IMHO

[Cranky When Wet]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Stop believing stuff on the internet (Haha Iroonnnyyyy), there are no vitamins in tap water. Vitamins are organic compounds produced biologically, you don't find them in tap water only in them in the food you eat. This myth about having to drink tap water to get your mineral content/ vitamins is unbelievably wrong.

A single 50g serving of Swiss cheese contains 480 mg of Calcium which equates to about 1.19 e-2 mols of calcium or 7,211976048000000000000 molecules (7.2e21). Calgary water has 200 ppm of dissolved minerals (Including Calcium, Magnesium, sodium...). 50 mL of water is 50g, at 200 ppm 0.02% of that is minerals or 0.01g, this means that there are about 2.49e-4 mols of minerals or 1.49e20 molecules (using the heavier weight of calcium to calculate).

What does it all mean Basil!
Well for every 1 calcium molecule in cheese there are 0.02 dissolved hardness molecules in water (again this includes Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium...). So you would have to drink 2.5L of water to match 50g of cheese and I'm still comparing apples to oranges here as that's pure calcium in cheese and an accumulation of all hardness minerals in water.

The major advantage to drinking RO water is that you know it's ONLY water, a proper RO unit will filter out not only all the minerals but containment such as chlorine, chloramine, VOC, bacteria, viruses, lead and anything else your worried about.

Don't listen to me though, my opinion is bias as I used to sell these units. .

Love your "biased" opinion and sound, logical, good sense! Yeah, I really want to swill chloramine to get an atomic particle of a mineral I get reams of by eating a handful of raw almonds or a whack of nice, dark green, leafy things. As for electrolytes, I rather like what many Canadian athletes are doing: chug back a glass of coconut water! It's loaded with medium-chain triglycerides that are converted by your liver immediately, and effortlessly, for that much-needed energy... Of course, it's hard to say what kind of water said coconut is floating in... arrrrgh... again, we need to make our own to be really safe!

Needless to say... clean water is a luxury for most of the world now. Enjoy it if you can. It's your body and your choice.

I fully support drinking, and using, the absolutely, cleanest, purest water I can get.

'Nuff said, Bunny >:-)

[ScubaSteve]

The #1 lab procedure we have for RO/DI is: don't drink it. You can drink it but you actually leach minerals from your body. Most home RO units won't bring your water down to totally zero so it's not as big of a deal but if it's really pure water, like what you'd get from a Milli-Q unit, you can start doing some damage. It's not going to kill you or anything but it ain't good.

I actually own a company that is developing a process to compete with RO for drinking water (mostly in rural areas and urban settings without infrastructure). We CAN drive the output water to absolute zero but no one wants to drink that water and I actually have had to design it to leave behind some of the good stuff while removing all thebad stuff.

Originally Posted by Dive_dry

bottle water is RO water

No it ain't. Sorry, not trying to be a jerk but you should really look into that a bit. Very few companies actually do that as it is so damn expensive.

[Sebae again]

I compensate my intake of RO water with beer.

[darb]

be careful not to drink too much H2O, you can get intoxicated from water also ...

[fkshiu]

Phhhphht, big time urban myth. RO/DI water becomes "regular" water the moment it touches your lips. It's not some kind of vampire water.

You get the vast majority of minerals from the food you eat. A few cups of RO/DI won't kill you. It just tastes bad.

Perhaps if you ingested nothing but gallons of RO/DI for weeks on end you'd have a problem, but your problems would be caused by the fact that you haven't eaten more than the water itself.

[freezetyle]

Originally Posted by darb

be careful not to drink too much H2O, you can get intoxicated from water also ...

define too much water. I shoot to drink about a gallon of water a day and i know many athletes that will drink up to two gallons per day. Most people do not drink enough fluids as it is. coffee, pop, caffeinated drinks, booze, etc. do not count of course

[daniella3d]

It totaly lack mineral so drinking too much of it will be detrimental to your health yes. We do need some mineral salt or we could be poisoned by water if we swet and the mineral are not replaced.

So it'S ok if you drink mineral in other manner but if you do exercice, swet a lot and drink a lot of RODI water it would be bad for you. Do a search on water poisoning in google.

Nothing can live in RODI water, not even discus. They would die eventualy.

Originally Posted by Capt_kulafu

hello my fellow reefers

Is drinking RO/DI water bad for you?