Drinking Reverse Osmosis water

greg nr

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Be careful of cheap RO filters. They produce a lot of dihydrogen monoxide. It's fine for plants but be careful drinking it!
 

a senile fungus

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From the PDF...

"
At one of the working meetings for preparation of guidelines for drinking water quality, the
World Health Organization (WHO) considered the issue of the desired or optimum mineral
composition of desalinated drinking water by focusing on the possible adverse health effects of
removing some substances that are naturally present in drinking water (2). In the late 1970’s, the
WHO also commissioned a study to provide background information for issuing guidelines for
desalinated water. That study was conducted by a team of researchers of the A.N. Sysin Institute
of General and Public Hygiene and USSR Academy of Medical Sciences under the direction of
Professor Sidorenko and Dr. Rakhmanin. The final report, published in 1980 as an internal
working document (3), concluded that “not only does completely demineralised water (distillate)
have unsatisfactory organoleptic properities, but it also has a definite adverse influence on the
animal and human organism”.
After evaluating the available health, organoleptic, and other
information, the team recommended that demineralised water contain 1.) a minimum level for
dissolved salts (100 mg/L), bicarbonate ion (30 mg/L), and calcium (30 mg/L); 2.) an optimum
level for total dissolved salts (250-500 mg/L for chloride-sulfate water and 250-500 mg/L for
bicarbonate water); 3.) a maximum level for alkalinity (6.5 meq/l), sodium (200 mg/L), boron (0.5
mg/L), and bromine (0.01 mg/L). Some of these recommendations are discussed in greater detail
in this chapter."


Basically, you remove all the stuffs from the water, and if you drink the water, the water will begin to removes stuffs from your body.

Same with our plants, they can't be given straight R.O. for very long without adverse effects...

If you're gonna drink it, get a mineral additive pre-consumption.
 

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Dr.Nick Riviera

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From the PDF...

"
At one of the working meetings for preparation of guidelines for drinking water quality, the
World Health Organization (WHO) considered the issue of the desired or optimum mineral
composition of desalinated drinking water by focusing on the possible adverse health effects of
removing some substances that are naturally present in drinking water (2). In the late 1970’s, the
WHO also commissioned a study to provide background information for issuing guidelines for
desalinated water. That study was conducted by a team of researchers of the A.N. Sysin Institute
of General and Public Hygiene and USSR Academy of Medical Sciences under the direction of
Professor Sidorenko and Dr. Rakhmanin. The final report, published in 1980 as an internal
working document (3), concluded that “not only does completely demineralised water (distillate)
have unsatisfactory organoleptic properities, but it also has a definite adverse influence on the
animal and human organism”.
After evaluating the available health, organoleptic, and other
information, the team recommended that demineralised water contain 1.) a minimum level for
dissolved salts (100 mg/L), bicarbonate ion (30 mg/L), and calcium (30 mg/L); 2.) an optimum
level for total dissolved salts (250-500 mg/L for chloride-sulfate water and 250-500 mg/L for
bicarbonate water); 3.) a maximum level for alkalinity (6.5 meq/l), sodium (200 mg/L), boron (0.5
mg/L), and bromine (0.01 mg/L). Some of these recommendations are discussed in greater detail
in this chapter."


Basically, you remove all the stuffs from the water, and if you drink the water, the water will begin to removes stuffs from your body.

Same with our plants, they can't be given straight R.O. for very long without adverse effects...

If you're gonna drink it, get a mineral additive pre-consumption.
Been telling people for years not to use distilled in the garden.
 

BobCajun

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I always add a couple hundred mg of calcium ascorbate powder per liter of deionized water for drinking. No bicarbonate in it but how important is that? Suppose I could also add a little calcium carbonate too. I don't know where to get calcium bicarbonate conveniently. The ascorbate is good because you can't store vitamin C. Taking large amounts at a time is pointless.
 
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