Distilled Water & Health
Dr. Allen E. Banik : The Choice Is
Clear
Dr Elmer Carey : Distilled Water and
Longevity
Dr. Chester Handley : The Importance
Of Distilled Water In Aging
Dr. Lee Rozelle & Dr. Ronald
Wathen : Consumption of Low TDS Water
Dr. Siedlecki : Why Distilled Water!
The Choice Is Clear
byDr.
Allen E. Banik
The amazing discovery I am about to unfold to you had its
beginning some 40 years ago. Just why I did not receive the
impact then I will never know. A few short months ago the truth
finally revealed itself to me. At first I found it difficult be
comprehend, but little by little the facts began to blend until
I saw it all in its entirety, and The Choice Was Clear.
Only One
Possible Cause For All Aging Diseases?
Imagine one common possible cause for nearly all diseases! Can
it be that arthritis, kidney stones, gall stones,
arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), enlarged hearts,
emphysema, obesity, constipation, cataracts, glaucoma, diabetes,
all stem from one common cause? Unbelievable! But possibly very
true!
Can This Be
True?
We all use it every day-from the baby's first cry to the old
man's last breath. Water! The one element you need the most and
suspect the least. If this shocks you, do not be surprised, as
millions of Americans are still unaware of this "aging process,"
and indulge in it freely. Multitudes suffer from all the above
diseases, and unknowingly contribute to this cause daily.
Somehow the shots, pills, vitamin capsules and balanced diets
add only brief spurts to well-
being.
The arthritis can get a little worse, the arteries a little
harder, the gall stones and kidney stones a little larger, the
eyes a little dimmer, the hearing more complex, sugar starts to
appear in the urine, digestion slows down, constipation calls
for stronger laxatives-and waist lines get a little larger. It's
a never-ending cycle of feeling just a little worse than the day
before.
There Is
Hope Ahead
Let me cheer you up-there is good news in store for youhappy
years are now ahead of you - far into your nineties - even more.
Your stiff joints may begin to loosen, arteries become more
elastic, blood pressures can become more normal, heart action
firmer and more powerful. Your lungs can expand with fresh
air-kidney and gall stones can gradually dissolve, never to
appear again. That lost appetite can also reappear, and those
aggravating stomach pains somehow can vanish.
Dr. Brown
Landone And Captain Diamond Proved It
Let me quote a few authenticated case histories-just to prove
what has already taken place in the lives of two famous
individuals. One was an associate named Dr. Brown Landone who
lived to the splendid age of 98. His patient, a Captain Diamond,
lived vigorously to the fantastic age of 120 years.
Dr. Landone had a heart condition at the age of 17. Today it
would have meant a heart transplant or other dangerous surgery.
His doctor allotted him three months to live at the most. His
heart chambers and valves were coated with mineral depositsmuch
like his mother's teakettle. Dr. Landone was determined to live.
After devising a special treatment (I will go into details
later), he returned for his second heart examination two years
later. His doctor pronounced his heart perfect. All aglow with
life, young Landone enrolled in a medical college and received
the degree of Doctor of Neurology. He practiced this profession
for 50 years, then turned his talents to writing. His average
working day was from 18 to 20 hours. At the age of 98, he could
have been mistaken for a man of 50!
The Amazing
Age of Captain Diamond
During Dr. Landone's years in practice, he met Captain Diamond,
who was bed-ridden with arthritis and hardening of his arteries
at the age of 70.
Dr. Landone suggested his treatment. Five years later he was
teaching classes in physical culture. At the age of 103 he
walked from Sacramento to New York. At the age of 110 he danced
an night with a 16-year-old. He died at the fantastic age of
120!
The Secret
of Longevity
'Water" is what I will be writing about, from the very first
page to the last word. I will attempt to show facts about water
that will startle you. And from now on, until the day you draw
your last breath, you will remember what I have written on these
pages.
AR Water Is
Not The Same
There are at least nine different kinds of water. Some kinds can
harden your arteries, form gall stones and kidney stones, bring
on early senility, and all the diseases I mentioned earlier.
Other kinds of water works in reverse. What one type of water
carries into the system, the other carries out. Let me classify
these nine kinds of water. They are hard water, raw water,
boiled water, soft water, rain water, snow water, filtered
water, de-ionized water and distilled water. All are kinds of
water-but remember this: only one of these nine kinds of water
is good for you. Let me describe them briefly.
Hard water is water containing excessive lime salts, that is,
carbonates and sulfates of calcium and magnesium. Sodium, iron,
copper, silicon, nitrates, chlorides, viruses, bacteria,
chemicals, and many other harmful inorganic minerals and
chemicals may also be present. Most all the water we drink comes
from public water systems or private wells. These are hard
waters. Any water that has run through, or over, ground is hard
water to some degree. The longer it filters through the soil,
the harder it gets and the more harmful it may become for you.
Some cities take water from rivers and lakes or mountain
reservoirs. They call it soft water. But soft water from such
sources is soft only in comparison to water which is harder. I
recall that each year the earth's rivers carry to the sea five
billion tons of dissolved minerals and other unnumbered millions
of tons of carbon compounds and factory pollutants. "And ocean
life is on the decrease," according to Jacques Cousteau.
A False
Type Of Water
There are also the hard waters which are called "mineral
waters"- that is, waters from certain mineral springs-well known
for their medicinal effects. Practically all kinds of "bottled"
water is hard water.
The reason mineral waters have this so-called medicinal effect
is because the body tries to throw off the excess minerals which
invade it as intruding foreign deposits. Actually, a form of
dysentery exists, as the organism tries to eliminate and expel
this unusual condition. To subsist on this type of water could
be detrimental.
Raw water is water which has not been treated in any way. It may
be hard or soft - as hard as lime water, or as soft as rain
water. Raw water contains millions of viruses and bacteria, and
is densely inhabited in every drop. Chemicals dumped into our
rivers may cause cancer, according to the Environmental
Protection Agency.
True, properly chlorinated water kills most germs and viruses,
but it can also kill the cells in our bodies. The only safe rule
to follow individually is to distill drinking water, which will
eliminate both chlorine and pathogenic organisms.
Boiled
Water Is Not The Answer
Boiled water is advised by some health authorities. Boiling
removes none of the inorganic minerals, although it does kill
the bacteria in raw water if boiled at least 20 minutes. But the
dead bodies of these germs are carried into the system when the
boiled water is used. Such dead materials furnish a fertilized
soil for rapid and lusty propagation of germs already in the
body. By drinking boiled water one may avoid live disease germs,
but still takes on bacterial soil for the growth of other
bacteria.
While raw water is an aquarium filled with deadly
microorganisms, boiled water is a graveyard of dead germs.
The
Impurity Of Rain Water
Rain water, which has been distilled by the heat of the sun,
should contain no mineral matter and no germs. But when it falls
from the clouds as rain, it falls through air filled with
bacteria, dust, smoke, chemicals, mud and minerals. By the time
it reaches the earth as rain water it is so saturated with
decaying matter, dirt and chemicals that its color becomes a
yellowish-white.
If rain water is allowed to stand it becomes filthy because of
the rotting animal matter in it. I discuss it only because some
"nature faddists" are so ignorant that they advise the use of
rain water on the basis that it is "natural."
Snow Is
Unclean
Snow water is melted snow. It, too, picks up minerals, chemicals
and radioactive fallout such as Strontium 90. Snow is frozen
rain. Freezing does not destroy bacteria. Snow looks white and
clean but it contains as many germs, minerals and pollutants as
rain water. Remember the dirt left from melting snow in the
spring? How the dirt of what has melted forms on top of the snow
which is not yet melted! Try melting the cleanest snow, then
note the filth in the
water. Each snowflake contains some form of air pollution.
Filtered
Water Can Be Dangerous
Filtered water is water which has passed through a very fine
strainer, activated carbon or some other mechanical barrier. The
use of filtered water is still rather popular. Some people think
that water which has passed through a filter is purified. They
believe that the filter keeps the waste substances and disease
germs of the water in the filter. While it is true that
chlorine, some suspended substances and many synthetic chemicals
are removed in the filter by filtering, there is no filter made
which can prevent bacteria or viruses from passing through its
fine meshes. Each pore of the finest filter is large enough for
millions of germs to pass through, even those containing silver!
Moreover, decaying matter collects on the bottom of every
filter. This forms an excellent breeding ground for bacteria.
After a filter has been used for a few days, the filtered water
often contains more disease germs than the water which is put
into the filter. Bacteria are multiplied by the millions by the
collected wastes at the base of some filters, and washed through
with filtered water, according to Dr. Brown Landone.
De-ionized
Water Can Cause Virus Infections
Water processed by the de-ionized method effectively removes
minerals, and compares to distilled water in this respect.
However, it does become a breeding ground for bacteria,
pyrogenic matter and viruses. The fault in this system lies in
the resin beds which can become notorious breeding grounds.
Therefore it is not wise to have this possibility exist in your
drinking water.
Furthermore, deionization does not remove synthetic chemicals
such as herbicides, pesticides, insecticides or industrial
solvents.
The Miracle
Of All Water-Distilled Water!
Distilled water is water which has been turned into vapor, so
that virtually all its impurities are left behind. Then, by
condensing, it is turned back to "pure" water. Distillation is
the single most effective method of water purification. It is
God's water for the human race.
In a manner of speaking, distillation is nature's way. The
weather of the world is created in the tropics, where half the
heat reaching the earth falls on land and water masses. Here
heat energy is stored within water vapor through the process of
evaporation, nature's distillery. When the jet streams return
ocean water to inland areas, they do so without sea salts and
minerals, all of which have been left behind.
Nowadays you will hear a lot about reverse osmosis. In this
process, water is purified by forcing a portion of the raw water
through a semi-permeable membrane. Reverse osmosis removes a
high percentage of the dissolved solids as well as other
contaminants, and when new the result often approaches the
purity of distilled water. The degree of purity in any case
varies widely, depending on the types and conditions of the
equipment used, much as with filter equipment, and the
effectiveness lessens with use. Sometimes drastically!
Nature's
Natural Distilling Plant
Distilling water turns it into vapor, and then through
condensation, back again into pure water. Rising vapor cannot
carry minerals and other dissolved solids - it will not carry
disease germs, dead or alive. The secret is that the vapor rises
between all the suspended particles and chemicals in the air.
When this condensation occurs as falling rain, it picks up
airborne pollutants! Not so in a vented distiller where most of
them are eliminated.
If pure distilled water is boiled in a teakettle, no calcium or
minerals of any kind will collect to coat the inside of the
kettle, even though you used the same kettle for ten years.
The World's
Greatest Secret
Distilled water then is water of the purest kind. It is
odorless, colorless and tasteless. The divine purpose of water
is to regulate temperature and to act as a solvent. In nature,
water in evaporation is so fine that your eye cannot perceive it
as it is drawn up into the clouds. Then it falls as rain,
keeping the earth from being parched and burned.
As a solvent, it dissolves rocks and soil. It figures in the
transport of nutrients into plant life. In the human body, water
fills similar functions. It regulates the temperature of the
body by helping take off extra heat resulting from an intake of
some 3,000 calories of food each day.
Water keeps the body from burning up. It carries waste products
from the body.
The
Greatest Function Of Distilled Water
Distilled water acts as a solvent in the body. It dissolves food
substances so they can be assimilated and taken into every cell.
It dissolves inorganic mineral substances lodged in tissues of
the body so that such substances can be eliminated in the
process of purifying the body.
Distilled water is the greatest solvent on earth-the only one
that can be taken into the body without damage to the tissues.
By its continued use, it is possible to dissolve inorganic
minerals, acid crystals, and all the other waste products of the
body without injuring tissues.
Inorganic
Mineral Deposits Must Be Removed
For purification, distilled water is the solvent of choice.
After mineral deposits are dissolved, gentle muscular exercise
can force the dissolved poisons and wastes from the tissues into
the blood so that blood can carry wastes to the excretory
organs. Then, these organs can squeeze and pour the wastes out
of the body.
Remember that great scientists now not only admit but assert
that all old age, and even death- unless by accident-is due to
waste poisons not washed out of the body. The legendary Dr.
Alexis Carrel made heart tissue apparently immortal by regularly
washing away the wastes of the cells.
Now you have learned about the nine different types of water.
Let me repeat them again so you will never forget them: hard
water, soft water, raw water, boiled water, rain water, snow
water, filtered water, de-ionized water and distilled water. It
is wise to remember these nine different types of water, but
there is only one water you must always remember -- distilled
water! Dr. Paul Bragg, a life-time advocate of distilled water,
lived to age 94, the span of life others only lecture about. He
and others with track records say this is your lifeline to a
long, happy, carefree span of life.
Your Secret
Enemy At Work
Hard water then is your greatest enemy. It will destroy every
fond hope you have by striking you down when you should be
enjoying the fruits of your labors. Crippled joints, repeated
surgeries, enlarged hearts, hardened arteries, gall stones,
kidney stones, hearing problems, forgetful minds, all draw your
activities from the great out-of-doors into creaking rocking
chairs, and finally into bed-ridden old people's homes. Why all
this, when the body and mind was divinely designed to live
forever! Dr. Alexis Carrel proved that! Captain Diamond lived a
long merry life.
Let us trace the course of hard water, the cause of our ills. It
begins in the clouds. As it falls it collects minerals and
poisonous chemicals. It is good water, except for what it picks
up as it falls. When it reaches the'ground it is divinely
designed to do one thing, to pick up minerals.
These inorganic minerals are wonderful, but only for plants. As
the water picks up minerals, it distributes them evenly to plant
life. Plants would never grow if these minerals were not
supplied to their roots. Water then acts as a carrier of some
minerals, namely anion nutrients. But alas, chemicals have now
polluted our pure air. To clean the air, and make' t fit to
breathe, nature designed water to absorb these poisons.
The Fault
Lies In Inorganic Minerals
We have never realized that these collected minerals from the
air and in the ground are all inorganic minerals, which cannot
be assimilated by the body unless they are chelated into organic
molecules. The only minerals the body can utilize are the
organic minerals. All the others are foreign minerals and must
be disposed of or eliminated. Herein lies the problem we have
never suspected as the possible cause of nearly all our aging
diseases.
Only Plants
Need Inorganic Minerals
Water, as a carrier of minerals, is fine for the plant. The
plant in turn converts the inorganic to organic minerals. Now,
our bodies can assimilate them. We have worked this process in
reverse. We consume hard water saturated with calcium,
magnesium, iron, copper, silicon, not realizing the body is
unable to assimilate these nutrients efficiently. So nature
tucks them in the joints as arthritis, in the intestinal walls
as constipation, and along the arteries, causing them to harden.
The kidneys and liver roll up the mineral deposits into little
stones until they get too large for the ducts. Sometimes the
"filters" of the kidneys become so mineral clogged that kidney
transplants become necessary.
Heart
Conditions Can Result From Mineral Deposits
Calcium deposits in the heart chambers and valves become so
cemented into place with mineral deposits that heart surgery
becomes necessary. Calcium deposits in the inner ear cause
deafness. Skilled surgeons can now remove these deposits and in
many cases restore hearing again. Should these deposits occur on
the nerve, then total deafness can result. Since water is a
carrier of inorganic minerals, harmful to the body functions, we
now wisely remove virtually all trace minerals, chemicals and
foreign particles through the process of distillation. Then, and
only then, is water odorless, colorless, and tasteless and fit
for consumption.
I realize that there have been a few university study results
that seem to deny these observations. And it may be possible -
in rare circumstances-that water can contain organically
complexed minerals that are assimilable. But these are rare
situations, especially on our now polluted planet. I am also
aware of a study that tends to correlate heart health with hard
water areas. Full scrutiny of these data, however, poses more
questions than it answers. Not answered at all is how people are
to get unpolluted water in the first place.
Pure Water
Is Your Lifeline
We have now learned that water is a carrier of inorganic
minerals and toxic chemicals of organic synthesis. But through
the process of distilling, the water is separated from virtually
everything it carries, and is now pure water. As it enters the
body, it again picks up mineral deposits accumulated in the
joints, artery walls, or wherever such deposits occur, and
begins to carry them out. Gall stones and kidney stones get
smaller and smaller until they can safely pass through their
ducts. Little by little arthritic pains become less as joints
become more supple and movable. Arteries gradually become more
elastic as blood pressures tend to become more normal. Gradually
the outlook on life becomes a little more youthful-ambitions
begin to return, while the squeaking rocking chair will give way
to the web covered golf clubs.
The startling fact to remember is that water attracts chiefly
inorganic minerals. Organic minerals stay in the tissues, where
they belong. This is a marvelous feat of Divine Reasoning. We
were not born to die-we were born to live! This fact is easily
proved. X-rays of the arteries will never show unless there are
calcium deposits along the artery walls. Doesn't this prove that
we have mineral deposits even along swift moving blood channels?
So hard water carries inert minerals into the body, and
distilled water carries them out-it's just as simple as that.
There is then only one way you can purify your body and help to
eliminate your chronic aging diseases and that is through the
miracle of distilled water. A sludge-filled motor cannot operate
smoothly unless the sludge is removed. Neither can a body be
supple and ageless unless the joints, arteries, cells and nerve
tracts are free of mineral deposits!
The
Appalling Truth
The average person drinks about a gallon of water per day.
Adding up the cups of coffee, tea, soft drinks, food and water,
this gallon isn't too much. Many men drink much more. At a
gallon a day, the average person drinks up to 450 glasses of
solids during a life span. These same solids are found in your
humidifier, and in grandmother's teakettle. Think of it - 450
glasses of mineral solids in your system during a lifetime.
What does the body do with these foreign materials? Nature does
the very same thing you are now thinking. It tries to eliminate
them. Do you recall the water spots on your windows from your
water sprinkler? Ever try to remove them? It takes lots of
vinegar and lots of rubbing to dissolve the deposits.
This same reaction takes place in our bodies. It begins by
putting a thin film along our intestinal walls. As soon as one
film is laid, it attracts another film much easier, until it
begins to build up and one of the first results is constipation,
a plague to millions of people. Other deposits occur where blood
flows the slowest, such as in the joints as arthritis and gout,
along the arteries as hardening, in the veins as varicose, in
the lungs as emphysema. It often coats the crystalline lens of
the eyes with a fine film possibly resulting in cataracts.
Glaucoma, the dreaded eye disease, can be another result of hard
water. The tiny vessels film up with mineral deposits, which
result in a build-up of pressure in the eye. There has never
been a known cause for glaucoma. It might be the mineral
deposits.
In all my years of experience as a practicing optometrist-all my
glaucoma patients drank water with extreme hardness. Distilled
water as a possible preventative is still the best long-range
program to follow.
Heart
Attacks Unknown
Bantu African tribesmen are known to have the cleanest arteries,
as well as the most elastic ones. They dig no wells, but catch
rain water. Although this water is contaminated with bacteria,
it is still almost free of minerals. The air and water
pollutions, such as we have here, have not as yet affected them
as much. This is a tremendous testimony for mineral-free water.
Even the Europeans have far less cholesterol in their arteries
than we do. They of course drink more wine than we do. Wine is
comprised of distilled water. All water that passes through the
roots of plants, converts the inorganic minerals to organic
minerals, and distills the water at the same time. When juices
contain minerals, they contain them as complexed organic
molecules.
The True
Function Of Cholesterol
Cholesterol is very important to our system. We get it in
certain foods. The largest part originates in saturated fats,
and this type can be harmful. The liver also manufactures its
own cholesterol. Cholesterol is an oil or lubricant. It keeps
the blood oily so the blood can flow easily through the arteries
and veins. If it were not for cholesterol, the friction along
our artery walls would soon wear them through. Nature is not so
stupid. Everything is planned to work. But as inorganic mineral
deposits adhere to the artery walls, cholesterol collects,
narrowing the diameter of the arteries, risking possible
occlusion. The Bantu Africans did not have this problem. The
best time to avoid mineral deposits is at an early age. This
reasoning is logical,
My Personal
Experience
About forty years ago I felt the impact of the effects of
drinking hard deep well water. I never gave it much thought
until recently, perhaps, because I was not concerned about
longevity then.
This particular fanner had a most distressing health problem. I
doubt that he weighed a hundred pounds. At intervals he would be
unable to eat. If he did, he would belch, vomit and double up
with pain. I thought each day would be his last. Finally his
doctor advised him to leave his farm. Upon arriving in
California, a kind neighbor suggested he drink distilled water
with several small glasses of wine in between. A month later
symptoms vanished and he could eat heartily. Today at the age of
88 he is still hale and hearty, an example of good health. It
was the iron and magnesium in his well water that could have
spelled an early death for him.
I Followed
The Same Path
I still remember how I used to enjoy drinking ice cold water
from his deep well, not realizing I was consuming three glasses
of solids per year. That I too was a candidate for hardening of
the arteries, arthritis, cataracts, gall stones, diabetes,
obesity and other aging diseases never crossed my mind.
I then recalled another experience during my teen-age years. I
was born and reared in a small South Dakota town. In those days
we had a town well to supply our drinking water. It was good
cold hard water. (It did a wonderful job in corroding my
mother's teakettle.) The city electric plant was located near
the well, but I noticed the plant manager drank distilled water.
Being curious, I asked him why he drank that filthy water with
such good tasting well water nearby.
I can still feel the indignation that suddenly swelled up within
him. He then softened his words by saying, "Some day when you
grow up, you will find out." Somehow this always bothered me. I
knew he didn't want to take the time to explain it to a mere
kid. All the while I knew he had his reasons. It took me all
these years to find out.
The truth of drinking distilled water is not new. It is just
that the public has never caught on. Today, many progressive
doctors prescribe distilled water for their patients. All the
kidney machines operate on the purest distilled water. It is now
time to shake our sickly population out of their lethargy and
languor. Thousands of American cities have potential health
hazards in their drinking water and millions of farm wells
should be condemned.
The Dark
Clouds Are Gathering
Not only are we concerned about the minerals in our water, but
we must also add the deadly nitrates and anthracenes which are
seeping into our lakes, rivers and wells. The sewer wastes, and
factory pollutions, detergents included, travel upstream
underground at the rate of a half mile every six months.
Our
President Shocked
Our presidents realize that through pollution we could destroy
ourselves within the next few decades. Only through the backing
of our government and by spending billions of dollars can we
even begin to cope with this insurmountable problem.
What our presidents don't realize is that the first step to take
is to purify our drinking water. According to government
statistics, 10 parts per million of nitrates in water can kill a
newborn baby. This is serious! To put filtering plants in our
cities would take millions of dollars. The quickest solution to
our drinking water problem would be to distill and bottle water
for delivery to our homes.
My Personal
Problem Solved
I investigated this product and found distilled water was
selling for about fifty cents per gallon a few years ago. It is
higher now. I then began a search for a home still. There were
many on the market for our laboratories, but the plumbing and
the upkeep would be expensive, as well as a cleaning problem.
Also most stills were not made for drinking purposes.
As luck would have it, I found an all-electric automatic still
which just answered my purpose. The size of the still depends on
the number of gallons needed. They are automatic and attractive
in appearance, operate on pennies a day, and usually pay for
themselves in nine months. It solved my immediate drinking
problem for me and my family. I can now enjoy the purest water
at its best!
We Are Our
Own Worst Enemies
Now I can fight pollution. I can enter government programs
raising my voice at town meetings against pollution in the soil,
in the air and in the water. Today, the newborn baby doesn't
have a chance if there are nitrates in its first bottle of
water. Blue babies are the results of nitrates. How many babies
are crying today when the hidden cause lies in the water, food,
and the air they consume. Any mother would sacrifice her life
for that of her child - yet unknowingly, through pollution-she
becomes a hazard to her own child.
We Must
Declare War On Pollution
The fight to end pollution calls for the combined efforts of
every man, woman and child. The farmer must watch the
insecticides and the toxic chemicals in his soils. The
manufacturer must bottle up his waste products and eliminate
deadly monoxide gas. The air must be made free and clean of all
harmful particles. Pollutants are serious today-very serious.
Although I have solved my own problems so far as polluted and
mineral saturated water is concerned, what about the millions of
people in our cities who are unknowingly drinking water
saturated with toxic chemicals and inorganic minerals? What
about our rural people, who consider deep wells the epitome of
good drinking water, not realizing the surgeries and aging
diseases that may lie ahead?
Water Is
Never The Same
True, our officials inspect and test our city water
periodically, but water is never the same at all times, neither
are wells in the same locations. Water can vary every day.
Sometimes chemicals in water can become excessive; at other
times negligible; but at all times the minerals will be there.
We are looking for a mineral free and chemical-free water. This
is the only kind of water our bodies demand. Only through the
process of distillation can we achieve this purity.
Water: A
Carrier Of Disease
I recall a Dr. T. R. Van Dellen, who made the statement that
even foul water carries the germs of hepatitis. In one ten-year
time frame while I practiced in my profession, there were 1,700
cases of hepatitis due to contaminated water. Life is too
precious to victimize so many innocent people.
House Beautiful magazine once made this statement: "You may
still be able to drink water from your tap, but chances are it's
not as pure as it could - and should-be. The pollutants in much
of our water include chemicals from industry, such as lethal
chlorinates, obnoxious phenols and tannins, plus commercial
chemical fertilizers, weed killers, poison pesticides washed
into streams by runoff or put into the water by injudicious
overspray.
"Radioactive materials may one day be our most serious
pollutant. Should atmospheric testing be resumed, this would be
a menace. Also present is radioactive cesium-137 and even
benzene-5, a known carcinogen.
"What can we do about it? We can improve our own home water
supply. Water from our municipal systems has been treated to
kill contagion, but still may not be appetizing. It comes from a
sewage-polluted river or lake, it may be cloudy. It may be so
hard that soap won't lather, but instead forms curds that puts a
dirty ring around our bathtubs and turns our white clothes gray.
If our water comes from a well, it may have all these faults and
more. If you have a well, you may be floating on a sea of
sewage.
"Now the day is coming [for many it is already here] when we,
too, must face up to the question of whether we want to drink
our water as it runs from the tap. Stopgap measures could
correct some of its evils. But only some. The real answer lies
in our rivers, our lakes and in our soil-and in what we do to
protect them against befoulment. If we do nothing, a scourge of
major proportion may be our legacy." So wrote David X. Manners.
This will give you some idea of how serious our water problem
is! To clean it will take years. The answer lies in what we do
now for our own protection. La Vista, Nebraska, had a severe
water problem midway during my practicing career. The tap water
collected in jars was rust colored and murky. Mrs. Carol
Petersen, a local, said: "We had a lot of other neighbors who
wanted to come here this morning, but they couldn't because they
had to stay home with their children who had diarrhea from
drinking the water."
Since water is a carrier of minerals and chemicals, let me list
some of them found in our water:
Chlorine Copper Sodium Zinc Magnesium Lead Sulphur Selenium
Calcium Cesium Potassium Uranium Bromine Molybdenum Carbon
Thorium Strontium Cerium Boron Silver Silicon Vanadium Fluorine
Lanthanum Nitrogen Yttrium Aluminum Nickel Rubidium Scandium
Lithium Mercury Phosphorus Gold Barium Radium Iodine Cadmium
Arsenic Chrome Iron Cobalt Manganese Tin.
Our bodies need many of the above-mentioned elements, but only
in their organic state. They must first pass through the roots
of our plants before our bodies can assimilate them. Herein lies
the big error. Nature has a tremendous distilling plant. As the
vapors rise. all impurities are left behind. Only as the clouds
recondense the water does it again pick up the elements left
behind. Now it becomes harmful to us, but beneficial to plants.
There is a big difference between powdered iron filings and the
iron found in plants. It takes no chemist to tell the
difference.
Why Should
We Grow Older?
The body is designed to feel younger-at any age. To feel one day
older has always plagued the thinking of humanity and added
worries to everyday living. New wrinkles add up to deeper
lines-gray hair begins to crop out-while deaths occur at younger
ages. All this need never be. Youth should remain youth-age is
just a postponement-it need never come. The government is
planning to educate 10,000 additional doctors to take care of
the diseases for which we already have the natural cure. Why not
attack the water problem, and prevent the host of diseases,
without the need of additional doctors-who will die of the same
diseases they attempt to cure! There is no need to have a heart
so corroded with calcium deposits that surgery becomes
necessary.
What A
Price To Pay
One morning two patients came to my office. One had a ruptured
blood vessel due to hardening of the arteries. He also had polar
cataracts. The other patient had a severe nosebleed which
resulted in the loss of a pint of blood. When he arrived at the
hospital the doctor diagnosed his condition as arteriosclerosis,
or hardening of the arteries. Had his nosebleed not relieved his
pressure, it could have resulted in a stroke. Both patients
lived on a farm, drank water excessively from hard water wells.
Is it worth the price?
What Lies
In Store For Us?
Could all these aging, crippling diseases have been avoided?
What do we have to look forward to? Crippled joints and massive
strokes? Do we want medical costs to wipe out our life savings?
What lies in store for most of us?
The Rewards
of Prevention
Now is the time to shout the truth from our mountain tops. It's
time for the press, radio and television to splash this possible
secret to longevity on their front pages, through the air and on
our television screens. Let every man, woman and child become
alerted to one of the greatest discoveries of mankind. Let our
medical schools and practitioners turn their attention to
prevention. Vital organs are not meant to be removed, but to
function! Prevention, not drugs, is the answer to our aging
problems.
Water Is
Deceiving
What is in a sparkling glass of water may look pure, taste pure,
smell pure, but you will still have to drink it at your own
risk.
Here are pertinent suggestions:
1. The water must flow from the purest possible source. Adequate
safeguards must prevent pollution of this source.
2. Frequent surveys must be made to detect potential health
hazards.
3. An enforceable system of rules and regulations must prevent
development of health hazards.
4. Proper safeguards must protect water quality from source to
house.
5. Only qualified personnel may operate the water supply system.
6. The water source must have enough reserve to meet peak
demands.
7. Bacterial monitoring must be continuous.
8. Only specified, scientific tests may determine water quality.
9. Water with bacterial levels above precisely stated limits
must be considered unsafe for public consumption.
Consider, for example, Cleveland, which dropped thousands of
pounds of nitrates and phosphates into Lake Erie, part of its
metabolism. These wastes originated from homes, hotels,
laundromats and offices. These wastes included, among other
things, phenol, iron, zinc, sulfuric acids, ammonia, and
hydrofluoric acid (which incidentally eats through glass). All
this created complicated drinking water problems for Cleveland.
And for most industrial cities.
It's Time
To Become Alarmed
We do not know from day to day just what pollutions may exist in
our own water. There is, however, one way to be sure, and that
is to distill your own water. You are then sure that you will
get the purest water possible.
A Twin
Cities Problem
I remember reading about a Coon Rapids, Minnesota, housewife who
telephoned the state health department to report that water from
her home well had a peculiar "foam" on it. That was the first
sign of a problem that later became one of concern to several
million people in the Twin Cities area.
The "foam" came from surfactants, the active ingredient in
detergents. Surfactants do not occur in nature. Thus, when they
are found in an underwater supply, their origin can be traced
directly to sewage discharge.
Nitrates become hazardous to formula-fed infants. Boiling water
does not make the water safer, it only increases the
concentration of the nitrates.
Nitrates -
A Nebraska Problem
Nitrates fed to our Nebraska soils-to increase our food supply
along the Platte Valley-have become a health hazard to the
longest-lived people in the nation. Since the water table is
high, nitrates filter into the water supply for drinking
purposes. Since 10 parts per million can be fatal to a newborn
child, it is time to become concerned. Our luscious valley, with
its tall, waving corn, is rapidly becoming a death trap.
Today, mankind has destroyed our soils, our water and our air.
The lure for wealth has over- shadowed our gift of life. Through
our soils we have opened the doorway to hosts of new insects and
plant diseases. Through our contaminated waters we are killing
our wildlife and our babies in their cribs. The air is unfit to
breathe. Life today is not living. It is merely existing. Where
will it all end? Is it a problem for one of us, or all of us?
"If our soils are sick, our plants are sick. If our plants are
sick, our animals are sick and if our animals are sick, we
humans become sick," says Paul Brinkman.
Behind The
Curtain
Americans during any year eat millions of pounds of beef from
cattle that had "cancer eye," or similar tumorous disorders.
Thousands of cattle carcasses checked by federal inspectors are
held in meat plants until tumorous parts are whittled out. The
remainder of the meat is put on the market.
Millions of cattle carcasses are detained briefly in meat plants
while parts are cut out because of other diseases and injuries
ranging from adhesions to tuberculosis. The rest is just "fine"
for consumption.
In the meantime, federal regulations continue to permit meat
processors to carve out infected or damaged portions of animals,
condemn the cancerous parts of cattle, and sell the rest of the
meat on the market.
Since the meat processors do not want to lose their profits,
they would much rather feed this cancer-ridden meat to the
unsuspecting public as "U.S. Choice."
Eco-Agriculture
I am happy to report that a new form of clean agriculture is
gaining a toehold in the United States. It is being called
eco-agriculture by the publisher of Acres U.S.A.-a journal
layman and farmer alike ought to read-and it relies on
scientific principles as well as the practical experience of
organic growers.
Science has proved that plants with balanced hormone and enzyme
systems provide their own protection against insect and fungal
crop destroyers. The seat of this balance is soil fertility,
starting with a pH managed by keeping calcium, magnesium,
potassium, and sodium in proper equilibrium. The trace minerals
also figure since they are keys to proper functioning of plant
enzymes.
The full package known as eco-agriculture can and does produce
more abundant bins and bushels, and does it while improving
nutrient quality in food for animal and human consumption. What
a boon to agriculture and to the health of our nation.
The people of Hunza do not use toxic chemicals. They grow from
two to three crops per year. There are no insects or diseases.
Why not channel our research and educational dollars where they
will do some good?
The Wheel
Of Health
We live by the law of transformation. Transformation from the
soil to the plant-from the plant to the animal or human, then
back to the soil again, forming an everlasting cycle of health.
The dust of the earth then becomes the cells in our bodies. We
live by the law of interdependence. No soul or body is an island
by itself. It is a part of something else always.
Therefore, we must first consider the soil, which is the mother
of us all. We must become concerned about the air above us, from
which we cling to the "breath of life." The water around us must
be pure and free of all inorganic minerals and chemicals. Every
cell in our bodies must be bathed in the purest water. Life is
purity. We cannot live by "bread alone."
Air, water and sunshine are responsible for life and growth.
Each of these gives something to the other.
Paul Brinkman, a former president of Queen Ann School of
Cosmetology, so ably expressed himself in these words: "Water
cannot be destroyed, but it can be made sick! Man with his
additives has defiled the laws of God. You can always expect
something unnatural whenever you violate something natural."
Mr. Brinkman became interested in distilled water especially
since he was concerned about his diabetic condition. Imagine his
surprise when he checked out sugar free. It likewise surprised
his doctor. According to any edition of Merck's Manual, the
exact cause of diabetes is not known. The cause lies in the
inadequate production of insulin by the beta cells of the islets
of Langerhans. The cells are alive; it is just that they do not
function. My inspiring teacher, Dr. Landone, stated that the
mineral deposits enclose the cells with a mineral film so they
are unable to function. I am inclined to believe his conclusions
because there has to be a cause. Whether distilled water will
cure diabetes is not for me to say. It is not within my field to
diagnose; however, with the knowledge derived from my study of
distilled water, I feel quite emphatic about its merits.
There is much to learn about water. I have merely touched on a
few pertinent facts of water in its relations to vibrant health
and longevity. The facts I gathered have proved themselves to
me. When men can live to the age of 120, 1 become alert! There
has to be some cause. I am convinced that the inorganic minerals
and chemicals in water become a hazard to every man, woman and
child. The body must be free of sludge to operate efficiently.
The eliminating organs cannot expel all the deposits, so nature
does the next best thing and tucks them wherever she can. Since
water is the greatest solvent known, it becomes the best agent
to carry out that which is brought in.
The test is very simple. Place a mirror or glass under a
dripping faucet. Let it dry, and observe the water spots. Then
place this glass in distilled water. The distilled water will
dissolve the water spots. This is what the whole story is
about-this is the cause of all our aging diseases. Dr. Landone
cured his heart condition. Captain Diamond cured his arthritis
and lived to the splendid age of 120 years. Could distilled
water be the answer? If it is, how different living in this
world could be. Since we live but one, therefore. should. we not
live wisely? The choice is clear-it is now up to you,
Disease does not exist without cause. It begins where cause
begins and persists where cause persists. Chronic disease means
chronic provocation. Cure cannot take place until the cause of
disease is removed. Symptoms may subside or be palliated and
suppressed; a crisis may pass, but disease persists so long as
cause is ignored or unrecognized.
Distilled Water and Longevity
by
Dr
Elmer Carey
When a piece of wood it; immersed for a period in certain
mineral waters, the wood cells thru a chemical action similar to
that observed in electro-plating, are replaced by molecules of
minerals, and petrifaction ensues. In petrified wood,the form
and markings of the original are distinctly seen. At rare
intervals surgeons find a human kidney that has actually become
petrified - a stone kidney - sometimes in post mortem
examinations veins are found which are brittle, and which
crumble at the touch. In old age the various organs are partly
petrified - ossified is the term used in the text books . But
petrifaction is the proper term. The cells of the muscles,
arteries, etc., are not replaced by osseous deposits, but by
mineral matter.
What is the cause of old age, and how may it be prevented? Old
age is not an inevitable condition; it is an accidental state
caused by ignorance and wrong living. The daily press recently
chronicled the case of a Russian peasant who had baptismal and
marriage records to prove that he was 200 years old. The United
States census report for 1900 gives the names of two persons
over 150 years of age. I instance these cases to show that there
is no reason why death should occur from old age, per se. If one
person can live to be one hundred or two hundred years old, why
not another? If the human race lived strictly under a rational
hygienic dispensation, death would never occur from old age,
under several hundred years.
Suggestion is now mainly responsible for keeping the limit of
life at about eighty years. For thousands of years man has been
taught that he would die at about the age of 70; consequently
when in the neighborhood of thia age, man begins to look for
death - to expect death - to believe in death-and he is never
disappointed. The mineral salt deposits in the body commence to
manifest themselves between 40 and 50 years of age. These salts
are derived mainly from ordinary drinking water, altho cereals
contribute their share. The presence of an excess of lime
retards the functions of all organs; all processes are hindered;
the various bodily systems act slowly; this favors the
additional deposits of more salts. The functions of the organs
are still more restricted. We say the man is "aging rapidly." As
the body becomes weaker the organs become weaker, and mineral
deposits quickly accumulate. The victim is rapidly becoming
petrified. All organs are clogged; the vital powers are lowered,
and as the petrifaction proceeds, death approaches; finally the
muscles of the heart become so dense that their elasticity is
gone and death ends all. When one dies from "old age," he dies
because his body is partially turned to stone. If we can keep
the percentage of water in the body at 80 or 85, we will never
die of old age. To maintain the proper proportion of aqueous
elements in the system, no liquids but distilled water should be
used for drinking or cooking; and furthermore, foods containing
a high percentage of mineral salts, 88 cereals5 should be eaten
sparingly. When the ideal hygienic race conditions prevail, man
will live on distilled water, nuts and fruits; and he will
understand the art of mastication; he will breath pure air
twenty-four hours out of the day; he will spend many hours daily
in the sunshine; he will take enough exercise to keep the body
supple, and his mind will be free from worry, care and anxiety;
he will not expect death at any particular year or time, nor
will he think ·about dying; children will not read the deadly
suggestion about "three score and ten years," and they will be
taught how to build and mould the body by mental processes; all
suggestions will be for health, strength and vigor. Bulletins
from the bedside will be abolished, and "drugs" will exist only
in the dictionaries of the antiquarian.
The firat step in the physical regeneration of the race is a
crusade against ordinary or "raw" drinking water. When distilled
water is universally used humanity will take a long step
forward. It is the duty of the state to see that only perfect
drinking water is used; we look after cesspools, drains, noxious
odors, plumbing, adulterated food, etc., and the water supply is
more important than all these. If distilled water was in every
home the board of health would have to go out of business.
"But a German doctor stated that distilled water is injurious,"
remarks a reader. He did, but his statement is false. His
remarks in substance are as follows: "By 'chemically pure water'
we usually understand perfectly fresh, distilled water, whose
behavior and properties are well understood. It withdraws the
salts from the animal tissues and causes the latter to swell or
inflate. Isolated living organic elements, cells, and all
unicellular organisms are destroyed in distilled water - they
die, since they become engorged therein. They lose the faculty,
upon which life depends, of retaining their salts and other
soluble cell constituents, and consequently these are allowed to
diffuse throughout the water.
"Distilled water is, therefore, a dangerous protoplasmic poison.
The same poisonous effects must occur whenever distilled water
is drUnk. The sense of taste
is the first to protest against the use of this substance. A
mouthful of distilled water, taken by inadvertence, will be spit
out regularly. The water once in the stomach, the superficial
stratum of epithelium experiences a powerful distension, the
cells are leached by their salts, die, and are cast off. This
local poisonous effect of distilled water makes itself known by
a sensation of uneasiness, belching, etc., furnishing all the
symptoms of a catarrh of the stomach on a small scale.
"The harmfulness of the process so much resorted to today, of
washing out the stomach with distilled water, is acknowledged;
and we find the physicians who formerly used that agent are now
turning to the 'physiological solution of cooking salt, or
'water with a little salt,' or the mineral waters recommended
for the purpose. The poisonous nature of absolutely pure water
would scarcely. have been recognized and felt long since, were
it not that its effects in their most marked form can seldom
occur; for through a train of circumstances 'absolutely pure'
water can rarely be found."
The attack on the daily use of distilled water by an alleged Dr.
Koppe was inspired by the owners of mineral springs in Europe;
and it has been stated- that Dr. Koppe is- a myth. The
statements credited to him are a tissue of falsehoods - there is
not a word of truth in any of them. Distilled water has no
deleterious action on living tissue; distilled water is not
poisonous, but the only elixir of life that will be discovered.
It is quite true that microrganisms will die if placed in pure
water; they die because there is no refuse for them to feed on.
This is one of the strongest arguments in favor of distilled
water. When all the fluids of the body are made up of distilled
water there will be no fear of germs - a disease germ cannot
live in a system that is 80 per cent aqua pura. The mythical
doctor's statement that absolutely pure water can rarely be
found is as false as the others. In every large city of the
United States absolutely pure water is delivered to your door at
prices varying from six to ten cents per gallon, while in
thousands of homes are small stills which make an abundance of
absolutely pure, aerated and appetizing water. All health
specialists of the advanced and rational schools of
nature-therapy today advocate the drinking of water, from two to
three quarts daily; it is conceded that perfect health is
impossible without an abundance of water.
It does not need an argument to show that this water should be
pure, and if an argument were needed the United States army and
navy have supplied that argument beyond cavil.
The great, ever present danger in "raw" water is not germs-it is
the mineral matter which is not needed in the human body, as
sufficient cell salts are furnished in a natural form by the
solid food. The earthy material is simply refuse; it makes
additional work for the excretory organs, and all of it cannot
possibly be eliminated. Hence, the gradual clogging of the
system, which brings on a condition known as "old age."
Knowing that the daily use of distilled water in the army and
navy has been attended by the most gratifying results, letters
were addressed to the government medical departments asking for
definite and authoritative statements as to the health giving
qualities of absolutely pure water. Sailors have been under
daily observation by medical officers for years; army officers
have had ample opportunity to study the drinking water question
at short range at home and in Cuba, China and the Philippines,
and the result is that sufficient evidence has been collected to
settle for all time the desirability of distilled water as a
daily drink, and its value in preserving health.
One of the first labors of the medical department of the army in
the Philippines was the erection of distilling plants in the
city of Manila; from these plants distilled water was supplied
t_o all the camps and garrisons in and around the city, and it
is not an exaggeration to say that today every soldier in the
Philippines is within reach of a barrel of chemically pure
drinking water; and just as surely as he departs from this
barrel in quenching thirst, just as surely does he invite
disease and death. While thousands of our soldiers have died in
the tropirs from cholera, dysentery, typhoid and various
intestinal disorders, the sailors of the navy are practically
free from zymotic disturbances. Why? Sailors drink pure water,
and the pure water is distilled water.
Mr. Elmer Ellsworth Carey, #4020 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago,
Illinois.
Sir: In answer to .your letter of March 28, 1903, I am directed
by the Acting Surgeon General to state that existing orders in
the Philippines require all drinking water used by United States
Troops to be distilled, or at places where this cannot be done,
to be boiled twenty minutes. It is not too much to say that this
precaution has saved an enormous number - of lives during the
prevalence of cholera and has prevented many cases of typhoid
fever, dysentery and intestinal parasites. Cases of cholera
among troops in the Philippine Islands have been repeatedly
traced to drinking impure water in violation of this order. No
deleterious effect of any kind has been attributed to the daily
use of distilled or boiled water...
From the bureau of medicine and surgery, navy department, was
received the following clear cut and decisive letter:
Mr. Elmer Ellsworth Carey, Editor, Suggestion Publishing Co.,
4020 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.
Sir: Replying to your letter of the 28th ultimo, requesting an
expression of opinion as to the value of distilled water in
preserving health and preventing disease, as derived from the
experience gained in its use in the Navy, I have to state that
there can be no two opinions as to the protection distilled
water affords to crews of vessels and to stations of the Nayy
against infection from such diseases as are water-borne. When
only distilled water is used for drinking and other purposes
diseases of this class, as for example, cholera and typhoid, are
little feared. It is conclusively proven that a large number of
diseases to which human beings are a prey are introduced into
the economy by means of contaminated water used for drinking
purposes. Distilled water, as prepared and stored for use in the
Navy, is of course free from infectious agents, and its general
use is a source of great comfort to the Medical Officers who
have the maintenance of the health of the many men in . their
charge. When the water supply is under control, as on board
vessels of war, little apprehension is felt of the introduction
of cholera, typhoid, etc. The numerous animal parasites that
prey upon mankind and that are known to be waterborne find
little place in the medical statistics of the Navy.
In conclusion I would say that the general use of distilled
water in the Navy is considered one of the principal factors in
establishing the high standard of health that is maintained in
the Navy of today.
And to show that the daily use of distilled water extending over
a long period was beneficial, another letter was addressed to
the bureau of medicine and surgery, navy department, to
ascertain how long this "dangerous protoplasmic poison" has been
in use, and some may be surprised to learn that our Jack Tars
have been drinking the deadly ( ?) product for twenty years or
longer. Regarding the length of time distilled water has been in
use in the navy, the following letter speaks for itself:
Elmer Ellsworth Carey, Esq.,April 9, 1903. Sir: Replying to your
letter of the 6th instant, I have to state that there is no
record to determine the exact date upon which distilled water
began to be used in the Naval Service. !t ia probable that, to a
greater or lesser degree, it has been in uae since the
introduction of steam aa a motive power in the Navy. My
experience covers a period of twenty years, and in that time
distilled water has been employed with a growing field of
usefulness. Respectfully, J . F. URIE, Acting Chief of Bureau.
According to the Journal of the American M cdical Association,
the remarkable increase in the demand for distilled water has
called forth an article by one Dr. Koppe, which has been traced
to having been written in the interests of the Carlsbad Springs
of Europe; and a wide circulation has been given to it in this
country by certain mineral springs and filter companies.
Scientific and medical journals have only noticed it to
contradict it. Two short quotations will give the tenor of their
replies. The first is from Homer Wakefield, M. D., of
Bloomington, Ill., who is the author of several works on water.
He says:
Arthur R. Reynolds, :M. D., commissioner of health, Chicago,
uses the following language: "The inference that water deprived
by distillation of 'organic elements, cells and all unicellular
organisms' is unwholesome is preposterous. W c are not expected
to extract organic nourishment from the water we drink or from
the bacteria therein contained. This remarkable article deduces
that distilled water is a 'dangerous protoplasmic poison,'
because of the absence of inorganic clements. It should be added
here that rain water as is falls from the clouds is aerated
distilled water; it is the most healthful known...
Rain is nature's production of water free from impurities. Any
amount of it can be taken into the !')"stem without fear of
detrimental results. Physicians know that it is the best solvent
of inorganic secretions in the body, and engineers know it is
the best boiler compound, following the use of hard water and
the consequent formation of incrustations. Extreme purity is a
virtue, not a fault, of water. Beware of an author who contends
that contaminated water is conducive to health."
The other is from Dr. J. H. Kellogg, the physician-in-Chief of
the Battle Creek Sanitarium, who, in replying to the Koppe
article, in Good H ealtk Magazine for June, 1899, says of
distilled water:
"It is free from germs, free from injurious salts, from lime and
other substances with which they are found in combination, if
not always of the same uniform quality. It is a pity that such
an unscientific and misleading statement should be allowed to
appear before the public."
Apropos to the above remarks, the following from H ealtk Culture
is interesting reading:
"Any chemist will confirm the statement that the mineral salts
in water are inorganic in structure, and that no inorganic
substances can undergo the process of digestion and assimilation
in the human system. The soil in which our grains and vegetables
grow is also inorganic in form, but the wheat and potato which
the soil produce arc organized food materials. One might eat a
peck of the richest loam three times a day and yet starve his
bones, muscles and tissues for want of nourishment. The mineral
salts in water are nothing more nor less than the disorganized
soil. They not only fail to supply any part of the body with
nourishment, but cause serious trouble."
"Distilled water is the acme of purity. Nothing can be purer
than that which is absolutely pure. For medicinal purposes, the
highest authorities are agreed that pure water is preferable to
the so-called l!ledicinal spring waters. The latter all contain
more or less impurities in the form of earthy salts or organic
matter, which is not the case with distilled water. For flushing
the kidneys, stimulating the sluggish liver, eliminating waste
matter from the system; indeed for all affections in which
medical waters are believed to be efficacious, pure distilled
water furnishes the long-sought desideratum."-Dr. R. N. Tooker,
Chicago.
Dr. C. W. DeLacy EVJLlls, surgeon to St. Savor's Hospital,
London, says: "The combinations of lime held in solution in the
water we drink, when taken into the stomach are soon distributed
throughout the system and deposited in all the tissues exactly
as they are precipitated and form incrustations on the bottoms
of kettles in which water is boiled. The result is general
induration, partial and often, in some organs and tissues,
complete ossification.
The bones become brittle, the joints and muscles stiff and
rheumatic; gravel and stones form in the bladder, the kidneys,
liver, heart, nerves and brain become indurated and sluggish in
their action, all the bodily functions are impaired, the nerves
weaken, the mind loses its vigor, the memory fails, senility and
death creep on.
"Used as a drink distilled water is absorbed directly into the
blood, the solvent properties of which it increases to such an
extent that it will keep in solution salts already existing in
the blood, prevent their undue deposit in various organs and
structures, favor their elimination by the different excreta,
and tend to remo:ve those earthy compounds which have already
accumulated in the body.
"There is no doubt as to the high value of distilled water used
freely as a retarder of the ossifying conditions which appear to
constitute the conditions of old age."
Health Commissioner Reynolds of Chicago authorizes the following
statement :
The public 'should be instructed frequently of the dangers that
lurk in the use of impure water. They should be taught that most
of the lakes and streams in the country are polluted already,
and as the population multiplies the danger of further pollution
will greatly increase. They should be taught that water that
comes from wells and springs is not necessarily pure, for it may
flow from a soil that is polluted. They should be taught that
filtration nor boiling does not remove all the poisons, while
neither removes the lime or any of the salts it may contain.
It may safely be taught that the only absolute pure water is
that purified by distillation. Instruct the public how
distillation can readily and cheaply be done. It furnishes a
fruitful field for the genius that will devise a small
distilling apparatus for the use of every family.
It would be safe to teach that the generous use of pure water
both within and without the body has never yet done any harm;
that the functional ailments that afflict the great host of
mankind, are in a great part due to the fact of the imperfect
elimination of wa!!te matter, and that generous libations of
pure water is a most potent agent to flush them from the body,
through the skin, the lungs, the Jddneys and the bowels. The
diseases caused by impure water are numerous and fatal."
The Importance Of Distilled Water In Aging
by
Dr. Chester Handley
As our body begins to age, there are several things that happen.
Cells don't produce as well, the body doesn't digest as well,
the body does not absorb as well and the body does not eliminate
as well. And areas of the body begin to feel pain and have sore
spots that we never had before.
One of the major causes of pain is the over consumption of grain
in older people. It is softer, easier to eat and appears to be
more easily digested. Well the true reality is that it is no
benefit to the aging body at all and leaves an acidic residue
that gets deposited in the joints which is the number one reason
for arthritic pain.
Many years ago when I was doing research on distilled water, I
discovered that contrary to all the stories out there, distilled
water does not take a single thing out of the body that the body
needs. It never takes anything out of a cell. Everything that is
cellularly locked remains within the body, but it is the
greatest tool in the world for cleaning out the bloodstream,
which is the only function water really has...to wash out,
cleanse and purify the bloodstream. Remember that the
bloodstream is primarily an organ of transport. People think of
it as a liquid rather than an organ, but it is an organ. It
transports nutrients, oxygen and red blood cells throughout the
body and carries away waste products and carbon dioxide.
Distilled water has been evaporated into a vapor, split apart
into a molecule of hydrogen and oxygen, turning them into a gas
that rises up into the atmosphere, then cooled back down and
condensed back in to water. The same process happens in a
distillery when it distills water. It heats up the water in to a
gas, all the impurities are left behind, all the waste products
are left behind, then it is condensed and turned back into pure
water and becomes the ultimate pure water because of one very
important factor that is not present in any other water...it is
molecularly unstable. It means that when it goes in your
bloodstream it breaks apart easier and latches on to debris,
waste products and unwanted materials that are floating around
in your bloodstream.
It is also one of the best ways there is for reducing blood
pressure. I made up two charts years ago when I was doing my
studies on body detoxification with distilled water, from 1865
to 1965. In 1865, diseases that ranked in the high 30's and low
40's became the first four killers in 1965...and they were all
cardiovascular. I then made another chart from 1865 to 1965 to
show the reduction in the use of drinking rainwater. The two
charts were virtually biometrically opposite. As people quit
drinking rainwater, cardiovascular diseases went up. When the
blood vascular system is clean you have less headaches, you have
less pain, you have more oxygen and nutrients available for the
body and more healing capacity for the body.
It has been almost twenty years ago now that a man came down to
my office that had arthritis so bad he could hardly get out of a
straight-backed chair. His pain was excruciating. We put him on
the detoxification program, took him off of all grain in his
diet, instructed him to eat only fruit, vegetables, protein and
meat products, and put him on distilled water every half hour
while he was awake. It is hard to believe a month later this
same man was out working in his garden having the time of his
life.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of drinking distilled
water for cleansing the blood stream, for reducing arthritic
pain and lowering blood pressure. It has also been known to
reduce cholesterol and triglycerides. In fact, the only effect
on the body is health.
There are rules of thumb on how much water to drink. The rule of
thumb on a normal day is one half your body weight in ounces per
day. If you are sweating and exerting yourself you should drink
more, not less. We have a tendency to grab pop, coffee, Kool-Aid
and juices, but we need to get back to the habit of grabbing
distilled water.
To give you an example of what this means, if you are a man and
you weigh 200 pounds, you should be drinking a minimum of 100
ounces of distilled water throughout the day. There is an
interesting side note for people that like to study. Job, which
is the oldest book of the bible, I believe it is in the 36th
chapter, said God took up the water, distilled it, and poured it
out abundantly on man. The logical argument is who knows better
what we need than the creator, and he gave us distilled water."
Consumption of Low TDS Water
by
Dr.
Lee Rozelle & Dr. Ronald Wathen
(NOTE: DISTILLED WATER falls under the category of "LOW TDS
WATER."
The term "LOW TDS WATER" means water with a low Total Dissolved
Solids count. Distilled Water is in the category of "LOW TDS
WATER" because it generally has
a count of zero parts per million of dissolved solids.)
CONSUMPTION OF LOW TDS WATER : A COMMITTEE REPORT BY WATER
QUALITY ASSOCIATION SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, 1992-1993 .
With Review By Dr. Lee T. Rozelle and Dr. Ronald L. Wathen, M.D.
MARCH 1993
INTRODUCTION
Since the beginning of time, water has been both praised for
good health and blamed for human ills. We now know the real
functions of water in the human body are to serve as a solvent
and medium for the transport of nutrients and wastes to and from
cells throughout the body, a regulator of temperature, a
lubricator of joints and other tissues, and a participant in our
body's biochemical reactions. It is the H 2 0 in water and not
the dissolved and suspended minerals and other constituents that
carry out these functions. -
Low TDS water is defined in this paper as that containing
between one and 100 milligrams per liter (mg/L) of total
dissolved solids (TDS). This is typical of the water quality
obtained from distillation, reverse osmosis, and deionization
point-of-use water treatment of public or private water supplies
that are generally available to consumers in the world.
Highly purified (distilled) water is believed by some to help
"cure" arthritis by "washing out" excess calcium and other
minerals from deposits in joints. Along with this reasoning,
some people speculate that drinking highly purified water,
treated by distillation, reverse osmosis, or deionization,
"leaches" minerals from the body and thus causes mineral
deficiencies with subsequent ill health effects.
An isolated report, a summary of Russian studies available
through the World Health Organization, has recommended that
fluid and electrolytes are better replaced with water containing
a minimum of 100 mg/L of TDS. However, this may pertain more to
situations in the human body during heavy exertion and sweating.
It is the market for sports drinks which are formulated to help
replace the sugar compounds, glucose in the blood and glycogen
in the muscles that are burned in prolonged exercise. Sports
drinks are formulated to help replace the sugar compounds -
glucose in the blood, glycogen in the muscles - and
electrolytes, salt, calcium, and potassium that keep cells in
proper electrical balance - that may be burned and depleted
after an hour or more of hard exercise. This situation does not
have anything to do with low TDS or demineralized water for
normal drinking and cooking purposes. Even in warm weather
exercise, the greatest danger is that of dehydration, and the
proper advice to ward it off is to drink lots of plain water.
The scope of this paper is limited to answering whether low TDS
water contributes to the loss of minerals from body tissues,
producing associated harmful side effects. The types of minerals
-- e.g., calcium versus sodium, or hard water versus soft water
-- and the toxicity of minerals -- e.g., lead, cadmium,
brackish, or saline waters-- are not an issue in this report.
Information on the body's homeostasis mechanisms, community
water supplies with natural TDS less than 50 mg/L, historic use
of distilled water with less than three mg/L TDS on board Navy
ships, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's response to
this issue, and other evidence are presented to demonstrate that
the consumption of water with low levels of minerals is safe.
ESTABLISHED
DRINKING WATER STANDARDS
A review was conducted of the United States, Canadian, World
Health Organization (WHO) and European Community (EC) drinking
water standards. None of them has minimum limits or optimum
levels of total dissolved solids. The U.S. recommended maximum
level is 500 mg(L, the Canadian guideline suggests less than
1,000 mg/L, and the EC maximum admissible concentration (MAC) is
1,500 mg/L (for "dry residues").
The EC standards also list numbers for calcium (guide level of
100 mg/L) and magnesium (guide level of 30 mg/L., and MAC of 50
mg/L), and a minimum for hardness (minimum required
concentration for softened water of 60 mg/L as Ca), and
alkalinity (minimum required concentration for softened water of
30 mg/L HC0 3 -). However, there is no health criteria
documentation for these advisories. These levels are listed as
aids to operation for water supply systems, i.e., suggested
parameters for laying down a passivating film of scale in
municipal distribution mains. Calcium, magnesium, hardness, and
alkalinity conditions are not necessary for judging the safety
of drinking water. It is understood that the association of
European water suppliers, Eureau, is moving to exclude these
parameters from the European legally enforceable limits.
THE NATURAL
CONTROL OF :MINERAL CONCENTRATION IN THE HUMAN BODY
A better understanding of the effect of low TDS water on the
human body requires a basic understanding of the body's
mechanism in this respect. Following is a description of the
relevant mechanism.
Homeostasis is the maintenance of static or constant conditions
in the internal body environment. This natural process controls
the mineral (ion) and the water concentrations in the body
fluids within narrow limits inside and outside all the cells in
all the organs and tissues of the body. The kidneys are most
important in maintaining constant ion concentrations (including
sodium, potassium, calcium, etc.) through elimination and
reabsorption.
In homeostasis, three body fluids are involved: plasma
(approximately 3/5 of the blood volume); interstitial fluid (the
fluid between cells); and intracellular (fluid inside the
cells)." The concentration of sodium ions is highest outside the
cell and that of potassium ions is highest inside the cell. When
the osmotic pressure is high on one side of the cell membrane
(high concentration of ions) and low on the other side, water
moves across the cell membrane from the dilute side toward the
other side to equalize the osmotic pressure. This phenomenon is
known as osmosis. [This is unlike reverse osmosis which occurs
when outside pressure is applied to the concentrated side,
pushing the water back to the dilute side.] The normal
osmolality (concentration of ions) of all these fluids is about
300 milliosmoles per liter (mOsm/L (- 9,000 ppm).
Any changes from normal in ion concentration across the cell
membrane is corrected in one minute or less because water moves
quickly through cell membranes. Thus, small changes in
osmolality from drinking purified water (0 to 100 mg/L TDS) are
quickly brought to equilibrium.
The kidneys control the overall concentration of the
constituents of body fluids. It filters about 180 liters (165
quarts) of water per day, but over 99% is reabsorbed and only
1.0 to 1.5 liters are eliminated as urine. If the osmolality of
the fluid to be filtered by the kidney is lower than normal (low
solute concentration - such as low TDS water) nervous and
hormonal feedback mechanisms cause the kidney to excrete more
water than normal and thus maintain the ion concentration in the
body fluid to normal values. The opposite is true if the ion
concentration of the fluid to be filtered is higher than normal.
This kidney homeostatic mechanism keeps the body fluid
osmolality normal. The osmolality of the fluid to be filtered by
the kidney is controlled to + 3% to maintain it at the normal
level of 300 mOsm/L. The three basic hormonal and nervous
control systems triggered by abnormal ion concentration in the
body fluids to be filtered by the kidney are antidiuretic
hormone (ADH) from the pituitary gland, aldosterone from the
adrenal glands, and thirst (as osmolality rise of about 1%
causes thirst).
Because of these kidney control mechanisms, drinking one liter
of water would cause the urine output to increase about nine
times after about 45 minutes (due to absorption of water in the
gut) and continue for about two hours. Thus, the concentrations
of solutes in the blood and other body fluids are quickly
maintained by the kidney through homeostasis. These control
mechanisms keep the sodium concentration at ± 7%. Calcium
secretion is controlled by parathyroid hormone to + a few
percent in the extracellular body fluid.
Also, saliva increases the ion concentrations during water
intake. The concentration of sodium chloride in saliva is
typically 15 milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L) or 877 mg/L;
that of potassium ion is about 30 mEq/L (1170 mg/L). As low TDS
water is consumed, it is combined with saliva which increases
the TDS before it reaches the gut to be absorbed, (e.g., each
one milliliter of saliva can increase the TDS level in eight
ounces of water consumed by about 10 mg/L).
Thus, based on the above highly credible and up-to-date textbook
knowledge* it is evident that consumption by a healthy person of
low TDS water alone cannot cause unhealthy systems.
['Healthy p e r s o n ~ means free of disease, hormonal
problems, etc., and not necessarily a healthy diet.] Of course,
homeostasis is maintained by diet as are other body functions.
If homeostasis is not maintained because of major diet
deficiencies, disease, or hormonal dysfunction, consuming low
TDS water would be a minor (if any) factor in any observed
symptoms. It is apparent that disease, physiological
dysfunction, or major nutritional deficiencies may cause a
"leaching'' problem, but not consuming one to two liters of low
TDS water on a daily basis. *Guyton, Arthur L., M.D. Textbook of
Medical Psychology Eighth Edition, W.B. Saunders Company,
Philadelphia (1991).
LITERATURE
SEARCH AND REVIEW
During the last 12 months, several literature searches have been
undertaken to bring out studies, reports, reviews, and related
information that may be of value to reach conclusions that would
be scientifically supportable. These searches can be outlined as
follows:
Request of expert review by U.S. EPA, Dr. Lee T. Rozelle, and
Dr. Ronald L. Wathen of an annex (Appendix) attached to a report
submitted to WHO prepared
in 1980 by two Russians, G.I. Sidorenko and Y.A. Rachmanin, on
the general subject of desalination.
Letters sent out to various experts ·and informed parties,
including inquiries sent to the World Health Organization (WHO),
U.S. EPA, and U.S. Department of
the Navy.
A comprehensive search of the Medline medical literature
database for articles related to low TDS water and homeostasis.
A search of WATERNET database for articles with key words
describing low TDS waters and salt "leaching," etc. (No articles
were found.)
Review of published information regarding the levels of TDS in
many public water supplies.
A review of the literature has shown that there is very little
information published in western scientific literature that
relates the consumption of low TDS water to physiological
effects on the human body. A report "Guidelines on Health
Aspects of Water Desalination" prepared by G.I. Sidorenko and
Y.A. Rachmanin of Russia in 1980 and submitted to the World
Health Organization contains an annex (Appendix), 6V2 pages
long, reviewing work that has been reported in the Russian
literature. The present literature search did not unearth any
official translation of any of the articles cited in that annex.
The annex concludes that consumption of water with less than 100
mg/L disturbs the body's water/salt balance, promoting the
release of sodium, potassium, chloride, and calcium ions from
the body of animals or humans, imposing a stress on the
mechanism of homeostasis, promoting changes in the
gastrointestinal muscles and mucosa, and reducing the thirst
quenching capacity of the water.
This annex has been intensively reviewed by many scientifically
oriented individuals, including Dr. Lee Rozelle and Dr. Ronald
L. Wathen.
Dr. Rozelle summarized his review:
The data for their conclusions, summarized in Annex 8 of the WHO
unofficial guidelines, are not very convincing from a scientific
viewpoint. The volume of
water consumed per day was not indicated and the length of time
of the experiment for the human "volunteers" was not indicated
(one year for rats). The
physiological changes reported apparently were based on rat and
dog studies. For dogs, the same physiological changes were
observed for water containing 50 mg/L and 1,000 mg/L.
The conclusion of a minimum TDS of 100 mg/L is confusing and
thus not very convincing.
In the human studies, diuresis was observed particularly on the
second day of the study (the increase in urine output reported
to be 18%). The volume of water in the body from the
"distillate" was reported to be 50 to 100% higher than the
"other groups." The Russians also reported increased elimination
of sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium, and magnesium in the
urine, and the specific gravity was reduced. In the blood serum,
the sodium was increased and the potassium decreased. Then it
was reported that the "tendency" for similar changes were
observed after consumption of 100 mg/L TDS and 1, 000 mg/L TDS.
The water intake (based on thirst) of various TDS waters was not
clearly reported. In some cases it was difficult to determine if
the data were from animals or humans.
In summary, the Russian studies, as reported in Annex 8 of the
WHO document appeared not to be rigorously scientific.
Dr. Wathen reviewed it from a medical point of view and wrote
the following:
The Annex VIII of the report is an alleged "review" of water and
salt balance under the influence of a variety of water and salt
intakes, in a variety of animals, including humans, exposed to a
variety of conditions. The review is long on deductions, but
very short on (re) presentation of solid data. Moreover,
probably only a handful of references cited in this review
(assuming they are cited correctly) may be from creditable
scientific journals, that is, journals which demand proper
scientific methodology and peer review of all work, prior to
publication. Many of the cited articles may be from journals of
"personal opinion": being versed only in English, it is
impossible for me to establish the credibility of the cited
work.
This review cited observations on the organoleptic features of
water (i.e., consumer appreciation of taste, odor, and color
qualities) to underscore precise,
physiologic thirst slaking with specific levels of TDS --
containing water in response to volume depletion. To begin with,
the quoted electroencephalographic
studies probably indicate only that a maximum number of receptor
sites (taste buds) have to be recruited through stimulation to
provide a maximum brain (alpha) wave response and that the TDS
level in water providing the maximum response was between
200-600 mg/L of salt.
One would expect such a response; one might also imagine that
receptor response (sensitivity) is considerably tempered by
prior salt and mineral exposure for the individual. Organoleptic
features are very, very unlikely to define whether a given water
source is healthful on non-healthful or that the amount imbibed
is appropriate to need. Moreover, taste receptor electrical
activity, being unlikely to reveal preference by the consumer,
means the consumer must be asked whether he or she prefers a
given type of water. More often than not, preference reflects
prior experience (learned behavior).
The review refers to exposure to desert and exercise conditions
for humans and how water lost in sweating should be replaced,
not with purified water but with salt water. Who would disagree
with this conclusion? With Gatorade, for example, selling to
extremely large U.S. and world markets, one hardly needs to be
reminded in this day and age that volume and salt losses
encumbered with the sweating of heavy exercise are best replaced
with a fluid whose constituents are more aligned with
extracellular fluid in the human. Gatorade, though billed a
being "low sodium" on its label, is in fact rather high in salt
content (both sodium and potassium) and it provides a rapid,
convenient, and safe way to promptly reconstitute vascular
volume after heavy exercise. Dizziness, even syncope (passing
out), from volume depletion are thereby avoided and strength of
the individual is better sustained, due both to volume
replacement and the glucose contained within Gatorade.
Gatorade is a water source to be taken only to replace severe
fluid losses accompanying sweating; it generally averts the need
for supplemental salt tablets.
GatoradeR, in an opinion which may not be shared by the Gatorade
Company (Chicago, IL), is not a source which should be used to
replace normal fluid and electrolyte losses any more so than
pure water should be used to accommodate severe volume losses.
In the presence of salt accompanying usual dietary food intake
(4-8 gm/day of sodium in U.S.), Gatorade might conceivably lead
to volume excess. A 64 oz. serving of Gatorade contains: 880 mg
of sodium; 200 mg of potassium; and about 400 calories, as
carbohydrate (112 grams). There is no magical solution; one
should drink what's appropriate to the circumstance.
Replacement of the large fluid losses accompanying heavy
exercise or thermal exposure, therefore, has nothing to do with
using purified water for normal
drinking and cooking purposes, the latter being paired with
normal food intake to meet salt and mineral needs. In normal
day-to-day activity not associated with extremes in sweat loss,
the salt and minerals accompanying normal food intake more than
meet daily dietary needs of such elements, whether consuming
potable water (e.g., TDS of up to 500 mg/L) or purified water
(e.g., TDS 100 mg/L) or pure water (e.g., 0.111 mg/L TDS).
Salts and minerals are not "leached" from the human body; they
are preferentially retained or excreted, either of these events
occurring relative to whether or not one is surfeit in water or
salt or both. In short, the human body is not a lead or copper
pipe which "leaches" in the presence of purified water. The
Annex VIII review is very misleading in this regard.
I also think it is incredible to suggest that, in the absence of
abnormal water loading experiments, consumption of demineralized
water will cause distortion of the mucosal cells lining the GI
tract. Besides, in the normal human setting, such water is often
combined with other elements (e.g., coffee, tea, fruit juices,
soft drinks, etc.) which raises its TDS prior to consumption.
But, even if the TDS is not raised by some external means,
through the additions of saliva, gastric secretions, and small
intestine secretions beyond the stomach, there is an internal
elevation in TDS of any dilute fluid one might drink. It would
be my opinion that the adsorptive portion of the GI tract, that
is, the small intestine, in the absence of extreme water
loading, never sees a hypotonic solution sufficient to cause the
mucosal cells to swell or to appear damaged. There is a tendency
in this review to draw conclusions from observations in
anhidrotic (non-sweating) laboratory animals (dogs, rats, and
rabbits) and apply them to the very hidrotic (sweating) human.
That is, the review often draws conclusions from fluid,
electrolyte, and acid-base studies in "non-sweaters" and seems
to transfer these conclusions to the "sweaters." It is imprudent
physiologically, if not scientifically erroneous, to do so. I
found the reported physiological data to be very confusing,
often at right-angles to prior knowledge. One wonders if the
responses to various levels of salt in water were confused when
citing data from the actual papers used in the review.
I personally have never heard of osmorceptors being present in
the gut which might serve to regulate fluid adsorption. And
certainly, I have never heard of the liver being a repository of
salt to be released to reconstitute salt levels in the vascular
compartment. This statement, I think, is borderline
preposterous. The literature cited here has been misconstrued or
is comprised of essentially factitious observations. Salt in all
body fluid compartments redistributes bidirectionally in
attempts to off-set excesses or insufficiencies in extracellular
fluid constituents, particularly in the vascular (blood volume)
compartment.
The following responses have been received from different
experts in many different fields: WHO's Dr. Galal-Gorchev states
that WHO has "no information that such (low TDS) water would
have and adverse effect on mineral balance".
U.S. EPA's Dr. Edward V. Ohanian, Chief of Human Risk Assessment
Branch wrote, Drinking water supplies a number of minerals that
are important to human health.
However, drinking water is normally a minor source of these
minerals.
Typically, the diet is the major source of these beneficial
minerals. I am not aware of any data adequate to support the
conclusion that water with low levels of minerals is unsafe.
The U.S. Navy has used distilled water with less than three ppm
TDS aboard ship for more than 40 years. Surface ships while on
shore take on water from shore sources, but it is common for
submarines to provide nothing but purified water for months at a
time, all with no reported ill effects. This was confirmed with
separate sources at the David Taylor Research Center in
Annapolis, the Naval Sea Systems Command, the Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery, and the Navy Environmental Health Center. Finally,
the Surgeon General directed the Navy to address the subject
formally in 1972. The conclusion was that drinking distilled
water is not harmful. The University of Illinois Health Sciences
Library's ONLINE SERVICES department was contracted to search
the MEDLINE database for the several key word groups back to
1980. That search produced 18 articles, but only two relevant
ones, both supporting the proposition that the physiologic
mechanisms of homeostasis are more than adequate to permit
routine drinking of purified water.
Article 1 described experiments in which dogs were given large
amounts of distilled water to lower the blood osmotic pressure
while monitoring very closely the pH and C0 2 of arterial blood
and the breathing rate. They found that the blood osmolality has
a direct effect on breathing in addition to the known effects on
kidney function. Thus, homeostasis appears to be controlled
while intentionally consuming low TDS water.
Article 2 described experiments with rats which had had their
pituitary glands removed ("hypophysectomized rats)", and which
therefore should show some damage to the hormonal control
system. They found that the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
worked well even without a pituitary, suggesting an additional
control system leading to the maintenance of homeostasis.
None of the 18 articles, including these two, showed any direct
information about the subject matter of interest, but only that
the homeostasis mechanism in living beings has significant
abilities to adapt to different situations and inputs.
DISCUSSION
OF FIELD EXPERIENCES
There are no known scientific data which clearly demonstrate
that the consumption of low TDS water by humans will or will not
lead to harmful effects on the human body. However, a number of
field experiences can be cited which support the premise that
the consumption of such water by humans does not cause such
harmful effects. There are no known documented experiences which
show that consuming low TDS water will create any long-term
health effects. The U.S. Navy has used distilled sea water for
human consumption for approximately 40 years. TDS levels below 3
mg/L have been reported and consumption of this water for months
at a time is common on submarines. No health problems have been
reported by the Navy and they feel low TDS water is safe to
drink.
The U.S. Army uses reverse osmosis units to provide drinking
water for soldiers in the field.
They do not consider low TDS water to be a problem and have no
minimum standard.
The U.S. EPA conducted a project in San Ysidro, New Mexico in
which the TDS was dropped from 800 mg/L to a range of 40 to 70
milligrams per liter. No health effects were observed during the
one year test.
Possibly the largest field study of human consumption of low TDS
water is within the United States where municipal systems are
delivering water in this category. Millions of people currently
consume such water, and this practice has gone on for decades.
Exact data are difficult to obtain due to seasonal changes, use
of blended water from multiple sources, and changes of sources.
However, the following levels have been reported:
Boston, MA
Portland, OR
Baltimore, MD
Lake Tahoe, CA
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, W A.
Denver, CO
New York City, NY
64 mg/L
23 mg/L
89 mg/L
50-64 mg/L
27-154 mg/L
34-47 mg/L
39-216 mg/L
41-283 mg/L
In addition to these areas, thousands of private wells, as well
as numerous small municipal systems in the U.S., produce low TDS
water. No known health effects or problems have been reported as
a result of this widespread practice.
Thousands of TDS reduction devices have been sold residentially
in the United States for decades. No reports of mineral
depletion or health effects are known as a result of the
consumption of this water.
In Plains, Texas, where the drinking water was brackish at
1500-2000 mg/L TDS, a change was made to desalinated water and
the residents experienced temporary diarrhea. Because of the
high initial TDS and because of blending, the treated water
exceeded 100 mg/L TDS, which is above the definition of low TDS
water established for this report.
In Montreal, a study compared the gastrointestinal disorders of
two groups; one consumed tap water, while the other consumed
reverse osmosis water. The group consuming the tap water had a
higher incidence of GI infections. While neither of these
experiences can be considered conclusive, no evidence of mineral
leaching, the topic of this report, was reported in either case.
NASA has reported no ill effects from the consumption of
approximately .05 mg/LTDS water on board space craft. It appears
that the possibility that this could have been a problem was
never seriously considered by NASA.
In a field test in Boulder, Colorado with about 50 families, an
experimental, zero discharge water system provided drinking
water containing about .05 ppm TDS. No ill health effects were
caused as a result of drinking this water.
In conclusion, the field experiences cited suggest that there
are no long-term ill health effects, specifically the mineral
leaching from human tissue, due to the consumption of low TDS
water.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded that the consumption of low TDS water,
naturally occurring or received from a treatment process, does
not result in harmful effects to the human body. This is based
upon the following points:
• No public health organization with authority over the drinking
water quality anywhere in the world has enacted or even proposed
a minimum requirement for total dissolved minerals in drinking
water.
The human body's own control mechanism (homeostasis) regulates
the mineral content of the body fluids and the discharge of
different types of ions from the
body of normal health individuals drinking water with low or
high mineral content.
Several types of scientific literature searches have found no
harmful effects to the human body attributable to the
consumption of low TDS water.
Review of the Soviet report has shown that the scientific
methods used are questionable and the conclusions are either
vague or unsupported by the data.
Many examples of real-world situations in which large
populations have been and continue to be provided exclusively
with low TDS water without any reported unusual or ill health
effects, establishes the safety of consuming such waters by
human beings.
Why Distilled Water ?
by
Dr.
Siedlecki
The three primary substances needed for life are:
1. Water
2. Oxygen
3. Calcium
The importance of water is paramount, but as crucial is
providing the proper type of water in proper proportions within
the proper time frame. There are a number of waters available
for purchase. Of these only one assures that the body’s
metabolic environment is at its best hydration, and that is
distilled water.
Water in the human body acts as a solvent, carrying nutrients to
every living cell, and transporting waste material out of the
cells for removal. Efficient absorption of nutrients and
efficient elimination of wastes through the kidneys and liver is
only possible when water, the transport medium, is clean.
Distilled water removes poisonous substances and inorganic
mineral matter from the human body.
This process will be impeded if the water you drink is already
contaminated.
Dr. Carey Reams, world-renowned expert on body pH, was trained
in mathematics, biophysics and biochemistry and had six PhD’s to
his credit. Dr. Reams is best known for developing the
Biological Theory of Ionization, a system used to measure energy
in the body. Reams’ analysis of measuring and balancing body
chemistry has been used for over fifty years with astounding
success. According to the research of Dr. Reams the best water
to drink is distilled water! Distilled water provides the most
energy in the body.
Distilled water reacts with the extremely acid stomach contents
without activating any buffering systems or affecting the body
pH. Distilled water does not travel through the body “wreaking
acid havoc” as some would have you believe. In fact, according
to Dr. Theodore A. Baroody, author of “Alkalize or Die”, only
distilled water produces a completely negative ion reaction in
the system. Negative ions are alkaline-forming. These negative
charged ions draw the positively charged acid waste products,
flushing them into the elimination channels of the body for
excretion. So even though distilled water tests slightly acidic,
because of its negative charge, a more alkaline internal
systemic environment is created in the body when distilled water
is consumed.
Water is needed first by the liver; it is best that it be a high
energy water, such as distilled. The body is approximately 75%
water. In fact, the body operates under a water vapor or steam
pressure.
Without the proper water, enzyme structure and energy reactions
will be interfered with. In a recent article about the
vibrations of the DNA, author Stefi Weisburd cites research
showing how DNA changes its configurations depending on the
environment it is in… “changes in the environment of DNA such as
temperature, acidity, salt level and water content can drive
transformations between DNA structures…When the mode softens,
the amplitude of vibrations grows so large that the original
structure is destabilized and the molecule is driven into a new
geometry.”
Keep this information in mind. It will help you understand how a
change in the body chemistry, as reflected in the equation, is
an energy loss that distorts frequency and micronage. Such
changes interfere with proper form, function and maintenance of
the DNA as well as the cells themselves. Water is crucial to DNA
form and function. If DNA is destabilized the form and function
of the body is also destabilized, effecting our ability to build
healthy cells and maintain health.
The body is the sum of its parts, those parts are the basic
elemental building blocks we call minerals – congealed light
energy. Minerals are tiny electrical generators. As they
interact, building and bonding, with other minerals they become
part of the electro-magnetic plating of the human organism. This
electro-magnetic plating of the body is the building process
that sustains life and wellness. It is one of increasing
electro-magnetism resulting in increasing Reserve Mineral Energy
(vital force) or maintaining high Reserve Mineral Energy.
If mineral energy is lost out of basic molecular structure or is
not supplied, the line of resistance will be altered at that
point. Resistance = energy. If this happens, the electrical flow
is altered. When the electric flow is altered, the magnetism
will also be altered. Hence, as magnetism is changed, the
mineral plating will be affected. This is where the build up of
reserve mineral energy is interfered with, high-level wellness
is reduced, and the person will be annoyed with greater and
greater number of symptoms.
Energy is produced by resistance. Resistance is a term used to
refer to the friction of reaction. In other words when two
elements come together (i.e. Hydrogen & Oxygen) they are not
moving at the same energy levels. They have different energy
potentials. In order for them to interact and combine, each must
go through a synchronization process which will allow each to
give off enough energy so they can co-ordinate their
electromagnetic fields to bond into a new molecular arrangement
(i.e. H 2 O). The synchronization of Hydrogen and Oxygen gives
off a tremendous amount of energy. Energy potentials can be
divided into units called anions and cations. These Millhouse
units have specific values 1-999. When discussing frequency we
refer to the atomic weight of an element to determine its energy
ratio. By taking a ratio and knowing whether it be anionic or
cationic we are able to calculate the average energy value for
an atom of any substance.
Incidentally, the average energy value of water, if one were to
consider the water at a high energy it would become a “heavy
water.” By the same token if one were to take the opposite
extreme or low energy values for anions and cations the water
molecule would have low energy. This is called “light water.”
Heavy water is wet water and light water is dry water. A
practical example of “Light” water is hard water. The mineral in
hard water has taken the energy away from the water molecule in
order for it to be carried in the water molecule. “Wet” water
would be soft, low in mineral, high in energy, and heavy. Steam
distillation of water makes “wet - soft” water because it adds
energy. This is what makes it catalyze energy reactions in the
human system so well. Distilled water is shown to be more
important than ever in playing a vital part in controlling
conductance and other electrical phenomena in the human body.
The highest energy water comes from the steam distillation
process. No other type of water is able to carry mineral into
the system as easily as steam distilled water. Distilled water
in the human, enhances the movement of mineral into the liver.
And because the liver has to put water, like all types of food
energy, on the body’s frequency, it is much easier to convert
high energy water than low energy water. There are only two
sources of natural distilled water. One is rain water, but it is
too polluted to use today. The other source is glacier water –
this is the water consumed by the Hunza people of the Himalayas
who are noted for their long life span.
There is an ever-increasing popularity and use of mineral
waters. The dangers of water with a high mineral content are
being totally ignored. Why should the mineral waters containing
minerals, which are essential for human health, be damaging for
the body chemistry? To understand the harmful effect of mineral
water is to understand cytology, or the cells structure and
function. The elements of the mineral kingdom cannot be
assimilated directly by the animal cell. They must go through a
process of linking with amino acids first. Found in the plant
kingdom is the link for getting mineral into human life the most
efficiently.
Plants take in mineral directly, once in the plant, the minerals
become a part of the cell structure after going through a
recombining process in the energy cycles of the plant
(photosynthesis). These energy cycles convert the mineral into a
chelated form. The mineral ends up linked with amino acid
complexes in the plants structural tissue. When man eats the
plant, the mineral complexes in the plant amino acids can then
be easily converted by human enzyme activity into molecular
structures on the human frequency.
Drinking water, containing a large amount of inorganic mineral
(i.e. spring water, purified water) whether hard or soft, can be
compared to doing your dishes in dirty water. If the water comes
in already loaded up, it will not be able to take the debris and
waste out of the system without first leaving behind what it
brought in.
Most people don’t realize that the minerals found in mineralized
water are inorganic and in salt (electrolytic) form, not in the
organic carbon-based form that your body needs. These inorganic
minerals are deposited in the body and add to the overloading of
electrolytes that the body has to remove and also increases
mineral and heavy metal deposits that develop weakened tissue
and/or areas of poor circulation and chronic inflammation.
On the other end of the spectrum we find deionized water - water
that is stripped of its minerals and electrical potential. Do
not purchase deionized water for drinking – it is sold labeled
“purified water.” Deionized water is not for consumption within
the human body. It is deionized water, it is ok for your steam
iron, however, deionized water will pull usable minerals out of
your body over a period of time. It is called a “hungry water.”
[2]
According to French Hydrologist, Vincent Roujon, “the lesser the
microwatt potential in the drinking water the better.”
What creates the microwatts in water is inorganic minerals. Only
distilled water fits the criteria of low mineral, low microwatt,
plus it is low surface tension, high energy and wetter water.
The use of distilled water is preferred, not because of the lack
of mineral so much as, because of the higher energy. Distilled
water moves through the system and especially the liver better
than low energy water. Your body is 60-80 % water; water is the
chief catalyst and medium for all the energy reactions that take
place. Using higher energy, wet, distilled water assures that
the body’s metabolic environment is at its best hydration.
[1] Science News, Vol. 125, page 362
[2] "Principles and Techniques of Ionization as Applied to Human
Nutrition”, Dr. Alexander F. Beddoe
[3] Roujon, Lucien, Vincent Bio-Electronics-Theory and
Application, Ottingen, Germany
What leading authorities have to say.
"If you decide on bottled water, make sure it's distilled. The
'gold standard' for purifying your water is a system that
distills your water and filters it. You have the comfort of
knowing there is no chlorine, fluoride, bacteria, viruses,
pesticides, or lead. You get nothing but H 2 O." - Maximum
Health. Dr. Robert D. Willix, Jr., M.D.
"Let me classify the nine kinds of water. They are hard water,
raw water, boiled water, soft water, rain water, snow water,
filtered water, de-ionized water, and distilled water. All are
kinds of water - but remember this: only one of these nine kinds
of water is good for you. Distilled water is water which has
been turned into vapor, so that all its impurities are left
behind. Then, by condensing, it is turned back to pure water. It
is the only water which is pure - the only water free from all
impurities". The Choice Is Clear - Dr. Allen E. Banik
"Distillation provides us with the purest water obtainable... by
all means make the smart choice in the type of water you drink.
There should only be one choice - PURE! And pure means
distilled." Fit For Life II: Living Health - Harvey &
Marilyn Diamond
"Tap water invariably contains a variety of poisons such as
chlorine, chloramine, asbestos, pesticides, fluoride, copper,
mercury, and lead. The best way to remove all these contaminants
is by distilling." How To Save Your Teeth: Toxic- Free
Preventive Dentistry - Dr. David Kennedy, D.D.S.
"Distillation is the best method and provides the only pure
water. It is the only reliable water purification method. "
Fluoride: The Aging Factor - Dr. John Yiamoyuiannis, Ph.D.
"Water hardness (inorganic minerals in solution) is the
underlying cause of many, if not all, of the diseases resulting
from poisons in the intestinal tract. These (hard minerals) pass
from the intestinal walls and get into the lymphatic system,
which delivers all of its products to the blood, which in turn,
distributes to all parts of the body. This is the cause of much
human disease." The Mayo Clinic - Dr. Charles Mayo
"Let me state emphatically that, in my opinion, the misery of
arthritis is caused by hard water saturated with inorganic
minerals and an unbalanced diet, forming acid crystals in the
moveable joints, plus inactivity of the body in general. Only
distilled water removes these inorganic minerals. The greatest
damage done by inorganic minerals - plus waxy cholesterol and
salt - is to the small arteries and other blood vessels of the
brain (75% water). Hardening of the arteries and calcification
of blood vessels starts on the day you start taking inorganic
chemicals and minerals from water into your bodies." The
Shocking Truth About Water - Dr. Paul Bragg, N.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Allen E. Banik, M.D., who spent much of his life researching
the effects of water on the human body reported the following in
his publication The Choice Is Clear: "The only minerals that the
body can utilize are the organic minerals. All other types of
minerals are foreign substances to the body and must be
eliminated. Distilled water is the only water that can be taken
into the body without damage to the tissues.”
"The body's need for minerals is largely met through foods, not
drinking water." - The American Medical Association
"Distillation involves the process of vaporizing water by
boiling it. The steam rises, leaving behind most bacteria,
viruses, chemicals, minerals, and pollutants from the water. The
steam is then moved into a condensing chamber where it is cooled
and condensed to become distilled water . . . We believe that
only steam-distilled water should be consumed." Prescription for
Nutritional Healing - James F. Balch, M.D. & Phyllis A.
Balch, C.N.C.
"The only type of water that seems to be fit for consumption is
distilled water, which is water that is absolutely free of any
minerals or chemicals. Distilled water is made pure by first
being heated to the point of vaporization, so that all of the
'impurities' are left behind. Then, the water vapor is
condensed. The process results in water that is in its purest
form. Distillation is the single most effective method of water
purification." A Diabetic Doctor Looks at Diabetes - Peter A.
Lodewick, M.D.