RO or RO/DI for drinking water?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Leon71

My understanding is that we, as humans, need the minerals and trace elements. Pure water is not good.

We, as humans, get all we need from a proper diet, and pure water is the essence of life. All I drink is RO water, I'm fairly healthy

[Leon71]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

We, as humans, get all we need from a proper diet, and pure water is the essence of life. All I drink is RO water, I'm fairly healthy

RO water YES. DI water NO. Do a search on the net, there is lots of info.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Leon71

RO water YES. DI water NO. Do a search on the net, there is lots of info.

Correct, RO is what I mentioned. Which technically should be pure water.

[cwatkins]

Ya, if you were for instance say, working out in the hot sun all day, and only drinking RO/DI water, the sweat would remove necessary minerals and trace elements from our body, and the RO/DI water would not be replenishing them. I doubt you'd die from it but it may not be the best thing to do.

For sure these RO filter systems were used A LOT for household use.

BUT... I don't think I've seen many household water filters with a nuclear DI stage. I'd think the DI phase is used for specific and necessary purposes only I.E. reef keeping, industrial processes, etc. Did I mention reef keeping?

[Aquattro]

Well, all I drink is RO water, and I run a lot out in the hot sun. Minerals come from the banana I ate, or the energy gel, or oatmeal for breakfast. It really is fine to drink RO (and probably DI) as long as you eat food,which almost everybody does. The ratio of minerals from water vs. food is so huge that the content in the water isn't worth counting. The water is not going to act like a magnet and suck the minerals from my body

[imisky]

Ive been drinking RODI for the last year or so now and I'm all healthy. Now if I was fasting for 3 days+ that might be an issue but mostly because I'd starve to death

[Aquattro]

Just as a comparison, here's some numbers. Potassium. I drink 3l of water a day on average. That amount of my local tap water has 0.6mg of K. The contents of my cooler for food today has over 1600mg of k. The +/- 0.6mg I do or don't get from water is completely insignificant. If I drink RO and it sucks the 0.6mg from my cells, I still have 1600mg K without even considering afternoon snack or dinner.

[windcoast reefs]

As far as I have learned it is not a great thing to drink RO/DI water. It's not gonna kill you or have any significant effect in the short term. But the main reason you should not drink it is because the water is completely pure. When the water hits your digestive track, it can pull out many of the nutrients that your body has taken in from all the food you have ate in the last 24 hours. I think it is probably fine though if you keep up on your multiple vitamins. But I would never ever give it to children, it can cause weakened immune systems and lead to some problems later. basically is the same reason why kids that are raised with clean freaks can have weird allergies!

Just my 2 cents

[StirCrazy]

nothing wrong at all with drinking RO/DI water. take cruse ships for eg, hell take or navy. we make distilled water wich is the purest form of water and thats what we had to drink for up to 7 months.

another example.. middle east and especialy dubai and the kingdoms around them depend on RO DI for all there drinking water which comes from a huge plant just outside of dubai where sea water is turned into pure water.. no one is having problems from mineral loss there.

lets even go closer to home.. in victoria my tap water was 11ppm and sometimes down to 8ppm. in calgary is is over 400.. do people who live in Victoria have to take more suplements than people in calgary?

this is all silly talk, wives tales.. ect call it what you will by people who just don't know any better and have to say something to put down a purchase some one made that they don't think they needed. it has popped up several times over the last 10 years and it realy suprises me that people still think that way.

now do I drink DI.. no.. I tap off befor my DI filter for filling my water cooler jugs.. why.... I have 0 ppm out of the ro filter why waist my DI canister thats 50 bucks to replace.... so I use it for fish stuff only. would I drink it.. heck ya.. I did for 2 years till I found out how much it increased the depleation of the DI cartrage....... so for me its a cost thing.

Steve