Experts speak out
Doctors, scientists, researchers and medical professionals from around the world share their perspective on distilled water.
Listen closely!
"The only type of water that appears to be suitable for consumption is distilled water, i.e. water that is absolutely free of minerals and chemicals. Distilled water is purified by first heating it until it evaporates, leaving all the "impurities" behind. The water vapor is then condensed. The result of this process is water in its purest form. Distillation is the most effective method of water purification."
(Source: A Diabetic Doctor Looks at Diabetes, 1997)
"There is only one water, and that is clean, steam-distilled water. No other substance on our planet does as much to keep us healthy and make us healthy as water."
(Source: Dietary Wellness, 1998)
"If you choose bottled water, make sure it's distilled. You'll save money in the long run if you purify your water at home. It's more convenient than lugging gallon jugs from the supermarket. The "gold standard" for water purification is a system that distills and filters your water. You have the assurance that it contains no chlorine, fluoride, bacteria, viruses, pesticides or lead. You get nothing but H2O."
(Source: Maximum Health, 1994)
"Even tap water always contains a variety of toxins such as chlorine, chloramine, asbestos, pesticides, fluoride, copper, mercury and lead. The best way to remove all these pollutants is through distillation."
Dr. David C. Kennedy
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(Source: How To Save Your Teeth: Toxic-Free Preventive Dentistry, 1993)
"What we as scientists and the public have never understood is that the minerals that the body absorbs from water are all inorganic minerals that cannot be absorbed (digested) by the body. The only minerals that the body can utilize are the organic minerals (from fruit and vegetables). All other minerals are foreign substances for the body and must be disposed of or excreted. Today, many progressive doctors prescribe distilled water to their patients. All kidney machines work with distilled water."
Dr. Allen E. Banik
(Source: The choice is clear, 1991)
"When distilled water enters the body, it leaves no residue. It is free of salts and sodium. It is the perfect water for the healthy functioning of the kidneys (83% water). It is the perfect fluid for the blood (83% water), the ideal fluid for the efficient functioning of the lungs (86% water), stomach, liver (85% water) and other vital organs. Why? Because it is free of all inorganic minerals. It is so pure that all liquid medicine formulas are formulated with distilled water."
(Source: Water - The shocking Truth that can save your Life, 2001)
"Used as a beverage, distilled water is absorbed directly into the blood, the solvent properties of which it increases to such an extent that it holds in solution the salts already present in the blood, prevents their excessive deposition in various organs and structures, favors their elimination by the various excretions, and tends to remove these earthy compounds already accumulated in the body (...). There is no doubt of the great value of distilled water used freely to retard the ossification which constitutes the condition of old age."
Dr. DeLacy Evans
(Source: How to prolong life, 1910)
"Instead of drinking the hard water of the springs or the chlorinated water of the cities, it is beneficial to drink distilled water ... to prevent calcification of the body."
Dr. Teofilo de la Torre
(Source: The Process of Physical Purification, 1957)
"Distilled water is 'empty' water - a hungry water, a water capable of absorbing body toxins. You've had the experience of trying to use an old pad of mail on your desk. Everyone has used it and it is so full of ink that it no longer absorbs. It's the same with "full" water, water full of chlorine, aluminum, etc. Such water does not have the ability to absorb the body's impurities."
Dr. Charles McFerrin
(Source: Nature's Path)
"I knew that distilled water was pure. I thought if I drank a lot of it, I could get rid of some of the salts that were covering my sciatic nerves. I tried drinking it and it worked like a charm. I have continued to drink distilled water and attribute my near perfect health largely to this."
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
(Source: waterlovers.com)
"The evidence that distilled water acts as a solvent in the body and dissolves the inorganic mineral deposits is very important. A growing body of evidence suggests that distilled water dissolves and removes these disease-causing minerals and also flushes out the hundreds of dangerous chemicals that have been absorbed into the body. Not only is distilled water free of harmful substances, but it also appears to help remove them from the body's cells, cleansing the body so it can function as it should."
Dr. Robert W. Flinchbaught
(Source: Pure Water is Life)
"The home distiller is the best method and also the best way to get distilled water. It is the only reliable home water treatment to remove fluoride from water."
Dr. John Yiamoyuiannis
(Source: Fluoride: The Aging Factor)
"Water hardness (inorganic minerals in solution) is the real cause of many, if not all, diseases due to toxins in the intestinal tract. These (hard minerals) pass from the intestinal walls into the lymphatic system, which releases all its products into the blood, which in turn distributes to all parts of the body. This is the cause of many human diseases."
(Source: rockymountainwaterdistillers.com)
"So people who say that distilled water leaches minerals from the body are only right in this respect. That is only 50% of the truth. It is virtually impossible for distilled water to separate minerals that have become an integral part of the body's cells and tissues. Distilled water ONLY collects the minerals that remain in the body, minerals that have been excreted from the natural water AND from the cells, the minerals that the natural water originally collected through its contact with the earth and rocks. These minerals that have been shed from the cells of the body have no constructive value. On the contrary, they are debris that distilled water can pick up and remove from the system."
(Source: Water Can Undermine Your Health)
"Water is so valuable to the entire system of the human body that it is wise to use only the BEST. Use pure steam distilled water for health and well-being."
(Source: Regenerative Diet)
"When you drink impure, dirty water, your body acts like a filter that traps some of the solids in the water. A filter eventually becomes clogged and unusable - it can only be thrown away. The human body could face the same fate. But the basic statement that only distilled water prevents mineral deposits in the body is indisputable. The deposits that form in a kettle after repeated use are traces of minerals left behind when the water evaporates.
Distilled water leaves no such traces - neither in a kettle nor in the human body. It is true that in most hospitals distilled water is used for newborns; in many cardiac units distilled water is prescribed for heart patients. And it is true that kidney stones and other mineral-like deposits in the body are much more common in areas where drinking water is high in inorganic minerals - and distilled water has none at all.
It is undoubtedly the best water available to man - and the only truly pure water in our wasteful society."
Dr. Paul Conn
(Source: Not A Drop To Drink)
"The only water that can be described as clean is distilled water."
(Source: The New Nutrition: Medicine For The Millennium)
"Distilled water is safe to drink and should have no adverse effects on your health. Distillation simply removes most of the dissolved substances found in all natural waters."
US General
(Source: U.S. Army Health Services Command)
"There is nothing about distilled water that would make it harmful to the body. It may be helpful to remember that distilled water is the only water available to the crews of naval vessels at sea."
Dr. Frank N. Hepburn
(Source: Nutrition Data Research Branch, United States Department of Agriculture, Consumer Nutrition Division, 1977)
"We drink 90 percent of our diseases."
(Source: Epoch Times)
"I've been drinking distilled water since 1981, almost half my life, and if I had the choice I wouldn't drink any other kind of water. I recommend distilled water to all my friends and family and wouldn't do it if I didn't think it was one of the healthiest things a person could do. After a full body exam, the doctor told me that I have the cleanest arteries of anyone he's examined at my age. And I've never had a broken bone in my body. (Contrary to quack claims that calcium and other minerals are "leached" from the body!)"
(Director, H2o Labs, Ltd.)
(Source: h2olabs.com)
"People who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome should drink distilled water."
Dr. Edward M. Wagner
(Source: How to Stay Out of the Doctor's Office)
"Distilled water is the purest form there is. Distilled water helps to eliminate excess heavy metals from the body."
Vicki Glassburn
(Source: Who Killed Candida?)
"When properly maintained, distillers consistently deliver high-quality water. Filters and reverse osmosis systems, on the other hand, are at their best when they are first installed, and their efficiency inevitably decreases with use."
Jonathon King
(Source: Troubled Water)
"To the best of our knowledge, the continued consumption of distilled water has no negative effects on health."
Jack A. Bell
Assistant Director American Medical Association; Division of Personal and Public Health Policy
"There is no absolute medical proof that drinking distilled water cures arthritis, heart disease, high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries or any of the other diseases that people suffer from. There is no absolute proof that drinking distilled water removes kidney and gallstones, reduces cataracts or cures emphysema. But there are hundreds of case studies of people who have successfully alleviated or overcome these health problems when they started drinking only distilled water."
Dr. Clifford C. Dennison
Associate Professor at Lee College in Cleveland, Tennessee, and a lifelong water researcher and expert
(Source: dewdroppurewater.com)
"Now to the argument that distilled water leaches minerals. That's true, and that's exactly what we want it to do. The minerals it leaches are in the unusable, ionic form and we want them to leave the body instead of being deposited and causing disease. Distilled water does not leach significant amounts of bioavailable minerals because they are quickly absorbed by the body as needed. If they are present in excess, they are filtered through the kidneys, which is exactly what needs to happen with anything in excess in circulation. Distilled water cleanses the body by promoting healthy kidney function."
(Source: worldofwater.ca)
"You can try drinking distilled water from a bottle if you like. This is water that has been turned into steam so that the impurities are left behind. The steam is then condensed to get pure water. The process of distillation kills and removes virtually all bacteria, viruses, heavy metals and other organic and inorganic impurities. After distillation, the water is as pure as it can be. It's true that distillation removes minerals and other impurities from the water, but I don't think that's a problem. We get our minerals from food, not water. As far as acidity is concerned, distilled water has an almost neutral pH and has no effect on the body's acid-base balance. Distilled water is safe to drink and is the water I use myself."
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Dr. Andrew Weil
(Source: drweil.com)
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"When I did research on distilled water many years ago, I discovered that unlike all the stories out there, distilled water doesn't take anything out of the body that the body needs. It never takes anything out of a cell. Everything that's trapped in the cells stays in the body, but it's the best thing in the world to cleanse the bloodstream because that's the only function water really has: to wash out, cleanse and purify the bloodstream. Remember that the circulatory system is first and foremost a transportation organ. Most people think of it as a fluid and not an organ, but it is an organ. It transports nutrients, oxygen and red blood cells throughout the body and removes waste products and carbon dioxide."
Dr. Chester Handley
(Source: The Importance Of Distilled Water In Aging)
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"A steam distillation system is the only water treatment method that completely and consistently removes the broadest spectrum of drinking water contaminants and rids your water of more contaminants more effectively than any carbon filtration or reverse osmosis system.
A high-quality distillation system is proven to be the
best technology available for removing heavy metals, dissolved solids and chemical contaminants, including
pharmaceuticals. Distillation is the only technology that consistently removes hazardous microbiological contaminants."
Jack A. Barber
(Source: Drinking Water Scams Exposed!, 2017)