Why 100% Pure Water is Dangerous [Shocking Warning] 

Forget diarrhea, I was “taught” that drinking it *can kill you*

So, what you're saying is, if I don't inject my veins with distilled water I should be fine? Got it!

Distilled water distributed in plastic jugs is no longer distilled - it now contains microplastics

We regularly buy a gallon of distilled water every three months for my mom's oxygen tanks/machine. Otherwise, the minerals found in tap and/or mineral water will corrode and clog the pipe in the humidifying cup.

"distributed equally" the 3rd plate:

"due to its purity and lack of impurities"

People talk about distilled water being dangerous, not knowing how much sodium we ingest daily

As someone who drinks distilled water regularly, I can tell you I'm very much alive and healthy.

Been drinking distilled water for over 62 years at this point in time with no signs of it being harmful. My HBG/HCT has been high for as long as I can remember except for about a month in January 2023 when we were trying to figure out why I was actively bleeding. Once we determined the cause of the bleeding and stopped it, my HGB/HCT returned to high levels. This indicates my red cells were not taking in excess water that was causing them to lyse. Reinforcing this is the fact that under the microscope, no schistocytes were seen therefore my red cells were not lysing. Also my blood chemistries over the years have shown no ill effects from me drinking distilled water. (BTW…I got my degree in laboratory science in 1979 and worked in a major hospital lab processing, testing, analyzing, and reporting results on blood and other bodily fluids for over 35 years. Therefore I am not just going by what a doctor told me, I using knowledge acquired from study, from practical application, and from experience. Where I live, we are required to have a set number of hours each year of continuing education to renew our state licenses that are required to work in our field in our state.) So I shall continue to drink distilled water for probably as long as it is available to me. As for the bit about distilled water “sucking” all the calcium out of your teeth over time…I still have all my permanent teeth except for my wisdom teeth as they grew in at a very painful angle and had to be removed. But then I swallow my water when it enters my mouth, I do not hold it in my mouth for my teeth to soak in.

"You will drink the fluoride and eat the bugs"

I drink it all the time since my childhood

I've primarily drank distilled water for years and I am an overall healthy person. I used to live in a place that had super high mineral content in the water and it caused several of my family members to get kidney stones. I've had some friends tell me some crazy stuff about the affects of drinking distilled water. I've been doing this for 20 years; you'll be fine. Eat a healthy, well balanced diet, have a Gatorade if out in the sun for some extra electrolytes.

MY WHOLE family been drinking distilled water for years without issue. We get all the minerals we need from food. And plants that actually contain edible minerals as opposed to those in the soil.

Needed minerals come from your food. Unless you're fasting with nothing but distilled water and not using electrolytes, (or injecting distilled water intravenously) you'll be fine.

I've gone years drinking ONLY distilled water and guess what - I've never felt better in my entire life and my mental clarity is through the roof. Rain water is distilled water. The examples demonstrated in the video mixing blood with different water types are bad examples because water doesn't go directly into the bloodstream, it passes through organs, excess is discarded, etc. Ignore all that advice which says "you should be drinking X amount of water per day" - only drink when you are naturally thirsty, your body will let you know how much you need to drink. Leeches nutrients from the body? You don't want those nutrients found in water to begin with when you should be getting nutrients from natural foods, not rocks, etc. Why is it so beneficial? Water is like pipe cleaner for the body and it's only going to be effective as it is clean - if it already has a certain ppm of whatever in it, it's not going to be able to remove ppm of whatever toxins you have in your body to the same degree. I haven't had distilled water in some time due to being in africa for some years (other than rain water), but I can't wait to return to it.

distilled water isnt great for you, because pure water naturally pulls minerals out. since it doesnt have the added minerals to counter that effect, it can actually pull essential minerals out of your body and into the water which is then peed out, so distilled water actually takes away nutrients instead of giving them.

Why leave out tap water in your experiment?

My grandpa talks about this when he was still alive. He says that distilled water is a dead water. No minerals at all. He is a very wise man, and a jack of all trades.

So... no ones gonna talk about that "Aah" he made when pricking his finger? 💀

So this video is basically all about telling people not to inject distilled water. Useful, it's such a common problem that is. What's the next video? How eating neutron stars can be hazardous to your health. 4 minutes and 1 second of my life I will never get back.

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Ad blood to ordinary tap water as well and you will get the same effect as distilled water.

A simple google search says this is false. Distilled water is **NOT** pure, as it contains ions. These are mostly hydrogen and hydroxide ions. Once deionized and distilled, water can in fact, be dangerous. Distilled water is not. If you ever had a juice, soda, or drink that's bottled (such as Coca-Cola) you're drinking distilled water with the flavorings. Distilled water dehydrates you like like soda and alcohol. Tap (drinking) water contain things like sodium, calcium, and magnesium. These are electrolytes that are replaced as the water flows through your system. For a better abstraction: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hMh1lyeNsPc.htmlsi=1Vyqt4JnyO4G96Et

They speak of distilled water as thoughit somehow maintains the lack of minerals when it dilutes what's in your body. It's just clean water bro.

I've used distilled water to make coffee and the coffee maker never needs to have the heating elements "demineralized". Using distilled water for more than 30 years. I use my well water for a drink of water now and then.. Meats and vegetables provide minerals and salts.

Thats quite the watery fish

For many years I've been drinking distilled water... Not exclusively tho. I must be dead

Most tap water is much closer to distilled water in osmotic pressure than bodily fluids. It will have the same effect on blood cells, which is why IV is always done with an isotonic saline solution.

1:58 😩

I admit I didn't go to medicine but only a school for nurses, but I am fairly certain that any kind of water in your bloodstream is pretty dangerous.

I drink distilled water exclusively if I can help it. My body should get its minerals from my food, and the distilled water will help that.

I knew when I subbed to this channel when it had just 15k subscribers that it would make its way into YT, keep it up!

"Injecting distilled water will harm you" Yeah, but so does regular freshwater, as it usually has a very low mineral content as well. Assuming it's clean in the first place. Or any saltwater of a higher concentration as demonstrated. It's kind of a "duh" point. Don't inject random stuff in your bloodstream. Now, what about drinking? Well, we absorb 95%+ of our mineral intake over our food. The amount of sodium chloride in a pack of chips can make a large bucket of water slightly salty. Assuming an average diet (which is usually rather TOO salty in western countries) drinking distilled water is literally irrelevant.

My grandma loves using it for her coffee and I always found it weird

lots of misinformed comments here. doesn't help that the video didn't really reinforce the important takeaways enough. As the video said, Pure Water is not good for long term consumption, as it's missing some minerals that your body needs but doesn't really get from other sources (unless you have some weirdass diet to replace them, but that's really backwards). The real issue is with Pure Water having too low of a concentration of solutes. Some people in the comments have pointed out that Pure Water can "take away" solutes from your body. While this is somewhat true, it is only happening to a very negligible degree. As the video pointed out, it's the fact that Pure Water will inflate cells (ANY cells, not just blood cells!) and cause them to explode that makes it dangerous. Thing is, any excessive amount of water (of ANY kind! even normal tap water) can cause that, as too much water will dilute the solutions in your body enough to cause the effect from above. BTW this is what causes water poisoning. The danger of Pure Water is that due to it's purity, it takes less water to dilute solutions in your body. If drinking an entire bottle of tap water makes you feel sick, then drinking pure water will take less than that. Because relatively small doses of Pure Water are enough to cause a water overdose aka water poisoning, it is stated to be dangerous. As for causing diarrhea, yes, that's a known effect of water poisoning. So yeah, Pure Water can cause diarrhea if you overdose on it, but that's the least of your worries if you reach that point lol (headaches, vomiting, nausea, permanent damage to the brain, organ failure, and death, make the competition pretty harsh in my opinion).

I've been drinking water with less than 6ppm TDS for over 50 years. If I am offered tap water at a friend's house or at a food service I can taste the iron and minerals in the water. I have had no physical problems drinking pure water. Oh, I'm 83.

Distilled water is fine. You get nutrients from food. Some countries have to drink distilled water because they don’t have natural freshwater

1:59 no way bro whimpered 💀

There's a difference in marketed "distilled" water and Deionized water. Distilled water is safe to drink. Deionized water will rip salts out of your cells through osmosis.

It can hardly be truly distilled water once it is placed in a plastic container only if placed into glass containers.

My grandmother suffered severe dementia and always expecting me to buy her distilled water because she thought that tap water was poisoning her so I would just get distilled water jugs and put tap water in it but when my family found out what I was doing they insisted that I keep feeding her distilled water like she wants because she's at the end of her life and she should be able to get what she wants so they bought her a whole bunch of jugs and they would never believe me until after she died

My grandpa drank distilled water all the time, all day (distilled in a home distiller, not some chemistry lab thing). He lived to 91. I'm definitely not saying it was a good idea; he did a lot of weird things.

As an ex-merchant mariner, I would like to point out that freshwater supplies on board were distilled from sea water, using waste heat from the main engine. On engine room watch, especially during Persian Gulf passages, we would consume several litres of this water. I never felt the need to inject it into my bloodstream.

I used to work in the desert heat, and occasionally someone would grab a gallon of distilled water off the supermarket shelf instead of drinking water or spring water. While i never saw this personally, i heard stories of people getting sick as a dog after drinking distilled water all day in the heat.

Ok. Title lets me know I can have this channel never recommended again.

The only thing I've heard about distilled water is that you need to drink it immediately after opening the bottle. Otherwise it starts reacting to the atmosphere and starts to taste bad. I didn't believe it, but it did go from "this is pretty good" to "this tastes weird" to "im just going to pour this out" over the course of an afternoon.

The hemolysis is why, in the hospital, when the goal is to hydrate only, or saline would be risky due to conditions such as HBP, we administer a glucose solution instead. (Just in case anyone was wondering :D)

My mother drank distilled water for three years and her arthritis went away. Don't believe people who say it is bad. Since she was drinking it I did too and neither of us suffered any ill effect.

2:10 with this i realised it was about osmosis

Ummmm ... it's not like we dump it directly into our veins intravenously ...

I’ve been reckoned distilled water from sparkles for 45 years. I give it to my dogs also and I have no health problems whatsoever. I’m extremely healthy and sparkles distilled water comes in the hard plastic bottles which does not leach plastic.

Distilled water is still not the same as 100% pure water, that type of water can actually be used to clean electrical boards and dose not conduct electricty. You also dont want to drink it.

“Due to its purity and lack of impunities” 😂

Um just out of morbid curiosity: Could this be an underline issue for people who use IV substances? (obviously besides all the other risks) I just know there's probably a high amount of people who have to use whatever water sources they got and can't always access those saline solution options. Sorry your display was fascinating and it was helpful to see and visualize how the blood reacts to different kinds of water

It's so interesting what distilled water can do to you. I once had a student in my chemistry class asked this and I explained the impacts of drinking pure water and why they should not. And a little fun fact about how our bottled waters that are fit for consumption is actually not pure H2O but a solution of dissolved essential minerals. He was a bit confused and said that "it's funny. So contaminated water is bad, so we purify it. And then contaminate it again so that we can drink it." Still sticks with me till today

We use distilled water for my husband's CPAP machine, which is absolutely necessary. People need to understand the difference.

I'm sorry but I'm not drinking my chlorine filled tap water, it smells so bad you will gag from it because the chemicals are that fuckin strong, so I'm choosing bottled water any day.

Pure water never enters the bloodstream as illustrated.. so the postulation that it's 'bad in the bloodstream' is irrelevant. Rainwater can be considered pure water as it usually doesn't contain any salts. (easily testable with a TDS meter) I know people that have lived a long healthy life consuming just rainwater for drinking, showering and washing. The body's necessary vitamins and minerals are obtained in much greater quantities from food sources in general. At least by drinking very clean water you are avoiding fluoride, chlorine, and cancer causing forever chemicals.

I use distilled water for my coffee. tastes smoother

Water doesn't actually conduct electricity. The minerals dissolved in it do. Pure water is actually commonly used to clean electronics.

Distilled water is perfectly safe and the cleanest you can buy. The only ones calming otherwise are the companies selling drinking water with minerals added for taste. Any such minerals are in very minute and insignificant amounts. Naturally distilled water is morning dew, or the best water in nature.

What if there were a widely available source of naturally distilled water? You know...like rain or something?

All we drink is distilled water. We have been drinking it for about 14 years now. You don’t need minerals and salts from your water. You should be getting it from vegetables and fruits not your water. Distilled water helps to flush out and break down inorganic minerals. It’s way healthier than regular water.

Often the main thing we need from water is the different salts, not the actual liquid.

Huh, i drank a whole bottle of this and my head did spin a bit.

Distilled water never enters the blood stream.Water is the primary nutrient solvent as the body processes and adds available nutrients to it for absorption by the cells.

All water we usually drink is actually called light water (H2O), because heavy water exists (D2O)

I thought this was Action Lab for a sec.

i think there is a little confusion here distilled water is very potable, and in fact is what most people drink, what is dangerous is demineralised water, that will almost certainly kill you like overhydration

You ever taste distilled water? It’s so weird. There’s literally no flavor, it’s just wet.

You can drink it in small amounts perfectly fine. When to drink it? When you are bloated and overloaded with electrolytes (i.e. you ate that entire bag of Doritos, which will kill you faster than drinking distilled water from time to time). It's commonly used by athletes when cutting weight for sports with strict weight classes. It has to be managed and not over done, as with most things in life.

UPW (ultra pure water) is probably what people are thinking of with these myths, it's still not anywhere near that dangerous though, but it can cause skin irritation and is generally bad for you as it's pretty aggressive in dissolving stuff.

So proper sodium balance is important or all of our cells either shrink or expand. I have 5 gallon jugs of distilled delivered for several years now, but it's not the only water I consume. I cycle through different sources of water and stick with whichever feel like they are hydrating me

Question, isn't saline just super salty water, if i'm right it is sometimes used to draw water out of places it shouldn't be

my cats vet actually prescribed distilled water instead of tap water to help with a kidney problem. fixed him right up. i guess it helps disolve some of the urea salt deposits that can cause bladder and kidney blockages

Although I do not drink distilled water, I do however drink large amounts of filtered water from plastic bottles. Watching this has made me consider, how pure is too pure? and then there are those nasty micro plastics!

People have had something similar happen to their cells from drinking ordinary water, but that was because of cruel punishments and a competition. Everything is poison if your body has too much, some things like water just take an unreasonable amount to reach that point.

I’ve drank a lot of distilled water. I never pooed myself. I also know people that only drink reverse osmosis which has nothing in it either

What exactly did this video teach us. Nothing. Yes if you put a drop or gallon of blood in distilled water the distilled water will shrink the red blood cells. But if you drink the distilled water your body chemistry will equalize the distilled water. Just ask yourself would you rather drink water with all kinds of chemicals added to it or drink an uncontaminated water. Personally I have a water still and make iced tea, lemonade, coffee and just drink distilled water. The iced tea looks better and tastes better, the coffee tastes much better.

distilled water burst the cell wall of Red Blood Cells

I remember a water filter salesman cleaned mama's oven with pure water.

Every time someone says phenomena, my head just plays "Do do be do do..."

I can't say whether drinking Distilled water causes diarrhea. 4-5 beers before bed absolutely will though. Living the dream right now.

100% pure water don't help you against dehydrated, the water we usually drink have mineral in it.

so what i understood as a kid was that because it has no minerals it attracts them from inside your body and flushes them out, making you lose these essential minerals.

Still confused on how many gallons of water I need to drink daily to get my minerals from water. We do use RO system with UVC for bacteria that gets down to 2 ppm for particles in the water. We don’t like to purchase water, but we do need to make sure it’s safe since my wife had a lung transplant with medication that compromise her immune system.

Now I am scared of distilled water and salt water.

When I was having distilled water delivered in huge jugs, I discovered I needed to add salts and minerals to it to avoid issues. I add a bit of sole (distilled water with added Himalayan pink salt until the water can't absorb any more) with dozens of trace minerals. Drinking large amounts of distilled water will suck minerals out of your body and cause issues.

I'm no scientist but this sounds less like "distilled" water and more like "deionized" water.

Distilled is not %100 pure. Deionized water is as close to %100 pure as your going to get without a more complicated process

My dog gets kidney stones. He has been drinking it for years with no ill affect. I like to drink it several times a week.

So could it be a cheap cleaner or would I be pushing chemistry?

What’s dangerous is not getting enough water or drinking any liquid other than water

What a timing. Yesterday I mistakenly drank some distilled water and then read "not for human consumption". Then had the vilest throw up and my stomach still hurts. But man why do they make them look the same?

Next time you need to do so, do not puncture your finger pad, as it is painful due to the abundance of all receptor types. Instead, go for the side of your finger tip. Yes: that minimal distance of 5 millimetres means a significant difference in matters of pain.

Ive used it for coffee, you'll be fine.

What Sebastian said about this water?

The only thing i knew was that water is actually an acid. When purified the ph becomes extremely low around 4 (acid is 1 - 10 is alkaline). Drinking distilled water can lead to feeling more thirsty and dehydrated. My last work place had a fancy RO machine.

I once mistakenly drank half a gallon of distilled water. I felt absolutely miserable.

I took a small sip of that water but nothing happened.