LOL.... I remembered stealing some potatoes home to cook french fries
Bad example, don't learn guys haha

What makes pure water hypotonic? are you saying that water distillers kill people?


This post has been edited by wodenus: Sep 29 2010, 06:50 PM

No they don't haha
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if you drink it everyday without fail, it might just kill you.

explanation on why its hypotonic can be found in front.

No it won't kill you.

Yes distilled water is hypotonic. But so is pipe water. Pipe water has some minerals, but not that much. Hypotonic does not mean toxic.

If you drink pure distilled water your entire life, you will not die, or even get sick. Because you're still eating. And most of the minerals your body needs comes from your food, not from the plain water you drink.

Once the water you drink enters your body, it is absorbed into your blood stream. It is not kept separate. So the proposed experiment with soaking your hand in water is irrelevant. Your cells in your body will not be floating around in a solution of pure distilled water.

So, if drinking water is hypotonic, why does it not cause all your cells to die? The answer is obvious. Don't drink so much water all in one go. If you drink 4L of water all in one go, you might get water intoxication and die. But why would you want to drink so much water? Your body has a built in mechanism to control the balance of water and ions in your body. Everyone has it from birth. Trust your thirst reflex. It's worked well for billions of people for thousands of years.

distilled water has nothing except water..you can't compare it with pipe water..

My point is pipe water has so little mineral, it is nearly identical to distilled water. At least when it comes to nutrition and tonicity.

acid or alkali? that makes the different...btw water is water, H2O

Okay, get MiliQ type-1 water.. this settles everything...

the difference is in its pH in addition to the minerals n microorganism contain inside.