It does, for the simple reason that urine (as well as sweat) necessarily contains electrolytes, so you lose those.
The misconception lies in thinking that tap or mineral water somehow don’t do this. They contain some electrolytes, but not really a significant amount, as you primarily get them from food.
… you realize that no matter WHAT you drink you sweat and pee regardless? The issue people are saying is that distilled water makes it worse. That’s just wrong.
Yes that’s what I said. But one of the likely reasons the myth stays around is that all of the following is true:
Excreting water requires electrolytes
Excreting water will remove those electrolytes from your body
Drinking significantly more water than you excrete will lead to hyponatremia
Distilled water has no electrolytes while tap/mineral water does
What the myth ignores is that:
The amount of electrolytes in water is negligible anyway, so distilled water isn’t really worse in that regard and consumption of any normal amounts of distilled water is completely fine
You can’t just drink infinite fluids because you consume infinite electrolytes because your body is more complex than that, so regardless drinking too much of anything will kill you
But saying it doesn’t strip you of anything isn’t entirely true, and I’m not a fan of misinfo even if it’s more of a nitpick. More than that I don’t think it’s going to help when from my first 4 bullet points you could easily come to the incorrect conclusion that drinking distilled water will quickly lead to hyponatremia.
It’s probably also where the osmosis thing further up comes from, since that’s involved in causing the neurological symptoms, it’s just unrelated to what fluid you consume, since it happens with your blood, not the fluid itself.
You don’t fight misconceptions with half-truths.
Edit: when i say fluid i mean something water based ofc, if you drink something else for some reason you’ll probably have all sorts of different issues anyway.
That is a lot of words to say distilled water doesn’t affect your body in any significant way.
It also doesn’t strip you of minerals, that’s not how the body works, please provide a source lmfao. Distilled water doesn’t pull minerals out of your body, that’s just plain false. Argue whatever adjacent point you want, but this is just plain fucking false. You’re using incorrect information that’s been debunked. God fucking lmfao.
Provide a source that says distilled water strips you body of minerals, that’s outdated and incorrect information that’s been debunked. The body doesn’t work that way.
So please provide a source, I need another laugh this morning. You’re the fifth person now who’s arguing and won’t be able to provide a source.
Can’t find it right now, lots of articles online about electrolyte imbalance causing issues, but none linked to an actual source.
Yeah there’s a reason for that… distilled doesn’t strip, so there won’t be any source that corroborates that statement.
It does, for the simple reason that urine (as well as sweat) necessarily contains electrolytes, so you lose those.
The misconception lies in thinking that tap or mineral water somehow don’t do this. They contain some electrolytes, but not really a significant amount, as you primarily get them from food.
… you realize that no matter WHAT you drink you sweat and pee regardless? The issue people are saying is that distilled water makes it worse. That’s just wrong.
Yes that’s what I said. But one of the likely reasons the myth stays around is that all of the following is true:
What the myth ignores is that:
But saying it doesn’t strip you of anything isn’t entirely true, and I’m not a fan of misinfo even if it’s more of a nitpick. More than that I don’t think it’s going to help when from my first 4 bullet points you could easily come to the incorrect conclusion that drinking distilled water will quickly lead to hyponatremia.
It’s probably also where the osmosis thing further up comes from, since that’s involved in causing the neurological symptoms, it’s just unrelated to what fluid you consume, since it happens with your blood, not the fluid itself.
You don’t fight misconceptions with half-truths.
Edit: when i say fluid i mean something water based ofc, if you drink something else for some reason you’ll probably have all sorts of different issues anyway.
That is a lot of words to say distilled water doesn’t affect your body in any significant way.
It also doesn’t strip you of minerals, that’s not how the body works, please provide a source lmfao. Distilled water doesn’t pull minerals out of your body, that’s just plain false. Argue whatever adjacent point you want, but this is just plain fucking false. You’re using incorrect information that’s been debunked. God fucking lmfao.
Yes exactly glad you get it. Some people want to actually understand why something isn’t true instead of believing the first source that says so.
And what a shocker, no sources.
…. You still don’t get it do you.
Provide a source that says distilled water strips you body of minerals, that’s outdated and incorrect information that’s been debunked. The body doesn’t work that way.
So please provide a source, I need another laugh this morning. You’re the fifth person now who’s arguing and won’t be able to provide a source.