Many distilled water research questions remain unanswered
Chapter 15–2 of 4 Chapter 15 serializing of Befriending Your Biology; Physical Health from the Inside Out.
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Drinking water has been distilled from sea water since at least about AD 200, when the process was clearly described by Alexander of Aphrodisias.[1] Its history predates this, as a passage in Aristotle’s Meteorologica (II.3, 358b16) refers to the distillation of water[2]. …
The drinking of distilled water as a replacement for drinking water has been both advocated and discouraged for health reasons. — Wikipedia
Lack of evidence-based distilled water research persists. Questions still needing workable protocols and documenting include:
- Is distilled water “higher energy” water?
- Is the surface tension of distilled water not exposed to surrounding air still 71–72 dynes?
- Why do some bekieve distilled water is wetter water (lower dynes)?
- Lime water used to alkalize over-acide distilled water.
The benefits of distilled water are really a sub-topic in the larger topic of state-changed water. Still unproven is Reams claim water “gains energy” each time it changes state. It may be true in addition to what else we know. Anecdotal literature since the 1950s claims value from drinking water after it has changed state. Two categories of state-changed water are implicated:
- Water changing state from liquid to frozen and back to liquid, and
- Water changing state from steam back to liquid.
Is distilled water higher-energy water?
Proponents of drinking steam-distilled water seem to track back to primarily two sources:
- the story of Thomas Edison’s success with curing his own arthritis by drinking only steam-distilled water. This appears to be a true anecdote with no formal ppaer.
- Reams emphasis in RBTI on drinking distilled water with and without lemon juice, since 1931.
Q: What about de-ionized water?
A: De-ionizing water with reverse-osmosis is a cheaper way to remove mineral ions than distilling. Reams, Beddoe and others always recommended distilled water over de-ionized water. It is claimed to have greater resonance with the needs of the human liver.
After 1968, it is estimated Dr. Reams consulted with 10,000 patients and observed 25,000 (estimated) sets of test result numbers he worked with. It’s likely Dr. Reams’ conviction of the potency of distilled water for healing our liver and internal Living Waters came from decades of clinical observations and at least some experiments. Perhaps earlier in life thousands of chemistry experiments with soils contributed to his conviction.
Absent any tests and experiments he did or any published papers, what has come down to us mostly is summaries of Reams’ ideas on distilled water, such as this one from Challen Waychoff II, ND: “#56 Distilled water is the perfect catalyst; also, the easiest for the body to pull energy from.” p. 123 TOHGYWENeed (2000, 2007)
and…
Dr. Reams would reinforce how vital water was to biologic life by demonstrating the significance of the amount of water required by different species as compared to humans. A 500 pound steer, for example, requires about 25 gallons of water per day to maintain its life. This works out to a 42% water requirement per pound of weight. Much of the water the steer drinks leaves as heat through vapor from via the skin because of the large skin surface of the steer.
Plant life requires three times its weight in water per day. That represents a 300% water requirement per pound of weight.
On the other hand, a human weighing 100 pounds, requires only about 1.5 quarts of water per day and this works out to only 3.2% water requirement per pound of weight. Yes, the human lives on the highest frequency of all biologic life on earth, but requires the least amount of water to exist of all the forms of biologic life. …
So how much distilled water should a person drink? Dr. Reams taught that one can determine the amount of distilled water they need to consume per day by dividing their weight by 2 and converting the answer to ounces.
For example, a 100-pound person [start p. 2] would drink (100 ÷ 2 = 50) or approximately 50 ounces (1.5 quarts) of extra water through the day other than water obtained through food and additional beverages. Herbal teas can be counted in as part of water intake.
Water amount per-day is only one of two considerations. To make optimal use of the correct amount of daily water intake, the amount should be divided into at least 20 increments. One increment can be consumed every half-hour during 10 hours of the day from 6–7am to 4–5 pm. Some people will do even better by dividing their calculated water intake into 24 increments to be consumed every half-hour over 12 hours.
“RBTI INSIGHTS ON DISTILLED WATER — THE ELIXIR OF LIFE” — 3 page PDF: by Dr A F Beddoe, DDS — https://www.pdfcours.com/Doc_PDF_Documents_Telecharger_Gratuit_PDF.php?q=PDF10doc1170-drinking+diet+soda+diabetes
“High-energy” and “low conductivity” of Distilled water — Scott Wood
It’s the “high energy” and “low conductivity” of Distilled water that effects the body-pH. … “Steam” distilled, resulting in “low” conductivity. The lower the conductivity of water is, the greater is its capacity for ‘picking up’ and ‘transporting’ debris out from the body. … the higher our urine-conductivity is, the more difficult it is to influence or change the pH of our body.
So at least two factors contribute to the ability of Distilled water to change the pH of the body –
1. It’s the best water for eliminating “pH-problem-debris” from the body, and
2. It has the greatest capacity of all waters for eliminating and/or diluting excess salts in the body, thus lowering the conductivity; thus, making it easier to adjust or change the body’s pH.
Because of its ‘high energy’ and ‘low conductivity’, and thus being so non-influential on the pH of all other elements and tissues in the body, Steam Distilled water is therefore the greatest “Catalyst” for aiding the optimum operation of all body parts, organs, tissues and functions….
Due to the ability of Distilled water to conform to the pH of all the diverse organs and cell tissues throughout the body, it is therefore able to nicely and non-intrusively “fit” into the needs of aiding all the diverse functions of all the diverse organs with all their diverse pH’s throughout the entire body — Scott Wood on Groups.IO RBTI forum 2018 Full Text: https://groups.io/g/RBTI/topic/distilled_water_for_ph_s/24877110?p=
Is distilled water, wetter water?
Surface tension is what allows objects with a higher density than water such as razor blades and insects (e.g. water striders) to float on a water surface without becoming even partly submerged … Because of the relatively high attraction of water molecules to each other through a web of hydrogen bonds, water has a higher surface tension (72.8 millinewtons (mN) per meter at 20 °C) than most other liquids. — Wikipedia
Conventional science says, water becomes “wetter” by lowering its surface tension. Outside of human health, for motors, this is done with chemicals.
Dr. Beddoe says distilled water is the “wettest” of all waters. Beddoe pg. 178 quoted in Carey Reams section 168–188 in Education of Cancer Healing Vol. VIII — Martyrs (2013) book by Peter Havasi.
Is distilled water more alkaline?
Pure distilled water should be neutral with a pH of 7. Yet because it absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it’s actually slightly acidic with a pH of 5.8 — https://sciencing.com/ph-distilled-water-4623914.html
Beyond keeping distilled water in closed containers, better ways to stop distilled water from absorbing CO2?
Dr. Reams told me otherwise over the telephone when I asked him why I seemed to keep going acid at the time. He specifically asked me about the pH of my distilled water. I specifically stated that it was 5.8. He specifically exclaimed in his low and bellowing voice:
“THAT’S TOO LOW! ADD SOME LIME WATER TO IT TO BRING IT BACK UP TO AROUND 7.0!” — Client report from old Yahoo RBTI forum repeated in Groups.IO forum
Your body’s many cries for water per USBA-RBTI
If your urine is too colorful, too orange and/or too thick, towards orange juice — this is your body’s cry for more water. Period.
Cost to determine this? Willingness to find a glass jar to pee into. Willingness to take a look, comparing the appearance of your pee to the optimal color and density as described in Beddoe and many other places.
Water misinformation: Your Body’s Many Cries for Water (1995)
In online water discussion, every so often someone new is inspired by Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, of India, and his thesis — approximately — all premature aging and most if not all diseases, are due to dehydrated cells, lack of water. You can find this in book, Your Body’s Many Cries for Water (1995).
At least the author has a clear vision:
Chronic cellular dehydration painfully and prematurely kills. Its initial outward manifestations have until now, been labeled as diseases… Frontispiece
… the body has more than one “dry mouth” indicator of water shortage. … pg. xi [Dr. Reams and the present Authors experience lack of Iodine as a major cause of dry mouth. This clinical solution was apparently unknown to the author of Cries.]
… medical professionals have not understood the human body’s variety of calls for water. They instead resort to using chemical and “procedures” to deal with chronic dehydration of the body. …
… the good news is, ‘you are not sick, you are thirsty.’ …
… a new discovery, the lack of water in the body — chronic dehydration — is the root cause of many painful degenerative diseases, asthma, allergies, hypertension, excess body weight, and some emotional problems including depression. … Prevent and reverse premature aging … cure asthma in a few days, naturally and forever, …cure hypertension … lose weight effortlessly and naturally …
Review blurbs from the back cover:
“One man’s solution to the soaring health costs: water”
… put this book next to your Bible and read them both
The best health book of the Century
Is there ANY part of Dr. Batmanghelidj’s ideas about water useful in USBA now? Probably not.
His thesis does suggest a useful experiment we wish he had performed. He could have segregated an experimental group of patients, all with “beer bellies” of any size (not pregnant, nor due to malnutrition). Measure each person’s girth. Then supplied distilled water for them to drink exclusively, on a daily schedule, over a three month period. He likely would have found clinically significant “waist reduction” due to the removal of stored, stagnant metabolic toxins being removed.
See also in this text the Chapter “Diet fads in USBA.”
Q: What about alkaline water?
Sutchain: If the client doesn’t need it, alkaline water may mess up their numbers. A previous boyfriend of mine drank only alkaline water and couldn’t get over a infection until he stopped drinking the alkaline water so I learned from his situation.
If reader agree the pH of our lymph and internal Living Waters has an optimal, absolute value of 6.4; then, alkaline water can only potentially benefit persons with over-acid lymph. Over-alkaline-lymph-people would be least likely to note any benefits. Further, based on the decades of clinical observation, distilled water appears to have more value for balancing disturbed lymph-water not matter if it is too-acid or too alkaline.
Comments and corrections invited. Research on distilled water with lower than 71–72 dynes is actively sought.
