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Which Water is the Best for Detox Programs?
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Distilled Water
Distilled water is the cleanest water anywhere. Yes, it is more acidic and devoid of minerals, but given a choice of polluted water or distilled water, the choice becomes clear. You can add one teaspoon of baking soda to a gallon of distilled water and you will have clean, alkalizing mineral water. Read more how to alkalize your water at home.
If you are doing a detox program, distilled water is the best choice. If you don’t have access to a trusted source of clean, pure water, then drinking distilled water is the answer. If you plan to do some colon cleansing (enemas) then distilled water is the only water you should consider.
To help your body flush toxins, a short term program using distilled water is a super effective means of detoxifying your body.
However, you should only drink distilled water for a short period of time. After that you will need to add baking soda or some other types of minerals to the water. Drinking only distilled water has some serious health risks.
Although it’s true that distilled water is the purest water, however it is an unnatural type of water. Distilled water is greedy, if you will, and it has the ability to grab onto toxic and harmful elements in the body and then these toxic items are removed with the water via urine. Unfortunately, distilled water also grabs ahold of essential minerals and other elements that your body needs. In just weeks, drinking only distilled water can lead to a serious mineral depletion that can lead to serious health complications such as:
- High blood pressure
- Osteoporosis
- Hypothyroidism
- Irregular heartbeat
- Coronary artery disease
- Osteoarthritis
This also applies to using distilled water for cooking. Distilled water will pull minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and potassium from your food, which means there are much fewer nutrients for you!
For the best health, your cooking and drinking water should be slightly alkaline. Use distilled water for short periods of time (such as a 10 day detox program) but after that, either adds minerals to your distilled water, or find another source of pure water.
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