WrinkledNugSack
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About a year ago, I got into an unprompted conversation with someone (couldn't describe him as a friend, but if I lived closer he would be) who is a long-term employee of a very large plant store. He began talking about RO water and that about 20 - 25 years ago (I think he said), they used RO water at the shop. During their lunch breaks, they would drink the RO water instead of taking from the tap.
At this time, he said that he had been doing quite a bit of doctoring, because he was suffering from chronic joint pain.
One day his boss walked through the lunch room when they were all having their lunch break and noticed people filling their cups with the water. Apparently, he made an off handed comment about "Why someone would drink RO water when they had mineralized water to drink". (From the tap)
I forget a lot of the details, but the gist of his story was that water is the most common solvent on earth, which has a very high desirability to dissolve whatever it touches. Mineralized water has already been exposed to a myriad of elements so the ions aren't nearly as (re)-active as RO water is. He warned against RO water because you have to not only add nutrients to the soil, but add additional nutrients because the ions in the RO water are going to lock a percentage of the nutrients up.
He said, that after thinking about this for a while, he stopped drinking the RO water and chose the tap water instead and within a number of months, his joint pain went away and hasn't returned.
I've always intended to pose this question to a doctor or scientist to see what they would have to say about it... basically, "Can RO water with it highly re-active ions, draw minerals out of the human body and potentially cause a problem like joint pain.
Interesting question hey... and if it's a possibility, might it change the way that some people water their plants, feed their plants, and change what they drink.
Bear in mind, that I'm no scientist so my descriptions of the theories or processes aren't/may not be scientifically accurate, but I think most people will understand the point I'm trying to make.
Comments?
At this time, he said that he had been doing quite a bit of doctoring, because he was suffering from chronic joint pain.
One day his boss walked through the lunch room when they were all having their lunch break and noticed people filling their cups with the water. Apparently, he made an off handed comment about "Why someone would drink RO water when they had mineralized water to drink". (From the tap)
I forget a lot of the details, but the gist of his story was that water is the most common solvent on earth, which has a very high desirability to dissolve whatever it touches. Mineralized water has already been exposed to a myriad of elements so the ions aren't nearly as (re)-active as RO water is. He warned against RO water because you have to not only add nutrients to the soil, but add additional nutrients because the ions in the RO water are going to lock a percentage of the nutrients up.
He said, that after thinking about this for a while, he stopped drinking the RO water and chose the tap water instead and within a number of months, his joint pain went away and hasn't returned.
I've always intended to pose this question to a doctor or scientist to see what they would have to say about it... basically, "Can RO water with it highly re-active ions, draw minerals out of the human body and potentially cause a problem like joint pain.
Interesting question hey... and if it's a possibility, might it change the way that some people water their plants, feed their plants, and change what they drink.
Bear in mind, that I'm no scientist so my descriptions of the theories or processes aren't/may not be scientifically accurate, but I think most people will understand the point I'm trying to make.
Comments?