tacetabbad0n t1_j6mud48 wrote
Your body requires salts to function. Without salts your neurons would cease to signal each other and the cells in your body would stop working.
If you just drunk ultra pure water you would die as it would flush the salts from your body.
The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. While sea water is saline and hydration fluids is saline, hydration fluids are 0.9% saline sea water sits around 35%.
y0plattipus t1_j6mxqkd wrote
The ultra pure water thing is the myth that won't die.
If you are eating a balanced diet you can drink distilled/RO-DI water as your primary source and live a normal life.
czbz t1_j6osaux wrote
Right, no-one has ever explained to me at what level of purity water would supposedly become dangerous.
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