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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto

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and Interminute Fasting Podcast,

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where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the

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truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

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You know, I've done a video on the negatives of distilled water. Today,

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I'm going to talk about the positive

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things about distilled water. There's a lot of people

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that are getting amazing

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results from using distilled water. So I want

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to share a little bit more on what it is and how

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you can use it and what it could be good for. Distilled

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water is basically

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pure H2O without any

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of the impurities, without any viruses, bacteria,

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because those get killed in the heating process. Also,

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all the minerals are taken out, all

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the heavy

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metals are taken out,

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all the pharmaceutical drugs, all the drugs,

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medications that are estrogenic

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are removed, and

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also the toxic chemical gases

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are removed as well. They're called volatile

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organic compounds. So you

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get rid of that, and you just have pure

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water. And it's called hungry water because

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it's like a very potent solvent,

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which I'm going to explain. So you're basically

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boiling the water, turning it to steam, and

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then funneling it into some container,

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like rain and snow are like nature's

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distilled water, where it becomes evaporated,

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goes into the clouds, and it comes

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down. Of course, nowadays, because

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of all the pollution in the air and

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the

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plastics

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in the air, you don't want to be drinking

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rainwater or snow. But long ago, it probably

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was something really

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good to drink. So distilled

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water has a pH of 7. It's completely

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neutral.

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And it has some really interesting benefits.

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And of course, the version of distilled water that I'm going to

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recommend is not going to be as good as it is. to be the one

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that you would buy at the grocery store in a plastic

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jug that's been sitting there for a long

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time leaching out all the plastics

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into this distilled water. I'm

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going to recommend probably

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making your own, getting a unit that has

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stainless steel that then filters

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it to a glass container.

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That would be the ideal situation.

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So there's some really interesting benefits.

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Number one, it can help remove

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certain toxins like heavy metals

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like mercury,

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cadmium, lead. And

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nowadays we are swimming in

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a sea of chemicals

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hitting us from every different angle. And

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it's hard to know

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the influence of these chemicals on

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our bodies. So drinking distilled water

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gives you a chance to

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see what you would really feel like without

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these heavy metals and other toxins

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that are in your body. All

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right, number two, it can help remove deposits

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of certain minerals that

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you don't want in your joints. Okay.

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Let's say you

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have arthritis or stiffness.

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Well, distilled water can help break

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down some of

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that deposit and remove it from

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the body. So a lot of people feel just

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less stiff. They feel more flexible when they drink

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distilled water. Also

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removing calcium from your arteries.

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There are several things you can do to remove

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calcium from the arteries like vitamin

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K2, a

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good chelator like EDTA.

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But also you can use distilled

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water as a chelator to pull out

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this excess calcium

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from your arteries.

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Now, as we age, calcium builds up also

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in other tissues like our eyes,

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you know, I guess cataracts. So that's

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another benefit. Okay, number three, if

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you're prone to kidney stones

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or even gallstones, there

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is a buildup of calcium. And so

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distilled water would be a really important thing to tell.

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if you want to reduce your risk of getting

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stones in the body. Now, the question that

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you're probably going to have is, well,

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I don't, I've heard rumors that if you drink distilled

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water, it's going to deplete me

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of all my minerals. And it's

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going to throw off my electrolytes and

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probably cause my red blood cells to explode and I

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might die, right? Well, that's not

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going to happen because what all you need to do

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is

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put the minerals that you want or

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you need back into your body.

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Just start taking electrolytes with

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the distilled water.

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So that way you can have

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more of certain minerals and not too much

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of other minerals. We don't want

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a lot of extra calcium in

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our joints, in our eyes,

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and in our arteries.

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So all these minerals or metals that have a hard time

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getting out of the body can be excreted

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a bit more with distilled water.

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Now, one thing you might find when you start drinking

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distilled water is it can increase

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diuresis. So you're going to urinate

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a bit more, but just drink more water

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so you can start flushing out things and

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start cleaning out your body. So just

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make sure you put the minerals back into your body

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as well as eating foods that are high

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in minerals. Now, another point I want to bring

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up is should you be drinking distilled

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water when you're fasting? And I think

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it's actually a really, really good idea

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because even now it will deplete

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your electrolytes. You can easily put

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those back in. But think about what's happening

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when you're fasting. You are going

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through a topology. You are cleaning

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up old dead cells. You're

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cleansing and you're detoxifying and

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your body is generating a lot of

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antioxidants when you're fasting. So a lot of good things

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are happening. And if you add the

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distilled water to this, you can at the same

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time assist in removing a lot

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of these toxins that are coming

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out from the body. But

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again, just make sure you put those minerals back in.

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Now, there's a lot of people that actually

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drink their tap water. Okay, there's city water

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and others will get a fill. And that's all great.

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But what you have to realize is that, yes,

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it's true that there might be low

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bacterial counts in tap

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water, the city water that you drink.

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But that's because they're adding a lot

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of additional chemicals to sterilize

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or kill these microbes.

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So even though it might be free

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of microbes, it might be very high

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in these chemicals that are going to affect you.

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And these chemicals are estrogenic.

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They

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have effects on your skin,

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your brain, in fact,

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the entire body. I mean, there's some pretty

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disgusting things in tap water that they found,

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like toilet paper particles,

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tampon particles. I mean, it's

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pretty disgusting. So at the very

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least, get a filter.

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And you may even want to consider getting

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a good steam

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distiller.