Are there any advantages or disadvantages in drinking mineral water over regular water?

It sounds like you need to understand toxins in qualitative vs. quantitative regards. Yes, too much fluoride CAN be toxic but most water sources do not approach toxic levels. And modern sensing/testing equipment can find "toxins" in smaller and smaller concentrations.

As a result, if you sent some distilled water to a lab for analysis, they would probably find some fluorine in it. (Not enough to harm you, most likely, but probably arsenic and all sorts of nasty stuff.) And that is because even distilled water tends to have tiny amounts of minerals unless one is paying for "laboratory grade" distilled water (which isn't sold at your grocery). Yes, one usually gets helpful minerals from drinking water -- but you can get them in other ways.

(e.g. food!) But why not get them in "nature's way", unless your local water supply is somehow polluted or tastes really bad. Most minerals are available in generous amounts in a once-per-day vitamin pill. (Many people find calcium supplements helpful because they eat too little vegetables to get calcium in sufficient amounts.

Dairy can also be great from some people.) But the bottom line is: There's LOTS of quackery and non-sense out there about fluoride. Learn to search out scientifically sound websites AND NOT THOSE WHICH (1) SELL YOU SOMETHING even if just books, tapes, seminars, or equipment or (2) are "conspiracy theory" political websites. Neither is a good place for real science.

Many people obsess over some minute risk of a tiny danger -- and then go out to eat at a fast food restaurant and chow down on VERY HARMFUL trans-fatty acids, saturated fats in excessive amounts, too much Omega-6 and not enough Omega-3 fats. So they trade a far-fetched one in a million risk for one that is A SURE THING TO KILL THEM if they continue their habit for years. Think about that.

Are you straining the gnat and swallowing the camel?

Distilled water is water as God created it Mineral water from the shop is water from the mountain rivers.

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