RO tastes disgusting

[Tamberav]

When you buy a filter for drinking, it is sold with RO only. When you go to the grocery store to buy water in the refillable jugs, it is RO only.

Plenty of people drink tap water or well water.

Restaurants serve.. and cook with... who knows....

Processed food contains rat hair, bugs, probably some mice poo... (flour, canned tomato/anything, peanut butter, chocolate, etc)

Fast food is probably just scary to think about

It sounds like just a personal choice.

 

[SlugSnorter]

When you buy a filter for drinking, it is sold with RO only. When you go to the grocery store to buy water in the refillable jugs, it is RO only.

Plenty of people drink tap water or well water.

Restaurants serve.. and cook with... who knows....

Fast food is probably just scary to think about

It sounds like just a personal choice.

With RODI? no. Not great to consume. It can leach material from your body. While it shouldn't cause much issue, constant drinking could increase risk of intestinal/throat irritation.

 

[Tamberav]

With RODI? no. Not great to consume. It can leach material from your body. While it shouldn't cause much issue, constant drinking could increase risk of intestinal/throat irritation.

huh.. I said it is RO only. NO DI.

 

[SlugSnorter]

huh.. I said it is RO only. NO DI.

oh nvm then, sorry.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

huh.. I said it is RO only. NO DI.

Reading comprehension is a pain sometimes, lol.

 

[anthonygf]

acidity (unless you're eating HCL or smth) is not much of an issue (to humans) and water has a ph of 7.0 which is neutral anyways. We can chug down a glass of orange juice (ph 3.5) without issue.

Yes but you don't drink several glasses of OJ daily instead of water. Too much of acidic liquids is very bad. The bile in our stomach is acidic, but you do not want to add to it.

Several years ago I switched to low acid coffee and my acid indigestion issues went away. I drink more coffee than water some days so I need low acid coffee.

Your stomach acid breaks down your food and in doing so will become less acidic because of the food, so when you drink more acidic liquids than your stomach can digest you will get sick.

 

[Rmckoy]

To buy ro water ( reverse osmosis )
I think it taste terrible .
similar to having a mouthful of peroxide .
I’ve never tried from rodi unit .

 

[SlugSnorter]

Yes but you don't drink several glasses of OJ daily instead of water. Too much of acidic liquids is very bad. The bile in our stomach is acidic, but you do not want to add to it.

Several years ago I switched to low acid coffee and my acid indigestion issues went away. I drink more coffee than water some days so I need low acid coffee.

Your stomach acid breaks down your food and in doing so will become less acidic because of the food, so when you drink more acidic liquids than your stomach can digest you will get sick.

you can have a completely empty stomach and be fine. Heart burn/ulcers are not caused by low ph.

your stomach acid is around 1.5, unless you add in something with a ph lower than that, it cannot be lowered.

 

[anthonygf]

you can have a completely empty stomach and be fine. Heart burn/ulcers are not caused by low ph.

Oh yes it is, drink OJ all day instead of water and see what happens to you. Bile is only produced when it gets a signal from your stomach saying we have food and need some bile or acid.
Why is it when I switched to low acid coffee I have less heart burn?

 

[SlugSnorter]

Oh yes it is, drink OJ all day instead of water and see what happens to you. Bile is only produced when it gets a signal from your stomach saying we have food and need some bile or acid.
Why is it when I switched to low acid coffee I have less heart burn?

coffee ingredients and brewing. your stomach has acid not bile. Bile is in your intestines. Normally, a muscle holds the contents of your stomach and keeps any from going up and into your throat. Sometimes, for a wide verity of reasons, something can happen and the muscle can let some slip. They used to think that this was only due to PH, but modern research shows otherwise.

 

[anthonygf]

coffee ingredients and brewing. your stomach has acid not bile. Bile is in your intestines. Normally, a muscle holds the contents of your stomach and keeps any from going up and into your throat. Sometimes, for a wide verity of reasons, something can happen and the muscle can let some slip. They used to think that this was only due to PH, but modern research shows otherwise.

I could of sworn the acid in the stomach was bile. I will have to read that again, I try to learn all I can on webMD.com, sorry I am no expert on this matter. How do you explain the lack of heart burns when I switched to low acid coffee?

 

[SlugSnorter]

I could of sworn the acid in the stomach was bile. I will have to read that again, I try to learn all I can on webMD.com, sorry I am no expert on this matter. How do you explain the lack of heart burns when I switched to low acid coffee?

different coffees and ways of brewing coffee means different chemicals. There could be something in the more acidic coffees (brewing, or beans or blending) that irritates you.

 

[anthonygf]

different coffees and ways of brewing coffee means different chemicals. There could be something in the more acidic coffees (brewing, or beans or blending) that irritates you.

I got this info from webmd.com; this is 2 parts of the same chapter.​

Understanding Bile Acid Malabsorption​

When too much bile acid from your stomach enters your colon, it leads to:​

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Through the digestive process, around half of your bile is stored in your gallbladder, a small organ located just underneath your liver. When you eat, your gallbladder should release the right amount of bile into your stomach to break down fat content. Your gallbladder manages the amount of bile that gets released based on how much your stomach needs for digestion.

 

[anthonygf]

coffee ingredients and brewing. your stomach has acid not bile. Bile is in your intestines. Normally, a muscle holds the contents of your stomach and keeps any from going up and into your throat. Sometimes, for a wide verity of reasons, something can happen and the muscle can let some slip. They used to think that this was only due to PH, but modern research shows otherwise.

I was correct, bile is I guess the medical word for stomach acid.

 

[SlugSnorter]

I got this info from webmd.com; this is 2 parts of the same chapter.​

Understanding Bile Acid Malabsorption​

When too much bile acid from your stomach enters your colon, it leads to:​

​

..........................................................................................................​

Through the digestive process, around half of your bile is stored in your gallbladder, a small organ located just underneath your liver. When you eat, your gallbladder should release the right amount of bile into your stomach to break down fat content. Your gallbladder manages the amount of bile that gets released based on how much your stomach needs for digestion.

bile is mixed after the stomach, in the small intestine. bile is created by the liver, stored in the gallbladder.

 

[anthonygf]

bile is mixed after the stomach, in the small intestine. bile is created by the liver, stored in the gallbladder.

So is this incorrect?

When you eat, your gallbladder should release the right amount of bile into your stomach to break down fat content.

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

Have you ever drank distilled water? It’s like your taste buds do a flip, from not being able to sense anything. My wife has a hard time swallowing it. BTW for drinking water, I tapped off of the Sediment Filter and Carbon Blocks.

 

[spsick]

OP i may have missed in the thread, but I see you installed 150gpd membrane. Did your system have that orginally or did you change from a 75gpd that most systems include? If so you need to change the reject restrictor as well. Probably does not relate to your taste issue and your TDS coming out of the membrane sounds normal but food for thought…

 

[SlugSnorter]

So is this incorrect?

When you eat, your gallbladder should release the right amount of bile into your stomach to break down fat content.

right after the stomach. It helps break down fats and helps keep the food at the right texture for ideal nutrient absorption.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

So is this incorrect?

When you eat, your gallbladder should release the right amount of bile into your stomach to break down fat content.

Bile enters the small intestine just below the stomach (not surprisingly it enters via the bile duct).

In certain conditions it can get up into the stomach and do damage. As the co-inventor of a pharmaceutical bile acid sequestrant (a polymer that binds bile salts in the small intestine to lower cholesterol) I consulted for a company trying to bind bile salts in the stomach to prevent said damage from reverse flow.