I bet so too, though I’ve never checked. The main thing for me was that I had all the needed ingredients in the house already anyway—because as sick as I was, I sure wasn’t going anywhere to buy something. That recipe really did the trick. I was grateful to have it.
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This is the most bonkers thing i have read in ages. I literally love water. I have a water at my desk right now, and all day every day. Reading this article made me feel so weird, I drank 3/4 of a bottle of Smart Water in a couple of minutes. My brain just exploded. Odell Beckam Jr., and all of the people profiled in that article, are maniacs!
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Not for a road surface. They are built to be abraded. I’m a chemist from a family full of engineers on one side. None of us are sanguine about various “let’s make roads out of unusual materials” gimmicks. There’s are great reasons we make them the way we do, with the materials we do. I’m not saying innovation is impossible, but a lot of these ideas are pretty trash from the get-go.
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Thanks for this.
I had a dad who got a PhD in organic chem from Northwestern, and unfortunately I did not get the lucky gene.
I was likewise skeptical about using plastics for roadmaking, and I did read this in the article:
Jambulingam Street was one of India’s first plastic roads . The environmentally conscious approach to road construction was developed in India around 15 years ago in response to the growing problem of plastic litter. As time wore on, polymer roads proved to be surprisingly durable, winning support among scientists and policymakers in India as well as neighboring countries like Bhutan. “The plastic tar roads have not developed any potholes, rutting, raveling or edge flaw, even though these roads are more than four years of age,” observed an early performance report by India’s Central Pollution Control Board. Today, there are more than 21,000 miles of plastic road in India, and roughly half are in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Most are rural roads, but a small number have also been built in cities such as Chennai and Mumbai.
So basically, it’s plastic-as-tar AFAICT. I think 15 years as a paved lifespan is not too bad. We have roads in my neighborhood paved with “hot mix” (tar macadam) that barely last for 10.
I appreciate your constructive and critical thinking. Facts and data… and results… are what I am after. Groundtruthing any innovation is fundamental.
ETA: typo
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And yet, women have sex again after their first kid. Sometimes the pleasure is worth the pain. 
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Of course, you can’t count on your kidney stone eventually mowing your lawn for you 10 years down the road (among other things) so there’s other considerations.
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Careful about using pee color to monitor hydration, though, if you take supplements. Several common supplements (incl. B vitamins) can tint your pee bright or dark yellowish without you being dehydrated.
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Very nice. That was the first thing I thought of when I read your first post.
Indeed. Hard water, that harsh irony taste, is even very satisfying after 30 miles of biking or other hard exercise. I actually like it better than filtered water then.
Well, either that or Reverse Osmosis. R/O will take out arsenic and most everything else (and it’s what the local bottlers ultimately use to turn municipal tap water into Coke or Pepsi or Snapple. Or Dasani and Aquafina.)
Home R/O units are wasteful; they discard about 7 gallons of “brine” for every 1 gallon of pure water they produce, and the expensive membranes fail fairly often.
Commercial high-pressure R/O units discard far less water as waste, and the membranes last much longer due to preliminary treatment (UV disinfection and high-pressure carbon-block filtering, usually) that removes most of the organics that quickly foul R/O membranes.
But since cold, R/O-purified municipal tap water is widely available everywhere I go, I don’t really feel compelled to purchase hundreds of dollars of home R/O equipment, lose one of my (too-few) kitchen cupboards to the install, and constantly replace expensive membranes, just so I can lug around a whole day’s supply of lukewarm tap water.
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Well I am under doctors orders. I drink 1 to 2 liters a day of tea, coffee, or seltzer because going pee all the time helps the kidney stones from forming again. Never mind I have one hanging out in the left kidney just waiting to drop but the size is such that breaking it up vs. passing it normally is a wash for the pain and suffering. I get to check back in a few months to see if it is growing or not, Well provided it hasn’t decided to make a break for it by then.
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Yeah that is about right. At least I know what to expect and that really helps.
ETA - My second trip to the ER was just over 2 months ago now. I knew exactly what the pain was (you don’t forget that) and it was bad enough all I could think about was ‘fuck this hurts’ so it was good there was an urgent care with an ER right next to my workplace.
It had been 10+ years since the last visit and I am pretty sure I have passed smaller stones in between the two visits they just didn’t hurt more than an ibuprofen could make go away.
Also this time around I learned that the pain is when it gets stopped and has trouble moving along. It actually quit hurting a few days before it actually passed this time. I still felt pressure of sorts but I wasn’t asking for a refill on the vicodin.
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I’m definitely in this camp, it’s hard to explain but I do hate regular water. I’ve tried to like it but I just can’t stand it, this is just the way it is
I never drink it and have gravitated towards a few low calorie alternatives. Crystal Light, certain diet sodas. I try to avoid full calorie beverages like regular soda, juices or milk because the calories really add up quickly.
I was a division 1 athlete, am in decent shape and am almost never dehydrated. I take in enough fluid through my food and beverage choices where hydration is never a problem
Many people in my life are baffled by this and refuse to accept this as healthy at all. In college my team doctor was fine with it and my PCP also says it’s completely fine as long as I’m hydrated.
The really insane thing is that there are people out there who refuse to believe that you can live like this, they feel you need to drink pure water and that the act of putting some crystal light mix in water negates the benefits. This is obviously absurd. I’ve had this argument with multiple people in my life
Ugh that sounds awful. My dad suffered from kidney stones like 2-3 years ago and it was bad enough that he had to go to the doctor for help. I believe they were small enough that he could just pass them but it took a few uncomfortable months. My dad confessed that he’s suffered from kidney stones for years but never went to the doctor for it because he was always able to easily pass them 
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