Dyspepsia/heartburn
by Dr F Batmanghelidj & P Day
'We concentrate on consistency without much concern of what it is we are being consistent about, or whether we are consistently right or wrong. As a consequence, we have been learning a great deal about how to follow an incorrect course with the maximum of precision.' - W Deutscher, University of Manchester Institute of Science and technology course hand-out
Dr Batmanghelidj: The dyspeptic pain is the most important signal for the human body. It denotes dehydration. It is a thirst signal. It can occur in the very young as well as in older people. Chronic and persistently increasing dehydration is the root cause of almost all currently encountered major diseases of the human body.
Of the dyspeptic pains, that of gastritis, duodenitis and heartburn should be treated with an increase in water intake alone. When there is associated ulceration(s), attention to daily diet to enhance the rate of repair of the ulcer site becomes necessary.
It is generally understood that 12 percent of those with dyspepsia develop ulceration in their duodenum after six years, 30 percent after 10 years and 40 percent after 27 years. It is the dyspeptic pain that is of significance, although the condition develops importance once the ulceration is viewed through the endoscopic examination. It seems that medical practice is becoming more and more a visually oriented discipline rather than the perceptive and thought-based art it was at one time.
It is the pain associated with these differently classified conditions that forces the person to consult a medical practitioner. It is this pain that is now getting much attention even though many different jargons are attached to the local conditions seen through the endoscope. The common factor is the dyspeptic pain. The local tissue change is the descriptive explanation for the changes brought about by the basic common factor, namely the initiating dehydration.
How am I able to make such claims? I have treated with only water well over 3,000 persons with dyspeptic pain, who had other distinguishing characteristics to classify them according to those jargons. They all responded to an increase in water intake and their clinical problems associated with the pain disappeared. The report of my new way of treating dyspeptic pain with water was published as the editorial article in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983.
Phillip Day: Got heartburn? Had it for a while? Fed up with taking antacids that will likely build the aluminium deposits in your body (and we know where that leads)? Drink water. No, don't just drink water, build water into your daily routines and if necessary, keep a log of how much you are drinking.
The stomach contains a mucus which protects the stomach wall from the hydrochloric acid of your stomach. No water and salt, no mucus. So now the acid is abrasing the wall directly. This is the stuff of ulcers, stomach cancer and other baleful issues down the road, so you will need to get it sorted.
RESOURCES
The
Essential Guide to Water and Salt by F Batmanghelidj MD and Phillip
Day
Himalayan
crystal salt
Reverse
osmosis drinking water system
Phillip
Day video on RO system and installation
