by Phillip Day
‘Chronic pains of the body which cannot easily be explained as injury or infection, should first and foremost be interpreted as signals of chronic water shortage in the area where the pain is registered. These pain signals should first be considered and excluded as primary indicators for dehydration of the body before any other complicated procedures are forced on the patient.’ – Dr F Batmanghelidj
‘Insanity: Viewing an overflowing sink and
going for the mop instead of the tap.
The human body is a
bio-electrical water machine that requires a quart a day for every 50 lbs of
body weight.[1] The blood alone is made up of a large
percentage of watery serum. The lymph fluids which transport waste and
nutrients, comprising four times the volume of blood in the body, are made from
the water we consume. Every cell that makes us who we are literally owes its
life to an adequate supply of fresh, clean water. When the body does not receive a constant,
reliable supply of water, it has to ration what is available and cut
back on certain functions to make the supply go round. Essential systems like
the brain are prioritised, others are impaired or cut back until the brain has
decided a reliable source of water has
been garnered.
Here’s the rub. Most
citizens have become chronically and dangerously dehydrated (especially the
elderly), since we decided water was
too bland to drink and ignored it in favour of tea, coffee, beer, wine,
addictive sodas, flavoured water and
other chemical-laced water alternatives. A disastrous and dangerous move for the body and
society’s health in general, to be sure, compounded further since most doctors
today cannot readily identify the many water-deficient diseases and associated pains.
Thus the underlying dehydration process continues to wreak its havoc while the
inevitable drugs given will switch off the warning signals (symptoms).
Consider the following conditions:
Heartburn, arthritis, lupus, asthma, ‘high
cholesterol’, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer formation, hot flushes
and menstrual problems, obesity, allergies, bulimia, chronic fatigue syndrome,
ME, angina, lower back pain, gout, kidney stones, skin disorders, diabetes,
fungal/yeast overgrowths, multiple sclerosis, allergies, migraine headaches,
general aches and pains, morning sickness, depression, heavy/burdensome
periods, colitis, dyspepsia, peptic ulcers…
All,
in various ways, linked to a chronic state of dehydration?
World-renowned water
expert Dr Fereydoon Batmanghelidj maintains that the above conditions are the
body’s many cries for water, complaints dramatically improved with a
consistent and long-term intake of fresh, clean water.[2] Dr Batman’s best-selling books have helped
thousands quash long-term health problems effortlessly and inexpensively. He
writes:
‘The report of my having successfully treated
with water more than three thousand people with symptoms and clinical signs of
peptic ulcer disease was published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
in June 1983. I came away from that experience with the understanding that the
people I treated were thirsty, and I uncovered the phenomenon that ‘pain’ in
the body indicates thirst, even though the condition is classified as a
disease.’[3]
Water is used by the
body for digestion, detoxifying cells, watering the lungs, lubricating joints,
keeping the body alkalised and a host of cleaning duties. Many warning signals
(‘symptoms’) arise out of the body’s inability to neutralise or rid itself of
acid, a common enough complaint given the number of antacids sold around the
world each day. And the common and dangerous misconception that fuels it?
‘I drink coffee, tea, diet sodas, beer and a
host of other liquids. They contain water, don’t they?’
Many of today’s
designer drinks are diuretic in their effect (water-expelling) because their mostly acidic
compositions require the body to give up water in order to eliminate their
harmful residues. Diet sodas especially are harmful in that they require large
amounts of body-water to neutralise the phosphoric acid component (2.8 pH).
Cells that started off healthy and ‘plum-like’ shrivel to prunes as water, the
stuff of life, is progressively denied them. The sick in our hospitals are fed
the sodas, tea and coffee they ask for in woeful ignorance of the damage
wrought to the micro cell-world within them.
Your body and dehydration
Batmanghelidj’s extraordinary
work should rightly be considered by a mainstream medical community ever
fixated on the drug cure:
·
Brain function: The brain comprises 2% of the body’s total
weight, yet receives 15-20% of the blood supply, mostly comprised of water.
Dehydration will affect cognitive ability drastically, and, through histamine’s
action, can create depressive states (many anti-depressant medications are
anti-histamines).
·
Bone function: Bones require plentiful supplies of water.
75% of the weight of the upper body, for instance, is supported by the water
core contained within the fifth lumbar disc, the remaining 25% by muscle fibres
around the spine.[4]
·
Nerve function: Microstreams exist along the length of
nerves which transport nutrients and conduct energy along microtubules to the
synapses to transmit messages. Dehydration disrupts proper nerve function,
resulting in the sensation of pain.
·
Hydrolysis: Water, far from being an inert solvent, is intricately involved in
the body’s water-dependent chemical reactions. Lack of water means incomplete
or faulty metabolic processes, with obvious implications for continued health
and well-being. Proteins and enzymes, for instance, do not function as well in
acidic solutions of higher viscosity (stickiness) where the body is dehydrated.
·
Cellular energy: As water is drawn through the cell
membrane, its osmotic flow generates a voltage gradient which can be used in
the manufacture of ATP and GTP energy. Dehydration will obviously affect the
proper functioning of cells and even kill them.
·
Histamine: This neurotransmitter plays a major role in activating systems which
encourage water intake when dehydration is detected. Functions in the body
which consume large quantities of water are cut back, namely the bronchial
tubes constricted to cut down on water use in the lungs; increased peristalsis
in the bowels to wring more water out of faecal material, and so on. Other
signs of histamine’s activity, namely allergies, asthma, depression and chronic
pains, are interpreted by the physician as ‘disease’ and treated with
anti-histamines, pain-killers (analgesics), etc. Thus the signals of thirst are
turned off and the dehydration state continues unabated.
·
Dyspepsia (heartburn/reflux): Over time, this can lead to ulceration and
even cancer. Dr Batmanghelidj recommends that these conditions - also gastritis
and duodenitis – be treated with water alone as they are one of the body’s
major thirst signals. Arrested in his native Iran by the Revolutionary Council
during the troubles of the late 1970’s, Dr B was confined to Evin prison,
Tehran, during which time he successfully treated with water alone over three thousand people complaining of
dyspeptic pain and associated symptoms.
·
Digestion: Requires plentiful supplies of water. The stomach relies on mucus
lining the walls to shield it from the effects of the stomach’s hydrochloric
acid. A bicarbonate solution is produced from the cells in the lining which
neutralises any acid attempting to break through the mucus. Water is needed to
maintain this effective defence system. Too little water, and the mucus barrier
is ineffectual, the acid will penetrate and will lead to pain. Ideally, water
should be consumed half an hour before a meal, in time to anticipate the
production of digestive acid from glands in the stomach wall.
·
Ulcers: Often located at the valve between the stomach and duodenum. Said to
be caused by curved bacteria known as helicobacters. Many people have
helicobacters in their small intestine, yet not all of them suffer from ulcers.
Histamine-producing nerves are located at this site, which monitor the
through-put of acidic food chyme from the stomach into the intestine. Histamine
has growth-hormone effects on these micro-organisms, resulting in small
intestine bacterial overgrowths (SIBOs). Once again, an adequate regime of
water intake will allow all the functions relating to digestion to normalise.
Prolonged water intake should therefore be considered before more drastic drug
treatments are entered into.
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[1] Batmanghelidj, F, Water and Salt – Your Healers from Within, www.credence.org
[2] Ibid.
[3] Batmanghelidj, F, Water Cures, Drugs Kill, Tagman Press, 2003, p. 5
[4] Ibid.