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   Are You Chronically Dehydrated & "Your Body's Many Cries for Water"    
      
      
   Are You Chronically Dehydrated    
   23 April, 2009    
      
      
      
      
      
   Are You Chronically Dehydrated    
   PHILLIP DAY - INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST & FOUNDER OF "THE CAMPAIGN FOR TRUTH IN   
   MEDICINE"    
      
      
   "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    
      
   The human body is a bio-electrical water machine that requires a quart a day   
   for every 50 lbs of body weight. 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 overgrowth,    
   multiple sclerosis,    
   migraine headaches,    
   general aches and pains,    
   morning sickness,    
   depression,    
   heavy/burdensome periods,    
   colitis,    
   dyspepsia and    
   peptic ulcers...    
   Are all of these conditions linked to a chronic state of dehydration?    
      
   World-renowned water expert Dr Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, in his latest   
   bestseller, Water and Salt - Your Healers From Within, maintains that the   
   above conditions are the body's many cries for water, complaints dramatically   
   improved with a consistent and    
   long-term intake of the fresh, clean water. Dr Batman's timely work has 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." Water is used by the body   
   for digestion, detoxifying    
   cells, watering the lungs, lubricating joints, keeping the body alkalized and   
   a host of cleaning duties.    
      
   Many warning signals ('symptoms') arise out of the body's inability to   
   neutralize or rid itself of acid, a common enough complaint given the number   
   of antacids sold around the world each day.    
      
   'I drink coffee, tea, diet sodas, beer and a host of other liquids. They   
   contain water, don't they?'    
      
   This is a common and dangerous misconception. 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 and alkalizing minerals to   
   eliminate their harmful    
   residues. Diet sodas especially are harmful in that they require large amounts   
   of body-water to neutralize 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.    
      
   Batmanghelidj's extraordinary work should rightly be considered by a   
   mainstream medical community ever fixated on the drug cure. Below is a summary   
   of body functions and that rely on an adequate intake of water:    
      
   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 fibers around the spine.    
   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:    
      
      
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