|
Home - Alkaline Water
Alkaline Water Machines
Athena Water Machine
Delphi Water Machine
Filtration
Biostone & Chloramines
Which Filter to Use?
7
Top Ionizer Report
Alkaline Water Benefits
Ionized Water Versus Others
Combining RO & Ionizers
What About pH?
How to Test Your pH
pH What is Your Number?
pH Factor - Silent Killer
Basics About pH
& ORP
What do the Experts Say?
Experts on Water
Reverse Aging
Are You Chronically
Dehydrated?
Alkaline Water Videos
How Ionizers Work
Toxins in Our Water?
Toxic
Water, Perfect Water
Best &
Worst Tap Water
Chloramines, Toxic or Safe?
What About Plastic Bottles?
News Articles on Water
Business Training
Executive Training
Executive 8 Steps
Business Training Tools
Ionways
Presentation
PBS
Special for IonWays
Testimonials
Financing
Plans
|
|
Are You
Chronically Dehydrated?
Phillip Day | Food Matters by Phillip Day
Investigative Journalist & Founder of "The Campaign For Truth In
Medicine"
As Featured in Food Matters
"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
prioritized; 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 favor of tea, coffee, beer, wine,
addictive sodas, flavored 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...
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:
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 fecal
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 neutralizes any acid attempting to break
through the mucus. Water is needed to maintain this effective defense
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.
Yet 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 normalize. Prolonged
water intake should therefore be considered before more drastic drug
treatments are entered into.
|
|
