"Dehydration-The Silent Killer!" Says Dr Batmanghelidij

Dehydration simply means not drinking enough water.

We lose 2.5 quarts of water everyday to exhalation and elimination. The body's tolerance for water is very critical. If the water we lose is not replaced, and since most people do not drink 2-3 quarts of water per day, the body responds by rationing the water it has.

According to Dr Batmanghelidj, the body releases histomine and it regulates the priority and distribution of the body's scarce water resources.

The brain and heart of course are top priority. Things like spinal disks or leg bones are lower priority. The problem arises when these "low priority" organs and systems are deprived of adequate water over a period of time, chronic dehydration.

Pain is frequently the way these systems and organs make their plight known. However, most doctors will tell you that you have a disease; diabetes, asthma, cancer, low back pain, cardiovascular disease, etc. Today's Medical establishment has not discovered the true role that water and water management plays in the body, resulting in treatment for non-existant diseases with expensive and dangerous drugs for the rest of your life.

For instance, Dr Batmanghelidj proved that most back pain, arthritis and other joint pains result from lack of water to the cartelidge in the joints. By drinking more water, the pain goes away.

When water is short, histamine inhibits the release of insulin, which in addition to facilitating the transport of sugar into the cells, also assists water to enter all the cells. Since water is short, it is not desireable that all cells have access to available water on an equal basis, so that the production of insulin is curtailed, resulting in what the doctors call, Type 2 diabetes. Again, with sufficient water intake, the insulin production goes back to normal and the diabetes goes away.

Dehydration of the blood and cells kicks off a chain of negative health consequences. Dehydration causes the blood to become more acidic, which is an environment that disease microbes and cancer thrive in. Acidosis causes a cascade of free radicals to be released, which can damage DNA, cell walls and enzymes, which are basically proteins.

Enzymes are responsible for virtually every process in the body, from release of hormones to the production of energy in the cells. They are very sensitive to their environment. If they are damaged, either directly by free radicals or acid, the process they govern will be affected, resulting in all sorts of ailments, such as Multiple Sclerosis, eyesight, digestion, etc. which are promptly labeled diseases and treated with expensive drugs that do nothing to address the underlying condition and in fact, damage the body further because of their acid nature.

You will learn more about acidosis and free radical damage, the other two basic causes of all diseases in the next two posts.

You can discover yourself the amazing cures Dr Batmanghelidj has effected by reading his amazing books: The Body's Cries for Water, ABC of Asthma and Lupus, Water Cures, Drugs Kill.