Water Page
About drinking water, minerals, chlorine and health
Over half of your body is made up of water. It's in every cell and every tissue. Biological processes like circulation, digestion, absorption and excretion depend on water. It forms the foundation of blood and lymph, maintains hearty muscles and young-looking skin, lubricates joints and organs and regulates body temperature. You can't function without it.
As you grow older, it becomes vital to pay attention to your water consumption. Mature persons hold less cellular water, with a loss of 10 to 15 percent of previous capacity by the age of 65. A contributing factor is the loss of thirst sensitivity. Because water is so important for digestion, a lack of fluid in your body might make it more difficult for you to digest food. You may suffer from cramps, bloating, gas, constipation, diveritculosis or even colon cancer. Drinking more water, combined with a high-fiber diet, can prevent these problems.
To combat this loss of fluids, the answer is simple. Drink more water. Six to ten glasses of pure water each day are necessary to enhance your body's functioning. Beyond helping your digestive system, getting enough fluids will give you fresh skin, clear eyes and shining hair. Signs of hunger may be a warning flag that your body is need of a good drink. Try consuming several glasses of water before diving into a snack to see if that takes care of your craving. Because fruits are largely made up of water, they are perfect choices for a mid-afternoon treat.
To understand what is the function of Water inside our body, read book:
"Your Body's Many Cries for Water" by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
From the book:
"Your Body's Many Cries for Water"
AMAZING SECRETS FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Cure # 1: Water prevents and cures heartburn.
Heartburn is a signal of water shortage in the upper part of the
gastrointestinal tract. It is a major thirst signal of the human body. The use of antacids
or tablet medications in the treatment of this pain does not correct dehydration, and the
body continues to suffer as a result of its water shortage.
Tragedy: Not recognizing heartburn as a sign of dehydration and treating it with antacids
and pill medications will, in time, produce inflammation of the stomach, duodenum, hiatal
hernia, ulceration, and eventually cancers in the gastrointestinal tract, including the
liver and pancreas.
Cure # 2: Water prevents and cures arthritis.
Rheumatoid Joint Pain - Arthritis - is a signal of chronical
water shortage in the painful joint. It can affect the young as well as the old. The use
of pain-killers does not cure the problem, but exposes the person to further damage from
pain medications. Intake of water and small amounts of salt will cure this problem.
Cure # 3: Water prevents and cures back pain.
Low Back Pain and Ankylosing Arthritis of the Spine are signs of
chronical water shortage in the spinal column and discs - the water cushions that support
the weight of the body. These conditions should be treated with increased water intake -
not a commercial treatment, but a very effective one.
Tragedy: Not recognizing arthritis and low back pain as signs of dehydration in the joint
cavities and treating them with pain-killers, manipulation, acupuncture, and eventually
surgery will, in time, produce osteoarthritis when the cartilage cells in the joints have
eventually all died. It will produce deformity of the spine. It will produce crippling
deformities of the limbs. Pain medications have their own life-threatening complications.
Heart Pain - Angina - is a sign of water shortage in the
heart/lung axis. It should be treated with increased water intake until the patient is
free of pain and independent of medications. Medical supervision is prudent. However,
increased water intake is angina's cure.
Migraine Headache is a sign of water need by the brain and the
eyes. It will totally clear up by preventing dehydration from establishing in the body.
This particular type of dehydration might eventually cause inflammation of the back of the
eye and possibly loss of eye sight.
Colitis Pain is a signal of water shortage in the large gut. It
is associated with constipation because the large intestine constricts to squeeze the last
drop of water from the excrements - thus the lack of water lubrication.
Tragedy: Not recognizing colitis pain as a sign of dehydration will cause persistent
constipation. Later in life, it will cause fecal impacting: it can cause diverticulitis,
hemorrhoids, polyps, and appreciably increases the possibility of developing cancers of
the colon and rectum.
Asthma, which also affects 12,000,000 children and kills several
thousand of them every year, is a complication of dehydration in the body. It is caused by
the drought management programs of the body. Free passage of air is obstructed so that
water does not leave the body in the form of vapor - the winter steam. Increased water
intake will prevent asthma attacks. Asthmatics need also to take more salt to break the
mucus plugs in the lugs which obstruct the free flow of air in and out of the air sacs.
Tragedy: Not recognizing asthma as the indicator of dehydration in the body of a growing
child not only will sentence many thousands of children to die every year, but will permit
irreversible genetic damage to establish in the remaining 12,000,000 asthmatic children.
Hypertension is a state of adaptation of the body to a
generalized drought, when there is not enough water to fill all the blood vessels which
diffuse water into vital cells. As part of the mechanism of reverse osmosis, when water
from the serum is filtered and injected into important cells through minute holes in their
membranes, extra pressure is needed for the "injection process." Just as we
inject I.V. "water" in hospitals, so the body injects water into tens of
trillions of cells all at the same time. Water and some salt intake will bring blood
pressure back to normal!
Tragedy: Not recognizing hypertension as one of the major indicators of dehydration in the
human body, and treating it with diuretics that further dehydrate the body will, in time,
cause blockage by cholesterol of the heart arteries and the arteries that go to the brain.
It will cause heart attacks, small and/or massive strokes that paralyze. It will
eventually cause kidney diseases. It will cause brain damage and neurological disorders,
such as Alzheimer's disease.
Adult-Onset Diabetes is another adaptive state to severe
dehydration of the human body. To have adequate water in circulation and for the brain's
priority water needs, the release of insulin is inhibited to prevent insulin from pushing
water into all body cells. In diabetes only some cells get survival rations of water.
Water and some salt will reverse adult-onset diabetes in its early stages.
Tragedy: Not recognizing adult-onset diabetes as a complication of dehydration will, in
time, cause massive damage to the blood vessels all over the body. It will cause eventual
loss of the toes, feet and legs from gangrene. It will cause eye damage, even blindness.
High Cholesterol levels are an indicator of early drought
management by the body. Cholesterol is a clay-like material that is poured in the gaps of
some cell membranes to safeguard them from losing their vital water content to the
osmotically more powerful blood circulating in their vicinity. Cholesterol, apart from
being used to manufacture nerve cell membranes and hormones, is also used as a
"shield" against water taxation of other vital cells that would normally
exchange water through their cell membranes.
These conditions are caused by prolonged chronic dehydration.
They will clear up once the body becomes well amd regularly hydrated. In these conditions,
exercising one's muscles should be part of the treatment program.
"Your Body's Many Cries for Water" here
by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
Read more about chlorine and water:
"At one of the many Whole Life Expo's that I've attended, I heard a doctor state that your body absorbs as much chlorine in one shower with unfiltered water as if you drank 9 gallons of chlorinated water."
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