WATER – If you wait to feel thirsty before you drink water you are already dehydrated!
The human body is about 75% water and 25% solid matter. The brain is said to be 85% water and is extremely sensitive to any dehydration or depletion of its water content. The brain is bathed constantly in salty cerebrospinal fluid.
Thinking that tea, coffee, alcohol and manufactured beverages can substitute for the pure natural water needs of the body is an elementary mistake, particularly in a body that is stressed by confronting daily problems. It is true that these beverages contain water, but most of them also contain dehydrating substances such as caffeine. These added substances rid the body of the water they are dissolved in, plus additional water from the body’s reserves.
When you drink coffee, tea, cola or even a beer your body gets rid of more water than is contained in the drink! Another way the body loses water after drinking hot beverages is through perspiration from the pores of the skin to cool the body that has been warmed from the inside.
The law of supply and demand rules absolutely. When the human body is dehydrated it redistributes and regulates the amount of available water.
In the dehydration process the body rations the water and no structure receives more than its predetermined share, based on its functional importance. The brain takes absolute priority over all the other systems.
If the root cause of a disease state is dehydration, the same malfunctioning sensor systems that permit dehydration to establish in an individual can eventually be inherited by some of their offspring.
WATER: For health, for healing, for life.
Extract from the book “You’re not sick, You’re Thirsty” by F Batmanghelidj, M.D
(Based on more than 20 years of clinical and scientific research into the role of water in the body.)
46 REASONS WHY YOUR BODY NEEDS WATER EVERY DAY
1. Without water, nothing lives
2. Comparative shortage of water first suppresses and eventually kills some aspects of the body
3. Water is the main source of energy – it is the “cash flow” of the body
4. Water generates electrical and magnetic energy inside each and every cell of the body – it provides the power to live.
5. Water is the bonding adhesive in the architectural design of the cell structure.
6. Water prevents DNA damage and makes its repair mechanisms more efficient – less abnormal DNA is made.
7. Water increases greatly the efficiency of the immune system in the bone marrow, where the immune system is formed (all its mechanisms) – including its efficiency against cancer.
8. Water is the main solvent for all foods, vitamins and minerals. It is used in the breakdown of food into smaller particles and their eventual metabolism and assimilation.
9. Water energizes food, and food particles are then able to supply the body with this energy during digestion. This is why food without water has absolutely no energy value for the body.
10. Water increases the body’s rate of absorption of essential substances in food.
11. Water is used to transport all substances inside the body.
12. Water increases the efficiency of red blood cells in collecting oxygen in the lungs
13. When water reaches a cell, it brings the cell oxygen and takes the waste gases to the lungs for disposal
14. Water clears toxic waste from different parts of the body and takes it to the liver and kidneys for disposal.
15. Water is the main lubricant in the joint spaces and helps prevents arthritis and back pain.
16. Water is used in the spinal discs to make them “shock-absorbing water cushions”.
17. Water is the best lubricating laxative and prevents constipation.
18. Water helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
19. Water prevents clogging of arteries in the heart and the brain.
20. Water is essential for the body’s cooling (sweat) and heating (electrical) system.
21. Water gives us power and electrical energy for all brain functions, most particularly thinking.
22. Water is directly needed for the efficient manufacture of all neurotransmitters, including serotonin.
23. Water is directly needed for the production of all hormones made by the brain, including melatonin.
24. Water can help prevent attention deficit disorder in children and adults.
25. Water is a better pick-me-up than any other beverage in the world – and it has no side effects.
27. Water helps reduce stress, anxiety and depression.
28. Water restores normal sleep rhythms.
29. Water helps reduce fatigue – it gives us the energy of youth.
30. Water makes the skin smoother and helps decrease the effects of aging.
31. Water gives lustre and shine to the eyes.
32. Water helps prevent glaucoma.
33. Water normalizes the blood -manufacturing systems in the bone marrow – it helps prevent leukaemia and lymphoma.
34. Water is absolutely vital for making the immune system more efficient in different regions to fight infections and cancer cells where they are formed.
35. Water dilutes the blood and prevents it from clotting during circulation.
36. Water decreases premenstrual pains and hot flashes.
37. Water and heartbeats create the dilution and waves that keep things from sedimenting in the bloodstream.
38. The human body has no stored water to draw on during dehydration. This is why you must drink regularly and throughout the day.
39. Dehydration prevents sex hormone production – one of the primary causes of impotence and loss of libido.
40. Drinking water separates the sensations of thirst and hunger.
41. To lose weight, water is the best way to go 0 drink water on time and lose weight without much dieting. Also you will not eat excessively when you feel hungry but are in fact only thirsty for water.
42. Dehydration causes deposits of toxic sediments in the tissue spaces, joints, kidneys, liver, brain and skin. Water will clear these deposits.
43. Water reduces the incidence of morning sickness in pregnancy.
44. Water integrates mind and body functions. It increases ability to realise goals and purpose.
45. Water helps prevent the loss of memory as we age. It helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
46. Water helps reverses addictive urges, including those for caffeine, alcohol and some drugs.
