Your body needs and crys for water.........

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n Whitaker, M.D. reports in his Oct. 1994 Health & Healing

newsletter on Dr. F. Batmanghelidj's book " Your Body's Many Cries for

Water " . Dr. Batmanghelidj argues that " water activates your body's

systems, and the lack of it causes a variety of " thirst " responses

that we call disease.

For instance, histamine, which causes the bronchioles in your lungs to

constrict, is the primary trigger for asthma. However, histamine

release is also the body's primary mechanism of stopping water loss

from your lungs.

Dr. B argues that most of us are chronically dehydrated, and we have

to discipline ourselves to drink water to avoid this. If you drink

only when you are thirsty, it's too late - you are already dehydrated.

In addition, as you get older, your sense of thirst doesn't work properly.

The mechanism of ulcer formation is particularly interesting. The

mucous that lines your stomach, protecting it from the hydrochloric

acid, is 98% water. Within this mucous material, sodium bicarbonate

neutralizes the acid before it reaches the stomach wall. When your

body has too little water, this mucous barrier sloughs off, and the

stomach acid eats away at their stomach cells. When water is added, it

immediately goes into the stomach, restoring the mucous membranes.

Once you recognize how devastating dehydration can be, you see how it

could be at the root of many illnesses. Arthritis, for instance, is a

fiery inflammation of the joint - it is the body's way of burning up.

It's a hot spot. . . .Without adequate hydration around the joints,

once inflammation starts, it runs rampant, just like a forest fire.

The lubricating material of the joint - called synovial fluid - is

almost all water with some protein-carbohydrate molecules. Cartilage

also is very high in water content, much higher than bone. When your

body has plenty of water, both the lubricating fluid and the cartilage

that covers the end of your bones glide smoothly on each other.

Obviously, when there is not enough water, neither the synovial fluid

nor the cartilage is able to maintain the smooth, gliding action. "

Water is a key component of both cartilage and synovial fluid. It

cushions cartilage an gives it a springy nature. When there is

inadequate water in the joints, cartilage shrinks and loses its

resiliency. If joints are not properly hydrated, cartilage will

continue to shrink until it's no longer able to protect the ends of

the bones. If you have arthritis you should drink 10-12 glasses of

pure steam distilled water every day.

Dr. B also describes in his book how lack of water is the primary

cause of hypertension.

Water lubricates the body, carries nutrients to the cells and carries

off toxins, so drink lots of it - no less than two quarts a day.

One of the causes of pain is from dehydration. Most people don't

realize that the body is an 'electricial being', with every cell,

blood, blood vessels, nerves, in your body being electricial charged.

Electricity will not flow through dry tissues and cells that are

dehydrated and dried up, thus, you have pain. Many times pain can be

eliminated, simply by drinking more clean pure water.

Russ