Healing with water: the work of water cure pioneer Dr. Batmanghelidj

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Healing with water: the work of " water cure " pioneer Dr. Batmanghelidj

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Apr 07, 2005 08:33 PDT

 

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Those of you who are familiar with the work of the late Dr B. may own

his book called " The Water Cure, " or " Water for health, for Healing, for

Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty. " He's also the author of " Your

Body's Many Cries for Water. " Essentially, Dr. B is the foremost

authority on the relationship between the consumption of water and

states of health or disease in the human body.

 

As he explains in great detail in his many books, most common diseases

(for which there are a variety of names such as asthma, arthritis,

hypertension and so on) are really just names given to patterns of

symptoms created by the body's drought management system. When the human

body begins to get dehydrated, it initiates a drought management system

that seeks to conserve water. The symptoms characterized by this drought

management effort are given disease names by conventional medicine and

then treated with toxic prescription drugs.

 

 

 

Here's a straightforward example of what I'm talking about: the brain

must be kept hydrated at all times. So the body, when it is lacking

water, will do everything possible to keep supplying adequate water to

the brain. This involves limiting the loss of water in other areas of

the body. As Dr. B points out, simply breathing causes the loss of a

significant quantity of water each and every day, depending on the

climate in which you live and your level of physical exercise.

 

If you are experiencing chronic dehydration from not drinking enough

water, or from drinking water-depleting drinks such as coffee, beer or

beverages containing sugar, your body tries to prevent respiratory water

loss by producing histamines which close off the capillaries in your

lungs. Through the constriction of these capillaries, water loss is

reduced, but of course breathing is made far more difficult. It's

important to understand that the body is doing this on purpose. The body

is producing histamines as a strategy, not as a disease or something

gone awry. The body wants to constrict the capillaries in your lungs

because it is trying to save your brain.

 

What is conventional medicine's answer to this production of histamines

by the body? Well, of course, it is the prescription of antihistamines,

or drugs that are designed to counteract the histamines produced on

purpose by the body in order to conserve water. These antihistamines

then open up the capillaries in the lungs, making breathing seem easier.

As you can see here, then, the conventional medicine approach treats

nothing but the symptoms, and in doing so it counteracts the body's own

intentions and strategies in trying to conserve water. What patients

with asthma really need is lots of water on a regular basis, not

histamine prescription drugs.

 

As Dr. B explains in his books, the same sort of destructive cycle of

medical treatment is taking place with other diseases as well -- most

notably hypertension and arthritis. Many of the prescription drugs

profitably marketed to doctors and patients today are, in effect,

various forms of histamines which counteract the body's efforts to

conserve water.

 

What we need to be doing as a population, of course, is simply drinking

more water. But there's more to it than just that -- we also need to

stop drinking beverages that deplete our water supplies. Believe it or

not, most beverages that are consumed by American consumers today

actually don't offer hydration; drinking soft drinks results in a loss

of water in your body, not a gain in water. Once you drink one can of a

soft drink beverage, you feel like you still need more, and thus the

body is trapped in a never-ending cycle of craving for hydration that

simply cannot be met by consuming soft drinks (see related ebook on soft

drinks). What your body truly craves is water.

 

Caffeine is also another water-depleting drug. Consuming caffeine in any

form, whether soft drinks or coffee or pills, creates a diuretic effect

in your body, which means your body begins to eliminate water through

urination. Sadly, most Americans continue to drink alarming quantities

of soft drinks, coffee and other beverages that actually deplete water

from their systems.

 

There's another fascinating point on chronic dehydration and weight loss

that's worth mentioning here, too: many people who are attempting to

lose weight end up in a state of chronic dehydration because they don't

want to drink water for fear that it will add " water weight " to their

bodies. They actually impair their body's ability to metabolize fat

because they're afraid to drink enough water on a regular basis. In

reality, being fully hydrated is a prerequisite to weight loss. If you

want to lose weight, you have to give your body enough water so that

it's no longer in a state of emergency. When the body is in a state of

chronic dehydration, or a state of emergency, it will not let go of fat

supplies easily. It wants to hold on to everything it can eat or drink.

The only way to convince your body to let go of body fat, and start

metabolizing body fat, is to drink a lot of water - enough water so that

your body feels safe in letting go of unneeded calories. (Remember:

water has zero calories, is low-carb, and has zero grams of fat, so

drink up!)

 

It's also interesting to note that many people who go on short term

diets and who think they're losing five or ten pounds over a couple of

days are really only losing water weight. They haven't lost any body fat

at all but they have managed to put themselves in a state of chronic

dehydration that will inevitably lead to weight gain once they return to

normal habits of eating and drinking.

 

Getting back to Dr. B, it's curious to note that he's a conventionally

trained medical doctor, and yet, like so many of the doctors I interview

on this site, he has the calling of a true scientist. He has the

willingness to venture beyond modern medicine and explore the true

causes of health and disease. In doing so, he has pioneered the

understanding of how water can create health (or lack of water can

create disease) in the human body. This is groundbreaking work and Dr. B

deserves to be widely recognized for his contribution to medical

understanding. And yet, that is precisely what is not happening. Rather

than being nominated for a scientific prize, Dr B has been marginalized

by the conventional medical community. His critics refuse to recognize

the true role of water in the human body. And, of course, the tremendous

financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry and the " sick care "

industry (also known as the healthcare industry) all have a vested

interest in making sure that doctors treat diseases with extremely

expensive prescription drugs and high profit medical procedures rather

than low-cost substances like water.

 

This is an important point: there's no money in the treatment of disease

with water, so there's no motivation for any organization whatsoever to

reveal the truth about the role of water in preventing chronic disease

in human beings. Why would a pharmaceutical company or a doctor or a

hospital tell you that you can prevent arthritis, asthma, hypertension

and other diseases by simply drinking water? They wouldn't. And they

don't. Medical schools don't even teach it.

 

Diabetes is also another disease that is strongly influenced by water

consumption. And the diabetes industry is a multi-billion dollar

industry of sickness treatment and prescription drugs. Why would that

industry want to tell people that all they need to do is drink more

water and avoid drinking soft drinks in order to greatly improve their

health?

 

The answer is that there is no motivation whatsoever for any medical

industry or group or drug company to tell people the truth about water

and human health. Not only that they're not willing to tell the truth,

they're also not willing to intellectually accept the truth about water

because it runs counter to their profitable paradigms of disease

treatment. In other words, an executive working at a pharmaceutical

company, who's making millions of dollars a year from the sale of

pharmaceuticals, cannot psychologically accept the idea that diseases

could be prevented or reversed by drinking something that would be

freely available to the public. The thought doesn't even penetrate that

person's belief system.

 

And yet the truth of it all is that most illness in the United States

can be easily prevented by strategies that are inexpensive or even free

of charge. Two of the most powerful therapies for health and disease

prevention are pure water and natural sunlight. I've written many

articles about sunlight, about how it prevents and even reverses mental

disorders, schizophrenia, prostate cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis

and even nervous system disorders. And that's available free of charge,

all you have to do is walk outside and get some sunshine on your skin.

Now, with the work of Dr. B being published and widely available, we

also know that water is one of the most powerful healing substances

available to each and every consumer in the United States and around the

world. It's virtually free; all you need to do is keep drinking it, and

don't wait for your thirst perception to tell you when to drink more.

You have to make a commitment to hydrate yourself throughout the day on

a regular basis. At the same time you have to make a commitment to avoid

drinking beverages that result in dehydration, such as soft drinks,

sport drinks or any beverage with caffeine or added sugars. That means

avoiding cow's milk, fruit juices, beer and alcohol, fruit punches or

any other drinks that simply don't substitute for the healing power of

pure water.

 

The bottom line to all of this is that Dr B is a true international hero

when it comes to having the wisdom to recognize the fundamental causes

of disease and the courage to speak up about it and tell the truth as he

sees it. If we had more doctors like this in the world, our world would

be free of 90% of all chronic disease. The healthcare industry would be

a fraction of its current size, and the pharmaceutical industry would be

practically nonexistent. We'd all be healthier, happier, and we'd live

longer. We would have less violence in society, lower crime rates,

stronger families, better educational outcomes for our children, and we

would even experience great increases in our collective quality of life.

This is the promise we can have if we accept the fundamental truth that

health is our right, and that many highly effective health strategies

are freely available to us right now.

 

At the same time, we must also reject the current sick care treatment

system that prevents and suppresses information that would help people

get better and that profits handsomely from a population that remains

chronically diseased.

 

Even after his passing in late 2004, Dr. B remains a pioneer in the

fight for restoring freedom and fundamental health to the human

population, and I strongly encourage you to go to http://www.amazon.com

or http://www.barnesandnoble.com or your local bookstore and check out

the books by Dr. B. They represent some of the most interesting reading

you will ever find, and once you read his books you will never go back

to drinking soft drinks, coffee or fruit juices ever again. These books

will change your life, and if you follow the strategies they offer, they

will even help you prevent chronic disease for a lifetime.

 

The world owes Dr. B. a debt of gratitude, and I only hope that some day

he will be considered for the Nobel Prize or some other worthy

recognition for his pioneering and courageous work on the healing

effects of water.

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