I just read an interview with a medical doctor, Dr. Batamanghelidj, who has written several books on the subject of diseases which he believes are an expression of dehydration. He has also done extensive research to back up his claims. According to Dr. B, (this is what everyone calls him since his name is very difficult for Americans to pronounce), histamine is a neurotransmitter in charge of water regulation and the drought management programs of the body. When it manifests pain, it is indicating dehydration. So, the body does manifest dehydration in the form of pain. Now, depending on where dehydration is settled, you feel pain there. He presented this concept at the international conference as the guest lecturer of a conference on cancer, explaining that the human body manifests dehydration by producing pain, and pain is a sign of water shortage in the body, and water shortage is actually the background to most of the health problems in our society.

The pharmaceutical industry and organized medicine in general, really doesn’t want to promote anything that is free or near-free. Sunlight is available at no charge, water is available at nearly no charge -- their thinking is if people can cure their diseases, and achieve a high state of health on their own with these free substances, then that diminishes their profits and their importance. But, just to be fair I would like to point out that Dr. B’s many books written on the subject are not free either.

He says that cholesterol is one of the most essential elements in the survival of the human body. When the body begins to make more cholesterol, it has a reason to do that. It is not to block the arteries of the heart! We measure the level of cholesterol in the body in the blood we take out of the veins of the body, and nowhere in the history of medicine is there recorded one single case of cholesterol ever having blocked the veins of the body. Cholesterol is actually saving the lives of people, because cholesterol is a bandage, a waterproof bandage that the body has designed. When the blood becomes concentrated and acidic, as in dehydration, then abrasions and tears are produced in the arterial system.

No substitute for pure water.

According to Dr. B no other beverage will hydrate us the way water will. So, tea, coffee, soft drinks, juice and especially alcohol will not do the job that straight water does. The body needs new water, or free water, to perform new functions. If it is mixed with other substances it has a different chemical agenda and can not address new hydration needs. In the reverse osmosis process your body filters and injects water into the cells, and this is what he calls reverse osmosis. And it has to raise the blood pressure for that in order to overcome the osmotic pull of water out of the cells, and reinject water into the cells. That’s why we develop high-blood pressure in dehydration. And this process of reverse osmosis is stopped by alcohol. It stops the filter system.

Hypertension is about drought management programs in the body. When there isn’t enough water in the body, or the body becomes dehydrated, 66% of the water loss is from the interior of the cells, 26% is from the environment around the cells, and only 8% is lost from the vascular system. But the vascular system is an elastic system -- it tightens up and takes up the slack so you don’t see the problem that is going on inside the cells of your body.

The human body also has its emergency calls for water. These are localized emergency calls. We call these heartburn, rheumatoid joint pain, back pain, migraine headaches, colitis pain, fibromyalgiac pain, even angina pain -- signs of dehydration in the body.

He further explains the mechanism which according to Dr. B is very simple -- when there isn’t enough water to be evenly distributed and certain parts of the body are working but not receiving enough water to deal with its toxic waste and metabolism. The toxic waste builds up in that area, the nerve endings then register the chemical environmental change with the brain, and the brain translates this information for the conscious mind in the form of pain.

People should never allow themselves to get thirsty -- they should drink throughout the day. The average person needs two quarts of water a day. They really needs four quarts of water a day but two quarts comes from food metabolism and water content in foods. We need this amount of water to manufacture at least two quarts of urine. You know, not to put pressure on the kidneys. When we drink enough water so that the urine is colorless, that is a good sign.

So, the next time you are in pain instead of reaching for the Tylenol (that destroys the liver) or aspirin (that eats a hole in the lining of the stomach) just have a big glass of filtered water and see if it works. It just might!

If you find this information valuable and would like to learn more about Dr. B’s research you can visit his website http://www.watercure.com and if you would like free weight loss tips you can visit my website by clicking here.