Your Body's Many Cries for Water: You're Not Sick; You're Thirsty: Don't Treat Thirst with Medications

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The premise is that we as Americans do not drink enough water and that if we did, a lot of illnesses would not exist and that we are jumping to conclusions of misdiagnoses without ruling out dehydration first. Fine, this is well and good for mild pain symptoms, headaches, stomach discomfort, etc. And I definitely will not argue that most individuals (myself included) do not drink enough water. RARE indeed are those books destined to become all-time classics. Even rarer are books destined to accomplish a paradigm shift in any major area of modern knowledge. Of still greater rarity are books destined to benefit significantly the health of countless millions of human beings, at no cost to them. Such a landmark book is Your Body's Many Cries for Water by Dr. F. Batmanghelidj. He is a London-educated Iranian medical doctor who has made revolutionary discoveries about the water metabolism of the human body. His astounding basic breakthrough was made while he was confined to a Tehran prison, this being a unique circumstance in itself. Fitzgerald, Matt. (2014). Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us. Pegasus Books. ISBN 978-1605985602 "No one in the medical establishment gave credence to Fereydoon Batmanghelidj's half-baked notions. He had taken the whole hydration thing too far." Batmanghelidj, Fereydoon, Water For Health, For Healing, For Life (2003), Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-69074-0 Figure 12: A model ofphysiological events that will either stimulate or inhibit renin-angiotensin production.

He also prescribes some exercises to increase water absorption into spinal disks, walking every 12 hours and salt in the diet. The recommended level of water washes out needed salt, so it must be supplemented, rather than removed from the diet. As far as fluids vs water. Fluids with caffeine and/or alcohol cancel out the water in them, so water intake must be water, not tea, coffee, beer or wine. Another highlight is the right mindset in regards some people who thinks that sodas can be a good substitute for water which in the reality doesnt contain the nutrients that water has and that the body needs... Your Body's Many Cries for Water by Feyedoon Batmanghelidj M.D. A Book Review by Trevor James Constable The late Dr B fought untiringly to get his message about the absolute necessity of increasing our water intake out to the world, but other doctors and authorities were impervious to his arguments. This was no doubt because water can't be patented, and the medicinal industries that control the doctors risk losing immense sums in drug profits, were the general public to discover that they could drop their drugs intake merely by drinking water.

had suffered from hiatus hernia and that too started to clear up. Given time, it will clear up completely. You willk see from Loretta ]ohnson's letter that, even at the young-at-heart age of 90, anginal pain can be treated with water, to the extent that she does not need any medication for her heart pains. the purely natural water needs of the daily "stressed" body is an elementary but catastrophic mistake. It is true that Endorphins, cortisone, prolactin and vasopressin Endorpbins prepare the body to endure hardship and injury until it gets out of danger. They also raise the pain threshold. With an injury that would have caused pain at a lower level, with the 'umbrella' of endorphins, the body will be able to continue with its task. Because of childbirth and monthly menstruation, women seem to access this hormone much more readily. They generally have a greater ability to withstand pain and stress. Cortisone will initiate the demobilisation of stored energies and raw materials. Fat is broken down into fatty acids to be converted into energy. Some proteins are once again broken down into the basic amino acids for the formation of extra neurotransmitters, new proteins, and some special amino acids to be burned by the muscles. During pregnancy and at the time of feeding milk to the child, this hormone and its 'associates' will mobilise a uniform flow of primary materials for the purpose of offspring development. If the action of cortisone continues for long, soon there will be some selective depletion from the amino acid reserves of the body. Under the influence of cortisone, the body continues to 'feed off itself' .The effect of cortisone is designed to provide emergency raw materials for the production of most essential primary proteins and neurotransmitters to get the body 'over the hump'. It is not designed 57 completely and he started taking notice of the people around him. He sat up and began to move toward the wall of Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D. . . . received his medical education and training at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School of London University. He has spent most of his scientific life researching the link between pain and disease and chronic dehydration. Dr. Batmanghelidj discovered the healing powers of water 21 years ago when he was serving as a political prisoner in an Iranian jail. He successfully treated 3,000 fellow prisoners suffering from stress-induced peptic ulcer disease with the only medication he possessed — water. This is when he understood for the first time in medical history that the body indicates its water shortage by producing pain. Since his prison experience, he has focused his full-time attention on dehydration-produced health problems in the body. His discovery has helped hundreds of thousands of people suffering from a variety of pains and degenerative diseases regain their health [4].

DI;ar Dr. Batmanghelidj: I am I person with M.S. I have been usingthe greatestbcalth disoovcry in history program (drink 2qts. of water daily, no caffeine 8IIdeddina someaalt IS scasoninB) for four weeks. I can confidentlystate that I am thrilledwith the incrediblercsuJts. PrniousIy, I b8d been plagued by bad swellingof my legs for years. Within two _ b the swellinghad gone down 90 pm:cnl As an MS. client, I am also grateful to be free of my caffeineIIId sugar roller coaster that I wasOD. I am excited about my increased and consistalt CDa'BY which1astB ali day and into the evening. I am without the downsidcof exhaustionwhichfoUoMd the caffciDc bums. I WIIll chained to that roller coaster which only made my fatiguespells duriDI the dayso·muchmere severe. Now that I am free &om.that cycle,I also notice that I am calmer,less anxious and IIlOR productive. Also, I lID more optimisticabout thinp in gencraI, more Iblc to give of myselfto others IIDd mcm attentiveto the natural rhythms of my bodythat I prcviOtlllly masked chemically Batmanghelidj, Fereydoon, ABC of Asthma, Allergies and Lupus: Eradicate Asthma – Now!, (2000), Global Health Solutions, ISBN 0-9629942-6-X If such diseases do not bother you personally, just ask anyone so afflicted how frustrating it is to be perpetually treated but never cured, by doctors who are manifestly flummoxed by such diseases. This bafflement and medical inability to effect cures is almost universal in orthodox medicine, and largely accounts for the stupendous and ever-mounting cost of medical care. People get treated, not cured. They are not cured because the basic cause of their diseases is not known to classical medicine. America harbors and husbands a vast army of people receiving medical "treatment".

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Countless ingrained cultural and social customs of modern America, such as not drinking sufficient water, and guzzling phenomenal quantities of diuretic soft drinks and diuretic coffee and tea, reinforce chronic dehydration as the number one health menace in America. Dr. Batmanghelidj emphasizes that drinking coffee, soft drinks and juices does not counter dehydration or meet the body's water needs. The only way out is by drinking water. Dr. B's pioneering work shows that Unintentional Chronic Dehydration (UCD) contributes to and even produces pain and many degenerative diseases that can be prevented and treated by increasing water intake on a regular basis. This is a controversial book! But many medical advances often find it difficult to convince the AMA that the new information should be supported. But I firmly believe that after reading this book, the position that a number of diseases are caused by chronic dehydration. Here are some chapters titles, and the diseases involved: Batmanghelidj, Fereydoon, Obesity Cancer Depression; Their Common Cause & Natural Cure, (2005) Global Health Solutions; ISBN 0-9702458-2-3 that it has gained access to adequate water supply. Since every function of the body is monitored and pegged to the flow of water, 'water management'is the only way of making sure that adequate amounts of water and its transported nutrients first reach the more vital organs that will have to confront and deal with any new 'stress'. This mechanism became more and more established for survival against natural enemies and predators. It is the ultimate operative system for survival infight orflight situations. It is still the operative mechanism in the competitive environment of modern life in our society. One of the unavoidable processes in the body water rationing phase is the cruelty with which some functions are monitored so that one structure does not receive more than its predetermined share of water. This is true for all organs of the body. Within these systems of water rationing, the brain function takes absolute priority over all the other systems. The brain is about 2 per cent of the total body weight, but it receives 18 to 20 per cent of blood circulation. When the 'ration masters' in charge of body water reserve regulation and distribution become more and more active, they also give their own alarm signals to show that the area in question is short of water, very much like the radiator of a car giving out steam when the cooling system is not adequate to drive up hill. In advanced societies, thinking that tea, coffee, alcohol, and manufactured beverages are desirable substitutes for the natural water needs of the daily 'stressed' body is an elementary - but catastrophic - mistake. It is true that these beverages contain water, but they also contain dehydrating agents. They get rid of the water they are dissolved in, plus some more water from the reserves of the body! Modern life-styles make people dependent on all sorts of beverages that are commercially manufactured. Children are not educated to drink water; they become dependent on sodas and juices. This is a self-imposed restriction on the water needs of the body. It is not generally possible to drink manufactured beverages to completely replace the water the body needs. At the same time, a cultivated preference for the taste of these sodas automatically reduces the urge to drink water when sodas are not available, thus leading to dehydration. 13

Dr B's explanation, which constitutes the important message of this book, is that many common, serious ailments are caused by simple dehydration.

"He is arguing for a new scientific approach that turns clinical medicine on its head."

When the Iranian Revolution broke out in 1979, Dr. Batmanghelidj was placed in the infamous Evin Prison as a political prisoner for two years and seven months. It was there he discovered the healing powers of water. One night, Dr. B. had to treat a fellow prisoner with crippling peptic ulcer pain. With no medications at his disposal, Dr. B. gave him two glasses of water. Within eight minutes, his pain disappeared. He was instructed to drink two glasses of water every three hours and became absolutely pain free for his four remaining months in the prison. Dr. B. successfully treated 3,000 fellow prisoners suffering from stress-induced peptic ulcer disease with water alone. While in prison he conducted extensive research into the medicinal effects of water in preventing and relieving many painful degenerative diseases. Evin proved an ideal “stress laboratory,” and despite his being offered an earlier release, Dr. B. chose to stay an extra four months in prison to complete his research into the relationship of dehydration and bleeding peptic ulcer disease. The report of his findings was published as the editorial of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983. The New York Times Science Watch reported this discovery on June 21, 1983. Medical research has shown that regular water intake will help eliminate dyspeptic pains like gastritis, duodenitis, and heartburn. Without getting into the technical and graphic details of digestion, our bodies use many hormones, enzymes, and neurotransmitters to complete the digestion process. Without ample water intake, the pancreas is less efficient, acids in the stomach are not properly neutralized, and the functions of the intestine are inhibited. Over an extended period of time, this can lead to constipation, colitis pain, false appendicitis pain, and even hiatus hernia. Readers should make sure to stay hydrated, but take the claims that water cures all ills with a grain of salt!

Timing is important as well. He says a glass or two of water, 30 minutes before a meal helps suppress appetite. NO, actually, he says that we mistake thirst for hunger, so the water before the meal is satisfying thirst, so your body gives you only hunger signals at meal time. Dr. Batmanghelidj's recommendation for water intake is half your body weight in pounds of ounces of water intake per day. A 200 pound person's intake would be 100 ounces per day. A quart is 32 ounces and a gallon is 128. So, for most Americans we're talking 3, 4 and 5 quarts. I must say I'm getting a bit tired of authors who claim that their one small specialty is the cure to everything! The water expert says all we need is water, the vitamin D expert says many diseases are caused by low D (and only recommends very low levels of other nutrient supplements) and the lipid expert says too much omega 6 is the cause of much disease and advocates high levels of omega 3 fats (and only recommends very low levels of other nutrient supplements) and so on! Don't confuse water consumption with fluid consumption. Sodas and coffee are not an acceptable substitute. In fact, you need to consume even MORE water if you're drinking sodas and coffee. Caffeine, one of the main components of most sodas, causes increased urine production and acts as a dehydrating agent. That's why you can drink sodas all day, and never feel satisfied. The water doesn't stay in the body long enough. In addition, you may mistakenly think that you've consumed enough "water" by drinking soda. When your body cries out for thirst, you're likely to over feed it with food instead. In 1983, the Foundation for the Simple in Medicine was formed to foster research into this topic and become the vehicle for change in the present structure of medicine [3:180].Figure 10: A schematic model of a nerve cell, its bilayer membrane, and the vasopressin receptor that converts into a 'shower head' structure and enables the filtered water from the serum to enter the cells that have the recepton Vasopressin also produces vasoconstriction, which puts a squeeze on the blood volume to produce the pressure for water filtration - reverse osmosis. One is local and the other is central-nervous-system-registered. At an early phase, the locally registered pain can be alleviated with painkillers. After a certain threshold is reached, the brain becomes tbe direct centre for monitoring its perpetuation until hydration of tbe body takes place. Hiatus hernia You often come across the classical dyspeptic pain that the doctor has diagnosed as hiatus hernia. Hiatus hernia means displacement of the upper part of the stomach through the gap of the diaphragm (the oesophageal hiatus) into the chest cavity. This is an unnatural location for the stomach to be in. With a part of the stomach in the chest, food digestion becomes painful. Normally, the content ofthe stomach's upper part is sealed off and cannot pass upward into the oesophagus when food is being digested. The normal direction of intestinal contractions is downward, from the mouth to the rectum. Furthermore, there are two valves to prevent the regurgitation of food upward. One valve is located in the wall of 38 hormones and transmitters will not be limited at a later time because of a possible lower level of stored energy. Caffeine will cause an override effect until a lower level of energy storage is reached. Cola drinks have exactly the same effect. The effect of caffeine may at some times be considered desirable, but constant substituting of caffeine-containing drinks for water will deprive the body of its full capacity for the formation of hydroelectric energy. Excess caffeine will also deplete the ATP-stored energy in the brain and the body - a possible contributing factor for shorter attention span in the younger, cola-consuming generation, or chronic fatigue syndrome as a result of excess coffee consumption in later life. Excess caffeine intake will eventually exhaust the heart muscle because of its over-stimulation. Recently, in some experimental models, it has been shown that caffeine inhibits a most important enzyme system, PDE (phosphodi-esterase), that is involved in the process of learning and memory development. In reported experiments, caffeine impaired vision and memory components of learning ability in the species involved in the experiment. You must now realise why people with Alzheimer's disease and children with a learning disability should not drink anything other than water. Caffeine-containing beverages should definitely NOT be consumed. Let us now connect all the information given in this chapter with two different but related problems - hypertension and cholesterol formation - both leading to heart problems. The operating mechanism for adaptation to dehydration, which will climax into vasoconstriction, is the same as mentioned for stress. Namely, the continued actions of vasopressin and the RA system are responsible for establishing the necessary adaptation to drought. They close a number of open capillaries in the vascular bed and increase the pressure in the rest to squeeze water through the membranes into the cells in 'priority organs'. Do not forget this simple truth: dehydration is the number one stressor of the human body or any living matter. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj was born in Iran in 1930 or 1931. [1] He attended secondary school in the United Kingdom, at Fettes College in Scotland, and later graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School of London University. He then practiced medicine in the United Kingdom, before returning to Iran. [1] There he became a wealthy entrepreneur, [2] helping in the development of hospitals and medical centres, and in sports projects, including the Ice Palace ice skating rink in Tehran. [1]