Are You Chronically Dehydrated?

by Phillip Day – Investigative Journalist & Founder of “The Campaign For Truth In Medicine”
As Featured in Food Matters

“Chronic pains of the body which cannot easily be explained as injury or infection, should first and foremost be interpreted as signals of chronic water shortage in the area where the pain is registered. These pain signals should first be considered and excluded as primary indicators for dehydration of the body before any other complicated procedures are forced on the patient.” – Dr F Batmanghelidj

The human body is a bio-electrical water machine that requires a quart a day for every 50 lbs of body weight. The blood alone is made up of a large percentage of watery serum. The lymph fluids which transport waste and nutrients, comprising four times the volume of blood in the body, are made from the water we consume. Every cell that makes us who we are literally owes its life to an adequate supply of fresh, clean water.

When the body does not receive a constant, reliable supply of water, it has to ration what is available and cut back on certain functions to make the supply go round. Essential systems like the brain are prioritised, others are impaired or cut back until the brain has decided a reliable source of water has been garnered.

Here’s the rub. Most citizens have become chronically and dangerously dehydrated (especially the elderly), since we decided water was too bland to drink and ignored it in favour of tea, coffee, beer, wine, addictive sodas, flavoured water and other chemical-laced water alternatives. A disastrous and dangerous move for the body and society’s health in general, to be sure, compounded further since most doctors today cannot readily identify the many water-deficient diseases and associated pains. Thus the underlying dehydration process continues to wreak its havoc while the inevitable drugs given will switch off the warning signals (symptoms).

Consider the following conditions:

• Heartburn,
  
• arthritis,
  
• lupus,
  
• asthma,
  
• ‘high cholesterol’,
  
• high blood pressure,
  
• heart disease,
  
• cancer formation,
  
• hot flushes and menstrual problems,
  
• obesity,
  
• allergies,
  
• bulimia,
  
• chronic fatigue syndrome,
  
• ME,
  
• angina,
  
• lower back pain,
  
• gout,
  
• kidney stones,
  
• skin disorders,
  
• diabetes,
  
• fungal/yeast overgrowth,
  
• multiple sclerosis,
  
• migraine headaches,
  
• general aches and pains,
  
• morning sickness,
  
• depression,
  
• heavy/burdensome periods,
  
• colitis,
  
• dyspepsia and
  
• peptic ulcers…

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