Dying From Thirst

Overhearing a fellow Iraqi prisoner moaning with intense pain, Dr. Batmanghlidj asked the man what medication he had been given. The ailing prisoner had already taken an entire bottle of antacids and two high doses of Tagamet for his ulcer, but all day the pain had steadily grown worse. Increasing the recommended dosages had only served to increase the man’s suffering. Knowing that more medication was NOT the answer, the doctor instinctively gave the only thing he had left to offer--two glasses of water. Within three minutes, the pain lessened. After another eight minutes, the pain was gone! The man was simply dehydrated! Many years later, and 20 years of studying water’s healing effects, Dr. Batmanghlidj lamented, “the greatest tragedy in medical history is that stupid assumption that ‘dry mouth’ is the only sign of dehydration. The medical community bought this statement and put us back 100 years and trillions of dollars of research and hundreds of millions of people suffering and dying, not knowing that they were only dehydrated.”

I imagine most of you have never considered that many of your chronic conditions, aches and pains are due to dehydration. Because our bodies cannot tell us when we need to drink water, it tries to communicate with us by sending pain signals. However, we don’t understand our body’s language of “pain.” Have you ever heard that many times when we think we’re hungry, we may actually be thirsty? Water is the only substance that does not have to be altered for the body to utilize. There is NO substitute for water. All ingested substances, except water, must be broken down into their component parts. All other liquids (coffee, caffeinated teas, juices, beer, wine, sports drinks, soda), do nothing to hydrate the body. In fact, they are highly acidic and cause dehydration. And if you think all waters are the same, you’d be mistaken. Bottled, reverse osmosis, tap and filtered waters each have their own issues. Please read my article in SelfGrowth titled BLUE GOLD for alarming information on the bottled water industry.

In Dr. Batmanghelidj’s book, “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water (You’re not Sick, You’re Thirsty…Do Not Treat Thirst with Medication),” he states that most health problems are due to chronic dehydration and acidic body tissues. All of the above mentioned beverages, as well as processed and fast foods, create an environment of chronic dehydration, inflammation and acidity, ultimately resulting in body pain and chronic illness. When Dr. Batmanghelidj presented this groundbreaking information at the 1992 Alternative Medicine Conference in Virginia, he pleaded with the physicians in attendance to encourage their patients to drink water. Later, the National Institute of Health (NIH) omitted his presentation from the conference’s proceedings. Why would the NIH do that? Who benefits when we are dehydrated and sick? The common basic procedure patients receive in the hospital is salt and water (saline drip) at $400 to $500/bag. In addition, most medications further dehydrate our bodies. As a rule, a dehydrated body will never be healthy.

To minimize the cellular dehydration and damage our bodies suffer, we must make wiser beverage (and food) choices. Learn to recognize and answer your body’s thirst signals with high alkaline, ionized and micro-clustered water. For more information on this type of water, see www.YourWaterWisdom.com.