This “Ahhah” came from one of Dr. Batmanghelidj’s books, YOU ARE NOT SICK YOU ARE THIRSTY!

Dr. Batmanghelidj, (Dr. B.), a medical doctor trained at London University, began his research into the healing powers of water while being held as a political prisoner in prison in Iran. In 1979 about one thousand professional people were rounded up and put in prison. They were held many to one room under threat of death. A very stressful situation for the inmates who were under threat of death as well as being crowded. Dr. B. heard moans coming from a cell and found an inmate only semi-conscious doubled up in pain and curled into a fetal position on the floor. Dr. B. checked the man thinking that he may have a ruptured ulcer, but realized that it had not yet perforated. He asked the man what he had taken so far for pain. The man groaned that he had taken twenty antacid pills and three cimetidime pills to no avail. With no drugs at his disposal other than water Dr. B. gave the man three glasses of water over a period of half an hour and the man’s pain disappeared. That water could heal disease was a powerful “ah hah” to Dr. B. He realized that this “ah aha” was 180 degrees from what he had been taught in medical school.

As a result of that experience and while still in prison Dr. B. began researching healing effects of water. Dr. B. realized that his medical training had focused on wrong ideas that said disease states begin in the solid matter of the body. He learned that water does a lot more in the body than was recognized and that the cause of disease is dehydration. He recognized that the scientific foundation on which western medicine has been structured had been based on false assumptions. While still in prison Dr. B. began doing research into water. Over a span of close to three years he was able to heal nearly 3,000 other inmates using only water.

After his release from prison and upon arrival in America Dr. B. joined an organization called The Simple in Medicine where he continued his research into the ways in which water interacts in the body. His first efforts to present his research papers to the medical community were put off, edited or ignored completely by both the medical community and the American government FDA (Food & Drug Administration). Such important information was a threat to the allopathic medical system largely run by pharmaceutical companies. Dr. B. continued his research and communication efforts and after 20 years of data collection decided as a last resort to bring his information directly to the public through books and CD’s. He knew that his valuable information could start a system of health without need for much of our current elaborate health care system.

What he discovered is that ALL DISEASE RESULTS FROM THE BODY BECOMING TOO DEHYDRATED.

The four false assumptions of western medicine:

( extracts taken from Dr. B’s book)

1. “Dry mouth is the only sign of dehydration in the body”

Dr. B’s research indicates otherwise: The body can suffer from deep dehydration without manifesting a dry mouth symptom. Symptoms of drought can begin in the cells without affecting blood vessels. Dehydration in cell interiors produces life threatening illness without dry mouth symptoms. We sometimes think we are hungry when our bodies are actually crying out for water. Waiting to get thirsty is to die prematurely and painfully. Pain is a cry for water. Water relieves pain if enough is taken to reverse the drought actions initiated by the body.

A distinct marker of dehydration is the color of urine. A very light to colorless urine indicates the body is blessed with enough water. When naturally yellow (not as a result of pigments in supplements, etc.) it means the body is gradually getting short of water. When consistently orange colored it indicates serious health problems from dehydration. (Dr. B. lists other information as well).

2. “Water is a simple inert substance that only dissolves, circulates different things, and ultimately fills up the empty spaces. It has no chemical role of its own in the physiological functions of the body. All chemical actions in the body are performed by the solid matter that dissolved in water.”

Dr. B’s research indicates otherwise: Water is the single most complex element in nature. Water’s most important function is its energy generating actions. It manufactures hydroelectricity at the cell membranes and perhaps its most vital function is water’s adhesive properties which bond the solid structure of the cell membranes and protects life inside cells of the body. Modern medicine recognizes only the life-sustaining properties of water. That is why doctors never understood chronic unintentional dehydration as an ultimately deadly process. With decreased intake of water, we gradually limit life processes in the body until a pattern of decay is established.

3. “The human body can regulate its water intake efficiently throughout a person’s life.”

Dr. B’s research indicates otherwise: As we grow older we lose our perception of thirst and fail to drink adequately until the plum like cells in vital organs become prune like no longer able to sustain life. The body is forced to rely on drought management programs in order to continue to live. Dr. B. describes in simple detail the body’s attempts to survive drought when not enough water is available. These drought management processes are the body’s bid to survive. But they eventually result in what medicine calls disease as selective portions of the body are deprived of water to ensure the survival of vital organs like heart and brain. Diseases caused by lack of water are called asthma, arthritis, all kinds of cancer including prostate, stroke, obesity, depression, back pain, ulcers, diabetes, gout, kidney stones, high blood pressure, angina, and by many other names. (Dr. B. has signed written testimonies in his books that he cured them all with only water) One testimony is the story of a lady doctor, Dr. Day, with a fast growing breast cancer. The cancer became the size of an orange in just three weeks. Doctor Day had the cancer cut out but it had metastasized to other parts of her body. She did no chemotherapy or radiation because as a doctor she recognized that it is cancer treatments that kill patients not cancer. She gave up her medicine career where she had been a highly respected orthopedics teacher. To aid her healing she began to eat better nutritionally but was still going down hill. Bed ridden and close to death she was given Dr. B’s book. By increasing her water intake to 16 glasses of water a day until all the cancer was gone from her body she cured herself. It took eight months. Dr. Day has survived seven or more years now and has a web site called www.drday.com

4. “Any fluid can meet the body’s need: All manufactured beverages and fluids will serve the body in exactly the same way as water”

Dr. B’s research indicates otherwise: You cannot substitute any other beverage, coffee, juice, milk or soft drink for water. Dr. Day’s breast cancer was the symptom of serious dehydration in her body that gradually took over and ruined her health because she drank mostly coffee and little water. Some of the manufactured beverages in common usage today do not function in the body like normal water. When we drink beverages with caffeine in them we actually need to drink one and a half times as much water to aid our bodies to rid itself of caffeine poison. Dr. Batmanghelidj died in 2004 at the age of 74 of complications of pneumonia, but a web site run by his former secretary continues to make his message available at www.watercure.com. where Dr. B’s books, DVD’s and CD talks are all available for purchase.

WHAT TO DO?

Dr. B. indicated that each day you use up at least six to eight glasses of water in your body through breathing out vapor and

digesting food, etc. which at very least must be replenished. He said to take your body weight dividing the number of pounds by 2. The resultant number equals the amount of water in ounces that your body needs each day. Dr. B. recommended that you start the day by drinking at least two or three glasses of water – (any water except distilled which is too acidic). Drink a glass of water half an hour before meals and another two and a half hours after meals to complete digestion. Drink another glassful half an hour before going to bed at night. For every 10 glasses of water you take in you also need 1/2 teaspoon of natural salt like Celtic sea salt or rock salt but not the kind normally available. Manufactured salt has been stripped of the 80 or more trace minerals that your body requires. Taking kelp (available in pill form if you wish) will provide iodine needed or a good vitamin supplement can also supply iodine.

PLEASE TAKE HEED AND HELP YOURSELF TO BETTER HEALTH

I have started to. I have always drunk water, perhaps not enough to prevent aging, but Maybe that is why my health is better than so many of my friends. For over twenty years I thought that I should try to be salt free and have now discovered that was a wrong assumption. When I began adding sea salt and more water to my diet last year my health improved. My blood pressure went down and I am now nearly off of medication. You also can make changes now and ensure yourself a pain free life.

You Are Not Sick You Are Thirsty!

Phillip Day – Investigative Journalist & Founder of “The Campaign for Truth in Medicine”

“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…

Are all of these conditions linked to a chronic state of dehydration? Worldrenowned water expert Dr Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, in his latest bestseller, Water and Salt – Your Healers from Within, maintains that the above conditions are the body’s many cries for water, complaints dramatically improved with a consistent and long-term intake of the fresh, clean water. Dr Batman’s timely work has helped thousands quash long-term health problems effortlessly and inexpensively.

He writes: “The report of my having successfully treated with water more than three thousand people with symptoms and clinical signs of peptic ulcer disease was published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983. I came away from that experience with the understanding that the people I treated were thirsty, and I uncovered the phenomenon that ‘pain’ in the body indicates thirst, even though the condition is classified as a disease.” Water is used by the body for digestion, detoxifying cells, watering the lungs, lubricating joints, keeping the body alkalized and a host of cleaning duties.

Many warning signals (‘symptoms’) arise out of the body’s inability to neutralize or rid itself of acid, a common enough complaint given the number of antacids sold around the world each day.

‘I drink coffee, tea, diet sodas, beer and a host of other liquids. They contain water, don’t they?’ This is a common and dangerous misconception. Many of today’s designer drinks are diuretic in their effect (waterexpelling) because their mostly acidic compositions require the body to give up water and alkalizing minerals to eliminate their harmful residues. Diet sodas especially are harmful in that they require large amounts of body-water to neutralize the phosphoric acid component (2.8 pH). Cells that started off healthy and ‘plum-like’ shrivel to prunes as water, the stuff of life, is progressively denied them. The sick in our hospitals are fed the sodas, tea and coffee they ask for in woeful ignorance of the damage wrought to the micro cell-world within them.

Batmanghelidj’s extraordinary work should rightly be considered by a mainstream medical community ever fixated on the drug cure. Below is a summary of body functions and that rely on an adequate intake of water:

Brain function:

The brain comprises 2% of the body’s total weight, yet receives 15-20% of the blood supply, mostly comprised of water. Dehydration will affect cognitive ability drastically, and, through histamine’s action, can create depressive states (many antidepressant medications are anti-histamines).

Bone function:

Bones require plentiful supplies of water. 75% of the weight of the upper body, for instance, is supported by the water core contained within the fifth lumbar disc, the remaining 25% by muscle fibers around the spine.

Nerve function:

Micro streams exist along the length of nerves which transport nutrients and conduct energy along microtubules to the synapses to transmit messages. Dehydration disrupts proper nerve function, resulting in the sensation of pain.

Hydrolysis:

Water, far from being an inert solvent, is intricately involved in the body’s water-dependent chemical reactions. Lack of water means incomplete or faulty metabolic processes, with obvious implications for continued health and well-being. Proteins and enzymes, for instance, do not function as well in acidic solutions of higher viscosity (stickiness) where the body is dehydrated.

Cellular energy:

As water is drawn through the cell membrane, its osmotic flow generates a voltage gradient which can be used in the manufacture of ATP and GTP energy. Dehydration will obviously affect the proper functioning of cells and even kill them.

Histamine:

This neurotransmitter plays a major role in activating systems which encourage water intake when dehydration is detected. Functions in the body which consume large quantities of water are cut back, namely the bronchial tubes constricted to cut down on water use in the lungs; increased peristalsis in the bowels to wring more water out of fecal material, and so on. Other signs of histamine’s activity, namely allergies, asthma, depression and chronic pains, are interpreted by the physician as ‘disease’ and treated with anti-histamines, pain-killers (analgesics), etc. Thus the signals of thirst are turned off and the dehydration state continues unabated.

Dyspepsia (heartburn/reflux):

Over time, this can lead to ulceration and even cancer. Dr Batmanghelidj recommends that these conditions – also gastritis and duodenitis – be treated with water alone as they are one of the body’s major thirst signals. Arrested in his native Iran by the Revolutionary Council during the troubles of the late 1970’s, Dr B was confined to Evin prison, Tehran, during which time he successfully treated with water alone over three thousand people complaining of dyspeptic pain and associated symptoms.

Digestion:

Requires plentiful supplies of water. The stomach relies on mucus lining the walls to shield it from the effects of the stomach’s hydrochloric acid. A bicarbonate solution is produced from the cells in the lining which neutralizes any acid attempting to break through the mucus. Water is needed to maintain this effective defence system. Too little water, and the mucus barrier is ineffectual, the acid will penetrate and will lead to pain. Ideally, water should be consumed half an hour before a meal, in time to anticipate the production of digestive acid from glands in the stomach wall.

Ulcers:

Often located at the valve between the stomach and duodenum. Said to be caused by curved bacteria known as helicobacters. Yet many people have helicobacters in their small intestine, yet not all of them suffer from ulcers. Histamine-producing nerves are located at this site, which monitor the through-put of acidic food chyme from the stomach into the intestine. Histamine has growth hormone effects on these micro-organisms, resulting in small intestine bacterial overgrowths (SIBOs). Once again, an adequate regime of water intake will allow all the functions relating to digestion to normalize. Prolonged water intake should therefore be considered before more drastic drug treatments are entered into.

It took several years for the public to realise the seriousness of our tap water problems in South Africa, and how it affects our health, notwithstanding the Blue Drop Certification. As you know pollutants and toxins sometimes enter our water catchment dams when sewage treatment plants are not properly maintained. Also bacteria and viruses, abattoir, medical and agricultural wastes contain pollutants that are not removed by municipal water treatment plants, and could include un-metabolized anti-retroviral drugs (ARV’s), antibiotics, anti-depressants, contraceptive medication etc. More info is available on request. (Refer ‘Expert Opinions on SA Water’ & A Report on the ‘Blue Drop Certification’ by the Development Bank of South Africa).

Bottled and filtered water

Alternatives such as bottled and filtered water were then introduced and all of us thought it was all right to either buy bottled water or install a filter of some kind in our kitchens – not knowing about the health risks still present. Sadly, the shortcomings of most kitchen filters range from ‘taste and odour enhancing only’ to producing ‘dead’ water. On the other hand, bottled water is not regulated in our country, and some are not of acceptable quality. Bottled water is mostly reverse osmosis (RO) or demineralised water, which is also regarded as ‘dead’ water, irrespective of what is stated on the label, in many cases.

RO versus mineral water

The RO process is in practice the most effective way of purifying water, however it removes not only the ‘bad stuff’, but also the ‘good stuff’ (minerals and trace elements, if any), leaving dead water behind, i.e. no electrolytes. Electrolytes are required among brain and body cells to transmit tiny electrical impulses, (in excess of 20 watts in your brain alone) which regulates all organ functions – It is, life itself. Purified water with a total dissolved solids (TDS) count below 100 is considered low-mineral water. A TDS of 130 minimum (i.e. minerals – not contaminants) is required in mineral water – This is not the case in most bottled waters; see bottle etiquettes for yourself.

WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) prescribes that demineralised or RO water, which depletes our bodies of essential minerals such as calcium and magnesium, should not substitute ‘structured mineral alkaline water’, inclusive of water we cook with. (Refer ‘Health Risks Drinking RO Water’- WHO, available on request)

pH Balance

Most bottled waters are acidic. That is they have a pH value below 7 – see bottle etiquettes. Alkalinity, on the other hand, boosts the immune system, keeping you healthy. Our modern diets trigger acidity, which is one of the major cause of cholesterol. Cancer and most other illnesses thrive in an acidic body. The first corrective step is to drink alkaline balanced water with a pH between 7.4 and 7.8. (Refer Microscopic Blood Photographs – available on request).

Structured water: the ultimate

After RO purification the dead water (sometimes referred to as ‘demon water’) is revitalised or energised in our micro structuring process in a vortex, similar to what happens in nature in natural streams. Structured water is the 4th state of water and is electrically charged negative, thereby attracting positively charged heavy metals for excretion, thus detoxifying the body. This water also re-charges your bio-chemical processes of respiration, energy production, brain function and enhances enzyme activity, which is critical for good health. (Refer ‘Your Body’s Many Cries for Water’ – Dr F Batmanghelidj, World Foundation for Natural Science, Switzerland)

Structured water is micro clustered. It has 5-10 molecules per cluster, which is small enough to easily penetrate living cells, thus hydrating the cells. The water inside our cells is also structured water. Conversely, un-structured tap water or RO water has macro clusters, containing up to 90 molecules per cluster, rendering the majority of water clusters too large to penetrate your cells, causing de-hydration. Important to note that de-hydration is the principle causing agent in aging and of most diseases. (Refer to video ‘The Effect of Structured Water on Blood Properties’ – available from HIDRO+) During the structuring process 84 natural minerals and trace elements are infused into the water at molecular level. Important to note that vitamins in foods/supplements can’t be effectively absorbed without the presence of minerals. These minerals are the basis of the electrolytes in your body, required for electro-chemical impulses between brain neurons, nerve system and body cells. It therefore improves concentration ability and bodily endurance. I refer you to a 68 year old South African woman athlete who achieved the world’s best performance in a 500 km race using only our mineral enriched ‘SUPER HYDRATE’ water, without the use of any supplements (Refer testimonial ‘World’s Best Performance’ – available from HIDRO+).

Radioactive isotopes

Furthermore, acid mine drainage pollution in some areas, containing radioactive isotopes, which causes cancer, are not removed by water treatment processes. In fact, the Blue Drop Certification does not even require the testing of uranium levels in the water. These levels can be as high as double the cancer forming threshold. We remove this using Chernobyl technology.

(Refer ‘Expert Reports).

In summary, purified drinking water must be:

• Structured water
• Mineralised (TDS > 130, Natural)
• Alkaline balanced (pH 7.4 – 7.8)
• Radio-isotope free (i.e. non-carcinogenic)