Benefit of Drinking Water
Don't over-medicate, HYDRATE!
So what is the Benefit of Drinking Water?
The short answer is: by drinking enough water you maintain a good health and don't need drugs to keep you pain free, or to temporarily fix your body's malfunctions.
For the long answer we have to look first inside our body...
If we can imagine our body as a container, the level of water would be at about the level of our shoulders.
Almost 75% of the human body is water:
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At the first view it may look like a lot of water, but the reality is that we've been conceived like this, for good reasons.
Let's go deeper and understand what is the Importance of Water in the Body:
Every part of your body is made up of cells, and they are filled with a water solution of proteins, lipids, amino acids and other elements (Protoplasm, or more specific, Cytoplasm).
The reason for the presence of water is that all the reactions that keep us alive are electric in nature. Water is the medium in which these physicochemical reactions happen, facilitating them.
A cell exchanges elements with the rest of the body by electrolysis, and in a normal case, minerals and micro elements pass through the cell membrane to the nucleus by electro-osmosis.
The body needs electrolytes (minerals like: sodium, chloride, potassium, and bicarbonate) for its basic functions.
Otto Warburg, winner of Nobel Prize showed that: In case of water
shortage, the electrolysis cannot happen and our cells dry out and
die.
The benefit of drinking water for health appears to be very clear. We need to keep our cells hydrated in order to maintain our body's electrochemical balance and stay alive.
Obviously, we need water and... salt.
The importance of drinking water
Let's take the extreme case of sever dehydration. Protoplasm (the material of all living organisms) dries out, and the result is the end of life.
Everybody is familiar with what happens with a plant that has not been watered. Just think that things are not very different with us.
In fact, this phenomena is at the base of premature aging - when we don't drink enough water (for a long period of time), the basic metabolic, physical and chemical activities diminish and we don't get the vital elements, our body needs. The benefit of drinking water appears to be obvious to me... what about you?
Other good news is that one of the first symptoms of dehydration is the degradation of the skin, our larger and most exposed organ in the body. Ladies, I think you got my message here.
There are of course much more benefits of drinking water than just prevent dryness and this, is because our organism is so complex and relies so much on this miraculous liquid which is water.
For instance:
- water makes possible the electric reactions at the cells level, as shown above, and keeps the pH body balance,
- water dissolve toxins and helps body to flush them away,
- water physically and chemically brakes down the food we eat, assisting the metabolic system,
- water transports all the nutrients to different parts of the body,
- water in the blood also transports the oxygen we breath to all organs,
- water lubricates cartilages that buffer all joints
and the list doesn't stop here.
Benefit of drinking Water vs. Drugs
Dr. Batmanghelidj's research into the health benefit of water was considered at that time as "an entirely new paradigm for the cause and prevention of many degenerative diseases!" Today, things start to change a little...
Did you know, that when you have a headache, back pain, muscle spasm, stomachache, or when you feel depressed without obvious reason, you actually need to drink water?
The reason why is that when we get dehydrated, the body automatically takes water from less demanding organs to cover the needs of the main important ones. What happens is that the affected parts of our body start to alert us in different ways, and pain is one of the first signals.
Taking a pain drug in this situation, is like covering the fuel indicator low level warning on your car, to see how far you can drive without stopping at a gas pump :)
Indeed: the benefit of drinking water for biological organisms is as vital as the benefit of fuel for motor vehicles.
We have always looked for a drug solution to resolve a health concern, because we don't understand that pain and many medical problems are in fact signals from our body that we are thirsty.
Water Cures: Drugs Kill is a book that introduces the discovery Dr. Batmanghelidj made into the benefit of drinking water as a medical way of treating diseases.
He shows that using drugs is just a temporary solution of treating the effect, not the cause of the problem.
While imprisoned in Iran for political issues, Dr. Batmanghelidj had the opportunity to do a lot of practice and research on the benefit of drinking water for the prevention, relief and cure many painful, degenerative diseases. The story tells that he cured fellow prisoners with only water, not having any medications at hand, fact that actually saved he's own life.
I think everything happens for a reason...
After release from prison Dr. Batmanghelidj wrote several books on the benefit of water:
- Your Body's Many Cries for Water
- How to Deal with Back pain & Rheumatoid Joint Pain
- ABC of Asthma, Allergies and Lupus
- Water: for Health, for Healing, for Life
- Obesity Cancer & Depression - This book was written after the doctor passed away and is the duplicate of the previous one.
He also made four videotapes, available as DVD's too:
- Cure Pain & Prevent Cancer
- Dehydration & Cancer
- Health Miracles in Water & Salt
- How to Deal with Back Pain
Jump to the next page and read about the amazing Benefits of Drinking Water for health as I read them from Dr. Batmanghelidj's books.
