Today's topic is about importance of water and dehydration. When you consult a doctor, a dietician, a nutritionist or even most health professionals, they will advice you to drink 8-9 glasses of water daily. A lot of people asked me, how much water should I drink per day? Does everyone consume the same amount of 8-9 glasses daily? If an average adult of 120 pounds drink 9 glasses of water daily, what would happen to an overweight adult who weighs 160 pounds if he or she consume the same amount of water? The answer is simple, dehydration.
Now, let's start off with some understanding of human body and dehydration. The human body, is composed of about 75% of water ad 25% of solid matter. To provide nourishment, eliminate waste, and conduct all the trillions of activities in the body, we need water. Most modern society, however, no longer stress how importance of drinking water as the most important 'nutrient' among nutrients. Entire population is substituting water with tea, coffee, alcohol and other manufactured beverages.
Many people don't realize that the natural thirst signal of the body, is a sign that it requires pure plain drinking water. Instead, they opt for other beverages in the believe that this will satisfy the body's water requirements. What do most people do? They hot the vending machines or convenience stores buying sweetened beverages such as soft drinks, energy drinks, sport drinks, teas and coffees. Well, this is a false belief.
It is true that beverages such as coffee, tea, wine, beer, soft drinks, sports drinks and juices contain water, but they also contain caffeine, alcohol, sugar, artificial sweeteners or other chemicals that act as strong dehydrators. The more of these beverages you consume, the more dehydrated your body becomes because the effects they create in the body are exactly opposite the ones that are produced by water. Beverages containing caffeine, for example, trigger stress responses that at first have strong diuretic effects, leading to increased urination. Beverages with added sugar drastically raise blood sugar levels. Any beverage that provokes such a response coerces the body to give up large quantities of water. Regular consumption of such beverages results in chronic dehydration, which plays a part in every toxicity crisis.
There is no practical or rational reason to treat an illness or toxicity crisis with synthetic drugs or even with natural medications and methods unless the body's need for hydration has been met first. Drugs and other forms of medical intervention can be dangerous for the human physiology largely because of their strongly dehydrating effects. Most patients nowadays are suffering from 'thirst disease', a progressive condition of dehydration.
Some parts of the body may be dehydrated more than others. Unable to remove toxins from these parts due to insufficient water reserves, the body is faced with consequences of their destructive effects called toxemia. The lack of recognition of the most basic aspects of water metabolism in the body more often than not becomes a 'diagnosed' illness, when it is really the body's urgent cry for water. What doctors generally refer to as disease, is largely an advanced condition of dehydration and the resulting inability of the body to rid itself of waste materials and toxins.
We have created an opportunity for the drug industry to thrive, and have given birth to the current 'sick-care' health system, at the expense of people's precious lives and resources. The 'sick-care' system survives and thrives when more and more people are continuously sick. This is exactly what us going on now globally.
It is now crystal clear that the human body has many different ways of showing its general or local water needs. These manifestations of drought in the body have been assumed to be indicators of this or that disease condition, Based on this ignorance, and protected by the pharmaceutical industry, mainstream medicine has labeled the different complications of dehydration as various diseases.
We must understand that persistent dehydration brings about a continuously changing new chemical state in the body. When a new dehydration-produced chemical state becomes fully established, it causes many structural changes, even to the genetic blueprints of the body. This is why prevention of dehydration is crucial.
Those who lived for many years without proper water intake are the most likely succumb to the buildup of toxins in the body. Chronic disease is always accompanied by dehydration and, in many cases, caused by it. The longer a person lives on a low water ration and/or high ration of stimulating beverages or foods, the more severe and long lasting will be the toxicity crisis. Heart disease, diabetes, obesity, stomach ulcers, hypertension, cancer, MS, Alzheimer's and many others are chronic forms of disease are preceded by years of body drought. Infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses cannot thrive in a well hydrated body. Drinking enough water is, therefore one of the most important disease-preventing measures you can take.
Those who do not drink enough water, or who unduly deplete their body's water reserves through overstimulation for a period of time, gradually lower the ratio of the volume of water that exists inside the cells to the ratio of the volume of water that is found outside the cells. Normally, the water ratio inside the cells is higher than the one found in the cell environment. Under conditions of dehydration, the cells may lose up to 28% or more of their water volume. This certainly undermines all cellular activities, whether the cells in question are those of the skin, stomach, liver, kidney, heart or brain.
Whenever there is cellular dehydration, metabolic waste products are not removed properly. This causes symptoms and resembles disease, but they are really just indicators of disturbed water metabolism. Since more and more of water begins to accumulate outside the cells in order to dilute and help neutralize the toxic waste products that have accumulated there, the dehydration may not be apparent to the afflicted person. Normally, cellular enzymes signal to the brain when cells run low on water. Enzymes in dehydrated cells, however, become so inefficient that there are no longer able to register the drought-like condition. Subsequently, they fail to convey the emergency situation to the brain, which would normally push the 'thirst alarm button'.
A dehydrated person may also be suffering from a lack of energy. Because of a shortage of water inside the cells, the normal osmotic flow of water through the cell membrane becomes severely disturbed. Similiar to a stream running down a mountain, the movement of water into the cells generates 'hydroelectric' energy, which is subsequently stored as ATP molecules. As a rule, the water we drink keeps the cell volume balanced, and the salt we eat maintain the balanced volume of water that is kept outside the cells and in circulation. This generates the perfect osmotic pressure necessary for cellular nourishment and energy production. In a dehydrated state, the body fails to sustain this vital mechanism, thereby leading to potentially serious cell damage.
In the next post, I will discuss about how pain is associated with dehydration. It's getting late now, time for bed. Stay tuned.
Those who do not drink enough water, or who unduly deplete their body's water reserves through overstimulation for a period of time, gradually lower the ratio of the volume of water that exists inside the cells to the ratio of the volume of water that is found outside the cells. Normally, the water ratio inside the cells is higher than the one found in the cell environment. Under conditions of dehydration, the cells may lose up to 28% or more of their water volume. This certainly undermines all cellular activities, whether the cells in question are those of the skin, stomach, liver, kidney, heart or brain.
Whenever there is cellular dehydration, metabolic waste products are not removed properly. This causes symptoms and resembles disease, but they are really just indicators of disturbed water metabolism. Since more and more of water begins to accumulate outside the cells in order to dilute and help neutralize the toxic waste products that have accumulated there, the dehydration may not be apparent to the afflicted person. Normally, cellular enzymes signal to the brain when cells run low on water. Enzymes in dehydrated cells, however, become so inefficient that there are no longer able to register the drought-like condition. Subsequently, they fail to convey the emergency situation to the brain, which would normally push the 'thirst alarm button'.
A dehydrated person may also be suffering from a lack of energy. Because of a shortage of water inside the cells, the normal osmotic flow of water through the cell membrane becomes severely disturbed. Similiar to a stream running down a mountain, the movement of water into the cells generates 'hydroelectric' energy, which is subsequently stored as ATP molecules. As a rule, the water we drink keeps the cell volume balanced, and the salt we eat maintain the balanced volume of water that is kept outside the cells and in circulation. This generates the perfect osmotic pressure necessary for cellular nourishment and energy production. In a dehydrated state, the body fails to sustain this vital mechanism, thereby leading to potentially serious cell damage.
In the next post, I will discuss about how pain is associated with dehydration. It's getting late now, time for bed. Stay tuned.
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