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Dr. F. Batmanghedlidj M.D.– Water Cures: Drugs Kill
How Water Cured Incurable diseases Author: Your Body’s Many Cries for Water
The following depiction of dehydrated and hydrated cells are from Dr. Batmanghelidj:
Heinz Valtin, M.D. an emeritus professor at Dartmouth Medical School has ventured the opinion that there is no scientific merit to drinking 8 x 8-oz glasses of water a day and not waiting to get thirsty before correcting dehydration. This view, published in the American Journal of Physiology, August, 2002, is the very foundation of all that is wrong with modern medicine, which is costing this nation $1.7 trillion a year, rising at the rate of 12 percent every year. Dr. Valtin’s view is as absurd as waiting for the final stages of a killer infection before giving the patient the appropriate antibiotics. His views are based on the erroneous assumption that the mouth is an accurate sign of dehydration.
…In medical schools it is taught that water is only a solvent, a packing material and a means of transport, that water has no metabolic function of its own. I have come across this level of ignorance about the primary physiological role of water at another Ivy League medical school from another eminent professor of physiology who, like Dr. Valtin, researched and taught the water regulatory mechanisms of the kidney to medical students and doctors. Only when I asked him what “hydrolysis” is did the penny drop. He admitted the scientific fact that water is a nutrient and does indeed possess a dominant metabolic role in all physiological functions of the body.
Dr. Valtin’s emphasis on the water regulatory role of the kidneys limits his knowledge to the body’s mechanisms of “deficit management” of the water needs of the body. He seems to base his views of thirst management of the body on the vital roles of vasopressin, the antidiuretic hormone, and the renin angiotensin system, the elements that become engaged in the drought management programs of the body, when the body has already become dehydrated. Indeed, he thinks dehydration is a state of the body when it loses 5 percent of its water content; and that one should wait until at some level of such water loss the urge to drink some kind of ‘fluid’ will correct the water deficit in the body. This view might have been seemed plausible 25 years ago. Today (2003) it exposes the tragic limitation of knowledge of the human physiology that is available to a prestigious medical school in America.
…In dehydration 66 percent of the water loss is from the interior of the cells, 26 percent of the loss is from extracellular fluid volume, and only 8 percent of the loss is borne by the blood tissue in the vascular system, which, constricts within its network of capillaries and maintain the integrity of the circulation system.
Philippa M. Wiggin has shown that the mechanism that controls or brings about the effective function of the cation pumps utilizes the energy-transforming property of water, the solvent. “The source of energy for cation transport or ATP synthesis lies in increases in chemical potentials with increasing hydration of small cations and polyphosphate anions in the highly structured interfacial aqueous phase of the two phosphorylated intermediates.” Waiting to get thirsty, whether the body fluids become concentrated before thirst is induced, one loses the energy generating properties of water in the dehydrated cells of the body. This is a major reason we should prevent dehydration, rather than wait to correct it. This new understanding of the role of water in cation exchange is enough justification to let the body engage in prudent surplus water management rather than forcing it into drought and deficit water management, what Dr. Valtin is recommending that people do.
…The tragedy of waiting to get thirsty hits home when it is realized that the sharpness of thirst perception is gradually lost as we get older. Phillips and associates have shown that after 24 hours of water deprivation, the elderly still do not recognize they are thirsty. “The important finding is that despite their obvious physiologic need, the elderly subjects were not markedly thirsty.” Bruce and associates have shown that between the ages of 20 to 70, the ratio of water inside the cells drastically changes from 1.2 to 0.8. Undoubtedly this marked change in the intracellular water balance would not take place if the osmotic push and pull of life could favor water diffusion through the cell membranes everywhere in the body—at the rate of 10 centimeters per second. Only by relying on the reverse osmotic process of expanding the extracellular water content of the body, so as to filter and inject ‘load-free’ water into vital cells by the actions of vasopressin and the renin-angiotensin aldosterone systems—when the body physiology is constantly forced to rely on its drought management programs—could such a drastic change in the water balance of the body result.
…From the new perspective of my 22 years of clinical and scientific research into molecular physiology of dehydration, and the peer-reviewed introduction of a paradigm shift in medical science recognizing histamine as a neurotransmitter in charge of the water regulation of the body, I can safely say the 60 million Americans with hypertension, the 110 million with chronic pains, the 15 million with diabetes, the 17 million with asthma, the 50 million with allergies and more, all did exactly as Dr. Valtin recommends. They all wanted to get thirsty. Had they realized water is a natural antihistamine and a more effective diuretic, these people would have been saved the agony of their health problems.
The following depiction of dehydrated and hydrated cells are from Dr. Batmanghelidj:
