The human body is composed of 75 percent water and 25 percent solid matter. To provide nourishment, eliminate waste and regulate all the functions in the body, we need water. Most contemporary societies, however, no longer stress the significance of drinking water as the most foremost "nutrient" among all nutrients. Whole people groups are substituting water with tea, coffee, alcohol and other artificial 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 trust that this would satisfy the body's water requirements. This is a false belief.
It is true that beverages such as tea, coffee, wine, beer, soft drinks and juices consist of water but they also consist of caffeine, alcohol, sugar, synthetic sweeteners or other chemicals that act as strong dehydrators. The more you drink these beverages, the more dehydrated you become because the effects they generate in the body are exactly opposite to the ones that are produced by water. Caffeine containing beverages, for example, trigger stress responses that have strong diuretic effects (causing increased urination, at first). Beverages with added sugar drastically raise blood sugar levels, which uses up large quantities of cellular water, too. Quarterly consumption of such beverages results in chronic dehydration, which is a common factor in every toxicity crisis.
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There is no practical or rational guess to treat an illness (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 curative intervention can be hazardous for the human physiology largely because of their dehydrating effects. Most patients today are suffering from 'thirst disease', a progressive state of dehydration in clear areas of the body. Unable to remove toxins from these parts due to insufficient water supply, the body is faced with the consequences of their destructive effects. The lack of recognition of the most basic aspects of water metabolism in our body can be held responsible for seeing a disease when it unquestionably is the body's urgent cry for water.
Recognizing Dehydration
Those who have lived for many years without permissible water intake are the most likely to succumb to the build-up of toxins in the body. chronic disease is always accompanied by dehydration and, in many cases, caused by dehydration. The longer a someone lives on a low water ration and/or on a high ration of stimulating beverages or foods, the more severe and long chronic is the toxicity crisis. Heart disease, obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, stomach ulcers, hypertension, cancer, Ms, Alzheimer's, and many other chronic forms of disease are precipitated by years of "body drought." Infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses cannot thrive in a well-hydrated body. Drinking adequate water is therefore one of the most foremost preventives for any disease.
People who do not drink adequate water or unduly deplete their body's water reserves straight 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 volume of water that is found outside the cells. Under dehydrated conditions, the cells may lose up to 28% or more of their water volume. This unquestionably undermines all cellular activities, whether they occur in skin cells, stomach cells, liver cells, kidney cells or heart cells. Whenever there is cellular dehydration, metabolic waste products are retained, causing symptoms that look like disease but in truth are nothing but signs of disturbed water metabolism. Since more and more water begins to acquire outside the cells, the dehydration may not be apparent to the afflicted person; he may in fact notice that he retains water, foremost to swelling of his legs, feet, arms and face. Also his kidneys may begin to hold on to water, markedly reducing urinary secretion and causing keeping of harmful waste material. Even the enzymes and proteins living in the dehydrated cells become so inefficient that they are no longer able to recognize the dehydrated state of the body; they fail to set off the 'thirst alarm'.
Demetria, a 53-year-old Greek woman consulted me to find relief for a painful health of gallbladder disease. Her skin was dark gray, indicating a high attentiveness of toxins in her liver and throughout her body. seeing how dehydrated (and swollen) her body was, I offered her a glass of water. She said: "I never drink water, it makes me sick!" I told her that her natural thirst signals no longer worked because of cellular dehydration and that without drinking water her body could not return to balance. Any water she would drink would right away be used to remove some of the toxins lurking in her stomach, giving rise to nausea. In her case, any other therapy than drinking water would have been a waste of time and money.
A dehydrated someone may also suffer from lack of energy. Due to the shortage of water inside the cell the normal osmotic flow of water straight through the cell membrane becomes disrupted or severely disturbed. Like in a stream, the movement of water into the cells generates "hydroelectric" energy, which is subsequently stored in form of Atp molecules (the main source of cellular energy). Normally, the water we drink keeps the cell volume balanced and the salt we eat maintains the balanced volume of water that is held outside the cells and in circulation; this generates the right osmotic pressure indispensable for cellular nourishment and vigor production. During dehydration, this basic process is undermined.
The Pain Connection
Another major indicator of dehydration in the body is pain. In response to increasing water shortage, the brain activates and shop the foremost neurotransmitter histamine, which directs clear subordinate water regulators to redistribute the amount of water that is in circulation. This principles helps move water to areas where it is needed for basic metabolic performance and survival (from drought). When histamine and its subordinate regulators for water intake and distribution come across pain-sensing nerves in the body, they cause strong and continual pain. These pain signals, as they manifest, for example, in rheumatoid arthritis, angina, dyspepsia, low back problems, neuralgia, migraine, and hangover headaches, etc., are indispensable to alert the someone to attend to the question of normal or local dehydration.
Taking analgesics or other pain relieving medications such as antihistamines or antacids can cause irreversible damage in the body. They not only fail to address the real question (which may be dehydration) but they also cut the association in the middle of the neurotransmitter histamine and its subordinate regulators such as vasopressin, Renin-Angiotensin (Ra), prostaglandin (Pg), and kinins. Although the performance of the pain killing drugs can relax local pain for a while, they nevertheless stop the body from knowing the priority areas for water distribution, adding blurring to all its functions. Antihistamines -- also known as allergy drugs - effectively forestall the body's histamines from ensuring balanced water distribution.
In increasing to jeopardizing the water regulating mechanisms, after reaching a clear pain threshold, painkillers become ineffective because the brain takes over as a direct center for monitoring pain perpetuation (unless of procedure the body is hydrated again). If the body produces pain out of its own accord (not caused straight through an injury), this should first be interpreted as a cry for water. The use of painkillers, which suppress this cardinal signal of chronic and local dehydration in the body and which "short circuit" its crisis routes, sabotages waste elimination and sows the seeds of chronic illness.
There is adequate documentation to show that these drugs can have fatal side effects. They can cause gastrointestinal bleeding, killing thousands each year. Yet the body's natural pain signals are perfectly normal responses to an abnormal situation, which may be uncomplicated dehydration. In the case that a pain is naturally unbearable, the use of painkillers, however, may be unavoidable. At the same time, the pain-afflicted someone should drink plentifulness of fresh water and finish all energy-depleting factors, as these tend to have a strongly dehydrating effect.
'Body Drought' - the Strongest Form of Stress
Our brain, working round the clock, requires more water than any other part of the body. Under normal conditions, it contains about twenty percent of all the blood that circulates straight through the body. It is estimated that brain cells consist of 85 percent water. Their vigor requirements are not only met by metabolizing glucose (simple sugar), but also by generating "hydroelectric" vigor from the water drive straight through cell osmosis. The brain depends greatly on this self-generated source of vigor to claim its complex processes and efficiency.
Water scantness in the brain tissue cut downs its vigor provide and thereby depresses many of its vital functions - hence the word depression. With a low level of brain energy, we are unable to meet our personal and public challenges and subsequently succumb to fear, anxiety, anger and other emotional problems. We may feel drained, lethargic, stressed and depressed. The chronic fatigue syndrome, which is generally known as M.E., is generally a indication of illness of progressive brain dehydration and subsequent keeping of metabolic toxins in the brain. The syndrome may disappear on its own when the afflicted someone stops stimulating the brain with caffeine, tobacco, drugs, animal products, etc., and begins a corollary schedule of re-hydrating the body.
The Stress Response
When dehydrated, the body has to put up the fight of a lifetime -- similar to the one experienced in a "fight or flight" situation. The body meets a crisis situation by mobilizing several suited hormones, along with adrenalin, endorphins, cortisone, prolactin, vasopressin, and Renin-Angiotensin (Ra).
Endorphins, for example, help us to withstand pain and stress and allow the body to continue most of its functions. Cortisone orders the mobilisation of stored energies and indispensable raw materials to provide the body with vigor and basic nutrients During the crisis. In other words, this hormone allows the body to unquestionably feed off itself. This in itself is a very stressful and damaging situation for the body and is expressed by such emotions as, "I can't cope anymore" or, "I feel this is eating at me." Many patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ms or other degenerative diseases take cortisone drugs, which often give them a boost of vigor and morale for a relatively short period of time.
The 'success' of the drug, however, only lasts as long as there are still reserves left in the body that can be mobilized for vigor and nutrient distribution. Once the body has used up its crisis reserves the organism can barely function anymore and the symptoms of disease become worse than ever.
Constriction of blood vessels
When the cells in the body are under-supplied with water, the brain's pituitary gland produces the neurotransmitter vasopressin, a hormone that has the asset of constricting blood vessels in areas where there is cellular dehydration. During dehydration, the quantity of water in the bloodstream is reduced. Vasopressin, as its name suggests, squeezes the vascular system, i.e., the capillaries and arteries, to cut their fluid volume. This maneuver is indispensable to continue having adequate pressure to allow for a steady filtration of water into the cells. This gives vasopressin a hypertensive property. High blood pressure is a common caress among people who are dehydrated. A similar situation occurs in the liver's bile ducts, which begin to constrict in response to restricted availability of water. Gallstone formation is a direct corollary of dehydration.
A someone who drinks alcohol suppresses the secretion of vasopressin and thereby increases cellular dehydration (if alcohol consumption is excessive, cellular dehydration may reach dangerously high levels). To survive the body "drought," the body has to secrete ever more stress hormones, among them the addictive endorphins. With Quarterly consumption of alcohol, meaning every day for several years, dehydration increases even supplementary and endorphin production becomes an addictive habit. This may lead to alcoholism, a disease that has devastating consequences on a person's personal and public life.
Water keeping and Kidney Damage
The Renin-Angiotensin (Ra) principles is activated when there is a water shortage in the body. This principles is used to direct the body to hold on to water wherever possible. It instructs the kidneys to inhibit urination and tightens the capillaries and the vascular system, particularly in areas that are not as vital as the brain and the heart muscles. At the same time, it stimulates an growth in the absorption of sodium (salt), which helps the body to maintain water. Unless the body returns to its normal level of hydration, the Ra principles remains activated. But this also means that the pressure of the blood against the walls of the blood vessels remains abnormally high, causing the damage that is known as cardiovascular disease.
Hypertension and the keeping of urine in the kidneys lead to kidney damage. Approved treatments for this health consist mostly of diuretic (urine forming) drugs and restricted salt consumption. Both may have severe drawbacks. Diuretic drugs, which are used to normalize the blood pressure, as well as reduced salt intake strongly undermine the body's crisis efforts to save the wee water it has left for cell functions. The resulting stress response causes a supplementary growth in dehydration and the vicious cycle is complete. There are so many kidney replacements made today that corollary from chronic dehydration, caused by something as uncomplicated as not drinking adequate water or overstimulation of the nervous system.
The Caffeine and Alcohol Drama
The caffeine contained in such beverages as tea, coffee, cacao or colas not only stimulates the central nervous principles and immune principles but also acts as a strong diuretic. For every cup of coffee or tea you drink you relinquish roughly three cups of water, which the body cannot afford to give up without suffering damage. The caffeine containing cola beverages work in a similar way. Caffeine, being a nerve toxin, stimulates the body's stress hormones and triggers a strong immune response that may give a someone the (false) impression that his level of vigor and vitality has suddenly increased. To remove the nerve toxin caffeine, the body has to come up with extra water, which it takes from its cells. Hence there is an occurrence of cellular dehydration.
Caffeine, which is a major component in most soft drinks, removes water from the body faster than the body can suck up it again, thereby generating constant thirst. People, who often take soft drinks, can never unquestionably quench their thirst because their bodies continually and increasingly run out of cellular water. There are college students who drink as many as 10-14 cans of cola a day. Eventually, they confuse their bodies' never-ending thirst signal with hunger and they begin to overeat, causing swelling and inordinate weight gain. Apart from its diuretic performance and its addictive effects on the brain, Quarterly caffeine intake overstimulates the heart muscles, causing exhaustion and heart disease.
Alcohol has a similar diuretic corollary as caffeine containing beverages. For every glass of beer, for example, the body is forced to cut about three glasses of water. A hangover results when due to alcohol abuse the brain suffers severe dehydration. If this occurs repeatedly, a large amount of brain cells become damaged and die. Many foremost brain functions slow down or become depressed. Salvage is potential to a clear extent if alcohol consumption is discontinued.
Kidney Stones
The main functions of the kidneys are to keep the blood pure and salutary and claim permissible fluid balance in the body. To perform this difficult feat, the kidneys constantly monitor normal blood volume and filter from the blood the right quantity of urine to keep it balanced. There are many influences that can disrupt this mechanism and cause congestion in the kidneys. They consist of overstimulation, dehydration, fatigue, overeating, gallstones, blood pressure disturbance, curative or narcotic drugs, vitamins, digestive disorders, etc. When the kidneys are incapable of sufficiently separating the urine from the blood, part of the urine continues to circulate throughout the body, depositing urinary waste products in the blood vessels, joints, tissues, and organs. Skin diseases, strong body odor, sweating of palms and feet, water retention, intestinal swelling, high blood pressure, etc. Are all signs of toxic blood caused by crystals and stones in the kidneys.
Stones in the kidneys begin as tiny crystals and can at last become as large as an egg. The tiny crystals are too small to be detected by X-rays and since they do not cause pain, they are rarely noticed yet they are big adequate to block the flow of liquid straight through the tiny kidney tubules. Crystals or stones are formed in the kidneys when urinary constituents, which commonly in solution, are precipitated. Precipitation occurs when these particles occur in inordinate amounts or when urine becomes too concentrated. The crystal particles or stones are commonly full of sharp angles, which may cut and wear away the inner outside of the urinary canal (ureter) During their duct from the kidneys to the bladder. This causes severe pain in the loins or lower back. There may even be blood in the urine, pain running down the legs, deadness in the thighs and a strangeness in passing urine.
Most crystals or stones generate in the kidneys, although some may also be formed in the bladder. If a large stone enters a ureter, urine flow becomes obstructed. This can lead to serious complications, such as kidney infection or kidney failure.
Why The Need For A Kidney Cleanse?
The kidneys make a expansive endeavor in trying to keep the body clear of toxic substances such as lead, cadmium, mercury and other impassable pollutants. They also claim fluid and electrolyte balance and regulate the pressure from the heart that military the blood straight through their filtering system. Kidney stones greatly impair this ability, which consequently increases the amounts of heavy metals and raises the body's normal level of toxicity. This can lead to infection, high blood pressure, heart disease, brain disorders, cancer and many other diseases.
The following signs indicate the proximity of crystals and stones in the kidneys or bladder: A dark or whitish color under the eyes; puffy or swollen eyes, particularly in the morning; deep wrinkles under and around the eyes; tiny whitish, tan-colored or dark lumps under the eyes, which can be felt or made illustrated when stretching the skin outwards towards the cheekbones; overlapping of the skin of the upper eyelid; chronic pain in the lower back; swelling of feet and legs; constant fear or anxiety. There are a amount of herbs that can effectively dissolve kidney stones within a period of 20-30 days. whether someone has been diagnosed as having kidney stones or not, doing a kidney cleanse once or twice a year produces expansive curative and preventive benefits. The kidney cleanse not only improves bodily health but also reduces stress, fear and anxieties.
Dangers of Dehydration - And The point of Kidney Cleansing
