Water: For Health, For Healing, For Life (5 page)
BASICS OF NEW MEDICINE FOR THE NEXT FEW THOUSAND YEARS
As I explained earlier, it is
water
(solvent) that regulates all the functions of the body, including the action of all the
solids
(solutes) that water carries around. This paradigm shift is a breakthrough in the fundamentals of medical science. This shift of attention is the key to a radically different approach to all disciplines of science in the future, including the basics of medicine and biochemistry. This new focus will ultimately change the structure of thought in research in any discipline of science.
What follows is a bird's-eye view of the scientific importance of this paradigm shift in medicine. It may take years before the profoundness of its ramifications can reach the public, but the change is unavoidable. The new paradigm can explain the cause of and show cures for so many “disease conditions” that it will make mainstream medicine of 2003 look ridiculous.
There are many reasons why we need to pay serious attention to our daily water intake. Here are some of them.
FORTY-SIX REASONS WHY YOUR BODY NEEDS WATER EVERY DAY
1.Without water, nothing lives.
2.Comparative shortage of water first suppresses and eventually kills some aspects of the body.
3.Water is the main source of energy—it is the “cash flow” of the body.
4.Water generates electrical and magnetic energy inside each and every cell of the body—it provides the power to live.
5.Water is the bonding adhesive in the architectural design of the cell structure.
6.Water prevents DNA damage and makes its repair mechanisms more efficient—less abnormal DNA is made.
7.Water increases greatly the efficiency of the immune system in the bone marrow, where the immune system is formed (all its mechanisms)—including its efficiency against cancer.
8.Water is the main solvent for all foods, vitamins, and minerals. It is used in the breakdown of food into smaller particles and their eventual metabolism and assimilation.
9.Water energizes food, and food particles are then able to supply the body with this energy during digestion. This is why food without water has absolutely no energy value for the body.
10.Water increases the body's rate of absorption of essential substances in food.
11.Water is used to transport all substances inside the body.
12.Water increases the efficiency of red blood cells in collecting oxygen in the lungs.
13.When water reaches a cell, it brings the cell oxygen and takes the waste gases to the lungs for disposal.
14.Water clears toxic waste from different parts of the body and takes it to the liver and kidneys for disposal.
15.Water is the main lubricant in the joint spaces and helps prevents arthritis and back pain.
16.Water is used in the spinal discs to make them “shock-absorbing water cushions.”
17.Water is the best lubricating laxative and prevents constipation.
18.Water helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
19.Water prevents clogging of arteries in the heart and the brain.
20.Water is essential for the body's cooling (sweat) and heating (electrical) systems.
21.Water gives us power and electrical energy for all brain functions, most particularly thinking.
22.Water is directly needed for the efficient manufacture of all neurotransmitters, including serotonin.
23.Water is directly needed for the production of all hormones made by the brain, including melatonin.
24. Water can help prevent attention deficit disorder in children and adults.
25. Water increases efficiency at work; it expands your attention span.
26. Water is a better pick-me-up than any other beverage in the world—and it has no side effects.
27. Water helps reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.
28. Water restores normal sleep rhythms.
29. Water helps reduce fatigue—it gives us the energy of youth.
30. Water makes the skin smoother and helps decrease the effects of aging.
31. Water gives luster and shine to the eyes.
32. Water helps prevent glaucoma.
33. Water normalizes the blood-manufacturing systems in the bone marrow—it helps prevent leukemia and lymphoma.
34. Water is absolutely vital for making the immune system more efficient in different regions to fight infections and cancer cells where they are formed.
35. Water dilutes the blood and prevents it from clotting during circulation.
36. Water decreases premenstrual pains and hot flashes.
37. Water and heartbeats create the dilution and waves that keep things from sedimenting in the bloodstream.
38. The human body has no stored water to draw on during dehydration. This is why you must drink regularly and throughout the day.
39. Dehydration prevents sex hormone production—one of the primary causes of impotence and loss of libido.
40. Drinking water separates the sensations of thirst and hunger.
41. To lose weight, water is the best way to go—drink water on time and lose weight without much dieting. Also, you will not eat excessively when you feel hungry but are in fact only thirsty for water.
42. Dehydration causes deposits of toxic sediments in the tissue spaces, joints, kidneys, liver, brain, and skin. Water will clear these deposits.
43. Water reduces the incidence of morning sickness in pregnancy.
44. Water integrates mind and body functions. It increases ability to realize goals and purpose.
45. Water helps prevent the loss of memory as we age. It helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and Lou Gehrig's disease.
46. Water helps reverses addictive urges, including those for caffeine, alcohol, and some drugs.
SOME OF THE PRIMARY PROPERTIES AND FUNCTIONS OF WATER IN THE BODY
1. Water is the bulk material that fills empty spaces in the body.
2. Water is the vehicle of transport for the circulation of blood cells.
3. Water is a solvent for the materials that dissolve in it, including oxygen.
4. Water is the adhesive that binds solid parts of the cell together. Just as ice has a sticky effect, so water seems to become sticky at the cell membrane. It is responsible for holding things together and forming a membrane or protective barrier around the cell.
5. The neurotransmission systems of the brain and nerves depend on rapid movement of sodium and potassium in and out of the membrane along the full length of the nerves. Water that is loose and not bonded with something else is free to move across the cell membrane and turn the element-moving pumps.
6. Some of the element-moving pumps are voltage-generating pumps. Thus, efficiency of neurotransmission systems depends on the availability of free and unengaged water in the nerve tissues. In its osmotic urge to get into the cell, water generates energy by turning the pump units that force potassium into the cell and push sodium outside the cell—just as water turns the turbines at a hydroelectric dam to make electricity. Up to now, however, it has been assumed that all energy storage in adenosine triphosphate (ATP)—the substance that “burns” and gives out “heat” to “cook” any of the chemical reactions required for the cell to function—is from food intake. This is why water has not received much attention as a source of energy in the energy-generating systems in the body.
7. Water is the central regulator of energy and osmotic balance in the body. Sodium and potassium stick to the protein of the pump and act as the “magnet of the dynamo” when water rotates the pump proteins. The rapid turn of these cation (pronounced
cation)
pumps generates energy that is stored at many different locations in three different pool types.
ATP is one type of energy pool. Another energy storage pool is guanosine triphosphate (GTP). A third system is in the endoplasmic reticulum that captures and traps calcium. For every two units of calcium that are trapped, the energy equivalent of one unit of ATP is stored in the connection of the two calcium atoms. For every two units of calcium that are separated from one another and released, one unit of energy—to make a new unit of ATP—is also released. This mechanism of calcium entrapment as a means of energy storage makes the bone structure of the body not only its scaffolding but also its Fort Knox—like investment of your cash in gold reserve. Hence, when there is severe dehydration—and consequently a decreased supply of hydroelectric energy—the body taps into the bones for their stored energy. Thus, I believe that the primary cause of osteoporosis is persistent dehydration.
8. The foods we eat are the products of energy conversion from the initial electrical-energy-generating property of water. All living and growing species, humans included, survive as a result of energy generation from water. One major problem in the scientific evaluation of the body is the lack of understanding of the magnitude of our body's dependence on energy from hydroelectricity.
9. The electricity produced at the cell membrane also forces the nearby proteins to align themselves and get ready for their chemical reactions.
Blood is normally about 94 percent water when the body is fully hydrated (red cells are actually “water bags” that contain the colored hemoglobin). Inside the cells of the body, there should ideally be about 75 percent water. Because of this difference in water levels outside and inside the cells, an osmotic flow of water into the cells normally occurs. There are hundreds of thousands of voltage-generating pump units at the cell membranes, much like the turbines used in hydroelectric dams. The water that flows through them rotates these pumps. This rush of water creates hydroelectric energy. At the same time, and as part of the same process, elements such as sodium and potassium are exchanged.
Only water that is free and can move about—the water you drink—generates hydroelectric energy at the cell membrane. The previously supplied water that is now busy with other functions cannot leave its binding position to rush elsewhere. This is why water by itself should be considered the most suitable pick-me-up beverage and should be consumed at regular intervals during the day. The good thing about water as a source of energy is the fact that any excess water is passed out of the body. It manufactures the needed energy to top up the reserves in the cells and then leaves the body (carrying with it the toxic waste of the cells). It is not stored.
When there is dehydration because a person is not drinking enough water, the cells become depleted of their ready energy. They then have to depend more on energy generation from food that is consumed instead of water. In this situation, the body is pushed into storing fat and using its protein and starch reserves, because it is easier to break these elements down than the stored fat. This is the reason why 37 percent of people in America are grossly overweight. Their bodies are engaged in perpetual crisis management of dehydration.
The word
hydrolysis
(loosening, dissolving, breaking, or splitting by the participating action of water) is used when water becomes involved in the metabolism of other materials. Activities that depend on hydrolysis include the breakdown of a protein into the different amino acids that have been used to make that particular protein, and the breakdown of large fatty particles into smaller fatty acid units. Without water, hydrolysis cannot take place. It follows, then, that the hydrolytic function of water also constitutes the metabolism of water itself. What this means is that water itself needs to be broken down first— hydrolyzed—before the body can use the various components in food. This is why we need to supply the body with water before we eat solid foods.
WATER REGULATION OF A FETUS AND AN INFANT
From the very moment of conception, when the father's sperm fuses with the mother's egg to form a single-cell unit of life, that cell has to divide, and divide, and divide millions of times over to develop into a form that can firmly connect itself to the uterine wall. By the time it grows to be a full-term baby, about a trillion cell divisions will have taken place. For this to happen, it has to impose a water-regulatory pattern for its needs on the mother's water-intake systems. Remember, each new cell that forms has to be filled up mainly with water. All of a sudden, the mother has to take in more water to supply the growing demands of the child. Even when the child is born, the mother has to provide the water needs of the infant through her milk-manufacturing system. The mother's breast is both a sort of water fountain for her child and a source of food.