Water as a Healer

By Walter Sorochan  Emeritus Professor: San Diego State University.

Posted February 1, 2015;  
Disclaimer: The information provided below is intended for educational purposes only. It is not meant to either directly or indirectly give medical advice nor prescribe treatment, or as a substitute for consulting licensed medical health care professionals.  You should always work with a qualified health professional.

This researcher-author became intrigued about the healing affects of water when he stumbled on Fareydoon Batmanghelidj's articles on the internet.  The claims made by this doctor were too good to be true. The author investigated the documentation supporting the doctor's claims.  He was shocked to discover that a great amount of information about water was personal opinion and was not backed up by research or documentation.

This research-author read two of the doctor's books and numerous articles about the importance of drinking ample amounts of water.  In reading the many, many other articles about the affects water can have on our health, he was looking for scientific medical information to back up Dr. Batmanghelidj's claims about water.  The more he reviewed, the more complicated the water issue became.

The shocker is that most persons are probably dehydrated and don't know it.  Dehydration is often silent and the initial symptoms not visible; like an addiction, you may have it but not able to recognize being in trouble!

Four big ideas about water and humans: 

 1. we need to drink a lot of water everyday;
 2. not drinking enough water can cause dehydration;
 3. dehydration can cause many health problems, disorders and diseases;
 4. water needs to be balanced by salt. 

Well, you knew most of this but you probably don't know all you need to know. For example, that the body can gradually lapse into dehydration and you may not be aware of it.



As we get older, we tend to lose our ability to sense and recognize that we need to immediately drink more water.  And that one needs to ingest salt to help water do its job .... this information is the opposite of being told that salt is bad for you!  Hopefully this article will keep it simple and clarify information about the "essentials of water and good health!"Keep in mind that this article focuses on the consequences of dehydration or lack of water and not all the other properties of water.

Before plunging into Dr. Batmanghelidj's theory about water cure, it will be helpful to become aware of basic human physiology and how the human body works.

Basics of human body and water: The human body is a water machine, designed to run primarily on water, amino acids and minerals. From a common sense point of view, if we are made up of plain water, then naturally the quality of the water we consume will have a very dramatic impact on our overall state of health. Every healing and life giving process that happens in our body happens through water!

The human body is 99% water.  Water facilitates all metabolic processes.  Every function in the body is monitored by the brain and connected to the efficient flow of water. The brain is 2 % of the total body weight but receives about 20% of blood circulation.  The brain, made up of 85% water, has first priority for water.  When the brain is short of water or dehydrated, water that would normally flow to other parts of the body, like extremities, is shut off. One can feel faint or dizzy when this happens.  The heart has the second priority for being hydrated, thereafter the liver and kidneys. Indeed, every cell in the body is part of the body's monitoring for water on a priority basis.  The body is constantly reacting to the amount of water in the cells.  When the body gets dehydrated, then the brain robs Peter to pay Paul [ so to speak ];  water is redistributed on a priority basis.  This is not common knowledge!

Another essential information to keep in mind is that the body heals all diseases at same time.   The body heals everything all at once! This may explain why some healing takes takes longer than another. [ This is a new medical information. ]  But .... one needs to drink a lot of water at the proper time, with a pinch of sea salt, for water to act as a healer.  Batmanghelidj Water cures

Functions of Water in the Body:

  1. Water provides a fluid that dissolves minerals to form electrolytes that, in turn, generate electricity for the body cells 
  2. Water oxygenates your blood 
  3. Water helps make lymph fluid 
  4. Water lubricates your eyes and makes saliva to keep your mouth clean 
  5. Water helps you digest your food 
  6. Water prevents and treats common chronic ailments 
  7. Water lubricates the joints 
  8. Water helps you sleep; the brain needs water to produce melatonin that helps you sleep
  9. Water ensures that your body produces adequate amounts of blood cells and , and that they circulate appropriately to fight
10. Water makes immune cells that help immune system to work [Leukemia, lymphoma]
11. Water transports nutrients 
12. Water flushes out wastes and toxins

The body has two kinds of water:  The first is water that is already in use, is already committed and cannot be used for new functions.  Think of this water as being married to the cells of the body and committed to carrying out existing functions of the body.  

The second type of water is free or new water that is needed to perform new functions and replenish all body cells.  Organ cells, such as lungs, digestive system and skin, lose water by expiration, defecation, urination, and sweating.  Cells also need new water to create enzymes, hormones and other body substances like energy producing ATP in cells. Water has energy and transmits it to body cells.  Water is more than just a liquid!

There are many other properties of water that are not discussed in this article, such as: H20;  Dr. Masaru Emoto and Water Crystals;  Pollack: Book 4 Phases of Water ( to Gilbert Ling, who taught me that water in the cell is nothing like water in a glass; whose courage has been a continuing inspiration. ) 

Foods-beverages causing dehydration:  New water intake is different from other beverages such as coffee, soft drinks and fruit drinks.  Coffee and soft drinks contain caffeine and sugar or corn syrup and these beverages act as diuretics and cause dehydration. Rich proteins such as meats, fats and many drugs also cause dehydration.

Dehydration Symptoms in Adults:  

WebMD: Dehydration

The signs and symptoms of dehydration may range from minor to severe and include:

•Increased thirst
•Dry mouth and swollen tongue
•Weakness
•Dizziness
•Palpitations (feeling that the heart is jumping or pounding)
•Confusion
•Sluggishness fainting
•Fainting
•Inability to sweat
•Decreased urine output
•Urine yellow or amber color

Classic example of dehydration is a drinking alcohol hangover.  Alcohol is a diuretic and water has to be replenished by sapping it from muscles and other organs – like your brain. This causes a headache!

Water Cure Theory: Batmanghelidj claims that shortage of water in different areas of the body will cause varying symptoms, signals and complications that we sense or feel; such as pain, inflammation, thirst, itching, headache, shortness of breath, heartburn and fatigue.  His main contention is that lacking water for a long time [chronic dehydration] causes the cells to react [compensation]; thereby causing chronic disorders and diseases like asthma, arthritis, constipation, high blood pressure, cancer, stress, depression, excess weight, obesity, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and other problems.

The main theory is that many if not most of these health problems can be treated with the right amount of water at the proper time.  His prime example is having successfully treated over 3,000 people in Iran suffering from peptic ulcer disease with only water. This water therapy was published as the main editorial of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983, and also reported in the SCIENCE WATCH (Science Times) of the New York Times,  June 21, 1983.  Water completely reverses many illness-disease conditions in a matter of days or months.  No drugs ... just plain water!   In virtually every health problem dehydration is perceived as a factor ....  not necessarily the cause but certainly a major factor.  Batmanghelidj water treats ulcer 1983  

There are now many medical doctors and scientists that support the water cure theory of Batmanghelidj. For example, Komsomolets: Water cures cancer 2006  Rogers: water good health  Lam: Dehydration 2009 ;  Peregrine: water-salt cure 2008.

Biography of F. Batmanghelidj, M.D

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D., an internationally renowned researcher, author and advocate of the natural healing power of water, was born in Iran in 1931. He attended Fettes College in Scotland and was a graduate of St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School of London University, where he studied under Sir Alexander Fleming, who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin.

Dr. Batmanghelidj practiced medicine in the United Kingdom before returning to Iran where he played a key role in the development of hospitals and medical centers. He also helped establish sport projects for youth in Iran, including The Ice Palace in Tehran, the first ice skating and sports complex in the Middle East.

When the Iranian Revolution broke out in 1979, Dr. Batmanghelidj was placed in the infamous Evin Prison as a political prisoner for two years and seven months. It was there he discovered the healing powers of water. One night, Dr. B. had to treat a fellow prisoner with crippling peptic ulcer pain. With no medications at his disposal, Dr. B. gave him two glasses of water. Within eight minutes, his pain disappeared. He was instructed to drink two glasses of water every three hours and became absolutely pain free for his four remaining months in the prison. Dr. B. successfully treated 3,000 fellow prisoners suffering from stress-induced peptic ulcer disease with water alone. While in prison he conducted extensive research into the medicinal effects of water in preventing and relieving many painful degenerative diseases. Evin proved an ideal “stress laboratory,” and despite his being offered an earlier release, Dr. B. chose to stay an extra four months in prison to complete his research into the relationship of dehydration and bleeding peptic ulcer disease. The report of his findings was published as the editorial of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983. The New York Times Science Watch reported this discovery on June 21, 1983.

On his release from prison in 1982, Dr. Batmanghelidj escaped from Iran and came to America. At the Foundation for the Simple in Medicine he began to research the effect of chronic unintentional dehydration on the human body. His findings were published in the Foundation’s “Journal of Science in Medicine Simplified” in 1991 and 1992. They can be read on the web site www.watercure.com.

Dr. F. Batmaghelidj wrote his first self-help book “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water” in 1992, in which he stated that a dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of dehydration. The body signals its water shortage by producing pain. Dehydration actually produces pain and many degenerative diseases, including asthma, arthritis, hypertension, angina, adult-onset diabetes, lupus and multiple sclerosis. Dr. B’s message to the world is, “You are not sick, you are thirsty. Don’t treat thirst with medication.”


Dr. F. Batmanghelidj devoted the last 20 years of his life promoting public awareness of the healing powers of water. He appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs and lectured around the world. He has left a body of valuable works of six books and more than a dozen educational audio and video seminars. His work has created an international community that has embraced the natural healing of the water cure. His ground-breaking book “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water” has been translated into 15 languages and continues to inspire readers all over the world.

UCD: A New Medical Discovery

"It Is Unintentional Chronic Dehydration That Causes Pain and Disease, Including Cancer In The Body

This information had been methodically and fraudulently concealed until now!"
F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.

Dear Friend:

At Last: We Can Now Cure Pain and Prevent Disease -- Naturally -- At No Cost:

My ground-breaking medical discovery reveals the missing natural element that prevents -- even cures -- the body’s painful degenerative diseases -- naturally and at no cost!

I am honored and proud to inform you that my research over 18 years -- in addition to my medical training and subsequent 33 years as a doctor -- has exposed the simplest natural cure to a vast number of health problems.

I invite you to read this report in its entirety. Read about my discovery, and in the light of the new information, learn how to become your own healer and cure your own health problems naturally -- I repeat, at no cost! Become your own diagnostician and doctor during these health care crisis times -- when you need to take charge of your own health and well-being. Also, you will discover:

•Why we in medicine were not able to permanently cure any of the painful degenerative diseases -- until now. And why we have frequently made deadly mistakes that add more pain, suffering, and irreversible complications in the process!

•Why we constantly had to experiment using different chemicals in the futile hope of finding something that would work -- and nothing has worked until now! Look at the spiraling health care costs every year.

•Why the drug companies have had to produce so many chemicals that are now proven to make 2,000,000 sicker and have killed over 100,000 annually -- even when used according to their manufacturers’ recommendations! Judge for yourself how vulnerable we have become! The Washington Post of Wednesday, April 15, 1998 quotes the Journal of the American Medical Association:"One in 15 hospital patients in the United States can expect to suffer from a prescription or over-the-counter medicine, and about 5 percent of these will die as a result!" You should know that 1 in every 4 hospital admissions are said to be due to the side effects of routinely used prescription drugs.

•Why all of this is about to change, and with what mind-boggling simplicity!

What you are going to find out may at first sound too good to be true! This newly uncovered "ultimate cure" is so simple you will wonder why it has not been discovered until now! But I will prove every word you are about to read. I will also tell you why I think the drug industry has concealed this information when asking trusting physicians to prescribe its medications.

What you will discover in this letter is that we in medicine are trained to use chemicals to treat pain and disease when all the body needs is water -- a simple and abundantly available natural element.

Yes! Only water!

This is the reason why we in medicine have made so many deadly mistakes! We are routinely treating symptoms, signs and complications of drought in the body with toxic chemicals that kill more rapidly than the dehydration itself!

Who in his/her right mind would want to take toxic chemicals when all that their body needs is water -- free water -- natural water, the ultimate medication of choice to cure pain and prevent disease?
The commercial "sick-care" system and the drug industry do not want you to know that in most health problems you are only thirsty and not sick!

They survive and thrive if we remain ignorant of the knowledge of the different ways our bodies show we are thirsty -- that we are suffering from local or regional drought. When there is shortage of water, some parts of the body are forced to go without water. In this report, you will get to know how the drought-stricken parts reflect dehydration, and how you can recognize that you are truly thirsty. You will recognize why "dry mouth" is not a sign of thirst, but why different pains are!

Understanding dehydration will empower you to become much healthier and live longer. There is more to it than just drinking water. You will need to invest a little bit of your time and concentration and begin to understand the subject. You might think: "I now know I need to drink water; that is enough." But you knew that all along. What you did not know -- and need to know -- is why and what happens if you too become forgetful and complacent, like millions of others who did not drink water until they got seriously sick -- with this or that disease -- but actually died of dehydration. Also remember, the body is not a container that can be replenished when empty. When dehydration has become symptom-producing, the reversal of its complications take time and understanding. This is the information you need.

The fundamentals of the information you have in your hands have been scientifically peer-reviewed and presented at different national and international medical conferences -- and published in scientific journals. You are receiving this information directly because the AMA and The National Institutes of Health -- that you fund with your tax dollars and believe they are working for you -- have so far refused to tell the American people they were wrong in their past assumptions about the cause of pain and disease in the human body.

Now that I am at it, and before we get into the meat of this report, let me first give you some background information, and then tell you a true story that will dispel any illusions you may have had about the drug companies being on your side!

As you will learn, I have the scientific distinction of having successfully treated with only water over 3,000 people suffering from peptic ulcer disease. My report of this event was published as the main editorial of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983, and also reported in the SCIENCE WATCH (Science Times) of the New York Times, Tuesday, June 21, 1983.

To me as a clinician, it became obvious that these people were suffering from a "thirst problem" and the label of "disease" is something we have concocted because we have not understood that pain and local damage can be one of the ways that persistent drought in the body shows itself.


One day, at a meeting held in the office of Professor Howard Spiro of Yale University, I made this view known. Professor Gregory Eastwood, who was then head of the department of gastroenterology at the University of Massachusetts, and who is now dean of a prestigious medical school, asked me if I could prove this view scientifically. I said I could.



by Mike Adams
A NaturalNews Special Report
from NaturalNews Website

About This Interview
You've been reading from an exclusive interview with Dr. Batmanghelidj, author of Water For Health, For Healing, For Life.
Dr. B. is also the founder of the National Association for Honesty in Medicine and author of, Your Body's Many Cries For Water.
Look for his new, upcoming book, “Obesity, Cancer and Depression: Their Common Cause and Actual Cure.”
Learn more about Dr. B. at www.watercure.com

Physicians rarely promote the curative properties of H2O, but Dr. Batmanghelidj, M.D. has studied water's effect on the human body and has found it to be one of the best pain relievers and preventative therapies in existence.

I was one of the last people to interview the late Dr. Batmanghelidj, and I listened in awe as he shared his research and stories about "The Healing Power of Water."

In a fascinating one-hour phone conversation, Dr. B. shares:
•Which common ailments and "diseases" are actually caused by dehydration
•Why many doctors use water-regulating antihistamines to alleviate pain
•How Dr. Batmanghelidj unintentionally discovered water's healing properties
•Why most people are chronically dehydrated and suffer from symptoms of dehydration that are labeled "diseases"
•Which ingredients in soft drinks deplete the body's water reserves
•Why thirst is not a reliable indicator of dehydration
•Why the body produces cholesterol and how water keeps it in balance
•Why Dr. Batmanghelidj believes the public is being mislead about AIDS
•How dehydration impairs mental functioning
•Why some organizations want to withhold alternative health information from the public
•How lack of water causes depression
•Why popular beverages are no substitute for water
•How dehydration causes the vascular system to constrict, leading to hypertension
•How to recognize signs that your body is starting to dehydrate
•Why restaurants push you to drink disease-promoting soft drinks
•Why and how water effectively treats pain and inflammation


Discovery of the water cure

Mike: Welcome everyone, this is Mike Adams with Truth Publishing, and today I’m very excited to be welcoming Dr. Batmanghelidj, author of Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. Welcome, Dr. Batmanghelidj (Dr. B).

Dr. B: Thank you very much for inviting me to be on the air with you and giving me the opportunity of sharing my thoughts on the future of medicine in this country.


Mike: I think there are many, many people who have read your books. People are intrigued by the idea that water can be a therapy, a healing substance for the human body. What is it about water? How did you first become aware of these healing properties of water?

Dr. B: Well, it’s very bizarre. As you know, I’m a regular doctor, an M.D. I had the honor and the privilege of being selected as one of the house doctors, and I had the extreme honor of being one of the last students of Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. I mention his name so that you know I was immersed in medical school and research.

And some years later, I had to give two glasses of water to a person who was doubled up in abdominal pain from his disease, because I had no other medication to give him at that moment. And he was in excruciating pain, and water performed miraculous relief for him.

It gave him relief - within three minutes his pain diminished, and within eight minutes it disappeared completely, whereas he was doubled up eight minutes before and he couldn’t even walk, he completely recovered from that situation. And he started beaming from ear to ear, very happy, asked me what happens if the pain comes back?

I said,
         “Well, drink more water.”

Then I decided to instruct him to drink two glasses of water every three hours. Which he did, and that was the end of his ulcer pains for the rest of the duration that he was with me.


Mike: And from that episode then, what happened next?

Dr. B: That woke me up, because in medical school I’d never heard that water could cure pain, that kind of pain, in fact. And so I had the occasion to test water as a medication in subsequently over 3,000 similar cases. And water proved every time to be an effective medication. I came away from that experience with the understanding that these people were all thirsty, and that thirst in the body can manifest itself in the form of abdominal pain to the level that the person can even become semi-conscious, because that’s the experience I had. And water picks them up every time.

So when I came to America in 1982, I went to the University of Pennsylvania, where I was invited to continue my research, and did research in the pain-relieving properties of water.

I asked myself, why does the pharmaceutical industry insist on using antihistamines for this kind of pain medication? So I started researching the role of histamine in the body, and the answer was there - histamine is a neurotransmitter in charge of water regulation and the drought management programs of the body. When it manifests pain, in fact, it is indicating dehydration.

So, the body does manifest dehydration in the form of pain. Now, depending on where dehydration is settled, you feel pain there. Very simple, and I presented this concept at the international conference as the guest lecturer of a conference on cancer, explaining that the human body manifests dehydration by producing pain, and pain is a sign of water shortage in the body, and water shortage is actually the background to most of the health problems in our society.

Because if you look at what the pharmaceutical industry is doing, they’re producing so many different antihistamines as medication. Antidepressant drugs are antihistamines, pain medication are antihistamines, other medications are directly and indirectly antihistamines.

So, that is when my work was published, the scientific secretariat of the 3rd Interscience Board Conference of Inflammation invited me to make this presentation on histamine at their conference in 1989, in Monte Carlo. And I did that, and so it became a regular understanding that histamine is a water regulator in the body.

But unfortunately, this information is not reaching the public through the medical community because it’s not a money-maker.

So that’s when I began to consider writing for the public, so that the public could become aware of the problem directly without the interference of a doctor, and that’s how I have generated all my medical information for the public.

Of course, I have published extensively for the scientific community, but no one is picking up. In fact, the NIH, the Office of Alternative Medicine, had its first conference when the office was created, and I was asked to make my presentation, but when the proceedings of the conference came out, my presentation was censored after the proceedings.

So there is a movement afoot within the NIH group of people to keep a closed lid on my information so that it doesn’t get out, because obviously they are more in favor of the drug industry, because it is now obvious that they are getting paid by them.


Mike: I think it is, first of all, that is an amazing account of what has been happening, and I think it is fair to say, too, that the pharmaceutical industry and organized medicine in general, really doesn’t want to promote anything that is free or near-free to the average patient.

Sunlight is available at no charge, water is available at nearly no charge - would you agree that their thinking is if people can cure their diseases, and achieve a high state of health on their own with these free substances, then that diminishes their profits and their importance?

Dr. B: Absolutely. That’s why I’ve created an organization now called National Association for Honesty in Medicine.

Because I think it’s totally dishonest, in fact, criminal, to treat a person who is just thirsty, and give them toxic medication so that he gets sick and dies earlier than normal.


Mike: Can you give out the web address to that organization, by the way?

Dr. B: My website is http://www.watercure.com - it gives you the option of going to one site or the other - either Water Cure.com, or you can go the National Association for Honesty in Medicine.

Or you can go to the information side of my website, http://www.watercure.com, because I have posted all of my scientific articles on dehydration on the website, and lots of other free information that people can have.


AIDS and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Mike: I want to applaud what I call your scientific curiosity.

I think this is the kind of curiosity that has been lost in so much of western medicine, where a true scientist observes nature and observes the interaction between humans and nature, and remains curious and open and to all possibilities, and then forms conclusions after rigorous testing, and I think so much of modern science has drawn erroneous conclusions without really remaining open-minded...

Dr. B: Yes, one of the worst ones is AIDS. Because everyone assumes that AIDS is actually a viral disease, which is a fraudulent statement by those people who presented it, because the human body is the product of many, many years of having fought various viral diseases, and has survived.

Smallpox, polio, measles, and all the other viruses that can kill very easily, and the body has an ability to mount a defense system against these hot viruses, viruses that actually very quickly can kill. But having survived those, how is it possible that the slow virus would kill us in the name of AIDS? I can’t understand it.

I have researched this topic extensively, and I have shown in fact that AIDS is a metabolic problem, when the body begins to cannibalize its own tissue because of certain missing elements in the raw materials that it receives through food or beverages, and the body of a person who gets AIDS, actually, is short of quite a number of building block amino acids. They’re short of tyrosine, they’re short of methionine, cysteine, they’re short of histidine, and they’ve got a whole lot of others in excess.

So how can we expect a body that depends on the other amino acids to survive?


Mike: Once again we see AIDS is a huge industry for the pharmaceutical industry.

Dr. B: Well, of course it is, and the whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so.


Cholesterol
Dr. B: Another false science is the question of cholesterol.

Cholesterol is one of the most essential elements in the survival of the human body. When the body begins to make more cholesterol, it has a reason to do that. It is certainly not to block the arteries of the heart, because we measure the level of cholesterol in the body in the blood we take out of the veins of the body, and nowhere in the history of medicine is there recorded one single case of cholesterol ever having blocked the veins of the body.

So, it is not the stickiness of the cholesterol that is the problem, which the drug industry is drumming it into the minds of people - cholesterol is sticky, reduce it otherwise you will have blockage of your arteries, which is all nonsense. Cholesterol is actually saving the lives of people, because cholesterol is a bandage, a waterproof bandage that the body has designed.

When the blood becomes concentrated and acidic, and is being rushed through constricted arteries or capillaries, in dehydration, then abrasions and tears are produced in the arterial system, naturally, in the capillaries of the heart first.

Now if cholesterol wasn’t there to cover up the tear and abrasions, blood would get under the membrane and peel it off and that person would be dead instantly. Cholesterol is actually an interim lifesaver, giving the body time to recover from its problems. We never understood this. We are knee-jerk doctors. We think that something’s up, bring it down, if something’s down, bring it up.

We don’t ask questions why is it down or why is it up?


Mike: And the pharmaceutical companies know that treating cholesterol is a huge industry...

Dr. B: It’s a ten-billion dollar industry. Now there is a report that actually these statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs produce amnesia. In other words, the brain totally loses track of what it’s doing, and it is published by a doctor who is an eminent doctor.

He was a flight surgeon, he is a researcher at NASA. And he knows what he’s talking about.

He had the problem himself.


Mike: I just wanted to comment on the number of side effects that have been recorded as side effects from using statin drugs. Some people have extreme muscular pain, that amnesia you mentioned seems to be very common, and yet a study just came out, I saw it this morning, talking about how blueberries have phytonutrients that are shown to lower so-called fatty cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, more powerfully than statin drugs.

Dr. B: It’s interesting, because you see, the body manufactures cholesterol as an emergency situation, when it raises the level of its production.

Its normal rate of production is of course is to create membranes for the cell membranes and brain cells and nerve insulation and of course the hormones of the body, vitamin D for the body. So these are the essential components that cholesterol makes in the body.

We should never interfere with cholesterol without knowing why the body has starting raising its level.


No substitute for water
Mike: I have a question for you on water - a lot of people think that they are hydrating themselves when they consume soft drinks or milk or Gatorade or all these other liquid beverages…

Dr. B: Gatorade is possibly okay, but Gatorade has sugar in it, and it's not particularly good for people who might even get hypoglycemic, or might induce insulin secretion, and that insulin secretion will produce more hunger and they overeat.

But as a temporary sport drink, it's okay when you're in the middle of a golf game to drink a Gatorade. It immediately gives you a bit of the minerals that you probably will have lost sweating.

But nothing substitutes for water - not a thing. No drink - no coffee, no tea, no alcoholic beverages. Not even fruit juices. Each one of them has its own agenda. Your body is used to a fluid that has no agenda, because the body depends on the freedom of that fluid, water, because there are two kinds of water in the body.

There is already occupied and engaged water, which is no good for new function. The body needs new water, or free water, to perform new functions. Now, when you give them sugar containing beverages, or caffeine containing beverages, both sugar and caffeine have their own chemical agenda in the body.

They defeat the purpose of the need for water.


Mike: You're also talking about soft drinks here…

Dr. B: I'm talking about soft drinks, I'm talking about sodas, I'm talking about caffeine containing coffee or tea. I'm also talking about alcohol, because alcohol actually stops the emergency water supply systems to the important cells, such as the brain cells. In the reverse osmosis process your body filters and injects water into the cells, and this is what I call reverse osmosis.

And it has to raise the blood pressure for that in order to overcome the osmotic pull of water out of the cells, and reinject water into the cells. That's why we develop high-blood pressure in dehydration.

And this process of reverse osmosis is stopped by alcohol. It stops the filter system.


Chronic Disease Caused by Lack of Water
Mike: Let me start this next section by asking you about the correlation between water consumption and chronic disease.

There are many diseases you mention in your books that are related to dehydration. I wonder if you can give our readers a brief of what the major diseases are and why they are aggravated or promoted by chronic dehydration.

Dr. B: Certainly, Mike. I have written a book called Water Cures and Drugs Kill. ( Paperback – November 1, 2003)It's a book that explains why dehydration is the cause of pain and disease, and how the pharmaceutical industry has camouflaged this information or covered it up and instead of letting people drink water, it advertises the use of their products, which actually do kill.

Because recent figures have shown that prescription medications, when used according to the instruction of doctors, nonetheless kill over 106,000 people, and make 2 million people sicker than before taking the medication. And then there is another group who die from faulty prescriptions, incorrect prescriptions.

So between them, about 250,000 people die from drug-related problems, medication-related problems. This makes the drugs the use of drugs the number three killer processes in the country - protected and licensed killer process.

After heart disease, which kills about seven or eight hundred thousand, cancer which kills about 500,000, drugs kill 250,000 people.


Mike: So it's fair to say that pharmaceuticals, as packaged by modern medicine, are the third leading cause of death in this country.

Dr. B: Absolutely, and they are useless, because most of the medication they are using is to cover up symptoms and signs and complications of dehydration in the human body.

The human body manifests dehydration by a series of symptoms and signs, perceptive symptoms of dehydration - in other words, brain senses dehydration, or tiredness when you haven't done a good day's work, or first thing in the morning when you want to get up out of bed and you're tired, you can't get up - that is a sign of dehydration.

Then anger, quick reaction, depression, these are all signs of dehydration, when the brain has very little energy from hydroelectricity to cope with the information or take action. These are some of the perceptive signs of dehydration.

Then the body has its drought management program, which are allergies, hypertension, diabetes, and also immune diseases.


The link between dehydration and asthma
Mike: I'd like you to elaborate a little more on asthma, and the idea that the body is managing its water supply deliberately in a way that produces symptoms that are called asthma.

Dr. B: Yes, well you see, drought management means that you have to clog the holes where water is lost from the body. Water is the most precious commodity in the interior of your body, and when not enough is coming in and more is being lost, this is a no-no situation for your body.

The intelligence behind the design of the body has it such that a drought management program will kick in, and then allergies are a sign of dehydration because the system that regulates water balance of the body suppresses the immune system, because it's an energy-consuming situation. Then you get asthma.

You see, we lose about a quart of water through breathing every day. It is actually the surface tension in the alveoli of the lungs that produces contraction of these tiny membranes, and air is pushed out. And in the process, that water will leave with the air that is leaving. So you lose about a quart of water in breathing. We need to replenish that.

When we don't replenish it, the body tightens up the bronchials and plugs up the holes and we call this reduced air flow in the lungs because of dehydration, we've labeled it as asthma.


Mike: Right. I've always been amazed that the willingness of modern medicine or western medicine to come up with these complicated sounding labels or names for diseases that should really have simpler names.

Dr. B: Jargon peddling is the way of commercial medicine. Sick-care system survives and thrives on pushing these jargons into the minds of the people, because people don't understand what these jargons, they hear them and they don't associate with anything in the body, but associate them with those jargons of fear that are drummed in the minds of people.

Now, children, there are 17 million children in America, probably more because the numbers rise every year, who have asthma, and the reason is, at the same time, children have been consuming more and more sodas. Three year olds to five year olds have been consuming three times as much soda in the last ten years than in the ten years before that.

So these people are getting dehydrated, they are consuming more sodas, which doesn't function in the same way as water, and that is why they get asthma. Now, give these children water, and their asthma will disappear very quickly, in a matter of a few hours, completely the breathing becomes normal. The need for these inhalers will disappear.

And when I contacted the NIH and explained all of this, the gentleman who was in charge of this said I was so ignorant on what was going on, and yet he wanted to protect his freedom, and so he ignored the information even though I had gone to Clinton, President Clinton to ask him to intervene, and give breath back to these children. But the NIH was adamant to use medication.

He wrote me, actually, and said we are satisfied with the way asthma is being treated. So, this is the situation. Now 17 million children is America can recover in a matter of a few days if everyone in the country started talking to asthmatic people and saying water is what you should take.

Can you imagine a solution so simple?

Mike: Yes. Yes I can, and there are many such solutions available to treat a great number of chronic diseases, just like you've been describing here. Of course, the pharmaceutical industry I think would be horrified to have that information become widespread.

Dr. B: Yeah, well, because what I'm saying is totally anti-business, and we are not talking about a few hundred thousand dollars, we are talking about a few billion dollars a year.


Treating hypertension with water
Mike: For the pharmaceutical industry, the existence of disease is a business question, because let's face it, the pharmaceutical industry is a for-profit industry.

Profits are always first, and at least it's my belief, and it seems that you share it, that any therapy that competes with those profits is minimized, marginalized or outright attacked.

Dr. B: Yes, recently there was an ad on the television. It was very interesting - I didn't realize it at the beginning, but I now realize that the ad was speaking to me. In other words, it was an ad against my statements.

Because I've said that the heartburn is a sign of dehydration in the human body and you should drink water. And this guy comes and sits at the counter and asks, “Give me a glass of water, my heartburn is killing me.” Or something like that.

And the lady behind the counter says,
   “Water doesn't cure heartburn - this medication does.”

So see, this is how the pharmaceutical industry fights the information that I put out. But nonetheless, people who did discover that water could cure their heartburn are wiser than those who buy into that advertising stunt.


Mike: It seems like there are almost two different groups of people in the United States.

There are those who are now dependent on multiple pharmaceuticals to treat everything, every symptom that they have, and who alter their body chemistry and their brain chemistry through drugs, and then there are those who are educating themselves about the true causes of health.

They're drinking water, they're avoiding food additives, they're engaging in exercise - it seems like there's a chasm that's widening between these two groups.

Dr. B: Absolutely. That's why alternative medicine has picked up and you're getting more people going to alternative medicine than conventional medicine. You see, I've sold at least over 600,000 copies of my book Your Body's Many Cries for Water over the past 10 years.

And so I've had over several thousand radio interviews in the past 10 years. Information is getting out into the hands of the public, so the pharmaceutical industry has to naturally increase its advertising to nullify this information that I have put out. That is why they have produced this ad - one of many, actually.

Anyway, we were talking about drought management programs in the body. Hypertension is another one of these problems. When there isn't enough water in the body, or the body becomes dehydrated, 66% of the water loss is from the interior of the cells. 26% is from the environment around the cells, and only 8% is lost from the vascular system.

But the vascular system is an elastic system - it tightens up and takes up the slack so you don't see the problem that is going on inside the cells of your body by testing your blood that is being tested in so many conditions. If people drank water on a regular basis and took enough salt and minerals to expand the capillary beds, hypertension would disappear completely.

And there are 60 million Americans who don't realize that actually hypertension is one of the manifestations of drought management programs of the body when the body begins to operate a reverse osmosis process, to deliver water into the interior of those cells which are 66% water deficient.

Now the pharmaceutical industry and the medical doctors arrogantly and ignorantly are treating hypertension with diuretics.


Mike: Let's get rid of the water!

Dr. B: They are getting rid of the water in the body, at a lot of, how shall I say, effort.


Mike: Isn't this an example of the arrogance of modern medicine in believing that it knows more than nature, it knows more than the body?

Dr. B: We, as doctors, are really 007 agents of the pharmaceutical industry. We are totally blind and ignorant and the pharmaceutical industry has hijacked medicine.

We learn a couple of years of physiology, and soon as we go on the clinical side we are asked to forget those and begin to learn pharmacology in order to treat symptoms rather than understand the primary cause of the health problem.


Mike: But you were trained in classic, conventional way...

Dr. B: I had to educate myself.


Thinking outside the box
Mike: What it is that drove you to explore beyond the limited thinking of conventional medicine?

Dr. B: I'm always a curious person. I've been a curious person ever since I was born as far as I know.

One day we had a thief come into the house and was on the wall, and I was only a two and a half year old boy. I went to him and said,
“What are you doing here? Can't you see you're scaring everyone? Why don't you go?”
I wasn't scared, I was curious.

That is what I am, right throughout my life, and that is why when I discovered that water cures pain, then this was an entrance for me to get into it and find out what was the reason.

And that was when I discovered that my education was no good. I didn't learn medicine, I learned a little bit of anatomy and a little bit of histology, which stood me in good stead in order to understand the rest of the stuff.


Mike: You are, I'm sure the listeners would agree here, you are to be applauded for being able to venture outside of conventional medicine.

Dr. B: I'm only a healer because that's my way of thinking. I don't think about money, because money is, if you do a good deed, money will come as a by product of that good deed.


Mike: I agree with you wholeheartedly there.

Dr. B: You don't have to try and take the last drop of blood out of a person who comes to you in order to get help from you. That is against my nature.

That's why I've put out my information for everyone to use on the internet, and it is only for further use or further education that I have produced my books and so on, and those books unfortunately, the cost of printing, distribution, forces the price on the information.

If the pharmaceutical industry had the information that they were going to sell, for example the information in my book Your Body's Many Cries For Water, they would ask for $10,000 a book, not $14.95.


Mike: And, if they could, they would patent water...

Dr. B: They would patent it.


Mike: And try to sell it to you at $100 a dose, right?

Dr. B: That's right. So, basically, this is what's going on in medicine in America. Joint pain, back pain, arthritis cause by chronic dehydration. The human body also has its emergency calls for water.

These are localized emergency calls. We call these heartburn, rheumatoid joint pain, back pain, migraine headaches, colitis pain, fibromyalgiac pain, even angina pain - signs of dehydration in the body.

And the mechanism is very simple - when there isn't enough water to be evenly distributed and certain parts of the body are working but not receiving enough water to deal with its toxic waste and metabolism, and the toxic waste builds up that area, the nerve endings in that area register the chemical environmental change with the brain.

And the brain translates this information for the conscious mind in the form of pain.


Mike: So it's just the interpretation?

Dr. B: It's an interpretation, yes. So the conscious mind gets the information that, hey, this area we can't use anymore, it has a shortage of water. Of course, the conscious mind should have known that, but bad education has robbed us of that information. We think this pain is a disease.


Mike: The predominant diagnosis of this, of course, I think in the minds of most people, and especially in most M.D.s would be that there is something physically or structurally compromised in that area.

Dr. B: Well, of course, the compromise is when the tissue is dehydrated, it's changing structure. The plum-like cells become prune-like.

Prune-like cells do not function in the same manners as a plum-like cell. So, that is how symptoms are produced. These symptoms mean, okay, let us get the ingredients that the body needs into the system. Now, when we say dehydration, water also brings a lot of other goodies to the cells. When we are dehydrated, these goodies are not delivered either.

So, we need not only correct dehydration, but also to supply the minerals and vitamins and so on so that the body can repair itself.


Thirst perception not reliable
Mike: I'd like to you talk about how people can know when they need to drink water, because you talk about in the book how some of the signs of dehydration, the classic signs are not necessarily the only signs, and also how much should an average person be drinking?

Dr. B: First and foremost, don't wait until you get thirsty, because that's an error. Unfortunately, the National Academy of Sciences and some other people recently have been telling people to wait until they get thirsty before they drink, which is the main error that we inherited 100 years ago from a man called Walter Bradford Cannon.

And that's why, at the time, there was a Frenchman saying that dehydration or thirst is a general sensation and we should study it, and Walter Bradford Cannon said, no, thirst is only a matter of dry mouth.

When the mouth is dry we are thirsty, which is an arrogant statement, and unfortunately western medicine bought into that understanding, and that's why we have a sick-care system, because from the age of 20 onwards, we gradually, imperceptibly become dehydrated without knowing it.

We lose our perception of thirst. By the age of 70 we may be totally thirsty and obviously thirsty and yet not recognize the need to drink water, even when water is put next to us.

This was done as an experiment. A scientist asked a group of elderly people to withhold from drinking water for 24 hours, and similarly with young people.

After 24 hours when water was made available, the elderly did not recognize that they were thirsty.


Mike: Even after 24 hours with no water?

Dr. B: Correct. Even when water was left next to them, some of them wouldn't reach for it. But the young people drank water, and corrected this dehydration.

Now, this is a major problem, and that's why we have so many people in the elderly sector of our society who are sick, because they are totally dehydrated and they do not recognize it.

So, waiting to get thirsty is to die prematurely and very painfully. In fact, this is the title of an article that is posted on my website, and also on NAFHIM, National Association For Honesty In Medicine.

We should not wait to get thirsty, because water is the main source of energy. By the time you get thirsty, you will have lost energy from the water that you should have drunk and made available before you get thirsty. So, if you don't allow the gas tank of your car to come dry before you stop and take some gas, then why should you let your body become thirsty so that it stalls on the roadside before you drink water?

So, first thing, people should never allow themselves to get thirsty - they should drink throughout the day. An average person needs two quarts of water a day. Average person really needs four quarts of water a day. But two quarts we have to supply.

Two quarts we get from food metabolism and water content in foods. We need this amount of water to manufacture at least two quarts of urine. You know, not to put pressure on the kidneys. When we drink enough water so that the urine is colorless, that is a good sign.

When the urine becomes yellow, it means that the body is beginning to become dehydrated and when it becomes orange, then the body is truly dehydrated and some part of the body is suffering from that dehydration.


Mike: So this is a very easy sign that people can pay attention to.

Dr. B: Absolutely.


Mike: They don't need a medical degree to see the color of their urine.

Dr. B: Well, that's why we should become observant to our urine production. And breathing - when we are short of breath, it means we are dehydrated.


Mike: Are there other similar, simple symptoms that people can pay attention to?

Dr. B: The skin - if the skin is nice and loose and smooth, then we are hydrated. If it becomes creasy and shriveled, it means dehydration. The crow's feet on the face of elderly people, that's a sign of dehydration. The turkey neck under the chin is a sign of dehydration.

These are mentioned in my books, Your Body's Many Cries for Water, and also in my Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. I recommend everyone to read Water Cures, Drugs Kill, because in this book I've identified over 90 health problems that we in medicine have called disease, and yet water cures them.

So, when the body is short of water and they give it medication, naturally the person will die, because the medication is silencing the many cries of the body for water. But it's not correcting the dehydration. So we need to understand these symptoms of dehydration, and the book Water Cures, Drugs Kill will do that. 


Mike: You have an upcoming book on obesity, cancer, and depression, right?

Dr. B: Yes, I've got a book called Obesity, Cancer and Depression: The Common Cause and Actual Cure.

I've identified why these three diseases are actually the branches of the same tree, and each one naturally produces a different problem at different age brackets, but they are all related conditions that occur as a result of dehydration over time. Time is of essence - when incrementally we become dehydrated, the prune-like cells begin to transform. Some of them become cancerous, and I've explained all of this in the book.

I explain how dehydration suppresses the immune system, directly or indirectly, and that's how most diseases occur, including cancer.


Mike: When is this book going to be published?

Dr. B: It will be available by the end of the year. People can keep an eye on the website http://www.watercure.com, and it will be posted there when the book is available.


Sodas cause dehydration
Mike: Now here's another interesting question people have - when they go out to eat at a restaurant, there's a tremendous amount of economic pressure from the point of view of the restaurant chain or restaurant owner to serve them something other than water. I remember there was a campaign at one time through Olive Garden restaurants.

The campaign was called Just Say No to H2O, and they were rewarding waiters for making sure people bought some soft drinks rather than drinking water.

Dr. B: That's because everyone is after a fast buck, even at the expense of someone else's health.

These restaurants are no different from the pharmaceutical industry when they push something that the body doesn't need. Of course, they don't know, they don't do it knowingly. One can't fault them. It's bad education, and we think that these soft drinks are synonymous with water.

Actually, a lot of children who drink soft drinks actually become “stupid”, but once you take the soft drink away from them, their grades improve tremendously - C's and F's become A's and B's. So, there is something in caffeine that suppresses the enzymes from memory-making. And this is exactly how the plant survives, because caffeine is a toxic chemical - it's a warfare chemical for the plant.

Anything that would eat it will lose its art of camouflage, its alertness, good reaction, good response, and becomes easy prey to its own food chain predator.


Mike: Yes, caffeine is technically an insecticide.

Dr. B: Caffeine is technically an insecticide. So is morphine and so is cocaine. They are the same family of drugs - neurotoxic substances.


Mike: Is there anything else in particular that our listeners should be aware of or should do to enhance their health through the information that you make available?

Dr. B: Yes, they can keep in touch. They can go to my website on a regular basis, and we post information there and letters that we exchange and so on. They can become part of the movement to bring honesty back into medicine.

Because if they're young people, they've got many years to go, and unfortunately in a dishonest form of medical practice, they can become vulnerable.


Mike: That website is…

Dr. B: http://www.watercure.com.


Mike: And the other one is http://www.nafhim.org?

Dr. B: Yes, but they will get the option at http://www.watercure.com to go to either site.

This information is free, it's the latest information in medical science, it's the future science of medicine, it's the foundation of the future science of medicine, and they have it at their use, free of charge. All they have to do is become curious as to learn. And the information is in such simple language that anyone can understand it. I don't use jargon.

I use very simple English to explain complicated problems.


Mike: I thank you so much for your generosity, being willing to take this time and share your wisdom with the world.

Dr. B: Mike, it is my pleasure, and I thank you. I'm here to be heard and you make it possible for me to be heard, and I'm grateful to you.


Mike: Indeed, and likewise from this side. It's people like you that will revolutionize medicine, and that's what we need today.

Dr. B: Bernard Shaw says that normal people try to conform, and reasonable people do not conform, and look for alternatives. Therefore all progress belongs to unreasonable people.

End of Interview.

Russian miracle water can cure cancer and restore youth

Health 
Russian miracle water can cure cancer and restore youth
Russian miracle water can cure cancer and restore youth
Russian scientists have discovered the cure for all diseases.


Such claims from the doctors in local clinics might seem absurd at first. But do not rush to conclusions. Researchers of two well-known Russian institutes have almost simultaneously without contacting each other come up with “live” and “dead” water. Both have equal chances to become the cure for all sicknesses! MK reporters went in for an interview and a sip of miracle liquid.

The de-ionized, or “dead,” water was first mentioned as a study project back in the 1990’s. At that time the theory of two professors from Science Center of Applied Research (SCAR) - Valentine Samoylov and Oleg Zaymidoroga – were looked at as fairytales. But now no one would dare laughing at the ones who take the foundation for their “live” and “dead” waters from… the kitchen!

“At first we were taking it from the ordinary kitchen faucet,” explains Oleg, the owner of a mini-lab in Dubna, “Of course it did not become de-ionized water right away. We had to free it of metal ions, microorganisms, and other junk. Please, have some! Where else on the planet would you be able to find water like this!”

“How did you discover its healing power?”

“It began with my experiments in Italy in the field of physics. I had to design such water for the research that would contain no radioactive traces and no microorganisms. So we began purifying the regular tap water. We passed it through the filter and then removed the 95% of metal ions. Then next step was to remove the rest of radioactive ions and from the heavy isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen. Finally we got rid of the dead bodies of microorganisms and ended up with super pure de-ionized water that is thousands of times more sterile than any artificial solution.

So I thought, what if I try to clean the incrustation inside the tea pot with that water? I took it to my wife and she poured the substance into the old boiling pot that had nearly one kilogram of old scales inside of it. After boiling the purified water in it all the incrustation came off. I realized all of a sudden that one could clean the polluted nuclear reactors this way, as well as the human body vessels. Just imagine how many people could be cured with such miracle water!”

The scientists immediately offered their product to the Surgical Institute of Vishnevsky and the St. Petersburg Institute RAN. Recently the biochemical tests have been completed. Believe it or not, the tests showed that the miracle water can cure infections and tumors.

“In the case of blood poisoning de-ionized water restores the torn DNA threads and helps the wound to heal faster,” the scientist explains, “As for the cancer, this water has the power to affect the bio-energetic molecule ATF, which is responsible for cell division. So when a cancer patient receives the de-ionized water injection the ATF molecule no longer misses the moment of random cell multiplication. The tumor growth will be stopped.

De-ionized water also has anti-diabetic qualities. The specialists from St. Petersburg confirmed that. They injected the rats with our water thereby stimulating the survival capacity of cells that produce insulin. The water is also useful for homoeopathic samples. This water can take on the qualities of medicines it interacts with and then pass on the healing effects to the patient.”

“So what will happen is we all start drinking such water on a regular basis, making tea with it?”

“That would be some very tasty tea because it will only contain the taste of tea leaves. But as for drinking the de-ionized water by itself, one should be very cautious doing that. I do this myself – 50 ml per day, and I almost forgot that I once had gastro-intestinal problems. But the thing is, if you drink too much of it will wash out all the calcium magnesium salt from the system and your knees will begin to hurt. This is medicine, and should be treated accordingly.”

“Have you tried talking to MinZdrav?”

“Sure I have, but it is too hard to shift the bureaucratic machine. So while I cure myself all alone, my wife uses the water with a cosmetic purpose.”

“How so?”

“De-ionized water can serve as make-up remover for the skin. Every evening my wife washes her face with it and begins looking much younger. We have received a permission to apply our water as a skin spray.”

As for using the magical liquid’s healing power in terms of taking on the qualities of the medicine it interacts with, this part awaits further research. The time approaches when we will cure our diseases with mere water.

Note: Water from blue bottles is dangerous for health

Scientists from the Center of Applied Research have concluded after launching large-scale experiments that the water in blue bottles can be harmful because after a time it acquires zirconium, a metal that gives the bottle a light bluish color.


Moskovskiy Komsomolets

Translated by Natalia Vysotskaya
Pravda.ru



F. Batmanghelidj M.D. - Obesity Cancer Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure

Dr. Batman's Water/Salt Cure For Dehydration-Produced Diseases~

Review by jankp 
 in Books, Music, Movies 
  August, 19 2006

Pros: extremely well-researched and helpful; captivating.

Cons: Dr. Batman's last book because he died of pneumonia.

After reading and reviewing three of Dr. Batmanghelidj’s books, including the international bestseller Your Body’s Many Cries For Water (translated into 15 languages), ABC Of Asthma, Allergies & Lupus and Water: For Health, For Healing, For Life, I thought that I knew everything I needed to know about the dire effects of chronic unintentional dehydration, which is what the doctor solely researched for the last twenty-four years of his life. I was pleased to discover that, while I already knew some of the information, there was new research that confirmed and better clarified his findings that make his water and salt cure even more plausible. 

Since 1992 when his first book was released, many, many people have come to hear of his cure program though his books, radio appearances and from people who have followed it and want to spread the word. Some of their letters to him are included in his last book, Obesity, Cancer & Depression, many, including doctors, with their full names. One doctor is Dr. Lorraine Day, a now-controversial, formerly-prominent orthopedic surgeon from San Francisco General Hospital, who succumbed to a very fast-growing breast cancer. Her website at drday.com displays pictures of the huge tumor on her breast and gives more info on her, but Batman recounts her story of becoming cancer-free after eight months on his program as well as nine other natural changes in her diet and lifestyle (she refused chemo, radiation and ’mutilating surgery’). Twelve years later she still is. 

Even pets have been cured of arthritis and terminal cancer, with letters included from a chiropracter, Dr. Gary Weissburger, and Bob Butts, who earlier had written that the water cure had cured his stubborn back pain and slenderized his wife and him without dieting, now reports on how Weissburger saved a dog’s life by prescribing salt in his water. 

Dr. Batman’s twenty-four years of research into chronic unintentional dehydration yielded much of great value, though as recently as 2002 an attempt to squelch his years of research was made by Professor Heinz Valtin in the Journal of Physiology who wrote that, opposite of Batman’s views, people should wait until they are thirsty to drink water. Not until January 2003 did Batman find Townsend Letters For Doctors And Patients who would publish his intelligent rebuttal and only because they are the top alternative medicine publication! No newspaper who had published Valtin’s views would touch his rebuttal. The Food and Nutrition Panel in February 2004 echoed Valtin’s views too. 

Batman reports that the National Institutes of Health, the American Medical Association and the Department of Health and Human Services were not interested in his research and the NIH even censored his presentation on the neurotransmitter histamine as the body’s primary water regulator by removing it from the report of the first Alternative Medicine Conference in Virginia in 1992. 

For pity’s sake, adequate hydration and salt intake would not be considered alternative medicine in Europe, but common sense by doctors as a Spanish friend told me today. Batman’s clinical and scientific research into molecular physiology of dehydration and ’peer-reviewed introduction of a paradigm shift in medical science,’ such as his article in Anticancer Research, Sept.-Oct. 1987, deserves much more respect in the U.S. Naturally his research and program isn’t good news for the drug business here for many people will reduce or eliminate their need for drugs when they’ve followed Batman’s protocol. 

Chronic dehydration, as it affects the water inside our body’s cells first, isn’t easy to determine by doctors or ourselves, but a look at the color of our urine as well as checking our output compared to input will offer a clue. Urine that is yellow or orange indicates medium to severe dehydration. You want light yellow or colorless urine, although intake of some vitamins or foods could change its color. Another clue would be the level of difficulty in having bowel movements and frequent headaches. 

Batman starts out the 233-page book by explaining four false assumptions regarding water, the most important one being that we cannot get our water needs with other liquids like milk or fruit juice and definitely not with caffeinated drinks, diet sodas or alcohol. He continues to explain how obesity, depression and cancer, especially prostate and breast, are the product of chronic dehydration over years. One standout letter from a David Caruso who lost 300 pounds in two years on Batman’s advice included several before and after pictures. It should be noted that Caruso also had vitamin and mineral deficiencies caused by his dehydration that were addressed as well. 

Water that we drink is used for so many life-giving functions, one of which is to transport nutrients from food to where they can be used and another is to eliminate toxic waste that acidifies our bodies. If we are dehydrated, these functions suffer and in time will cause nutrient deficiencies no matter how much we eat, obesity, insulin-independent diabetes, hypertension, strokes, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, allergies, autoimmune diseases, ADD and most cancers. 

I learned a great deal of detailed, convincing and referenced research from Obesity, Cancer And Depression as I have from the other books, although some information was carried over from the earlier books. I also enjoyed the many testimonials from people who had a range of health problems that responded within days or months to getting enough water and salt at the proper times every day. Often people had called Batman and asked his advice at no charge and he made house calls when requested. He not only listed all the benefits of the right amount of water and unrefined seasalt, but other minerals, enzymes, hour-long walks twelve hours apart, sunlight and other good things. 

The 2004 book has four sections (Obesity, Depression, Cancer, Their Natural Cure) that should convince anyone with increasing health problems of the need to consult their physician about it or to find another doctor who will work with you. Batman is, sadly, no longer with us. His books are thorough guides to his program, all highly recommended, but you can’t just stop taking prescribed drugs. Deficiencies are curable in time; damage caused by dehydration may not be. 


I’ve always been a big water drinker, but am adding a little more unrefined seasalt to my diet. With hot weather making us perspire, we’ll be losing lots of water and salt. In Batman’s previous book, he recommended adding an iodine-rich food like kelp to your diet if you use unrefined seasalt, but in this one he just recommended a mineral-rich seasalt like I use from Utah’s salt beds.