CHAPTER 6
NEWLY RECOGNIZED THIRST PERCEPTIONS
The following are perceptive feelings (some of which are labeled “psychological disorders”) that I believe signal dehydration:
1. Feeling tired without a plausible reason. Water is the main source of energy formation in the body. Even the food that is supposed to be a good source of energy has no value to the body until it is hydrolyzed by water and energized in the process. Furthermore, the energy source for neurotransmission and for the operational directives that get things done is hydroelectricity, which is formed in the nerve pathways and their connection to the muscles and joints in the body.
2. Feeling flushed. When the body is dehydrated, and the brain cannot draw sufficient water from the circulation to satisfy its needs, it commands a proportionate dilation of the blood vessels that reach it. Furthermore, the face is not a simple organ that supports two eyes, a mouth, a nose, and two ears.
It is a receptor dish with an abundant supply of nerve endings that constantly monitor the environment and report their information to the brain. In other words, the face is an extension of the brain with highly sensitive functions. Its nerve endings need to be hydrated, too; hence the increased circulation to the face at the same time as the brain gets its increased blood supply. If you see someone with a red nose and flushed face—often seen in alcoholics, because alcohol truly dehydrates the brain, leading to hangover
headaches—that person is dehydrated and in need of water.
3. Feeling irritable and unreasonably short-tempered. Irritability is a copout process so as not to engage in a brain-energy-consuming involvement beyond that particular moment. Give irritable people a couple of glasses of water and you will see them calm down and become fairly amiable. [ Noun. cop-out (plural cop-outs) (slang) Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out. His disappearance on the day of the audition was just a cop-out. (slang) An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out.]
4. Feeling anxious. This is a perceptive way in which the frontal part of the brain can reflect its concern over water shortage in its domain of activity. I cannot imagine a more eloquent way for the thinking brain to reflect its anxiety about dehydration in the body of its delinquent owner. Obviously, when the body wanted water, it must have been given other beverages that did not satisfy its real needs.
5. Feeling dejected and inadequate. The capital assets of any body are its essential amino acid reserves. These types of amino acids are used in so many different functions, including for neurotransmission, that their shortage in the body means loss of assets that the brain assesses as insufficient and inadequate for its undertakings. Dehydration depletes some of these amino acids incessantly, and this shortage triggers a feeling of dejection.
6. Feeling depresssed. This heralds a more serious phase of dehydration, in which the body, in the absence of water, has to use up some of its vital assets as antioxidants to cope with the toxic waste of metabolism that has not been cleared by sufficient production of urine. These assets include the amino acids tryptophan (pronounced trip-toh-fan) and tyrosine, which are
sacrificed in the liver as antioxidants to neutralize toxic waste. For the manufacture of serotonin, melatonin, tryptamine, and indolamine, the brain uses tryptophan; all of these elements are vital neurotransmitters that are used to balance and integrate body functions. If they are inadequate in the body, depression sets in. Tyrosine is another amino acid that the brain uses to manufacture adrenaline, noradrenaline, and dopamine, which are the “go-
getter” neurotransmitters. Their insufficient activity will ground a person into inactivity and a sorrowful state of mind.
As I was editing this book, an article on depression in the Washington Post of Tuesday, May 7, 2002, revealed a deep-rooted deception by the pharmaceutical industry. Headlined AGAINST DEPRESSION, A SUGAR PILL IS HARD TO BEAT, the article exposes how the drug industry has bent the truth in clinical trials to
show an edge in favor of Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft, whereas a simple sugar pill— placebo—produced more positive results in relieving depression. This article surmises that the splendid results of the sugar pill against the much-touted drugs could be because, in the clinical trials, the subjects received much more attention
and care than a depressed person who visits the doctor for a few minutes a month. It seems there is an infinitely greater healing power within a person who is cared for. In medicine there used to be a dictum, now for-gotten—“The duty of a doctor is to amuse the patient while nature heals.” Doctors have to show empathy to their patients.
Now that I am addressing the role of water in emotional problems, let me quote from a reader review of my book Your Body's Many Cries for Water, posted on the Barnes & Noble Web site, www.bn.com. M. S. writes: “‘Water’ has made a difference in my life.” It seems that M. S. had been diagnosed with mild manic depression and had been given lithium for four to five years. He says he started on water and salt and some vitamins, according to the instructions in the book, and within two months he was able to stop taking his lithium. He had been visiting his doctors for nine years without significant improvement, and now writes, “My LIFE has been truly ENHANCED from reading the book.”
7. Feeling heavy-headed. This is the sign that the brain is commanding more circulation for its needs. It could be the heralding sensation for a migraine headache that may ensue if the increased blood flow to the brain does not result in adequate hydration of the brain cells. Do not forget that the brain cells, in their constant activity, produce toxic waste of metabolism, which must be cleared at all times. The brain cells cannot endure a buildup of acidic materials in their interior environment. The initial heaviness felt in the head could reflect this phase of brain physiology.
8. Disturbed sleep, particularly in the elderly. The body will not have a restful night's sleep if it is short of water. A full eight hours' sleep will further dehydrate the body because much water is lost in respiration and possible perspiration under heavy bedcovers. If the body receives water and a little salt, sleep rhythm will be reestablished immediately. The following letter is from a man who found my Water Cure program instrumental in relieving many problems, including an interrupted sleep pattern. His story highlights a number of the perceptive symptoms of dehydration I have pointed out already.
My name is D. H. and I was turned on to your Web site by a friend on the Internet. Firstly, I read much of what is on your Web site and have been impressed by the content. In fact, I opened a chat room on paltalk devoted to directing people to your site and discussing the benefits of drinking water with salt. I have been on The
Water Cure for about three weeks now and I can definitely say I'm feeling better. My blood pressure is lower and my heart rate is around 58. I seem to sleep better at night and I have better energy level during the day. Also, I have a peaceful feeling now and seem to worry less. All in all it has been a positive experience. I thank you for promoting The Water Cure and I have joined your bandwagon to spread the good word. Thanks again for helping others unselfishly. ~ D. H.
9. Anger and quick temper. These more expressive ways of showing dehydration were explained in section 3 under the heading Feeling Irritable.
10. Unreasonable impatience. Maintaining your patience to stay on a course or an assignment is an energy-consuming undertaking for the brain. If it doesn't have a sufficient stored reserve of energy, it has to put an end to the undertaking as quickly as possible. This process of quick disengagement is labeled “impatience.” Don't forget, water manufactures hydroelectric energy at a rate that can replenish the used-up amount. Energy from food has to go through many steps of molecular conversion until it is stored in the energy pools in the cells. Even this process needs water for hydrolysis to make the components of food usable as sources of energy.
11. Very short attention span. This is another disengagement process for the brain that needs energy to focus on a topic or a learning process. The more hydrated the brain, the more energy it can manufacture to imprint new information in its memory banks. Attention deficit disorder in children is similarly produced by dehydration when children choose sodas as their preferred drinks.
12. Shortness of breath in an otherwise healthy person without lung disease or infection. People who want to exercise without feeling short of breath should drink water before they exert themselves in any form of physical activity.
13. Cravings for manufactured beverages such as coffee, tea, sodas, and alcoholic drinks. This is the way your brain tells you that you need to be hydrated. These cravings are based on a condition reflex that associates hydration with the intake of these beverages, which actually dehydrate the body further. The process of continuous dehydration is stressful and causes the brain to secrete stress hormones, which include endorphins—the natural opiates of the body that help it get through its environmental crisis. One of the reasons why people continue drinking these beverages is their increasing addiction to the level of their own endorphin production. This is why caffeine and alcohol are addictive substances and cause withdrawal symptoms. The next stage to this kind of addiction could be the use of harder drugs that put a constant drive on endorphin secretion by the body. Thus, if children are to be directed toward a drug-free form of life, it should start with eliminating caffeine from their diets.
14. Dreaming of oceans, rivers, or other bodies of water is a form of subconsciously generated association to reach a source of water to quench thirst. The brain has a tendency to simulate an experience in order to give instructions to the person to perform a function, even in deep sleep.
There is usually some significance to dreams. I will never forget a dream I had when I was a house doctor working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. At the time, I was responsible for the daily care of thirty acute beds (as they were known) in a very active surgical unit of the hospital. I could never get more than three or four hours of sleep at night. Naturally, when my head hit the pillow in those days, I slept like the dead. On one of those busy days, I reached my lunch late and had to eat it many hours after it was cooked. It was a plate of crayfish and some vegetables.
I was too busy to feel any discomfort after eating the food. I went to bed in the early hours of the morning and all but died in bed. Not long into my sleep, I started to dream that I was in a boat on rough seas. The boat was being thrown about, up and down and side to side, motions dictated by the choppy sea. I started feeling more and more nauseated until I could no longer hold down what I had eaten, and only just managed to reach the sink in my room to throw up the food that had obviously gone bad. My brain could not have translated my need to get up and get rid of the contents of my stomach any other way. It could only prepare me by exposing me to associated thoughts around nausea and vomiting. What better way than to take me through a sort of dry-run experience of sea-sickness?
CHAPTER 7 (click here)
THE PRIMARY DROUGHT-AND RESOURCE-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
More truth about water cure your body(click here)
NEWLY RECOGNIZED THIRST PERCEPTIONS
The following are perceptive feelings (some of which are labeled “psychological disorders”) that I believe signal dehydration:
1. Feeling tired without a plausible reason. Water is the main source of energy formation in the body. Even the food that is supposed to be a good source of energy has no value to the body until it is hydrolyzed by water and energized in the process. Furthermore, the energy source for neurotransmission and for the operational directives that get things done is hydroelectricity, which is formed in the nerve pathways and their connection to the muscles and joints in the body.
2. Feeling flushed. When the body is dehydrated, and the brain cannot draw sufficient water from the circulation to satisfy its needs, it commands a proportionate dilation of the blood vessels that reach it. Furthermore, the face is not a simple organ that supports two eyes, a mouth, a nose, and two ears.
It is a receptor dish with an abundant supply of nerve endings that constantly monitor the environment and report their information to the brain. In other words, the face is an extension of the brain with highly sensitive functions. Its nerve endings need to be hydrated, too; hence the increased circulation to the face at the same time as the brain gets its increased blood supply. If you see someone with a red nose and flushed face—often seen in alcoholics, because alcohol truly dehydrates the brain, leading to hangover
headaches—that person is dehydrated and in need of water.
3. Feeling irritable and unreasonably short-tempered. Irritability is a copout process so as not to engage in a brain-energy-consuming involvement beyond that particular moment. Give irritable people a couple of glasses of water and you will see them calm down and become fairly amiable. [ Noun. cop-out (plural cop-outs) (slang) Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out. His disappearance on the day of the audition was just a cop-out. (slang) An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out.]
4. Feeling anxious. This is a perceptive way in which the frontal part of the brain can reflect its concern over water shortage in its domain of activity. I cannot imagine a more eloquent way for the thinking brain to reflect its anxiety about dehydration in the body of its delinquent owner. Obviously, when the body wanted water, it must have been given other beverages that did not satisfy its real needs.
5. Feeling dejected and inadequate. The capital assets of any body are its essential amino acid reserves. These types of amino acids are used in so many different functions, including for neurotransmission, that their shortage in the body means loss of assets that the brain assesses as insufficient and inadequate for its undertakings. Dehydration depletes some of these amino acids incessantly, and this shortage triggers a feeling of dejection.
6. Feeling depresssed. This heralds a more serious phase of dehydration, in which the body, in the absence of water, has to use up some of its vital assets as antioxidants to cope with the toxic waste of metabolism that has not been cleared by sufficient production of urine. These assets include the amino acids tryptophan (pronounced trip-toh-fan) and tyrosine, which are
sacrificed in the liver as antioxidants to neutralize toxic waste. For the manufacture of serotonin, melatonin, tryptamine, and indolamine, the brain uses tryptophan; all of these elements are vital neurotransmitters that are used to balance and integrate body functions. If they are inadequate in the body, depression sets in. Tyrosine is another amino acid that the brain uses to manufacture adrenaline, noradrenaline, and dopamine, which are the “go-
getter” neurotransmitters. Their insufficient activity will ground a person into inactivity and a sorrowful state of mind.
As I was editing this book, an article on depression in the Washington Post of Tuesday, May 7, 2002, revealed a deep-rooted deception by the pharmaceutical industry. Headlined AGAINST DEPRESSION, A SUGAR PILL IS HARD TO BEAT, the article exposes how the drug industry has bent the truth in clinical trials to
show an edge in favor of Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft, whereas a simple sugar pill— placebo—produced more positive results in relieving depression. This article surmises that the splendid results of the sugar pill against the much-touted drugs could be because, in the clinical trials, the subjects received much more attention
and care than a depressed person who visits the doctor for a few minutes a month. It seems there is an infinitely greater healing power within a person who is cared for. In medicine there used to be a dictum, now for-gotten—“The duty of a doctor is to amuse the patient while nature heals.” Doctors have to show empathy to their patients.
Now that I am addressing the role of water in emotional problems, let me quote from a reader review of my book Your Body's Many Cries for Water, posted on the Barnes & Noble Web site, www.bn.com. M. S. writes: “‘Water’ has made a difference in my life.” It seems that M. S. had been diagnosed with mild manic depression and had been given lithium for four to five years. He says he started on water and salt and some vitamins, according to the instructions in the book, and within two months he was able to stop taking his lithium. He had been visiting his doctors for nine years without significant improvement, and now writes, “My LIFE has been truly ENHANCED from reading the book.”
7. Feeling heavy-headed. This is the sign that the brain is commanding more circulation for its needs. It could be the heralding sensation for a migraine headache that may ensue if the increased blood flow to the brain does not result in adequate hydration of the brain cells. Do not forget that the brain cells, in their constant activity, produce toxic waste of metabolism, which must be cleared at all times. The brain cells cannot endure a buildup of acidic materials in their interior environment. The initial heaviness felt in the head could reflect this phase of brain physiology.
8. Disturbed sleep, particularly in the elderly. The body will not have a restful night's sleep if it is short of water. A full eight hours' sleep will further dehydrate the body because much water is lost in respiration and possible perspiration under heavy bedcovers. If the body receives water and a little salt, sleep rhythm will be reestablished immediately. The following letter is from a man who found my Water Cure program instrumental in relieving many problems, including an interrupted sleep pattern. His story highlights a number of the perceptive symptoms of dehydration I have pointed out already.
My name is D. H. and I was turned on to your Web site by a friend on the Internet. Firstly, I read much of what is on your Web site and have been impressed by the content. In fact, I opened a chat room on paltalk devoted to directing people to your site and discussing the benefits of drinking water with salt. I have been on The
Water Cure for about three weeks now and I can definitely say I'm feeling better. My blood pressure is lower and my heart rate is around 58. I seem to sleep better at night and I have better energy level during the day. Also, I have a peaceful feeling now and seem to worry less. All in all it has been a positive experience. I thank you for promoting The Water Cure and I have joined your bandwagon to spread the good word. Thanks again for helping others unselfishly. ~ D. H.
9. Anger and quick temper. These more expressive ways of showing dehydration were explained in section 3 under the heading Feeling Irritable.
10. Unreasonable impatience. Maintaining your patience to stay on a course or an assignment is an energy-consuming undertaking for the brain. If it doesn't have a sufficient stored reserve of energy, it has to put an end to the undertaking as quickly as possible. This process of quick disengagement is labeled “impatience.” Don't forget, water manufactures hydroelectric energy at a rate that can replenish the used-up amount. Energy from food has to go through many steps of molecular conversion until it is stored in the energy pools in the cells. Even this process needs water for hydrolysis to make the components of food usable as sources of energy.
11. Very short attention span. This is another disengagement process for the brain that needs energy to focus on a topic or a learning process. The more hydrated the brain, the more energy it can manufacture to imprint new information in its memory banks. Attention deficit disorder in children is similarly produced by dehydration when children choose sodas as their preferred drinks.
12. Shortness of breath in an otherwise healthy person without lung disease or infection. People who want to exercise without feeling short of breath should drink water before they exert themselves in any form of physical activity.
13. Cravings for manufactured beverages such as coffee, tea, sodas, and alcoholic drinks. This is the way your brain tells you that you need to be hydrated. These cravings are based on a condition reflex that associates hydration with the intake of these beverages, which actually dehydrate the body further. The process of continuous dehydration is stressful and causes the brain to secrete stress hormones, which include endorphins—the natural opiates of the body that help it get through its environmental crisis. One of the reasons why people continue drinking these beverages is their increasing addiction to the level of their own endorphin production. This is why caffeine and alcohol are addictive substances and cause withdrawal symptoms. The next stage to this kind of addiction could be the use of harder drugs that put a constant drive on endorphin secretion by the body. Thus, if children are to be directed toward a drug-free form of life, it should start with eliminating caffeine from their diets.
14. Dreaming of oceans, rivers, or other bodies of water is a form of subconsciously generated association to reach a source of water to quench thirst. The brain has a tendency to simulate an experience in order to give instructions to the person to perform a function, even in deep sleep.
There is usually some significance to dreams. I will never forget a dream I had when I was a house doctor working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. At the time, I was responsible for the daily care of thirty acute beds (as they were known) in a very active surgical unit of the hospital. I could never get more than three or four hours of sleep at night. Naturally, when my head hit the pillow in those days, I slept like the dead. On one of those busy days, I reached my lunch late and had to eat it many hours after it was cooked. It was a plate of crayfish and some vegetables.
I was too busy to feel any discomfort after eating the food. I went to bed in the early hours of the morning and all but died in bed. Not long into my sleep, I started to dream that I was in a boat on rough seas. The boat was being thrown about, up and down and side to side, motions dictated by the choppy sea. I started feeling more and more nauseated until I could no longer hold down what I had eaten, and only just managed to reach the sink in my room to throw up the food that had obviously gone bad. My brain could not have translated my need to get up and get rid of the contents of my stomach any other way. It could only prepare me by exposing me to associated thoughts around nausea and vomiting. What better way than to take me through a sort of dry-run experience of sea-sickness?
CHAPTER 7 (click here)
THE PRIMARY DROUGHT-AND RESOURCE-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
More truth about water cure your body(click here)
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