SPECIAL REPORT - WATER

YOUR BODY IS NOT SICK...
Your Body’s many Cries for Water

DR. FEREYDOON BATMANGHELIDJ, M.D.

TRANSCRIPT OF HIS LECTURE AT 
‘THE GOVERNMENTAL HEALTH FORUM’ 
IN WASHINGTON. USA, 
MARCH 28TH —30TH, 2003.

Dehydration is the underlying 

cause of many chronic “diseases.

” Proper intake of water, salt and minerals can prevent these 

illnesses and even reverse the 

damage already done. 
So-called “modern” medicine still  blames viruses or genetics for 

most of these degenerative 

conditions, and the 

pharmaceutical industry would 

lose billions in profits if people 

relied on the natural healing 
properties of water rather than 

expensive and toxic drugs. Why 

the body needs water, the 

reasons why lack of water causes 

the body to become stressed and  diseased, as well as very simple methods to ensure your own 

vibrant health, are all explained in 

detail.

Earth and mankind are one! More 

than two thirds of our physical 

body consists of water.

What we doctors learned at 

medical school was based on a 

wrong primary assumption of 

science.
Medical science is based on a 

number of flawed assumptions. 

Science of the twentieth century is
flawed, it represents a ‘dark age’ of knowledge of the human body. Twentieth-century medicine, in 

order to seem ‘scientific,’ 

explained a whole lot of things, 

labeled things, wrote books and 

more books about the human 

body, about the diseases, but 

everything that they wrote was 

‘diseases of unknown etiology.’ They explained it, but they didn’t 

know how it arose. Then later on 

they started blaming viruses, and 

some time later, they started 

putting the blame on the patient, 

saying it is ‘genetic.’So the 

medical community, in order to camouflage its lack of knowledge 

of the human body, produced 

labels and put the blame on the 

person. That was twentieth- 

century medicine.
The result of my discovery, which explains that everything in the 

human body or in any living 

matter is regulated by the 

presence of water, is a paradigm 

shift from the solid side of  understanding of the human body 

to the solvent side of 

understanding of the human body.

Histamine’s Role in Water Regulation
That is why part of my education 

was histamine, (everyone has 

heard of ‘anti-histamines’) which 

is a neurotransmitter in charge of 

water regulation of the body. So, 

in twenty-first century medicine, 

the new truth is that dehydration 

is the primary cause of painful,  degenerative diseases, including 

cancer and AIDS. We had gone 

wrong in medicine and did not understand the role of histamine 

in the human body, that we have 

to revise that understanding, 

because now we know the 

solution to a lot of these disease conditions that are treated with 

anti-histamines, and that solution 

is water.

Histamine is with us from day one 

of life. When the ovum becomes fertilized with the sperm,  from 

that  moment before it divides into 

two daughter cells to give life a 

chance to survive in its present 

form, it has the ability to release 

histamine. So, histamine is a  neurotransmitter which is with us 

from ‘minute one’ of life. The 

human body contains a lot of 

water, but the water that is 

contained in the body is mainly 

already osmotically engaged, in 

other words it is busy with an 

activity—a chemical reaction, a 

chemical undertaking. That water 

is called “bound water.” Then the body needs, in order to perform 

new functions, osmotically free 

water, that’s called “free water.”

Water Is Necessary to Prevent Stress

In dehydration, even though the 

body has a lot of water in it, it is 

the lack of free water that 

constitutes dehydration. That is 

why you need to replace (drink) 

the water loss of your body with 

fresh intake of water, in order to 

supply the body with free water to perform new functions. So, any 

time you want to perform a 

function that requires water to 

perform that function, you had 

better give that fresh free water to 

the body in advance of the event. 

In other words, if you want to eat, 

give it the water first that is 

needed in order to digest food. If 
you want to exercise and sweat, 

give the body the water first that it 

has to shed in sweat, and so on. 
It is free water shortage in the 

body that constitutes dehydration.

Free water deficits. It’s like a major business that has a lot of assets, 

but no cash-flow to pay the salary 

of its staff. That’s how a business 

gets in trouble, and that’s why the human body gets into trouble 

when it doesn’t have enough free 

water, which is the ‘cash-flow’ of 

the body.

Stress translates in the body into dehydration; in other words, every 

time you feel stressed, that 

translates to dehydration, and the 

reason is that every time you’re 

stressed you secrete a lot of 

hormones that break up new 

material and mop up the free 

water from the circulation, and all 

of a sudden you are short of free 

water, so you are short of 

‘cash-flow.’ And that is why the 

body begins to regulate the water content of the body — there is a 

‘drought-management program,’ 

and stress-management. And in 

stress-management you get these hormones—vasopressin, 

endorphins, prolactin, cortisone- 

release-factor, and angiotensin, 

which is activated both at the 

brain level and at the kidney level. Vasopressin is a very important substance, vasopressin is 

subordinate to histamine, as a 

water regulator, and vasopressin 

itself is a very strong cortisone 
release factor. When there is dehydration, and you have 

histamine release, you also have
vasopressin release, and you also 

have tissue breakdown as a result 

of cortisone release factor.

True Origin of “HIV”
Now, this is a very important thing 

that I discovered—that 

vasopressin as a cortisone 

release factor stimulates a 

substance called interleukin-1 

which is another activator of 
physiological events, and 

cortisone release factor and 

interleukin-1 have a magnifying 

effect on one another, they create a vicious circle, an expansion 

system. And at a certain level of 
dehydration and dependence on vasopressin, then you get 

interleukin-1 activating interleukin-

6, and tumor necrosis factor. 

These are the elements that begin 

to tap into the body’s own tissues 

and break them down, 

cannibalized by these own tissues 

for resource management. 
Because when you’re dehydrated, 

your body also lacks the elements 

that the water will have brought to 

those areas in order that those 

areas still have some material to work with, and the body begins to 

break down its own tissue. And 
interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor activate enzymes called 

proteases at the cell membrane 

and wherever they are, and these  proteases begin to break down 

and fragment proteins and the 

DNA, they cause fragmentation of 

DNA. And the new understanding, 

or my understanding, is that these fragments of the DNA, because as 
soon as they are released they 

bring a little bit of membrane with 

them, they would be labeled as 

viruses. These are the “slow 

viruses” that have the medical community not understanding the 
DNA component of breakdown of dehydration, and have labeled 

them as viruses, and because 
dehydration produces disease, 

they blamed it on the ‘virus.’

One of the viruses that has 

received this treatment is the ‘HIV’ 

itself. HIV, the ‘slow virus’ of HIV, is 

a fragment of the DNA and it was 
harvested in cell culture mediums 

by introducing interleukin-6 and 

tumor necrosis factor, and the 

product that was received or 

cultivated, they labeled it ‘HIV-1’ .

This ‘HIV-1’ is not a virus, it’s a 

fragment of the DNA. It has the 

same characteristics as half of  vasopressin itself, and that is why 

they can never produce a vaccine 
against ‘HIV,’ because as soon as 

they produce a vaccine against 

‘HIV’ they can neutralize 

vasopressin (which is a water regulator). It operates the reverse osmosis program of the body
and that would be tantamount to 

causing suicide of the cell or the 

body and killing the person. So 

that is why they will never be able 

to use the ‘HIV’ and produce a 

vaccine for it, because it is part of the vasopressin molecule. This is 

the mechanism where all the auto-immune diseases occur. 

Interleukin-6, when it goes into the 
beta-cells of the pancreas, it cuts 

the beta-cells, it breaks down the 

beta cell nuclear structure and 
fragments it and throws it out. It 

has been shown scientifically that 

is the case.
So, this is a process of auto-

immune activity that produces 

insulin-dependent diabetes. I will 

explain insulin-independent 

diabetes later on, but I wanted to 

explain this here for you to 

understand how some of these 

so-called ‘conditions’ are of ‘slow 

viruses’ and auto-immune 

diseases are connected to dehydration as the origin of the 
disease, and a lack of resources 

that the body would need in order 

to compensate for the deficiencies 

that dehydration brings about.

Many “Diseases” Are Caused by Dehydration

In dehydration, we lose a lot of the essential amino acids, and they 

are used as anti-oxidants, because 

when there isn’t enough water to 

wash the toxic waste away, the 

toxic waste has to be neutralized,  otherwise it will destroy the 

system. Tryptophan, tyrosine, methionine, cysteine, and histidine become depleted as a result of 

being neutralized in order to 

compensate for the toxic waste 

build-up in the body that hasn’t 

been washed away. You know, 

when you go to a field john 

[portable toilet], there is no water, 

you have a chemical there that 

sanitizes, deodorizes whatever is introduced into the bowl. The 

body uses these elements as the  sanitizing elements.

Water distribution has another component which is a very 

important component, it’s an 

emergency water distribution to 

the areas where water is so vital in 

order to perform a function. 

Histamine cells, mast cells, 

basophils, the neurotransmitters,
have histamine in them, platelet-activating-factor, and heparin. As 

you know, heparin prevents

bleeding. Platelet-activating-factor activates the platelets in order to 

break up and release whatever

they contain. But unfortunately 

platelets also contain a lot of 

serotonin, so the purpose of 

producing platelet-activating-

factor that would produce 

coagulation of blood, and heparin, 

which prevents coagulation is very simple, because blood is 94 

percent water, and when that 

water is to be tapped into, tiny 

bleeding is caused, and serotonin 

causes slits, microscopic slits in 

the wall of the capillaries, and 

blood oozes out.
And then once the blood oozes 

out, its water is reabsorbed into 

the system, and the remainder, 

which is six-percent of the total 

volume, becomes plaques which 

we see in neurological disorders.

You have the blood-brain barrier, in 

which the capillaries are tight 

junctions, nothing goes through 

them but through the wall, there 

are no holes in them like in the 

rest of the body. This is an 

emergency route of supply of 

water, and we call this “vasculitis.” 

We get it in the brain, we get it in 

the kidneys, and you can get it in 

the gastrointestinal tract (that’s 

how you get gastritis, and bleeding 

of gastric ulcers and such.) So, 

this emergency route of supply of 

water can produce migraine, 

headaches, Alzheimer’s disease,
multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s 

disease, gastritis, purpuras (which are bleeding into the tissue), and
nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and 

so on—this is the result, because 

the body is short of free-water. It 
needs the water in order to 

perform a series of functions 

within that physiological activity.

In dehydration we also get 

associated mineral deficiencies, 

because in dehydration we also 

become achlorhydric, the stomach 

does not produce enough acid, 

and you need acid in order to 

absorb zinc, magnesium, 

manganese, selenium, and other essential minerals. So, in this 

pattern of mineral deficiency you 

can see neurological disorders 

such as multiple sclerosis,

Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s 

disease, and so on. So the twenty-

first century view of the human 

body is that all actual diseases 

should be viewed as deficiency disorders, secondary to persistent dehydration. Once you’re 

dehydrated you become amino 

acid deficient, you also become 

mineral deficient, which is the foundation for all diseases in the 

human body.




Arthritis: A schematic model 

intended to show and compare, 

side-by-side, a well-hydrated joint 
to a dehydrated joint. The articular cartilage in a well hydrated joint 

get its nutrition from the blood 
supply to its base attachment to 

the bone. A dehydrated joint will 

need to get some form of fluid circulation from the capsule of the 

joint, hence the swelling and 

tenderness in the joint capsule. 

The inflammatory process may 

appear as if there is infection 

when there is only dehydration.


A well-hydrated joint :-
1. Hydration of cartilage from 

bone side.
2. Normal joint capsule and 

cartilage covering bone.

A dehydrated joint:-
1. Artery entering joint capsule.
2. Damaged cartilage exposing 

bone.
3. Inflames joint capsule oozing 

serum and white cells into the joint.

Joint movement causes vacuum 

to be created within the joint 

space. Water will be pulled 

through the bone and the cartilage 

into the joint cavity - if it is freely available.




The Drug Industry Suppresses
Knowledge of Water’s Benefits
By ignoring the dominant and vital importance of water to optimum 

health and well-being of the 

human body, the medical and 

scientific communities have 

allowed the drug industry to 
perpetrate fraud against society. 

But what this industry has done for financial gain constitutes a form of terrorism, because they terrorize 

people by producing fear tactics 

on the television and in the media 

and so on; they force people to go 

to their doctors and demand a 

certain type of medication. One of 
them is asthma, for example. 

Asthma is a state of dehydration 

and one of the ads that I have
seen recently everywhere, says 

“Life should take your breath 

away, not asthma.”

Double-blind,randomized trials are only suited for evaluation of drugs 

and chemical compounds to 

insure their safety. This costly 

procedure is not suited for study 

of the dehydration-produced
metabolic problems and their 

associated deficiency disorders. 

In other words, throw that system 

of the drug industry evaluation out 

of the window, and flush the 

siphon, and go back to Nature and 

try to find out what your body 

wants; then give it to it. Don’t listen 

to what the doctor says, doctors 

don’t know what is the problem 

with your body, and unfortunately doctors who are in the 

mainstream certainly don’t know. I 

didn’t know, I had to spend twenty-

two years of research in order to 

come to this level of understanding.

Those in the health-care system 

who chose to ignore this 

information and continue to use 

drugs for conditions that are 

caused by dehydration and 

mineral deficiency, would expose themselves to eventually being 

legally challenged as criminally
negligent. So, sooner or later, you 

will find one of these ‘ambulance chasers’ taking a doctor to 
court, saying, “Why did you treat 

this person’s hypertension with 

diuretics, you caused this man ill    health, you caused him a lot of 

problems and you shortened his 

life by at least twenty years as 
a result of your medication— 

diuretics, calcium-blockers, beta-blockers and so on.
Whereas your body was short of 

water and that is why he had the hypertension.” Now, that will come, 

that day will come soon.

Where did twentieth-century 

medicine go wrong? What are the 

early symptoms and signs of
dehydration? Twentieth-century 

medicine started thinking that a 

dry mouth was the only sign of
dehydration, which is wrong. In 

order to be able to chew and 

swallow food, even if you haven’t 

drunk anything your body 

produces ample saliva to perform 

that function of pre-digestion, so 

'dry mouth' is not a sign of 

dehydration. Anyone who is 

waiting to get dry mouth in order 

to drink water, or waiting to get
thirsty in order to drink water, is 

inviting trouble. 
In fact, I wrote an article which 

was published in “Townsend 

Letters for Doctors,” it’s a two-

page article responding to Heinz 

Valtin of Dartmouth College who 

said people shouldn’t drink water 
just like that, they should wait until 

they get thirsty, and I wrote the 

article saying that waiting to get 
thirsty is to die prematurely and 

very painfully, and in the article I 

call him ignorant. I said this man 

is ignorant, you shouldn’t rely on 

his statement.

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Water Regulates Most of
the Body’s Functions
The second mistaken assumption 

is that water has no direct 

metabolic role in the body, only 
solutes regulate all the functions 

of the body, which is inaccurate. 

You have substance A and 

substance B and if you put them 

in a test tube, no reaction takes 

place. You learned that in your 

first year of chemistry, is that 

correct or not? Then the teacher 

adds some water from a beaker 

and all of a sudden the whole 

reaction takes place. Now was it substance A and substance B that reacted, or was it the water 

that regulated all the reactions? 

My introduction into science and medicine is that water regulates 

all functions including the function 

of everything that it dissolves.

‘Water-intake-regulating 

mechanisms of the body are 

efficient throughout the life span 

of the person’ is another 

inaccurate statement, because as 

we grow older, in the same way 

that the eyes become less sharp, 

our ears become deaf a little more, 

and all the other senses begin to diminish, as you know what I’m talking about, well, so does the perception of thirst. Unfortunately 

the elderly do not recognize their thirst. Scientifically it has been 

shown that the elderly who have 

been deprived of fresh water 

intake for twenty-four hours, some 

of them, when you put water next 

to them, they don’t recognize that 

they’re thirsty. Whereas the young 

people in the same group of study 
immediately started drinking lots 

of water.

Caffeine and Aspartame are Poisons

And the fourth mistaken 

assumption which is a problem 

special in America, and probably 

in Western Europe a little bit, is 

that all fluids can replace the 

water needs of the body. That is 

junk science. It’s not accurate. 

Caffeine in beverages is a dehydrating substance, it affects 

the brain and kidneys, and flushes 

more water out of the body than 

there is water in the cup. It inhibits 

enzymes in the brain that are 

involved in memory-making. Phosphodiesterase is an enzyme 

that regulates the brain function 

for memorizing things, so when 

you take caffeine, in fact you 

inhibit this thing. Now, let’s get into 

the philosophy of why the plants manufacture caffeine or even 

cocaine. Why do you think? 
Chemical warfare. Plants insert 

caffeine and cocaine or have caffeine and cocaine in their 

leaves and in their seeds so that 

they will make the ones that eat 

these things stupid.
Phosphodiesterase is inhibited 

and that species begins to 

gradually lose the art of 

camouflage, alertness, quick 

reaction, and become stupid, so it
becomes eaten very quickly, and predators eat it, and that’s how the 

plant defends its next generation 

of the species, OK? Now we take 

this, brew it, not only into a 

concentrated stuff, but we drink it ourselves, we give it to our 

children, and then we cry foul, we say why do our children have 

learning problems? Why do they 

have “attention deficit disorder”? 

Blame it on the industry, the 

beverage industry that 

manufactures sodas. 

Unfortunately now a lot of sodas 

are even more concentrated. They 

used to be eight-ounce cans, and 

now they are twelve-ounce cans 

and now they have more caffeine; 

it used to be 50 milligrams of 

caffeine in a can, now there is 75 

or 90 milligrams of caffeine. 

Starbucks coffee contains 180 milligrams of caffeine in a cup of 
coffee. So, this is the lifestyle 

problem of society that produces disease and stupidity and a whole 
lot of other things.

And if that’s not enough, they add artificial sweetener to it, which is a further crime against humanity. 

Artificial sweetener, aspartame, 

creates false hunger, and it has 

been shown in animal models and 

in humans that as soon as they 

give aspartame to the animal or to 

the human, within 90 minutes they

’re forced to go and eat even more

. The reason is that a reaction 

called cephalic phase response 

occurs when, as soon as the 

tongue 👅 is stimulated by 

sweeteners, the brain translates 

this sweetness into this quantity 

of energy, depending on the 

sweetness. Now, the brain is 

fooled, but the brain is not fooled, 

we are fooled, because as soon as 

the brain realizes that the 'energy' 

that you promised it by the

sweetness is not there, it compels 

you to go and eat, and eat more 

than you would have normally 

eaten. So that’s why people who are taking artificial sweeteners in 

sodas thinking that they’re going 

to lose weight, they’re not, they’re 
going to get fatter.

And it’s been involved in seizures, 

grand mal and petit mal; optic 

nerve damage because ten 

percent of the aspartame is 

converted into methyl alcohol and  formaldehyde, and depending on 

the quantity that you take, you’re 

actually taking a poisoning system 

from your own gut for your 

nervous system, and particularly 

the optic nerve which is very 
sensitive to methyl alcohol and formaldehyde. 
The sense of smell becomes 

affected. Brain tumors have been 

caused by aspartame.

Thousands Are Killed By Medical “Mistakes”

Water has many roles. Three of 

them, the medical community understood earlier on: that water 

is a solvent, a packing material, 

and a means of transport. No 

problem with that. And in fact, 

they didn’t matriculate beyond that

, they didn’t realize that water has 

other properties. 

They constantly stuck to this, and 

that’s why we have the ‘sick-care’ system of today, where people are getting sicker and sicker, and they 
actually get prescribed 

prescription medications that kills 

in the US alone between 150,000 

to 200,000 people a year—not ‘medical mistakes,’ but by 

prescription mistakes, even 

according to the doctor’s 

instructions. At least 200,000 

people die every year. Two million 

people in America get sicker by prescription medications because 
the medical community never understood early-dehydration, and 

they have treated early-

dehydration with medications. 

They wonder why a hundred years of research hasn’t produced a 

simple cure for anything.

Think about how much you need 

water. There is nothing like it on 

the Planet. What would you do 

without it?

How Water Performs Its Life-Giving Functions

Water has life-giving properties, 

those other ones were life-

sustaining properties of water. 

Water has life-giving properties, it manufactures hydro-electricity, in 

other words it is a natural source 

of energy. All neurotransmission in 

the body depends on this hydro-electricity from water. That’s why 

water is a better pick-me-up than anything you might imagine. OK? 

Now the process of hydrolysis—

the medical community have 

always used the word ‘hydrolysis 

of this’, ‘hydrolysis of that’ and yet 

they never assume that water has metabolism of its own. I was six 

years at the University of 

Pennsylvania doing research in 

order to find this, put this thesis 

together, and one day I visited a conference and one of the 

professors asked me "what do you 

do?"  I said “I’m trying to look at   metabolism of water.”
He frowned at me and thought me 

an ignorant person. He said “We 

thought that the water doesn’t 

have any metabolism.” I didn’t 

want to offend him in front of his colleagues, I said, “May I come to 

your office and talk to you about 

this?” He said, “Yes, by all means.” 

So I got an appointment from him, 

he was an eminent professor at 

the University of Pennsylvania. I 

went to see him and in order to 

make sure I understood what he 

had said was correct, I said, “Did I understand correctly that you said 

that water has no metabolism, 

water is just an inert substance for 

the ride.” He said yes. I said, “Then 

what is hydrolysis? You use the 

word frequently and use it every 

time. What does hydrolysis mean?

” If I had hit him with a ton of gold, 

it wouldn’t have impacted his brain 

as much as that word did. He went 

white, pale, and he said, “Yes, of 

course, we never thought about 

that.” So the word hydrolysis 

means metabolism of water. 

Water is a nutrient, water is 

actually a primary nutrient in the 

body that your body depends on, 

on a regular basis for its 

performance and functions.

Water at body temperature, when 

it is squeezed to 2.5 angstrom 

units, it gels, it becomes like ice, 

and it’s this thickness of ice that 

sticks the components of the cell membrane together. So water is 

actually a cementing material in 

the body, it’s that mortar between 

the bricks; and lack of water will 

cause disturbance in that process. 

And in order that the cell doesn’t disintegrate completely, the body 

has founda substitute, and it’s 

produced this stickiness of 

cholesterol in order to bind things together. So cholesterol in the 

body performs not only an

insulating function, but it’s also

part of the emergency bonding

material.

Now, as far as water being a

source of energy, this is the 

research by Philippe and Wiggins: 

‘...the source energy for cat-ion 

transport or ATP synthesis lies in increasing chemical potentials 

with the increasing hydration of 

small cat-ions and polyphosphate

anions, in the highly structured

interfacial aqueous phase of the

two phosphorylated...’ This must

be double-Dutch to you too! But

trust me, it means that water is

the source of energy for synthesis

of ATP. Now, hydrolysis of water

produces energy. This is a formula calculated by George and group, 

when magnesium ATP is 

hydrolyzed, magnesium ATP itself 

has only 600 kilojoule-moles of 

energy inherent to itself. When it’s

hydrolyzed, the components 

become 5850 kilo-joulemoles of 

energy. In other words, water has transferred its own energy to the components, and that’s how it has 

driven the chemical reaction by the energy produced by hydrolysis. So, 

the pound of meat that you eat 

has no energy value whatsoever, 

unless water is present there to hydrolyze it and break it down. It is 

in fact the water that energizes the 

food that you eat, the potato, the 

sugar; none of these have the 

ability to pass energy into the 

human body unless water is there 

to break them down and magnify 

the energy content by one order of magnitude.

There are two oceans of water in 

the body—one ocean of water is in 

the cells, and then there is the

ocean of water outside the cells. 

Water that we drink goes through 

the cell membrane and 

replenishes the ocean inside. The 

salt that we take regulates the

volume of the ocean outside. And 

these two oceans have to be in 

balance. You cannot fill up the 

Atlantic more than it is full already 

and let the Pacific dry up, or fill the Pacific and let the Atlantic dry up, 

you have to fill them both. And 

that’s why God created 

connections between all the 

oceans, in order to balance the 

oceans. We also have to balance 

the oceans of water in the body. In 

fact, the design of the body is that 

it automatically balances these 

oceans by certain mechanisms. 

So, water and salt are vital

elements in the human body. 

Water diffuses through the cell membrane at a rate of 10‐³ ( ten to 

the power of minus three) 

centimeters per second, which is a 

very fast rate of transfer of water

into the cell. In a well-hydrated cell membrane there is a channel 

between the two layers of the membrane.

All the enzymes travel in that 

channel and meet their

counterpart. And they call this a 

lateral diffusion of the enzyme 

systems, and the body needs to 

have that channel sufficiently 

hydrated. The water comes 

through these elements and fills 

up this channel, and allows 

physiological functions to take 

place. In a dehydrated state, the 

channel is gone, these processes 

come into another, and they 

produce locks, so nothing travels. 

That’s how the cell goes into

hibernation, in bacteria and things 

like that, that might have this same process, or animals that go into a 

dry phase, this is how it happens.

Reverse osmosis is when we don’t 

have diffusion, and the body has 

to filter water and inject it into the 

vital cells, and that’s called reverse osmosis.

Then we have the osmotic

movement of water when glucose stimulates insulin production and 

the gates are open, water travels 

with glucose and amino acids into 

the cells. And this is a mechanism 

where we lose our perception of 

thirst and gradually as a result of 

lifestyle we become susceptible to disease, depending on how much

water we are taking or beverages

that are dehydrating substances. 

When the body has to depend on 

insulin release to osmotically shift

water into the cells, obesity

becomes an unavoidable 

complication. And that’s what I’m 

writing on now, “Obesity, the 

Deadly Disease of Dehydration” is 

the title of my next book. Now this 

is a process of reverse osmosis, vasopressin sits on its receptor 

and converts it into a ‘shower-

head,’ with a cluster of 

perforations of two angstrom 

units. And this ‘shower-head’ 

process fills with the osmotically balanced serum, and the 

vasopressin puts a squeeze on the system and only water, one

molecule of water is filtered 

through the system. And alcohol 

stops this function, that’s why you get a

headache with alcohol, because 

your brain depends on this 

mechanism in order to get 

hydrated on a regular basis. This 

is how the body transfers water

into the brain tissue—reverse osmosis.

Salt Is Vital for Life and Health

Salt is vital because it extracts 

and gets rid of acids. Sodium goes 

into the cell, a hydrogen ion goes 

out, and then potassium goes into 

the cell and sodium goes out. So, 

salt is vital for balancing the 

acidity of the cell; that’s how the 

body becomes alkaline, because 

salt extracts the hydrogen ion and 

then the ion is taken to the kidneys 

and is flushed out if there is 

enough water. Salt is essential in 

order to regulate the blood sugar, 

it’s essential to manufacture hydroelectricity. Salt is vital to 

prevent catarrh as an anti-

histamine, salt is a strong natural 

anti-histamine. It prevents cramps. 

The structure of bones depends 

on salt for fullness, because 27 

percent of the salt reserve in the 

body is in crystallized form in the 

actual bone structure, in the shaft 

of the bone. And low salt diets

actually cause osteoporosis, not 

calcium deficiency.

When you don’t have water and 

salt, not only do you not absorb 

calcium, but you also get rid of 

calcium.

The crystalline world of water in 

ever changing new forms, carries 

in its natural state of perfection 

the vital pattern for our health—physically and spiritually.

Nerve cell communication 

depends on salt. Absorption of 

food depends on the sodium-

potassium activity. And asthma 

and cystic fibrosis are conditions

that can benefit from salt intake as 

well as water. Now, you’ve all seen 

these elderly people who develop

leaky bladders, they have no 

control; that is a salt deficiency 

problem. You need salt in order to strengthen smooth muscle, and 

when you don’t have enough salt, smooth muscle loses its integrity. 

This is a testimonial from Dr. E. 

Reed: “I have a weak bladder and 

have even taken spare clothing as 

I was sure they would be needed. I arrived with not a drop of anything

on my clothing. I had talked myself 

off salt—a bad mistake.” For years 

she had had this problem until she 

came across my information on 

salt, and started adding salt to her 

diet, and within three or four

days she became continent, she 

lost her incontinence.

Water regulation of the body: Water is essential

through all phases of the body’s growth, from the

intrauterine phase of life, until you reach your full

height and full weight. Growth hormone and

histamine regulate water intake. As you grow older,

you lose the concentration or secretion ability of

growth hormone, and gradually you only depend on

histamine in order to regulate water intake of the body.

Histamine is forcing us to drink water, but if instead

of water we take tea, coffee, sodas and alcohol, we

gradually dehydrate the body. Now, if we take water,

the pattern of life can go up to 150 years, depending if

we understand the water level of the body and the

composition of the materials that we put into the body.

So, good diet and hydration are essential for long life.

Growth hormone disappearance

is secondary to tryptophan and

serotonin deficiency. Growth

hormone is under the control

of the tryptophan and serotonin

level of the brain, so the tendency

to lose that is secondary

to serotonin level of the brain.

Once you hydrate the body,

gradually, I am told, the growth

hormone level comes back up.

The ratio of water inside

the cell to the ratio of water

outside the cell between the

ages of 20 to 70, has changed

from 1.1 to 0.8, in other words,

far less water inside the cells.

And the ‘plum-like’ cells

gradually, because of not

drinking water, not allowing

water to seep through the cell

membrane, the ‘plum-like’

cells become a ‘prune-like’ state, that is a state of

disease, a disease-producing state. In other words,

persistent and intentional dehydration reveals itself

in as many ways as we in medicine have labeled as

diseases. We have labeled, we have invented diseases.

We have not had diseases, we have had ‘dis-eases’

of dehydration. If we recognize these dis-eases that can

be relieved with water, diseases will go away. And so

will the sick-care system, so will a lot of doctors, so will

the pharmaceutical industry, and thank God for that.

How to Know You Are Getting

Dehydrated

How does dehydration reveal itself? In four

major ways: perceptive feelings, water rationing

programs, crisis calls of the body for water, and

disease complications. And you know that disease

complications mean that death could be part of that.

Perception of thirst, feeling tired when you haven’t

done a good day’s work, when you wake up first thing

in the morning and you don’t feel like getting out of

the bed, you’re dehydrated. You had better drink

some water straight away. In eight hours you have

deprived your brain of energy, hydro-electricity, and

that is how you feel tired because of dehydration.

Water is a ‘pick-me-up’, within three to four minutes

it will get you out of bed. Feeling flushed and

irritable, anxious, dejected, depressed, inadequate,
heavy head, cravings, agoraphobia, they’re all
complications of dehydration. Depression is definitely
a sign of dehydration.

Drought-management programs of the body:
The true thirst signals of the human body are asthma,
allergies, hypertension, old-age diabetes, and autoimmune
diseases. These are all produced by dehydration.
Alveoli need water. When you breathe in,
you suck water from the periphery into the alveoli,
and these microscopic droplets of water, when they
coalesce they create a surface tension. This surface
tension is a very powerful tension, it produces the
constriction that we use in order to get rid of the air
in the alveoli. So breathing depends on water, and
that’s why asthma is a sign of dehydration, because
in order that you preserve water, histamine constricts
the bronchioles, stimulates directly and indirectly
mucus formation and plugs the bronchus. Because
alveoli are very delicate membranes, they cannot
become dry, and if the person who is breathing
constantly (and we lose about a quart of water, a liter
of water, every 24 hours through just breathing), and
if we don’t have that water to replace it, these alveoli
become brittle, they break. And that’s how you create
cystic fibrosis. In order that this doesn’t happen,
Nature has designed that you stop breathing.
Unfortunately, we in medicine never understood
this. Today they have got 17 million asthmatics in
America, in Britain and elsewhere an equally
proportional number. And yet all of these people can
very easily get relief from their asthma by increasing
their water intake. That’s why I’ve written a book
called “The ABC of Asthma, Allergies and Lupus”
explaining that histamine is a water-regulator. Give
it water and it will not cause you harm.

As I explained, histamine is a neurotransmitter,
water and salt are the best anti-histamines there
are, but in combination. If you give water by itself
and don’t give salt, you cause problems. If you give
salt and not water, you cause problems. In fact you
need not only water and salt, which are the extracellular
balancing factors, you also need other
minerals that are inside the cells, to hold on to the
water that seeps through.

Dehydration and Lack of Salt
Cause Hypertension
Hypertension; in any water loss, 66 percent of the
water is lost from inside the cells; 26 percent is taken
from water volume held outside the cells, and eight
percent is taken from the actual vascular system. But
since the vascular system is not a rigid system, the
capillaries constrict and pick up the slack, and you
don’t sense the water loss. So when 66 percent water
loss inside the cell is beginning to produce symptoms,
any of the tests you do will not reveal anything to you,
because the vascular system is a balanced system,
and it gets regulated completely. In order to prevent
hypertension, we need water, we need salt to operate
the reverse osmosis system. Now, in addition, you
need calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc, and
selenium, which are the intra-cellular minerals, to
hold on to the water. Once you do that, no blood
pressure will dare rise above 120. Give the body the
right ingredients at the right time, and all blood
pressure medications will disappear.

Many people say that salt causes the body to hold
water. That is not true. The correct ratio of water to salt
will not hold water in the body. You need a quarter teaspoon
of salt per quart of water, which is a gram
and a half of salt to a liter of water. Now, when you go
to the hospital, they give you nine grams of salt per
liter of water, they’re not giving you isotonic solution.
But I’m giving you enough salt so that your body will
retain that salt. You need to take sea salt which
contains the other 80 minerals in it. There are 80 trace
minerals in sea salt that are not in table salt, but in the
table salt you have iodine, which is essential, so if
you only take sea salt you don’t take iodine, and a lot
of people can develop goiters, and an iodine supplement such as kelp will help, or taking a vitamin
that contains iodine is essential.

Salt deficiency has actually been used as a means
of torture, depriving one of salt. It was actually a
sentence of death, by pain. They would deprive the
person from salt and they would die very quickly in
agony. I think that sooner or later these lawyers will
get at the system, because there is no other way in
America to compel the doctors, to wean the doctors
from the ‘perk’ of the pharmaceutical industry.

Taking antihistamines on a constant basis will
cause more disease, because when you don’t honour
histamine for what it needs—water, and the minerals
and food—and you give it anti-histamine, you’re only
camouflaging the need, but you’re not satisfying the
need, and so the disease will continue on. All of a
sudden it breaks barriers, and then you develop
cancers, you develop all sorts of things, and very
quickly one can die. All these people who went to the
most expensive clinics, spent thousands of dollars,
were given a clean bill of health, they came out of the
hospital and ten days later collapsed on the steps of
their office or wherever and died, because blood tests
never revealed dehydration, which is the foundation
of the disease.


Beverages containing artificial components are a strain
for the body. In addition they all lead to dehydration,

and diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.

Diabetes, Insulin, and
Water-Regulation
You have two kinds of diabetes;
Type-1 diabetes is the auto-

immune kind in which interleukin-

6 destroys the beta-cells, 

particularly in children because 

children do not have a great

amount of water reserve in their 

body. The body immediately goes 

into the next phase of reaction 

which is autoimmune disease. 

Now, in the elderly, insulin-

independent diabetes, type-2 

diabetes, (that now we are seeing
among children as well, teenagers

), is caused by dehydration. We 

should consider the pancreas to 

be a regulator of water balance in 

the different environments of the 

cell. It produces insulin, and once 

the insulin gates are opened by 

insulin, sugar goes in and takes 

water with it; amino acids go in 

and take water with them. Other 

minerals go in because of that

gate, and take water with them.
Now, in a dehydrated state, that is
an embarrassment to the 

circulation, because don’t forget, 

the circulation cannot afford to 

lose water to the cells—it has to 

draw water out of the supplement 

such as kelp will help, or taking a 

vitamin that contains iodine is 

essential. Salt deficiency has 

actually been used as a means of 

torture, depriving one of salt. It 

was actually a sentence of death, 

by pain. They would deprive the
person from salt and they would 

die very quickly in agony. I think 

that sooner or later these lawyers 

will get at the system, because 

there is no other way in America to compel the doctors, to wean the 

doctors from the ‘perk’ of the pharmaceutical industry. Taking antihistamines on a constant 

basis will cause more disease, 

because when you don’t honour
histamine for what it needs—

water, and the minerals and food

—and you give it anti-histamine, 

you’re only camouflaging the need

, but you’re not satisfying the need

, and so the disease will continuon. 

All of a sudden it breaks barriers, 

and then you develop cancers, you develop all sorts of things, and 

very quickly one can die. All these 

people who went to the most 

expensive clinics, spent thousands 

of dollars, were given a clean bill

of health, they came out of the

hospital and ten days later 

collapsed on the steps of their 

office or wherever and died, 

because blood tests never 

revealed dehydration, which is 

the foundation of the disease.

Diabetes, Insulin, and
Water-Regulation
You have two kinds of diabetes;
Type-1 diabetes is the auto-

immune kind in which interleukin-6 destroys the beta-cells, 

particularly in children because 

children do not have a great 

amount of water reserve in their 

body. The body immediately goes 

into the next phase of reaction 

which is autoimmune disease. 

Now, in the elderly, insulin-

independent diabetes, type-2 

diabetes, (that now we are seeing
among children as well, teenagers

), is caused by dehydration. We 

should consider the pancreas to

be a regulator of water balance in 

the different environments of the 

cell. It produces insulin, and once

the insulin gates are opened by 

insulin, sugar goes in and takes 

water with it; amino acids go in 

and take water with them. Other 

minerals go in because of that

gate, and take water with them.

Now, in a dehydrated state, that is
an embarrassment to the 

circulation, because don’t forget, 

the circulation cannot afford to 

lose water to the cells—it has to withdraw water out of the cells. 

So the mechanism that brings 

water to the pancreas, 

prostaglandin-E, which is a water regulator of the body, it’s one of 

the sub-hormones of the body, 

has a direct impact on beta-cells, 

and inhibits their insulin 

production and release. If you 

give water and you give salt 

(which are anti-histamines), you 

nullify the effect of histamine, you 

don’t produce prostaglandin-E and 

the hold on the insulin producing   mechanism will go away and you produce insulin. So, all people 

with type-2 diabetes can get relief 

very quickly if they begin to drink 

water, take salt and other minerals 

the body needs. Does that make 

sense? 

I’ve seen quite a lot of dramatic 

results in people with severe 

diabetes, 600-700 milligrams per 

100 cc, they’re completely re-

covered, their sugar has come 

down to 80-90 milligrams. This is 

a mechanism involved in this 

system. In the type-1 diabetes, 

insulin-dependent diabetes, it is 

this interleukin-6 that destroys or 

‘guts’ the beta cells of the 

pancreas, and insulin production 

is diminished.

Now, even in this type of diabetes, 

if you give the person water, you 

won’t get the complications that 

are associated or acknowledged

to be because of diabetes, that is 

plaque formation, retinopathy, and 

all of those will not occur because 

they are actually dehydration-

produced, not diabetes-produced.
And insulin production, insulin 

need will diminish. I have had a 

person who was using 90 units of
insulin, now he’s using 36 units of 

insulin in 24 hours. He had 

retinopathy, and that’s gone. They
wanted to amputate his legs, and 

that’s no longer needed. He’s 

totally recovered from the 

complications of diabetes, which 

are actually complications of dehydration itself.

Other “Dis-Eases” Caused by
Dehydration

The emergency calls of the body 

for water: We gave it two classes 

of symptoms, “perceptive” and

then “drought-management 

programs”; now we have the 

emergency calls of the body for 

water, they are the main pains of 

the body. Early morning sickness 

of pregnancy is a sign of 

dehydration of the mother and the 

child, the fetus, because the fetus 

has no mechanism of telling its 

needs other than through the 

mother’s system. Histamine, 

which is a growth hormone in 

infants, babies, or intrauterine life,
whether it’s human or any another 

animal species, reflects its 

symptoms through the mother’s 

system, and that’s why we get 

early morning sickness of

pregnancy. That’s why a lot of 

women begin to retain salt and 

they become edematous, and 

retain a lot of fluid and so on. If 

we increase water intake in these
women, their early morning 

sickness of pregnancy will 

disappear. The fetuses grow much 

better in the intrauterine phase of 

growth, they’re an average of an 

inch taller, the few I have seen 

have been much taller than 

normal. They have their hair grown

, they have a much more 

developed hair structure than the
hair of the average child.

Now, dyspeptic pain or ‘heartburn’ 

is a sign of dehydration. I treated 

3000 peptic ulcer disease
sufferers in the prison with water, 

and that’s where I came to the conclusion that these people were thirsty. And in order to prove that, I wondered why the pharmaceutical industry wants to block this pain 

with anti-histamine, Tagamet, 

Zantac, and so on, H2-blocking 

agents. I said, why are they doing 

this? So I went and started 

researching this, in fact this

discussion occurred at Yale 

University and the professor said, 

“Can you prove that these people 

were thirsty?” and I said, “Yes, I 

can!” and that’s the continuation. 

So, I went into the library and 

started researching histamine, 

and the answer was there, it had 

been there all the time, but the pharmaceutical industry wasn’t 

going to share it with the doctors, 

and the doctors are not going to 

do research, they only take their education from the system that 

has been hijacked by the 

pharmaceutical industry and they

are only fed the information that 

will guide the doctor to use their chemical products. So, when I 

wrote my article on "Pain and the 

need for a paradigm change" and presented it as a guest lecturer at 

a cancer conference in 1987, and 

I explained what is the role of
histamine, the scientific 

secretariat at the Third 

Interscience World Conference of Inflamation invited me to make my presentation there, and that is 

what I did.
So, histamine is actually a pain-producing system directly and 

indirectly through its subordinate
systems, and that is why we get 

the dyspeptic pain and that’s why 

the pharmaceutical industry uses
Tagamet and Zantac to block it. 

Migraine headaches, anginal pain, rheumatoid joint pain, back pain,
fibromyalgic pain, colitis pain, 

false appendicitis pain. I have 

seen a number of people who 

came to me in the prison with 

typical appendicitis symptoms, 

but they didn’t have a temperature, 

they didn’t have nausea, so I gave 

them two glasses of water 

because by then I knew the pain 

was a sign of dehydration. I gave 

them two glasses of water and in 

three minutes their ‘appendix’ pain disappeared. So, these people
would normally end up on the 

table of the surgeon and have their appendix taken out.


It begins with us! Only by 

realizing, understanding and 

honouring the true nature of 

water, mankind will achieve a 

world free of diseases and pollution.

How does pain arise? You know 

the pH of the body should be 7.4, intracellular pH. The only way we 

can do that is by drinking enough 

water, taking enough salt and 

minerals to make the body 

alkaline and get rid of the excess 

acidity through production of 

urine. So, when we produce 

yellowish urine, it means that the 

body is getting rid of some of its 

acid. Ideally the urine should be 

even less of an intense colour than
yellow, but when we produce 

orange urine, it means that the 

body is truly dehydrated, and 

somewhere it’s going to ‘sing.’ 

Now, the way it ‘sings’ is very easy

—when the body is alkaline, the 

cells are happy, when it becomes 

acid gradually, the toxic waste 

builds up and the area become 

acid. There is a chemical

substance called pre-kallikrein. 

This substance is very sensitive to 

pH fluctuation. When pH becomes acidic, in other words drops to 6.7, 

6.5, free kallikrein is converted to 

kinin, and since there are nerve 

endings in the area, the kinin in the 

nerve endings is the element that 

causes the pain. So, that is how 

pain is produced in a dehydrated environment in the body.

Now, this drought-management 

program of the body rotates 

drought or hydration, so certain 

areas of the body are dehydrated 

and certain other areas get 

hydrated. That’s why in 

rheumatoid joint pain you get 

these migrating pains, one day it’s 

this arm, this hand that hurts, 

another day it’s the other arm or 

hand that hurts, or it’s the hip or 

the knee and so on. This is the 

migration of dehydration, and 

that’s how you get the pain.


In a well-hydrated membrane, 

water is the adhesive material 

that also diffuses through the hydrocarbon ‘bricks’. The bilayer 

is separated and the space is 

used as a ‘waterway’ for enzyme activity. In a dehydrated 

membrane, cholesterol is 

manufactured to stick the ‘bricks’ together and also prevents further 

loss of water from inside the cell. 

The ‘waterway’ is also obstructed 

by the inter-fit of projections of 

the ‘bricks’-the left side.

The Cholesterol “Problem”
and Water
 Complications of dehydration 

raise cholesterol. Obesity is the 

first complication of dehydration.
Raised cholesterol, heart failure, 

chronic fatigue, cancers, 

neurological disorders that I 

explained to you, strokes, and so 

on, they’re all produced by

dehydration. In the fourth 

dimension of time, when you’re 

talking about dehydration, you 

must include time elements, 

because the body is a chemical 

plant. You pour ingredients into it, 

it produces an outcome whether 

it’s thought, perception, knowledge

, or physical activity. Now, 

gradually change the ingredients
that you put in the body, and in the 

fourth dimension of time your 

plant will not be the same original 

plant as day one, it will be a new chemical plant, and that new 

chemical plant may have disease
processes already established in it

, or beginning to be established. 

So, reversing a situation needs a 

lot of understanding because you 

can’t capture all that’s lost in time.

Cholesterol: When you eat food 

and you do not drink water before 

your food intake, the gastro-

intestinal tract scrambles, and 

draws water out of the circulation,
water it has to spare, and the 

circulation goes around and 

borrows water from the rest of the 

tissue and puts enough water into 

the gastro-intestinal tract just 

barely to break down the food and dissolve it, liquify it and circulate it 

in the portal system to take it to 

the liver. In the liver you need a lot 

of water to operate the hydrolytic
properties of physiological 

metabolic processes, and so more 

water is used there. And this concentrated blood goes to the 

right side of the heart, and it’s
pushed into the circulation to the 

lungs. In the lungs 🫁 you lose 

further water through breathing. 

Now, highly acidic, concentrated 

blood reaches the left side of the
heart and is pumped into the 

circulation. The first area that this concentrated, acidic blood attacks
within the arterial system is the 

heart itself. It will compromise the membrane, it’s acidic so it burns it;
capillaries are already constricted because of dehydration, and this 

blood pressure rushing through
this compromised membrane 

produces abrasions and tears. 

And unless something covers 

these abrasions and tears, the 

blood will go under the membrane through the tear, and peel it off 

and throw it as an embolus down 

the circulation to the brain or to 

the heart itself. Nature has 

designed low-density cholesterol 

to come and cover the area of 

damage here, smooth over the 

tear, make it impermeable so that 

it will heal underneath. And we 

see this cholesterol and we do an 

‘LAPD’ (Los Angeles Police 

Department) phenomenon, as 

soon as something is reported, 

you have to prove that you haven’t 

done it yourself. So, the medical

community automatically 

assumes that cholesterol is the 

cause of the problem, so they take medication to lower the 

cholesterol, which is sheer 

nonsense. And the reason is that 

we measured the level of 

cholesterol in the body in the 

blood that we take out of the veins 

of the body, we never measure the 

blood cholesterol in the blood 

from the arterial system. Veins are 

blood returning to the heart. 

Arteries are blood vessels 

transporting oxygenated blood 

from the heart to the body’s organs. 

Nowhere in the history of 

medicine is one record of

cholesterol having ever blocked 

the venous system. And yet 

because of its slower circulation, 

if the imagery of the 

pharmaceutical industry is sticky 

and will stick to the walls of the 

veins, then all the veins of the 

body should be blocked, and they

’re not. This is another fraudulent statement of the pharmaceutical
industry, and it’s a four billion 

dollars fraud in America, getting 

people to take so-called ‘statins.’
With flowery words and language 

they explain that this is the cause 

of the problem. It’s not, and human
beings are being used as Guinea 

pigs, or ‘cash cows’ for the pharmaceutical industry. We need 

to wake up to this phenomenon.

The heart itself, although it 

circulates all the blood, none the 

less, the arterial system of the 

heart is compromised because of dehydration. The brain is 85 

percent water. If you look at a 

single nerve cross section, in the 

axons, or nerves of the body, you 

will see waterways, there is a 

structure called microtubules.

These microtubules are perforated 

and they drain water from the 

cytoplasm and they have an
environment around them of 

solutions of lower viscosity, and 

this is where material is floated 

down the stream and the 

microtube itself acts as a rail 

system and the transporter 

protein carries these vesicles 

down the stream into the nerve 

endings. For example, syrup has a 

higher viscosity than water. In 

order that this transport system becomes efficient, we need water 

in the nervous system. That’s why 

the brain is 85 percent water, it 

has the reverse-osmosis program completely, constantly supplying 

this water.
And if we have enough water, the diffusion process will help. This 

means of transport is called “fast-

axon transport” through 

waterways in the nerves. And this
fast-axon transport still takes 

weeks and months from the 

source of supply to the terminal 

where it’s being used. So 

dehydration is a problem in the 

elderly that gets slowed down 

because of this process.

Using Water
to Prevent Cancer
Cancer is my field of research on 

top of the other things, and I 

presented the guest lecture of a 

cancer conference in 1987. After 

my writings were evaluated by the tumour-biology unit of King’s 

College Hospital of London 

University, they realized what I 

was saying made a lot of sense, 

so the chief of the department 

went to the editor of “Anti-Cancer 

Research” and said this is new information. And this man was an
eminent researcher in cancer, he 

had 70 original papers to his 

name, and this was an entirely 

novel piece of information to him. 

It took him about a year to 

understand what I was saying, I 

had to stay with him and guide 

him through the channels of
understanding. Anyway, they put 

up a conference and they asked 

me to go and explain to the other
cancer researchers who were 

invited, eminent cancer 

researchers from Europe, America 

and elsewhere, to come and listen 

to this. I explained that pain is a 

sign of dehydration, and my guest 

lecture was “Pain: The Need for 

Paradigm Change” explaining that dehydration is the origin of pain 

and disease in the human body, 

including cancer.

Cancer cells are primitive and 

genetically selfish.
They are anaerobic, have low 

oxygen needs. They reveal stem-

cell characteristics in some cell-

culture media. In other words, this 

is a primitive cell that can once 

again become something else. 

Once again, it can develop into an 

organ or another thing. And this is 

the mechanism, when the body is dehydrated and the cells become reduced to their primitive form, 

and from that primitive form, a 

new life is supposed to occur. 

Cancer production depends on a 

multi-factorial system dysfunction, 

in other words, many systems

have to fail before cancer occurs. 

DNA damage is one of them.
Reduced efficiency of DNA repair-system; receptor bound regulation, 

and immune system suppression.
These are the four main chemical pathways that prevent cancer in 

the body, and in dehydration all of
them become damaged, and this 

is how it occurs.
When there isn’t enough water to 

wash the hydrogen ion outside of 

the cell, take it out of the cell, this
hydrogen ion can damage the 

‘fine print’ of the DNA system. 

You’ve all seen these stone 

monuments that pigeon droppings defaced; that’s acid. Now, if pigeon
droppings can eat into stone, then hydrogen ion can easily eat into 

the flesh.

In dehydration we lose tryptophan, 

it becomes an anti-oxidant, and 

yet tryptophan is part of a tripod
enzyme, lysine-tryptophan-lysine, 

that is involved in a DNA quality-

control system. So, in dehydration,
quality-control that recognizes 

DNA misprints, cuts and splices 

and corrects the DNA misprint, 

becomes disrupted because of tryptophan deficiency. In the body, 

as you know, every cell is in a 

watery environment, it depends 

for transfer of messenger systems
in watery environment, that would 

sit on the receptors and stimulate 

the cells, so it is a means of
transport, a means of 

communication in the cell by
means of the receptors. In society 

we have these dishes and electromagnetic pulses to give 

you all the information in 

television and radio and telephone
communications. In the body, it is 

in the watery environment, so in a dehydrated state, not only the
waterway in the cell membrane 

closes, but it also begins to lose 

its receptor systems, because if 

there is not enough circulation to 

bring the messenger proteins to 

the receptors, then the cells don’t 

need to make the receptors, and 

that’s how the mechanism begins.

Histamine increases calcium 

release because calcium atoms, 

when they bind together, when 

they bond and bind together, they 

trap one unit of ATP, one unit of 

energy. Histamine has learned, or 

Nature has designed it that 

histamine breaks this bond and
releases the ATP, so you get a lot 

of loose calcium in dehydration, 

because when the energy of 

hydrolysis is not there, when the 

energy of hydro-electricity is not 

there, another source of energy 

has to be made available, and the calcium bondage releases its 

energy in the endoplasmic 

reticulum or in the bone structure.
Now, as it happens, excess 

calcium activates the proteases 

and receptors are destroyed. And 

protein kinase C, which is a protein kinase that activates growth 

normally, and protein kinase C 

responds to messenger systems, 

this protein kinase is broken down 

and it becomes protein kinase M, 

which is an autonomous protein, 

and that is how, once it is 

triggered into activity, nothing 

stops it. A normal cell has 

receptors, they know where their boundaries are in a receptor-

bound regulated system. But in a 

cell that is becoming cancerous, 

these boundaries are not 

recognized. And that is why 

cancer cells overgrow one another 

and you get lumps, because of 

protein kinase M. Now, the body 

is multi-system, and depending on 

these receptors, in a cancerous environment, a body that has 

gone the route of destroying its
receptors, in that area the cells 

have become autonomous, they 

have inherited a selfishness that 

makes them replicate constantly, 

but they don’t have the receptors 

to stop boundaries, and that is 

how cancer begins to develop and 

grow. 


Water is not only essential for our physical body to maintain good 

health, it relates also to our 

emotions. That is why waves and 

water have a calming influence on troubled feelings.

 The other element is immune 

system suppression. Histamine, 

once it is secreted, it activates its
receptors. Now, the suppressor 

cells to helper cells ratio in the 

bone marrow is two to one, in 

other words, as soon as histamine 

is released in dehydration, the 

bone marrow becomes 

suppressed. Another thing is that interleukin-1 is stimulated, 

interleukin-2 is inhibited. 

Interleukin-2 is essential in 

defending the body against 

bacteria, against cancer, against 

any offending agent, because 

interleukin-2 stimulates interferon production, and as you know the scientific community has tried to 

use interferon to defend against 

cancer. Now, the role of interferon 

is very interesting; interferon 

stimulates indoleamine

dioxygenase, which breaks down tryptophan and indoleamines and produces oxygen, ozone,

superoxide of anion and hydrogen peroxide. To an anaerobic cell, 

oxygen is the kiss of death. When

dehydration inhibits interferon production, in effect you are not producing the oxygen that is 

needed. This superoxide of anion 

is actually designed to oxygenate
areas of inflammatory 

environment that do not get 

oxygen because of the stagnant situation, so the cells that are 

defending or repairing will get 

oxygen manufactured for them on 

the spot, by the action of 

interferon. In cancer production, 

this is stopped because of lack of 

water.

Water As a Cure for Cancer

Dr. Lorraine Day is an orthopedic 

surgeon herself, fifteen years the 

chief of orthopedic surgery at San
Francisco General Hospital. She 

had the lifestyle of a surgeon, 

drank a lot of coffee and operated 

a lot, and never drank water. 

Fifteen years of maybe three
glasses of water in a year. All of a sudden she developed a cancer in 

her breast, and this thing grew very
fast. She was on her death-bed, 

she had changed her lifestyle and 

started taking an alternative 

approach to treatment of cancer because she knew that the 

normal treatments wouldn’t work because she had used them 

herself, and chemotherapy she 

thinks is a poisonous system, 

which she had used before but it
never worked so she wasn’t going 

to use it for herself.
So, she stopped practicing 

medicine and went into alternative medicine, but whatever she had 

wasn’t working, she was totally 

bed-ridden, her husband was 

giving her bed pans. And she told 

me this last weekend actually, we 

were both lecturing at the same
time, she said, “I started praying 

to God and said, ‘I did whatever I 

could, God, please guide me! What
am I supposed to do? I know that 

You don’t want me to die, but tell 

me what to do.’” A friend of hers 

bought a copy of my book. 

Someone had given her a copy of
my book, she had read it, she 

threw it aside and said “it doesn’t 

apply to me.” But this time that 

she had prayed to God and the 

book was presented to her again, 

all of a sudden she woke up and 

said, “Maybe this is it.” She started reading and realized that it applied 

to her. She changed her lifestyle, 

the same night she drank fifteen 

glasses of water, and she 

gradually started improving. I’m 

not saying go out and drink fifteen glasses of water. For God’s sake, 

don’t do that! And she got better 

and better, and within four months 

she was totally cancer free, 

although she had had secondary 

cancers under her arm, in her liver
and elsewhere, she has been 

dying, virtually. The doctors had 

given her no more than two 

weeks. So water is a magical 

treatment, medication for diseases.

Prostate cancer, as you know, is 

very common. Theprostate gland enlarges when the body is acid, 

and the reason is that the prostate 

gland contains a lot of acid 

phosphatase that becomes active 

in an acid medium, and this is a mechanism of developing growth. 

And if the other mechanisms are 

there, the prostate gland can 

become cancerous very easily. A
certain Air Force officer got a PSA 

test (Prostate-Specific Antigen). 

His PSA had gone up, so he had a 

biopsy done in Germany, and they 

proved it was cancerous. He was 

sent to Walter Reed Hospital, and 

they confirmed that he had cancer 

of the prostate. He had read a 

copy of my book that his mother 

had given him, and all of a sudden 

he wanted to go the alternative 

route and he called me from 

Germany and said, “Here, I want 

you to help me get rid of cancer.” 

I said, “You know that you’re 

asking me a very legally doubtful situation, I would be legally bound.
I’m not treating you. I can advise 

you what to do, the selection 

would be yours.” He said, “Yes, I understood that.” So I told him 

what to do, what to take and what
not to take. As it happens, he’s got 

three coffee plantations in 

Panama, and he’s in love with 

coffee. I said, “Sorry, that love has 

to go.” That’s the kiss of death. 

And he loved his beer in Germany, 

oh my God. I said, “That too. It 

can’t be.” So, he changed his 

lifestyle because it was a question 

of his health. And within a few 

weeks his PSA came down and he 

went to Walter Reed in 2001 and 

they pronounced him totally 

cancer free, and he has been 

cancer free ever since.

A young man I know, Andrew 

Bowman, was a classic case of dehydration. He developed 

allergies at the age of eight years, diabetes at 14, with neuropathy at 

26. He had asthma at the same 

time he had allergies but needed treatment when he was 23. He 

had immune system suppression, 

he had several bouts ofinfectious mononucleosis, and of course 

when one gets infectious ‘mono,’ 

once is enough, but he had it three 

or four times. He had a lump on 

the left flank of his side, they took 

it and biopsied it and it was 

positive for lymphoma. He had a 

gallium test, the lymphoma was 

all over his body, he just glowed 

with lymphoma tissue. They 

offered him the orthodox 

treatment, they said they would 

give him total body X-ray. They 

‘fried’ him. He got burned, second- 

and third-degree burns and he 

refused to do it any more, and 

none the less the cancer was 

growing there. They told him to go
and put his affairs in order 

because he had no more time, 

they gave him three months at the 

time. He was going through Wilkes

Barre, Pennsylvania, and we have 

some people interested in this 

work, and he met this man Bob 

Butts, who is a proponent of the
water cure in northeast 

Pennsylvania. He spent hundreds 

of thousands of dollars educating 

the people in northeast 

Pennsylvania about dehydration. 

He took Andrew Bowman under 

his wing and told him to drink 

water. He contacted me, I told him 

what to do. And in November of

1995, that is a few months later, 

he was totally free of lymphoma.

He is still free of lymphoma. He 

hasn’t looked back on lymphoma. 

His diabetes, which is the only 

remnant of the symptoms of his dehydration, he was taking 96 

units of insulin, he’s now taking 36. 

His eye problems disappeared, his 

leg problems disappeared, they 

didn’t have to amputate it.

Naturally moving water, 

whirling life energies in and out to
higher and higher levels, 

thus being the cause of physical 

and spiritual growth for all life in 

God’s creation.

Practical Use of Water
to Maintain Good Health
So, water is an unknown quantity 

that God has revealed for mankind 

in trouble, in times of need, when 

we are being enslaved by the pharmaceutical industry and the ignorance of my colleagues in the
medical community. The 

treatment process is very simple; 

prevent dehydration first. You 

need water on a regular basis, you 

need salt on a regular basis. You 

need daily exercise because your 

brain chemistry depends on how 

you move your muscles. When 

you use your muscles, you burn 

the branched-chain amino acids, 

which are competitors to 

tryptophan passage across the 

blood brain barrier. And once you 

burn those, your body chemistry 

will begin to function normally. 

The calf muscles are your 

secondary hearts for venous

circulation. That is why you need 

to exercise every day.

You need a balanced vegetable 

and protein diet, a ratio of 20 to 

80, 80 percent vegetables and
fruits, not very much starch, and 

20 percent protein.
Do this and take the right amounts 

of water and cut out sodas, I can 

assure you, I guarantee no 

disease will occur in you for a long 

time. You need your water before 

your food. First thing in the

morning when you wake up, drink

two glasses of water to offset the dehydration of overnight. Then you
need a glass of water half an hour 

before food because if you expect 

to digest the food, you better
give the free-water beforehand. 

You need also a glass of water 

two-and-a-half hours after food, to 

wrap up the process of digestion, 

and re-hydrate the areas that lost 

water to the circulation. You need 

for every quart or liter of water a 

quarter teaspoon of salt, you also 

need the other minerals in order to
regulate the volume of water that 

is held inside the cells. You need a balanced protein; eggs are very 

good, cottage cheese is excellent, 

to give you all the amino acids 

and balanced structure.

To reverse any of the diseases 

produced by dehydration, it is 

essential to adequately 

supplement the body with intra-

cellular minerals; the diet must
be high in its potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium and manganese content. This is a very
simple solution to cure any of the modern diseases we have come 

across.

I have been asked if drinking 

enough water would be the best protection against pollutants in 

our environment.

Absolutely. It would offset the 

damage that is produced by these
things, first, and secondly it will immediately flush the toxic 

material out of the body, and for
example if you take radioactive 

iodine, it will wash it out very

quickly. If iodine becomes
radioactive as a result of 

radioactivity, water washes it out 

from the body. Water is a 

tremendous cleansing solution 

against all these toxic materials.

Tap Water versus Bottled Water

Concerning the difference in tap 

water versus bottled water; 

fortunately, city water is not 

charging you as much as bottled 

water companies. At least the city 

water has a regulator, and these 

bottled waters have no regulators. 

City water comes under constant
scrutiny. If the smell of chlorine is 

a bother, chlorine is a gas; let the 

water stand, in half an hour it 

disappears and the water 

becomes free. Fluoride I have no
control over, but fluoride naturally 

is a toxic substance, but I think 

the vote is out yet on fluoride. A 

lot of people say it is bad, but I’ve 

seen fluoride having been used
in order to produce hardening of 

soft bones in osteoporotic people, 

so I do not know very much about
fluoride as they say. Some areas 

may have oversupplied fluoride, of course that is dangerous, but
fortunately it is not frequent. But 

these bottled waters can easily 

become contaminated and you 

don’t know when they’ve made 

them, how they stored them, and 

most of these large bottles are 

ordinary tap water that is being 

sold, so the source of water is not known.
One company apparently was 

advocating that this water comes 

from such-and-such a spring, and 

on “60 Minutes” they did research 

on that water and discovered that 

it was actually tap water from 

Miami,which is the worst water in America!

The People’s Urgent Need
to Know the Truth of Water

It needs to be taken to the public, 

from pulpits, from person to 

person, in any way that is possible

, because there is no other way to 

break the stranglehold of the pharmaceutical industry over the 

neck and throat of the public. I 

have initiated discussion with a 

lawyer to begin proceedings 

against the FDA, because I do 

believe the FDA has been remiss 

about sharing this information 

with the public, and has given way 

to the pharmaceutical industry’s treatment of states of dehydration 

with medication, and I think this 

damage is actually producing a lot 

of inconvenience and prolonged problems for children.
There are fifteen million asthmatic children in America, and a child 

who develops asthma at the age 

of four or five will be like Andrew Bowman and by the age of 30 or 

40 will develop a whole host of
other problems and will die. And in 

fact, every year about five or six thousand asthmatic children die 

on the way to the hospital.

So share this blessing of God with others, and take a stand to stop 

the present health care ‘sting’ 

against those who do not yet 

know that chronicdehydration is 

the root cause of most 

degenerative diseases of the 

human body. ◆



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