OTHER ESSENTIALS FOR HEALTH AND HEALING
While water, salt, and minerals are vital for optimal health, the nutrients we receive from the foods we eat are also important, as is the need to stay fit through regular exercise. In this chapter, I will give a brief overview of the other essentials— proteins, fats, fruits, vegetables, sunlight, and exercise—needed for optimal health
and healing.
PROTEINS
Many experts are of the opinion that the body needs a minimum of between 1.1 and 1.4 grams of good-quality protein for every kilogram—2.2 pounds—of body weight per day. A 200-pound (90 kg) person thus needs about 4.5 ounces—120 grams— of protein a day to maintain muscle mass. At this level of protein intake, the body will retain its normal composition of protein reserves and will not break into them and deplete some of the amino acid reserves.
Children need a basic minimum of about 1 gram of protein for every pound of body weight.
You must bear in mind that the protein portion of high-protein foods varies from source to source. For example: An egg weighs about 50 grams and has only 6 grams of pure protein; meat contains 7 grams of pure protein in every ounce; hard cheeses contain about 7 grams of pure protein per ounce; soft cheeses contain about 3 grams of pure protein per ounce; tofu contains about 5 grams of pure protein per ounce. One ounce is 28.3 grams. In other words, not all the weight of the protein foods is pure protein.
In advanced societies that place high demands for increased productivity on their labor force and have no food shortages, the recommended regular intake of protein seems to be much higher. The more physically active you are, the more protein-containing food your body needs. The extra protein is needed for tissue
repairs and the manufacture of enzymes and neurotransmitters. High-protein diets are now fashionable in weight-loss programs.
STRESS AND AMINO ACIDS
It is my published opinion that continued submissive endurance of stress depletes the body of certain absolutely essential amino acids—tryptophan, tyro-sine, cysteine, and methionine in particular. These amino acids must be present in correct proportions for the body's main functions to take place in a coordinated manner. This
is a part of what I mean by the regulation of the body as an integrated system. Let us see some aspects of what these amino acids mean to the body. Then we may understand the impact of stress and be alert to its main signals in the body.
Before we get into the discussion of the individual amino acids, let me give you some basic information. There are twenty different amino acids from which proteins are made up. By selectively mixing the amino acids, some more than others, different proteins are manufactured. The manufactured proteins have different
shapes and sizes, and are three-dimensional structures that twist and rotate all the time. During these twists and rotations they present different facets that become attractive to their chemically predetermined partners, and a desired response is generated when they unite or have an effect on each other. It is from the sum total
of these desired responses that life and actions of all living matter come into being.
The food that we eat provides not only some of the energy needed to function, but also some of the basic amino acids as raw materials for protein production. In more dilute solutions, the proteins and enzymes of the body develop a greater movement and rotational freedom and become more efficient in finding and coupling with their chemical partners. Thus, dehydration can cause a slowing of these natural movements and could be responsible for the slowing of body reactions and loss of certain sensations as we grow older and become more dehydrated.
The human body can manufacture twelve of the twenty amino acids from other raw materials, but needs to import into the system eight of them to be able to manufacture the complete range of its protein and neurotransmitter needs. These “imports” are called essential amino acids. Without them, and in an exact sufficiency at that, the body will not function. I use the words exact sufficiency to indicate that more is not better. Just because these amino acids are essential does not mean we should load the body with them. This attitude is dangerous. The rate of assimilation of one amino acid depends on the presence of the others in proportionate amounts. The excess presence of one can have a disruptive effect and alter the metabolism rate of the others. So beware of buying amino acids that are manufactured and sold by the bottle.
The essential amino acids are isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. Since tyrosine is manufactured from phenylalanine and cysteine is manufactured from methionine, tyrosine and cysteine should also be considered essential amino acids. There are limits to the rate of manufacture of arginine and histidine in the young and the old, so, in essence, these amino acids are also to be considered essential. In effect, there are twelve essential amino acids that the body needs to import at various stages of its development if its normal functions are to be guaranteed. I will deal with only a few of them to explain some aspects of the metabolism disturbance in chronic dehydration and stress.
Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that is highly sensitive to heat. It spins at a much faster rate when the temperature of the body rises even a few degrees. It seems to respond to the heat of activation produced by water. It performs certain functions more efficiently when there is more water in the body, particularly when water is essential to activate the hydroelectric pump units in the cell membrane and generate energy and heat. The mechanism involved in the passage of tryptophan through the wall of the blood vessels of the brain is complicated. However, the consistency of blood, on the dilute side, enormously helps the passage of tryptophan into the brain and the centers of its activity. Tryptophan gives rise to the neurotransmitter agent serotonin, along with its deputies tryptamine and melatonin.
Tryptophan also has a natural role in recognizing and repairing damaged, unnatural, and inexact DNA structures. DNA is the material at the center of re-creation of life from one living matter into another. The secrets of re-creation are held in the DNA con-tent of the body. Its correct representation is essential to give rise to the next generation, be it the daughter cell in an organ or the next-generation offspring. It is my view that cancer cells are daughter cells that have transformed into faulty new cells because the DNA-repair system has become inadequate due to a break-down in the tryptophan-regulatory process. Dr. Jawed Iqbal, a world-recognized cancer researcher who lives in England, has studied the scientific explanations for the above statement. After much scrutiny, he has accepted the validity of the concept and has written a number of articles that can be viewed in the section on science on the Web site www.watercure.com.
It has now been recognized that tryptophan forms a tripod team with two units of lysine, another amino acid, and forms an enzyme that acts as the quality controller on the DNA assembly line. It seems that tryptophan projection of the enzyme is responsible for cutting and repairing any damaged site in the DNA assembly.
As far as the brain is concerned, as soon as tryptophan reaches the brain side of the circulation it becomes converted into the various neurotransmitters. Research seems to indicate that almost all of the problems of the human body become established when the rate of entry of tryptophan to the brain centers that use the neurotransmitter derivatives of tryptophan is negatively affected.
My research indicates a direct relationship between the level of water in the body and the rate of tryptophan transfer across the blood-brain barrier. In dehydration, less tryptophan gets across. The level of tryptophan entry into the brain determines the intensity of the pain sensation. When there is less tryptophan, the pain sensation registers more intensely. With increased tryptophan getting into the brain, the pain sensation decreases until it disappears. The relationship of the thirst signal in the body to the feeling of pain associated with thirst seems to indicate a decrease in tryptophan entry into the brain. In this way the pain associated with a certain level of dehydration, beyond the threshold of rationing the available water and adaptation to chronic dehydration, explains the way pain registers when there is dehydration.
In stress dehydration, more tryptophan in its free form is released from the reserves of the body. The liver has a metering system for free tryptophan. When it reaches a certain level, the liver begins to recycle and destroy it and finally discard its by-products. This is a very drastic way of getting rid of an essential amino acid.
It has to be done, however, because in its free form tryptophan is used in other capacities, such as in a substitute cleaning process when water is not available to wash away the toxic waste.
When used in this way, stress-initiated breakdown of tryptophan can deplete the reserves of this most essential amino acid in the body. It is to prevent this event that, in any form of stress, you should immediately begin to drink copious amounts of water. This is why dehydration causes stress—and stress precipitates so many disease conditions in the body. Tryptophan is involved in the formation of the color of the iris of the eye. It acts as filter to intense light and ultraviolet rays that might damage the retina.
Another important effect of tryptophan on proper metabolism is in muscle movement. Large muscles of the body demonstrate an avid metabolism for the branched chain amino acids valine, leucine, and isoleucine, three of the twenty amino acids in the body. During exercise and movement of the large muscle mass, these three amino acids are used up for their energy content. They also compete
with tryptophan for passage across the blood-brain barrier and entry to the brain. Unless tryptophan enters into the brain tissue, a state of calm and peace will not prevail. The importance of exercise—walking at least one hour a day—cannot be stressed enough. It is as a result of burning these competitors of tryptophan by the muscle tissue that a well-regulated physiology in the body can be established.
Tyrosine is another most important and responsible amino acid in the human body. It is the base material for the manufacture of adrenaline and noradrenaline— the neurotransmitters that coordinate the action-oriented functions of the body.
Tyrosine is also essential for the manufacture of the neurotransmitter dopamine, of the thyroid hormones, and of the skin pigment called melanin, the suntan pigment. This amino acid is also critical for the composition of certain essential proteins, including the insulin receptor.
In stress, the enzyme that breaks up tyrosine becomes excessively activated. If the enzyme is allowed to continue its run on the body's reserve of tyrosine beyond the rate of its manufacture, certain essential functions become severely affected.
Tyrosine and tryptophan seem to be excessively destroyed when there is dehydration/stress in the body.
Sources of Good Proteins
Good-quality proteins can be found in eggs, milk, and legumes. Legumes such as lentils, mung beans, broad beans, and soy beans are 24 percent high-quality proteins. Vegetables also contain good-quality protein (spinach is about 13 percent protein), as do fresh turkey, chicken, veal, beef, pork, and fish. I use the word fresh because animal meat contains different enzymes that quickly destroy some of the essential amino acids within its proteins. Prolonged exposure to oxygen also destroys some of the essential amino acids in meat proteins. It makes the good fats in meat rancid and useless to the body.
Do not take individual amino acids as supplements instead of a balanced protein diet. At a certain concentration, some have adverse effects on the mineral and vitamin balance of the body. Amino acids in the body function more efficiently when they are proportionately represented.
Eggs are a wholesome food. An average egg weighs 50 grams and has an energy value of eighty calories. The white of an egg weighs about 33 grams and the yolk about 17 grams. Eggs contain about 6 grams of top-quality proteins, no carbohydrates, and no fiber. The protein content of eggs is composed of a balanced range of amino acids. Eggs are rich in vitamins such as biotin and minerals such as manganese, selenium, phosphorus, and copper. The yolk is a rich source of sulfur, a natural antioxidant that is now recognized as vital for health and well-being.
About 10 percent of an egg is its lipid or fat con-tent. The lipid composition of the egg yolk is unique. It is rich in both lecithin, which is the precursor of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). DHA is an essential fat for maintaining brain function. It is needed for the constant repair of brain-cell membranes and their cell-to-cell contact points—synaptosomes. The nerve structure of the eyes uses much DHA for interpreting colors and for quality and sharpness of vision. Apart from being found in eggs, DHA is also found in cold-water fish and algae.
It is being increasingly understood that the level of cholesterol in the circulation is not affected by a high-egg diet. It is a medically published fact that an elderly man has for many years eaten about twenty-four eggs a week without any clinically significant rise in his cholesterol level.
The next time you come across a person who talks about “bad cholesterol” being the cause of heart disease, ask: “Is it not true that we measure the cholesterol levels in the body in the blood that is drawn from a vein?” If it is true that the cholesterol level is the cause of plaques and obstruction of the blood vessels, when a slower rate of blood flow would encourage further cholesterol deposits, then we should also see more blockage of the veins of the body. Since there is not a single scientific report of cholesterol deposits causing blockage of the veins, the assumption that cholesterol is “bad” and is the cause of heart disease is erroneous and unscientific.
Let me again explain why we get cholesterol deposits in the arteries of the heart or the brain or even on the inner wall of the major arteries of the body. Remember, the term dehydration really refers to concentrated, acidic blood. Acidic blood that is also concentrated pulls water out of the cells lining the arterial wall. At the same time, the fast rush of blood against the delicate cells lining the inner wall of the arteries, weakened by loss of their water and damaged by constant toxicity of concentrated blood, produces microscopic abrasions.
Another of the many functions of cholesterol is its use as a sort of waterproof dressing to cover the dam-aged sites within the arterial membranes until they are repaired. Cholesterol acts as a sort of waterproof covering—a “grease gauze”—that protects the inner wall of the artery from rupturing and peeling off. When you look at cholesterol through this perspective, you will realize what a blessing it really is. This particular action of cholesterol is actually designed to save the lives of people whose bodies get seriously damaged as a result of persistent dehydration.
In my opinion, all the statistics about the level of cholesterol in the blood and the number of people who die of heart disease reflect the extent of the killer dehydration that has also caused the level of blood cholesterol to rise.
Another most important role of cholesterol in the body will be discussed later in this chapter. Based on this new understanding of cholesterol, I have no hesitation in recommending eggs as a very good source of the essential dietary needs of the human body.
Milk Products
For people who can digest milk products, natural, unsweetened yogurt is a good source of high-quality protein. It also contains lots of vitamins and good bacteria.
The good bacteria in yogurt keep the intestinal tract healthy and help prevent the growth of toxic bacteria and toxic yeasts such as candida. Of course, people who are allergic to dairy products should not take yogurt.
Cheeses are also a good source of protein. Freshly prepared cheeses are easier to digest and, in my opinion, are more wholesome than aged cheeses. Some people cannot digest cow's milk easily. Soy milk is a very good substitute. If you do not like the taste of soy milk, mix it with carrot juice and enjoy the advantage of additional vitamins and nutrients. The combination is healthy and tasty.
ESSENTIAL FATS
Fat is an essential dietary requirement of the body. Some vital fatty acids that make up certain fats and oils are used as primary materials in the manufacture of cell membranes. They are also primary ingredients from which many of the hormones of the body are manufactured. The manufacture of sex hormones depends on the presence of some essential fats in the body, including the much-maligned cholesterol. Nerve cells need the “good” fats to remanufacture their constantly used-up nerve endings.
The essential fat components are omega-6—a polyunsaturated fatty acid known as linoleic acid— and omega-3, which is a super-unsaturated fatty acid known as alphalinolenic acid. These fatty acids are in the form of oils. Our bodies cannot manufacture these essential fatty acids and have to import them in the form of oils in food.
The average body needs, absolutely, between 6 and 9 grams of linoleic acid a ay. It also needs around 2 to 9 grams of alphalinolenic acid (omega-3), the most essential of the fatty acids. These fatty acids are needed particularly by the brain cells and their long nerves to manufacture insulated membranes that need to be impermeable and prevent interference to the rate and flow of neurotransmission. The nerve endings in the retina that are involved in object recognition and clarity of sight have a high turnover of these essential fatty acids, particularly DHA. DHA is made from omega-3 fatty acid and is vital for brain-cell composition. People with neurological disorders have been shown to be short of DHA.
As mentioned, eggs, cold-water fish, and algae are good sources of DHA. Another excellent source of the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, in an ideal ratio of 3:l, is flaxseed oil (also known as linseed oil) that is cold-pressed and bottled in dark containers that keep out light. A similar oil is grapeseed oil. Light destroys these essential oils, which is why they are also packed in dark capsules. Sesame oil has the desirable property of being highly unsaturated. It is the eating oil of choice in many ancient cultures. Canola oil is also a good source of some essential fatty acids. The reason oils are better than solid fats is because at normal body temperature they remain as oils and do not turn into sticky lard.
For detailed information on the essential fatty acids and their best sources, refer to the book Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill, by Dr. Udo Erasmus. Another good and readable book on this topic is Smart Fats, by Dr. Michael A. Schmidt. I also recommend a book on vitamins and minerals that I found easy reading with lots of useful information. It is The Complete Illustrated Guide to Vitamins and Minerals by Denise Mortimer.
Butter is a rich source of fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin E, lecithin, folic acid, and more. Butter is also a rich source of calcium and phosphorous. The body needs some fat in its daily diet. You cannot go fat-free and survive for long. The body is not able to manufacture certain fat components that are needed to make its insulating membranes. If you don't give the body what it needs, it will try to make the required element from the carbohydrate content in its daily diet. However, since the body is unable to complete the process of making essential fats, it proceeds to store the unfinished product. This is how some people grow disproportionately fat. If you want to lose weight, your diet must contain some fat. Each gram of fat provides the body with nine calories of energy. Recent studies have con-firmed the importance of adequate fat in diets designed for weight loss.
FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND SUNLIGHT
The body also needs fruits and green vegetables daily. They are ideal sources of the natural vitamins and essential minerals we need. Green vegetables also contain a great deal of beta-carotenes and even some DHA fatty acid needed by the brain.
Fruits and vegetables are important for maintaining the pH balance of the body. Chlorophyll contains a very high quantity of magnesium. Magnesium is to chlorophyll what iron is to hemoglobin in the blood—an oxygen carrier.
To asthmatics, people with osteoporosis, and also cancers, sunlight is medicine. Light from the sun acts on the cholesterol deposits on the skin and converts them to vitamin D. Vitamin D encourages bone making and the entrapment of calcium by the bones, which in children helps them grow. Vitamin D also stimulates calcium absorption in the intestinal tract. Calcium has a direct acid-neutralizing effect in the body and is effective in balancing the cell pH—an out- come that helps alleviate asthma complications.
If you drink adequate amounts of water every day, take the required amount of salt, and get plenty of exercise—preferably in the open air and under good light— your body will begin to adjust its own intake of proteins and carbohydrates, as well as its fat requirements to use for energy. Your need for proteins will increase. Your need for carbohydrates will decrease, and your fat-burning enzymes will consume more fat than is in the average diet. Contrary to the belief that cholesterol cannot be metabolized once it is deposited, it, too, will be cleared. The cholesterol deposits in the arteries may take longer to disappear than you might wish, but the body has all the chemical know-how to clear cholesterol plaques.
Cholesterol and Osteoporosis
Remember, cholesterol is vital to body physiology. We have to find out why the body manufactures more of it than usual. The following explanation is one of many I have found for this.
When there is a shortage of water in the body, less hydroelectric energy is manufactured to energize all the dependent functions—much like low water flow in the river that feeds an electricity-generating dam. After a while, the dam will not hold enough water to operate all the generators. In real-life situations, when cheap
energy from hydroelectric dams is insufficient, power generators begin to burn oil or coal—dirty fuel—to generate electricity.
In the body, the alternative source of energy is calcium deposits in the bone or inside the cells. The energy trapped in the union of two calcium molecules that are fused together is used instead. When two calcium atoms bond together, one unit of ATP energy is also trapped. The cells in the body have many trapped bonded cal-
cium atoms in different storage sites that become broken up and their energy is used. There comes a time when this process results in an availability of too many loose calcium molecules— similar to the ash of spent fuel. Fortunately, calcium ash (so to speak) is easily recycled and, if energy is available, calcium molecules bond together once again and store energy for use—like charging a battery that is low.
Sunlight—energy—converts cholesterol in the skin to vitamin D. Vitamin D is responsible for facilitating the reentrapment of calcium and its reentry into the cells and the bones to be rebounded and restored. Vitamin D sticks to its receptors on the cell membrane; simultaneously, one unit of calcium attaches itself to the exposed tail of the vitamin D that is in the process of entering the cell through the cell membrane. The union of calcium with vitamin D and its membrane receptor acts as a sort of magnetic rod, and whole chains of other essential elements and amino acids stick to the exposed calcium and are drawn into the cell.
In this way, the energy of sunlight, and its conversion of cholesterol to vitamin D, has a direct physiological impact on the feeding mechanism of the cells of the body. When calcium reenters the cell, it takes other essential elements with it. In this way, the cell receives raw materials for repair and energy metabolism. At the same time, the surplus energy that enters the cell is used to fuse together calcium molecules and once again store energy in the calcium bonds for future use.
Once you understand the logic behind the cascade of the chemical events in the body, you will realize the vital importance of cholesterol to cell metabolism and the health of the cells in the body. You should put the higher cholesterol levels of the body to full use by making more vitamin D from it and promoting better-functioning and fully energized and operational cells in your body. Use sunlight to your advantage to lower your cholesterol and promote formation of denser bones.
Some of you might immediately react negatively to this statement and express your fear of melanoma. It is my thoughtful understanding that cancers in the body are produced by dehydration, inactivity, and poor choices of foods and beverages. For more than twenty years, I played three hours of tennis six days a week, in the heat of the early-afternoon sun in Tehran. I did not develop any form of cancer.
You cannot sit at a desk in an artificially lit office and expect to have a normal cholesterol level and normal bone density in your body. And in this situation, you will probably have a health professional— one who does not understand the mechanisms and relationships of sunlight energy conversion—label this natural outcome of an incomplete chain of metabolic events a “disease”; a vital element, cholesterol, will also be labeled “bad.”
Sunlight was first used successfully as medication when children with deformed bones (rickets) were exposed to it, which corrected the deformity. They called it heliotherapy. I interpret the gradual rise in cholesterol as we grow older through my scientific understanding of the many roles of cholesterol, and associate its increased production by the liver with the gradual decrease in bone density.
I think the rise in low-density cholesterol is a significant indicator of the onset of osteoporosis. To prevent osteoporosis, a gradual exposure to early-morning sunlight could be a natural way to increase calcium absorption into the body and the bones.
EXERCISE
The most important factor for survival, after air, water, salt, and food, is exercise. Exercise is more important to the health of the individual than sex, entertainment, or anything else that might be pleasurable. Here is why exercise is crucial for better health and a longer pain-free life:
• Exercise expands the vascular system in the muscle tissue and helps prevent hypertension.
• It opens the capillaries in the muscle tissue and, by lowering the resistance to blood flow in the arterial system, causes the blood pressure and blood sugar to drop to normal.
• Exercise builds up muscle mass—positive nitrogen balance—and prevents the muscles from being broken down as fuel.
• Exercise stimulates the activity of fat-burning enzymes for manufacturing constantly needed energy for muscle activity. When you train, you are in effect changing the source of energy for muscle activity. You convert the energy source from sugar that is in circulation to fat that is stored in the muscle itself, and elsewhere in the body.
• Exercise makes muscles burn as additional fuel some of the amino acids that would otherwise reach toxic levels in the body. In their greater-than-normal levels in the blood—usually reached in a sedentary body— certain branched-chain amino acids cause a drastic destruction and depletion of other vital amino acids. Some of these discarded essential amino acids are constantly needed by the brain to manufacture its neurotransmitters. Two of these essential amino acids are tryptophan and tyrosine. The brain uses tryptophan to make serotonin, melatonin, tryptamine, and in dolamine, all of which are antidepressants and regulate sugar level and blood pressure. Tyrosine is used for the manufacture of adrenaline, noradrenaline, and dopamine—vital for the coordination of body physiology whenever it has to take a physical action, such as fighting, running, playing sports, and so on. Tyrosine depletion is also a primary factor in Parkinson's disease.
• Unexercised muscle gets broken down. As a result of the excretion of muscle parts from the body, some of the reserves of zinc and vitamin B6 also get lost. At a certain stage of this constant depletion of vitamin B6 and zinc, certain mental disorders and neurological complications occur. In effect, this happens in autoimmune diseases, including lupus and muscular dystrophy.
• Exercise makes the muscles hold more water in reserve and prevents increased concentration of blood that would otherwise damage the lining of the blood vessel walls.
• Exercise lowers blood sugar in diabetics and decreases their need for insulin or tablet medications.
• Exercise compels the liver to manufacture sugar from the fat that it stores or that is circulating within the blood.
• Exercise causes an increase in the mobility of the joints in the body and creates an intermittent vacuum inside the joint cavities. The force of the vacuum causes suction of water into the cavity. Water in the joint cavity brings dissolved nutrients to the cells inside the cartilage. Increased water con-tent of the cartilage also adds to its lubrication and smoother bone-on-bone gliding movements of the joint.
• Calf muscles act as secondary “hearts.” By their con-tractions and relaxations when we are upright and moving, the leg muscles overcome the force of gravity. They pump into the venous system the blood that was sent to the legs. Because of the pressure breakers in the vein and one-directional valves, the blood in the leg veins is pushed upward against gravity by frequent contraction of the leg muscles. This is how the leg muscles act as a kind of heart for the venous system in the body. This is a value to exercise that not many people appreciate. Leg muscles also cause an equally effective flow within the lymphatic system and cause edema in the legs to disappear.
• Exercise strengthens the bones of the body and helps prevent osteoporosis.
• Exercise increases the production of all vital hormones, enhancing libido and heightening sexual performance.
• One hour of walking will cause the activation of fat-burning enzymes, which remain active for twelve hours. A morning and afternoon walk will keep these enzymes active around the clock and will clear cholesterol deposits in the arterial system, as well as fat from the fat stores in the body.
• Exercise will enhance the activity of the adrenaline-activated sympathetic nerve system. Adrenaline will also reduce the over secretion of histamine and, as a result, will prevent asthma attacks and allergic reactions— providing the body is fully hydrated.
• Exercise will increase production of endorphins and enkephalins, the natural opiates of the body. They produce the same high that drug addicts try to achieve through their abusive intake.
What Are the Best Forms of Exercise?
Exercising the body for endurance is better than exercising it for speed or for building excess muscle. In selecting an exercise, you should consider its lifetime value.
A long-distance runner will enjoy the exercise value of long-distance runs into old age. A sprinter will not sprint for exercise at a later phase of life.
The best exercise—one that you can benefit from even to a ripe old age, and without causing damage to your joints—is walking. Other exercises that will increase your endurance are swimming, golf, skiing, skating, climbing, tennis, squash, bicycling, tai chi, dancing, and aerobics. In selecting an exercise, evaluate its ability to keep the fat-burning enzymes active for longer durations. Outdoor forms of exercise are more beneficial for the body than indoor forms. The body becomes better connected to nature.
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CONCLUSION:
Four Simple Steps to Vibrant Health
The four most vital steps to better health are balancing the water and salt content of the body; exercising the muscle mass of the body to enhance the efficiency of brain function; avoiding beverages that dehydrate and make the body more toxic;
and eating a balanced daily diet of proteins and vegetables in a ratio of 20 percent protein and 80 percent vegetables, legumes, and fruits, with as little starch and sugar as possible. It is the high starch and sugar content of the diet that makes a person fat. Higher protein and fat contents of the diet do not make you fat!
If you stick to these recommendations, I am confident that you will seldom fall ill and will live a long and productive life.
I do hope you will share the information in this book with others who might need it.
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INFECTION—water may increase the efficiency of the immune system to combat infections and cancer cells
DEPRESSION—water helps the body naturally replenish its supply of the neuro-transmitter serotonin
SLEEP DISORDERS—water is needed for the production of nature's sleep regulator, melatonin
LACK OF ENERGY—water generates electrical and magnetic energy in every body cell, providing a natural power boost
ADDICTION—water can help eliminate addictive urges for caffeine, alcohol, and some drugs
OSTEOPOROSIS—water is an aid to strong bone formation
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While water, salt, and minerals are vital for optimal health, the nutrients we receive from the foods we eat are also important, as is the need to stay fit through regular exercise. In this chapter, I will give a brief overview of the other essentials— proteins, fats, fruits, vegetables, sunlight, and exercise—needed for optimal health
and healing.
PROTEINS
Many experts are of the opinion that the body needs a minimum of between 1.1 and 1.4 grams of good-quality protein for every kilogram—2.2 pounds—of body weight per day. A 200-pound (90 kg) person thus needs about 4.5 ounces—120 grams— of protein a day to maintain muscle mass. At this level of protein intake, the body will retain its normal composition of protein reserves and will not break into them and deplete some of the amino acid reserves.
Children need a basic minimum of about 1 gram of protein for every pound of body weight.
You must bear in mind that the protein portion of high-protein foods varies from source to source. For example: An egg weighs about 50 grams and has only 6 grams of pure protein; meat contains 7 grams of pure protein in every ounce; hard cheeses contain about 7 grams of pure protein per ounce; soft cheeses contain about 3 grams of pure protein per ounce; tofu contains about 5 grams of pure protein per ounce. One ounce is 28.3 grams. In other words, not all the weight of the protein foods is pure protein.
In advanced societies that place high demands for increased productivity on their labor force and have no food shortages, the recommended regular intake of protein seems to be much higher. The more physically active you are, the more protein-containing food your body needs. The extra protein is needed for tissue
repairs and the manufacture of enzymes and neurotransmitters. High-protein diets are now fashionable in weight-loss programs.
STRESS AND AMINO ACIDS
It is my published opinion that continued submissive endurance of stress depletes the body of certain absolutely essential amino acids—tryptophan, tyro-sine, cysteine, and methionine in particular. These amino acids must be present in correct proportions for the body's main functions to take place in a coordinated manner. This
is a part of what I mean by the regulation of the body as an integrated system. Let us see some aspects of what these amino acids mean to the body. Then we may understand the impact of stress and be alert to its main signals in the body.
Before we get into the discussion of the individual amino acids, let me give you some basic information. There are twenty different amino acids from which proteins are made up. By selectively mixing the amino acids, some more than others, different proteins are manufactured. The manufactured proteins have different
shapes and sizes, and are three-dimensional structures that twist and rotate all the time. During these twists and rotations they present different facets that become attractive to their chemically predetermined partners, and a desired response is generated when they unite or have an effect on each other. It is from the sum total
of these desired responses that life and actions of all living matter come into being.
The food that we eat provides not only some of the energy needed to function, but also some of the basic amino acids as raw materials for protein production. In more dilute solutions, the proteins and enzymes of the body develop a greater movement and rotational freedom and become more efficient in finding and coupling with their chemical partners. Thus, dehydration can cause a slowing of these natural movements and could be responsible for the slowing of body reactions and loss of certain sensations as we grow older and become more dehydrated.
The human body can manufacture twelve of the twenty amino acids from other raw materials, but needs to import into the system eight of them to be able to manufacture the complete range of its protein and neurotransmitter needs. These “imports” are called essential amino acids. Without them, and in an exact sufficiency at that, the body will not function. I use the words exact sufficiency to indicate that more is not better. Just because these amino acids are essential does not mean we should load the body with them. This attitude is dangerous. The rate of assimilation of one amino acid depends on the presence of the others in proportionate amounts. The excess presence of one can have a disruptive effect and alter the metabolism rate of the others. So beware of buying amino acids that are manufactured and sold by the bottle.
The essential amino acids are isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. Since tyrosine is manufactured from phenylalanine and cysteine is manufactured from methionine, tyrosine and cysteine should also be considered essential amino acids. There are limits to the rate of manufacture of arginine and histidine in the young and the old, so, in essence, these amino acids are also to be considered essential. In effect, there are twelve essential amino acids that the body needs to import at various stages of its development if its normal functions are to be guaranteed. I will deal with only a few of them to explain some aspects of the metabolism disturbance in chronic dehydration and stress.
Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that is highly sensitive to heat. It spins at a much faster rate when the temperature of the body rises even a few degrees. It seems to respond to the heat of activation produced by water. It performs certain functions more efficiently when there is more water in the body, particularly when water is essential to activate the hydroelectric pump units in the cell membrane and generate energy and heat. The mechanism involved in the passage of tryptophan through the wall of the blood vessels of the brain is complicated. However, the consistency of blood, on the dilute side, enormously helps the passage of tryptophan into the brain and the centers of its activity. Tryptophan gives rise to the neurotransmitter agent serotonin, along with its deputies tryptamine and melatonin.
Tryptophan also has a natural role in recognizing and repairing damaged, unnatural, and inexact DNA structures. DNA is the material at the center of re-creation of life from one living matter into another. The secrets of re-creation are held in the DNA con-tent of the body. Its correct representation is essential to give rise to the next generation, be it the daughter cell in an organ or the next-generation offspring. It is my view that cancer cells are daughter cells that have transformed into faulty new cells because the DNA-repair system has become inadequate due to a break-down in the tryptophan-regulatory process. Dr. Jawed Iqbal, a world-recognized cancer researcher who lives in England, has studied the scientific explanations for the above statement. After much scrutiny, he has accepted the validity of the concept and has written a number of articles that can be viewed in the section on science on the Web site www.watercure.com.
It has now been recognized that tryptophan forms a tripod team with two units of lysine, another amino acid, and forms an enzyme that acts as the quality controller on the DNA assembly line. It seems that tryptophan projection of the enzyme is responsible for cutting and repairing any damaged site in the DNA assembly.
As far as the brain is concerned, as soon as tryptophan reaches the brain side of the circulation it becomes converted into the various neurotransmitters. Research seems to indicate that almost all of the problems of the human body become established when the rate of entry of tryptophan to the brain centers that use the neurotransmitter derivatives of tryptophan is negatively affected.
My research indicates a direct relationship between the level of water in the body and the rate of tryptophan transfer across the blood-brain barrier. In dehydration, less tryptophan gets across. The level of tryptophan entry into the brain determines the intensity of the pain sensation. When there is less tryptophan, the pain sensation registers more intensely. With increased tryptophan getting into the brain, the pain sensation decreases until it disappears. The relationship of the thirst signal in the body to the feeling of pain associated with thirst seems to indicate a decrease in tryptophan entry into the brain. In this way the pain associated with a certain level of dehydration, beyond the threshold of rationing the available water and adaptation to chronic dehydration, explains the way pain registers when there is dehydration.
In stress dehydration, more tryptophan in its free form is released from the reserves of the body. The liver has a metering system for free tryptophan. When it reaches a certain level, the liver begins to recycle and destroy it and finally discard its by-products. This is a very drastic way of getting rid of an essential amino acid.
It has to be done, however, because in its free form tryptophan is used in other capacities, such as in a substitute cleaning process when water is not available to wash away the toxic waste.
When used in this way, stress-initiated breakdown of tryptophan can deplete the reserves of this most essential amino acid in the body. It is to prevent this event that, in any form of stress, you should immediately begin to drink copious amounts of water. This is why dehydration causes stress—and stress precipitates so many disease conditions in the body. Tryptophan is involved in the formation of the color of the iris of the eye. It acts as filter to intense light and ultraviolet rays that might damage the retina.
Another important effect of tryptophan on proper metabolism is in muscle movement. Large muscles of the body demonstrate an avid metabolism for the branched chain amino acids valine, leucine, and isoleucine, three of the twenty amino acids in the body. During exercise and movement of the large muscle mass, these three amino acids are used up for their energy content. They also compete
with tryptophan for passage across the blood-brain barrier and entry to the brain. Unless tryptophan enters into the brain tissue, a state of calm and peace will not prevail. The importance of exercise—walking at least one hour a day—cannot be stressed enough. It is as a result of burning these competitors of tryptophan by the muscle tissue that a well-regulated physiology in the body can be established.
Tyrosine is another most important and responsible amino acid in the human body. It is the base material for the manufacture of adrenaline and noradrenaline— the neurotransmitters that coordinate the action-oriented functions of the body.
Tyrosine is also essential for the manufacture of the neurotransmitter dopamine, of the thyroid hormones, and of the skin pigment called melanin, the suntan pigment. This amino acid is also critical for the composition of certain essential proteins, including the insulin receptor.
In stress, the enzyme that breaks up tyrosine becomes excessively activated. If the enzyme is allowed to continue its run on the body's reserve of tyrosine beyond the rate of its manufacture, certain essential functions become severely affected.
Tyrosine and tryptophan seem to be excessively destroyed when there is dehydration/stress in the body.
Sources of Good Proteins
Good-quality proteins can be found in eggs, milk, and legumes. Legumes such as lentils, mung beans, broad beans, and soy beans are 24 percent high-quality proteins. Vegetables also contain good-quality protein (spinach is about 13 percent protein), as do fresh turkey, chicken, veal, beef, pork, and fish. I use the word fresh because animal meat contains different enzymes that quickly destroy some of the essential amino acids within its proteins. Prolonged exposure to oxygen also destroys some of the essential amino acids in meat proteins. It makes the good fats in meat rancid and useless to the body.
Do not take individual amino acids as supplements instead of a balanced protein diet. At a certain concentration, some have adverse effects on the mineral and vitamin balance of the body. Amino acids in the body function more efficiently when they are proportionately represented.
Eggs are a wholesome food. An average egg weighs 50 grams and has an energy value of eighty calories. The white of an egg weighs about 33 grams and the yolk about 17 grams. Eggs contain about 6 grams of top-quality proteins, no carbohydrates, and no fiber. The protein content of eggs is composed of a balanced range of amino acids. Eggs are rich in vitamins such as biotin and minerals such as manganese, selenium, phosphorus, and copper. The yolk is a rich source of sulfur, a natural antioxidant that is now recognized as vital for health and well-being.
About 10 percent of an egg is its lipid or fat con-tent. The lipid composition of the egg yolk is unique. It is rich in both lecithin, which is the precursor of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). DHA is an essential fat for maintaining brain function. It is needed for the constant repair of brain-cell membranes and their cell-to-cell contact points—synaptosomes. The nerve structure of the eyes uses much DHA for interpreting colors and for quality and sharpness of vision. Apart from being found in eggs, DHA is also found in cold-water fish and algae.
It is being increasingly understood that the level of cholesterol in the circulation is not affected by a high-egg diet. It is a medically published fact that an elderly man has for many years eaten about twenty-four eggs a week without any clinically significant rise in his cholesterol level.
The next time you come across a person who talks about “bad cholesterol” being the cause of heart disease, ask: “Is it not true that we measure the cholesterol levels in the body in the blood that is drawn from a vein?” If it is true that the cholesterol level is the cause of plaques and obstruction of the blood vessels, when a slower rate of blood flow would encourage further cholesterol deposits, then we should also see more blockage of the veins of the body. Since there is not a single scientific report of cholesterol deposits causing blockage of the veins, the assumption that cholesterol is “bad” and is the cause of heart disease is erroneous and unscientific.
Let me again explain why we get cholesterol deposits in the arteries of the heart or the brain or even on the inner wall of the major arteries of the body. Remember, the term dehydration really refers to concentrated, acidic blood. Acidic blood that is also concentrated pulls water out of the cells lining the arterial wall. At the same time, the fast rush of blood against the delicate cells lining the inner wall of the arteries, weakened by loss of their water and damaged by constant toxicity of concentrated blood, produces microscopic abrasions.
Another of the many functions of cholesterol is its use as a sort of waterproof dressing to cover the dam-aged sites within the arterial membranes until they are repaired. Cholesterol acts as a sort of waterproof covering—a “grease gauze”—that protects the inner wall of the artery from rupturing and peeling off. When you look at cholesterol through this perspective, you will realize what a blessing it really is. This particular action of cholesterol is actually designed to save the lives of people whose bodies get seriously damaged as a result of persistent dehydration.
In my opinion, all the statistics about the level of cholesterol in the blood and the number of people who die of heart disease reflect the extent of the killer dehydration that has also caused the level of blood cholesterol to rise.
Another most important role of cholesterol in the body will be discussed later in this chapter. Based on this new understanding of cholesterol, I have no hesitation in recommending eggs as a very good source of the essential dietary needs of the human body.
Milk Products
For people who can digest milk products, natural, unsweetened yogurt is a good source of high-quality protein. It also contains lots of vitamins and good bacteria.
The good bacteria in yogurt keep the intestinal tract healthy and help prevent the growth of toxic bacteria and toxic yeasts such as candida. Of course, people who are allergic to dairy products should not take yogurt.
Cheeses are also a good source of protein. Freshly prepared cheeses are easier to digest and, in my opinion, are more wholesome than aged cheeses. Some people cannot digest cow's milk easily. Soy milk is a very good substitute. If you do not like the taste of soy milk, mix it with carrot juice and enjoy the advantage of additional vitamins and nutrients. The combination is healthy and tasty.
ESSENTIAL FATS
Fat is an essential dietary requirement of the body. Some vital fatty acids that make up certain fats and oils are used as primary materials in the manufacture of cell membranes. They are also primary ingredients from which many of the hormones of the body are manufactured. The manufacture of sex hormones depends on the presence of some essential fats in the body, including the much-maligned cholesterol. Nerve cells need the “good” fats to remanufacture their constantly used-up nerve endings.
The essential fat components are omega-6—a polyunsaturated fatty acid known as linoleic acid— and omega-3, which is a super-unsaturated fatty acid known as alphalinolenic acid. These fatty acids are in the form of oils. Our bodies cannot manufacture these essential fatty acids and have to import them in the form of oils in food.
The average body needs, absolutely, between 6 and 9 grams of linoleic acid a ay. It also needs around 2 to 9 grams of alphalinolenic acid (omega-3), the most essential of the fatty acids. These fatty acids are needed particularly by the brain cells and their long nerves to manufacture insulated membranes that need to be impermeable and prevent interference to the rate and flow of neurotransmission. The nerve endings in the retina that are involved in object recognition and clarity of sight have a high turnover of these essential fatty acids, particularly DHA. DHA is made from omega-3 fatty acid and is vital for brain-cell composition. People with neurological disorders have been shown to be short of DHA.
As mentioned, eggs, cold-water fish, and algae are good sources of DHA. Another excellent source of the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, in an ideal ratio of 3:l, is flaxseed oil (also known as linseed oil) that is cold-pressed and bottled in dark containers that keep out light. A similar oil is grapeseed oil. Light destroys these essential oils, which is why they are also packed in dark capsules. Sesame oil has the desirable property of being highly unsaturated. It is the eating oil of choice in many ancient cultures. Canola oil is also a good source of some essential fatty acids. The reason oils are better than solid fats is because at normal body temperature they remain as oils and do not turn into sticky lard.
For detailed information on the essential fatty acids and their best sources, refer to the book Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill, by Dr. Udo Erasmus. Another good and readable book on this topic is Smart Fats, by Dr. Michael A. Schmidt. I also recommend a book on vitamins and minerals that I found easy reading with lots of useful information. It is The Complete Illustrated Guide to Vitamins and Minerals by Denise Mortimer.
Butter is a rich source of fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin E, lecithin, folic acid, and more. Butter is also a rich source of calcium and phosphorous. The body needs some fat in its daily diet. You cannot go fat-free and survive for long. The body is not able to manufacture certain fat components that are needed to make its insulating membranes. If you don't give the body what it needs, it will try to make the required element from the carbohydrate content in its daily diet. However, since the body is unable to complete the process of making essential fats, it proceeds to store the unfinished product. This is how some people grow disproportionately fat. If you want to lose weight, your diet must contain some fat. Each gram of fat provides the body with nine calories of energy. Recent studies have con-firmed the importance of adequate fat in diets designed for weight loss.
FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND SUNLIGHT
The body also needs fruits and green vegetables daily. They are ideal sources of the natural vitamins and essential minerals we need. Green vegetables also contain a great deal of beta-carotenes and even some DHA fatty acid needed by the brain.
Fruits and vegetables are important for maintaining the pH balance of the body. Chlorophyll contains a very high quantity of magnesium. Magnesium is to chlorophyll what iron is to hemoglobin in the blood—an oxygen carrier.
To asthmatics, people with osteoporosis, and also cancers, sunlight is medicine. Light from the sun acts on the cholesterol deposits on the skin and converts them to vitamin D. Vitamin D encourages bone making and the entrapment of calcium by the bones, which in children helps them grow. Vitamin D also stimulates calcium absorption in the intestinal tract. Calcium has a direct acid-neutralizing effect in the body and is effective in balancing the cell pH—an out- come that helps alleviate asthma complications.
If you drink adequate amounts of water every day, take the required amount of salt, and get plenty of exercise—preferably in the open air and under good light— your body will begin to adjust its own intake of proteins and carbohydrates, as well as its fat requirements to use for energy. Your need for proteins will increase. Your need for carbohydrates will decrease, and your fat-burning enzymes will consume more fat than is in the average diet. Contrary to the belief that cholesterol cannot be metabolized once it is deposited, it, too, will be cleared. The cholesterol deposits in the arteries may take longer to disappear than you might wish, but the body has all the chemical know-how to clear cholesterol plaques.
Cholesterol and Osteoporosis
Remember, cholesterol is vital to body physiology. We have to find out why the body manufactures more of it than usual. The following explanation is one of many I have found for this.
When there is a shortage of water in the body, less hydroelectric energy is manufactured to energize all the dependent functions—much like low water flow in the river that feeds an electricity-generating dam. After a while, the dam will not hold enough water to operate all the generators. In real-life situations, when cheap
energy from hydroelectric dams is insufficient, power generators begin to burn oil or coal—dirty fuel—to generate electricity.
In the body, the alternative source of energy is calcium deposits in the bone or inside the cells. The energy trapped in the union of two calcium molecules that are fused together is used instead. When two calcium atoms bond together, one unit of ATP energy is also trapped. The cells in the body have many trapped bonded cal-
cium atoms in different storage sites that become broken up and their energy is used. There comes a time when this process results in an availability of too many loose calcium molecules— similar to the ash of spent fuel. Fortunately, calcium ash (so to speak) is easily recycled and, if energy is available, calcium molecules bond together once again and store energy for use—like charging a battery that is low.
Sunlight—energy—converts cholesterol in the skin to vitamin D. Vitamin D is responsible for facilitating the reentrapment of calcium and its reentry into the cells and the bones to be rebounded and restored. Vitamin D sticks to its receptors on the cell membrane; simultaneously, one unit of calcium attaches itself to the exposed tail of the vitamin D that is in the process of entering the cell through the cell membrane. The union of calcium with vitamin D and its membrane receptor acts as a sort of magnetic rod, and whole chains of other essential elements and amino acids stick to the exposed calcium and are drawn into the cell.
In this way, the energy of sunlight, and its conversion of cholesterol to vitamin D, has a direct physiological impact on the feeding mechanism of the cells of the body. When calcium reenters the cell, it takes other essential elements with it. In this way, the cell receives raw materials for repair and energy metabolism. At the same time, the surplus energy that enters the cell is used to fuse together calcium molecules and once again store energy in the calcium bonds for future use.
Once you understand the logic behind the cascade of the chemical events in the body, you will realize the vital importance of cholesterol to cell metabolism and the health of the cells in the body. You should put the higher cholesterol levels of the body to full use by making more vitamin D from it and promoting better-functioning and fully energized and operational cells in your body. Use sunlight to your advantage to lower your cholesterol and promote formation of denser bones.
Some of you might immediately react negatively to this statement and express your fear of melanoma. It is my thoughtful understanding that cancers in the body are produced by dehydration, inactivity, and poor choices of foods and beverages. For more than twenty years, I played three hours of tennis six days a week, in the heat of the early-afternoon sun in Tehran. I did not develop any form of cancer.
You cannot sit at a desk in an artificially lit office and expect to have a normal cholesterol level and normal bone density in your body. And in this situation, you will probably have a health professional— one who does not understand the mechanisms and relationships of sunlight energy conversion—label this natural outcome of an incomplete chain of metabolic events a “disease”; a vital element, cholesterol, will also be labeled “bad.”
Sunlight was first used successfully as medication when children with deformed bones (rickets) were exposed to it, which corrected the deformity. They called it heliotherapy. I interpret the gradual rise in cholesterol as we grow older through my scientific understanding of the many roles of cholesterol, and associate its increased production by the liver with the gradual decrease in bone density.
I think the rise in low-density cholesterol is a significant indicator of the onset of osteoporosis. To prevent osteoporosis, a gradual exposure to early-morning sunlight could be a natural way to increase calcium absorption into the body and the bones.
EXERCISE
The most important factor for survival, after air, water, salt, and food, is exercise. Exercise is more important to the health of the individual than sex, entertainment, or anything else that might be pleasurable. Here is why exercise is crucial for better health and a longer pain-free life:
• Exercise expands the vascular system in the muscle tissue and helps prevent hypertension.
• It opens the capillaries in the muscle tissue and, by lowering the resistance to blood flow in the arterial system, causes the blood pressure and blood sugar to drop to normal.
• Exercise builds up muscle mass—positive nitrogen balance—and prevents the muscles from being broken down as fuel.
• Exercise stimulates the activity of fat-burning enzymes for manufacturing constantly needed energy for muscle activity. When you train, you are in effect changing the source of energy for muscle activity. You convert the energy source from sugar that is in circulation to fat that is stored in the muscle itself, and elsewhere in the body.
• Exercise makes muscles burn as additional fuel some of the amino acids that would otherwise reach toxic levels in the body. In their greater-than-normal levels in the blood—usually reached in a sedentary body— certain branched-chain amino acids cause a drastic destruction and depletion of other vital amino acids. Some of these discarded essential amino acids are constantly needed by the brain to manufacture its neurotransmitters. Two of these essential amino acids are tryptophan and tyrosine. The brain uses tryptophan to make serotonin, melatonin, tryptamine, and in dolamine, all of which are antidepressants and regulate sugar level and blood pressure. Tyrosine is used for the manufacture of adrenaline, noradrenaline, and dopamine—vital for the coordination of body physiology whenever it has to take a physical action, such as fighting, running, playing sports, and so on. Tyrosine depletion is also a primary factor in Parkinson's disease.
• Unexercised muscle gets broken down. As a result of the excretion of muscle parts from the body, some of the reserves of zinc and vitamin B6 also get lost. At a certain stage of this constant depletion of vitamin B6 and zinc, certain mental disorders and neurological complications occur. In effect, this happens in autoimmune diseases, including lupus and muscular dystrophy.
• Exercise makes the muscles hold more water in reserve and prevents increased concentration of blood that would otherwise damage the lining of the blood vessel walls.
• Exercise lowers blood sugar in diabetics and decreases their need for insulin or tablet medications.
• Exercise compels the liver to manufacture sugar from the fat that it stores or that is circulating within the blood.
• Exercise causes an increase in the mobility of the joints in the body and creates an intermittent vacuum inside the joint cavities. The force of the vacuum causes suction of water into the cavity. Water in the joint cavity brings dissolved nutrients to the cells inside the cartilage. Increased water con-tent of the cartilage also adds to its lubrication and smoother bone-on-bone gliding movements of the joint.
• Calf muscles act as secondary “hearts.” By their con-tractions and relaxations when we are upright and moving, the leg muscles overcome the force of gravity. They pump into the venous system the blood that was sent to the legs. Because of the pressure breakers in the vein and one-directional valves, the blood in the leg veins is pushed upward against gravity by frequent contraction of the leg muscles. This is how the leg muscles act as a kind of heart for the venous system in the body. This is a value to exercise that not many people appreciate. Leg muscles also cause an equally effective flow within the lymphatic system and cause edema in the legs to disappear.
• Exercise strengthens the bones of the body and helps prevent osteoporosis.
• Exercise increases the production of all vital hormones, enhancing libido and heightening sexual performance.
• One hour of walking will cause the activation of fat-burning enzymes, which remain active for twelve hours. A morning and afternoon walk will keep these enzymes active around the clock and will clear cholesterol deposits in the arterial system, as well as fat from the fat stores in the body.
• Exercise will enhance the activity of the adrenaline-activated sympathetic nerve system. Adrenaline will also reduce the over secretion of histamine and, as a result, will prevent asthma attacks and allergic reactions— providing the body is fully hydrated.
• Exercise will increase production of endorphins and enkephalins, the natural opiates of the body. They produce the same high that drug addicts try to achieve through their abusive intake.
What Are the Best Forms of Exercise?
Exercising the body for endurance is better than exercising it for speed or for building excess muscle. In selecting an exercise, you should consider its lifetime value.
A long-distance runner will enjoy the exercise value of long-distance runs into old age. A sprinter will not sprint for exercise at a later phase of life.
The best exercise—one that you can benefit from even to a ripe old age, and without causing damage to your joints—is walking. Other exercises that will increase your endurance are swimming, golf, skiing, skating, climbing, tennis, squash, bicycling, tai chi, dancing, and aerobics. In selecting an exercise, evaluate its ability to keep the fat-burning enzymes active for longer durations. Outdoor forms of exercise are more beneficial for the body than indoor forms. The body becomes better connected to nature.
Water for healing, for health, for life.
CONCLUSION:
Four Simple Steps to Vibrant Health
The four most vital steps to better health are balancing the water and salt content of the body; exercising the muscle mass of the body to enhance the efficiency of brain function; avoiding beverages that dehydrate and make the body more toxic;
and eating a balanced daily diet of proteins and vegetables in a ratio of 20 percent protein and 80 percent vegetables, legumes, and fruits, with as little starch and sugar as possible. It is the high starch and sugar content of the diet that makes a person fat. Higher protein and fat contents of the diet do not make you fat!
If you stick to these recommendations, I am confident that you will seldom fall ill and will live a long and productive life.
I do hope you will share the information in this book with others who might need it.
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Learn the crucial role water plays in these and many other conditions and ailments:
HEART DISEASE AND STROKE—water is essential to help prevent clogging of arteries in the heart and brain
INFECTION—water may increase the efficiency of the immune system to combat infections and cancer cells
DEPRESSION—water helps the body naturally replenish its supply of the neuro-transmitter serotonin
SLEEP DISORDERS—water is needed for the production of nature's sleep regulator, melatonin
LACK OF ENERGY—water generates electrical and magnetic energy in every body cell, providing a natural power boost
ADDICTION—water can help eliminate addictive urges for caffeine, alcohol, and some drugs
OSTEOPOROSIS—water is an aid to strong bone formation
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA—water normalizes the blood-manufacturing systems that can aid in the prevention of many forms of cancer
ATTENTION DEFICIT—a well-hydrated brain is continually energized to imprint new information in its memory banks.
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