Saturday, August 4, 2018

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.

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