HOW TO DEAL WITH BACK PAIN & RHEUMATOID JOINT PAIN.

 About the Author
  Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj ( "Batman-ge-lij" ー who did not wish to be licensed for "practice of pharmaceutically oriented and invasive medicine in the U.S.") received formal medical training at St. mary'd Hospital Medical School (London University). He research into the phenomenon of pain and water metabolism of the human body has dictated a paradigm change in the basic understanding of science applied to the practice of medicine. His views are published in scientific journals. The underlying principles of the recommendations in his treatment procedures are the most current knowledge of anatomy and the science of physiology.
    Since a highly significant and basic paradigm change is the practice of medicine, in the face of very stiff commercial and professional resistance, will be difficult to institute unless there is a concurrent public educational program to force the change, it has become necessary to begin a highly coordinated public awareness program. The author believes: " To end major diseases in earth within two decades is now a possibility. A paradigm change in the science of medicine will do it, but the public must demand the change. the time to act is now." - 1991, F. Batmanghelidj.

  For production of educational materials for public, under legal advisement, it became necessary to establish Global Health Solutions Inc.*, a legally independent enterprise. This self-treatment manual, How to Deal Simply with Back Pain & Rheumatoid Joint Pain, and the videotape How to Deal with Back Pain  are the first of these educational products. 


*NOTE: About Us: Global Health Solutions
Global Health Solutions, GHS, a worldwide publishing house, founded and developed by F. Batmagnhelidj, M.D., the world's foremost medical researcher on the medical properties of water, is a center of education for those who prefer to adhere to the logic of the natural and the simple in medicine.
GHS is dedicated to spreading the information of new science in medicine and promoting the public awareness of the hidden wonders of natural, simple, pure water in improving the public health and well-being.
GHS publishes Dr. F. Batmanghelidj¡'s pioneering work on dehydration that identifies different health problems caused by persistent dehydration of the human body - a totally different perspective to the cause and cure of many human diseases until now thought to be incurable.
Dr. B's two decades of research revealed a simple truth that unintentional chronic dehydration can cause diseases; it also demonstrated that many of the chronic degenerative diseases are preventable, and some of them can even be cured by increasing daily water intake. Dr. B's groundbreaking work provides new knowledge and new possibilities for improving and maintaining good health that the public need and deserve to know.
GHS is proud to be the publisher of all of Dr. B's six books in the series of You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty, as well as some of his most informative and inspiring public lectures and seminars in audio-visual formats.
GHS is committed to fulfilling Dr. B's mission - a mission to educate the public about the truth of dehydration so that we will not become unnecessarily over-drugged; to promote the public awareness of the healing powers of water so that we can become healers of our own bodies; to transform the expensive sick-care system so that we can have a more nature-friendly, people-friendly health care system.

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How to Deal with Back Pain and Rheumatoid Joint Pain is a practical manual based on the author's many years of research and numerous clinical observations. The book introduces a new medical technology to treat and prevent back pain and rheumatoid joint pain. 

* Learn the vital information on the mechanics behind your spinal column, the role of the disc and its needs for water. 

* Learn the simple body movement that will promote fluid circulation in the disc spaces that will result in relief of the back pain and sciatic pain. 

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The Cell
Let us take a  look at the most basic life-generating element in the human body, the cell. The cell is  surrounded by a very thin outer "skin" or membrane that protects it from being flooded by unregulated entry of water, salt, sugar, fats and many other elements that constitute the serum solution that is outside the cell wall.
  Since the cell is constantly bathed in serum solution, it regulates its intake and output by means of many, many small pumping units. Fluid inside the cells should be neutral, neither too acidic nor too alkaline; it has a pH of 7.4 under normal circumstance. The way this neutral pH maintained is very simple : the cation (cat-i-on) pumps constantly pump out hydrogen ion, which is the acid substance not used by the cell. The entire human body ー nerve tissue, bone, cartilage, ligament, muscle, blood, brain, you name it ー is made up of these tiny cells, each performing this regulation of intake and output of elements to maintain function. Each cell is just like an underwater city, with canal systems and waterways; outside of it, arteries and veins are its highways. 

Your Water requirements for daily life

How much should people drink? Official recommendations give guidelines for daily requirements.

The most recent official recommendation about water requirement has been published by the European Food Safety Authority in 2010.¹ This extensive scientific review has enabled the definition of adequate water intakes, based on European fluid intakes, desirable urine osmolarity and energy intake. The reference values assumed a moderate climate and moderate level of physical activity.

Table: Dietary Reference Values for water¹

 

These values include water that originates from both consumed fluids and food. The European Scientific Authority has also stated that the contribution of food to total water intake represents about 20% in adults. On this basis, it means that male adults should drink 2 L per day, and female adults 1.6 L.

No maximal tolerable intake level has been set by EFSA. This is justified by the great ability of healthy individuals to excrete excess water intakes within a large range of observed intakes. In healthy subjects the kidneys have the ability to excrete up to 0.7 to 1L/hour.¹

Reference

EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition, and Allergies (NDA); Scientific Opinion on Dietary reference values for water. EFSA Journal 2010; 8(3):1459. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2010.1459. Available online:www.efsa.europa.eu.

Praise for Water Cure

To our Creator: In Awe with Humility, Dedication and Love.

WATER CURE ( www.watercure.com  to view his health educational products online)

"One man's solution to soaring health costs: water."
Paul Harvey

"Thanks to Dr. Batmanghelidj. I put your book next to the bible and I read them both."
Dick Gregory

"Thanks again. You have truly made the world a better place."
Amazon.com Reviews

"The Greatest single Discovery in the History of the World."
Tevor James Constable
author, historian, lecturer, scientist.
Bordeland Quarterly Journal of Borderland Research

"The water principle has a convincing logic but turns much of current medical practice on its head. Does it work? You only have to turn on the water tap to find out."
The European, London, December 1995

"He is arguing for a new scientific approach that turns clinical medicine on its head."
The Daily Telegraph, London, England

"I was particularly stunned by Dr. Batmanghelidj's lucid description of how lack of water is the primary cause of hypertension, which affects 50 million Americans."
Julian Whitaker, M.D., Health & Healing

It is claimed that fish probably have no awareness of the presence of water ; this book shows we may have done little better. Mostly we have treated symptoms, and often wrongly at that , but masterpieces come into being to produce paradigm shifts. if we learn this one, we may arrest the course of our patients in their all too rapid going the way of all flesh."
Book Reviews, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

"The Greatest Health Discovery in the World."
Sam Biser, The University of Natural Healing

"After having read many of Dr. Batmanghelidj's recent works, including his jewel of a book, Your Body's Many cries for Water, it is very apparent that this work is revolutionary and sweeps nearly all diseases before it.  As an Internist/ cardiologist I find this work incisive, trenchant and fundamental. this work is a God Sent for all." 
Dan C. Roehm, M.D., F.A.C.P. (Fellow of the American College of Physicians)

"How like 'monkey mind' to bounce about, tying itself in knots with complex solutions while ignoring the profound significance of the simple! Circumstance helped Dr. Batmanghelidj perceive the elegant significance of one factor we too often overlook; water."
Jule Klotter, Townsend Letter for Doctors

"Dr.Batmanghelidj has researched the phenomenon of pain and water metabolism of the body. his research, published in various scientific journals, has led him to address pain as "proven but seldom recognized signal of local shortage of water in the body.'
The Rotarian

Doctor Finds Ulcer Remedy
"It started with a patient suffering unbearable ulcer pain one late night.  The Doctor treated him with 500 cubic centimeter of water. his pain became less severe and then disappeared completely. The physician was so impressed that he prescribed two glasses of water six times a day and achieved a "clinical" cure of the ulcer attack."
The New York Times "Science Watch"

"When Dr. Batmanghelidj thinks of a glass of water, he doesn't think of it as half full or half empty. He thinks of it as brimming over with the essential fluid of life. He thinks of it as the solvent of our ills and the deliverer of ripe old age. He thinks of it as the wave of the future."
The Washington Times

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"New! This book by a highly respected M.D. explodes a medical atom-bomb -- An entirely new paradigm for the cause and prevention of many degenerative disease! You owe it to yourself to read this incredible book!"
Nutri-Books

"The average American is woefully uninformed about water. Most people think they drink enough water, but they don't.  Dr. Batmanghelidj's book will create a tide of public opinion about the wonders of water."
The Connection Newspaper

"We have, he says in a new and highly controversial book, Your Body's many cries for water, forgotten how to respond to our numerous thirst signals. but if, instead of taking painkillers and medication, we just drank lots of ordinary tap water, we would probably find that not only the pain, but also the condition would go away for ever."
The Independent, London, England

"Stomach pains, migraines, allergies, asthma, and even arthritis may all be symptoms of dehydration that could easily be cured by a few more glasses of household tap water. But only drinking water when you are feeling thirsty will not provide you with enough, according to F. Batmanghelidj, whose controversial book, Your Body's many Cries for Water, sold tens of thousands of copies in the united States last year."
Daily Mail, London, England

"Dr. Batman's book are full of common sense and truthful medical advice. His suggested treatment of diseases goes to the roots, the cause of it and anyone who is fortunate enough to read them won't be disappointed with their purchase."
Laurence A. Malone, M.D., Ph.D., Dean for Academic Affairs, The Learning Center for College Sciences, Ohio

"I consider your insights some of the most amazing I have encountered in medicine. Sixteen years of private practice in OBG and 8 years as a GP have provided me with a perspective that appreciates the potentials of your proposals."
L.B. Works, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. (Fellow Of The American College Of Obstetrics And Gynecology)

"The author, as a result of his extensive clinical and scientific research, concludes that the body possesses many different thirst signals. many different symptoms and signs of dehydration have until now been viewed as classical diseases of the body."
Frontier Perspectives,
The Center for Frontier Sciences at Temple University

"After many years of study and practicing medicine, it is both rewarding and refreshing to discover the solution to many degenerative conditions beautifully explained by Dr. Batmanghelidj in Your Body's Many Cries for Water. This type of information fills a void left from traditional education."
Robert Battle, M.D.

"Thank you for the timely advice on using the combination of water and salt to treat my asthma ... not only calmed my coughing but took it away.  Once again thank you so much for sharing such insights into complex problems."
Jose A. Rivera, M.D.

"It is a well written book and easy to understand. I think reading of this book should be made compulsory in all the Elementary, Middle and High Schools. It will prevent lots of illnesses and suffering at almost no additional costs."
Hiten Shah, M.D.,
San Jacinto Medical Clinic, CA.

"Batmanghelidj leads us through these entities point by point and weaves a magnificent tapestry if not possibly allopathic medicine's shroud -- we can't both be right."
The Bioron Connection

"Batmanghelidj's book, Your Body's Many Cries for Water, hits the nail on the head - period."
Arthur Moll, D.C.

Small press Selection:
"Your Body's Many Cries for Water, a health book authored by a doctor combining holistic and medical facts about the effects of water and its healing possibilities on many diseases. This book was
chosen since water is a topic that has increasing awareness in the marketplace and the author has credentials."
Jan Nathan, Executive Director,
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"Both these books, as well as the publishing firm, bring the sort of news that could change your life. Clinics and counter-claims aside, Dr. Batmanghelidj has really got hold of something."
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"No pills! No pain! No fooling! ARTHRITIC CURE IN YOUR KITCHEN. Doctor's discovery heals for pennies a day."
National Examiner, December 14, 1993

"Yours is the most elegant description of arthritis pain I've ever read!"
Perry A. Chapdelaine, Sr., M.A.
Executive Director,
The Arthritis Fund / The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation

"Dynamite! Your hypothesis is precisely the paradigm breakthrough that generates quantum leaps forward in disease etiology."
Edmund H. Handwerger, D.D.S., M.P.H. (Doctor of Dental Surgery) , (Master of Public Health)

"Batmanghelidj gives example of patients who have followed his advice using ordinary tap water with positive results in reduction of blood pressure, allergy relief and weight loss. He even goes so far as to link the lack of water with depression."
The Irish Times

"It does seem sensible to adhere to the logic of the natural and the simple in medicine as fostered in the book, Your Body's Many Cries for Water."
Monsignor Philip A. Gray

"The content of your book is a huge gulp of fresh air, and holds much hope for the human race!"
Judge John B. Morgan, California

"I consider Dr. Batman's information as God-sent. It is my prayer that you too will benefit from his pain-relieving and life-extension revelations."
Lloyd Palmer, Straws in the Wind Newsletter, February 1996

"He has successfully treated allergies, angina, arthritis, headaches, hypertension, ulcers and more with the simplest of solutions -- water."
Nexus Magazine, Australia, January 1996

"As his controversial book quietly gathers support worldwide, the doctor behind one of medicine's most extraordinary theories explains why he has turned his back on conventional wisdom to treat his patients with water, not drugs"
Daily Mail, UK, August 27, 2001

"Revolutionary medical breakthrough ; The slimming new water cure! Learn how to drink away 40 lbs."
Finola Hughes
All My Children TV series
Woman's World (cover)
September 4, 2001

"Dr. Batmanghelidj's discovery regarding water was critical to my recovery. I could not have recovered (from cancer) without it."
Lorraine Day, M.D.
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Healing Waters by Dr Bruce Becker

If you think the water just makes people feel 
good, you don’t know the half of it. Here’s a 
physiological explanation of the surprising and 
amazing ways the simple act of being in the 
water promotes well-being.

It doesn’t take long to notice that people in pools 
are having fun. Nor does it take long to see 
happy faces in a group of aquatic exercisers, or a 
smile replace the facial stress lines of someone
sinking into a hot tub. The feeling of relaxation 
after a vigorous pool workout is wonderful, and
unlike most other exercise experiences.

As a scientist, I’ve been impressed with the 
consistency and universality of these observa-
tions. When I began to work with Olympic 
athletes who were used to vigorous exercise 
routines, they often commented on the difference
in their post-exercise comfort from an aquatic 
exercise session vs. their normal exercise routine
. But there’s too much scientist in me not to 
wonder why these findings occur with such 
frequency and regularity. As I researched the 
medical literature,I couldn’t find much to 
explain such common events. But when I began 
to dig into the basic science literature, I did find 
information that provided some potential 
explanation.

The physiology of immersion has been studied 
extensively since we prepared to put man into
space in the late 1960s because the closest proxy
to weightlessness on the planet is to be found
when immersed in water. To study the physio-
logical changes that would occur in space, it
became important to study those changes 
occurring during immersion. The physiological 
alterations were profound and led to further 
research of specific body systems. Still, most of 
this research was not translated into medical 
applications, but rather, was located in highly 
scientific physiology journals.

Even today, there’s relatively little research on 
the clinical applications of aquatic activity or 
exercise to be found in medical journals. This 
crossover from basic science into clinical
application is called translational research
and it is only beginning to emerge for aquatics.
But as more people turn to the water for therapy 
and healing, that body of evidence is growing 
daily. If the industry can capitalize on these
findings, understand and promote them
effectively, aquatics could become the next big
health craze, with the promise of helping
everything from high blood pressure
to heart failure. 
Given that the American Heart Association says
72 million Americans suffer from high blood 
pressure and more than 79 million have cardio-
vascular disease, that could be a powerful 
incentive. The nation, in turn, could save huge
amounts in health expenses if the public were 
educated about the value of aquatic activity, if 
the political powers directed public expenditures
toward pool construction to improve public 
access and the medical establishment understood
the potential value of aquatic activity across a 
wide range of clinical problems. But it must start
with us. It must start with understanding why 
water is so healing.

Finding balance

To understand why aquatics is so good for your 
health, you must first understand some basic 
physiology. Our bodies are constantly trying to 
seek a physiological balance point called 
homeostasis. This state preserves optimum 
function despite changes in position, activity, 
stress, aging or disease. The effort to find 
homeostasis is what propels most of the 
functional adaptations that occur during 
immersion in water, with some changes being 
immediate and others only after a period of time.
Like many adaptations, a cascade of other 
physiological changes occur, some sequentially 
and some concurrently.
Here’s how it works: Because water compresses
the body, it pushes blood into the deep vessels
during immersion. As the bather steps into 
deeper water, blood is pushed upward, first into
the large capacity vessels of the pelvis and 
abdomen. Then as depth increases yet further, 
blood is pushed above the diaphragm into the 
chest. With neck depth immersion, nearly three-
quarters of a quart (1 US quart=946.353 ml) of 
blood is displaced, with two-thirds of it going 
into large pulmonary vessels and one-third into 
the heart.
The heart responds to this extra volume of blood
by increasing the amount propelled with each 
beat, which is called stroke volume. At rest 
during neck-depth immersion, stroke volume 
normally increases approximately 30 percent. 
The total volume of blood propelled by the heart 
during a minute is called cardiac output, and this
also increases nearly 30 percent. That’s approxi-
mately the same increase that occurs during light
exercise, so even at rest during neck-depth
immersion, the heart is performing just as it 
would during exercise on land. At the same time
, the body senses that more blood is being
pushed into circulation,so to adjust, the arterial 
blood vessels relax without causing an increase 
in blood pressure. Thus, healthy individuals will
lower their blood pressure during immersion, 
and usually so will individuals with elevated
blood pressure (hypertension.) The magnitude
of this drop is related to the temperature of the
water.

Usually, there’s an initial brief increase in blood 
pressure upon entering cold water and also 
extremely warm water. Maybe that’s why in the 
past, it was often stated that individuals with 
hypertension should avoid hot tubs. Many 
physical therapy texts also say that patients with 
elevated blood pressure should not undergo 
aquatic therapy. In actual fact, immersion may 
benefit such patients.

Heart and health

Patients with congestive heart failure are another
clinical population that has been counseled to 
avoid aquatic exercise or even immersion. But 
several recent Japanese and Israeli studies have 
found that for people with mild to moderate 
heart failure, aquatics may be a very useful and 
therapeutic environment. That’s because 
immersion offers a unique combination of 
benefits: It decreases circulatory resistance and 
improves heart contraction efficiency. One of 
these studies compared the effects of aquatic 
exercise with rest in a group of patients with 
moderate congestive heart failure. It was found 
that the aquatic exercise group of patients 
significantly improved in muscle function, 
walking distance, aerobic fitness and exercise 
capacity.
They also experienced nearly 40 percent
improvement in their quality of life. One reason
may be that during immersion, the increased 
blood volume is pushed into deeper tissues. 
Muscle circulation then improves and there’s a 
consequent increase in oxygen delivery, which 
is useful for muscle healing or recovering from 
exercise. A study done on astronauts in training 
showed that the blood flow into their calves was
increased by nearly 250 percent at rest during
neck-depth immersion. At the same time, the 
kidneys see an increase in blood volume. 
Sensors within the heart and elsewhere interpret 
the increase in blood volume as a potential 
overload, so the body sends signals to the
endocrine system to reduce this blood volume. 
As a result, the kidneys begin their role in 
regulating blood volume through excreting 
sodium and potassium, and along with those 
ions, water. As all aquatics professionals have 
experienced firsthand, this process produces an
increase in urine volume and the kidneys also 
become slightly more efficient. In ancient Greek
and Roman times, when medications were very
limited, immersion was actually used as a way 
to treat individuals with kidney disease.
Stress is another ailment that immersion can 
help alleviate. Some of the same hormones that 
the body uses to regulate arterial function and 
tone are a component part of our body’s 
response to stress. These hormones are called 
catacholamines. During immersion, the body 
sends out a signal to alter the balance of these 
catacholamines in a manner that is similar to the 
balance found during relaxation or meditation.
Not all of the effects of this alteration are known
, but probably these changes are important in 
modifying the heart rhythm in a manner to 
mimic a relaxed state, and also in creating some 
of the feeling of relaxation that occurs following 
aquatic activity.

Exercise and endurance

The connection between exercise and stress 
reduction has been well-established, and the
work the body must do in water may be one 
reason. During immersion, compression of the 
chest wall combined with the increased blood 
volume makes it more work to breathe — 
approximately 60 percent more with water up 
to the neck. This, in turn, can lead not only to 
lower stress,but also better performance during 
land workouts.
In my experience working with Olympic level
athletes, a frequent comment was how much the 
aquatic workouts had added to their overall 
feeling of fitness. I believe what they were 
noticing is that strengthening the muscles of 
respiration had significantly improved their 
respiratory efficiency, so during a land based
workout they didn’t feel so “winded.”
If the workload increase is 60 percent during 
inactive immersion, there is almost certainly a 
much greater workload increase during 
immersed exercise. Blood and water are viscous
substances, and the force required to move 
against viscosity is related to velocity in a 
complex equation. Essentially, as the frequency 
of respiration increases, so does the work of 
displacing blood from the chest cavity to allow 
air in. The chest wall must then expand against
the compression of surrounding water. As a 
consequence, deep-water exercise potentially
could be a very useful method of strengthening 
the muscles of respiration,which could be 
helpful in athletes, as well as in the rehabilita-
tion of people with respiratory weakness or 
other lung diseases.

We decided to test that possibility in astudy 
completed last year at Washington State 
University. We worked with two groups of WSU
students, 50 in each group. One group did land-
based aerobics for a 50-minute period, three 
times per week for a semester.
The other group did aquatic aerobics 50 minutes
per session three times per week. We measured 
aerobic conditioning, percent age of body fat, 
and a number of measures of respiratory 
efficiency and strength. All of the students 
increased in their aerobic fitness, all decreased 
their body fat percentages, and all improved in 
some of the respiratory measures. But only the 
aquatic students showed improvement in their 
respiratory endurance measures. We plan to 
repeat this study with more focus on higher-fit 
student athletes to see if the same effect is noted.
There is a potentially major benefit of improving
respiratory endurance because as the muscles of 
respiration fatigue, the body begins to shunt 
blood from the lower extremities up to the chest 
muscles to support respiratory effort. Obviously, 
in an athlete who is reliant upon the legs, 
robbing these muscles of blood flow to supply 
the muscles of respiration causes a decrease in 
athletic performance. A basketball player who is
getting respiratory fatigue will “hang on his 
shorts,” which can be seen often at the end of a 
basketball game. This action aids the accessory 
muscles of respiration. But if at the same time, 
the leg muscles are being starved of blood, the 
player is going to feel like his or her legs are 
“dead.” Studies have shown that exercise 
activities to improve endurance of the muscles 
of respiration actually do improve athletic 
performance, but deep-water exercise would be 
an easier and potentially more efficient means of
producing such an effect, while allowing the 
athlete to decrease stress forces upon the spine 
and lower extremities simultaneously.

Rehab and weight loss 

This latter effect occurs because of the off-
loading effects of buoyancy. At waist-level 
immersion depth, the hips, knees, ankles and 
feet have a 50 percent reduction in loading due 
to buoyancy; at mid-chest depth, there’s a 75 
percent offloading. As a consequence, this effect 
may be used to excellent clinical benefit in 
facilitating recovery from training, or 
rehabilitating from a lower extremity or spine 
injury. The combination of joint offloading, with
the improvement in deep-tissue circulation 
makes the aquatic environment very useful in 
rehabilitation. In fact, even before these effects 
were known, deep-water exercise was used to 
improve racehorse performance without 
exposing the animals to the trauma of the 
racetrack. Owners found they could nearly triple
the expected race career of a horse if they used 
aquatic training for a significant part of the 
workout regimen. In working with Olympic 
distance runners through the Nike development 
program, we tried to have about one-third of the 
training done in water, which seemed to reduce 
injuries as well as improve performance. The 
value of aquatic exercise in patients with osteo-
porosis has been controversial. The aquatic 
environment would be ideal for this group 
because of the frequent coexistence of joint 
disease and the decreased risk of fractures from 
falling during land based exercise. Many such 
patients have a fear of falling that limits their
 tolerance of a land-based walking program, an 
activity that has been shown to build bone 
mineralization and reduce osteoporosis. Most 
studies of aquatic exercise have not shown a 
useful benefit upon bone mineralization, 
however. Studies comparing regular aquatic 
exercisers with regular land-based exercisers 
have shown better bone mineralization in the 
land-based groups at nearly all ages from 
adolescence through senior groups. This does 
not mean that aquatic exercise lacks a place in 
this group of individuals. In my practice, I will 
typically start such a patient in an aquatic
exercise regimen, which has been well shown to
boost lower extremity strength and endurance, 
as well as improve balance. The combination of 
increased strength and balance skills is usually 
sufficient to enable that individual to embark 
upon a walking program safely and begin the 
bone-building process. Another controversial 
point is how aquatic exercise works for obese 
individuals. Because of the offloading produced by buoyancy, the aquatic environment seems ideal, especially in persons with decreased lower extremity strength. It has been shown that aquatic exercise is less efficient in decreasing body fat percentages than land-based programs. Even at Olympic levels of training, these athletes have a higher percentage of body fat than their track athlete peers, as can be seen readily. The swimmers have sculpted 
beautiful bodies with higher percentages of body fat,
whereas the track athletes have greyhoundslim
bodies with very, very low percentages.
Despite this concern, the value of
exercise in obese individuals is absolutely
essential, and aquatics may be a tremendously
useful method of initiating a program
and losing weight over time. While
it may not be as efficient from an absolute
standpoint, it is still effective and likely to
be better sustained because of the lower
risk of joint injury in aquatics for this group.

STRESS RELIEF During immersion, the body sends out a signal to alter the balance of a certain
type of hormone, which creates a balance similar to relaxation or meditation. 

Many of these individuals can participate
successfully for years in a group format, and
I’ve seen people whose lives were totally
changed because of such a program.

On the whole, the response of the human
body to the aquatic environment is profound.
Perhaps it is because all of us spent the initial
formative months of our lives immersed
in a warm-water pool of amniotic fluid that
we can so readily sink into a pool with
relief. Such an environment would provide
protection and the optimum conditions for
growth during this critical period.

But the combined effects of all the properties
of water, from buoyancy through
hydrostatic pressure to its thermal conductive
properties make the aquatic environment
tremendously useful and effective for health
recovery and maintenance, and recreation.

At Washington State University, we are striving 
to create a body of clinically directed 
translational research so that such an
understanding might emerge within the
public, as well as the medical profession.
We’re also trying to create a broader 
understanding of the immense value of aquatics
for high-level athletic training because the
public seems to relate to the effectiveness of
this kind of effort as well.
It is my hope and belief that in the
future, we will see a wetter, happier and
healthier world. ■

WAYS TO BROADEN SUPPORT

FOR AQUATIC HEALTH
■ Broad public awareness campaigns
■ Education within the medical community
■ More active community involvement
■ Legislative advocacy
■ Promotion and dissemination of clinical
research in consumer and medical media.

This diagram shows what’s happening in the body before a person enters the water, and what happens afterward. The changes are significant, especially those involving blood flow and the heart. The deeper a person is immersed, the more the health benefits increase. At neck level, even the brain
is affected because more blood is forced upward from the lower extremities.

PHYSIOLOGY AND IMMERSION

Negative atrial pressure
Negative pleural pressure
Flattened diaphragm
Blood pooled in abdomen,pelvis,and lower
extremities

BEFORE IMMERSION DURING IMMERSION
More venous compression. Heart size
increases 30% and rate slows 20%.
Heart pumps more blood; chest wall is
compressed. Plural pressure increases.
Lungs contain more blood and body
works harder to move air. 
More blood is distributed to kidneys and brain.
The diaphragm is elevated higher during 
inspiration and expiration.
As the water level rises, the abdomen is 
compressed and more blood is forced
upward into the chest cavity.
Pelvis vessel compression occurs.
Venous and lymphatic compression begin
progressively pushing blood upward.

Neck Level

Diaphragm level

This diagram shows what’s happening in the body before a person enters the water, and what happens afterward. The changes are significant, especially those involving blood flow and the heart. The deeper a person is immersed, the more the health benefits increase. At neck level, even the brain is affected because more blood is forced upward from the lower extremities. PHYSIOLOGY AND IMMERSION Negative atrial pressure Negative pleural pressure Flattened diaphragm Blood pooled in abdomen, pelvis, and lower extremities BEFORE IMMERSION DURING IMMERSION More venous compression. Heart size increases 30% and rate slows 20%. Heart pumps more blood; chest wall is compressed. Plural pressure increases. Lungs contain more blood and body works harder to move air. More blood is distributed to kidneys and brain. The diaphragm is elevated higher during inspiration and expiration. As the water level rises, the abdomen is compressed and more blood is forced upward into the chest cavity. Pelvis vessel compression occurs. Venous and lymphatic compression begin progressively pushing blood upward. Neck Level Diaphragm level
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Stupendous Result #4

Dear Dr. Batmanghelidj, 

 Every day since I began your wonderful water & salt program, I read and reread your remarkable book "Your Body's Many Cries for Water" and continue to be impressed by the many ways in which your new paradigm brings to light the true etiology of the many diseases that are prevalent.

My excitement is mounting day by day, as I find my energy , clarity, and sense of well-being improving.

After struggling with debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome and acute depression for almost ten years now, I am very grateful for your remarkable insight and for your persistence in bringing this information to the public & scientific community.

I will be ordering a case of your paperbacks to send to friends and relations who are suffering from misdiagnosed illness. 

May you live a very long life so that your research can continue and so that your teachings can spread around the world. 

With deep appreciation,

D.G., Ph.D.

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THE NEW PARADIGM

THE NEW PARADIGM

"A new scientific truth is not usually presented in a way to convince its opponents. Rather, they die off, and a rising generation is familiarized with the truth from the start."-Max Planck

The new scientific truth and level of thinking about the human body that will empower people to become practitioners of preventive medicine for themselves is as follows: It is the solvent— the water content—that regulates all functions of the body, including the activity of all the solutes (the solids) that are dissolved in it. The disturbances in water metabolism of the body (the solvent metabolism) produces a variety of signals, 
indicating a "system" disturbance in the particular functions associated with the water supply and its rationed regulation.

Let me repeat: every function of the body is monitored and pegged to the efficient flow of water. 'Water distribution"is the only way of making sure that not only an adequate amount of water, but its transported elements (hormones,chemical messengers and nutrients) first reach the more vital organs. In turn, every organ that produces a substance to be made available to the rest of the body will only monitor its own rate and standards of production and release into the "flowing water," according to constantly changing quotas set by the brain. Once the water itself reaches the "drier" areas, it also exercises its many other most vital and missing physical and chemical regulatory actions.

Within this view, water intake and its priority distribution achieve paramount importance. The regulating neurotransmitter systems (histamine and its subordinate agents) become increasingly active during the regulation of water requirements of the body. Their action should not be continuously blocked by the use of medication. Their purpose should be understood and satisfied by drinking more water. I have made exactly the same statements to a body of scientists that had gathered from all over the world in Monte Carlo in 1989 for a conference on the topic of inflammation, analgesics, and immune modulators.


The new paradigm permits an incorporation of the "fourth dimension of time" into scientific research. It will facilitate an understanding of the damaging effect of an establishing dehydration that persists and continues to increase during any duration of time. It will make it possible to forecast the physiological events that will lead to disease states at some later years, including what at present appears as genetic disorders. It will transform the present"shot-in-the-dark, symptoms-treating" approach to the practice of medicine into a scientifically accurate medical art;it will make preventive forecasting possible. It will establish excellent health and reduce health care costs to individuals and to any society that fosters its spread. Since water shortage in different areas of the body will manifest varying symptoms, signals, and complications now labeled as diseases, people may think water could not be offered as a natural solution. Water cures so many diseases? No way! Speaking thus, they shut their minds to the new possibility of preventing and possibly even curing so many different "diseases" that are dehydration produced. It does not occur to them that the only remedy for conditions that come about when the body begins to get dehydrated is water and nothing else. A number of sample testimonials are published in different sections of this book to open the eyes of skeptics to the fact that the greatest health discovery of all times is that water is a natural medication for a variety of health conditions.

Water Regulation at Different Stages of Life

There are basically three stages to water regulation of the body in the different phases of life. One, the stage of life of a fetus in the uterus of the mother (left of B in Figure 1). Two, the phase of growth until full height and width is achieved (approximately between the ages of 18 to 25). Three, the phase of life from fully grown to the demise of the person. During the intrauterine stage of cell expansion, water for cell growth of the child has to be provided by the mother. However, the transmitter system for water intake seems to be produced by the fetal tissue, but registers its effect on the mother. The very first indicator for water needs of the fetus and the mother seems to be morning sickness during ' the early phase of pregnancy. Morning sickness of the pregnant mother-to-be is a thirst signal of both the fetus and the mother.

GREENER MEDICAL PASTURES (4)

We are blinded to realities that are all around us by the scientific method that dominates our times. We simply need to expand our conceptual framework in order to see them. If I do not believe in the existence of wood-chucks, then when I finally do see one wood-chuck I will mistakenly assume that it is just a really big squirrel. We must recognize the serious limitations the randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, scientific "gold standard" of modern medicine imposes upon our perceptions. While the value of this approach is occasionally relevant, its elevated status as the highest standard of proof deserve a significant demotion in the overall hierarchy of health priorities. A more complete understanding of modern medical science makes it evident that economic medical reform only scratches the surface of the real underlying issues. Rather,it is the substance of medicine that must undergo serious revision from the ground up, and it must start by incorporating a cohesive philosophy that begins to make some sense out of its chaotic and often harmful practices.

Health is not a commodity that can be purchased. The medical system must cease taking advantage of the weakest members of society -- the elderly, the poor, and the infirm. For physicians to continue to routinely prescribe, and patients to continue to take, medications that pose distinct risks of serious illness and death is, to me, an unacceptable standard of care. The notion of better living through pharmaceuticals is a failed experiment, the repercussion of which are likely to reverberate for generations to come. Faith-based vaccinations that continue to maim our children are the tragic result of stubborn adherence to a failed philosophy not borne out by fact. Those who choose such medical lifestyle options as cosmetic facelifts, boltulinum toxin injections, and erectile dysfunction drugs should be forewarned that this is not medicine designed to heal, and it involves the risk of placing your life in the hands of those who may not be motivated by the best intentions.