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INTRODUCTION
One Doctors Crusade to Find the Secret to Optimal Health
True health is not the absence of disease.
True health is emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
What I am about to share with you has been in the making for more than thirty years, and will singlehandedly change the way you think about living your life. Based on the untold story of aging, this message and set of strategies have the potential to radically enhance the quality of your health, your looks, and just about everything that makes you, well, you.
What I have discovered and proven through treating thousands of patients since my initial experiments with the Water Secret is that the key to vibrant health from the inside out lies in maintaining strong cells that can retain water the way younger cells do. Its as simple as that. If you can repair your cells membranes (from brain cells and heart cells to connective tissue and your outermost skin cells that present you to the world) while attracting water and nutrients to them, you can fight aging and disease. You can help your body heal and rejuvenate itself so you not only look fantastic, but you also feel healthier, revitalized, and ready to participate in life to the fullest. And the best part of this program is that you can start from anywhere, no matter how fast you think your age clock has been ticking for whatever reason. The Water Secret is for everyone regardless of age, health, and habits. Im here to prove that you can take charge of your personal remote control today and flip to a different channel, where youll greet a younger, invigorated new self in as little as ten weeks. This is the time it takes for virtually every cell in your body to replenish itself; so, in a lot of ways, you can really be a whole new person within ten weeks.
Before I explain why waterand in particular cellular wateris so important, let me ask one question: on a scale of 1 to 10, how well are you, for real? We all get the How are you? on a regular basis from friends and acquaintances, to which many of us reply reflexively, Im pretty good or Im fine. How are you? And so the fibbing goes. But if you were to stop and really think about your well-beinghow you are physically and emotionallycould you truthfully answer Terrific, fabulous, better than ever? Would you give yourself an impressive 10? Would someone you dont know peg you at five to ten years younger than your chronological age?
In truth, very few people can honestly say that they feel their absolute best and look it, too. In my experience, most people put themselves at a 7 or maybe an 8. Even those who believe they lead healthy, robust lives give themselves a 9 and believe they (like anyone else) have room for improvement.
This book is going to show you how to move towardand hopefully achievethat perfect 10 and take as many as ten years off your physical age. No gimmicks; no needles; no surgery or pharmaceuticals required. In fact, you can take a short test in the first chapter that will help you to know how well you really are right now and where you could potentially be in the near future. Accomplishing this is easier than you think. You will not have to train for a marathon, go low-carb, force-feed yourself a food that you cant stand no matter how its cooked, pick up an expensive habit that you hate, or commence a program during which you count down the days till its over. Much to the contrary, you will merely make slight shifts in what you already do, proceed at your own pace, and learn a way of living thats sustainable for you. Ive designed this book to be highly accessible and practical for every type of person in the hopes that you keep this on your shelf as a reference for years to come.
Youll be amazed at the transformation you can make through small additions to your diet alongside a few simple strategies for nourishing your skin and your emotional well-being. Three componentsinternal, topical, and emotional self-careencompass my formula for Inclusive Health care that helps protect and promote the integrity of your cells to keep your body as young as possible. At the heart of the last component (emotional self-care) is the ability to manage a new category of stress that runs amok these days and does more damage to us than we realize. As you will learn in this book, Cultural Stress is proving to be the sneakiest silent killer of all. Its what you experience as you merge onto a congested highway with thoughts of being late again and not having time to check your e-mails before 9:00 A.M. or to respond to the twenty messages marked high-priority(!) from yesterday. (And despite your hyperconnections to others through modern technology, a part of you feels lonely and isolated.)
This pervasive scenario has nothing to do with survival of the fittest. Cultural Stress is wearing and tearing us down daily in ways we never thought possibleso much so that Ive commenced my own studies and offered grants to researchers to explore the impact of Cultural Stress. Youll be among the first to read some of the astonishing new evidence. Are there solutions to combating this new stress? Certainly. In some regards, this book is all about doing less while accomplishing more. Sounds like a tall order, but it wont seem that way once you experience the Water Secret working within your body.
So if you have been frustrated or unhappy with how you feel and look, despite personal health challenges or conditions, then youve come to the right place. Chances are, you picked up this book for a reason. Maybe its the chronic exhaustion, the lack of a healthy glow, the thinning hair, the brittle nails, or the extra ten pounds you didnt have a year ago. Maybe its the older person looking back at you in the mirror, a recent diagnosis from your doctor, or simply the fear of getting sick and watching your life hit an abysmal ditch. Or maybe youre among those lucky few who are in excellent health but you want to do more and learn a fresh approach to preserving your health and longevity. Im going to present a revolutionary way to think about taking care of yourself based on the most essential ingredient to life second only to oxygen: water. As youll soon find out, water is our best life preserver.
My Journey
I was seven years old when I arrived in the United States from Baghdad with my multigenerational family of eight. We lived in a six-hundred-square-foot apartment in New York City during those early years. With a father who had instilled in me the value of hard work and an education, I was the prototypical dedicated student and a curious learnereager to make a profound contribution to the world and have a role in the lives of others. Never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted, though, that Id be part of the transformation of skin care as we know it, and ultimately, of health care.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where health care is administered mostly la carte and focused primarily on treatment rather than prevention. If you have a nagging cold, you visit an internist. If you have heart palpitations, you see a cardiologist. If you have arthritis, you find a rheumatologist. If you have a skin tag or an incessant rash, you see a dermatologist. But what happens when you just dont as feel as well as youd like and none of these doctors has a straightforward answer? How can you take charge of your health by addressing your cells most basic needwaterand repair cells as they age so they continue to function at their best, rather than waiting to treat a specific ailment once those cells have lost their optimal functionality?
