F. Batmanghelidj - Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: Youre Not Sick, Youre Thirsty!

This book is not intended as a substitute for medical advice of physicians. The reader should regularly consult a physician in all matters relating to his or her health, and particularly in respect of any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention.

Some of the material in this book originally appeared in Your Body's Many Cries for Water, which was first published in 1992 and updated in 1995.

Copyright 2003 Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D.

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Contents

TURN ON THE TAP AND REAP THE BENEFITS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST HEALTH DISCOVERIES OF ALL TIME!

Learn the crucial role water plays in these and many other conditions and ailments:

HEART DISEASE AND STROKEwater is essential to help prevent clogging of arteries in the heart and brain

INFECTIONwater may increase the efficiency of the immune system to combat infections and cancer cells

DEPRESSIONwater helps the body naturally replenish its supply of the neurotransmitter serotonin

SLEEP DISORDERSwater is needed for the production of nature's sleep regulator, melatonin

LACK OF ENERGYwater generates electrical and magnetic energy in every body cell, providing a natural power boost

ADDICTIONwater can help eliminate addictive urges for caffeine, alcohol, and some drugs

OSTEOPOROSISwater is an aid to strong bone formation

LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMAwater normalizes the blood-manufacturing systems that can aid in the prevention of many forms of cancer

ATTENTION DEFICITa well-hydrated brain is continually energized to imprint new information in its memory banks.

WATER:FOR HEALTH, FOR HEALING, FOR LIFE

To Our Creator with Awe, Humility, Dedication, and Love

Also, dedicated to all who suffered because of our past limitations in medical knowledge.

The worse sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw, 1897

Altruism and selfishness are both characteristics and mechanisms of self-protection. Selfish traits compel us to self-indulge at the expense of others. When a society is made mostly of such people, a vicious circle of chaos will develop. Altruism, on the other hand, is the quality and product of unselfishness, prompting endeavors that benefit society and humankind, the survival and progress of which also serve the altruist.

This book is designed to serve society and all decent people in it who contribute to its integrity, advancement, health, wealth, and prosperity.

To medical maverick Professor Emeritus Howard Spiro, M.D., of Yale University. He was the first medical scientist to realize the merit of my clinical research and introduce it to Western medicine; he published my editorial article, A New and Natural Method of Treatment of Peptic Ulcer Disease, in his Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983. His interest and encouragement gave me incentive to pursue my research to this date, the product of which is the information you have in your hands.

The information and recommendations on water intake presented in this book are based on training, personal experience, very extensive research, and other publications of the author on the topic of water metabolism of the body. The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use or the discontinuance of any medications as a form of treatment without the advice of an attending physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author, based on the most recent knowledge of microanatomy and molecular physiology, is only to offer information on the importance of water to well-being, and to help inform the public of the damaging effects of chronic dehydration to the bodyfrom childhood to old age. This book is not intended as a replacement for sound medical advice from a physician. On the contrary, sharing of the information contained in this book with the attending physician is highly desirable. Application of the information and recommendations described herein are undertaken at the individual's own risk. The adoption of the information should be in strict compliance with the instructions given herein. No reader, and especially those with past history of major diseases and under professional supervision, or those with severe renal disease, should make use of the information contained herein without the supervision of their attending physician.

THE DAWN OF A NEW MEDICAL ERA

Only if you begin to suffer from a health problem that may eventually kill you will you begin to search high and low for an explanation and solution to your predicament. Until then, you cannot appreciate what an emotionally draining impact a doctor's visit and the pronouncement of his or her serious findings has on the life and soul of another person. Let us hope you or anyone you care for never confronts such a situation which thousands face daily. The reason we have a health-care crisis in America today is because many diseases prematurely devastate and kill millions of people. At the same time, the health-care crisis costs us about $1.2 trillion in 2001, and it is predicted that this cost will increase by 11 percent every year.

It is true that we are scientifically the most advanced nation in the world and spend billions of dollars a year on medical research. If you look at any recently published medical textbooks, however, you will see page upon page of explanation about diseases that kill; yet when the authors of these books reach the point of having to shed light on the cause of the disease, they confessetiology unknown. This means most doctors do not know the cause of the major diseases of the human body, yet society has given them license to prescribe various treatments that often do not benefit their patients, but can slowly and prematurely kill them. The good news is that this license is about to be withdrawn.

What you are about to read is new knowledge, and represents a new perspective within the science of physiologynot a form of science used by drug manufacturers, but the discipline of science that defines the way living tissues and organs within the body work naturally. This book deals with some important health problems and the cause and natural correction cureof these problems. When the cause and cure of any health problem becomes clear, the use of excessive language and tongue-twisting jargon becomes unnecessary. What you will read here is based on extensive clinical and scientific research. I have researched, studied, and written about the information in this book for more than twenty-two years, in addition to my medical training, which began in 1950, when I entered St. Mary's Hospital Medical School of London University.

The topic I am about to discuss is the physiological ramifications and metabolic complications of chronic unintentional dehydration as the primary cause of many serious diseases. Some say it is the greatest breakthrough in modern medicine.

This simple presentation about some of our modern health problems is an introduction to the eventual science and logic-based transformation of medicine all over the world. It is prepared with the immediate shot-in-the-arm needs of society in mind, particularly for the fifteen million asthmatic children whose parents urgently need to understand the cause of this disease and its simple, cost-free prevention and potentially lifesaving treatment.