Water for Pain

What we call chronic, unintentional dehydration is the beginnings of most pain and degenerative disease in the world according to Dr. Batmanghelidj in his book, "Your Body's Many Cries For Water." Most people don't like water because of the taste or the heavy, sloshing feeling they get when they drink it. Avoiding water, causes dehydration. It's not like we deliberately go out of our way to become dehydrated. We like the taste of other liquids better. We just don't know that water is very important to health. Recent research is showing that not just any water will do. Tap water is full of additives and toxic additive by-products. Bottled water is very acidic, contributing to more health problems. The emerging trend is towards, alkaline, ionized water and lots of it.

If you are plagued with pain, you will be relieved to know that alkaline, ionized water is the better pain medication. It is almost amusing to think that the body will manifest dehydration in as many ways as there are diseases. Medicine and the pharmaceutical giants have just put a name to them. Dry mouth is not a sign of dehydration, it is the afterthought. Waiting until you get thirsty is actually beyond dehydration. Your body is thirsty way before that. When your water level drops below a certain point you could get body pain. If you have heartburn, or GERD (Gastro-Esophageal-Reflux-Disease) as it is now called, your body is telling you, you are short of water in your digestive tract. You've had a heavy meal which requires a few liters of body water to break down and digest but there wasn't enough water in the body to do it. The resulting pain is just your signal that you have a water deficit. You didn't have a dry mouth that would tell you that you're "thirsty" because your mouth was moistened with the saliva used to chew your food. By drinking water the heartburn goes away. If you were to drink two large glasses of water about half an hour before you eat, you probably would not get heartburn in the first place unless you were severely dehydrated and needed to drink more than two glasses. It's kind of startling that water could relieve heartburn faster than any medication.

Other body pains such as rheumatoid joint pain, back pain, colitis pain, migraine headaches, fibromyalgic pain and even angina pain can be signs of dehydration in the body. Where you have pain, could be signs of dehydration. The mechanism is very simple. When you metabolize food, acidic, toxic waste is given off by the cells. Unless it can be flushed away and neutralized, then the toxic waste builds up. If you've ever had a garbage strike in your city, you'll get the analogy. The pungent, toxic build-up is sensed by the body's nerve endings in the area. The signal is sent to the brain and the brain registers it in our conscious mind as "Ouch!" There are 110 million Americans who have pain. They don't realize that if they just drank more alkaline, ionized water to wash the acidic, toxic waste out of their body, their pain would probably subside.