Your Body's Many Cries for Water by F. Batmanghelidj M.D. (1992, Paperback, Illustrated)

EVERYONE can benefit from the information in this book! It is an ideal gift to friends and family.

Dr B's thorough and scientific explanations leaves no doubt that he has researched the effect of and lack of water on the body. Dr B carries us to a thorough understanding of the host of illnesses CAUSED SOLELY BY long time chronic drought in the body, such as asthma, ulcers, high blood pressure, cholesterol etc. He describes how the body is a natural hydraulic system that carefully measures WATER for all body systems. When you do NOT drink enough water daily, the body is forced to shut down certain functions to conserve the water. Without water, the body cannot create the 200 hormones required to keep the body functioning healthfully. Sadly, medical drs ignore or overlook this simple life giving ingredient, WATER, and prescribe "fluids". Drill on this. Fluids are NOT water and are not absorbed immediately as water is.

Water, the natural "blood thinner", reduces high blood pressure and cholesterol. Dehydrated blood is concentrated thick blood with crystallized substances which shred arteries...leading t o, harmful. Water the natural fatigue fighter. Water the life of the body, cleanses liver, kidneys, lungs, etc.

Prescription drugs that dehydrate the body prevent the body's natural healing process. MORE WATER, not drugs, is needed. Plain water will never give you a new illness like drugs do which are treated by the doctors with, you guessed it, additional drugs.

Dr B's simple tip to drink 2 glasses of water as soon as you rise in the morning, could prevent countless heart attacks and strokes. Everyone is DEHYDRATED during sleep. Dehydration thickens blood and causes blood pressure to rise.

The human body represents approximately 70% water. Lungs are 90% water, blood 83% and the brain is 70% water. Just imagine what a shortage of water does to these systems. Dried up lungs equals wheezing allergies asthma and worse. Dried up brain equals poor memory slow mental function dementia. Thickened blood equals high blood pressure, high fat lipids, scarring that causes clots that leads to stroke and heart attack. It's no accident the earth is covered with 70% water and our bodies require about the same amount. Our Creator designed us to drink water.

Most doctors do not embrace ideas which do not include prescribing drugs. We MUST educate ourselves to can no longer afford to blindly trust doctors with our health. I'm so grateful to doctors like Dr. B who step out and speak out at the risk of injury to their practices. Dr B's book is filled with letters from other Drs who have embraced his water "cure" for their own families. I've used the principles and have encouraged my elderly mother. We have a joke now b/c I can tell when she has NOT had enough water each day by the depth of the wrinkles in her face. Yes WATER is the natural wrinkles remover, plump juicy skin is associated with youth..so water can truly be called the fountain of youth!

Basically, this doctor advises you to flush all of those vitamins and pharmaceuticals, and not necessarily to change your diet. The trouble that he sees with all of these regiments is that they ignore the intuitively obvious fact of drinking water. Most of the things he analyses are not illnesses (e.g. Aids, hypertension, constipation) or diseases, but disfunctions easily corrected by a few tall glasses of water, with some occasional salty treats, every day. I believe that this book could lay waste to most of modern medicine because it actually empowers the patient and calls the bluff on the Big Pharma's incessant reliance on drugs.
I bought this book because I had previously read it, on a lark, of course. For all this praise, I would make one reservation. I do not think that a royal road to health exists. Mega-Vitamin therapy, some Chiropractic, Classical Homeopathy, will also work to cure what ails you. But for most of the people who read this book, simply following what he has to say will help you avoid much of the fraudulent wears being peddled as "medicine" The fact that you don't have to buy any expensive equipment, or take weird chemicals on his program leaves the rest of the competition in the dust. In the end you will have achieved thousands of dollars worth of results for no more than the cost of the ink and a glass of tap.

I love this book, it really opened my eyes to why we need water and the many ways your body cries for it. I never understand why I was always so tired but not sleep. WATER. Also I changed the salt I used that sea salt woke up the flavor in my food and has enable to me to enjoy my food more and lose weight. I recommend that everyone reads this book. It might just save your life.

"The Water Cure"... I was skeptical at first, but by applying the Dr's methods, I found out I could cure my ANGINA, ULCERS, and HIATIAL HERNIA by just drinking alot of water and avoiding bad "food"....

Down to earth easy to read book on why we suffer a MANY common ailments.
CHRONIC DEHYDRATION
Do you drink Coffee-Soda(w/Caffine and Alcohol ? All net out water from your body.
From one who suffered great pain every day for 20+ years
MUST BUY
May GOD BLESS Dr. Batman with even greater wisdom
Doug

amazing book! go to www.alkalife.com and you wold know it is saying the same thing!spectacular! when will they have their third edition?cant wait.love his book......................................................................to the ends of the earh!

I'm always interested in health issues. I am very impressed with the
content of this book about the unknown info that a big part of our physical
needs is a cry for water. I wish everyone would read this book. It is
a shame that simple things like this work better than medicine yet the press
and AMA won't believe or endorse anything but their big money making ways.

I wanted to buy this book because I know I need to drink more water, but I didn't know exactly why. I went to my cardiologist with high blood pressure and asked him if I should drink more water. The doctor looked at me as if I was crazy and said, "No!" I may not be educated in the medical field, but I usually know when I am given wrong advise.

This book explains exactly why I should drink more water and is written in a way any layperson can understand. Because I now understand why I am dehydrated and the negative affects dehydration has on my health, it is much easier for me to drink lots more water. In just a week, I feel much better than I have in four years.

Among studies mentioned, the author has printed actual letters from private persons, corporations, and agencies.

It is absolutely amazing to me that our government and those who are responsible for guiding our nation to better health have ignored the information in this book and it's author.

I appreciate the opportunity to learn to be much healthier and happier knowing I am on my way to even better health. Thank you Dr. Batmanghelidj for your dedication to better inform us about the many benefits of water and explain why we are dehydrated.

I have the book myself, I was buying this one for my son who has some health issues. This is a very valuable book, everyone should read this one!

Was recommended by a friend and is very informative. I was not aware that the body required water to cure so many things

If you don't read and heed any other medical book, read this one.It has helped in reducing my blood pressure just by giving my body what it really needs, not more drugs....JL

I bought this book because I heard that this Doc had been able to help people while he was in prison and had only water, lots of it, to treat patients. He had a lot of success in relieving symptoms by having them drink large amounts of water. I have partially taken his advice and feel some hints of benefit. I'm not a completely skeptic and I'm not a complete convert.

This is a rambling book. It is repetitious. Every chapter says the same thing in some varied way. He starts out with one topic in a chapter and tends to float off to another. If you want to find out exactly what Dr. B suggests you do to improve your health with water, you have to go hunting. At least I did.

Just because a doctor doesn't write up his argument really well doesn't mean it is a false or wrong argument. Repetition can be good when taking up the task to lay out an unfamiliar philosophy of health. What bothers me more than his writing style is his claim that there is at least one study in medical journals supporting his water-cure claims. If there actually is, I have yet to find it. He did once write an editorial in a gastroenterology journal. Footnotes are not Dr B's strong suit. I have yet to find an organized, careful explanation in the book of his clinical experiences with, as he puts it, "3000 patients." He doesn't seem to summarize it in any throrough fashion.

Practical experience is his strong suit. I seem to get some reduction in various kinds of body pain by drinking a couple of cups of water when I feel the pains. And I'm still reading the book.

Tucson Alan

Love the book as it has excellent info for alternative healing----and I have tried it (following the book's instructions) and it WORKS!!!!!! The water cure DOES get rid of pain!!!!!

Dr Batmanghelidj is a very famous person for his research and findings.
He explains in detail the work of your body organs and their need for constant water supply. You will have to cut slack to the M.D. for his passionate style of writing and tendency to repeat himself. Also, eager to appeal to different kind of audience, he makes biased statements here and there. The good news is, that those have nothing to do with the actual point he is trying to make. 
His works are well documented and proven. I am a nurse myself, and double-checked many of his claims. They are true. We are dehydrated most of our lives and cause serious problems to our health. After reading just 4 chapters I got up and drank a glass of water. :)
Even if you do not get convinced about importance of water, you will learn a lot about how your body works: joints, digestion,... Everything is supported with vivid diagrams.
Good luck.