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!