Date: July 13th 2001

Online Health & Nutrition Newsletter Vol. 5 Issue 7b
Spirit of Health

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DIGESTION VS. INDIGESTION - Part III


This is the One Hundredth and Nineth issue of our online Newsletter,
"Spirit of Health." We bring you articles which are always beyond the
mainstream medical school of thought, and may be educational to the
alternative minded, as well.

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This Newletter resumes with the subject of adequate hydration in the body
for optimum health and healing.

The following passages are excerpted from a book titled, "HOW TO DEAL WITH
BACK PAIN & RHEUMATOID JOINT PAIN", by Dr. Batmanghelidj, M.D.

"WATER - THE ENERGY OF LIFE

"The most important life-giving substance in the body, and one that the body
desperately depends on, is WATER. In the soft tissues - muscle, liver, kidney,
the intestines - 75 percent of the volume of the cells is water. The brain cell
is said to be 85 percent water. The first impact of dehydration is felt by
the brain cells; they are very sensitive to water loss from the body and their
functions would be affected by even minute changes in their functions in their
water contents. The above figures roughly represent a normal, healthy state of
function. The blood and fluids outside the cells consist of approximately 94
percent water.

"Water has the urge and determination to flow from solutions at lower
concentration to solutions at higher concentration when these solutions are
separated by a thin membrane. When the concentration of water is 94 percent
outside the cell and 75 percent inside the cell, there is a tendency
for water to flow across the cell membrane into the cell. This difference of
19 percent acts somewhat like the waterhead of a hydroelectric dam. Nature
has designed a simple mechanism of providing each cell with hydroelectric
power. It uses this 19 percent difference in water levels to generate electricity
inside the cell. In the same way that the height of water over the the turbine
generators of a hydroelectric dam turns the generators and creates electricity,
at the cell wall barrier, water turns the cation pumps (positive ions moving toward
negatively charged ones) and generates electricity."

"If we drink regularly and enough, the main bulk of energy used by the body is
normally and naturally generated from the hydroelectric power at the level of
the individual cells. Since all nerve tranmissions depend in a major way on
the hydroelectric energy of water, insufficient water intake can also cause a
chronic fatigue state of the body."

"ACIDITY AND THE CELL

"If, for some reason, the pumps of a certain region in the body do not work properly,
allowing acid to build up in an area, after a certain level of acidity is reached,
the chemical reaction converts two of the elements to substances called kinins.
These kinins, and their subordinate products (K agents), are pain producers,
indicating that the acidity of the region is increased and that there is not enough
"waterhead" to drive the acid-clearing pumps. It's as simple as that!"

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There is another book by Dr. Batmanghelidj titled, " ABC OF ASTHMA, ALLERGIES AND
LUPUS". Eradicate Asthma and Allergies - Now!

"It is my researched opinion that the human body has three categories of indicators
that should be considered as representatives or outcomes of dehydration in some
parts of the body. They are: Perceptive indicators, crisis calls of the body for water,
and adaptive drought management and water rationing progams. These newly
understood indicators of dehydration are distinct and recognizable, and all are
preventable, before irreversible damage takes place.

"THE PERCEPTIVE INDICATORS OF DROUGHT IN THE BODY

"The brain itself is 85 percent water and is most sensitive to dehydration. It shows
its water shortage by any of the following:

1) Feeling tired when it not the result of strenuous work - in its extreme form,
chronic fatigue syndrome.

2) Feeling flushed for no external reason."
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"7) Cravings for beverages, and even alcohol, hard drugs and cigarettes.


THE CRISES CALLS OF THE BODY FOR WATER

Among the second group of crisis symptoms and signs of water needs of
the body are the different localized chronic pains. They include the following:

1) Heartburn

2) Dyspepsia

3) Rheumatoid joint pain

4) Back pain

5) Migraine headaches

6) Leg pain on walking

7) Fibromyalgia - muscle and soft tissue pain, to the point of causing muscular dystrophy.

8) Colitis pain and its associated constipation.

9) Anginal pain - a sign of most advanced water shortage in the heart and lung axis.

10) Early morning sickness of pregnancy, indicating thirst of the fetus and the mother.

Bad breath is also an indication of water shortage in the body. It is produced by
fermentation of food that has not been washed away from inside the stomach,
or by gases that leave the heavily polluted colon and work their way upward to leave
via the lungs and mouth.

THE DROUGHT MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS OF THE BODY

The body possesses water management programs when it is in drought. The main
drought management programs of the body that have been labeled as diseases are -

1) Asthma and allergies.

2) Hypertension.

3) Old-age diabetes.

4) Constipation and its complication of pain in the lower intestines, colitis pain.

5) Autoimmune diseases, including lupus and cancer."
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"The human body is in constant need of water. It is losing water through the lungs when
we breath out. It is losing water in perspiration, in urine production and in daily bowel
movements. A good gauge for the water needs of the body is the color of urine. A well
hydrated person produces colorless urine - not counting the color of vitamins or color
additives in food. A comparatively dehydrated person produces yellow urine. A truly
dehydrated person produces urine that is orange in color."
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"A change of lifestyle becomes vital for the correction of any dehdration-produced disorder.
The backbone of the water cure program is, simply, sufficient water and full mineral salt
intake; regular exercise; a balanced, mineral rich diet that includes lots of fruits
and vegetables, and the essential fats needed to make cell membranes, hormones,
and nerve insulation; exclusion of caffeine and alcohol; relaxation to solve and "detoxify"
stressful thoughts and emotional situations; and exclusion of artificial sweeteners. "
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The books referenced by this Newsletter can be obtained at the following web site -

www.watercure.com.


In addition to taking in adequate water each day, one can detoxify the colon of accumulated
pollution and ensure better uptake of high quality nutrition by utilizing the following programs
and products -

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Sincerely,

Ron Radstrom

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