Because the role that water plays in our body has been greatly misunderstood, due mainly to the fact that science and the medical industry has mistakenly assumed water to act only as a solvent and space filler, it has become common practice to regard “dry mouth” as an adequate sign for dehydration and water needs within our body. However, not only is this signal the last outward sign of chronic dehydration, there are actually as many signals of dehydration as there are symptoms of illness and disease, mainly because dehydration is the etiology of most of them. Whether you’re experiencing allergies, heartburn, arthritis, or chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes, you might find it interesting to know that your not really sick…you’re thirsty!
It’s important to understand first, that every function of the body is monitored and pegged to the efficient flow of water. As you know, the body is made mostly of water, but this water is already osmotically bound. In other words, it is busy with an activity (a chemical reaction or chemical undertaking) and is known as “bound water.” What the body needs, in order perform new functions, is an abundance of “free water.” It’s a shortage of “free water” in the body that constitutes dehydration.
You can equate water flow in the body to a business, in that a company may have a lot of assets (bound water, organs, blood cells, etc.), but if you don’t have any cash-flow (free water) then you can’t pay your staff or operate the machinery. You need cash-flow to run a business just like you need “free water” to run the body. This happens to be the exact reason why so many companies fail and why so many people fall ill, there’s just not enough cash-flow to run the business!
Whenever we try to workout and sweat, eat and digest food, or even just run typical everyday functions within our body, and there is not enough “free water” to get the job done, then it causes our body to become stressed. Stress, which can be caused by and can also cause illness and diseases, creates a further state of dehydration in our body because any time we become stressed, our body produces hormones that cause inflammation and breakdown tissues, and our body uses “free water” storages to mop-up the mess that these hormones leave behind in circulation. All of a sudden you are now short of free water, so you are short of ‘cash-flow,’ and your body-business is now technically failing. When this happens, disease and illness thrive.
Stress in our body is something we’ve learned to manage since we were water-bound organisms. For the earlier water-dwelling species, anytime we stepped outside our comfort zone we would experience great stress due to the potential falling pray to other species or simply drying up. This stress established a dominant physiology for crisis management of water. In “stressed” humans, the exact same crisis management of water still exists as part of our stress (fight-or-flight) response system. The process primarily involves a strict rationing of the water reserves of the body as the brain assumes there will not be enough water available for the immediate needs of the body. This complex multi-level water rationing and distribution system will remain in operation until the brain receives unmistakable signals that it has gained access to adequate amounts of fresh water.
The brain happens to be the most important organ in our water management system, and every organ and body system falls below it in order of importance, all the way down to the last cell. When the body senses that any of these organs or systems are below adequate levels of water flow, it produces an array of stress signals to show that the area in question is short of water, much like your car will tell when your gas is low, your oil needs to be changed, your engine is too hot, etc. These various signals are indicators of regional thirst and drought within the body. But modern “science” and the medical industry has labeled theses signals as symptoms of disease and illness, which is the most basic mistake that has deviated clinical medicine, and instead of treating them first with hydration from fresh water, instead they use commercial chemicals products as palliative remedy to control the pathology, of which never actually treat the problem but only creates a dependency to more and more medications for the life of the patient. Most of these medications create an additional array of symptoms that lead again to illness and disease, and eventually the patient dies, unhealthy and sick.
It is clear that modern treatment for symptoms of illness and disease are based on false assumption and an inaccurate premise. If we wish to conquer illness and disease, whether it be asthma, allergies, cancer, diabetes, etc. then we must begin to understand the damage that occurs from persistent dehydration. Based on our physiological response to stress, which has been rooted deep within our body’s system for millennia, that which continues to be the ultimate operative system for survival in fight-or-flight situations, we can no longer put our health in the hands of doctors who continue to treat various degenerative diseases with “unknown etiologies” with drugs. Like any deficiency disorder, such as Vitamin C in scurvy or Vitamin D in anemia, the most effective method of treating any disorder is by supplementing the missing ingredient.
Considering that research has found that 75 percent of Americans likely have a net fluid loss, resulting in chronic dehydration, it becomes important that we begin recognizing health complications first as symptoms of chronic dehydration, and not just settling on “dry mouth” as the only acceptable signal. If we do this before ignorantly insulting the body’s system with palliative chemical intervention, we can begin to find hones, permanent, and preventive solutions to disease emergence within the body. Because good chances are that you’re not sitting in your doctors office suffering from sickness…you’re just thirsty.