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Authors: F. Batmanghelidj
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to quench thirst. The brain has a tendency to simulate an experience in order to give instructions to the person to perform a function, even in deep sleep.
There is usually some significance to dreams. I will never forget a dream I had when I was a house doctor working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. At the time, I was responsible for the daily care of thirty acute beds (as they were known) in a very active surgical unit of the hospital. I could never get more than three or four hours of sleep at night. Naturally, when my head hit the pillow in those days, I slept like the dead. On one of those busy days, I reached my lunch late and had to eat it many hours after it was cooked. It was a plate of crayfish and some vegetables.
I was too busy to feel any discomfort after eating the food. I went to bed in the early hours of the morning and all but died in bed. Not long into my sleep, I started to dream that I was in a boat on rough seas. The boat was being thrown about, up and down and side to side, motions dictated by the choppy sea. I started feeling more and more nauseated until I could no longer hold down what I had eaten, and only just managed to reach the sink in my room to throw up the food that had obviously gone bad. My brain could not have translated my need to get up and get rid of the contents of my stomach any other way. It could only prepare me by exposing me to associated thoughts around nausea and vomiting. What better way than to take me through a sort of dry-run experience of sea-sickness?
CHAPTER 7
THE PRIMARY DROUGHT-AND RESOURCE-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
From the vantage point of the new medical science, the following conditions should be considered labels placed on the physiological processes in the body that denote a form of rationing and resource management when there is a limited supply of free water and other primary elements in the body:
1. Asthma
2. Allergies
3. Hypertension, or high blood pressure
4. Type II diabetes
5. Constipation
6. Autoimmune diseases
If you don't drink water regularly every day of your life, and don't understand the significance of pain, shortness of breath, and allergies as signs of dehydration, you will force your body into a disease state. Any of the above conditions will herald the beginnings of body decay produced by local or general water shortage and the associated chemical environmental changes.
Reversal of autoimmune conditions is not easy and not always possible. To reverse them requires an in-depth understanding of the importance of the acid-alkaline balance and the metabolic aspects associated with dehydration, such as the loss of a range of amino acids, insufficient absorption or loss of vital minerals like zinc and magnesium, and the absolute need for essential vitamins and fatty acids.
ASTHMA AND ALLERGIES
What is asthma? It is said people have asthma when they become short of breath, without any warning, to the point of nearly suffocating. Several thousand people die from suffocation due to asthma every year. Sometimes the onset of asthma is associated with repeated dry coughs with each breath. There is always an associated wheezing when exhaling, without an apparent infection in the lungs. Asthma affects more than seventeen million Americans, mostly children. I believe that asthma and allergies are the body's crisis calls for water.
They denote a state of dehydration in the human body. They herald continuing degeneration of the body until other complications of dehydration get established and can cause early death.
My experience and research tell me that the body possesses a number of highly sophisticated emergency thirst signals. We need to be aware of these newly identified indicators of water shortage in our body. All you may need to do to cure some of your health problems is drink water instead of other fluids.
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Question: What has all this got to do with asthma?
Answer: Asthma and allergy—conditions mainly
There is usually some significance to dreams. I will never forget a dream I had when I was a house doctor working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. At the time, I was responsible for the daily care of thirty acute beds (as they were known) in a very active surgical unit of the hospital. I could never get more than three or four hours of sleep at night. Naturally, when my head hit the pillow in those days, I slept like the dead. On one of those busy days, I reached my lunch late and had to eat it many hours after it was cooked. It was a plate of crayfish and some vegetables.
I was too busy to feel any discomfort after eating the food. I went to bed in the early hours of the morning and all but died in bed. Not long into my sleep, I started to dream that I was in a boat on rough seas. The boat was being thrown about, up and down and side to side, motions dictated by the choppy sea. I started feeling more and more nauseated until I could no longer hold down what I had eaten, and only just managed to reach the sink in my room to throw up the food that had obviously gone bad. My brain could not have translated my need to get up and get rid of the contents of my stomach any other way. It could only prepare me by exposing me to associated thoughts around nausea and vomiting. What better way than to take me through a sort of dry-run experience of sea-sickness?
CHAPTER 7
THE PRIMARY DROUGHT-AND RESOURCE-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
From the vantage point of the new medical science, the following conditions should be considered labels placed on the physiological processes in the body that denote a form of rationing and resource management when there is a limited supply of free water and other primary elements in the body:
1. Asthma
2. Allergies
3. Hypertension, or high blood pressure
4. Type II diabetes
5. Constipation
6. Autoimmune diseases
If you don't drink water regularly every day of your life, and don't understand the significance of pain, shortness of breath, and allergies as signs of dehydration, you will force your body into a disease state. Any of the above conditions will herald the beginnings of body decay produced by local or general water shortage and the associated chemical environmental changes.
Reversal of autoimmune conditions is not easy and not always possible. To reverse them requires an in-depth understanding of the importance of the acid-alkaline balance and the metabolic aspects associated with dehydration, such as the loss of a range of amino acids, insufficient absorption or loss of vital minerals like zinc and magnesium, and the absolute need for essential vitamins and fatty acids.
ASTHMA AND ALLERGIES
What is asthma? It is said people have asthma when they become short of breath, without any warning, to the point of nearly suffocating. Several thousand people die from suffocation due to asthma every year. Sometimes the onset of asthma is associated with repeated dry coughs with each breath. There is always an associated wheezing when exhaling, without an apparent infection in the lungs. Asthma affects more than seventeen million Americans, mostly children. I believe that asthma and allergies are the body's crisis calls for water.
They denote a state of dehydration in the human body. They herald continuing degeneration of the body until other complications of dehydration get established and can cause early death.
My experience and research tell me that the body possesses a number of highly sophisticated emergency thirst signals. We need to be aware of these newly identified indicators of water shortage in our body. All you may need to do to cure some of your health problems is drink water instead of other fluids.
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Question: What has all this got to do with asthma?
Answer: Asthma and allergy—conditions mainly
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