20th Centry Medicine

The Product of 100 Years of Darkness

By F. Batmangheidj MD

From: http://www.nafhim.org/staging/article1.htm

Its true the micro mechanical side of medicine has advanced at dizzying rates of progress, but our scientific understanding of the way the human body works is still in the dark ages of primitive science. The dominant commerce-motivated, inventive and resourceful employees in science have managed to walk a tightrope between true science and illogical nonsense-science of medicine, to the point that the human body has emerged as a badly designed product of nature that is in constant need of their interpretation and meddlesome interferences.

They have sold this bill of false goods to the gullible public to the point that a vast percentage of America’s GNP is allocated to cope with the thrust, direction and complications of their mold of thought in our society. This trend started at the turn of the last century, when scientist were spreading their imagination and flexing their muscle to get acceptance for their interpretation of the way the human body should be looked at. Some of these scientists did produce miracles and a few did unimaginable damage.

Walter Bradford Cannon, a prominent physician of his time did more harm to the true progress of human applied science of medicine than can be imagined. I am told he asserted that thirst in the human body reveals itself by the presence of a dry mouth. And brushed aside the view that thirst is more of a general sensation that needs to be studied and defined. The false dogma of a dry mouth gained a foothold in medical science and has been with us about ninety years.

This seemingly insignificant assertion changed the course of scientific enquiry into the way the human body works. It pushed science in the direction of the chemical composition of the body and how these solid components of the body interact with one another. It gave way to the dominance of “solutes” and application of the science of particle chemistry to the physiological functions of the body, an integrated and complex multi-system system. Even until now, the hydrolytic role of water in chemical reactions is not given any credence and consideration when evaluating the outcome of chemical actions in the body.

This direction of totally erroneous thought has thrown medical science into the abyss of ignorance about the complex, water-dependent natural design of the human body. Solute chemists took over and made a mess of medical science. Nowhere is this mistake more apparent than in AIDS research, when every ill that befalls a person with this diagnosis is blamed on a minute particle that is called a retrovirus. Completely disregarding what seems obvious.

To survive from one generation to another until now, the human body has overcome more deadly viruses like polio, smallpox, measles, flu, and more, and has developed the ability to mount a very effective immune response within nine days. In other words if the virus has not been able to kill you in the first nine days of its attack, it will get killed itself and the immune system will be all the wiser because of the encounter. Surly if the body, generation after generation, has survived fast viruses, getting over slow viruses must be a cinch. With this logic installed within the capabilities of the human body, how could we blame a devastating “disease process” on the retrovirus?

Surly presence of the retrovirus in people with AIDS has other less commercial reasons that are being ignored for the obvious reason that a natural solution would emerge. If you read my book Your Body’s Many Cries for Water, you will discover that the AIDS virus is a byproduct of a larger metabolic disturbance, with a drastic disruption of the amino acid pool composition of the body at the foundation of the problem. Naturally, from this direction of thought, a non-commercial cure that will emancipate society from the burden of costly AIDS research, and its simpler natural treatment protocol will emerge.

The Illogical Foundations of Medical Science in the 20th Century

In all, four stupid errors in scientific assumptions have made a mess of our view of the human body, in its own right, a most efficient self-repairing and self-replicating, perfect design. These erroneous assumptions are:

One, the error of relying on a dry mouth sign for water intake of the body:

Two, the belief that water has no direct initiative in chemical reactions of the body and is only a subservient and passive element to the actions of the solid matter it dissolves and circulates in the body:

Three, the human body is efficient in regulating its water intake throughout the life-span of a person—from childhood to old age:

Four, any fluid can satisfy the long-term water needs of the body.

Why Are These Assumptions False?

Dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of thirst because the body produces ample saliva even though there may be established and symptom-producing intracellular drought in different regions of the body. Producing saliva even in a dehydrated state is an over-riding primary function in the body to facilitate the act of chewing and swallowing food. The salivary glands produce about two liters of saliva a day to supply the upper parts of the intestinal tract with water and some digestive enzymes, especially when the body is dehydrated. Over salivation begins when the body is short of sodium, a component of dehydration.

To think water has no direct and dominant role in the chemical and physiological functions of the body is reflective of the earlier basic ignorance in molecular chemistry that has been applied to human physiology. It is now almost impossible to expunge this error from the way medical science is evolving. This thoughtless assumption is one of the main reasons we have a “sick-care system” and not a health care system that is based on preventing disease.

Water itself must breakdown first before any chemical reaction could take place. It is the hydrolytic property of water that drives all chemical reactions. A chunk of meat has no energy value unless water acts on it and performs its hydrolytic act of breaking it down to small energized particles that can then, and only then, be assimilated within the metabolic systems of the body.

Advising people to rely on the sharpness of their thirst sensation to optimally hydrate their bodies, is yet another of the blind sides of modern medical education. It has persisted even to the year 2002. Because, as we grow older we gradually lose our thirst perception, to the point that the elderly can become obviously dehydrated and not have the urge to reach for the glass of water that is in their proximity and obviously available.

Does this mean the body can function efficiently in a comparatively drier state?

Does this mean that fully hydrated plumb-like cells can become prune-like without impacting most of the physiological events of the body that are dependent on their efficiency of function?

The answer to both questions is an emphatic no. In their earliest “prune-like” state, even minimally dehydrated cells begin to produce symptoms and signs. Modern medicine has classified these manifestations as the diseases of unknown-etiology. The dis-eases of dehydration have caused the creation of different fields of specialty medicine. Larger and larger hospitals and nursing homes have been formed to serve the medical profession and maintain a firm grip on society. The society that still does not know water is a disease-preventing medication; it is essential for survival; and is the master key to vibrant well-being of the human body.

The fourth mistake that is drummed into the mind of people is the view that anything that is fluid can supply the long term water needs of the body, hence the emergence of the soft drink industry, wines and beers included. Suffice it to say that both caffeine and alcohol are addictive and have cumulative adverse chemical effects on the body. Alcohol, even in small doses, by shutting down an important water delivery system to the brain cells, negatively affects brain function. In larger quantities, this effect becomes pronounced to the point of causing hangover headaches, indicators of brain thirst.

Caffeine is a chemical, much like morphine and cocaine that some plants manufacture to protect themselves against animals that would feast on their nourishing leaves, seeds and exotic poppies, the instruments of their survival as species on Mother Earth. Caffeine is a dehydrating substance. It also suppresses the brain tissue enzymes that are vital to the retentive powers of the nervous system. When the plant made caffeine in its process of development, it did so to make its feasting foes stupid enough to become easier prey to their own predators, so that they would not eat away its leaves or its seeds in the ground, so that the plant could survive in its hostile environment. The plant had no idea that man would become its protector and to harvest its caffeine in greater and greater quantities, large plantations would become the protected habitat of the species. However, the friendliness of man has not yet changed the natural order of caffeine as a chemical weapon for the plant.

By introducing this chemical into our daily diet, society has unfortunately reaped the harvest of caffeine’s dastardly actions on the nerve system of its younger and older peoples. If a child or a teenager is allowed to drink caffeinated sodas in place of water, attention deficit disorder and low scholastic results should be the early expected outcome, if we understood the relationship between our choice of beverages and what it would do to our brains. In the elderly, all you need to do is to go to a few of the old age homes and see the state of the mind of people who are parked there by the society that did not understand the important difference between simple tasteless natural water and taste enhanced caffeine-laced water. The outcome of introduction of the artificial sweetener is an added burden on our society. You can get a clear understanding of this problem by referring to my book Your Body’s Many Cries for Water.

About a hundred years of fast track travel on the train of these misconceptions of thought in medicine has produced the commerce-driven quagmire of the sick-care system that is now discovered to be based on medical ignorance, if not fraud, and the drug industry’s own brand of chemical terrorism. The media-projected fear of death from this or that invented disease—for practical purposes all of them dehydration-produced—is costing this nation a vast portion of its GNP. This is the price society pays for placing its trust in the sincerity of its jargon-protected sick-care system.

The drug industry’s hijack of medical education has been so successful that even shocking revelation that prescription medications, taken correctly and according to the physician’s instruction are now known to make over two million sicker and kill over one hundred and six thousands a year does not raise any eyebrows in the official quarters. And yet, these are only the reported cases. God knows how many die silently without achieving representation among the figures taken into consideration.

In another shocking piece of medical news, it is now known that over ninety eight thousands die from the use of incorrectly prescribed medications every year. This news too was passed over in the media without any commentary or demand for an in-depth analysis of why this happens. In all, the total number of people who are officially known to die from prescription medications is estimated to be over 200,000 a year. This rate of death puts the use of prescription medications as the third most frequent cause of death in America, only after heart disease and cancer.

The medical community, unwittingly, has established the tragic tradition of giving toxic medications to people who manifest thirst for water according to their body’s unique initial category of calls for water. Doctors are now fully aware that the chemicals they prescribe have been manufactured as palliatives. These chemicals only temporarily silence the way each body shows its need for water.

Water is a better medication than whatever is manufactured by the drug industry for any of the presently recognized painful degenerative diseases. These diseases are the products of inefficient, prune-like state of cells that cannot keep up with the demands placed on them. Over seven hundred thousands die of heart disease, five hundred thousands die of cancer, arterial disease of the brain kills over one hundred sixty thousands, and more. All of them could have been prevented if water was given a primary position in the daily diet of those people.

Pain Signifies Thirst

It took me many years of clinical and scientific research to uncover the significance of pain mechanism as a primary indicator of water shortage in the body. It is now clear that there is a direct link between over production of histamine as the neurotransmitter that regulates the water balance of the body, and the induced pain-producing inflammatory effect of histamine that is its mechanism of directing increased circulation to a drought stricken area. If the blood is concentrated because of water shortage, the pain threshold is lowered by the brain and pain is felt until the drought –stricken area receives water. Many systems and mechanisms are engaged in this process, all of them regulated by the water level of the body.

The trigger mechanism is the balance between the acidity and the alkalinity inside the cells. The interior of the cells of the body have to be alkaline – pH of about 7.4. Water and the element sodium from salt flow in and out of the cells and wash out the acid that is produced as a result of work and metabolism of the cells. In dehydration, the rate of acid clearance gets diminished and the interior of the cells in that area become more and more acidic. The nerve ending in that area report the chemical environmental change to the brain. The brain signals the information in form of pain for the conscious mind. And takes away the ability to use the area so that extra acid production is stopped, until water comes and washes the excess acid away.

There are about ten frequently produced pains that should denote dehydration in the area where pain is felt. They are: Heartburn, joint pain, back pain, migraine headaches, angina, colitis pain, fibromyalgic pains, false appendicitis pain, peptic ulcer pains, and I consider eye pains of glaucoma as one of dehydration- produced pains. It is said that one hundred and ten million Americans suffer one or more of these pains from one time or another. The cost of pain management for these people is estimated to be over a hundred billion dollars a year.

Resource Management: Not Disease

Water is the universal solvent. It is also the solvent of what you might have been told is disease. When the body is short of water, the ingredients that it dissolves and carries around are also missing. The body too, like any well organized industrial complex, has a resource allocation program – a strict rationing plan. Water and the substances it distributes become subject to pre-planned priority distribution protocol. Vital cell in vital organs are served first, even at the expense of the less vital parts of the body.

Water conservation, the emergency water distribution and the resource management programs of the body have been called allergies, asthma, hypertension, diabetes and the autoimmune group of diseases.

Allergies

The body deals with foreign agents by producing antibodies which attach to the offending agent and chemically neutralize it, be the offending agents pollen, bacteria or viruses. Histamine has the dual role of being the water and resource management regulator, as well as the immune system monitor and activator.

The design of the immune system is such that in dehydration, and over activity of histamine as the resource manager, the activity of the immune system is inhibited, of all places at the very center of activity, the bone marrow. There are twice as many inhibitor cells that are responsive to histamine than there are killer cells within the immune system in the bone marrow. Thus, in dehydration, the immune system becomes less and less active and leaves the body vulnerable to pollen, infections and development of cancer cells. The relationship of allergies, and the broader implications of the diminished immune system activity, initiated by unintentional dehydration, should be taken very seriously.

Asthma

Air that is exhaled in breathing carries with it lots of water—the winter steam in front of your face. In twenty four hours we lose about a liter of water through breathing. Within its capacity as the body’s primary water management regulator, histamine brings about bronchial constrictions to restrict the free flow of air from the lungs and the water that would otherwise go with it. The restrictive breathing in asthma will totally disappear if the body becomes fully hydrated.

Seventeen million people in America, mostly children, suffer from asthma not knowing water is their life-saving medication and is freely available in their own kitchen. I predict, one day in the near future, it will be revealed that the drug industry knew about the relationship of histamine and dehydration all the time, but concealed this information from the doctors and the public to make more money from innocent children who live in constant fear of suffocation and frequently die from asthma.

Hypertension

Sixty million people suffer from hypertension because these people are actually suffering from internal drought in their bodies. The extra pressure is needed to filter water from an already concentrated blood and inject it through clusters of holes, only as wide as one water molecule, in the membranes of the cells in vital organs. This is how organs such as the brain, the liver, the lungs, the endocrine glands, the heart, and more, receive some water when the body is dehydrated. When the blood becomes concentrated, it has the tendency to suck water out of the cells of the body. The process of injecting water into vital organs is a compensation mechanism. If adequate water and some mineral are taken daily to the point of making the consistency of blood more dilute, the blood pressure levels will drop back to normal. For more information read my book Your Body’s Many Cries for Water and take a look at my other book Water Cures: Drugs Kill to see how easily others have got over their problem of hypertension.

Type-ll Diabetes

When food enters the stomach and the intestines and gets processed, insulin is produced to help feed the cells of the body. It facilitates the entry of sugar and the amino acids that become available through its cell membrane receptor channels into the interior of the cells in the body. Sugar and the amino acids also pull the water that is osmotically attached into the cell through these channels. In a dehydrated body, this would be counterproductive for the needs of the brain. The brain is 85 percent water and does not need insulin to pick up its food components from blood circulation. To avoid the catastrophic outcome of delivering the vital needs of the brain to less vital organs, the process that regulates blood flow to the pancreas, when the body is suffering from internal drought, also inhibits insulin release from the pancreatic cells that produce it. The extra sugar in blood circulation also osmotically compensates for the salt that is missing in dehydration.

Increased water intake and supplementation of minerals, with salt on top of the list, will correct the physiological imbalance in this condition and diabetes will clear up.

It is impossible to fit more information than what you have read in this article. For greater understanding of how dehydration in the interior of the cells of the body can produce a vast array of easily correctable dis-eases before they become irreversible diseases, you should read Water Cures: Drugs Kill and Water: for Health, for Healing, for Life, in addition to Your Body’s Many Cries for Water. Together, these books leave no doubt in your mind that your body is truly a marvel of creation and has a perfect design, if only you understood how to maintain it. It is designed to give your soul a perfect habitat for you to achieve the anxiety-free greatness you are capable of. When your brain is not preoccupied with the aches and pains of your body, your mind will have the freedom to soar through the limitless horizon of ideas and ideals. God bless.

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